And we're on to chapter nine! Hope you all enjoy!
(Marshalanime does not own Naruto or Monster Musume No Iru Nichijou)
"Well this quickly became a big mess didn't it" Jiraiya commented as he and Kushina sat at the dinning room table with a bottle of liquor sitting between them. It was getting late and to their knowledge they were the only ones still awake. Though given the sudden prospect of marriage neither of them would've been surprised if the others couldn't get any sleep.
"You can say that again" Kushina said with a tone that betrayed the weight she was feeling from this whole matter. She'd slowly swirl the amber fluid in her glass but every now and again she'd let it settle down and stare at her reflection. She'd told everyone that they should all just cool down and go to bed tonight and that they could all sit down and talk about this tomorrow, but was that really the right call? She knew that most of the girls had at least some semblance of romantic interest in her Naruto so this must really be gnawing at their minds. Still, that look of panic she saw on Naruto's face told her that nothing of value would've come out of discussing it now. If only Ms. Smith would've waited like she'd asked her too.
Grabbing the bottle Jiraiya went to refill his glass. "This is going to turn some head back home" the sage remarked as he finished topping himself off. "And there are bound to be people who will oppose a marriage under these circumstances" Jiraiya added as he took a sip from his glass, not even flinching when Kushina's hand slammed into the table with enough force to leave an indent.
"They can go fuck themselves!" the woman barked out, her rage showing on her face from the thought of those bastards trying to stick their noses into their personal lives again. Some faces showed up more clearly than others. With a large motion Kushina threw her head back and downed the remaining content of her cup before hurriedly returning it to the table. "It's Naruto's choice who he wants to marry and there's not a damn thing anyone can say about it! Fill me up!" the mother loudly said with her cheeks growing red from both the alcohol and her anger.
"Maybe you shouldn't drink so much" Jiraiya told the woman while refilling her empty glass. "When you're drunk and you get angry you REALLY get angry" the man told her as he finished filling the glass. It was a little less full than Kushina would've liked but she couldn't give that much of a damn right now.
"I'm not drunk" Kushina retorted as she took a sip from her glass while also ignoring Jiraiya's tacked on "Yet".
"So... anyone you're routing for?" Jiraiya asked after a moment of uneasy silence. For his question he received an unsettling stare from the woman. "Oh don't look at me like that" Jiraiya told the woman as his flipped over his hand so that his open palm was facing the ceiling. "I'm just asking, if you had to pick who would you choice as a daughter-in-law? Surely you'd have your own opinion on the matter" the man told her.
The look she was giving him didn't change all that much but the woman did start to consider the question. Did she have a preference that favored any of the girls of the others? The default answer would be to say "Who ever makes my baby the happiest" but that didn't really answer anything. None of the girls have shown characteristics that she despised so she couldn't say that she was opposed to any of them. Trying to think about it seriously was actually starting to work her alcohol tinged brain more than she expected.
Before the woman could even hope to answer the man's question the duo heard the sound of shattering glass from upstairs.
"What was that?" Jiraiya asked as he and Kushina jolted out of their seats, both of them staring up at the ceiling.
"I don't know, but I'm going to find out" Kushina replied as her eyes narrowed ever so slightly and with out another word she was heading straight for the stairs.
A little bit earlier
"What the hell are they thinking, telling me to get married all of a sudden...?" Naruto muttered as he lay in bed, the only light trying to illuminate the room coming from his alarm-clock. He's been told repeatedly that there would be serious consequences for crossing that line with any of the girls, mainly his arrest and the girl's deportation. So what do they expect him to do when they say that he's suppose to marry one of them, pick one on the spot and get his freak on? Like that would ever happen!
Tossing over the blond started to stare at the dimply lit ceiling of his room. He wouldn't deny that the girls were attractive and that he liked being around them, but thought of dating or marriage never came up for him and could you blame him for that? He'd just assumed that that'd never be an option so entertaining the idea would've just hurt him and the girls in the long-run, right?
"'Is that your excuse?'" Kurama's voice resonated through the blond's head.
"Huh?" sitting up in bed Naruto let the words sink in. "What's that suppose to mean!?" Naruto asked the bijuu but received no reply. "Hey! Are you liste-" the blond was asking in a louder tone when he heard the door creek open.
"Darling...?" Miia asked as she peered into the room from the slightly opened door. Naruto was just talking with someone, right? But he was the only person here.
"Oh, Miia, you still up...?" Naruto nervously asked as he swung his legs over the side of his mattress. Kurama wasn't something he wanted to talk to her about so even if it made him look like an idiot he hoped she'd by an excuse should she question him.
"Mmm" with a small intone the lamia nodded his head a bit. "You looked like something was bothering you, Darling, so I was getting worried" Miia told the blond. After a very short pause the woman then added as he gaze drifted away from Naruto and to the floor "It's because of that conversation earlier... because you don't want to marry us...".
Hearing her words and the melancholic emotions behind them Naruto immediately shot to full attention. "Wha-What are you talking about!? Sure, I've never really thought about marriage or even considered it, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to get married!" Naruto quickly blurted out, feeling a bit down on himself for the negative reaction he had to the sudden news. At the time he was just freaking out because he was told to pick a bride but that mustn't have been easy for Miia to hear. Yelling things like "Are you insane!?" or "I can't get married!" was pretty dumb on his part.
"Really...?" Miia asked as she fully opened the door and for a moment Naruto was left speechless. There Miia was, standing in his room with nothing on but a very revealing nightgown. The waist-length garment was largely made of pink see-through fabric with a thin black outlining and solid pink frills. Only a single black ribbon placed between her breasts leaving her stomach completely bare due to her holding up one side.
"So you're not against the idea of getting married...?" Miia asked with a happy, slightly seductive gleam. As Naruto stared at her with wide eyes Miia slithered over to him with. "I knew in my heart that's how you felt, Darling. You're so kind after all. I really love that about you, Darling...~" Miia told Naruto as she approached him and eventually knocking him back onto the bed.
With her face inches from Naruto's the lamia stared lovingly into his eyes as her coils wrapped around his lower body and she interlocked their fingers together. "Did you know Darling...? Snakes make love all night long...?" Miia seductively asked. "They coil around each other from head to tail, just like this... and their bodies cling and rub for hour upon hou-GHUE!?" Miia was describing when someone landed on her back and their arms wrapped around her neck.
"N-NOOOOOO...! I-I wont let you... steal him away!" Kasumi shouted with tears welling up in her eyes. Unlike Miia she'd shown up with a normal night-gown, or was it simply an oversized shirt? Either way it was sky-blue with a smiling fishcake on the chest and reached down past her waist. Though it didn't seem to be made to handle the mucus membrane coating her body so it clung to her and displayed her figure quite well.
"W-Wha are ygoug...?" Miia was trying to question the woman but due to Kasumi trying to pull the lamia off of Naruto Miia was being unintentionally choked by the eel-girl.
"...I-I know... I'm not the best option and that he'd be happier with someone else... but... but... I STILL DON"T WANT TO LOSE HIME...!" Kasumi cried out.
Unable to pry the Kasumi's hands off of her throat Miia found herself needing to unwrap herself from Naruto and instead wrap her tail around Kasumi. Being surprised by the turn of events Kasumi let out a gasp as her hold on Miia loosened.
This whole situation was unimaginable to the poor blond but his mind quickly clicked that these two might seriously hurt each other and so he went to intervene. Or he would've put the squabble to an end had Papi not flown right through his closed window and knocking all three of them to the floor.
With broken glass scattered about Naruto found himself sitting on his floor with Miia and Kasumi K. on the floor next to him. "Wh-What are you doing!?" Naruto asked the harpy that was now sitting on his bed while shaking her head slightly to get any debris out of her hair. Though he was worried about his now broken window and Papi's safety Naruto's concerns shifted when the petite girl looked to him. It was a look that Naruto had never seen before, a look of hunger and desire without any of the mature seductiveness that Miia had had in her expression.
"Papi? Are you alright?" Naruto asked as he shifted back from the bed by an inch or two.
With a simple hop off the bed Papi came to land with her legs straddling the blond's waist while simply replying "No pro".
Naruto was about to protest to Papi suddenly jumping on him when he came to realize that the loosely fitting black tank-top Papi was wearing was the ONLY thing she was wearing. In this position Papi did nothing to hide Naruto's view of her sacred garden. "W-Why aren't you wearing Underwear!?" Naruto blurted out, unable to take his eyes off the sight.
"Hey, no pro, no pro. It's okay 'cause Papi's going to marry Boss" Papi told the young man with an innocent smirk.
"You just decide that on your own! Do you even know what marriage is?!" Naruto blurted out.
""It's where you mate and lay eggs, right? Boss will put his pe-" Papi was starting with the explanation when Naruto cut her off.
"Okay! Okay! I get it! There's no need for you to say stuff like that!" Naruto shouted as he flailed his arms about.
"Why not? Papi's not a kid you know. She can lay eggs" Papi told the blond as she shifted around to that her back was facing Naruto's head, unintentionally giving Naruto a great view of her neither regions from several angles in the process. "And she can mate too" Papi added as she grabbed Naruto's pants and pushed them down, making the blond's heart jump in panic and excitement. "That's why it's no pro" Papi said as she hiked up her shirt showing off her ass and hips in the process. "Papi can even get married to the Boss" Papi told him as she looked over her shoulder with an angelic expression.
'Even Papi is coming after me?! Just what the hell is going on!?' Naruto mentally yelled with a beat-red face
Just as his mind was about to snap and give into the temptation before him his door was knocked off its hinges and slammed into both him and Papi courtesy of the house's centaur as said centaur shouted "Art thou in dander, Milord?!". "Oh woe! Was I too late?!" Cerea questioned upon seeing Naruto rubbing the forming goosebump on his head while Papi lay motionless on the floor beside him.
'Yes... and no...' Naruto thought to himself with pained grimace.
After taking a moment to gather himself Naruto stumbled back to his feet while pulling his pants back up. "Thanks for the save. Everyone's just going crazy tonight" Naruto told the blond centaur.
"They cannot be blamed" Centoria remarked as she walked over to the bed. It was a statement that confused Naruto but fortunately the woman continued without him needing to ask. "Behold-" Centoria began as she pointed over her shoulder at the broken window and the full moon in the sky. "The moon if full! This evening our animal instincts become unbridled! And now, with talk of marriage at hand, they cannot be reined in!" Centoria explained.
"They're like this because of the moon...?" Naruto asked to no one in-particular as he hoped back onto the bed and knelt in front of the window. "Aren't you affected too, Cerea?" Naruto asked as he kept his gaze on the moon.
"Neigh, of course not! I would never allow myself to grow unstable over a mere full moon! I swore loyalty to you, Milord! I belong to you, body and heart!" Centoria was telling Naruto. However that last part had red flags raising in Naruto's head and with the sound of the bed creaking Naruto spun around to see Centoria kneeling on the mattress with her front legs. "And so, Milord, You may do with me as you please! Use my body any way you desire!" Centoria said as she slowly moved closer to her fellow blond. Backed against the wall Naruto felt like he was pinned when the woman grabbed his wrists. "Indeed, it is as though we are already married! Please...! Caress me to your heart's content, Milord...!" Centoria told the man as she pushed his hands into her bosom with a flushed face.
"Liar! You've definitely been affected!" Naruto shouted as he began to panic again.
"Or shall we simply race to the finish?!" Centoria suggested as she grabbed hold of her blouse and yanked it open, letting her bare tits spring free.
Feeling a rush of blood coming Naruto jerked to the other end of the bed, only to back into several pairs of arms.
"Tell me Darling, have you decided who you're going to marry?" Miia asked as all four girls surrounded him.
"You're asking me that now?!" Naruto shot back at the lamia.
"No, no-There's no hurry! This is a special day~" Miia told the blond.
"Let's all have a fun time together!" Papi said.
"...I-I'll do my... best...!" Kasumi told him.
"A harem... If that be your desire, I shall canter to it...~" Centoria said to the blond.
Never in a million years would Naruto imagine losing his virginity like this. With his mind thoroughly fried from this insanity he was about to just give up and except his fate, however fate had decided that his V-card would be safe for another night.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN HERE!?" Kushina shouted as she stood dumbfounded in the broken doorway. Her face was burning red as her eyes spun at the sight before her. If not for her grip on the doorway she would've fallen to her knees in shock. Behind her stood Jiraiya grinning like a madman and trying not to laugh his ass off. The girls quickly shifted into excuse-mode but Kushina was not in the mood for this tonight. If they wanted to fuck then they were fully entitled to it but for the love of god couldn't they have waited until they got this shit settled first!
After getting yelled out by Kushina the four girls were sent to their rooms under the woman's watchful gaze. Meanwhile, Naruto was making his way downstairs. Unable to even think of sleeping after that calamity Naruto decided to grab a bit to eat and just go over his thoughts. Entering the kitchen the blond was surprised to see the fridge door open. Crumpling the guy started to stumble over to close it when a head of white hair poked up as Akko stood up straight with a bottle of blood substitute in hand.
Understandable the sight of her sent Naruto into a mini panic and he quickly threw his arms up in front of him as he just stared at the dark-skinned girl.
"Hhm?" Taking not of the guy Akko's head tilted in his direction with a blank look on her face save for a slightly gaping mouth as the light from the fridge illuminated her in the dark room. After a moment of watching the blond sweat it out the petite woman's lips formed into a wry smirk and then finally she started to chuckle.
"You've caused quite the ruckus, you know. I figured the others had a thing for you but DAMN! You're quite the stud aren't ya, Mr. Loverboy" Akko said with a chuckle here and there, confusing the blond as she closed the fridge and moved over to lean against the counter. "I can't even get an ounce of shut-eye with you guys making all of that noise, you know" Akko told her, her attention on the bottle as she opened it.
"Wait... you're not... I mean..." Naruto was attempting to put his thought to word as he lowered his arms. Meanwhile Akko just glanced up at him.
"Oh please, I've barely known you for like, three days, you know. You must have a pretty good opinion of yourself if you think I'm gonna fall for you that quickly" Akko told the blond with a smirk. Her words certainly made sense, but for some reason Naruto felt like she'd just run him through with a knife. Maybe he's been spoiled by the others affections?"The only reason I came here was because I liked the taste of your blood, you know. Don't get me wrong... if you were a complete ass I would've been out of here the next day" the mosquito girl told him. "Besides, you don't have enough muscle for my liking. Work out more and maybe we'll talk" Akko added, now ticking the blond off slightly. He was perfectly fit from all of his training. If she expected him to work out till he was bulging with muscles then she could forget it!
"Yeah... not happening" Naruto told the girl with a sigh. There really was no point in getting into an argument with her and so he moved to the fridge to fish out something for himself. "So if you're not interested in me does that mean your not affected by the moon?" not the best way to phrase it but that's what Naruto tired brain came up with.
"Nah, I'm totally feeling it's effects. It's why I'm down here grabbing a bit to eat. Figured that if I'm full I'd be able to stop myself from draining you dry, you know" Akko said like it was nothing. However her words sent a chill down his spine at the thought of her drinking his blood without any reserve.
"Aheheheh, thanks for that..." Naruto said with a nervous laugh as he pulled out some leftovers.
As the blond moved over to microwave Akko asked him "So what are you going to do?". Seeing him turn to her with a confused look Akko rolled her eyes, or at least Naruto thought she rolled her eyes. It's a little hard to tell when her eyes are solid black. "I'm talking about the whole marriage thing ya idiot" Akko told the blond who quickly gave a sigh.
"I haven't decided you to marry" Naruto told her with a downcast expression.
"That's not what I asked Loverboy" Akko told him and watched as his eyebrow twitched in what looked like irritation.
"What do you mean that's not what you asked?!" Naruto questioned the girl.
"No one with their head on straight is expecting you make a decision like that on the spot. It's not like they're even forcing you to do it either. It WAS a request after all. You want to get married then go for it and if you want to run with the bachelor live then you can do that, but you should let the others know what you intend to do so this doesn't happen again, and I can get some sleep" Akko told him and now watched as a sense of realization spread across the blond's face. 'At least it should be interesting around here no mater what happens' Akko thought to herself as she left the man to his thoughts and headed back to her room with bottle in hand.
The next morning
Just as Kushina had said today they would be talking about the potential marriage and so everyone was gathered into the living-room. Miia, Centoria, Papi, and Kasumi, the four most effected by the news, sat right at the front as Naruto prepared to speak his mind. Kushina sat in a chair next to the blond ready to chip in if she thought it was necessary but other than that she intended to stay as quiet as possible while the kids sort this out on their own. Sunda and Akko were present s well but had considerably less interest in this than the other girls. Jiraiya stood at the back of the room with his back against the wall. He was going to support Naruto's decision on this 100% but he knew that someone would have to relay this information to the Hokage and he drew the sort straw in this situation.
Clearing his throat Naruto stood firmly in front of the girls. "Okay! I spent a lot of time thinking about this last night and so I'm going to try and say this as best I can. I don't know who I'm going to marry!" Naruto firmly said, getting downcast but understandable looks from the four girls in front of him. "So..." Naruto said as his serious expression was broken with a smile. "I want to date all of you and see who I want to marry!" the blond announced to the four girls who's faces lit up with blushes.
It was in all honestly a simple solution to one problem, but it would also come with a lot of future dilemmas. But surely Naruto'd be able to handle anything the world tried to throw at him, for not only his own happiness but for the happiness of these girls who have taken precious places in his live.
At some later point in the day at some unnamed cafe
"You heard the recording for yourself... Yeah, yeah, I'll keep watching them" a man wearing a black business-suit replied before hanging up hid phone. Unlike all the other customers currently sitting in this fine establishment this man was a liminal, as clearly stated by his pair of fox ears and nine swishing tails. His body was covered in short tan fur and reaching down to his shoulders was rust-red hair. "Man that boss of mine is going to run me into the ground" the kitsune said as he pocketed his phone. "Piling extra work on my shoulders just 'cause he doesn't like someone. That's got to be a breach of ethics somewhere" he complained as he stretched out in his chair, meanwhile his gaze hidden behind sunglasses was locked onto the ass of one of the waitresses. 'Well at least I've got quite the view out here in the field' the fox thought to himself with a smirk.