Hello everyone! I'm back with a new chapter and today it's the Miia shedding chapter! If you've seen the anime or read the manga then you're going to know how all the important parts of this chapter go. I pondered on how I could make it different from cannon but there wasn't a lot I could do while also keeping it about Naruto helping Miia shed. Still, I do hope you all enjoy the chapter.
(Marshalanime does not own Naruto or Monster Musume No Iru Nichijou)
"Someone's in the kitchen with Miia. Someone's in the kitchen I know~!" Miia was cheerfully singing as she stood at the stove. Atop the appliance sat all sorts of pots and pans as the lamia happily cooked. Sitting comfortably in the dinning portion of the room Naruto watched the girl work her magic, among other things. "The secret ingredient is love for my Darling, 'cause he's my beau~!" Miia continued to sing all the way up until, "AHH! Is it burning?!" the contents of one of the pans burst into flame and Miia expression rightfully turned to panic.
"Put it out! Put it out!" Naruto shouted as he jumped out of his chair. This was apart of the 'other things' that Naruto was here for. Miia apparently has little to no prior experience with cooking and since Kushina went out to run a few errands it was left to Naruto to watch over the girl as she prepared a meal.
"D-Don't worry!" Miia said as she spun around to face the blond. While striking a dramatic pose Miia continued "You're considering me to be you bride, Darling! So I've got to do my best to become a good wife!".
"That's great. Now could you please put out the fire!" Naruto told the woman.
With a bit of a nervous sweat Miia turned back to the stove as she used her tail to put a lid on the pan and snuff out the fire. "So from now on, I'll do the cooking! I mean, how can you be a bride-to-be in training and not cook?!" Miia said as small streams of smoke leaked out from under the pan's lid.
"That way..." Miia began as she started to drift off to a fantasy.
"Miia, I'm home!" Naruto called out as he returned home from work, dressed in a black business suit.
"Welcome home, Darling!" Miia greeted with love in her voice. "What would you like to do first? Dinner? A bath? Or ME?" Miia asked as she stood in the entrance-way in nothing but a pink apron and ovenmits as she held a pot of food.
"I'd love to do you AND dinner in the bath!" Naruto exclaimed as the two of the were suddenly in the bath and he was tearing his tie off as Miia's apron slipped off her shoulders.
"Oh my! Darling, you just want everything, don't you~?" Miia, back in the real world, gushed as she held her blushing cheeks.
"That... doesn't have anything to do with cooking" Naruto commented, though it didn't seem to get through to Miia in her current state.
"And then..." Miia was about to go on when her eyes widened and her blush vanished. After a moment of her stand there motionless and quiet Naruto went to ask if she was alright but then quickly turned his attention to one of the pots that was boiling over. Having been snapped out of whatever daze she was in by the blond's shout Miia quickly grabbed the pot and yanked it off the burner. This however turned out to be a mistake as her unprotected hands were now holding onto burning hot mettle, resulting in Miia letting out an ear piercing yelp.
A little while later, after receiving first-aid and turning off the stove, Miia was in her room and hiding under the covers. All the while she was staring at her bandaged hands with her pointed ears dropped down a little and small droplets formed in the corners of her eyes.
"Miia, don't feel bad, everyone makes mistakes. You'll only get better with practice" Naruto called out to the girl as he stood outside her room. After patching her up Naruto watched as she quietly sulked off to her room, so now he figured that he should cheer her up. Or at least, he was trying to cheer her up.
"I-I'm all right! The cooking thing isn't bothering me! I just want to be alone for a little bit...!" Miia responded. "Waah... This isn't good... What am I gonna do...?" Miia wondered to herself. "My hands are useless like this..." the lamia commented as she glanced at her blanket covered body as it writhed and shifted.
Back with Naruto he was coming to the conclusion that he should probably listen to the girl and give her some space, despite worrying about her. Though it was as he turned to walk away that he stepped on something he hadn't been expecting. Upon hearing the crinkling under his foot the blond looked down to see his foot on a thin, flaky fragment. Kneeling down he picked the object up to investigate it. 'What's snake skin doing here? Come to think of it it's actually pretty bi-' Naruto was thinking as he held the face sized flake in his hand when a look of understanding spread across his face.
Leaning back against the door as he sat on the floor Naruto asked "Miia, you're shedding, right?".
Upon hearing the question Miia's head shot up and her eyes widened as she let out a cute yelp. How did he know!? Without thinking the lamia shot out of bed and ran to the door, blowing it off its hinges as she panicked "Wh-What are you talking about Darling!?".
Having jumped up and to the side when he heard Miia rushing the door Naruto managed to avoid getting whacked by said door when Miia knocked it down. Still, that's yet another door blasted off its hinges by one of the girls. Choosing not to voice his concern about the door Naruto stood next to the downed lamia as she laid on the door with the piece of snake skin he found still in his hands.
A minute or two later and Miia was back under her covers with a pillow now covering her head as Naruto sat on the corner of the mattress.
"I didn't want you to see me while I was shedding, Darling... And with my hands burnt like this... I can't even get rid of the casting" Miia complained as she pocked her head up, ever so slightly, from the pillow she was holding over herself.
"Is it really that embarrassing? I'm mean, I've seen you naked plenty of times before" Naruto remarked.
"For lamias, being seen shedding is so much worse!" Miia told the blond. "Plus, Papi, Centoria, and Kasumi don't shed..." Miia said, her voice becoming more melancholic, a fact Naruto didn't miss. "And here I can't even get rid of my castings properly... I'm a complete disaster at cooking... and cleaning and doing laundry. You were nice enough to date me and consider me for your wife... I feel so pathetic that I can't be what you need" Miia said before finally burying her head back under her pillow in frustration. "I've never lost control of my shedding this way before... Why'd it have to happen NOW?!" Miia cried out.
Seeing Miia so embarrassed Naruto couldn't help but smile a little. It was such a rare sight to see. "This is partial shedding right? I guess it's pretty common for snakes when they're under stress. Are you stressed out because you're living in a new place? Regardless, if we just leave is as is you could develop a skin condition" Naruto said, surprising Miia with his knowledge.
"Huh...? How do you know all that, Darling?" Miia questioned.
"Ms. Smith dropped off a bunch of reference books for me and mom to read" Naruto told her as he thought about that giant pile of books sitting in Kushina's room. With six different species living with them they had quite a lot to get through. Fortunately they had clones to help alleviate the load but even then it was a choir-and-a-half.
Half an hour later and Miia's room had been filled with humidifiers and wash-bins filled with warm water and towels.
"Hey, Miia" Naruto started as he pulled out one of the towels and rung it out. "Could you lift up your skirt? I don't want it getting wet" Naruto asked the girl as he stood up with damp towel in hand. Naruto had offered to help with the shedding but to make it as easy as possible a little set up was required, and so Miia was laying stomach first on her bed as Naruto set all of this up. Despite her embarrassment the lamia followed what Naruto told her and watched as he covered her lower body with numerous towels. Once done they gave it a few minutes for Miia's old skin to become moist.
"Okay, that should be enough" Naruto said as he started to remove the towels. The longer this went on and the more time he had to think about this the more nervous he got. Was it Miia's shyness? The inherent intimacy of this whole thing? The fact that tey were in her room? What ever the reason was Naruto was hoping to get through this without insedent.
"A-All right, here I go. Let me know if it hurts, okay?" Naruto sat as he stared at Miia's raised behind as her flushed face was pressed into her pillow.
"A-All right..." Miia told him.
As the blond started he was pleasantly surprised by how easily her skin was coming off. With each swath of skin he removed there was a patch of smoothy, shiny scales left in its place. It really was beautiful when you thought of it. However, Naruto's innocent thoughts were quickly snuffed out when Miia's moans and grunts hit his ears and his cheeks immediately reddened. 'R-Right. This is still pert of her body so... yeah...' Naruto thought to himself as he did his utmost best to ignore the arousing sounds and focus on the task at hand. Soon Naruto was off the bed and moving along her tail at a comfortable pass, or as comfortably as it could go.
It wasn't until Naruto was nearing the end when something new occurred. With Miia's voice raising in volume in a sudden gasp Naruto nearly jumped out of his skin as his hands shot back to his side "D-Darling... the tip of my tail...!" Miia let out as the very tip of her tail wagged about with a patch of old skin covering it.
'Oh yeah, the tip is extremely sensitive...' Naruto remembered as he reached out for it. "Just hold on a little longer, okay Miia?" Naruto told the girl, and despite her apprehension she agreed. That is until the blond actually grabbed the tip of her tail and she let out another loud moan and tightened her hands around the bed-sheet below her.
"Wait! Wait just a minute Darling...! I can't! I can't! You've got me so keyed up! One more touch and I'll lose it...!" Miia called out through pants as her tail began to coil around Naruto while said blond struggled to hold onto the tip.
"Just calm down! Thirty seconds and I'll have it removed!" Naruto tried to tell the girl as removing the skin grew harder and harder the more Miia struggled.
Moments later and Miia was left panting on the bed with drool seeping out of her mouth as Naruto sat exhausted on the floor with a piece of skin in his hand.
"N-Now let's take care of the scales on your belly, okay? So go ahead and turn over" Naruto said as he started to pick up some of the scattered towels. "Now that the tip of your tail is done, the rest should be eas-" Naruto was saying only to go quiet when he turned back towards the bed. Laying there unable to meet Naruto's eyes as her face flushed red Miia held her skirt up showing the belly as well as her panties. 'Right... I forgot about that...' Naruto thought with a nervous sweat as he stared at the sight before him. That view was soon ruined when the end of Miia's tail came up and wrapped around his eyes as a makeshift blindfold.
"Um... Don't look, okay Darling? I'm about to take my underwear off" Miia said as she took hold of the corners of the garment and started to peel them off.
"Wha!?" Naruto blurted out.
"If you stare at me there it'd be... really embarrassing..." Miia told the blond.
"N-No! You should be able to take care of that yourself!" Naruto blurted out with a bit of panic. He's never even kissed, a girl, before in his live! How can he be expected to put his hands near such an important place!?
"But I can't, and this is the most delicate area of all... If you leave it like this it... it... i-it gets itchy... So, please Darling..." Miia pleaded. Despite wanting to avoid this as badly as Naruto did she knew that it had to be done and nothing would change that fact.
After a moment to mentally prepare himself and for Miia to cover her special place with her left hand Naruto lowered his hands to Miia's waist. "O-Okay... tell me where the rest of it is..." Naruto told the girls as his fingertips lightly danced atop her soft scales due to nervousness.
"N-Not there... A little to the right..." the lamia told him.
"Right! Uuuhh... my right or your right?!" Naruto asked as his hands jerked back a little.
"Oh... Sorry... My right..." Miia told him, her cheeks dusted a nice shade of pink.
'Oh man... I think being blindfolded is making it worse...' Naruto thought to himself as he was forced to rely heavily on his sense of touch, and subsequently noticed the softness of Miia's underside more than he should in this situation. He needed to focus on removing her old scales but he just couldn't stop thinking about the feeling under his fingers.
"D-Darling... Th-That part's really sensitive..." Miia huffed out after Naruto started removing the scales that directly bordered her sacred garden. However, Naruto was currently too caught up with his own thoughts to hear her at that volume and unintentionally put a finger between Miia's thumb and her palm resulting in him brushing up against her. With "Hya!" Miia's back arched and her tail forced Naruto's head into an uncomfortable position.
"I-I'm sorry Darling... I'm fine... I'm fine now...!" Miia told the blond through heavy breaths as she covered her mouth with her right hand and held onto the sheet next to her head with her left. "There's just a little more now..." the red haired woman told him.
'Damn it this ia bad! How could I have done something like that!? If this continues much longer I'll... I'll...' Naruto was sweating bullets as he thought this. 'I just have to hurry up and finish!' Naruto concluded as he refused to think any further on his previous thought out of fear of acting on his hormonal desires. "Miia! Were esle is it peeling!?" Naruto asked the girl.
"Um...? T-To the right..." Miia answered.
"Okay! My right, correct? You're still covering yourself with your hand?" Naruto rushed out as his hand darted in. It was at this moment that Miia realized where exactly her hands were.
"Ah! Darling, not you right..." Miia was calling out as her upper body shot up, only to be rendered speechless by Naruto's sudden entrance.
For a moment the both of them just sat there in silence with Naruto unmoving and Miia staring at her waist with wide eyes.
"...? I think I went in-SIDE!" Naruto was mindlessly saying when Miia's tail quickly pulled away from the blond and nearly snapped his neck in the process. By the time Miia realized the damage she'd just done it was already too late and Naruto was left unconscious.
One phone call to Smith and hospital visit later and Naruto was sitting at the dinning-room table with a neck-brace on. Laid out before him was an assortment of... dishes? It was certainly made from food, whatever it was now was hard to tell.
"Here Darling! Eat up~!" Miia cheerfully said as Naruto stared at the 'food'. "Tee hee~! This is my way of saying thanks and sorry for before! I reheated the food that didn't get burned last time, so please try it!" Miia told the man as she brought over another plate.
'Wh-What the hell is this...?! Some kind of traditional lamia recipe?' Naruto wondered as the food seemed to radiate an ominous aura.
"'Don't you dare eat that'" Kurama spoke up. However, the bijuu's words went unheeded the moment Naruto felt Miia beaming with anticipation.
"Th-Thanks for the food..." Naruto managed to get out after finishing what was placed in front of him as his leaned half-dead on the table. His stomach was shouting bloody murder but at least Miia was happy, right? That made up for all this pain, RIGHT?
"'You stupid, stupid, motherfucker'" Kurama answered his unspoken questions.
"Wow! You ate every last bite~!" Miia happily said.
"W-We were too late" Centoria's voice carried into the kitchen. Having heard her Naruto started to wonder where she'd been all day. It was unusual to not see her until this late in the day. Picking his head off the table the blond looked over his shoulder only to see Centoria and Papi barely able to stand on their own feet as they wobbled about in the doorway.
"Papi!? Centoria!? What happened!?" Naruto asked the pair.
"Th-That food...!" Centoria managed to get out despite her condition.
"The food is fine! There wasn't anything weird in it!" Miia immediately countered, offended that she'd even accuse her cooking of such wrong doing. "It was curry, meat and potato stew, and salisbury steak. And some fried rice and pork miso soup... and some flan~!" Miia rattled off what it was she made, making Naruto's condition worsen as he realized that what he ate was just outright inedible garbage rather than some lamia delicacy.
"Miia... did you even use the cookbook?" Naruto asked the young woman.
"No, I just did what I remembered from watching your mom cook, Darling!" Miia admitted with a smile. "But I had Centoria and Papi taste-test it first, so it should be fine!" Miia said as Naruto attention turned back to Papi and Centoria who'd both finally collapsed from the pain.
"You didn't try it yourself?" Naruto questioned.
"Lamia lose their appetites right before shedding" Miia informed her blond host.
After that it was agreed that Miia wasn't allowed to cook until she read through several cooking guides, much to the lamia's protest.