Recommended Story: 'Mythical Night' by Myrddin Le Fay

Chapter Twenty-Three

Sakura Haruno was not what most people would consider a fighter. Sure she had a great punch, but the true could be said of virtually anyone in a bad mood. When it came to actual style or training, Sakura was beginner at best and pretender at worst. And contrary to popular belief, she had in fact worked in training to get better in it, even during the month-long break during the chuunin exams. Her only flaw was that she didn't have much instruction for it, as she once wouldn't fight Sasuke, Kakashi went easy on her, and Naruto used to irritate her to the point she reacted out of proper form. As a result, Sakura's taijutsu was actually among her weakest skills.

This didn't stop Sakura from getting in her routine stance once it became clear this succubus had no intention of backing down. 'Damn, I wish I had thought to bring my weapon pouch with me. I'll just have to be careful of this girls claws.'

Thinking of her limited options, Sakura did three quick hand signs and created two standard clones next to her. Rika was quite surprised. "What the hell? What kind of spell is that?"

'Perfect, she's never seen jutsu before.' Sakura thought, congratulating herself on this advantage. She and her illusionary clones charged forward. Rika, thinking all three Sakura's were real, took to the air to avoid getting hit.

"I don't know what kind of magic you're using, but I'm not dumb enough to be touched by it." The succubus told the human.

"That's not all you should worry about." Sakura said, dispelling her clones since they were useless now. 'I hope she buys this, because if not I'm out of options but to fight dirty.'

"Oh yeah? And what else should I worry about?" Rika said, perching on a branch like a hawk.

Sakura tried to stand proudly with a smile. "Because that boy you want to be with, I'm one of his mates-to-be. And I was the first girl he ever wanted for a mate. So if he hears you hurt me in any way you can kiss any chance of being with him goodbye."

Rika seemed to believe the story, but something didn't sound right to her. "Wait, I can hear him taking another girl right now. If you're the one he wanted first, why is he with someone else?"

Sakura quickly thought on her feet and showed no sign of being caught in a deception. "That's not really any of your business. But she and I had a bet to determine which of us would go first and she won. But I'm next, and there's no way in hell you're going ahead of me."

Rika thought it over, finding it plausible since she had no reason to believe otherwise. She looked at the pinkette then towards the sounds of Naruto and Hinata climaxing then back to Sakura. "If that's really what you want... you'll have to stop me first." With that she took flight and went off to reach Naruto.

Sakura immediately ran after her.

Naruto and Hinata were trying to relax in the afterglow of their union, but it didn't last long. A thump was heard making them look up, where they saw a succubus girl who just landed about five feet from their feet. Hinata squeaked in fear while Naruto used his wings to cover himself and her.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" He asked, baring his teeth intimidatingly.

"Hey there big boy, if you've got any left in you I'll be glad to give you an outlet. I bet that human girl is too tired for more but you're not and need another girl to ride." Rika told him casually as she started to take off her overalls.

Hinata glared, horribly offended by this complete stranger thinking she could be with her loved one just because she asked. "Get lost! I'm still ready for more and I'm not sharing him with you!"

"I'll wait, but you're going to get tired at some point." Rika said while she was still undressing, down to her bra while her overalls were at her ankles and her shirt was already on the ground.

Naruto frowned. "I'm with her because I love her, not because I need an outlet, and I won't be with any girl I don't love. I don't even know your name and you don't even know mine, so the answer is no."

Rika was about to object, but all of a sudden Sakura came up behind her and hit her in the head, knocking her on her knees making her clutch her aching scalp. "I said stay away from him!"

"Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked, not expecting her to be around. Suddenly he and Hinata felt a bit embarrassed being so exposed in the open.

Hearing her name the pinkette couldn't help but glance their way, and turned bright red seeing them. Sure, she had seen them before when they were in the middle of making love, but this time they knew she could see them naked and together.

Sakura looked away. "Sorry Naruto, she kind of got away from me."

"Ow, you bitch." Rika groaned as she tried to get back on her feet while ignoring the pain in her head.

Sakura moved to stand between her and Naruto, as if to guard him from the succubus. "You're the bitch. I told you that I'm one of the girls he actually wants and you decide to invite yourself into our business." Sakura quickly looked at the nude couple and winked at them, her face wearing a pleading expression.

Naruto was confused, as was Hinata, but the white-eyed girl quickly got the message. 'She must have already told this girl that she's one of Naruto-kun's other mates to try and keep her away. If we play along, this girl might have no choice but to leave us alone.'

"It's natural for my kind to do this sort of thing." Rika argued.

"But Naruto isn't like the rest of your kind. He's not going to sleep with just any girl who asks. If all you want is sex and don't care if you never see him again afterwards, then I'm not letting you come near him even once." Sakura said, cracking her knuckles.

"And what makes you two any better than me?" Rika asked, fire in her eyes. "What gives you two the right to keep the one incubus in the world to yourselves?"

"Because I love him!" Hinata and Sakura both shouted in unison, then Sakura blushed at her sudden admission while Naruto and Hinata looked at her.

Rika was unimpressed. "Doesn't matter, two human girls can't keep him satisfied. He needs at least one succubus and I'm the only one here so that makes him mine."

Hinata angrily stood up and faced the succubus, ignoring her nudity at the moment. "Never. You look at him and see just an incubus, a male to satisfy your lusts and nothing more. I've loved him for as long as I can remember, even when we all thought he was a human. If he wasn't an incubus you wouldn't want anything to do with him. I'll never share the love of my life with a girl like you."

Rika gave Hinata a harsh look but it was nothing compared to the kind she got from any of the Hyuugas so Hinata wasn't affected by it. Rika's eyes briefly darted to Hinata's left and she sighed. "I guess I can't argue with the apparent alpha girl of his group, so I've leave for now. There's got to be at least one boy in this town that won't turn away succubi pussy in favor of human." She picked up her clothes and left without even bothering to put them back on.

Sakura looked at Hinata and smiled. "Good job Hinata. Fighting for Naruto really does wonders for you."

"Thanks." Hinata said, remembering her nudity now and feeling a little self-conscious.

"Hey Hinata, what's that on your arm?" Sakura added.

"What are you...?" Hinata started, looking at her arms to see anything different. She cut herself off when she saw it, an orange band of skin on her left upper arm, closer to her shoulder then her elbow and about three fingers thick, with a thick red stripe running halfway thru it. This orange ring looked like it had been tattooed on her but she knew for a fact that was impossible. "What is that?"

"Does it hurt?" Naruto asked, jumping up to get a closer look at the ring on her arm. In the process he unknowingly gave Sakura a view of his ass, making her get a nosebleed.

"No, not at all. Where did it come from?" Hinata replied.

"Could it be a mate mark?" Sakura suggested, wiping her nose.

"A what?" Naruto asked, unfamiliar with the term.

"A mate mark, something I've seen a lot of in stories when a girl falls in love with a demon, like a vampire or hanyou. The guy marks the girl as his wife by giving her a special mark that binds the two for life like scar version of wedding rings. They usually are created during sex."

"Wait, are you saying Hinata-chan's my wife now?" Naruto asked, facing Sakura and now giving her a full view of his front, which made her turn red then covered her eyes.

'W-w-wife?' Hinata thought, coming close to fainting from shock but a good kind of shock.

"I don't know for sure Naruto, my only source is fiction. For all I know the mark is a rash from some poisonous plant out here she was laying on. You'll have to ask Kushina-sama about it."

Naruto was silent for a moment then reached for his boxers. "You know Sakura-chan, if you're going to peek thru your fingers you could at least make the gaps smaller."

"I'm not peeking." Sakura lied, tightening her fingers so she couldn't look for real this time.

Hinata started putting her clothes back on too. "Naruto-kun, go get your mother and ask her to come here, but don't tell her what we just did. Just say she needs to see something. I'll stay here and talk to Sakura about something."

"Alright." He replied. When he was fully dressed, wings and tail hidden, he gave her a kiss before he left. "Thanks for not hitting me Sakura-chan." He whispered as he passed the pinkette, not giving her the chance to respond.

Hinata put on everything except her jacket and looked at Sakura, making the pinkette feel a bit uncomfortable. It wasn't like Hinata was glaring at her or anything, but Sakura couldn't help but feel that the Hyuuga heiress was sizing her up for something, or looking for something to use against her.

"Now, did I hear you correctly a few moments ago? Did you really just say you love Naruto-kun?" Hinata finally asked.

Sakura had the decency to look embarrassed and held her hands together in front of her. "Yes, I did say that."

"Why?"

"I'm kind of surprised too."

"Was that part of your act for getting rid of that girl?" Hinata asked.

Sakura hesitated for a moment. "No, that part wasn't. I know I'm probably the last person you want to hear this from Hinata, but my heart is calling out for Naruto now."

"Sakura, I'm not going to be judgmental of you. Like I said last night, I won't keep you out of Naruto-kun's life, but I'm surprised you said this so soon. I thought it would take you a little longer to desire Naruto-kun this way if at all. So what exactly made you fall for Naruto-kun when just a month ago you would have given your right arm to be Sasuke's lover?"

"Hinata, if anyone has the right to be judgmental to me on this subject, it's you. As for why I feel this way, I'm not so sure since I only started realizing it this morning. Maybe I liked Naruto more than I wanted to when we were younger but wouldn't acknowledge it, I don't know. All I know is I do care about him and now I'm not afraid to show it, even if I can only ever be just his friend."

Hinata lightly smiled. "Sakura, you've definitely treated Naruto-kun better during our time away from Konoha so I'm not distrusting you, merely surprised you developed these feelings so soon. And to be honest I'd rather share him with you then with that other girl. But tell me one thing, what is it you really want regarding Naruto-kun?"

Sakura closed her eyes. 'What do I want?' She asked herself, thinking about the whiskered blonde she had come to trust and admire, then lightly smiled and looked at Hinata. "I trust Naruto with my life. After all he's been thru he deserves to be happy and loved. If I could be selfish, I'd ask to be one of the girls you share him with, and give myself to him like you just did. But that's his decision, not ours, and if he says no, I'll at least help him become Hokage."

"And if he says yes?" Hinata asked.

Sakura looked firm but relaxed. "Then I'll be what I should have been all this time, a girl who returns his love and affection with the same."

Hinata smiled. "Good. That's the kind of girl I'd be happy sharing Naruto-kun with. I don't think you have to worry about him rejecting you though, since he did dream about you last night."

"I remember. I wonder what we were doing to him in that dream." Sakura replied. "Maybe Naruto's not as much of an anti-pervert as he thought he was."

"I once heard anti-perverts are really big perverts pretending not to be." Hinata stated. "If so I wonder how good he's going to be when he gets more experience."

"So you won't be mad if he and I... have sex someday too?" Sakura bashfully asked.

Hinata lost her smile but didn't frown. "I can't say I'll like it, but I'm not going to force Naruto to be monogamous if that actually threatens his well-being. So I'll basically tolerate it as best you could expect of a woman, as long as you treat him right and aren't just after sex."

Sakura shook her head. "I'm not. I truly want him to be happy, and I want to be happy with him."

"Sakura, you remember how Kushina-sama said Naruto can live up to 130 right?" Hinata asked, and Sakura nodded. "There's a way for us to share his lifespan. What we do is... become succubi."

"Become succubi?" Sakura repeated.

Hinata nodded. "Yes, with a spell that turns human girls into succubi. Tayuya-san is going to use it to be able to walk again and Tsunade-sama is going to use it so she can become capable of having children again. You and I and any other girl who loves him like we do can use it so we can live with him instead of growing old and grey and dying decades before he does either."

Sakura thought it over. "You have a good point. Are there any drawbacks to this?"

"Just dealing with the needs of a succubus for the rest of our lives, meaning our sex lives can never get old and slow. And once we get pregnant we can never become human again." Hinata told her.

"Would we... be helpful to Naruto other than for sex?" Sakura asked. "I want to be by Naruto's side when he needs help, not off on the sidelines waiting for him to finish and soothe him when the fight's over. I'm tired of being helpless in a bad situation and I'd like to fight beside him, not behind him. Because if he's going to be hokage, he'll need us to help him fight off those that want to hurt him."

Hinata nodded. "I know exactly what you mean. That in fact is one of the reasons I'm procrastinating on the change."

Sakura blinked and tilted her head. "Meaning?"

"I've already decided I will do this and become a succubus for Naruto-kun, but there's one thing I need to do first as a human. My clan elders are convinced I will be a weakling forever, and I want to prove them wrong. If anyone can help me get strong enough to do that, it's our group, but if I become a succubus I'll always feel like my strength came from that and not my efforts. So after we go back to Konoha and I teach those elders a lesson, then I'll become a succubus for Naruto-kun."

Sakura smiled. "Sounds like a good idea."

"What about you?" Hinata asked.

"Me? Well, I don't have anyone to fight back home, and if I did have to fight someone I think I'd stand more of a chance as a succubus then as a human. So I guess I don't really have a reason to wait if offered."

"Would you accept?" Hinata asked.

Sakura only needed a moment to think about it. "I think I would. It'll be a great way to bond with Naruto and help him when that Frenzy thing starts up, and if I can get a sexier body that would be great. My one concern is what my parents would think. I doubt they'd hate me, but they might not like me deciding this without their input."

"I don't think this is really their decision, but yours." Hinata pointed out.

Sakura felt a bit comforted by that. "You're right. Thanks Hinata, for everything. I owe you one for all this."

"For now, let's just get some breakfast. I'm hungry."

Sakura smirked. "I bet Naruto would make you work up an appetite." Hinata blushed but smiled.

After breakfast Tsunade was ready for the spell. Naruto remained in his room since the succubi at the hotel were making him uncomfortable being anywhere else. Hinata, Moegi, and Ayame were with him to keep him company and from getting bored while the rest were with Tsunade to see how this spell would affect her.

At breakfast Hinata showed Kushina her new mark, and the older woman squealed happily to see it. "That's an incubus mark. I was told that when an incubus claims a girl as his mate that appears on her arm like a permanent wedding ring. The only reason I don't have one is because Minato wasn't an incubus. But this basically makes you my daughter-in-law now Hinata."

Kushina would have loved to spend more time with her son and new daughter, but at the moment she had to be there with Tsunade and Tayuya to see how this would go. Mostly she was there for piece of mind for them. Also there was a small Katsuyu, overseeing this to see if it was possible to maintain a connection to Tsunade without chakra and to select a new summoner if not.

The medics Iyoi, Meo, and Kiha came up to Tsunade. "You certain about this?"

The slug sannin nodded. "Yes. I know this will change a lot for me beyond just my DNA but it's worth it. I only request that after it you instruct me in some medical spells to help me replace the ones I will lose."

"That shouldn't be hard. Teaching's easy, the hard part will be learning it."

"So how are we doing this?" Tsunade asked.

"This spell is one of the higher level ones, meaning an incantation isn't enough to make it happen." Meo warned. "We have to write specific words on your body to sort of anchor the spell to you, and even then it will take all three of us performing the spell to make sure it happens."

"Makes sense. The more complicated the jutsu the more preparation you have to put into performing it." Tsunade replied.

Iyoi looked at the other girls in the room. "Would either of you like to join her in this now?"

"I want to see this work first." Tayuya stated.

"Same here." Isaribi added with a nod.

"I'd rather stay as I am." Ino confirmed nervously.

Sakura surprised everyone by stepping forward. "I'll do it."

"What?" Ino asked.

Sakura nodded. "I want to help Naruto and show my support for him. This way I can."

"You know there are other ways to do that." Kushina told the young girl.

Sakura smiled. "I know, but I'm choosing to do it this way." She then faced the three medics. "I'm ready."

"Alright then, both of you please take off pretty much everything except your panties." Kiha requested as she grabbed a brush and bottle of ink.

There were no men in the room so Tsunade and Sakura didn't object and in no time were clad only in their panties. Sakura was a little embarrassed to reveal just how small her breasts really were. 'I hope they don't stay small after this.'

Kiha dipped her brush in the ink, which turned out to be pink instead of black, and began to write words on parts of Tsunade's and Sakura's bodies that were in a completely different script than any the natives of the Elemental Nation had seen before. The words were written on the girl's stomachs, breasts, back of shoulders, forearms, above posterior, calves, and foreheads.

'It almost feels like a full body fuinjutsu.' Tsunade thought to herself.

"Now here's the hard part, the three of us each have to say a different portion of the spell simultaneously. The combined result will be you two turning into a succubus. Don't expect the change to be instantaneous, if anything it will take up to an hour to be complete. With Tsunade well past the age for puberty, she'll develop succubi traits quicker than normal. Sakura, who is currently at the age where puberty ends for succubi, is likely to develop at the same rate." Kiha told the two for-now humans.

"I must warn you both though, that you're going to experience a form of hormone surge similar to an adrenaline rush." Iyoi chipped in. "Since Tsunade's body is no longer used to having a lot of hormones in it anymore, she might feel like she's experiencing some akin to a medical stimulant injection. Sakura's body on the other hand is probably going to feel like she's completing puberty in an hour. Such a situation is likely to result in a Frenzy almost right away for her."

Sakura was wide-eyed. "So you mean I'll need sex right away?"

"I said likely, not guaranteed, and self-pleasure will work as well if you don't have a boy to help you, but it will take a lot of it to dull the effects." The succubus medic warned.

"I'll keep that in mind." Sakura told her. 'Would Naruto help me if that happens?'

"Anything else we should be warned of?" Tsunade asked.

"We can only do work on one of you at a time. Just be careful to not lose your balance during your body's new adjustment to itself. And be ready to feel a whole lot younger again." Iyoi warned. "Or in your case Sakura a little older."

Without further ado, the three medics formed a triangle around the slug sannin first and placed their right hands on her. Iyoi put hers on Tsunade's left shoulder, Meo put hers on Tsunade's right thigh, and Kiha put her at the base of Tsunade's neck on her back. All three closed their eyes and said three different phrases then one shared phrase. Tsunade's ink marks glowed then the glow spread to her entire body, as if it were laminating her.

'It feels like... like orgasming while soaking in a hot spring.' was the best comparison Tsunade could make to how this felt from her end.

After a few seconds the glow darkened then stopped, and Tsunade collapsed to her hands and knees panting, feeling like she had just exhausted her body but had enjoyed doing so. Meaning despite her shortness of breath she surprisingly left relaxed rather than stressed.

"Your turn Sakura." Meo told the pinkette, who soon experienced the exact same thing and ended up on her knees and hands panting just like Tsunade.

"Now what?" Ino asked.

"Now we wait and see if it worked."