Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!

Sales were even better.

Not like selling 10 to 100 times more copies than before, and it was possible Mirajane's inclusion into the magazine was less of a factor than to be believed. Many people who bought the first issue with Erza, would no doubt pay attention to a second issue that had her in it as well. The fact it also had Mirajane peaked the interest of fans of her, but the fact was that Erza and Mirajane had overlap in their fanbases, people who were fans of both. Still, the fact was that there was a 33% increase in scales over the last issue, and 33% was a pretty huge number when considering how much profits they had made the last issue.

"So, how did my food reviews do?"

"Don't know yet, give it a few more issues." Naruto explained to Sting when he was curious. He put a lot of effort into finding fun places to eat whenever he went out to do a job. They had a few more people join the guild, not the main guild but the production part of the guild in Magnolia. The guild had 3 locations, and their current location was the Main Guild. People with some kind of talent could join the Main Guild, though this was at the request of Old Man Moneybags himself that the main guild have the best of the best.

Yukino looked at the gift baskets that had been sent to them by a few of the businesses who were seeing the products they advertised in the magazine go up in sales. She was eating the chocolates and other sweet fruits inside of them, while Naruto kept an eye on her to prevent her from drinking the booze included in the baskets.

"Master... when are we going to start on the next issue, it's been about a week?" Yukino enjoyed the brief break from hard work, but she wanted to work hard at the same time.

She couldn't impress Naruto by sitting on her butt all day.

"When Carla gets back with Wendy, we can get the next theme decided. First thing first-" Naruto slapped Sting on the back of the head. "-you're getting fat boy, go run laps." Naruto had Sting doing a lot of eating for the magazine, but when the boy wasn't taking jobs, he was still eating just as much as before. Naruto had noticed a subtle change in his weight, and he knew that Sting was one of those types of people.

Those who can gain a LOT of weight really quickly if they were lazy.

Eating and sleeping were important to getting stronger, but Sting was the type to let himself go unless somebody was on his ass to improve himself.

"Ow... Yukino is getting fat too!"

"AM NOT!"

"She isn't, her hips are just getting wider... she's a girl Sting, they grow different than boys. I'll get onto her if she starts to get fat." Naruto calmed Yukino with a hand on top of her head. The two kids were head to head, glaring into each other's eyes.

Sting left the guild to do laps with Lector flying behind him.

...

"... You actually have been gaining some weight, so just do some laps around the guild hall." Naruto knew that the fighting would never end if Sting had been right, so he waited for Sting to leave before he brought the issue up. Yes, Yukino was a young woman going through puberty, but her breasts and hips weren't the only areas that were growing.

Yukino blushed and got to work running around.

"Yes-"

"We're back Master!" Wendy called out as she held up boxes filled with papers. Carla walked behind her, and she looked at Yukino running laps around the guild hall. "... Mr Moneybags kissed my forehead when I got this from him, and I gave him the form you requested I give him... what was it?" Wendy asked Naruto.

She had crooked lipstick on her forehead.

Mr Moneybags was taking advantage of the growing popularity of the magazine to surround himself with beautiful women, and how scummy their top financial backer was really made her appreciate the differences between him and her master. Still, she liked the old man well enough simply because of the fact he played a role in her joining the guild in the first place.

"These are reader surveys, I offered them in the last magazine... the first 100 issues of each magazine in each city would have these surveys... so we have about... 1,700 surveys to glance over." Naruto stated as he pulled out one of the examples from the box, and he showed it off to Wendy.

Please Answer These 5 Questions

1. Who did you prefer among the models?
2. If you could pick a theme for the next issue of the magazine, which theme would you go for?
3. Which of the models would you prefer the next issue have as the star?
4. How likely are you to buy products listed in the magazine?
5. Would you like a picture of a trusted guild member of Lewd Gods testing products in the magazine?

"Just these 5 questions?" Carla asked as she looked over a few forms.

"These are the 5 most important questions, we could ask them 100 questions... but these 5 can answer 100 questions. Carla, think you can keep tally of the answers when me and Wendy call out Erza or Mirajane?" Naruto gave Carla a clipboard and a pen.

"Aren't they both under contract?"

"This decides who gets the centerfold, and who will be featured more. Also, I want to see who people are more interested in. This will change the next contract with the models too." Naruto didn't need to explain himself, but he did anyway. Both Erza and Mirajane would appear in the next magazine, but the fact remained that he wanted the more popular woman to be the centerfold.

Wendy looked at the papers.

1,700 of them.

"We're... going to be here all day." Wendy realized the truth of the matter. "... and what about these themes?" Wendy asked, before Naruto tossed her a clipboard as well.

"If the same general theme appears more than 10 times, write it down and then start keeping track when you come across something similar to it. If 10 people think of it, it is worth noting, if 100 people agree with it, then it is a usable idea worth considering... if 500 people agree with it, we do it in a future issue." Naruto already off to the races with the paperwork. "... also... back to an earlier point..."

Naruto lifted up his bangs.

He had a kiss mark too, just like her, showing that their financial backer had visited the guild as well.

-Hours Later-

"Wow... that girl has a talent for picture taking."

Mirajane flipped through a copy of the magazine that she bought, she had to support the magazine she was in by buying it after all. She flipped through the pages, ignoring a few of the articles in favor of seeing the pictures of herself and Erza. She did fold down the corner of the page that had some housecleaning tips and a food review from Sting. She would go back to those later to read them, but she was more curious about how she would look.

She looked good.

"Hey Mira, since you're a famous porn star now... can you sign my copy."

"Eheheheh..." Mirajane had the decency to blush when a member of her own guild, one of the older men, came forward and asked for her to sign the magazine. She was pretty sure she knew exactly what they were going to do with their copies. Not that she expected anything less, since even her safest material in the world had been used for that purpose before no doubt.

She got paid quite the decent amount, Naruto even threw in a little extra under the table due to her efforts in helping with Erza's inability to act. She also liked the feeling of rivalry she had with Erza again.

"Sooooooo... these shots of you look really good." Lucy had a copy, and she slid it to Mirajane to sign.

"They really do, Wendy has a good idea. You know, at first I was curious why such a young girl was the photographer, but now I can see what he saw. It's like these photos are taking with her eyes." Mirajane signed Lucy's copy. She did raise an eyebrow when she noticed that Lucy had a porn magazine for her to sign, but she noticed a lot of guild members of the right age had bought them.

Most likely to be supportive.

Lucy sat right down at the bar.

"So... was it hard, doing the shoot?" Lucy asked her.

Mirajane shrugged.

"A little, but the real hard part was what I learned about myself. Are you still thinking about doing some work yourself?" Mirajane had learned she was a size queen for things in her ass, but other than that the shooting was pretty fun for her. Seeing the results and how hot she looked stroked her ego.

Lucy looked conflicted.

"... I shouldn't have rejected that offer, it was a good offer... but when Happy opened his mouth... I just kind of got too angry to consider how good it was." Lucy bought the magazine so that she could see how high the quality was. The money might not have been as good as what Mirajane would make, but it was still a decent offer that could improve.

She wasn't famous after all, so of course she wouldn't be offered a cover model job. She put thought into that and understood it after serious consideration.

"How about during the next photoshoot, I ask if you can watch the process. I'm sure Naruto will be happy to let you do work as a model if you ask... and you understand the conditions. How about it?" Mirajane asked with a smile.

"That sounds-"

-Hours Later-

"-good. Okay, so lets go over... Wendy?" Naruto asked the tired girl.

They had been working for 6 hours straight to get everything counted, and to narrow down things to groups.

"UUuuuuuh... what?"

"Look at the time, I think we can put this off until tomorrow. I'm taking everyone out for breakfast, so get some sleep." Naruto decided the talk of the theme for the next issue when she was fully awake, and not half mentally dead.

He had narrowed it down to 5 potential themes after all.

All they had to do was decide what the theme would be, and then they would be able to get to work.

Chapter End!
Please Leave Me Lots of Nice Long Reviews, But No Flames Please!

1. Who did you prefer among the models?
2. If you could pick a theme for the next issue of the magazine, which theme would you go for?
3. Which of the models would you prefer the next issue have as the star?

I will be selecting 5 good themes suggested in the reviews, and holding a competition on my Discord channel to decide the theme of the next magazine.