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Chapter Twenty
"How long will they have to look for the right spell to use?" Shizune asked as she, Tsunade, and Kushina all left the examination room to go get some coffee. Not to mention that sitting around while medics looked thru books made them bored and restless, and Tayuya's impatience wasn't making them be any more patient either.
"Hard to say. I was only taught a few basic spells to make me help in fights and heal those around me. Spells of this caliber are beyond me." Kushina said.
"Never really thought of you as the type to be a medic nin Kushina." Tsunade joked.
"Attack and healing spells are the easiest ones to learn." The redhead explained. "Pretty common among those allowed to use mana here."
"Does this world have something similar to a ninja system?" Shizune asked.
Kushina took a sip of her drink before she answered. "Not exactly. The best way I could describe it is more of a samurai system, and even that's not entirely accurate. Let's sit down so I can describe it in better detail."
The others nodded and all three took a seat, waiting for Kushina to tell them another thing they needed to know.
"While I've been trapped in this world, I did spend time learning the history of it. It's similar to our own in a way. Hmm... even with me being born here in Alfheim, I'll always think of the Elemental Nations as my real home."
"I wouldn't blame you. You were raised there after all." Tsunade stated.
Kushina nodded. "Okay, here the ruling class is made up of a man called a king and a woman called a queen. Either one can rule the country, called a kingdom, but usually the king has the more power of the two, though in his absence the queen gains all his authority. Heirs for the throne are mandatory and there are plenty of rules set to determine just who gains control in the event of no ruler. These customs and rules are different for each kingdom, but usually it's based on heredity."
"Like the daimyo systems of our world." Tsunade clarified.
"Yes, just like that. Now, instead of ninjas or even samurais they have several classes of warriors, mostly called knights or archers. Knights are like samurais, armored and trained in weapon combat and above all else meant to be noble and loyal to the king and kingdom. They are so much like samurai that if you were to have a knight and samurai switch armor you'd never be able to tell which they were originally. Archers are the long-range warriors mainly used for defensive purposes. The closest thing to ninja here are a type of mercenary called rangers, which are eerily like ninja except no one in this world decided to make an army out of them."
Tsunade and Shizune nodded while Kushina continued. "The royal class don't keep their armies in just one city like we do. Instead they have it spread out around the country to be ready at any given time. These armies are stationed and housed in locals usually run by military officials acting as heads of that division of the military. These rulers are called generals and keep everyone in order with a systematic ranking system much like the ninja ranking system, only more specialized."
"How is mana different than jutsu?" Shizune asked.
"Jutsu is done by molding chakra and performing a set of recognized hand signs. Spells are done by channeling mana and saying a specific phrase in an archaic language unique only to Alfheim and is now considered a dead language like Latin. So in a way mana spells are easier to use than jutsu, as long as you have a good memory and proper pronunciation."
"Can you make anything happen this way?" Tsunade asked.
"I think in principle you could, but it's not that easy. Not anymore. The language is dead and most of the words from it gone. You can't make an incantation if you don't know the right words to use after all. As a result, mana usage has become limited, sort of like if only six hand signs were known to ninja instead of twelve."
Tsunade ahhed silently. "That would severely limit what all ninja could learn."
Kushina nodded. "We have scholars working year round to find more words so we can have more ways to use mana, but it's slow work from what I'm told. What I was taught is actually commonly known among others, and it takes a lot of repetition and will power to make it work. Of course, once you get it right it's much easier to use later on."
"That makes sense. And at least you have access to professionals here." Tsunade said, making Kushina nod.
The chat from there became more friendly, mostly catching up on old times. It didn't last long, for Ayame came down the hall, dressed in her chuunin outfit, and stood in front of Kushina.
"Can I help you Ayame-chan?" The redhead asked.
"Yes, your son needs you right now. Some succubi girls tried to ambush him and he's frightened by what they wanted. Time for you to tell him everything about being an incubus, and I mean everything."
Kushina stood up. "Is something wrong?"
"You tell me. I don't know anything about a so-called frenzy."
Kushina jerked in surprise. "Nothing's happening to him right now is it?"
"No, but he needs to know what to expect. Not only that, he's been completely denied the sex talk to begin with. I just now had to tell him everything I know about it, and boy was his face red. As his mother and the only one here informed about his species, you need to inform him on the parts I couldn't." Ayame stated.
Kushina looked towards where Tayuya's room was then looked back to Ayame and nodded. "You're right, I do need to before the Frenzy hits him. I just wanted him to get used to his situation first. Let me leave a message for the medics then I'll go help my son."
Ayame nodded. Kushina grabbed a memo pad and scribbled a note saying she'd return to check up on Tayuya in three hours. Then she left with Ayame, Tsunade, Shizune, and Tonton to return to the hotel.
When they got to the room Kushina saw everyone inside seated around Naruto but he was looking away, as if trying to avoid eye contact with anyone. "Naruto?" Kushina asked.
The whiskered blonde slowly turned to look at her, his eyes filled. "Tell me it's not true. Tell me I'm not about to become some pervert."
"Girls, please go out in the hall for a little while." The Uzumaki matriarch requested.
Everyone there shook their heads. "We've got questions too about this. We're not going anywhere."
"You sure about this? I mean, it's not something girls like to hear."
"It can't be worse than the talk our parents gave us." Ino stated, remembering her mother telling her what becoming a woman entailed.
"And since we're going to be around Naruto-kun for a long time, we should know what's going to happen to him so we can help him get thru it." Hinata added.
"Good point, though I suggest she at least leave since she's young." Kushina said, pointing at Moegi.
"I know about sex already. My mother gave me the talk already." She informed them all, looking a little sad at mentioning her dead mother.
"Already? At the age of ten?" Kushina asked, surprised to hear that.
Moegi nodded. "Apparently I'm what Okaa-san called an 'early bloomer'."
"Oh, so you've already had your first time?" Hinata asked, also being an early bloomer though she didn't start this young but rather at the age of eleven.
Moegi nodded and Sakura looked confused. "Wait, how can that be? Girls don't start that until they're twelve."
"That's only the average age Sakura." Tsunade told the pinkette. "Some girls do start earlier than that. It's not impossible."
"Start what?" Naruto asked, completely lost.
"It's a girl thing you wouldn't want to know about." Isaribi told him.
"Oh you mean that bleeding thing?" He asked, remembering one of the things Ayame told him before she left to go get his mother.
The diver nodded. "Yeah."
"Don't worry about it Naruto. We're here for you to learn something else." Ayame told her surrogate brother then faced his mother. "Kushina, tell him everything he needs to know about being an incubus."
The older woman nodded. "Alright then, I was hoping this could wait until we were in a more comfortable situation but if you did experience what Ayame said you did, then I can't procrastinate any more." She paused to make sure everyone was paying attention to her, because she didn't want to say this more than once.
"Now, to understand what I'm going to tell you, you have to understand a little bit about my species biology. But that can wait for a little while. Naruto, when you hear the word puberty, what comes to mind?" She asked, trying to get an idea on how much she had to teach him.
"Ayame-neechan told me it's when boys become men and girls become women." He answered.
"Good. Did she tell you what changes occur?" Kushina nodded.
"Yeah, though it's hard to believe girls can actually bleed there for days and not die from it." Naruto replied.
"That's good that you now know this. Now, incubi experience it a little differently than normal human boys. Instead of starting it at twelve or thirteen like normal humans, incubi start at roughly ten and end it at thirteen. Succubus like me usually start at nine or ten and end it at roughly twelve or thirteen too."
"That soon?" Tsunade asked. "Not much time to be children eh?"
"No, it's not our nature. But there are advantages to it, though I'll get to that after this. Now Naruto, for our kind we experience it much like humans, but in a different way with some new features. The first sign of puberty for both genders is the growth of the tail. The wings grow in a year later. The year after that, succubi grow breasts and their hips widen while incubi get a little more muscular and larger 'boy parts'. Finally, the process comes to an end at the age of twelve or thirteen with something called the Frenzy."
Everyone listened in more about this part.
"Here's where things get complicated. To truly understand the Frenzy, you need to understand a little about incubi/succubi biolgy. Like the other races of Alfheim, we generate mana, not chakra. As a species though, we've got a problem with our hormonal glands and systems. It's sort of an imbalance in function, not without benefit though. This biological quirk grants us a long lifespan of about 130 where we die of old age and it's not until around 110 when we even hit menopause."
"Seriously?" Tsunade asked, shocked by this.
Kushina nodded. "Yes. While a human your age has difficulty conceiving, a succubus your age could do it without problem and keep doing it for a few more decades."
Tsunade looked impressed. "Interesting."
"Another benefit of this is a sort of one-person-only kekkei genkai, always unpredictable when growing up but still there. It's most often called a Gift here, and it appears after the wings but before the Frenzy. My Gift is my ability to create chains from my body. Even though having Kyuubi in my body did screw up my puberty growing up and I didn't get wings or a tail until the fox was removed, I somehow did get my Gift. I don't understand it either."
"Wait, you had the Kyuubi in you? Before Naruto did?" Ino asked.
"Yeah. It had to be somewhere didn't it?" The redhead asked back.
Ino looked at Naruto then back to his mother. 'If the fox was in her before him, and things were okay for Konoha except for one moment, I guess I really don't have anything to be afraid of regarding him.'
"Anyway, the hormonal imbalance that gives us these traits also comes with a price." Kushina added, getting back on topic. "The first trait that could be considered negative is early puberty, but the Frenzy is the main one, as well as later smaller frenzies. To the incubi/succubi, this isn't a negative thing, just a natural part of their lifestyle no more negative then having periods is. But from our Midgardian perspective, it's not that normal."
"Now, like I told you all not too long ago, our race needs regular orgasms to maintain a sense of self-control and without it our mana goes haywire. This hormone imbalance is the cause of it. The hormones sort of build up and start affecting our ability to control our own mana or rationality. It works slowly, but if left unchecked it becomes a big problem until we stop acting like ourselves. That is what the Frenzy is in a nutshell, a warning that we've gone too long without balancing our hormones out. It's much worse in incubi since testosterone is a much more aggressive hormone than estrogen is. A succubus only experiences a Frenzy just two times a year, but an incubus experiences six."
"So how have you been managing all this time?" Tsunade asked.
"I'd rather not answer that in front of my son, but rest assured I've had no man in my life since Minato and no plans to replace him. Let's just say my times of self-control were handled by myself, and it took a lot of work."
Getting the message, the older women nodded while the some of the younger ones pieced it together and the rest were still confused.
"Taking care of the problem is easy, but if it's not taken care of, things get bad. For succubi, we experience a sort of self-induced drunkenness we never sober up from and it only gets worse until we become physically ill then pass out and fall into a coma that could kill us in days. For incubi, they become more irritable and volatile until they end up becoming like wild rampaging animals that destroy anything and anyone in front of them, until they have heart attacks from the anger and excitement."
Everyone gasped, and Hinata held onto Naruto as if afraid something was going to happen to him otherwise.
"This is where the Frenzy comes in. The Frenzy is a sign that this is about to happen unless we balance ourselves out with a couple of orgasms in the next few hours, and by this point we really need more than just one. The Frenzy is also a sign of the body's reproductive organs gaining the ability to work. It means boys can create sperm and girls can get pregnant. But in this time, the hormonal imbalance is at it's highest in the person's entire life, lasting roughly four hours, give or take. This time is called the Frenzy, and is when the body of an incubus or succubus becomes fertile and sexually ready. And is of course the only time either gender even can reproduce."
"Wait a minute, you mean those girls we saw not only wanted to have sex with Naruto, they wanted him to knock them up?" Sakura asked.
"Unless they took birth control measures beforehand, then yes." Kushina answered.
"Why? I don't want to be a father yet." Naruto stated. "And even if I did, I'd rather it be with someone I knew and cared about, like Hinata-chan. Hell, I'd be happier having Sakura-chan have my baby instead of those strangers."
Both named girls blushed, unable to stop themselves from picturing themselves having a blonde baby in their arms now that he mentioned it.
"Well Naruto, here's one more thing you should know. The imbalance has another benefit and side effect regarding our reproductive abilities. The benefit is we can interbreed with any other humanoid race. Humans, elves, dwarfs, people like that. This is why even though I wasn't human like your father, he and I could have you, and you and your girlfriend would be able to have children of your own someday." Both Naruto and Hinata turned bright red, amusing Kushina a bit. "The problem is two-fold though, first being that in these cases the child takes more after the other parent, meaning your children with Hinata are more likely to be human like her than incubus/succubus like you. Second being that girls are much more common than boys, meaning you're much more likely to have daughters than sons."
"How much more common are girls born than boys?" Sakura curiously asked.
"Usually only one out of ten births are male. And in interspecies conception, one out of ten are of our race. At max ten percent of our race is male and the remaining ninety percent female, on average. Right now though due to a recent war, Naruto is the only known male of our race in the world."
"Were they all killed off?" Isaribi asked.
Kushina nodded. "It was a terrible massacre that wiped them all out. We've been trying to get some new ones born, but because of the unique conditions of our birth rates, all we've gotten are more succubi. All of the few male children born took more after their fathers. The one thing working in our favor is the long rate of fertility of the succubi."
"Meaning?" Tsunade asked.
"Succubi are capable of conceiving only twice a year, and are pregnant for nine weeks instead of nine months."
"Nine weeks?" All the girls asked in disbelief.
Kushina nodded. "Yes, and when they conceive they end up skipping the next time they're fertile, so like a human a succubus is usually only pregnant once a year even though they're pregnant for a shorter term. If a succubus was pregnant every chance she got in her entire life and none of them were multiple births, she'd give birth to about a hundred babies. Assuming the father was never an incubus, only ten of her children would be the same species she is. And the odds are all ten of those children would be girls despite the one-out-of-ten ratio. Keep in mind the ratio is not an absolute, more a guesstimate. In these circumstances, roughly only one baby out of a thousand is born an incubus, making Naruto what we call an against-the-odds baby. You can see why despite our need for regular sexual relief we are actually low in numbers."
"What if an incubus and succubus had children together?" Sakura asked.
"That's the preferred way, and likely part of why some girls were a little enthusiastic. Okay, same math as before, all one hundred children would be incubi/succubi, and five-to-ten of them would be incubi. The odds are better for us this way, but of course this means incubi are rare to begin with. And with orgasms being the only way to keep our hormones from destroying ourselves, this caused a certain aspect in our culture."
"What aspect? Hinata asked.
"Since incubi are so rare, even before now, and sexual activity is important in our lives, it's become customary for incubi to have multiple mates."
"What?" Naruto asked.
"I'm not sharing Naruto-kun." Hinata insisted.
"Hinata, you may have to." Kushina told the white-eyed girl. "The Frenzy isn't a one-time thing. It happens to an incubus six times a year and a succubus twice a year, during which he will need sexual relief or else he goes crazy then dies. And it is the only time he even can impregnate any girl. That's going to hit him soon. Are you willing to have sex with him any day now? If you do his aura is going to affect your body and may force it into a state of instant fertility, meaning unless you take some specially-made birth control you will get pregnant. And what about when you're pregnant and can't have sex without hurting the baby? Will you force him to suffer then?"
"You said you pleasured yourself to handle the urges. So why can't he when I can't?" Hinata asked.
"It's easier for a succubus to handle her own Frenzy, and even then it's like eating a snack when what you really need is a meal. For an incubus, his mind is so flooded with testosterone that he becomes an animal that only gets worse without relief. He won't have the patience to pleasure himself enough. He'll seek out another girl to handle the release for him, and if it gets bad enough, he won't ask her to consent. I know it's asking a lot of you, but if you don't consider it, you will be hurting Naruto. Do you want that?"
Hinata could not answer.
"Haven't there been any attempts to correct this imbalance?" Tsunade asked now that she had the chance.
"Of course there have been. But there's a problem. This problem is linked to our reproductive organs, and any attempt to fix the imbalance causes us severe reproductive problems such as permanent infertility. Which is one of the reasons in all these years no new incubi have been born. No one has found a safe way to make it work, so for now the best thing we can do is let Nature run it's course." Kushina stated.
"And you say there's no way to prevent this Frenzy?" Ayame asked.
"No more than you could prevent a period. All you can do is weaken it." Kushina answered. "If Naruto were to have regular sexual activity in between Frenzies, then when it does hit him it wouldn't be as effective. He'd mostly just be extra horny but still himself."
"Mom, does this mean I really am going to be some kind of monstrous pervert?" Naruto asked, this being what he really wanted to know despite everything else he was told.
"Not if you have girls who love you enough to help you keep calm, Son." His mother answered.
"Does he really need more than just me?" Hinata asked, hoping the answer was no.
"I'm afraid it is for the best Hinata, for you and him. It'll be easier on you to not be his only source of help, and easier on him to have more than one. It's normal for an incubus to seek multiple girls, that's just part of their biology. And with Naruto being the only one around, people in charge here are going to actually order him to reproduce with succubi until we have another incubus again. He's the greatest hope for our race. Without him or a miraculous against-the-odds baby like him, our race could go extinct within a century or two. The rulers here will not accept that."
"Sort of an involuntary CRA for him, right?" Tsunade asked.
Kushina nodded. "Yes, exactly like that. Naruto will probably be forced to take at least five succubi girls as his mates unless we could come up with some ourselves. Maybe more, so the odds of having sons is higher. But for now let's not worry about that. All Naruto needs to worry about is when he starts feeling hornier than usual. That's the start of the Frenzy, and it's best to get it handled right then. After about two hours of it not being handled, he'll get more amorous, and by the fourth hour, he'll be like..." She paused to come up with an accurate comparison. "Imagine the Kyuubi attack, but if the fox was looking to get laid."
Everyone was wide-eyed to hear that.
That night Kushina went back to check on Tayuya, with Tsunade accompanying her. "Found anything?" She asked.
The head medic Iyoi nodded. "Yes, after some consideration, we've decided there are two courses to take here. Either my first idea, where Miss Tayuya is subjected minor healing spells to heal her little by little and no faster until that mark is removed, or we go with your alternative suggestion."
"Turn her into a succubus?" Tsunade asked.
Iyoi nodded. "Yes, and while the spell wasn't created for this, it does have incredible healing properties. Since it changes a person on a cellular and genetic level, it heals them in the process."
"Why was this spell originally created now that you mention it?" Tsunade asked.
"Are you aware of our species birth rates?" Iyoi asked.
"I was informed just a few hours ago."
"The spell was originally created to turn men into incubi to make more of them, but there was a mistake in its designs and so it only turns women into succubi. We haven't yet created an alternative, so we keep this around as sort of a reference and because creating more succubi does have it's benefits for us. Of course nowadays we only use it with the subject's permission."
"And you're certain it would work on her despite the mark?" Kushina asked.
"I don't want to promise anything, but I'm theorizing that this spell will see her mark as an outside pathogen in her body and remove it from her."
"What are the odds of you being right?" Tayuya asked.
"About 50/50. Unfortunately if you don't want this, then you'll have to try the more patient approach."
Tayuya shook her head. "Fuck the patient approach. I want to walk now."
Iyoi cracked her kunckles. "Alright, let's get started then."
"Hold on." Tayuya said. "First I want two things." Everyone listened in. "I want to know everything important there is to know about a succubus body, and I want to see this spell work on someone else first."
"Excuse me?" Iyoi asked.
"I've been a damn lab rat before, I have no fucking intention of being one again. Unless I see this spell work on someone else first, I'm not subjecting myself to anything."
"That's not wise." The medic said.
"Actually, it is." Tsunade countered. "I know the guy who treated her like a lab rat. If I were her, I would be the same way, wanting to see it work on someone else first before I accepted anything that affects my body."
"But where are we going to get a girl that would want to be changed?" Iyoi asked.
"Actually, I think I know just the person." Tsunade replied.