Back in Morris, sometime later...
Everything in the citadel was fairly quiet, despite the distrust the hybrids and Awakened Beings had for Sakura and Sasuke. The bailey was being occupied, but it wasn't for training. Ophelia, Elda, Glinda, Teresa, Irene, Priscilla, Noel and Sophia were just hanging out, minding their own business as they reminisced about old times and shared their experiences with one another.
Then the seal formula that made up the simulation, shot to life without warning startling the women out of their skin.
"Ah ha!" the familiar voice of their hubby sounded out from it, "So that's how mom did it!"
Then a person they didn't recognise spoke next. "Huh. I gotta say that's an impressive fortress. It's like nothing I've ever seen before. Who lives here?"
"I do," Naruto answered. "It's not in the Elemental Nations, though, Sensei."
"It's not?"
"Nope." then Naruto, an unfamiliar, but familiar man, appeared at the barrier. Teresa. Irene, and Priscilla all recognised him because they saw sketches of the man for one of the new books Naruto was working on. The one that detailed about the Fourth Shinobi World War and the events leading up to it. "This is Morris. It's on an entirely different continent away from the Elemental Nations. The ladies behind us are locals here…" then he spotted Ophelia, Elda, Glinda, Teresa, Irene, Priscilla, Noel and Sophia, and he grinned at them, "as are they. Hey girls!"
"Hey, Naruto," Ophelia greeted back with a loving smile. Her eyes turned to the white-haired man standing beside him. He looked imposing. "Who's this?"
"That would be Jiraiya of the Sannin, right?" Teresa answered, approaching the simulation with a faint smile. "Your old mentor."
"Yeah. He is." Naruto then looked at the rest of the girls, who was walking to them as well. "Oi! You lot can leave the seal now, you know!"
They looked at him oddly before Sistina took it upon herself to test that, attempting to step out. She stepped through easily; the barrier rippling like water as she passed through it and into the real world. Her uniform morphed into her nun's outfit, and her claymore dematerialised in the process. The rather, revealing outfit had drawn a perverted giggle from the lecherous man. That was stopped when Naruto whacked him across the head with a, "No. That's my woman you're ogling."
After that, the others followed suit their armour and uniforms changing to what they were wearing before they took the simulation until it was just Naruto, Neideen and Roxanne remaining.
"So, does this mean that trainings over?" Tanya asked.
"Yep. Trainings over… at least for the day." Naruto replied, with a confirmed nod. Then he looked at Sistina and asked, "Get Tsunade out here, will you? I think she'll want to have a one on one chat with her old teammate."
"Understood." She replied with a nod. She went to fetch the medic, only to stop mid-turn and say, "By the way, I want my snuggles too." Then she went go getting the medic out here.
Teresa blinked as she followed the Divine Oracle with her eyes, "What the hell happened in there?"
"We took the flower simulation…" Lytelle answered. Drawing wide eyes from Irene, Teresa, Noel, Sophia and Priscilla.
"It was a stomp," Rachel added, grumpily. "I knew it was going to be challenging, but I didn't think it would be that hard!"
"It's called 'Hard' difficulty for a reason." Naruto pointed out. "Admittedly, even I was surprised at what you had to face in it. One of the downsides of a procedurally generated simulation, I guess. I wasn't expecting that girl to be there, honestly…. Or that flower to start roaming about. I'll have to check on that later."
"You could just ask me about it~!"
Naruto jumped and looked around, much to the confusion of everyone else.
Narrowing his eyes Naruto looked behind him and glanced around the white void, "...Himawari?"
"Hello... Daddy~!" the flower cooed as it popped out of the 'ground' behind him. This time, everyone present in the simulation could hear its voice in the backs of their minds. That outside heard it emanating from the barrier.
"...Huh… I guess I technically am your father. I did create you, after all." Naruto frowned.
"Precisely~!"
"Sooo… how are you here, Himawari?" Naruto asked, the simulation had ended so there should be no reason for it to be here.
"I asked the darker version of you how to manipulate the seal," it chirped. "He's quite charming, I must say~!"
"Uh-huh…" Naruto crossed his arms and walked over to the flower, "Which version?"
"The giggly one with the hood," Himawari replied. "Haven't met the other. He just keeps to himself, for the most part."
"Ah, that one…" Naruto muttered. That guy was going to be a troublemaker, wasn't he? "So… how did you start roaming about?"
"You gave me the ability to read minds," Himawari pointed out. "It didn't take long for me to connect the dots, after meeting Galatea, given the level of intelligence you gave me. In short, it would appear that you have inadvertently designed me to become self-aware and start hunting those delicious morsels you've been oh, so kind to send in~!" A single, orange tentacle shot forth and lashed about as if Himawari were licking its lips. "So tasty~!"
"Huh…" Naruto honestly had no idea how to feel about this. "You weren't meant to be a roaming enemy type. Then again, that sim was procedurally generated, so I don't exactly have control over what's being created."
"I was given mobility, however," Himawari pointed out, tilting its 'head' curiously. "In addition to long-range telepathy and high intelligence… I might as well have been meant to roam about."
"A plant with intelligence so high it became self-aware," Jiraiya said, utterly fascinated. He was giving the sunflower a critical eye as he stood beside his Godson. "Fuinjutsu is still a vastly unexplored branch of jutsu. You may have inadvertently discovered a way to bring your creations to life with this 'simulation' of yours, Naruto."
"You're seriously saying anything I put in here will come to life?" Naruto was sceptical of Himawari's words, so he would take its words with a grain of salt. But Jiraiya's the expert on fuinjutsu and the man knew what he was talking about. So he will take his words with face value.
"Only if it's smart enough, I'd assume," Himawari chimed in. "That singing girl I ate was oddly clever. I am curious to see if I actually killed her."
"One of the previous users of the simulation had killed the plant in that clearing, and it came back." Naruto pointed out.
"That plant is pretty stupid, though," Himawari tilted its 'head' again. "And I have yet to find the girl in here. Such a shame, too. I wanted to eat her again."
Jiraiya made a face. Why was this flower talking about eating people like it was an everyday thing? Then again, he wasn't surprised, he's seen some pretty messed up things in his journey. There was a ninja he fought that liked to eat people and take on their persona… what was his name? Sho..jio? Shojojiu? The name of the man escaped him, but he was quite the skinny fella the last time they met.
"That plant was pulled out by the roots and eaten. Then it came back when the sim started up again." Then Naruto looked at his perverted mentor from the corner of his eye and added, "Since the simulation was ended prematurely, I'll have to assume it 'ended' everything in it." he looked back at the flora, "You're a special case, it looks like."
"When the simulation ends, though, everything is stored away and floating in a black void," Himawari pointed out. "Even the giant plant Neideen killed was there. That's how I met Giggles, actually. I didn't find the girl, though… then again, it's a pretty big void, so that's still up in the air. It's entirely possible that she's just hiding from me… not that I blame her, of course."
"So… can you still eat us?" Neideen asked as she and Roxanne slowly approached the flower.
"Is that an offer~?"
"No. Call it curiosity." Neideen flatly replied. "The simulation's over, so I'm just wondering if your main 'function' is still active. Are you feeling hungry at all?"
"Not really," Himawari moved in a way resembling a shrug. "Dunno why. I still want to eat the girl, though."
"Your main 'function' stopped because the simulation you are a part of is not on," Naruto said. He pets the flower on its receptacle, "I gotta admit you're very polite. More polite than I thought."
"Much harder to lure my prey closer when I'm rude, yes?" Himawari giggled. "I do appreciate the compliment, though~!" A tentacle shot forth and 'licked' Naruto's cheek.
"You're welcome," he chuckled nervously. "Also, some of your previous victims are on the other side of the barrier,"
"I know." Himawari giggled, "They're too scared to face me though, I can't blame them~"
"I ain't scared!" Priscilla shouted at it.
"Come and face me then," the flora challenged. All it got was silence from the brunette, prompting another giggle from the flower. "Just as I thought. Again, I can't say I blame you~!"
"We'll see how smug you are when I can use my yoki," the brunette muttered with crossed arms and pout.
"I can set that up for you right now if you want?" Naruto offered. "If Himawari… and Insane me… was able to break the rules of this simulation and appear when it's not even on then I sure as hell can do the same. I made the damn thing!"
"Uh… Maybe later… I'm hungry." Priscilla averted her gaze, knowing damn well that her mate could smell the bullshit from in there.
"You sure? I can make a separate 'room' or something where you can duke it out… I'll make damn sure no one else can see into it if you're that shy."
That… actually sounded good. Priscilla took a deep breath and replied, "I'll wait until everyone is done, then. Let me warm up, real quick." With that, she went off to find a good spot and do some stretches.
Naruto chuckled at that and returned his attention to Himawari. "So… feeling smug now?"
"Not really," Himawari replied. "I just wanted to mess with her. I am eager to see if I can beat her, though~!"
"Well, I for one never went up against this flower," Teresa said with a faint smile, drawing Jiraiya's attention for a moment. The woman was gorgeous! "The one Clare and I lost to was not at all very talkative. It was the one amongst a bunch of rocks, near a lake."
"Ah, that one," Himawari said, "You met the second flower of that simulation. It's not as intelligent as yours truly, but it can understand what is being said. The one in the clearing was the first, it's very stupid. You can't reason with it. The one you met is the second, and while it can be reasoned with to a degree, it cannot talk. I am the third. My 'home' is the meadow. I can be reasoned with... the only one who tried was Priscilla, but she had her mind replaced by a doppelganger when that happened. So, I ate her anyway, assuming that the real one wouldn't remember the deal she was trying to make."
The brunette in question looked confused at that.
"She wouldn't have," Naruto clarified. "When someone passes or fails the sim, their consciousness is stored away until the sim ends. In the latter case, it's so they don't experience being slowly digested or something to that effect. The only one who actually remembers is Clarice, but that's because she had a Kage Bunshin take her place at the time. Needless to say, that wasn't very pleasant for her. She's been having nightmares ever since, the poor thing."
"Aw... oh, by the way, Daddy-"
"Don't call me Daddy," Naruto told it.
Himawari kept talking as if it wasn't interrupted. "-the one you call Savra's got no eyes! You should fix that pronto! Use your healing magic to regrow them or something!"
Jiraiya blinked and looked at the blond, "You can regrow eyes? Since when were you a medic-nin?"
"I'm not," Naruto chuckled. "I just have a… different kind of 'healing magic'," He then turned his attention back to Himawari and said, "I'll see what I can do. But it depends entirely on her. I won't force it on her if she doesn't want that."
Neideen raised an eyebrow at that, filing the information away for later.
"By the way, something's bothering me," Naruto brought his attention to Jiraiya and asked, "How are you here, anyway? All deceased are meant to be in the Pure Lands."
"Maybe it's the god you call Shinigami?" Himawari suggested. "I may not know much about the 'real world', but gods tend to do whatever they want because they're gods." Then, it said, in Naruto's mind alone. "She did want to talk to you, after all, unless those memories are just a reoccurring dream. It's hard to tell, just yet."
"Please don't go digging around in my head," Naruto muttered.
"But, my daddy's so interesting~!" Himawari giggled. "I could learn so much from you~!"
"Just… not without my permission," the blond replied. "I've had enough of people trying to take advantage of me."
"Fair enough," Himawari said. "So, what should I call you, if not Daddy, Daddy?"
"Call me Naruto? Everyone does."
"Except for your other kids," Himawari pointed out. When Naruto gave it a flat look, the flower quickly added. "I learned that before you told me not to dig through your memories."
Naruto sighed. "It just feels weird, having a plant calling me 'Daddy'. We'll discuss it later."
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As the conversation between Naruto and Himawari continued, the rest of the group excluding the ones who were there first, began to disperse. Though Savra, Roxanne, Audrey, and Rachel had stayed behind. The same went for Ava and Eva, because they were waiting for Neideen.
It wasn't long until Tsunade came back with Sistina in tow. And when she saw Jiraiya beside Naruto she couldn't believe her eyes. Sure, Minato and Kushina were in the seal… but...
"J-Jiraiya!?"
Hearing her voice, Jiraiya stopped what he was doing - which was talking to Himawari - to bring his attention to the former Hokage who was now making a beeline for the simulation.
"Hi, Tsunade-Hime!" he gave her a goofy grin and waved at her as if nothing was wrong. "Long time no see!"
"Don't give me that!" The woman came to a stop at the foot and looked at him with wide eyes. "How is this possible!? First Minato and Kushina and now you…!?" she brought her eyes to Naruto, who was fondly watching them beside a… sunflower? Oddness aside she gave him a stern look. "Naruto, what is going on here?!"
"Your guess is as good as mine. I'm thinking the Shinigami has something to do with it because Divinity: they do what they want." Naruto answered with a shrug; he wasn't going to complain about it though. He smiled at the small group of feminine giggles he heard in the back of his head.
Tsunade just stared at him. Then at the grinning Jiraiya. Then back at Naruto again. Tsunade rubbed her temples and muttered, "I need a drink. A big one."
"You two can catch up, I know Ero-Sennin has questions as to why I'm no longer in Konoha," Naruto told her. "I got some adjustments to make for the simulation."
It should take him a couple of minutes. He did design it after all. No one knew it better than he did.
"What kind of adjustments?" Tsunade asked him as he walked out of the sim.
Kneeling down Naruto pressed his palm against the seal formula and got to work. "I'm going to add an 'extra' room, for Priscilla to use while Jiraiya-Sensei is catching up to you here. That way the simulation can still be used without interference."
"I see…" she didn't really. But if with Jiraiya here, somehow, she'll leave the techno-mumbo-jumbo to the experts. "Thanks."
"Is it okay if I were to join?" Teresa asked. She never got the chance to use her yoki the last time around. This would be a good time for a rematch - even if it wasn't against the same flower. She might get Clare in on this, her adoptive daughter was pissed when she lost in such an embarrassing, yet pleasurable way.
"I don't see why you can't," Naruto answered. "It depends entirely on Priscilla though,"
"I don't mind. The more the merrier," the brunette in question said, still stretching away. "I can't wait to cut loose."
Teresa had a faint smile and nodded back. She was going to enjoy this. But first, she had a certain blonde to find. Neideen and Roxanne both left the simulation themselves by this point and we're back in their original clothes. At some point, the former had been seen cackling as she ran off, carrying Ava and Eva like sacks of wheat. Himawari was gone as well and was anticipating having to eat such delicious morsels once more.
Naruto meanwhile just kept on working away as he adjusted the seal to form an extra 'room' for Priscilla and Teresa to use. Though from the looks of it, quite a few more were willing to give Himawari another go now that two of the strongest women were going against the tricky flower. There was one other who was interested in going as well.
While Naruto was working away Jiraiya was listening patiently to the reason why Naruto, nor Tsunade and Shizune were no longer at Konoha. And he was less than happy, to say the least.
"So, through events beyond your control, the so-called 'esteemed' elders along with other people of high influence had gotten Naruto's ninja license revoked because he was too powerful. And you had to be the bearer of bad news." Jiraiya crossed his arms against his broad chest and scowled, "Those two should've known better than to do something so stupid. What happened to them?"
"I personally beat them to death after they tried to have him assassinated," Tsunade grumbled. It wasn't really an assassination, but, history is written by the victor after all. And their stunt was classified as an assassination attempt since the ANBU they sent after him didn't even try to hold back. "Afterwards I cleaned house. Then once that was done I gave the hat to Kakashi and threw everything away to try and find Naruto. I'm wanted for murder, as a result of all that, but I have my limits, too. Shizune, of course, came with."
"And what else happened?" The man asked.
"Well, apart from the World Peace you sought happening thanks to my efforts, Konoha's been ousted from the 'Shinobi Union' after an event called 'The Suna Incident'," Naruto answered without taking his focus away from his work.
"The Suna Incident is what happened when the elders sent those ANBU after him. It ended in a massacre, for the ANBU team; Naruto and Hinata were heading to Suna when the ANBU team caught up to them. Only Anko was spared because she didn't want to be there in the first place."
That surprised the heck out of Jiraiya. "Wait? Hinata? Naruto's stalker? Why was she there?"
"She wanted to come with me. So I let her." Naruto answered for Tsunade. "And now that I think about it, she may have been the reason why we were pursued. She was still a kunoichi of Konoha and an heiress of a prominent clan. And the ANBU themselves initially didn't seem to realise my shinobi licence was revoked. Either that, or, they didn't care." he shrugged solemnly, "But, the reason why only Anko was spared, is because the ANBU's killed Hinata. When she fell and didn't move, or breathe, I went berserk and...well...the rest is history, as they say."
"I see…" Jiraiya couldn't fault Naruto for doing such a thing. While he would have liked for his Godson to have stayed with Konoha, even he would have left after sacrificing almost everything to ensure their survival, just to be betrayed like that. He had to admit though, the blond made one hell of a life for himself out here.
"I hope you've been treated well out here," Jiraiya said as he addressed Naruto.
"I have. There's no need for you to worry about me." Naruto replied, chuckling. Then the seal matrix began to glow surprising the Toad Sage as he looked around. "Don't worry, it's just adjusting to the changes I made to it."
After saying that a white door materialised on the barrier. Jiraiya could see it but the handle wasn't visible on his side. On Naruto's side, there was a handle. Getting up Naruto opened it and saw a hallway leading to an outside clearing at the end of it. The room would work by making the 'room' inaccessible to anyone but him. And the opponent of his choice. In this case, it's Himawari but the flower was nowhere to be seen yet. Smiling in satisfaction Naruto closed the door and waited for Teresa to return.
But not before making a chair shoot out of the ground for Tsunade to sit on, or manifesting one for Jiraiya on his side of the barrier. He wanted them to catch up after all, and they had nearly seven years' worth of catching up to do.
It didn't take long for Teresa to return with Clare in tow. She arched an eyebrow at seeing the unfamiliar man sitting down talking and to Tsunade like they were old friends. Was this man that Jiraiya person her husband kept talking about? He did fit the description.
But her attention was given to Naruto who had his hand pressed against an unblindfolded Savra's eyes. The former Number 18 groaned at the odd, tingly sensation washing over her face. Then Naruto withdrew his hand and Savra blinked, her new eyes taking a moment to adjust and then…
Savra's lip quivered as her silver eyes started to burn. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she realized that she could see, again. For the first time since she was five, she could see! Savra took a deep breath and willed herself not to bawl her new eyes out right then and there, before giving Naruto a heated, ravenous look. "Leave a clone and take me to your room," she growled lustfully. She was going to reward this man if it was the last thing she ever did!
Chuckling, Naruto leaned in towards her ear to quietly whisper, "I made a 'room' that automatically strips any girl naked once the door's been closed." he gestured to the door next to him with a jerk of his head, "It's just through there. You can thank me there." Luckily no one else heard him say that.
"Oh, I will~!" she whispered back.
Chuckling Naruto looked to Clare upon noticing her approach with Teresa. He smiled widely, "I take it you know what's happening, Clare?" he asked her for formalities sake.
The woman in question nodded, "Yes. Teresa and Priscilla want to take on the flower again. Although a different one for Teresa."
Naruto nodded in satisfaction, "Alright," Priscilla stopped her stretching and was making her way back to her breeding stud by this point. "Does anyone want to join Teresa and Priscilla in taking on Himawari?"
Irene turned to Sophia, Noel, and Elda, "I'm up for a second round. What about you, two? And Elda, do you want to join in?"
"You kidding?" Elda giggled. "You honestly think I'd miss out on a reunion of the Top Five of my generation?"
"That's the spirit!" Noel cheered. "Let's go kick that flower's ass!"
'Flowers don't have asses," Sophia pointed out with an amused roll of her eyes. "I'm certainly willing to join in, though. I need to give that thing a piece of my mind after what it did." she cracked her knuckles, all the while sporting her sultry smile that made it all the more threatening.
"Will we need to change?" Irene asked.
Naruto shook his head. "No. The simulation will do it for you if you want."
"I certainly wouldn't mind having a uniform like my old one," Elda said reminiscently. "If only for old time's sake."
"Would you happen to remember what your old crest looks like out of curiosity?" Naruto asked.
"Certainly!" Elda chirped. With that, she extended the claw of her pointer finger and scribbled her old crest in the dirt for him to see. It was of three parallel lines with a fourth one running through them. The centre line was also longer than the other two.
"It looks like the letter H but with a line through it," Naruto said,
"The what, now?"
"Nevermind," Naruto chuckled. "Alright, I can do that. Then again I designed this part of the simulation so it changes to what you personally choose," he told them; an example would be Elda entering the simulation and it would take away her clothes until she was butt ass naked because she wanted to be.
"Oh?" That caught Teresa's interest. "So if Priscilla wanted to be a hybrid again, then the simulation would make it so?"
"Yeah, pretty much," Naruto confirmed. "If you wanted to Awaken, without needing to eat innards, then the simulation will make it so. If you wanted to use as much of your yoki as possible without getting deformed or awakening, then the simulation will make it so. The same rules still apply though: if you die, you're put in stasis until the simulation ends and so on."
"So I don't even need to be here." Clare pointed out.
"That's up to you. Teresa wanted you to be here because she wanted your help, I think. And I don't mind the company." Naruto then looked at Teresa and asked, "Do you want Clare to come with you?"
"Well, in light of not needing the soul link for this, I'd rather she and you get busy making me some more grandbabies to spoil~!" Teresa teased.
"T-Teresaaaaa," Clare wailed in embarrassment.
Naruto laughed. Then he looked at Audrey, Rachel, Sistina and Roxanne, "Do you ladies want to come and watch? I made a room where we can observe them."
"With Neideen being absent, I almost feel obligated to make a sex joke out of that question on her behalf," Sistina teased. She chuckled at the flat look Clare gave her. "What? That was so easy to take out of context."
"That awkwardness aside," Roxanne chirped, "We'd be glad to observe this bout.~!"
Naruto chuckled and beckoned them all to follow him, "Alright, then follow me."
With that the blond went and opened the door, once more revealing the hallway with the open clearing at the end of it. He held it open with one hand and with the other politely gestured for the others to go through. They all went through one by one, and yelped and giggled when Naruto swatted them all on the butts one by one as they went in, except for two: Audrey and Rachel.
Once they were the last ones to go in, Naruto closed the door behind him and it faded away. Making thoroughly sure that no one else would be able to follow. It'll come back again once the simulation ended.
The door closed, Naruto turned to the others and found them waiting for him. Smiling Naruto went over to Audrey and Rachel and surprised the heck out of the two when he went and grabbed their asses.
"C'mon everyone, I'll show you the way," he said, squeezing and kneading the former Numbers 3 and 5's nice rear ends. The two shuddered, suddenly dripping wet. "You do have nice asses, by the way," he casually told them, reminding the women being groped that the blond had said before that he likes their asses.
Rachel turned beet red, not at all used to anyone but Audrey saying that.
The latter, meanwhile, smiled and giggled appreciatively.
With all that said and done, they and the other girls followed Naruto down the straight corridor. The end of it had the clearing, it was fairly obvious that was where the simulation was going to take place. But the others were wondering where the observation room was going to be. Then, just as they reached the end, Naruto came to a stop looked to his left and after taking his hand off of Audrey's nice ass he pushed against a wall.
It opened, revealing a spacious room inside with several comfy looking couches, and a glass window that was almost the width of the room.
"Everyone that's observing is going in here," Naruto said, pointing at the said room. "Everyone else is going out there," he added, pointing at the clearing in front of them. Then Naruto looked at Teresa, Priscilla, Irene, Noel, Sophia, and Elda. "Any questions?"
"Just one," Elda answered.
"Fire away."
"Will Himawari appear the second the six of us step through?"
Naruto shook his head no, "No. The flower's smarter than that. Since Irene, Priscilla, Noel, and Sophia had fought it before I suppose it won't hurt to let you all know of some things it can do: Himawari can read your mind and influence you to do things you otherwise wouldn't. It can't outright control you, but it can give suggestions... And fool your mind if you're not careful."
"That would explain a lot, now that I think about it," Irene muttered. She had no idea why she and Priscilla had this urge to strip down at first, and even though she knew Himawari was the cause of it, how that was possible eluded her.
"Yeah." Naruto wagged his eyebrows at Irene, making her blush. "If you're feeling really angry, or incredibly trusting for some reason, then chances are it's Himawari's doing."
"Oh, you killjoy~!"
Naruto cleared his throat, ignoring the androgynous voice in the back of his head. "Any other questions?"
"Are we able to sense it?" Elda asked that was something she was most curious about, about the flower.
"No, but Glissa was able to smell the fear and death coming off of its less-intelligent 'sibling' from the easy difficulty, so if you have a good sense of smell, then I'd assume you and Priscilla would be able to do the same."
"Huh, good to know," Teresa filed that away; if she could awaken, then would she be able to do that too?
"Ooh! Noted~!"
Naruto ignored Himawari again. And asked, "Any other questions?"
Priscilla answered this time. "Would Elda or I be able to smell the fear and death if we were hybrids?"
"Not really. You did get a good sense of smell after Awakening right?"
"I certainly did," Elda replied.
"Then that would be tied to your Awakened status. If you were to get rid of that, then logically, you would lose all the benefits your Awakening had given you."
"I'll stay as an Awakened, then," Elda chirped. "I still wouldn't mind the old duds, though."
"Same here," Priscilla added. She then looked to the women who would basically serve as her teammates and asked, "I take it that's all we need to know?"
"That's all that I can think of," Noel replied.
Sophia chimed in, "I got one: Are you absolutely sure we can use all of our yoki without the risk of Awakening or becoming distorted the more of it we bring out?"
"Positive," Naruto chirped. "You'll only awaken if you want to, at least in the sim. And even then, if you don't want to, you won't have to go through the need to eat innards and the like."
"Okay! I'm good!" Sophia chirped.
"Same here," Teresa stated. Irene nodded to show that she agreed.
Seeing that Priscilla and Elda were also in agreement, Naruto decided to give them all a parting gift before they entered the simulation. He took his hands away from Audrey and Rachel, walked over to them and brought them all in for a tongue-filled kiss. Starting with Teresa and ending with Elda.
"Someone's eager to give me a few more siblings~!"
"You and I are going to have a long chat later," Naruto mentally told the flower. "Best of luck, ladies~!"
All six smiled at him and nodded, before they all turned to enter the sim. A door slid down behind them.
With that out of the way, Naruto turned to the other girls and beckoned them to follow him into the room. They all followed him inside with smiles on their faces as he politely held the door for them. Then, as he closed it behind him...
"Oh-ho, my~!" Savra giggled, giving Naruto a lewd grin when she realized she was naked. And she looked at the others and saw they were naked as well. Naruto wasn't kidding when he said they would be naked once the door to the room closed.
"Told you," said blond chuckled. He was naked himself. "Teresa did say she wanted more grandbabies. And Savra wanted to thank me… and I want to fuck all of you sexy-ass women silly."
Rachel wobbled in place, nearly fainting on the spot from this young man's attention. Only Audrey kept her from losing consciousness by helping her stay on her feet while rubbing her back.
"Not used to this sort of attention?" Naruto asked Audrey, since Rachel looked like she was about to keel over any moment now.
"Not from a guy," the former Number 3 replied. "For the longest time, I've been the only one say such things to her." Audrey then gave him a lewd grin before adding, "not that I mind. The thought of a strapping, young man like yourself knocking my girlfriend up is actually rather kinky."
Naruto went straight to full mast in an instant upon hearing that. It was so sudden that every girl in the room swore she heard an audible, cartoonish 'boing' when he did.
And then Rachel fainted upon seeing its sheer size.
----
Meanwhile, in the sim, Teresa, Irene, Elda, Sophia, Noel, and Priscilla found themselves wearing some new clothes after the door inaudibly closed behind them. Each and every woman was now decked out in the old uniforms assigned to them by the Organization, claymores and all.
"Wow…" Elda muttered. "I never realized how much I missed these until now…" she looked at Teresa, Irene, Noel and Sophia because she had worked with the four of them several times. "How do I look?"
"The same as you used to look," Sophia answered with a smile.
Noel nodded in agreement. "Minus the hair and eyes, of course. It's refreshing."
"Indeed it is," Priscilla agreed. "It's been a long time since I last wore these… It's very nostalgic."
"My, my, my, you all look absolutely scrumptious~!" Himawari popped out of the ground in the middle of the clearing. "It's just the seven of us, here. And I've been exploring a bit, to see how far this place goes. It's pretty big, but I found nothing. No animals. No other signs of life. It's just us."
"...I don't smell anything." Elda said after a moment.
"...Neither do I." Priscilla added afterwards.
"Of course you wouldn't~!" Himawari giggled mischievously, "my previous victims weren't here, so there's nothing to smell. I'm as fresh as a daisy in the spring!"
"Noted," Teresa stated, drawing her sword. "So, shall we begin, then?"
"Cutting straight to the chase, are we~?" Himawari giggled again. "Sure, I don't mind. This might be fun!"
The other five drew their swords in preparation for the battle to come as a dozen orange tentacles sprang forth from Himawari, writhing about in anticipation. Then to their bewilderment, the tentacles all dug into the ground in front of it and got six pairs of wide eyes when it tore several insanely large chunks of the ground, all of which were the size of school buses each, right out of the earth before throwing the chucks at them.
All six women wisely opted to dodge, though Irene used her Quick Sword to slice one end to tiny bits and pieces when she realised, she wasn't going to be able to get out of the way fast enough. The chunks of earth struck against the ground with such force that it shook knocking them off their footings and for dust and dirt to shoot up off the ground, forming a cloud of smoke that impeded their vision.
Then, when the dust cleared and the girls were out of danger, they quickly realized that Himawari was gone.
"Well, that's not unsettling in the slightest," Sophia muttered.
"Is anyone else under the impression this thing is stronger than when we last faced it?" Noel asked. "I don't remember it doing anything like that."
"The last time we faced it, we were unable to use chakra or yoki," Priscilla reminded her, "...But something tells me the plant was holding back all this time, and we're seeing its true capabilities now."
"...Where's Elda?" Irene asked.
"Ah, shit," Teresa muttered. "That thing has her - due East, half a mile. That last attack was just a distraction."
Priscilla's eyes turned feline-like and golden as she brought out her yoki. She growled and bolted forth without hesitation. The other girls followed on her heels, unleashing their yoki as well and hoping to get to their comrade in time. They increased their speed upon feeling Elda's yoki spike not long after they let out their own: she was going all out while letting them know where Himawari had taken her.
"STOP GROPING ME!" Elda hollered, her voice echoing throughout the new battleground as she took a swipe with her claymore. Having gone all out, the woman had forgone her human form and transformed into her Awakened appearance to give herself a better chance of survival. She now resembled a black and white, striped snake woman with wings and four arms; her hair was replaced by a mass of black, writhing extendable tentacles and her hands were equipped with comically large, razor-sharp claws. One of which was holding her claymore, that was now much smaller in her grasp - about the length of a longsword to her, given the woman's newfound size.
The former Number Six took full advantage of her newfound strength and mobility, trying her damnedest to pry herself from Himawari's grasp and doing a surprisingly good job of it. The flower in question was legitimately impressed as it felt its tentacles creak and stretch from trying to hold her down.
As for the reason behind Elda roaring those three words earlier, it was rather simple: Himawari had two tentacles coiled around her massive tits and was kneading and rubbing them with gleeful curiosity as the very tips played with her nipples. It had never seen, let alone felt such a size before!
"Oh my!" Himawari sounded legibly curious and eager, like a little child having found something interesting to play with. "I've never seen such fat tits before! Daddy's so lucky!"
"L-LET ME GO!"
"But, you look so tasty~! Please come down so I can see if snakes really do taste like chicken!"
And with that, Elda was even more motivated to keep her distance from the man-eating flower. That did not sound fun in the slightest! Truth be told, Himawari didn't even know if it could eat the snake woman. But, it was certainly willing to try.
But not yet.
"Oh… it looks like your friends are closing in." Himawari let Elda go and slunk into the ground. Just before Priscilla, Teresa, Irene, Noel and Sophia came barging into the clearing. They saw the small group of orange tentacles slipping under the ground, and Elda herself… was coiled up around a tree.
So that was how she lasted for so long!
"T-Thank the Twins!" Elda shouted, uncoiling herself from around the trunk and throwing herself at the women. "You girls have no idea how glad I am to see you!" she cried, hugging all of them to her massive bosom.
"You're smothering us…" Teresa complained, her face completely enveloped by the woman's cleavage.
----
In the observation room.
"Huh… Kinda hard not to be jealous," Naruto muttered. "I never could help but love motorboating those tits of hers." Then, he turned to Savra and asked, "so, what's this I heard about a reward?"
Savra giggled lewdly as she sauntered on up to Naruto with quite the tantalizing sway to her hips. "Well, my chest is not nearly that big, but I certainly can make up for it with a tight, fertile pussy," she said, her cheeks ablaze with a combination of embarrassment and arousal. The formerly-blind woman couldn't believe she was saying such things! "C'mon, big boy, have your way with me! Use me to your heart's content~!"
Chuckling, Naruto brought the formerly blind woman into a one-armed hug and brought her to one of the couches, "Well, you've certainly gotten more naughty! Don't worry, I'll make sure to breed you good and proper!" he sat down on the couch and pulled her down on top of his rock hard cock, spearing her on the first go, "Starting now!"
Savra gurgled pathetically as her eyes rolled back and her face twisted into a silent scream of pleasure when Naruto started moving her up and down on his cock. Her inner walls clamped down as she started moving by her own, with Naruto 'helping' her by holding her thighs.
"Audrey!" Naruto barked, causing the said woman to jump in surprise.
"Y-Yeah?"
Naruto gave her quite the menacing grin. "You and your slutty girlfriend are going to be next after I'm done with Savra! So you'd better be ready for some cock sucking!" he looked at Savra and gave her a swat to get her to move faster. And she did.
The blonde on top of him wailed lustfully as she bounced upon his dick at twice the pace. And Naruto sat there and enjoyed it even as he was being watched by the other equally naked women.
They were going to be next after Audrey and Rachel… and he'll save Clare for last.
----
Elda let out a sigh, somewhat disappointed to have lost her uniform so soon as she regarded Teresa, several moments later. The woman in question was stretching off to the side while looking around. "So, what do we do?" the former Number Six asked.
"That is a damn good question," Teresa stated, frowning slightly.
"That damn flower was a lot stronger than any of us thought." Priscilla said with a deep frown, "How come it waited until now to show it's true strength?"
They all heard the flower giggle in the back of their heads, "What makes you think I'm showing you everything~? That would be stupid."
What implication didn't make them feel any better. To make matter worse for their leader, in particular, Teresa's most powerful ability was all but useless in this situation.
"The flower's connected to nature… so, maybe it's able to draw its strength from that? Similar to how Naruto is able to draw nature chakra from the environment?" Elda had no idea why she was thinking like that, but she was grasping at straws here; and not only that, it made the most logical sense to the Awakened Being.
"It's possible, for all we know," Teresa muttered. "The problem is that Nature Chakra's almost completely undetectable. The only ones who can detect it are Sages, at least that's what Naruto's autobiography said."
"Not only that, if your theory is true, then Himawari has a pool of limitless power to draw from. That makes for some nasty potential." Irene added.
"It could explain why those vines were so strong," Elda replied. "There's also that initial attack to consider. I certainly hope I'm wrong, but it would explain a lot."
The giggle that echoed in the backs of their minds did not make them feel any better…
To make matters worse, Noel seemed to look distantly into the woods, shambling away from the group.
"Oh, no you don't!" Teresa practically materialized right behind the entranced tomboy, snatching her up in a full nelson.
"A-wha…?" Noel looked about frantically "What just happened?"
"Lovely," Sophia sighed.
"That's unsettling…" Irene added, prompting Priscilla to nod in agreement.
As Teresa put Noel down, she addressed the other members of their group. "You all know what Naruto said: the flower can influence us. Do not go out of sight of anyone else. Stay close, hold hands if you have to." Teamwork was key, here. There's six of them and one flower.
"I just hope that strength doesn't translate to its ability to influence us," Sophia said with a nervous laugh, and her comment drew flat looks from everyone. "...Uh...Oops?"
"That's a wonderful idea!" Himawari chirped gleefully. "I can't wait to see if that's possible~!"
"I'll take that as confirmation that Elda's right, then," Teresa sighed.
"Maaaybe~!"
Great! Naruto pitted them against a damn man-eating, Senjutsu demon-flower! That wasn't going to give them nightmares for the foreseeable future!
"Any suggestions?" Priscilla asked.
"Strip down, so I can put you in my belly~?"
"I wasn't talking to you!" The brunette yelled at it.
"I...got nothing." Irene didn't like it, but she legibly couldn't think of anything that can give them an edge.
"Neither do I." Noel added.
"...Maybe we can burn the environment?" Sophia suggested. "If the flower needs nature to make it stronger, then the obvious thing to do would be to get rid of its source of power, right?"
"One problem with that," Priscilla threw her arms around, wildly gesturing to their environment, "This place is HUGE! If we try to do something like that, then we'd just exhaust ourselves!"
"Setting fires wouldn't be an entirely terrible idea, though," Teresa pointed out. "Terrain denial is a good way to narrow down what angles we can be attacked from. We just determine which way the wind is blowing, set fires in that direction, and face the other."
"It's blowing that way," Elda pointed out, hiking a thumb to her left. She was on board with burning this place to heck, without question.
"Alright," Teresa stretched her fingers and looked at Priscilla, "You and I both have Fire affinities. So we'll set fires to the left. Everyone else, keep an eye out for that flower and stay close in case it tries to lure someone away, again."
"Fine, fine," Priscilla replied, with the other girls nodded. With that, she and Teresa blazed through a set of hand seals.
Then, with two cries of "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu," Teresa and Priscilla launched two massive fireballs in the designated area, lighting the trees and foliage ablaze in an instant while Irene, Sophia, Noel, and Elda kept an eye out for their opponent.
"Heads uuup~!"
The six women reflexively looked in the opposite direction of the flames upon hearing a loud rumble as a massive boulder was sent careening towards them.
"Son of a bitch!" Sophia squawked, unable to keep her composure as she bolted to one side while Noel went the other direction. Elda leapt upwards with a mighty beat of her wings, effectively jumping over the boulder while Irene tumbled forward as the massive projectile careened harmlessly over her.
Priscilla and Teresa, meanwhile bolted in the same direction as Sophia as it slammed into the earth and rolled on by into the fire.
"Yoink~!"
"...The hell's a 'yoink'?" Elda muttered, now thoroughly confused.
Teresa leapt over the boulder almost immediately as it rolled by, yelling, "Shit! It got Noel!" She immediately started running. "Half a mile, due South!"
Hearing that, Sophia, Irene and Priscilla followed after the woman. Elda, on the other hand, stayed above ground, due to having better elevation and line of sight. Not to mention she would be able to direct the women on the off chance they get lost or Himawari changes location.
They all felt her yoki spike and double-timed it in her direction, hoping to get there before it was too late.
Noel, meanwhile, was doing her damnedest to fend this devil-flower off as it stripped away her armour. Every time she took a swing at it, though, the tentacle in the path of her sword snapped out of the way while a few others latched onto her from another angle. Swiftly growing tired of it, however, Himawari snatched her wrist with one tentacle at the end of Noel's swing and whacked the pressure point above her elbow to make her drop the weapon.
"Gah!" Noel's grip on the sword slackened and it fell to the ground with a clang before she could snatch it back up. She didn't give up though; since she had no reason to worry about awakening, or her body distorting the more yoki she brought out, Noel gave the flower quite the menacing grin and brought out everything she had.
Then she pulled. The tentacle-like vines strained and creaked in protest as Noel pulled against the vines.
"Ooh… that's… quite the monstrous strength... you got there," Himawari groaned. That woman really wasn't holding back, was she? Himawari decided to flip her over and shake the woman in an attempt to try and discombobulate her. Having a handless cartwheeling technique that made her head spin around rather violently, however, this was nothing to the woman as Himawari quickly learned, but it was worth a try. As it continued to strip her down, though, Noel yelped when the flower caressed her clit.
"Oi!" she snapped, feline-like, golden eyes glaring at the flower, "No touching!"
"Why don't you make me~?" Taunted Himawari, before giggling with mischief as it continued stripping her down. Soon Noel had her gauntlets pulled off, her pauldrons and back armour/claymore holder were next, followed by the sabatons and faulds. Then the flower yanked her leggings down and off and did the same to her top.
"Oh my, oh my, you are simply delectable~!" Himawari cooed, sending a tentacle out to lick her face, only for it to pull back when Noel tried biting it.
Noel crossed her arms and legs, tried grabbing and pulling at the tentacles holding her arms, she was doing everything she could to break these vines. She was doing one heck of a job of it as well because Himawari was having trouble keeping her restrained. She even managed to get one of her wrists to her mouth and started gnawing at the tentacle. Although the skin was just too tough for her to get through Himawari started hissing in discomfort and went back to shaking the woman madly to disorientate her.
But despite all that, the flower was having the time of its life! "Oh-ho! I have to admit, you're giving me a challenge! I wonder how long you can keep that up though~?" Noel squawked when Himawari then started moving her towards it with a giggle. "Oh! Your friends are almost here… Interesting... I wonder if I can scarf you down before they save you~? Oh, that sounds like a wonderful challenge~!"
"I'll have to say 'no' to that," Noel deadpanned.
"Too bad~!" Himawari chirped. "Too bad I don't get to play with my food, but I suppose Daddy would do well to teach me some table manners." It giggled. "Oh, well, we'll see who ends up being the last one standing and I'll have my fun with her~!"
"Again, I'll say 'no' to that," Noel deadpanned once more. Thank god the flower wasn't smart enough to try and boost its influence to it can 'suggest' everyone else to do what it wants. Or worse take control of them completely.
Unfortunately for Noel, Himawari heard her thoughts loud and clear. And for that idea… Himawari decided to let the woman go - letting her drop unceremoniously to the ground and slipping away to a safer distance, while still in range of them. It had some… testing to try out. Not to mention the other women were literally ten seconds away from reaching them; that was another reason it disengaged, at least for now.
Ten seconds later, Teresa, Irene, Sophia emerged from the treeline, with Elda swooping in from above. And all of them saw the woman, butt naked, eating dirt.
"Noel!" Teresa called out. "Are you okay?!"
"I feel violated…" the tomboy replied, spitting out a lump of dirt as she sat up.
"It wasn't that bad," they all heard Himawari giggle. "I didn't even get a chance to play with you~!"
"I swear that thing's going to give me nightmares…" Elda muttered. How could something so innocent looking be so damn scary?!
The ominous giggle did nothing to help…
And what the flower said next in their heads had only put them on an even bigger edge. But none more than Noel herself, "Oh, by the way, Noel, thank you so very much for that idea~!"
The now silver-eyed tomboy growled as she looked around the area with suspicion. "Idea? What idea? I didn't say anything to give you any ideas!"
"Oh-ho-ho~! It's not what you said, it's what you thought!" the flower corrected gleefully. "You haven't forgotten that I can read your minds, have you?"
Noel furrowed her brow confusedly at that, the gears in her head active turned before the proverbial light bulb shone. And she went ashen-faced in realization at what the flower was talking about.
"Oh shit." Noel audibly gulped.
"What were you thinking?" Sophia asked, giving her friend a concerned look.
"P-please don't get angry with me…" Noel begged, looking at the others with a pleading look.
"Noel…" Irene started as she narrowed her eyes, "what did you do?"
The tomboy let out a subdued, nervous laugh before answering. "I uh… may have thought… that the flower 'at least' wasn't smart enough to try and boost its psychic powers so it can 'suggest' everyone else to do what it wants…. Or take control of them completely." she answered the former Number 3 in a tiny voice.
"Shit…" Sophia muttered.
"We should find it before anything like that happens then…" Priscilla was not the type of girl to get nervous by any means, but even she shuddered at the thought of not being in control of her own body.
"How do we do that?" Elda asked.
"Sophia," Irene said, a thought coming to mind. "I hate to say it, but you and Noel are best suited to try and lure it out. Strip down and pair up with her, take your swords, and if it pops out to try and jump one of you, the other attacks it."
"That's a stupid idea!" Sophia protested almost immediately.
"I trust you have a better one, then?" The elf-eared woman quirked an eyebrow at her.
"No. I don't… but, I for one know that you would never come up with an idea as ridiculous as that." Sophia pointed out to the platinum-haired blonde, and everyone else. "The flower can influence us, right? How do we know it's not influencing you to come up with that idea right now?!"
"We're getting nowhere," Teresa pointed out. "Do bear in mind that we haven't been able to verify how strong its psychic abilities are. It might just be trying to convince us that it could do that to sow distrust among us."
"If we want to beat this thing, we need to do whatever it takes… even if one of us has to take one for the team." Noel said with a sigh. "I… am all for Irene's plan. Just… don't expect me to try and seduce it."
"I won't ask you to go that far," Irene assured. "We'll be close by; the second it shows itself, we'll ambush it."
"Yeah… except it won't matter because Himawari can read our thoughts!" Sophia thought with a twitching brow. Then she let out a growling exhale and relented, "Fine. We'll do your idea." then she pointed at the elf-eared woman and said in declaration, "But if the two of us get captured and eaten, I'm blaming you!"
"I will take full responsibility if that happens."
"I'll take to the air to see if I can spot it," Elda chimed in. "Might as well make myself useful."
"Sounds good," Irene replied. "If you get in trouble, flare your yoki to let us know."
"I will," Elda replied with a nod, unaware of the flower prodding at her mind.
----
Back in the observation room, there on the floor held down in a full mating press, Savra wailed in orgasm as Naruto grunted, blowing a second load inside her womb, painting her innards a pearly white with his seed. The room started to spin. Her body started to go numb as her vision faded. The young woman was out cold before Naruto was even done pumping her with his seed.
Seeing her unconscious state Naruto chuckled before leaning down to give the unconscious, scarred woman a deep, tongue filled kiss. She returned it, albeit weakly and mewled pathetically in her sleep when Naruto pulled away.
In the background, Ophelia, Glinda, Clare, Roxanne, and Sistina were diverting their focus between the simulation and listening to their husband and mate, breeding with Savra. They heard what he said before to Audrey: after he finished with Savra, he was going for them.
Pulling out of her clenching snatch with a grunt of effort, Naruto stood up and looked at Audrey, who was still trying to revive her friend that was still lying unconscious on the ground. Oh, how tempted he was to mount the former Number Five, but he resisted. Instead, he approached the still conscious girlfriend with an ominous chuckle.
"I still want that blowjob, from you and your unconscious girlfriend, y'know," he said. Before slipping behind the woman, and hugging her to his chest.
Audrey yelped and shuddered, feeling his dick rubbing against her clit in the process.
"Do you want want to suck my dick with your girlfriend, my horny… Sexy… Bitch~?" he purred huskily into her ear, before running his tongue against her ear and nibbling Audrey's earlobe.
"I… I would love to…" Audrey mewled timidly, her cheeks ablaze. He was so forward! It caught her off guard. She smiled at him as she recovered from the initial shock. "But, she's still unconscious." Her grin then took on a far more lewd nature as she added, " However, I see you're eager for some attention; I wouldn't mind letting you take me like a dog while I try to revive her if you can't wait~!" She giggled upon feeling his dick throb at the suggestion.
He grinned widely at that, "Sounds like a plan…"
Then Naruto pushed Audrey down on her hands and knees, her face right next to the unconscious Rachel's, and slammed his mighty bitch-breaking cock inside of Audrey's cunt.
The former Number Three wailed in pleasure as her innocence was taken in one fell swoop and she nearly collapsed when he started pounding her like a war drum.
----
Back in the sim, above the treeline, a flying Elda scouted ahead to see if she could spot the flower. She was still completely unaware of the flower in question prodding at her mind as she sought it out. Now a good hundred meters away from the team, she found herself looking with surprise at the sight of Priscilla running towards her, looking rather frantic.
She swooped down to see what was going on and found herself horribly confused when the brunette suddenly disappeared. Then, Elda gasped and desperately tried to move when her body felt like lead. Her wings seemingly acted on their own as she fluttered down to the ground. "What the hell?!" she thought, unable to speak. "What's going on?!"
Then, she heard Himawari giggle darkly. "Hello, there, my tasty morsel~!"
"Himawari!" Elda roared out in her head; what the hell was happening?! Why was her body not responding to her will?! "Where are you?!" she demanded; even her eyes weren't responding!
"Shake your nice tits for me," the flower replied, ignoring her question. "Give me a nice show, my lovely treat~!"
To Elda's dismay, her body started to move against her will. Putting one pair of arms behind her head, and the second pair behind her back, the snake woman pushed her massive tits out and started shaking them. The flesh sacks that were Elda's mammaries had bounced to and fro; up and down; left to right; they were firm, well rounded and had no sag. They seemed to defy gravity and were perfect for someone to shove their heads into; perfect to surround someone's dick with.
"Such lovely things, they are~!" Himawari cooed, forcing Elda to tuck in her wings as it poked out of the ground before her. "Your fat tits are such lovely things~" the flower swayed left and right as it followed the motion of Elda's swinging tits.
"Dance for me," Himawari commanded. "Swing those hips for me~!"
Elda was internally horrified to feel herself unwillingly obeying the flower's command. Her upper arms stayed up and her lower arms bent at the elbows and moved with her as she swayed her hips side to side like a belly dancer. The way her swaying, child-bearing hips, moved was hypnotic. It would have drawn any straight man in, due to how enticing they were. Not only that, her tits were still jiggling, and the combined two would have made any straight man's libido go wild.
Words could not describe how much the awakened former Number Six wanted to rip that flower right out of the ground and tear it to shreds, right about now. She inwardly growled upon hearing Himawari giggle impishly. Then, to her dismay, several tentacles shot forth and grabbed Elda, lifting her up while some of them started groping her.
Despite all of that, Elda still swayed her hips and jiggled her tits, because Himawari did not tell her to stop.
Himawari coiled two tentacles around her massive tits and rubbed the bulbous tips against her nipples as it kneaded them. "So firm, yet so squishy~!"
"I will fucking murder you!" Elda raged in her mind.
"Not today~!" Himawari mentally commanded her to stop dancing as it pulled Elda closer - its circular gob opening ridiculously and comically wide due to how big the Awakened Being was in comparison to her human form. Elda put up no resistance as the flower's mouth enveloped her head, despite how much she wanted to. Her vision went white as the simulation replaced her consciousness with a doppelganger.
"Hmm…" Himawari moaned almost orgasmically as the man-eating plant audibly slurped and gulped her down. Since it was controlling her, the flower was taking its sweet time in scarfing down the snake woman. This was the first time it had eaten something of this calibre and it wanted to savour it!
"Something about you tastes… different from all the others. The texture is saltier. It's rather…pleasant~!" Himawari complimented, and let out a lewd SLURP! When it sucked Elda down to her shoulders, stopping just above her stacked bosom. Its tentacles were still coiled around them, kneading and fondling the tits to its heart's content and was enjoying every moment of it.
Himawari moaned pleasurably as it beckoned Elda to tuck her wings in once more, and uncoiled the tentacles playing with her tits before enveloping the woman's bosom with a loud gulp. Slowly but surely Elda slid down into the fleshy prison that was Himawari's belly as the flower thoroughly enjoyed its meal. Due to her being a mid-sized awakened, though, Himawari had to make some adjustments to itself in order for it to take in her snake half; and the flower did this by making more of its stem growing out of the earth in order to make sure it can accommodate her. Soon enough, Elda's arms, hips and wings were encased within the flower. Then, Himawari slurped down her snake lower-body and a tail like a ramen noodle in one long, swift motion.
"Oh, my~!" the flower giggled. "That was quite the challenge, I must say. I must thank Noel for that idea~" Then, Himawari felt its grip on Elda's mind start to wane and started channelling Nature Chakra into its stem to ensure she wouldn't be able to escape.
Elda's yoki flared as she tried desperately to call in the cavalry, struggling with all her might while she was at it. In the distance, Teresa, Irene, Priscilla, Sophia, and Noel jolted and immediately came a-running. But, it would be for nought. They took nearly two minutes to come and by then, Elda stopped moving within Himawari's stomach. The five women were rendered unable to help but stare in horror at the grisly spectacle as the bulge in Himawari's stem lost its shape, melting into a sack of goo as their comrade was swiftly digested.
Then, with a series of loud gulps, Himawari guzzled down Elda's remains, before returning to its original size. A single tentacle shot forth and lashed about, the flower mimicking the motion of a cartoon character licking its lips. "So delicious~!" Himawari moaned. "Didn't quite taste like chicken, though…" The flower tilted its 'head' in curiosity. "Come to think of it, how do I know what chicken tastes like?"
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Noel roared, dashing forth with the Elegance technique she'd learned from Hysteria and lopping Himawari's 'head' clean off. Orange fluid gushed out of the stump that was left behind. Noel didn't stop there though, even as everyone heard Himawari's agonised scream, the enraged woman turned around and the screaming was abruptly cut off after the first slice; Noel continued to hack and slash at the head until it was in several tiny pieces.
As the stem sank into the ground, the women took note of the simulation not ending.
"Cathartic as I'm sure that is," Teresa said, getting the enraged, still-naked tomboy's attention, "I get the feeling we're not done, here."
"Quite right," Noel jumped when she, and everyone else, heard Himawari talk to them in the back of their head, though the plant sounded like it was in discomfort. "Ouch. That hurt. Still… credit where credit is due, you managed to defeat me… But, can you do it again?"
"We'll do it however many times it takes," Priscilla declared with the utmost confidence.
"Good. Very good." Himawari giggled menacingly. "I hope you'll still have that attitude in the future. I still have all this Nature chakra to use~" with its piece said, the flower left them to talk among themselves.
"One down, five to go," Teresa morbidly said. She looked at the brunette and her fellow blondes. "We're going to need a new plan. Having Noel and Sophia being used as bait didn't work. Do we have a plan B?"
"It likely didn't work, because Elda was an easier target," Priscilla pointed out. "This plant is like a hunter, snapping at those who stray from the herd if you will." The brunette then shrugged. "I wouldn't be opposed to a different strategy if it sounds good, though."
"It's a long shot… but we could try and sense its location?" Irene suggested. "Nature chakra aside, it's a living being and all living beings have their own chakra network. If it's recovering now, we can try and find it? Maybe send a pulse of chakra into the ground to find its current location?"
Sophia rubbed her chin thoughtfully. "That's not a bad idea, actually." she said. "Who among us has better chakra control?"
"That would be me," Teresa said, "I've been with Naruto the longest, and I picked up a thing or two when I was still living inside of Clare." she knelt down and pressed her palm against the ground. "It's worth a shot…"
Gathering the necessary amount of chakra, Teresa directed it to her palm and willed it into the ground. It immediately spread out in all directions; closing her eyes, Teresa focused on finding anything with an abnormal amount of chakra. She wasn't as good at chakra sensing than yoki sensing, but she'll have to make due.
Himawari of course knew about this plan beforehand and was already using senjutsu chakra to hide from her. It turned out that the flower didn't need to hide, the chakra pulse faded away just before it reached the flora. It was just out of reach. Nevertheless, it filed that little tidbit of information away for later and got to heal itself.
Clicking her tongue a moment later, Teresa stood up and shook her head with a small frown. "I can't detect anything."
"Tch," Noel scowled, "Damnit!"
"Well, it was worth a try," Irene sighed. "Does anyone have any other ideas?"