4 days.
It took 4 days for Xenovia to forgive Irina for allowing Naruto to escape them when they could have gotten him, if only somebody had believed her. Not only did he escape, but he escaped with her first kiss as well. Not that her first kiss even mattered since she was going to stay an exorcist her entire life, and use her body in the service of the church that adopted an orphan like her. In that time, a Rogue Devil had appeared at a local beach. At least, there were rumors about a strange monster appearing at the beach at night, and there was a confirmed report of a Rogue Devil in the area near the water.
"I said I was sorry, can you please talk to me... it will be hard to track the Stray Devil without you talking to me." Irina begged Xenovia. She was truly sorry about her mistake, and she smiled when Xenovia just sighed and nodded her head.
She had failed the same mission TWICE now.
"This is our second failure, on a mission that should have been easy. Guess we're way more suited to monster slaying." Xenovia just wasn't as intelligent or creative as the man they were trying to capture. Even when they were chasing after him without it being a mission, when they heard rumors about him and just went after him to stop him from causing problems for the public. Now it had been two failed missions.
It weighed pretty heavy on her mind.
"Isn't this beach known for sharks appearing this time of year?" Irina changed the subject.
Talk of failed missions always bummed Xenovia out.
"Dolphins actually, they are very beautiful. Griselda took me and the other kids to the beach here once, before my training started." Xenovia explained as she walked on the beach. It was just as beautiful as she remembered, though with nobody on this part of the beach, it was very calm. Stray Devils only ever came out at nightfall, or when the sun was going down. Devils had their powers slightly weakened during the day, and Stray Devils experienced even greater weakness during the day, to the point that by instinct they only came out at night.
It sucked, but for Exorcists they were forced to hunt Stray Devils at their most powerful, since they were very good at hiding themselves. Surprising since Stray Devils that ate human flesh mutated and took on an inhuman form.
"It sucks we can't use our Excaliburs when we hunt-" Irina was about to say Naruto's name, before she noticed a fire on the beach. She saw two shadowy figures, one was a large one laying on the ground, and the other one was a male shaped figure that was sitting at the fire, holding something above the fire. The second shadow was close to the water though, and she just shrugged her shoulders. "-guess we should tell those people to leave, huh?" Irina interrupted herself and gestured for Xenovia to look at the fire and the shadowy people.
"Eh?" Xenovia squinted at the figure sitting in front of the fire.
That figure looked familiar and recent.
"Can't let civilians get in the way, lets go... eh?" Irina stated when she got close enough to make out the jacket on their fellow, and very familiar, teenager. Her eyes widened, and she made eye contact with Xenovia.
Xenovia put a finger to her lips to tell her to be silent.
It was Naruto, and this was there chance to get him.
Naruto sat in front of a fire, adding sand to the potion he was working on at the fire. It was yellow, but it needed to be a more rich yellow. The sand at this beach was particularly rich in the minerals that the potion needed. The shadow next to Naruto, the creature he was tending to, let out a pitiful moan and he reached out and gave it a soothing pat on the side. It was a dolphin, a very large adult dolphin, and not only had it been beached, but it had a strange, infected bite mark on it's side that dripped with an almost black venom. The veins all around the bite had turned pitch black, and the dolphin's ripped off tail was only now starting to grow back when he gave it a potion to regrow it's tail.
"Don't worry, I'm going to see what I can do for you-"
"WE GOT YOU!"
Naruto was tackled into the sand as his head was forced to the ground, and both of his arms were pulled behind his back.
"What!? Huh!? The fuck!?" Naruto shouted in shock and surprise as he was pushed deeper into the sand. He had been so focused on his potion, he hadn't heard anyone approaching, and even if he had heard them, it was at a beach with a rumored monster in the middle of the night. He wasn't expecting anyone to come to this beach.
"So it was you! You were the one who was making weird things happen at the beach!" Irina shouted out as she used her Excalibur Mimic, since this was a demon slaying mission she was allowed to use this sword, to make a rope and tie up Naruto's hands behind his back. "We got him Xenovia!"
...
"He's not the monster of the beach, and I don't think he's connected to it either." Xenovia looked at the dolphin that was regrowing it's tail. She looked at it's bite mark, and how it had a demonic curse on it. She looked at Naruto, who seemed to be brewing some kind of potion, and she untied Naruto's hands. "You can continue, our mission tonight isn't to go after you. Whatever you are doing to help this dolphin, hurry up, there is a rumored Stray Devil in the area." Xenovia spoke freely of their mission.
This boy was a mage to some degree, he had to be aware of the supernatural. Not to mention, it really was not there mission to capture Naruto at the moment, and a Stray Devil took higher priority over Naruto anyway.
"Oh come on, we got him right here! We can take him."
"Stray Devil huh? And here I thought that the monster might have been my... well, it doesn't matter what I thought. I heard rumors of a sea monster, and wanted to see if I could harvest some ingredients from it." Naruto was a little surprised that the monster of the beach was real. Naruto got his book out, and he took out a bottle of holy water.
Xenovia glanced at it.
"Where did you get that?"
"... I'm just borrowing it... for research purposes." Naruto stated as he looked away from them, his eyes shifty. "... I might have gotten it from you." Naruto did wear Xenovia's clothes, and that came with some of the items that she had been wearing at the time. He figured the holy water would come in handy for something.
Holy water was a great ingredient for demonic venom cures, being perfect at destroying curses and other such demonic power fueled problems.
"So, you hear about a monster, and you're first thought is to come check it out?" Irina asked in deadpan.
Was he an idiot?
"Hey! My Mom's notes say that sea monsters have blood and organs that make for great potion ingredients, and if it was a kraken then I could take part of a tentacle and use it to create an entirely new breed of tentacle plant!" Naruto shouted at the very thought that he was being stupid. Yeah, he could be stupid, but he had legit reasons for coming to a beach with a rumored monster.
He showed up, and there just so happened to be a dolphin, injured by the monster. He took samples of the poison and added it to his ingredient collection, and as his thanks for the new ingredient, he decided he would save the dolphin's life.
He would have saved it anyway.
"That's stupid, you're stupid! Why do you make perverted things all the time?!" Irina shouted at Naruto as he added holy water into the potion.
MASSIVE amounts of smoke came out of it, before it turned a shining gold color. The effect was instant, and Naruto clapped his hands together, his eyes sparkling. Naruto grinned and used his bottle to scoop some out.
"Here you go big guy, this is going to hurt for a couple of minutes-" Naruto opened the dolphin's mouth and poured the mix into it. He gently rubbed it's front and got it to drink it up.
"Why would an antidote hurt?" Xenovia questioned Naruto.
Naruto blinked.
"Antidote? I don't know how to make those yet, I can only make antidotes for potions that I made. If I tried to make an antidote for anything else, I wouldn't have a good success rate. I didn't make an antidote, but what I did make-" Naruto spoke as the dolphin started to twitch and squirm in the sand. Naruto looked at it, and he crawled to the dolphin's side, and he placed it's head in his lap. "-sssshhh, it's going to be okay. You're life is going to be saved. The potion I made isn't an antidote, but it will save his life. It's a regenerative potion made for humans, it uses a mixture of alchemy and magecraft, to regrow lost limbs and organs." Naruto explained.
The dolphin started to transform.
It's torso started to change shape and become more muscular, and it's flippers began to lengthen and become thicker as fingers started to grow from the tips. Then, webbed hands grew out of the tips of the flippers where the fingers started, and soon enough two large and masculine arms grew. Legs were next, with large flipper feet. The entire body of the dolphin started to take a more humanoid shape, but with it's head becoming far more dolphin-like. It's skin never changed into human skin, and stayed as dolphin flesh. It's facial features shrank though and became far more human in appearance. It kept it's tail, but the tail came out from above it's new humanoid waist.
The dolphin finished transforming into a Dolphin-Man after a couple of minutes, leaving a shocked Irina and Xenovia to witness the birth of a new species of monster.
"I did it! I created a Man-Dolphin, Dolphin-Man... I'm going to call it a Manphin, you are a Manphin, and your new name is Dan!" Naruto celebrated his victory. The Manphin Dan, started to get control of himself as he began to experiment with his body.
He took control over himself and started to stand up.
He stood well over 9 feet tall.
Dan the Manphin looked down at all of them, before it started to look at the way they moved their bodies, and he began to copy them.
"Oh... oh my god..." Irina covered her eyes when she saw that Dan was indeed a Manphin. Since dolphins didn't wear clothes, Dan wasn't wearing clothes when he took humanoid form either. Dan started to take experimental first steps across the beach, and Naruto jumped up into the air and cheered.
"My baby boy is already taking his first steps, look at him go. Isn't he amazing, look at my big and beautiful baby! I knew it was a good idea to use my DNA for the potion! He's cured, he will survive, and I made sure that he would keep his ability to breed. He can have sex with dolphins AND humans to make babies! This is the birth of a new monster species!" Naruto celebrated very loudly, while the two girls were still just stunned by what they had just witnesses.
"You-"
"... though, I hate to say it I only slightly modified the potion my parents created, so I can't really take credit for it. I would have never been able to make this potion without their notes." Naruto did have to concede that a potion of this caliber would have been outside of his skills at the moment. He just used what skills he did have to modify the potion, hoping that it would have the desired effect.
His main goal WAS to save Dan's life, but he would be lying if he didn't admit that his other desire was to see if he could also turn Dan into a new monster species.
"... It's penis is retractable..." Xenovia noted in a dumbfounded tone, only able to comment on what she was seeing.
"Well of course, with a big dong like that one, he wouldn't be able to swim nearly as well. So long Dan, off into the ocean with you. You be the best monster you can be." Naruto proudly proclaimed as Dan approached them after slowly mastering the ability to walk on dry land. He looded down at Naruto, and tilted his head.
Dan smiled at Naruto and started to make dolphin noises, and rubbed himself against Naruto to show affection and thanks for saving his life.
Then, he went towards the water and jumped into it.
Dan the Manphin swam away into the night.
"Why?" Xenovia asked, and Naruto shrugged.
"Don't really have a reason, it just seemed really fun... and somewhere in the world-"
Naruto was tackled to the ground by Irina as she tied his hands behind his back.
"For the creation of a monster, I don't care if this is our mission or not, I am taking you to that holding cell to await your trial!" Irina was blushing and red faced. She had gotten a full on view of that naked man dolphin, and she would never be able to forget it. This was the second time that something Naruto had done would put a mental scar on her mind.
"Seems two lovely exorcists and a mage have come to be eaten today... lucky day, lucky day!"
"Irina, the Stray Devil!"
-5 Minutes of Fighting Later-
"There, it's dead, and we can... where did he go?" Irina asked when she looked at where Naruto had been, and she saw that he wasn't there anymore. She blinked to herself when she saw that her backpack had been opened up and searched through as well. Her jaw dropped when she saw that Naruto had taken her Holy water bottle from her. "My Holy water, he took my holy water!"
Xenovia sighed to herself.
"Lets report back to the Church that the mission to slay the rogue was a success, our mission was not to capture Naruto. It was slaying the devil, so there is no shame in letting him go this time... where is my motorcycle?" Xenovia asked when she looked up towards the street, and she saw her motorcycle was gone.
There was a note.
Dear Xenovia and Irina,
I took the motorcycle, I'm just borrowing it though, I'll drop it off at the church for you. Thanks to this experience, I'm going to be able to see if I can replicate the potion I made, or if it was just a fluke. Here is to hoping I succeed.
Love, Naruto Uzumaki
P.S. Enjoy the walk back
Xenovia gripped the letter in her hands.
"At least... he is dropping... off my bike at the church." Xenovia spoke through grit teeth. She was grinding her teeth from sheer frustration.
Irina moaned in despair.
"The walk to the church is like 2 hours, this suuuucks. Oh, there is some more writing on the backside." Irina noticed more writing on the back.
By the way, remember when I started to talk about the reason I came to the beach when I heard about a monster? Yeah, just letting you know that two days ago I planted some tentacle plant seeds under the sand. Have fun with that, you fighting the Stray Devil will have woken him up.
Don't worry, this one doesn't like vaginal sex, he likes anal. His tentacles aren't designed for that.
Xenovia felt something wrap around her ankle.
Irina felt something wrap around her wrist.
"NARU-!?"
It was going to be a LONG night for Xenovia and Irina.
It would end with them being very butt hurt.