There's Safety in Numbers

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I mean Hotel, Ino and Pixie were carefully stripping Ai, who gave soft whimpers as one or the other would bump her newfound chest, sending small rippling waves of pleasure through her body.

"Okay, let me adjust the water temperature." Ryuko said, fiddling with the knobs on the wall until warm water began pouring over Ai, soothing her chest and back, she'd only had these... udders for an hour maybe and already her back hurt, how could she be expected to perform like this. Her tears lost among the falling water.

"Hmm, you look backed up, it might help for you to express some of your milk, that should help alleviate the swelling and might bring down the tenderness. Would you like me to help or-" Ino offered, her inner medic coming out as she tended to her 'patient'. She wished she had access to her chakra, that would certainly help, but it was flowing just below the surface, just out of reach, like trying to grab at a river, ironically.

"No, I've done this before, I just had a pump last time, thank you for helping me." Ai said softly, giving a warm smile that somehow seemed fake and yet heart-warming.

"Well, we'll leave you alone then, but I'll be back to check you later, roomie. I doubt this place'll run out of hot water, so take all the time you need, but you better save the concerts til I get back, you hear me!" Pixiebob gave her best 'Mandalay' impression as the violet haired idol actually giggled.

"Sure thing... roomie." Ai answered as the glass door shut, Ai carefully fiddling with the knobs until what was once clear glass turned opaque similar to several higher-end hotel she'd stayed at.

Carefully closing the door behind her, Ino headed for her own room. "I'm going to change, my clothes got wet, and if we're going out to explore, I'm not in the mood to be compared to a drying table, that's Sakura's job!"

"Who's Sakura?" A third voice asked, the two blondes turning to see, the curvy figure of Kurumu coming out of the North Wing, a loud voice complaining behind her about how small the bed was. "Shut up sis! We've shared a bed before, I know it ain't great, but it could be worse!" The blue-haired succubus turned around to yell back, eliciting further yelling from who could only be Daki.

Kurumu cut off her rant with a slam of the door. "Oh my God, I called dibs on the jacuzzi, but I wouldn't have if it meant rooming with my bitch of a little sister. I guess I got mom's looks, but she definitely got her personality." She complained.

"Now then, did you get Ai set up, she was looking kinda rough back there, although I have no intention of losing when it comes to sex appeal!" Kurumu declared, thrusting her own weapons of mass destruction forward. Both blondes shot a side-eye at the other.

Rather than answer, Ino slipped inside her room, already undoing the clasp of her top, leaving the succubus standing in the atrium with a blonde catgirl, posing like an idiot.

"I mean, I'm pretty sure Ai has bigger problems right now." Pixiebob argued, giving a soft chuckle, 'No pun intended."

"Oh, well, why not? Why wouldn't she be interested in Trevor, he's amazing!" Kurumu argued as Pixie smirked with a very cattish grin. "I mean, what about you or that other girl... Ino? I'm not going to lose to either of you in the battle for his heart."

"I don't know about Ino, but I'm still waiting to see. My bed is rather cold, and it's so hard to find a good man who knows how to take care of his woman." Ryuko teased as Kurumu's face slowly shifted into a reddish tint.

"Your bed! You mean you want to... but you just met him." Kurumu pointed out as Pixie's cat-ate-the-canary look grew.

"And I thought you were a succubus, isn't that supposed to be your thing. I'm pretty sure I saw you grinding on him earlier and attempting to suffocate him with your chest, you little minx." The Pro Hero teased as Kurumu was quickly losing the battle.

"Can you stop teasing her, she called him her soulmate earlier. Besides, that angel mentioned we're all from different universes, so it makes sense that things might be a bit different between them. She's probably the type that's a total slut, but only for her boyfriend." Ino interjected as she returned, now clad in a soft lavender sundress that ended roughly around her knees, her hair was still pulled into its trademark high ponytail.

"Boyfriend!" Kurumu squeaked, turning even redder as the blondes let out simultaneous laughs at the virginal sex demon.

"You mentioned a Sakura, like the tree?" Kurumu tried to change the subject off of her, and Ino relented as the trio piled into the elevator.

"Yes, she's my best friend/ rival/ coworker at the Konoha Hospital." Ino said.

"Huh, that sounds complicated. I have a best friend/ coworker, well technically I have three, but Shino my galpal, but don't tell the others." Pixie replied as Ino looked over her shoulder.

"Shino, I don't suppose they wear sunglasses and overcoat and let bugs live in them?" She asked as both girls shivered.

"I really hope that's a metaphor because otherwise," Kurumu shivered a second time... for emphasis, "I've got a best friend/ rival situation, although I guess not so much now that I've found my soulmate, and we worked on the school newspaper together so I guess that could be a coworker as well." Kurumu continued.

"Oh, did you have a rival in love as well?" Ino needled, or at least it felt that way to the reporter.

"I guess, succubus like me have a soulmate, our perfect match or however you want to define it, point is, that's our partner for life, our other half... our soulmate. I thought I had found mine at school with y friends, his name was Tsukune, he saved me after Moka nearly caved my skull in with her monster strength. Anyways, I think she probably took offense since they seemed pretty close, but while we competed for his heart, I did start to care about her and the other girls." Kurumu's voice trailed off as her eyes felt hot and watery.

"Hey, it'll be okay, just as soon as this show is through, you can go back and see them, I promise." Pixie assured the sniffling girl as they exited the elevator. Ino started to offer her own words of encouragement until what Ryuko was saying caught up with her.

'Yeah, so long as one of you, or that Daki girl, Ai, Bambi or even Mafuyu win. If me or the spritely brunette... Ty Lee, or that girl in the red dress win, the Host said we came from vastly different worlds, so if we win, we'll go back home, but that'll mean it's like neither of them will see their friends again. That's a 6-to-3 advantage going forwards, no its 6-to 1-to-1-to-1. They can work together, but us three are still on our own.'

"I can't say me or Sakura ever tried to **** each other, but we certainly got in a few fist fights and a lot of verbal stabbing matches over this boy we both liked in school named Sasuke." Ino tried to bring the conversation back, hoping that neither girl noticed the look of intense focus on her face, her kunoichi expression that was trained into her.

"I just never would've thought a little girl with pink hair had that kind of power lurking within, you know?" Kurumu sniffled as Ryuko restrained from pointing out Kurumu was a small blue-haired girl.

Ino on the other hand, stumbled as Kurumu's words caught her off-guard. "Funny you should say that, Sakura was a little waif of a girl, that why I laughed at you comparing her to a tree earlier, she has a bit of a complex about her lack of 'development' unlike my own blossoming, but she defiantly made up for it in terms of power, I once saw her pulverize a boulder with her bare fists, and she had pink hair too." Ino talked about her friend as the trio descended the stairs, spotting the village a short way off.

"I can't really compare to that... I'm sure several other Heroes could destroy boulders by punching and kicking them, but not me, I just throw them with my Earthflow Quirk... umm, my powers, but Shino had telepathy powers, she could talk to people in her mind, not like a crazy person, like really, I swear, although you couldn't talk back so I guess it would be more like sending a mental voicemail. She didn't have pink hair, knew a couple of people who did, like this one girl at our camp, but she had red hair." Pixiebob jumped in as Ino smirked.

"And you bring up the other side... that's what my powers did, I could read people's minds, talk to them, control them. Me and Sakura, brains and brawn. Besides, pink is pretty close to red. Huh, how ironic that all three of us have something like that in common... redhead best friends." Ino cheered as the other two matched her smile with their own.

"That's us, the redhead's best friend squad! The redheaded best friend squad! The best friends of redheads... we'll workshop it." Kurumu declared as they laughed, before spotting a familiar figure in the distance. "OH, Trevor! I found you, yahoo!" Kurumu yelled, waving as she took off towards him only for a massive explosion of to obscure the whole street.