Lara's POV;
The next morning I woke up with something quite fluffy and soft touching me between my legs. Now I knew from where my wet dream came. It was twitching every so often and giving me a quite pleasant rub. My mind was still half asleep when I remembered the many hours I have fondled Lia's tails.
So I grabbed the appendage and began to play with it as every good husband/wife would do. All the good places were still memorised by me and it took me only seconds to find the sweet spot at the connection between tail and body, or the sensitive tip.
Soon enough moaning and whimpering rung through the air as my payment. It sounded slightly different than my Lia, but I chalked it up as her being under the bed covers. The tail was now starting to twitch, trying to escape my grasp. That too was normal, Lia would often lose control over her tails before she comes. I had more than a millennium of experience with handling her tails and like all the other times she won't escape.
Suddenly the tail began to twitch and spams, before becoming limp. An almost guttural moan came from under the sheets, accompanied by a twitching only a good orgasm can produce. I felt pleased that I still had it in me to give my Lia an orgasm with nothing but a few strokes and some light tickling. Satisfied I opened my eyes and pulled the covers off to give Lia a kiss, only to look directly into the muzzle of a panting Inari.
Who would have thought that the Mink are able to express an Ahegao?
“You are not Lia,” I stated, slightly disappointed. And here I hoped that Lia has had her tails back. Inari was still not fully responsive and her tongue was lolling out of her mouth, so there wasn't a response from her side.
Confused I sat up and looked around the room. Inari was lying on my left and to my right was Lia. She has positioned herself slightly off from me and had watched the whole thing, one of her hands between her legs.
“This is my third life and in each, I managed to rape the tail of someone without really noticing,” I complained, yet not with much heat behind my words. The obviously masturbating woman of my dreams finished with a slight squirt and then licked her hand clean, before scuttling over to me and giving me a good morning kiss. It tasted like her in more than one way, I liked it.
“Mind telling me why Inari is sleeping with us in our bed?” I asked after the kiss. Inari, by now, has regained some of her bearings and was trying to play asleep. Her tail was twitching in short bursts. And if my years of knowledge about tail behaviour from the foxes of my summons are to be trusted then this was a sign of nervousness.
“You sometimes sleep talk about tails and how you like to cuddle them, so I thought I give you a present. The Mink are also people that love to show their affection, which helped convincing Inari. They often cuddle or sleep together with people they like. Rarely in a sexual way, but it is not unheard of for them to share that aspect of affection as well. After a few nights Inari came to me and asked if she was allowed to sleep in the same bed as us.
She would have gone to Nojiko, but Nami was already there and from her time away from the Minks she has learned that sharing a bed with men can be seen as more than normal affection, so she asked me.” Began Lia to explain. She then looked sad and her next words reminded me, again, how hard the separation was for her.
“You were gone and her tail reminded me of long past times, so I agreed. We did not sleep with each other, but having a tail to cuddle with allowed me to sleep,” she looked me in the eyes and her expression showed that she wasn't lying or had the intention of betraying me. She was just seeking something that gave her comfort. “And the way you handled her tail made me kinda hot.” She finished with a sultry smile and kissed me again.
When she broke the kiss I thought about my response. I had to voice it carefully, there were two were listening. “I won't kick her out, but she will not become part of our sex life. I don't want to use her as a substitute for you. If you really want to have a tail, then we'll find a Devil Fruit that will give you one.”
I then patted Inari on the back. “This does not mean that your tail isn't pretty, but it's not the one I desire. You understand, do you?” I then asked the fox Mink. My words alone could have been interpreted as me disliking her tail and not thinking of it as pretty.
If she's anything like the fox summons, then her thinking I find her tail ugly would be the same as me telling a woman that her face looks like an acid accident. Which is extremely rude and hurtful.
“Am I still allowed to cuddle?” Asked Inari in an almost whisper.
I scratched her between her ears while answering. “You can cuddle as much as you like. We can also explain the situation to the rest of the crew. None of them will judge you, I dare say Noa will like the attention.”
She relaxed under my ministrations. I also saw Lia glaring at my hand, so I used my other free hand to rub her ear. Us long-ear humans have highly sensitive ears and I am almost as skilled with her ears, as I was with her tails.
“All the other people I got close to reacted negatively to me whenever I tried to show that I like them,” explained Inari herself. I could see how others would react like that. Not everyone is as open minded as us. Racial discrimination and hostility are widespread. And Inari isn't exactly looking like a normal human, the fur and fox head, as well as tail and paw-like hands/feet, make it hard to see her as not animalistic.
“Not everyone is comfortable with hugs and cuddling. It's not something done between the basic human, they are less physically affectionate. Your culture is strange to them and they react negatively or strange to something that they don't know. You'll just have to explain the situation to the rest of us and they will understand. And if they don't want to cuddle they will tell you. Just remember that this does not mean that they don't like you, they are just not used to it,” I explained. Inari's upbringing was different from ours, her cuddling simply shows that she likes the person, while for most it would be seen as strange or as a form of flirting. And if she cuddles with more than one person than it's seen as bitchy behaviour.
A word that I think would make Inari rage around. Never call a vixen a bitch, they hate that word with a passion. Comparing a vixen with a bitch is a grave insult. I still remember Lia's outburst when she thought I called her a bitch. There was quite a lot of killing intent.
“Anyway, regardless of their reaction. Neither Lia or I mind you cuddling with us, but I don't want you to participate in our sex life. I am of the opinion that sex is something shared only between mates. And Lia is my mate for eternity,” I finished with a pat on Inari's head.
The fox woman nodded, before rolling into a ball and falling asleep for real.
On my other side I felt how Lia began to shudder then, with a long moan, she came again. Huh, didn't notice that I kept the ear fondling going while speaking to Inari. Isn't it kinda strange that I had an emotional conversation with one person while helping another one to an orgasm?
I didn't dwell on this thought for long, because Lia pulled me up and into our bath, where she helped me to one of my own.
Inari had explained her behaviour to the rest of the crew during breakfast. They all were understanding of her cultural difference and agreed to tell her if it becomes too much.
Inari was happy beyond belief and showed that by excessive cuddling with every crew member. As predicted, Noa liked it the most. I think he has a tail fetish as well. I might give him some tips if he finds the courage to ask Inari out. I am a tail specialist after all, with more than one lifetime of experience in professional tail fondling.
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For the next few days, we searched the island Kurei wanted to be dropped off. We finally found it and were now flying at a relatively low altitude over the water. The island was already in sight.
“That is a sickening pink island,” I commented. The whole thing looks like pink hearts, small mountains were filled with pink leaved trees, who are then all cut into a heart like form.
“It is more beautiful than I could have imagined,” gushed Kurei. He seems to like the look of this island. It's too much pink for me.
Anyway, the inhabitants have already spotted us and were watching our hovering ship from the shore. At my command, Fiara began the process of getting back down and a few minutes later we were anchored on the shores of the Kamabakka Kingdom.
Our small speedboat carried Nami, Nojiko, Lia, me, Kurei and Jo. The others of our crew agreed to guard the ship. The three males more than the two females. Our hen did not want to leave her still weak husband as well. My healing powers are restorative, but they can't give him the nutrients he needs for gaining weight.
Stolen novel; please report.
That would need another fruit, we have it, but we haven't spoken about the fruits and if someone wants one. Something I will have to address soon. There are the unknown fruit, the steal fruit and the regeneration fruit we still have.
Anyway, it was only us seven that stepped on land. We were greeted by a group of rather ugly men, clad in skimpy dresses or negligee. Seriously, I get it that they like to show their bodies, but couldn't they at least shave? Those clothes were designed in combination with shaved legs, or at least stockings.
“Oh my, what have the tides washed ashore to us ladies?” Greeted one of the men or was it once a woman? You can never know with Ivankov as their leader.
I nudged Kurei, he was the one who wants to live here. However, he was still in too much shock from what he was seeing. “Eh, hi, we're the Kage Pirates and this is Bon Kurei, he wants to join you. We,” I gestured at my crew and Lia, “are only here to drop him off.”
“My name is Tibany, the girls and me here are spending our day on the beach. Getting a nice even tan and all that, you know what I mean do yo~u?” She gave me a wink and showed off her harry muscular upper body. As long as he/she/it does not touches me I'm okay with their way of life.
Her/his words brought Kurei out of his shock and he dropped down on his knees. “Greetings, my name is Bon Kurei and I met Ivankov-chan in Impel Down, he told me about the great Kamabakka Kingdom.”
The group eyed Kurei with interest, before looking back at us. “We have heard from Ivankov-sama how a brave man has helped him and his to escape from Impel Down, he made it sound as if this man perished during the escape. If you are really the one Ivankov-sama spoke about we would gladly lead you to the palace.”
Kurei looked up with tear streaming eyes and thanked them multiple times. “If that's all, we'd go then,” I tried to say and was just about to turn the boat around.
But the leader of the group waved me off with a wink, lesser humans would have puked from the sight. “Pish posh, we can't let you leave without inviting you for dinner. Who would we be if we wouldn't give the friends of Bon-chan something to eat?” He didn't wait for us to agree or disagree, he simply began to walk.
I was close to leaving anyway, but Nojiko has spotted me inching over to the oar. “Oh come on Lara, they are friendly, and maybe they have one or two nice chicken dishes.” The moment her last two words were spoken I was already next to the leading man/woman and asking questions about their dishes.
On our way to the palace, we walked on a pathway decorated with rainbow coloured seashells. The path led us through a rather pink rainforest, filled with homosexual animals. There were male rabbits rutting with other male rabbits. Female cats licking pussies and we even saw someone riding a unicorn.
The person that did the riding was not doing it on the back of the horse and it was more the person that was ridden, but those are semantics. I was never more amazed by the physical resilience of this world's people than now. Something like that would have ripped normal humans apart.
I also did not like the interest in Lia's eyes. I know that she likes it rough and big, but that is a little much, I mean the thing was thicker than my closed fist and almost as long as my arm. No wonder Sanji became slightly more insane after living two years on this island.
The forest opened up into a wider clearing with crop fields and a majestic pink castle on the horizon. Women who acted like males were tending to the fields, with men who acted like women helping them.
“The people here are acting quite strange,” commented Nojiko. Nami was clinging to her arm for dear life, especially when a group of women was lecherously whistling after us.
We walked past two male guards that were wearing pink tutus, they were looking quite strange with their serious expressions and halberds. The two guards were about to block us from getting entrance to the castle, but Tibany raised one of her hands and signalled them to step aside.
The inside of the castle was decorated in the same overly pink style as the island, but strangely remarkably stylish. “Nice castle,” praised Nojiko.
“My thank you, we put a lot of effort into it, mmmfufufuf,” replied a rather loud voice. Nojiko turned around to greet the new speaker and then let out a high pitched shriek when she came face to eye with the massive head of Ivankov.
Ivankov shrieked himself loudly and jumped back while doing multiple somersaults. He landed gracefully on his face and looked up at us as if nothing happened. “Ivan-sama, these are the Kage Pirates, they have escorted a friend who claims to know you,” explained Tibany our presence.
Ivankov looked at us and then spotted Kurei. “Bon-boy, you are alive!?” He shouted in surprise and happiness. Kurei was also crying again and silently nodding.
“We thought you died from Magellan's poison,” continued Ivankov, he walked over to us and grabbed Kurei in a bear hug.
Kurei explained his survival in between sobs and his crying. “I almost did, he gave me an antidote and kept me in a medical bay for treatment and then questioning and probably torture. But the Kage Pirates came along and saved me.”
Ivankov now let go of Kurei and studied us more closely, before his eyes landed on me. He hummed and nodded occasionally, before giving me a thumbs up. “That is an okama if I ever have seen one. She is truly comfortable in her body.”
The others were giving him and me now strange looks and I was kinda surprised that he can see that I am not mentally completely female. Must be my posture or aura. “Eh, thanks I guess. Anyway, we are here to drop Kurei off. But your subordinate invited us for dinner. Say, do you have some good chicken dishes?” I replied and hastily changed the direction of this conversation towards more pleasant waters, like chicken and eating that chicken.
Ivankov nodded sagely to Tibany, none verbally telling her that she has done a good job, before jumping over our group with a series of twists and somersaults. He landed this time on his feet and then began to walk down the corridor.
He turned his massive head to look at us and spoke while walking. “Follow me then, the survival and arrival of Bon-chan calls for a feast. The girls will love to cook you something tasty. And then you'll have to tell me how you managed what you did during the war. Eating two Devil Fruits was unheard off before.”
With a shrug, we followed and were led into a wide eating hall. People of both physical gender were already sitting and talking with each other. And in between those we spotted a mob of blond hair that we knew.
Sanji was evading the male looking, people, while trying to get close to the female looking ones. Only for them to then harshly reject Sanji's advances. All of them told him that they were male and didn't like other men. While the male looking ones were trying to catch him and do stuff with that would have let the unicorn fucker look casual.
Nami too spotted him. “Sanji?!” She exclaimed in shock.
Sanji stopped momentarily and had to evade the jumping horde of men before his head swivelled around. He spotted us, rubbed his eyes, then pinched his cheek and after that gave himself a good slap in the face, before he began to cry and rush at us.
Naturally, I placed one of my feet in the way. He ran face first into my boot and stopped dead in his track. His nose did break with a nice crunch and he fell to the ground with a slight whimper.
“Oh please God, tell me that I am not hallucinating. Please let Nami-chan and her sister, as well as the elven goddesses, be real,” pleaded the downed Sanji with a hope-filled voice.
It was filled with so much hope that I couldn't help myself and crush it mercilessly. I placed a heat illusion over my, Lia's, Nojiko's and Nami's body. We began to flicker before we vanished from his sight.
He tried to reach out with his hand, trying to get physical proof for our presence, but all us had stepped back in disgust from his expression.
His hand only touched air and with an anguished cry he slumped down and began to hit the ground while crying pitifully. “That was mean,” commented Nojiko, who knew what I was doing.
I grinned at her and dropped the mirage. Sanji must have seen us between his tears, because his bawling became even louder and he was cursing the devil for playing mind tricks on him. It was too much for Nami and even she felt pity for the lecherous cook.
With a sigh, she kneeled down next to him and hugged Sanji. The man froze up in terror, slowly turned his head around to look at the person that was hugging him, and then realized that Nami really was present.
With a joy-filled shout, he grabbed on to her and hugged her strongly. All was good until his hands roamed downwards and only stopped when each hand was grabbing one of Nami's ass cheeks. Nami roared in anger and bitch slapped him so strongly that he crashed through a nearby table and into a group of three harry, almost naked, men.
They whooped in glee and descended down on the dazed cook, who then had his hands full with fighting off the attempts of getting his pants pulled down.
“So you know him? He was asking us for a boat for a few days now. Claimed that he was part of Straw-boy's crew. We couldn't verify his claims without a bounty poster. Those rarely come to our island and the next batch will only arrive tomorrow,” mused Ivankov out loud while scratching his shin.
“Yes, that lovesick Casanova is sadly one of my friends,” huffed Nami, before she continued with a softer smile. “Still, knowing that he is well is relieving.” Ivankov simply nodded along.
“Well, Tibany-chan did promise a dinner and we are in the dining hall. Which is the perfect moment for me to tell all of you a story!” Shouted Ivankov suddenly. He jumped on a stage. The lights went out and a single projector got turned on. In its focus stood Ivankov, who then began to tell the tale of his escape from Impel Down.
At the finale, he asked Kurei on the stage and showed everyone the man who saved the day and made it possible for them to escape, even when he knew that he would not be able to escape as well. Kurei bowed to the audience and was then touched by the roaring cheers.
It was the start of a long night filled with good roasted chicken and alcohol. Some of our crew were wondering why the food was tasting a little bit like Lia's food.
The cooks were interested as well and told us about their dishes and that they would allow us to become stronger faster and gain more nutrients out of them, which will then strengthen us and help us with our training and health. It came to light that Lia's dishes were even better than those of the cooks from Kamabakka Kingdom.
Everyone was shocked when they found out that Lia was doing the same and that all of us had eaten food that was actively making it easier for us to train and getting stronger. It's one of the few reasons why our crew was this strong.
Nojiko, Jonny and Yosaku were pretty weak if you think of their canon characters. The food of Lia, the training under someone who knows what he does and the increased strain during training forged their bodies into something stronger and better. Without Lia's food they wouldn't have survived the harsh gravity training or gruelling drills I was making them do.
One of those three things might not be enough to get this strong this quickly. Two in the incorrect combination might even kill them, but all three, with the right amount of difficulty and intensity, will allow them to quickly become stronger.
Add the best weapons you can get your hands on and you'll get a group of people that was quickly rising in strength and ability.
I only noticed that conversation with half an ear, the rest of my mind was focused on inhaling the chicken dishes Lia was preparing and feeding me with. Eating her food after any length of absence was just heavenly.
We partied long into the night and I fell asleep cuddling with Lia in one arm and a roasted chicken in my other. Truly a good day.