Naruto leapt off Heracross. All three genin drew kunai.
Rin drew a ninjato she'd picked up three fights ago.
Zabuza held his sword in a ready position.
Kakashi also had kunai out, a spread in each hand.
"Who dares to trespass upon my territory?" asked a woman's voice as a stream of bats entered the room, swirled together in a mass and then melted together into a pillar. The pillar shaped itself into a woman as it moved forward.
Raven hair. Ruby lips. Sparks flying from her fingertips. Batlike wings extending from her back.
Zabuza was an old experienced hand at certain things. By the time she'd completely formed, he was already behind her and bringing Kubikiribocho into a high speed decapitation strike.
"Who are-" began the woman before the blade struck, ripping through the neck. The head bounced once as Zabuza held the pose for just a second.
"How rude," said the decapitated head before it morphed into a few bats and flew towards the body.
"It was worth a try," said Zabuza, standing up.
"No it wasn't," indicated the Succubus Queen, making a gesture.
"That doesn't sound good," observed Kakashi.
"Sakura, you just got a timer over your head," pointed out Naruto.
"What? Where?" asked Sakura, looking wildly about.
"Chidori!" responded Kakashi, forming lightning around one hand and charging forward.
Kakashi's hand pierced through the chest of the Succubus Queen, still crackling with lightning.
The Succubus Queen responded by grabbing Kakashi and trying to suffocate him in her sizable chest.
"Rin-san?" said Sakura. "You've got a timer over your head."
"I don't think we ought to let our timers run out," said Rin. "Kakashi! Get clear so we can use explosive tags!"
Kakashi waved his hands wildly about, apparently agreeing with the sentiment.
"Not enough water present to do the impressive stuff," complained Zabuza, lopping off the succubus' wings only to see them liquify and flow back into the overendowed humanoid.
"Now you... wait a minute," said the Succubus Queen, plucking Kakashi out from where he'd been suffocating in her chest. "What the hell is this?!"
"We're kind of new at all this ourselves," pointed out Naruto.
"You're what... twelve?!" asked the Succubus Queen.
"No, actually, I'm 21," lied Kakashi.
"Quiet you," said the Succubus Queen. "Those three there are the obvious Heroes. And they are all just as obviously CHILDREN."
"Yeah, so?" asked Naruto.
"Look, you're not even going to get half the references in this dungeon," said the Succubus Queen. "And my plan to infect worlds, turning them into houses of carnal dark delights to feed my infernal appetites? Do you even have the vaguest understanding of any of that?"
"Errr," said Naruto. "No?"
"Look, can you guys come back AFTER your heroes have hit puberty at least?" asked the Succubus Queen.
"We don't even really know how we got here," said Naruto honestly.
"Rin? Your counter stopped at 'zero one'," Sakura informed Rin.
"Oh, so did yours," Rin said after checking.
"I stopped the transformation," said the Succubus Queen, who then turned and glared at Zabuza. "Do you mind? There's really no point in this continuing when the Main Character over there is a child."
"We're ninja, the mission is the main thing," protested Kakashi, using a kunai to slice through the arm holding him. Which immediately reformed but he was no longer being held at arm's length.
"Look, these dungeons are reflections of things out in the multiverse-" tried the Succubus Queen.
"'Multiverse'?" asked Zabuza.
"Multiple universes," said the Succubus Queen. "There are universes where you were born a woman, or are a samurai or dragoon or something. Then there are completely different branches where entirely different universes formed. It's complicated and I'm a Succubus Queen, not a physicist."
"So... you're not going to fight us?" asked Sakura.
"Well, you can always come back when you're-" began the Succubus Queen.
"Fire Release! Great Fireball Jutsu!"
The blast knocked the Succubus Queen backwards. When she came back up, her expression looked to be about two notches up past furious.
"Don't dismiss us," said Sasuke, pretty darn angry himself.
"Fine!" declared the Succubus Queen, making a slashing motion.
Tik went the counter over Sakura's head.
Tok went the counter over Rin's head.
"Uh oh," said Naruto.
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