Sales were even better.
Not like selling 10 to 100 times more copies than before, and it was possible Mirajane's inclusion into the magazine was less of a factor than to be believed. Many people who bought the first issue with Erza, would no doubt pay attention to a second issue that had her in it as well. The fact it also had Mirajane peaked the interest of fans of her, but the fact was that Erza and Mirajane had overlap in their fanbases, people who were fans of both. Still, the fact was that there was a 33% increase in scales over the last issue, and 33% was a pretty huge number when considering how much profits they had made the last issue.
"So, how did my food reviews do?"
"Don't know yet, give it a few more issues." Naruto explained to Sting when he was curious. He put a lot of effort into finding fun places to eat whenever he went out to do a job. They had a few more people join the guild, not the main guild but the production part of the guild in Magnolia. The guild had 3 locations, and their current location was the Main Guild. People with some kind of talent could join the Main Guild, though this was at the request of Old Man Moneybags himself that the main guild have the best of the best.
Yukino looked at the gift baskets that had been sent to them by a few of the businesses who were seeing the products they advertised in the magazine go up in sales. She was eating the chocolates and other sweet fruits inside of them, while Naruto kept an eye on her to prevent her from drinking the booze included in the baskets.
"Master... when are we going to start on the next issue, it's been about a week?" Yukino enjoyed the brief break from hard work, but she wanted to work hard at the same time.
She couldn't impress Naruto by sitting on her butt all day.
"When Carla gets back with Wendy, we can get the next theme decided. First thing first-" Naruto slapped Sting on the back of the head. "-you're getting fat boy, go run laps." Naruto had Sting doing a lot of eating for the magazine, but when the boy wasn't taking jobs, he was still eating just as much as before. Naruto had noticed a subtle change in his weight, and he knew that Sting was one of those types of people.
Those who can gain a LOT of weight really quickly if they were lazy.
Eating and sleeping were important to getting stronger, but Sting was the type to let himself go unless somebody was on his ass to improve himself.
"Ow... Yukino is getting fat too!"
"AM NOT!"
"She isn't, her hips are just getting wider... she's a girl Sting, they grow different than boys. I'll get onto her if she starts to get fat." Naruto calmed Yukino with a hand on top of her head. The two kids were head to head, glaring into each other's eyes.
Sting left the guild to do laps with Lector flying behind him.
...
"... You actually have been gaining some weight, so just do some laps around the guild hall." Naruto knew that the fighting would never end if Sting had been right, so he waited for Sting to leave before he brought the issue up. Yes, Yukino was a young woman going through puberty, but her breasts and hips weren't the only areas that were growing.
Yukino blushed and got to work running around.
"Yes-"
"We're back Master!" Wendy called out as she held up boxes filled with papers. Carla walked behind her, and she looked at Yukino running laps around the guild hall. "... Mr Moneybags kissed my forehead when I got this from him, and I gave him the form you requested I give him... what was it?" Wendy asked Naruto.
She had crooked lipstick on her forehead.
Mr Moneybags was taking advantage of the growing popularity of the magazine to surround himself with beautiful women, and how scummy their top financial backer was really made her appreciate the differences between him and her master. Still, she liked the old man well enough simply because of the fact he played a role in her joining the guild in the first place.
"These are reader surveys, I offered them in the last magazine... the first 100 issues of each magazine in each city would have these surveys... so we have about... 1,700 surveys to glance over." Naruto stated as he pulled out one of the examples from the box, and he showed it off to Wendy.
Please Answer These 5 Questions
1. Who did you prefer among the models?
2. If you could pick a theme for the next issue of the magazine, which theme would you go for?
3. Which of the models would you prefer the next issue have as the star?
4. How likely are you to buy products listed in the magazine?
5. Would you like a picture of a trusted guild member of Lewd Gods testing products in the magazine?
"Just these 5 questions?" Carla asked as she looked over a few forms.
"These are the 5 most important questions, we could ask them 100 questions... but these 5 can answer 100 questions. Carla, think you can keep tally of the answers when me and Wendy call out Erza or Mirajane?" Naruto gave Carla a clipboard and a pen.
"Aren't they both under contract?"
"This decides who gets the centerfold, and who will be featured more. Also, I want to see who people are more interested in. This will change the next contract with the models too." Naruto didn't need to explain himself, but he did anyway. Both Erza and Mirajane would appear in the next magazine, but the fact remained that he wanted the more popular woman to be the centerfold.
Wendy looked at the papers.
1,700 of them.
"We're... going to be here all day." Wendy realized the truth of the matter. "... and what about these themes?" Wendy asked, before Naruto tossed her a clipboard as well.
"If the same general theme appears more than 10 times, write it down and then start keeping track when you come across something similar to it. If 10 people think of it, it is worth noting, if 100 people agree with it, then it is a usable idea worth considering... if 500 people agree with it, we do it in a future issue." Naruto already off to the races with the paperwork. "... also... back to an earlier point..."
Naruto lifted up his bangs.
He had a kiss mark too, just like her, showing that their financial backer had visited the guild as well.
-Hours Later-
"Wow... that girl has a talent for picture taking."
Mirajane flipped through a copy of the magazine that she bought, she had to support the magazine she was in by buying it after all. She flipped through the pages, ignoring a few of the articles in favor of seeing the pictures of herself and Erza. She did fold down the corner of the page that had some housecleaning tips and a food review from Sting. She would go back to those later to read them, but she was more curious about how she would look.
She looked good.
"Hey Mira, since you're a famous porn star now... can you sign my copy."
"Eheheheh..." Mirajane had the decency to blush when a member of her own guild, one of the older men, came forward and asked for her to sign the magazine. She was pretty sure she knew exactly what they were going to do with their copies. Not that she expected anything less, since even her safest material in the world had been used for that purpose before no doubt.
She got paid quite the decent amount, Naruto even threw in a little extra under the table due to her efforts in helping with Erza's inability to act. She also liked the feeling of rivalry she had with Erza again.
"Sooooooo... these shots of you look really good." Lucy had a copy, and she slid it to Mirajane to sign.
"They really do, Wendy has a good idea. You know, at first I was curious why such a young girl was the photographer, but now I can see what he saw. It's like these photos are taking with her eyes." Mirajane signed Lucy's copy. She did raise an eyebrow when she noticed that Lucy had a porn magazine for her to sign, but she noticed a lot of guild members of the right age had bought them.
Most likely to be supportive.
Lucy sat right down at the bar.
"So... was it hard, doing the shoot?" Lucy asked her.
Mirajane shrugged.
"A little, but the real hard part was what I learned about myself. Are you still thinking about doing some work yourself?" Mirajane had learned she was a size queen for things in her ass, but other than that the shooting was pretty fun for her. Seeing the results and how hot she looked stroked her ego.
Lucy looked conflicted.
"... I shouldn't have rejected that offer, it was a good offer... but when Happy opened his mouth... I just kind of got too angry to consider how good it was." Lucy bought the magazine so that she could see how high the quality was. The money might not have been as good as what Mirajane would make, but it was still a decent offer that could improve.
She wasn't famous after all, so of course she wouldn't be offered a cover model job. She put thought into that and understood it after serious consideration.
"How about during the next photoshoot, I ask if you can watch the process. I'm sure Naruto will be happy to let you do work as a model if you ask... and you understand the conditions. How about it?" Mirajane asked with a smile.
"That sounds-"
-Hours Later-
"-good. Okay, so lets go over... Wendy?" Naruto asked the tired girl.
They had been working for 6 hours straight to get everything counted, and to narrow down things to groups.
"UUuuuuuh... what?"
"Look at the time, I think we can put this off until tomorrow. I'm taking everyone out for breakfast, so get some sleep." Naruto decided the talk of the theme for the next issue when she was fully awake, and not half mentally dead.
He had narrowed it down to 5 potential themes after all.
All they had to do was decide what the theme would be, and then they would be able to get to work.
This was fine.
Ninja.
"Fine... fine... this is fine..." Naruto was in the middle of sewing another ninja themed uniform for one of the models. All of the models that weren't the centerfold would be wearing the same uniform, but he was going to pick the best model for the role this time. Erza wouldn't be the feature model, though she would appear in the magazine for a few photos.
Mirajane.
"Ninjas are so cool, they are all sneaky and stuff." Sting stated.
"Actually, ninja are suppose to be able to blend anywhere at any given time. So it was actually normal for a ninja to wear casual clothes more often than uniforms. Track suits, normal dresses, just normal clothes in general." Naruto explained to Sting, since this world had a different view of ninja.
In his world, being sneaky didn't matter as much when you had the power to manipulate all of the elements, make new ones, or just bring the hammer of justice on somebody. Oh well, he didn't want to ruin Sting's dream, so he was just designing some of the uniforms that chunin wore when he was a kid. He would modify it so the vest didn't cover the stomach, but otherwise he would leave the design the same.
"Ow!"
"Don't move, do you know how hard this is? One of the models for the magazine is your size, so this is the easiest way to get the size right." Naruto was using Wendy as the model for the clothes while he sewed them. It just so happened that she was about the same size as the woman who had been hired to take pictures with Erza.
"Yeah, you don't want him to poke your boobs, and deflate what little chest you have."
...
"I'm going to give Sting a talk about women's bodies... and how boobs aren't like balloons." Naruto stated as he grabbed Sting by the shoulder, and dragged Sting along. Just as Yukino was walking into the room. "Yukino, summon a spirit to help with... the outfit."
"Can I have my own ninja outfit?"
"Sure."
-2 Weeks Later-
"BREAAAAAAATH!"
Naruto was giving CPR to the woman who had been wrestling Erza underwater for the photoshoot, while Erza seemed satisfied with herself. The smaller woman ended up coughing out the water in her lungs moments later, and Naruto relaxed when he saw her sit up and stare at Erza.
"... I quit."
"Yeah... I understand, we can't use the photos we got anyway. Erza... what the hell, you were suppose to lose." Naruto explained to the red haired woman, as the petite prostitute got up and walked off of the set. The photo was going to be of Erza losing the wrestling match, since she was way too strong and might hurt the other girl if she was placed in a position to win.
"Ah... I forgot... how about... I try again with an opponent that..." Erza trailed off when she realized that she wouldn't be able to hold back. "... I would never dream of hurting Wendy... how about I... grk!?" Erza stopped when Naruto wrapped his arms around her neck and squeezed until she passed out.
...
Naruto pulled out the creamed sugar injector, before he flipped Erza around so that she was face first on the ground with her ass up into the air. Her eyes were rolled up and she was drooling, and her body was still soaked to the bone with water so that her clothes clung to her body tightly. Naruto pulled her shorts down around her knees, before he just shoved a dildo up Erza's butt. He then filled her pussy with sugary cream so that it looked like she was dripping semen from her snatch into a puddle on the floor.
"Uh..."
"Take pictures like this, we'll just imply she got gang-raped after being captured by underwater ninja. Keep taking photos until you have the ones you want to go with." Naruto pinched the bridge of his nose. He wasn't going to actually have Erza fucked while she was knocked out, but the fact was that she was just going to knock out anyone who was put to model with her. "... Wendy, you're in charge of the rest of this shoot. Mirajane is going to be here for her shoot in a few days, and I need to finish the 5 sets for her shot." Naruto left the room with that.
-Later that Night-
"Oh... I like this shot."
It was Erza, but she was flipped over onto her back for the shot. She was still knocked out in the photo, but her legs were wide open. She was leaking even more 'cum' onto the ground, and she had a dildo in her pussy, a different one, that was covered in cum just like the one in her ass. Her face had cum splattered on it, and so did her explosed tits.
"You do... I thought I might have... gone a bit too far." Wendy had changed the pose for the photo, and she noticed there was leftover cum, so she added more cum to the shot. She thought being able to see Erza's breasts and stomach would be better for the shot, and looking at Naruto's satisfied face as they went through all of the shots of the Non-Center models he seemed happy with the choice.
Naruto gathered all of the photos from different angles and lighting of Erza in that pose, and started to go through them all.
"No, I like it. She looks like a kunoichi who got broken into betraying her comrades and giving up information. I can actually use this to enhance Mirajane's shoot, we can link the two photos by having Mirajane looking at a lacrima with this image showing... Mirajane is a good actor, so she can pull off having just watched her comrade raped. Good work." Naruto rubbed the top of her head, and she smiled brightly under the praise.
"Thank you Master."
"I'll go get us some drinks, we have a lot of photos to go through, and we need to decide their placement. Erza needs to go before Mirajane, so people can get a clear image of what Mirajane is looking at... 6 sugars and heavy cream?" Naruto asked Wendy, since he knew she liked her drinks sweet. She nodded her head, since Sting was off on a request and Yukino was in bed already. Even Carla was already in bed, leaving just her and Naruto as the only people still awake at the late hour.
Wendy smiled and sorted through all of the photos.
They weren't all of Erza, there were a good number of other models who were in the magazine. She had to sort through all of them to pick out every good picture that covered something that the others didn't. If there was a picture that didn't show a woman's pussy, she needed to include another picture that did show it for example. You couldn't put two photos next to each other that were the exact same pose.
She had to find the best photos.
The ones that really made her tingle.
"... and here we go, one tea with sugar and milk for you, and a milk and honey coffee for me. I'll carry you to bed when you fall asleep." Naruto never said he was going to get Wendy a coffee. "You took a lot of good photos... try and find any photos you can with... lets say... visible butt hole." Naruto was still looking through the photos of Erza to pick the very best few to feature in the magazine.
"Is it okay that, that model quit?"
"Well, she did drown. It might have been Erza's fault, but it is my fault for expecting Erza to lose in a wrestling match." Naruto deadpanned, since that was a bad call on his part. Even if Erza couldn't act, she could at least let somebody beat her in wrestling, but he overestimated Erza's skills, and underestimated her desire to win. "... by the way, I'm teaching you, Sting, and Yukino CPR soon to avoid that situation."
"That... makes sense." Wendy could imagine that would come in handy.
Nobody wanted a repeat.
"It's a shame, it's hard to find petite women who are confident enough to appear next to women like Erza in porn." Naruto knew how popular women with that slim body were, even more so if they were slim with wide hips.
Wendy hummed in agreement.
"Well, I don't think that would sell well."
"Oh trust me, you would be surprised. Men aren't nearly as picky about attractive women as women think we are. If anything, as long as she has a reasonably attractive face, and isn't fat... most guys are more than happy with that. Anything after that is more preference and not requirement. I've had crushed on both women with Erza's body type, and women with your body type before." Naruto laughed as he went through the photos. "... actually, if we do include a woman like you, I think we would see at least a 20% increase in sales."
"20% isn't a lot." Wendy deadpanned.
"20% is a HUGE amount, especially when dealing with numbers like we deal with. Heck, if you can manage to grow by 5% each month that is still a nice growth. Doubling your sales every month is just unrealistic... instead, just try and reach new customers through careful planning. With patience, you will see a huge increase over time." Naruto didn't grow Konoha to the huge nation that it had been in a day, he had spent several years as a kage growing it to the most economically stable and prosperous nation on his home world.
"I would like a 20% increase in my boobs." Wendy was so tired the joke just slipped out.
"With your size, that increase wouldn't even amount to a full cup size."
"Eheheheheh." Wendy laughed with comical tears streaming down her face, fully knowing she ran right into that joke. She knew that she didn't have to wear a bra because she was small, though she wore one anyway. She also knew that the increase wouldn't be easy to notice. "... if you're so smart... is there a way to get bigger boobs?"
"It's mostly genetics, but honestly, don't worry about your boobs. Your boobs will grow to the size they are suppose to be. Trust me when I saw, it's been awhile since Erza could look down and see her own feet." Naruto joked.
"Pffft." Wendy couldn't help herself but laugh.
"Her boobs are so big, she would slap herself in the face when she sneezes." Naruto continued his joke while working, and Wendy spewed her air out again as another laugh escaped her. Naruto smiled when he saw that she was trying not to laugh. "If you drew a picture on Erza's stomach, she wouldn't even see it until she saw a mirror."
Wendy couldn't help herself but fall out of her chair as she started to laugh uncontrollably, since she could easily imagine that kind of situation happening.
It wasn't even that funny.
Yet, she couldn't stop laughing.
Chapter End!