AN: Humanized Ponies.
Chapter 1
Naruto Uzumaki wasn't really one to let others see him cry, and in truth when he did cry, it was in the privacy of his own home. And after the news he'd just gotten he'd expected himself to cry immensely, and this was simply on top of the many shitty things that had transpired in his wake upon returning to Konoha after the Garra Retrieval Mission. That mission hadn't gone as well as it could've, but Garra was alive and well; that's all that mattered to him. But it was after that mission did he begin to feel that something was wrong with his body, but he'd ignored it and blamed it on not feeling so good. Maybe he'd just gotten a cold; it wasn't anything to worry about, but he was wrong so very wrong. It showed when he and what remained of Team 7 were training together via sparring.
Naruto's excited look served only to make Kakashi sigh, but it didn't matter in the end; he was a Jonin and Naruto was…well Naruto. The silver haired Jonin revealed his sharingan; he couldn't take any chances when it came to Naruto. "You ready Kakashi-sensei?" the man's response was speeding at his student. Thankfully Naruto's training with the Toad Sannin wasn't completely useless, but most of it may have been. Blocking what would've been a kick to the face he repelled his sensei back via throwing him back. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" ten clones poofed into existence 'Wait, I thought I made twenty?' he mused before brushing it off; a simple mistake that he wouldn't make again. Six clones charged at Kakashi, but underneath his mask he smirked. Naruto's plan was rather obvious. Using what speed he had, Kakashi went through three clones rather quickly as the remaining three went for a pincer maneuver in order to take the Jonin down. Naruto watched as his clones began to engage the Jonin in hand to hand combat while he and another clone prepared two rasengans.
"Come on Naruto you're being way to obvious!" Kakashi taunted only for Naruto to smirk; that wasn't good. Before Kakashi could say another word, the clones exploded with a force that decimated the Jonin. Seeing Kakashi's burning body falling to the ground made the blonde smirk as it disappeared into smoke. Immediately he and the clone holding the rasengan leapt high into the air just as one of the two remaining clones was pulled into the ground, and now he knew where his sensei was. Speeding downward the clone slammed its rasengan into the ground; the attack forced Kakashi to come from underground allowing the remaining clone to charge at him. Blocking the clone's sudden attack, he barely had time to react as Naruto came down from the air. Thankfully he was fast enough to dodge the attack by mere inches. Leaping back he saw Naruto getting up with a smirk on his face "Almost took me by surprise there; almost that is." He said with a smirk.
"Looks like you're getting—" Naruto didn't finish as he began to cough up a storm much to Kakashi's curiosity; was this some sort of trick. That's when he saw it, blood; Naruto was starting to cough up blood. Naruto didn't make up tricks like this, it just wasn't how he fought; something was wrong. Sprinting over to his student he quickly caught the blonde before he could fall to the ground. Upon touching Naruto, he could feel something wrong. The teen's chakra was going down really fast and not at a normal rate where he would exhaust his chakra supply; no, now Naruto was losing it to something. Then there was the pulse, he could feel it getting weaker, picking the blonde up he was about to sprint to the hospital via chakra enhanced running. Immediately that was off the table as the second his chakra touched Naruto's body, the blonde coughed up even more blood; it looked like chakra was becoming a poison to the teen's body. So he would be forced to use his natural speed gained from years of training, hoping that it would save the blonde's life in time; after all Naruto did have his whole life ahead of him along with a girlfriend by the name of Hinata Hyuga; she'd be devastated if he failed to save the blonde. But for Naruto, the tragedy was just beginning.
Tsunade had tried all she could to find out what was happening to him, but in the end it'd been useless much to his fear. Years of training wasted in mere hours, each and every chakra coil in his body was gone along with every drop of his chakra was gone. No cause had been found and no cure was possible since his body had suddenly and painfully been altered forever. The seal that held the Kyubi was gone, and Jiraiya had been called back in order to inspect the important mystery. Thus was why he was laying on the hospital bed, in his current state he was too weak to walk. Originally he had a window view that allowed him to look over Konoha as far as he could see, but that changed when he saw it; the one thing that caused his usually optimistic attitude to shatter in mere moments.
She was in the arms of another, and she looked so happy; but it wasn't him that she was kissing. No, it was someone else, someone he didn't know. This man whoever he was, was holding the girl who'd asked him out the very day he had gotten back. And he'd accepted it, he'd accepted her as someone who he cared about much more than others. Yet there she was, locking lips with another while he was in the hospital in pain; and now he was in despair. Had he done something wrong? Was he too boring for her? Why would she do this? Why betray his trust by sneaking behind his back? A tear dripped down his eye as something inside of him began to break, it wasn't just his heart. He gasped for air as blood began to pour from his eyes. "Tsunade-sama, it's happening again!" a nurse exclaimed. He couldn't breathe nor could he feel anything but something breaking, it shattered like glass; he could hear it and now he knew what it was. A bond with someone, his bond with her with Hinata Hyuga; the bond he had with her was broken.
Now he felt nothing but disgust for the female Hyuga and wished to never see her again lest things get very bad, but he digressed. Focusing on such things wouldn't be good for his health. Taking a breath he allowed his nerves to go calm, and thankfully he was now calm enough to think coherently. "Well, this has been a rather eventful day." He said with a sigh "First I start spitting up blood, I'm hospitalized only to find out that all my chakra is gone and there's no cure, and then I find out that my girlfriend is cheating on me; well ex-girlfriend as of now." He huffed in annoyance.
"Huh, and I thought my luck was bad." Tsunade said gaining the blonde's attention.
"Tsunade-sama!" Shizune exclaimed "This isn't the situation for jokes, especially about—"
"It's ok" Naruto said cutting Shizune off, she now sported a worried look "a bit of humor is nice coming from someone whose chest is full of gallons of silicon." The devilish smirk didn't leave his face as Shizune held the angered Tsunade back from crushing the weakened blonde. After calming down, she couldn't help but smile; at least he was showing some form of his old self despite all that had happened to him in a single day. Even if his smile was weaning, it was nice to see it even for a little while , at least as long as it lasted. "I'm going to take a guess and say that my shinobi career is over at least until the old pervert comes and inspects the seal." Silence "If he doesn't find the Kyubi, I'll be deemed useless and then it'll truly be over for me, wont it?"
"Yes, yes it will be." Tsunade said, Naruto sighed.
"Either way, I'll just be glad to be alive by the time he gets here." Naruto stated with a yawn "I'm going to sleep for a while; wake me up when he gets here." His eyes closed as he allowed sleep to take him. The next he would awake to the sound of Tsunade and Jiraiya talking outside his door.
"What good will it be if his ninja career is over?" Jiraiya questioned.
"He has a right to know who his parents are damnit!" the Hokage stated "We kept him in the dark for too long, and now… now he'll never be able to learn what they wanted him to learn." She sounded sad.
"If we tell him, we don't know how he'll react, we don't even know if he'll go into a suicidal state of mind; if he kills himself then…" Jiraiya didn't finish as he wouldn't dare to think such thoughts.
"Nobody's come to visit him despite my telling him, but I can understand Kakashi not coming, he can't bear to see his student- former student like this." she explained "And then there's Hinata." Her fist impacted with the wall. "I had Anbu tail her, and now I know 100% that she's been cheating on the kid."
"Damn, just damn" the toad sannin said.
"You know, if she wasn't happy being with me, then she should've just told me and avoided hurting me." Naruto said loud enough so that they could hear him, yet slowly they entered the room. "I just woke up and heard you guys talking about me ex, so I decided to give my two cents." He smirked. "So about the seal." He looked to the toad sannin who ushered for him to lift up his shirt. "You know if this turns bad, I'll still need to work out in order to keep this figure." He laughed a bit as Jiraiya began to channel chakra into where the seal was supposed to be. Instantly Naruto gripped the handle of the bed in pain as Tsunade held him down as much as she could without using her chakra. Blood dripped from the blonde's mouth once again. It looked like chakra in general was hurting him. After a few more moments Jiraiya receded and Naruto's pain began to fade away. Wiping the blood from his mouth via a napkin, Naruto looked to the Toad Sannin with a serious expression. "Don't dance around it and neither of you gets to leave this room until I know for sure." Jiraiya faltered as he struggled to find the words. Taking a breath he sighed before giving Naruto the news.
"The Kyubi is gone, there's no trace of it anywhere in your body." he stated. For a few moments they were silent as Naruto smiled and began to laugh as tears streamed down his face. Covering his eyes and laying back, he did the only thing he could.
"God damnit!" the blonde exclaimed "The one thing that ruined my life is gone, and with it goes the one thing that allowed me to fight and defend myself!" He laughed and cried for a bit before he went silent. "All those years of pain, training, and enduring the hatred has all gone to waste." He wiped the tears from his face "Damn them and damn this village that's taken so much from me. My childhood, my sanity, my happiness, and now the one thing that gave me a meaning in this hellish life of mine." His gaze went to Tsunade who looked to be on the brink of tears. "What now?" that question alone made her cry as the words came from her mouth; words that Naruto hated to hear. Hours passed and the sun began to set allowing the night to come "After all of this, what'll I do now?" he questioned, not reviving an answer. His musing was interrupted by a sudden knock at the door "Come in." the door opened, but he couldn't see the person. "Could you turn on the light?" the figure obliged and turned on the lights allowing Naruto to see the visitor. Lightly tanned skin, eyes of a nice violet color that seemed to enchant, hair of moderate sapphire blue with violet and a brilliant rose streak, and needless to say this person—no this young woman who looked to be about his age was beautiful in his eyes. She wore a light brown cloak that his what she was wearing; for what seemed like hours the two stared at each other in an awkward silence. "Hi" Naruto greeted breaking the silence.
"Oh, uh, hi." She responded awkwardly. "Am I in the right room?" she questioned.
"Well it all depends, who are you looking for?" Naruto questioned "I'm Naruto Uzumaki by the way." He said.
"I'm Twilight Sparkle." The now named Twilight said. "And I'm here looking for the source of the sudden spike in magic, I was here on my studies when I felt it, and since I know that the people in the Elemental Nations can't use magic, I simply had to investigate." She explained.
"And it brought you here?" the blonde questioned though not knowing what she was talking about.
"Yes, but specifically this room, your room." Twilight said as she got closer to Naruto "Yep, you're the source of it, all that powerful magic is coming from you!" she exclaimed in excitement. "I never knew that someone from this continent could use magic, so how long have you been able to use magic?" she asked.
"I don't know what you're talking about, I've always used chakra, but I never heard of someone using magic before; the prospect of magic is more of a joke around here." He explained only for Twilight to frown. "Where are you from?" he questioned.
"Equestria, but that's not important." She said "I can literally feel and see the magic radiating from you, you're putting it out like there's no tomorrow." A sigh escaped her throat. "How could you not realize that you had magic- wait you said that you always used chakra?" Naruto nodded. "That shouldn't be possible, magic naturally overpowers chakra so the two couldn't be dual wielded much less be in the same body, it would tear your body apart at least until all the chakra was purged from your body; well that's what would most likely happen." Twilight explained, but upon looking at Naruto's more than shocked face, she now understood. "Would you mind telling me what happened, if that's okay with you that is." She requested as to not make the still hospitalized Naruto panic. With a sigh, he told Twilight all that had happened that put him in the hospital, expect the thing about Hinata. He simply said that he could feel one of his bonds breaking.
"And now you're here." The blonde finished. Twilight rested her chin onto her hand, now pondering all that Naruto had just told her; this was an unusual case at the very least. Gaining magic wasn't possible, you'd have to be born with it.
"This is going to sound weird, but maybe this is some kind of puberty for you." Naruto's eyes widened, if that was the case then this was a painful puberty. "That fox and the seal that held it back must've been holding in all the magic in your body which would also explain why you chakra coils in your body are gone along with the fox; you magic must've finally burst out and destroyed the fox and the seal." She said "No matter how that fox must've been, your magic must've been so strong that the fox didn't stand a chance." Naruto actually understood what Twilight meant, but if that was the case then why couldn't he feel his own magic while Twilight could feel it. Twilight's hand glowed an odd light raspberry color. "Hey, I'm gonna need you to trust me for a second ok?" Looking at her glowing hand and then to her, Naruto felt a bit fearful, but that look she sported. The blonde nodded, he would trust her if only for this. "Thank you." she said as her glowing hand hesitantly grasped his. Twilight couldn't help but blush a bit though not noticing that Naruto did the same. With a bit of concentration she pushed her magic into Naruto's arm as though she was healing it. For a few moments nothing happened until suddenly their eyes glowed white in unison, he could feel it, his magic and her magic. It flooded his body like a hurricane as their eyes died down, both now breathing heavily. 'So much magic and it's powerful, it fells almost like—' she was snapped from her thoughts upon seeing that Naruto was still holding her hand.
"I feel amazing, but still so.."
"Weak, yeah I figured that would happen." She stated with a smirk as Naruto let her hand go much to her surprise. That's when she saw that night had finally covered the village, now she was in trouble. "Hey do you know of any really cheap hotels, cause I don't have any valid money for this village." She questioned with an embarrassed smile.
"You could stay at my house." Naruto said.
"I wouldn't want to intrude, besides wouldn't your parents be you know, angry?" Twilight asked.
"I'm an orphan and I've lived alone all my life considering the fact that the orphanage wouldn't take me in." he stated. "Besides, I've got an extra bedroom that I've kept clean just in case I needed it or I had company over; so don't worry about intruding on anything." he explained with a smile before trying to get off the bed. Thankfully Twilight was able to catch him before he could fall over.
"Your legs are still too weak." She said "Here." He hand glowed and a staff materialized in front of him. "Magic." She smirked before giving Naruto the staff to use as extra support to walk with her being the second.
Kage Tower – Office – a day later
Kakashi couldn't say a thing as Tsunade spoke, he knew what she was going on about. "Because of recent events, I'm assigning Sai to replace Uzumaki Naruto as part of Team 7." She said as the pale teen simply stood there, not bothering to say anything. His mission that Danzo had given him could no longer be finished, it couldn't even start now that he'd just replaced Naruto on Team 7. Nobody knew what had happened to the blonde, only that he had been in the hospital recently because of some type accident. And now he wasn't in his hospital bed. "Also as for the meeting at Tenchi Bridge, it won't be canceled, but Yamato will be accompanying you as extra support." The woman made it obvious that she wasn't in a good mood today with Naruto not being found in the hospital. "Also, Sakura can you tell me why—" the door suddenly creaked rather slowly a familiar figure walked inside unannounced, but he did have a habit of doing that. Wearing his civilian clothes which consisted of a black shirt with a red flame at the center and a pair of black pants; just like last night he was leaning on the staff that Twilight had given to him. "Naruto." she said.
"Yeah, sorry about disappearing from the hospital last night, but I couldn't take the smell of ammonia and sterilizer anymore." Naruto smiled whilst walking forward albeit a bit slow. "So, here's my resignation." He gave the paper to Tsunade before whispering something to her. "I'd rather do it in person than in private; I still have some pride left." He said as he leaned back. "It's been an honor Hokage-sama." For one since she'd taken the position of Hokage, she finally heard Naruto say something to her in a respectful tone granted he was still smiling. Though he left the Kage Tower, Naruto knew that he couldn't leave Konoha while he was like this; still so defenseless. There was now much to learn, and Twilight had decided to include him in her studies; an entire journal dedicated to him in fact. It would be nice to have a friend.
Chapter 1 End