I do not own Naruto and if I did Itachi, and Mikoto wouldn't have died
"Naruto" -normal speech
'Stupid idiots' - normal thoughts
"Oi gaki listen to me" -Powerful/Dark being speech
'stupid ningen'-Powerful/Dark being Thoughts
*thunder* -action
Kage bunshin no jutsu -Techniques
"Yo baka" Beings translation/speech
-Oh this is good- Digital speech
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A/N: Note This. Is. Fiction. Here I can decide how each character acts or behaves.
Hey, for those who have been reading my work for a while now, Thank you. For those who are new, this is a first for me. This is the largest chapter I have written and I am personally proud of it. I am open to constructive criticism on this story. Thank you and enjoy the story.
Helped by: The god of creation and destruction.
*Story start*
"Look Ino, if you plan on following me against this sand monster than I'm going to need to know what techniques you know." Naruto ordered her while he pulled out a kunai and severed the hair in front of his face.
"Uh, I know my clan techniques and a couple others like the Suiton: Mizu Shuriken(Water Release: Water Shuriken) and the Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu(Water Release: Water Bullet Technique). Why?" the platinum blonde asked the partially sun-kissed blond before he pushed her to the left, narrowly avoiding a tree thrown at them. Looking at the path it originated from, a sand arm was seen retracting towards.
"I want you to fire anything with range at him. He's a CQC(Close Quarter Combatant) so he fights up close to people. I want you to cover me while I move in to fight him." Naruto answered her question while pulling back his hair into a long ponytail and bound it with medical tape from his weapon pouch.
"Are you insane!? You just said he fights up close and your solution is to fight him up close? Are you even thinking about what you're saying?" Ino demanded from her fellow blond. Instead of turning towards her, he started wrapping his fists with two kunai resting between his knuckles. When he was finished, he turned towards her and handed her one kunai. The weapon was worn and dulled. The blade was slightly chipped and the handle wrapping was slightly yellowed with age.
"Maybe, but Duck ass got himself caught. Unless you wanna help me dig the grave afterwards then follow my orders and blast him. I'm expecting to get that back, so Keep. A. Distance." The blond insisted before he charged down the line of destroyed trees and was greeted by the red headed teen with his right side being a one tailed tanuki standing beside an unconscious black haired teen bound to a tree by sand. The red head snapped his towards the blond with an unhinged smile.
"UZUMAKI! HOW NICE OF YOU TO JOIN US! YOUR FRIENDS NECK LOOKS SO BRITTLE. Just ... one ... twist." the tanuki boy growled out as the sand around Sasuke started climbing his neck.
"How about you and me fight huh? Drop him and or this will get messy." Naruto warned the red head. Gaara soon started laughing before he lunged at the blond with his massive claw aimed at his head, but was stopped by a bullet of water blasting off the sand's clawed hand.
"Let's get messy then." Seeing a peaceful resolution was off the table, Naruto charged to punch the sand creation. Gaara quickly countered by using the sand arm to block the attack and fired a volley of sand throwing stars. Naruto ripped his weapons out of the arm and dodged the attack. Then he ran along the top of the arm and aimed to strike his face. Unfortunately the sand arm partially opened up, causing him to sink into it. With Naruto imprisoned, Gaara pulled him close to his face with his disturbing smile.
"It's over Saba-." before Gaara could finish his technique, Naruto managed to force himself to smash his forehead into Gaara's. Each one recoiled from the hit, with the world growing dark after the blow.
"There goes that demon."
"He's disgusting."
"Why does he keep him around? He's just going to kill everyone eventually."
'Great. there they go again. There not even trying to hide it.' Naruto muttered before he saw himself in an unfamiliar area. Compared to the cool winds and wooden houses of Konoha, the foreign place had clay or sandstone walled houses with a sun bearing down on the region. Small dust devils could be seen roaming the sand covered roads.
"Yashamaru had the right idea. Such demons deserve to die." there's the voices again. Roaming the streets were the silhouettes of people with red eyes. At one point or another, they each seemed to glare at a playground. The area was mostly empty except for one chil- what was that Gaara? Alone on a swing, the red head had a circle of sand on the ground with spikes preventing anyone from approaching him.
"Kazekage-sama should just let us kill him."
"I heard that even his own mother didn't love that thing."
"No one could love that thing."
"Who would want to?"
"...aruto! Get up! He's on the move." Ino yelled as she shook the blond who was slowly regaining consciousness. When Naruto opened his eyes, he saw a fully formed towering tanuki with a sleeping red head protruding from its head. The massive beast was lumbering towards the village while cackling maniacally.
"Guh? Uh, yeah. Ino, now that he's transformed. I doubt normal means will be an option. I want you to stand back and try not to panic." Naruto ordered as he ripped the kunai from his hands and assumed the the hitsuji(Ram) sign.
"Why would I pan..." Ino trailed off because the smoke which enveloped Naruto had dissipated and a massive hind leg was visible. The leg was covered in hard red hairs and upon looking upwards, a towering one tailed fox peered down at her.
"Saddle up Ino. I want you to shoot at him while I wake up Gaara." the fox announced while presenting the massive hand for her to climb on to. She slowly climbed on to the hand and found herself seated on the foxes head. Once she was settled, the vulpine charged towards the raccoon looking creature and followed it up by digging its claws into the Tanuki's arms.
"Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu." the pressurized water cleaved through the sand beasts chest and caused a partial collapsed of its body.
"Keep firing! GAARA! IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP!" the fox yelled as it moved to headbutt the tanuki. When the foxes head drew close, it was surrounded by smoke and Naruto came flying out with Ino hanging onto his the tanuki's sand waterlogged, it couldn't react fast enough and the fist slammed into the redhead. Without its host unconscious, the sand collapsed and the stunned suna ninja flew along with the platinum, and the sun-kissed blond into a line of tree's. When the trio stopped, Ino hopped off Naruto's back while he approached Gaara.
"N-no! Stay back! I will not allow you to kill me! I will prove my existence, I won't disappear!" the redhead screamed as the small amount of sand around him rose to form a wall of spikes. Not deterred by it, Naruto continued to advance not flinching while the sand spikes pierced his flesh.
"Both of our childhoods were pretty fucked weren't they? I just want to talk. Are you going to listen?" Naruto questioned him while stopping a spike aimed at his face.
"No! My uncle tried that! You just want to kill me like them." Gaara muttered as he tried to stab the blond again, only for Narutoto jump towards Gaara. Bracing himself for the pain, Gaara didn't feel anything piercing or burning him. Just a set of arms wrapping around him with small trails of blood running down his shoulders.
"I know. I don't know how I know, but I've experienced stuff similar to you. Except you have siblings to help you. Family is something I don't have, but you do. You feel anger, sadness, and despair. Don't let yourself lose your family, let them light your way. All it takes is one person you trust to help you. We share a lot of the same problems. If I wanted to harm you then I'd have done it by now. Talk to your siblings and try to mend your relationship. I saw how you kept them at a distance, don't. I've always wanted family so don't squander it. Lets go now Ino, his siblings are here to watch him. This war is over. " Naruto explained as we walked over to her and started walking towards the village. Once they here a good distance away, a sandy blonde with four pony tails and a man with 'war-paint' dropped down beside the redhead.
"Naruto,I've got a lot of questions that you're going to answer. Like what the hell happened to you during that training trip. Why did you gave me this kunai, and why do you act so different compared to the academy?" Ino demanded while she followed Naruto towards his house in the North Eastern section of the village.
"Nothing really happened for the first three weeks of the month. I tried to learn from my teacher, but he just had me do chakra control. I can sit and walk on water now, but that's all I learned except for the summoning jutsu which didn't work for me." Naruto partially answered her before a column of rising smoke drew his focus. A smoking apartment complex was visible with the skeleton of the building somewhat remaining.
"Was that you house?" the blonde asked him. He had just lost his house, but he just shrugged and started following the road south.
"Was yes. Guess I'm moving. And for the academy part, this is who I really am. Though I doubt you remember." the half blond muttered the last part which Ino heard.
"What's that suppose to mean? I remember you acting like a clown in class." the platinum blonde explained while pointing the kunai at him, he just sighed.
"We met earlier than that. You gave me that kunai on that day, when you, Choji, Shikamaru, and Sakura invited me to play with you and Yota. I was so happy to have friends to play with you five, but when myself, Choji and Shikamaru got caught up in a river and almost drowned. When I came to, your five were gone. I tried to ask you about it but none of you remembered. So forgive me if I'm a bit crass about some someone saying they are your friend only to 'not know who you are' later, that that cut me deeper than any knife I tried with." Naruto chuckled as he rubbed his right forearm. The duo walked in an awkward silence for a good distance. They soon left the most urban region where the majority of the fighting had taken place, and entered a district illuminated by red lighting. Several shady looking men and women looked at them, then went back to their activities.
"What... what are we doing here? I've heard that that less than legal activities occur here. Are you sure its ok to be here?" Ino asked as she nervously looked around the area. Ninja or not, she was still a teenage girl with fears.
"No-one will try anything as long as you stay by me, and were here anyway." Naruto explained as he stopped at a building with a plaque with '八九 三' (8 9 3) and knocked on a section of the building three times. A section of the wall opened up to reveal someone's eyes on the other side looking at them.
"Name. Number. Reason." the person asked from the opposite side of the wall. Naruto held up left arm and focused chakra on the surface. Soon the number 49 appeared on the skin.
"Naruto and guest, 49, and residency. I'm here to get some items." Naruto explained as the section closed, then a two metre hole opened from the wall. Naruto ushered Ino through the opening and when he passed the doorway, the opening quickly shut. The interior was an intricately designed warehouse with a purple haired lady seated on a golden throne.
"Hello Naruto-chan. Finally decided to bring your girlfriend to see me huh?" the purple pony tailed lady asked him. Ino's face gained a full flush while Naruto's cheeks slightly darkened. The lady on the throne wore a black waist cut top and short cut denim shorts.
"She's not my girlfriend Rebecca-Oyabun, she's with me because she wants to get some answers while I fix myself up. I'm moving in, because someone torched my complex. I'm guessing the KinRyū(gold dragon) or the KinSankakkei(Gold Triangle), but I'm heading to my room." Naruto announced as he signaled for Ino to bow along side him. The purple haired lady quickly got up from her chair and pulled Naruto into her chest despite his slight height advantage on her.
"Don't worry Ishi(Stone) and Kōseki(Ore) will take care of it. Now take your 'not girlfriend' to your room, and try to keep it down. We don't want to hear your 'fun' unless there's a show along with it." Rebecca ordered them while shooing them away from the area. The two then walked down a hallway and entered a room with a paper sliding door. The room had a simple cot adjacent to several piles of folded clothing.
Each wall had one of the Hokages on it. Beneath the Shodaime was a red plate armour set, while the Nidaime had a blue plate version and a face mask with a straight line with two half circles on each side and a line bisecting it. Underneath the Sandaime was a headscarf bearing the Hidden Leaf symbol and three metal plates on its left and right sides with the entire headset resting on a small monkey statue. Lastly was the Yondaime with three hooks holding his signature tri-pronged knives.
"You're supposed to be answering my questions, not leaving me with more! Why are we here, what's with the number Yon(Four) kyū(Nine) on your arm. Who was that lady, and are you part of a gang?" Ino finally snapped and began demanding while Naruto slipped on a set of black knee shorts and a solid dark orange t-shirt.
"I will. We're here because this is where I live thanks to the fire. The numbers are actually Shi(Four四 or death死) Ku(Nine九 of Suffer苦). 49 is what the locals called me so it stuck. The 'lady' is Rebecca Lee and she is someone not to anger, and that last one is complicated." the half blond declared as he lifted up a section of the floor and extracted a several pouched black vest and attached a pouch to his left leg.
"How can it be complicated? Are you or aren't you?" the platinum blonde questioned him. He replaced the board and started to usher out of the room.
"It's complicated Ino. Rebecca-Oyabun and her crew have helped me out when I have needed it, and are like my family. Which I believe you should get back to yours, after this war your parents will likely be worried about you." Naruto explained with a hint of bitterness in his voice before he pointed towards the South-East, "The Yamanaka District is straight that way, and if someone tries messing with you then say '49' has sent you."
"Fine, but I still have lots of questions for you." Ino explained as she walked down the hallway and exited the building, leaving Naruto alone in the hallway. Before he could move from his spot, a red spiral appeared from under his right shoulder as it began to glow.
"Rebecca-Oyabun, an ANBU is trying to contact me. Be back soon." Naruto yelled down the hall as he followed the path out of the building.
"Naruto Uzumaki, Do you know why you are here?" Naruto stood in front of three people. A spiky haired man with a two scars on the right of his face, Shikaku Nara. Clan Head and Shikamaru's father. A spiky pony tailed man with two strand of hair framing his face. Inoichi Yamanaka, The father of Ino and Clan Head. Lastly was a feral looking brunette with two red fang marks on her cheeks and an eye patched wolf seated beside her. Tsume Inuzuka, the Clan Head and mother of Kiba and his sister.
"I assume it has to do with the attack on our village?"
"It somewhat does." Shikaku spoke up, "Several Konoha residents fell during that assault, including our Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi. You have been placed on a team that is to head out and find Tsunade Senju, and return her to our village."
"Alright... when and where? I'm going to need to know what to bring." Naruto asked with an emotionless look on his face. This time Inoichi spoke.
"In two hours at the Main gate. Jiraiya will be leading the mission, so make sure he doesn't get to sidetracked. Pack for a couple weeks at least." the Yamanaka head explained, causing Naruto to bow and exit the room. He exited the building and went to grab a supply pack from his house, passing through the area of Konoha that experienced the most damage. Ninja's were carting away the cadavers of people either directly or indirectly involved in the recent assault. Though some found the time to whisper and glare at him passing.
"Did you see that giant fox earlier?"
"I bet he helped it destroying the place."
"Of course he would. He's involved with those scum. What can you expect from a degenerate like him."
'Just... keep walking... they ...' the Uzumaki told himself as he clenched his fist so tightly a small trail of blood ran down his hand. But he continued to walk along.
"Filthy creature."
"I can't believe someone hasn't killed him."
"Hopefully someone will."
'Keep...walking.'
"How can he live with himself?"
"I heard he killed his own mother."
"What a monster."
"Animal."
'Keep...'
"Abomination."
"Mistake."
'Walking...'
"Naruto, what are you doing back already?" Naruto looked up to see the interior of the warehouse, with Rebecca looking at had managed to walk back to the warehouse without even realizing it, so someone must've let him in. Kuso, he took to long and now his Oyabun was getting suspicious.
"I'm just grabbing some supplies for a mission. I'm trying to find Tsunade, for whatever reason." the blond explained, causing her to laugh before chucking him a backpack and an ivory cup with '賭ける'(Bet) written on the top and two six sided dice inside it.
"Tell Tsunade that we still need to have that drink, and try to use that on her. She sucks at gambling, but that's the fun in playing with her." the purple haired boss told him with a smirk. Inside the bag was a handful of different ration bars,a bag of various coins, a canteen of water, a small jug with a cupped mouth piece and two rings with a taught wire connecting them.
"Arigato Rebecca-Oyabun, I'll be back when I can." Naruto thanked her with a deep bow before leaving the building. Once he had exited the building, Rebecca snapped her finger and turned to her right.
"Kizuato(Scar), go through the district and make sure the people who made out little friend unhappy are taken care of." the 'conservatively' dressed boss ordered as several shadows exited the building.
"So I'm to meet my team here in two hours, and I'm about an hour and a half early." Naruto muttered as he sat down on the limb of a tree residing outside the walls of Konoha. With his position on the tree secure, he closed his eyes for some rest. When he opened them, he was in a familiar throne room with Nyx in front of him.
"Welcome back Naruto, it's good to see you so soon. I'm surprised you haven't noticed that little addition on yourself yet." The bronze armoured mare declared while crossing her left arm over her right. all the while smirking and looking at his hair. His hands quickly shot up to his head and brushed against a small protrusion on his upper forehead. A five centemetre orange horn had been hidden by his unkempt hair, and seemed to glow faintly.
"How did this happen? I didn't notice this on myself?" the Uzumaki asked himself while Nyx simply laughed at his reaction.
"Come now Naruto, you didn't expect to come out of the dimensional travel unchanged? Your anatomy had changed and now you have a horn, makes me I wonder if you would grow wings. Ah, questions for another time. But I believe you should visit your herd soon, especially the one who smelled of candy." Nyx declared, causing Naruto to turn towards her.
"Yeah, I'll just repeat the technique. Goodbye." Naruto closed his eyes and faded out of the throne room. Shortly after he vanished, an eight tailed fox entered the throne room with a leather collar on its neck and a chain connected to the bronze armoured mares hoof.
"Why did you not talk to him about his emotions?" the fox asked in a bass heavy voice while tilting their head.
"I am a mare who has not socialized in a millennia nor had the need to, and you are a fox soaked in his peoples blood. I doubt he would take our advise as well as one of those mares." Nyx explained to the vulpine, causing the fox to nod.
Outside the seal, Naruto opened his eyes and looked down from the branch. Ino was approaching with a decent sized pack on her, and behind her was the white haired pervert wearing a a horned metal headband.
"Hey Ero-sennin! Why's Ino here?" Naruto asked as he swung down from the branch and looked at the blonde, and the pervert coming to the tree.
"Stop calling me that, Im a SUPER-PERVERT. And the girls here to help convince Tsunade. Now we're heading for places with gambling and drinking. So we're going towards Tanzaku-Gai first. A place of Casino's, Bars, and the best Brothels I've ever seen. Now we should be there by night, where you two will stay in a hotel and I'll go look for some information." Jiraiya explained to them while they followed the southern road. With the the two juniors and senior ninja's travelling along the road, Naruto spoke.
"Are we actually going to learn something or are you going to go off and whore?" the blond asked the man, who handed him a scroll.
"You'll be learning how to use the Rasengan. A destructive technique capable of drilling or piercing attacks." Jiraiya demonstrated by holding his right hand and formed a screeching blue ball with eddies covering its body. Naruto opened the scroll. Several major pictures covered the parchment. The first picture was of aninja holding a balloon with the water swirling inside it. The second one showed the balloon with several sections of the rubber stretching out violently. The last showed the previous two picture with an addition sign, signalling rotation and power for it. Naruto handed the scroll to Ino and turned to Jiraiya.
"This doesn't change that you left me alone when I was competing against someone I was under-prepared for." Naruto declared with a scowl aimed at the pervert.
"Look, I needed you to get your powers under control. Yours and your other power." Jiraiya attempted to explain, only for a steaming arm to stop him. The Uzumaki was quite literally steamed and had begun releasing boiling water vapours from his body.
"So that's why you agreed to 'help' me then? Just wanting me to treat the fox like a glorified battery to siphon from, then use we when ever I'm needed right? I'm just a weapon to be used?" Naruto questioned him with a smile, but also leaving behind a series of burning footprints in his wake.
"Careful, theres someone doesn't know what your talking about."
"She saw me transform into a giant fox. In the past 24 hours, she's been more help to me than you were in an entire MONTH!" the teen snarled out before running along the road and leaving a like of burning soil there.
"I(Boar) Inu(Dog), Tori(Bird), Saru(Monkey) Hitsu- damn it. I, Inu,Saru- fuck. I, Inu, Tori,Hitsu- damn it." Naruto sat in a forest clearing while trying to sign the correct hand sign. A blue light was being emitted from his hands and navel while an orange light emanating from his forehead and travelling down his arms. In the distance, several loud explosions and a string of curses echoed from the forest.
Naruto? What's going on?"Ino yelled as she entered the clearing beside a stream with several copies of himself creating whirlpools in the water. Each one pulled their hand out of the water with a semi-formed water ball in hand. The ball soon collapsed and the copy would repeat the process.
"Hey Ino. I'm just training. Venting. Both." Naruto told her as he tried mixing the blue/violet energy with the orange energy.
"Naruto, I've waited long enough. What happened to you during that month? You act mature, you look mature, and you still need to tell me about why you screamed about that Rainbow." the platinum blonde demanded as she sat in front of him. The lights soon faded from his body and turned towards her. He sighed and look at her with his hetero-chromatic eyes.
"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you."
"Try me."
"Alright." Naruto began, "Before the final exam started, Jiraiya had me preform chakra control exercises to better be able to summon the toads from their contract. Except when I tried the technique, several things went wrong. I summoned myself to another world or reality? I'm still not sure. But that place was filled pastel coloured ponies, Unicorns and Pegasi." Naruto explained as he lifted up his hair and revealed a smallish orange horn.
"No way..."
"It gets better, because when I showed up, I had become a Unicorn and appeared in a town that happened to be where a millennia imprisoned monarch decided to appear to to reclaim her throne. And that monarch had the power to control the night while her sister controls the day. So I got swept up in a group trying to stop the monarch. They managed to defeat her by using the literal 'Power of Friendship' rainbow attack." Ino seemed uncertain about him.
"Now I'm not not believing you, but you must admit it's ridiculous." Ino told him, getting him to nod.
"I would say so too if I didn't see it. But the only way I can really show you is to go there again." Naruto explained as the different coloured lights started to flow into his arms and his reveal a glowing orange and blue downward crescent .
"Alright, what so I do then?" Ino asked as she moved in front of him.
"I think we'll have to use the two handed hand signs. It should work." Naruto theorized while Ino hesitantly took his right hand and felt several foreign energies flow through her.
"Follow me. I, Inu, Tori, Saru, Tora(Tiger)." Naruto and Ino signed as the energies circled them and a cloud of smoke signaled their disappearance.
"So we just keep trying right?" One of the Naruto's asked the general group.
"I guess so. Let's keep going until we're empty or we get it."A second clone ordered the others, receiving a round of 'Hai' from the clones.
"Ino... Ino... I want you to stay calm..." Naruto's statement pierced the darkness causing Ino to open her eyes. In front of her was a orange stallion in a dark coloured vest and a set of black shorts. In the distance, several foreign wood buildings with several different coloured horses moving piles of lumber and rock.
"What? Where are... we?" Ino slowly asked as she looked down at her hoof and purple hair covering it. She could feel her own modest pack resting on her back.
"We're in Ponyville which town in Equestria." Naruto explained as he helped her to stand. She managed to stand all be it awkwardly, luckily she did not have to accommodate for wings or a horn.
"You're a horse?"the platinum questioned the blond who had a dark fur patch around his left eye and a pack resting on his back. Before she could regain their bearings, a light blue mare in a star spangled purple cloak and 'wizard hat' was running their way with a light brown and red roofed wagon in tow.
"Make way. The Great and Powerful Trixie is on her way through." the mare yelled while the vehicle bounced violently behind her. That and the wagon hitting a small divot in the road and caused the front right wheel to burst off.
"Oh. Here let me help you. Ino, help her keep it level. I'll reattach the wheel." Naruto told her as Ino trotted over to the wagon and helped push it up. Naruto grabbed the wheel in his mouth and set back on the axle. He focused on his horn and used the crude magic to tighten the nut on the wheel's spoke. With it set, Ino released the wagon and moved to the front of the vehicle along with Naruto.
"Thank you, ahem. The Great and Powerful Trixie is a very busy show mare, but I thank you for assisting me. I take it you are not from here?" the blue mare asked them while she pulled her cart to the side of the path and unhooked herself from the harness.
"Yeah... how could you tell?" Ino asked back, confused by the ponies rapid deduction.
"Trixie is a mare of many talents. your clothing and several other things pointed out that you are not from this town." Trixie boasted as she puffed out her chest with pride.
"I guess. So... Hello Trixie, my names Naruto and this is Ino. Its nice to meet you." Naruto greeted her while holding his hoof out for her. Ino followed suit and Trixie shook Naruto's and then Ino's hoof.
"You have strange names but Trixie does not judge others customs. Trixie must be off, for the world has yet to see my shows. May we meet again." Trixie announced as she resettled into her harness and walked down the path. Before she got to far, Trixie turned towards the duo in a serious expression.
"Remember this, if you stay in Ponyville then stay away from that Twilight. Or bad things will happen." with the cryptic message announced, Trixie left the two alone.
"Lets... head into the town. I have no idea what she meant or what happened. Let's go to the Libary Tree near the centre. There'll likely be answers there." Naruto preempted her question while helping her get her bearings as the entered the outer limits of the town.
"Come on~ Bon Bon." the pleading female's question drew their attention to two conversing mares. A mint green themed Unicorn was talking with a beige pony with a blue and rose streaked mane. The Unicorn seemed to be trying to convince the pony of something.
"No Lyra. I'm not helping you with that.
"Come on. If an Ursa has hands then why couldn't I?" Now this was intriguing. Ino was the one to speak up.
"Excuse me, what are you two discussing?"
"My friend Lyra is trying to get me to help her build some hands like an Ursa's for her to use." Bon Bon explained, causing the two to tilt their heads.
"What's an Ursa? I'm guessing that it has something to do with the the damage on the town?" Naruto asked the mares who nodded.
"Yeah, an Ursa Minor came through earlier and messed up a bit of the town. But its hands it what I focused on, It was able to grab things without magic. Just like human." Lyra told them and caused her companion to slap her face.
"Sorry about Lyra, she tends to focus on things involving hands and humans."
"come on Bon, maybe they'll want to help me with it."
"What about humans?" Naruto mistakenly asked, causing Lyra to turn towards him mechanically. Bon Bon looked towards him with a mixture of horror and sympathy.
"You know... about humans?" the mint mare slowly asked as she walked towards towards the blond.
"Yeah, why do you ask?" Naruto told her, unsure of if he should've answered. Lyra grabbed him by the hem of his shirt and dragged him towards some houses.
"Sorry about her. Your friend's been caught up in Lyra's obsession with humans, but I can take you there. My names Sweetie Drops, what's yours?"the mare asked as they followed the path Lyra had taken.
"I'm Ino Yamanaka, and he's Naruto Uzumaki." While those two were trotting down the road, Lyra had pulled Naruto into what was likely her house and sat him down on a chair. Immediately she slammed a book on the table and used her magic to open the book to anatomical drawings of two identical people without any reproductive organs or facial designs. The groins had a penciled question mark covering them.
"So you have seen creatures that look like this right?" Lyra questioned him as she pointed at the 'males' chest drawings.
"Yeah I have. Let me try something I've been thinking about." Naruto told her as he moved to a clearing in the room and started focusing the chakra from his cutiemark and into his necklace and hooves. A cloud of smoke surrounded him, and he felt his height shift to human height. But when the smoke cleared, he did not resemble his normal self.
"Wow! Are you a human?" Lyra asked as she approached the humanoid figure. Instead of his tan skin, he had his orange fur covering his body and more prominently showed off his horn. He had all ten of his fingers and toes, but had his same tail and equine face with three whisker marks on it.
"I should be, but something didn't go right." the mint mare didn't seem to care as her horn glowed while her magic encased his hands and held them in front of her face.
"Alright Lyra, can you..." the beige pony trailed off as she lead Ino into the house and saw Lyra with her face closely examining Naruto's hands
"Bon Bon look! Hands!" Lyra yelled as she pulled Naruto over towards them and held the hands in front of their face.
"Wow, so is this a human then?" Sweetie Drops asked as she examined his hands while Ino closed the the door behind them.
"Not quite. Let me try again." Naruto announced as this time he formed the hand sign and focused scarlet energy along with his blue into his hands to have the smoke surround him. This time, the shaggy haired blond with tan skin and more concealed horn surrounded by his blond mane.
"This is a human, at least to my knowledge." with him in his 'human' form, Lyra quickly levitated the book over to her along with a pencil and began to scribbling into it.
"I have many questions. Like what does your diet consist of? How familiar is your anatomy to ponies? Do all humans have horns or do you have wings as well? How does it feel to have hands?" Lyra fired off as she continued to draw closer with the book following her approach.
"Um, it depends. Fairly close. No, most don't, and pretty good I think." Naruto tried to keep track of her questions as best as he could while she violently wrote down everything.
"Excellent! Now what's the anatomical difference between stallions and humans?" Lyra questioned him, causing the three to violently blush.
"LYRA HEARTSTRING!"
"It's for medical reasons."
Still no."
"Fine then, what are the difference between male and female humans." the mint coloured mare asked him. Naruto instead of answering, was surrounded in smoke. This time, a more feminine blonde with two pigtails and two noticeable bulges in the upper chest.
"Dawn it Naruto, I thought you'd stop using that stupid technique." Lyra didn't care about Ino's comment and began immediately filling in the immediately noticeable changes.
"Smaller waist, slimmer physique, Narrower shoulders, smaller face, and mammaries on chest. So humans only have one set then. Interesting." the mare added the information to her sketches. Behind her, Ino seemed amazed by her recording skills while Sweetie Drops went to the kitchen and started grabbing beverages.
"Is there anything else you need from me aside from nudity?" Naruto asked in her feminine voice, showing the change wasn't superficial and stretched to his vocal chords and skeletal structure.
"Not much. How long does it take for humans to give birth and are their any things related to birth?"Lyra's question send a blush across Naruto's face, so Ino decided to answer the question on the finer details of female.
"Humans are pregnant for an average of nine months and when they aren't, they experience monthly periods where the inner lining of the vagina is shed to prepare for next month. For most women, it's unpleasant." Ino explained by repeating as much of the Sex Ed she remembered and made it sound as medical as possible.
"Geez, that sounds unpleasant." Naruto muttered as she was surrounded by the smoke and he trotted out of the cloud in his 'equine' form.
"Yeah, it's 'unpleasant'." Ino 'agreed' with him before turning towards the green pony and seeing the sketches in the book. The first person had their shoulders and arms slightly increased along with more definition on his legs. The second figure had been reduced in several places with the chest larger and the face narrower.
"Incredible, I've been looking for information about humans and you just gave me so much? Could you show me that spell?" Lyra asked him while Ino sat at the table and Sweetie Drops sat a tray of four sweetened Iced Teas.
"I don't think I can teach you, but I've got something that could work."Naruto offered as he held is hoof out to her with the crimson and and blue light radiating off it. Lyra sat the book and pencil on the table and pressed her hoof against her. She felt a surge of energy rush though her body followed by a sudden height change.
"Lyra..." Sweetie Drops trailed off as she saw the transformed mare. She had the same hair and green skin tone. But her face was smaller than her original, but still had her horn prominently on her forehead. Except she did not have any clothes or covering on herself, exposing her modest chest and private.
"I... have...HANDS! This is incredible! Look at my hands! They're not like my legs, and I still have my horn! What did you do?" the transformed horse asked as she crouched down and grabbed his shirt, not covering her exposed self.
"I used chakra, which humans where I'm from can use, to transform you into what you'd likely look like as a human. I'm not sure how long it'll last, but I assume it'll last a while. Not sure exactly." the blond told her as he tried to avoid looking at her 'swim suit' area which was eye level with him.
"Naruto, do something about her clothes. Don't leave her naked." Ino ordered him with a blush about the nude person. Said person was encased by smoke cloud and it cleared to show her in a copy of Ino's dress in mint green sans the headband belt.
"I'm going to get as much time as I can out of this, thanks Naruto, Ino. I'm going to enjoy this." Lyra grabbed the two and set them outside the door followed by the click of a lock.
"Alright Naruto. So where are we going now?" Ino asked him while trying to forget the naked girl they just saw moments ago.
"I'd say we should keep heading towards the library, but it's pretty late, and they'd probably-" Naruto stopped talking as he placed his hoof against the side of his head.
"Naruto?"
"Sorry, some of the clones I left had popped. It's a bit of a head rush getting those memories at once." Naruto apologized to Ino.
"So your clones are physical and give you the memories back? That is pretty powerful and kinda cheaty." the platinum blonde told him , causing him to to rub the back of his head with a laugh.
"Yeah, I'll show you the technique when we get home." Naruto stated with a grin.
"Ms. Muffin! Please, I need that back!"
"Imma geth muffinth with it."
"You can't. Rose please help me!"
"What's going on?" Ino asked as she watched a grey pegasus flying on a black cloud holding a blue and gold screwdriver in her mouth while being chased by a brown pony with a white collar and green bow-tie along with a pale yellow pony with raspberry coloured mane.
"Ms. Muffin please!"
"MUFFIN!"
"Is this usual?" Ino asked Naruto as they watched the pony fly across the town.
"If Derpy's involved then yes." A female declared from behind them, causing the sun kissed blond and the platinum blonde to turn around. Two very contrasting mares stood behind them. One had a light grey coat with a dark grey mane with a purple treble clef mark and the other had a very pale yellow coat with dark blue hair and light blue streaks. She wore violet lensed glasses and had two eighth notes marks on her rear.
"She's Derpy?" Naruto asked as he watched the mare shoot a bolt of lightning from the bottom of the cloud.
"Yes, Ditzy Doo or 'Derpy' is quite the character. She keeps us our hooves with things like this. I feel sorry for the Doctor because he's usually the one who usually gets involved in her things." the grey mare declared and the yellow mare nodded.
"Thank you..." the mares seemed to take the hint.
"My name is Octavia Melody and she is Vinyl Scratch. Are you two visiting from Canterlot? I don't remember seeing you around much." the grey pony asked them with a skeptic look.
"No, we're not from Canterlot. Just visiting looking around, have you seen Pinkie Pie? I want my friend to meet her." Naruto's question seemed to activate a Pink heat-seeking missile on a collision course with him. Naruto buckled as a pink blur landed on his back and two arms wrapped around his neck. Naruto could see a pink cloud of hair hanging down and partially blocking his vision. Knowing no further talking would be done, Pctavia and Vinyl left the group.
"Hello, Ino meet Pinkie Pie. Pinkie meet Ino. She's from my home town." Naruto explained as she hopped off his back and started shaking Ino's hoof vigourously.
"Hiya Ino I'm Pinkie. It's nice to meet one of Naruto's friends. So Naruto now we can celebrate your welcoming party." the pink pony announced as she before she turned towards the blond.
"Thank's Pinkie but I'm not sure how long me and Ino could stay. So we'll just have to have a small party." Naruto explained to her. Pinkie seemed momentarily saddened but quickly returned to her cheery demeanor.
"That's ok we can still have the bestest party. Follow me to Sugarcube Corner, I always have a party set up there." Pinkie told them as she started hopping towards a building resembling a gingerbread house. With her focused on the party, Ino leaned towards her fellow blond.
"What's with the time limit? Jiraiya isn't expecting us back at anytime."Ino whispered as they followed her inside the building and up the stairs.
"Because she's nice I like spending time with her." Now Ino was confused, but before she could ask, Pinkie opened the a door covered in party supplies. The interior of the room was filled the tables of confetti boxes, a staircase with licorice railings, and several candy cane pillars to name a few.
"Welcome to Pinky's Party Bedroom. Stay here and I'll grab some other ponies and we can start this party."Pinkie announced as she tried to run out of her room, but Naruto blocked her way.
"How about we just celebrate with the three of us? I'd prefer a small party."
"Alright then, I'll just go downstairs and whip up a couple of back in a jiff." Pinkie told them as she disappeared down the stairs.
"Alright Naruto, what the hell were you talking about? You like spending time with her, but you also don't."ino asked him as soon as the pink pony was out of sight.
"Because people who get close to me don't last long. I found out that my parent died because of me, and someone I called my friend bled out in front of me. I watched their life fade from their eyes while I was helpless to do anything. If she get's to close to me then she'll end up like the rest." Naruto told her while a silence took hold of the room.
It was broken by Pinkie entering the room with a tray of cupcakes and sweets. When she sat down the treats, a green gator with purple eyes.
"I hope you don't mind me bringing my pet Gummy,"
With her arrival, the party started. They discussed several personal interests like Ino and Naruto being into botany or Pinkies love for baking. As it progressed, Ino saw several things about Naruto she hadn't. It took a while but she heard him laughing, unlike the laugh she was used to back at the village, his current one sounded more relaxed and genuine. His posture was relaxed and didn't resemble the military ready blond she saw earlier.
After a couple hours of partying the two left the building and began walking along an empty street. Most of the rubble that was there earlier had been cleaned away, leaving them almost alone.
"Naruto... do you want to talk about it? I mean it isn't healthy to bottle your emotions up. My dad could help you out if you want to." Ino offered the silent blond trotting beside her.
"Fine. Do you remember when my team was sent on our first C-rank Mission?" Ino nodded, "Well it wasn't until we were outside the walls that we noticed something was off."
Naruto began regaling her about the fight against Zabuza and the meet up with Haku after. Them meeting in the woods and their discussions about their relations, their family, and bonding. Finally him revealing that he knew who she was and their fight the following day.
"I met her again on the Bridge with Sakura protecting the bridge builder and Sasuke backing me up. I managed to hold her back and everything seemed to be a stalemate until Kakashi activated his Raikiri blade and aimed it at Zabuza's heart. I could see Haku aimed to block it, and I tried to stop her. I wasn't fast enough and I watched his lightning coated hand burst through her chest. I rushed over to her and held her in my arms as she died.
Shortly after, the tyrannical Gato appeared and spoke something horrible. Then I say only red. I don't know how long passed but when the haze cleared, I was surrounded by blood and corpses. Zabuza lie holding Haku and his blood stained weapon was in my hand." Naruto finished telling her while staring at the ground.
"What? Naruto, you need help. Why didn't your teacher tell the Hokage or my father? Or you try to seek help?" Ino asked him horrified at the story. For someone her age to have his hands stained with blood, yet he acted for the entirety of the Chunin exam like nothing had happened.
"kakashi has his attention fixed on Sasuke, and barely focused on me so why would he help me. And I couldn't go talk to them myself. The Hokage is constantly busy and I can barely enter the office. I couldn't tell the council I'm traumatized by what I saw or did because they'll think I'm unstable and send me away. Why do you think I aligned myself with the Hachi Kyu San(893)? I'm terrified that at night someone will break in and try to kill me. Me and Gaara are burdened with a power which makes us Jinchūriki, we're the power of human sacrifice." Naruto muttered before his eyes widened and avoided looking at Ino.
"Ino, we should head back now. We should be well rested for our search for Tsunade." Rather than argue with him, Ino just nodded. The orange, blue, and red light appeared and formed a pair of translucent on his hoofs and spread it to her connected hoof.
"I, Inu, Tori, Saru, Tora!" the duo were surrounded by the smoke and vanished, leaving the street mostly empty, except for a pink pony with her hair rather flat and leaning towards her right side.
In a cloud of smoke, Ino and Naruto appeared inside the stone walls of Tanzaku-Gai near the foot of the castle.
"Jiraiya is at the Kōun'na tōkun Hotel in room 217. It's pretty late so go and sleep, I'm taking a walk." Naruto started walking away but not before creating a clone to take Ino back.
Naruto walked towards the centre of town, he formed the Inu, I, Hitsuji hand signs. His vest and shirt changed to a dark gray while the half of his hair changed black. His eyes changed both to a dark blue and blurred his whiskers. On the left side of the empty street was a simple bar. When he entered, it was mostly empty, save a passed out drunk in the corner, the bartender, and a pony tailed blonde seated at the counter.
Taking the empty seat beside the blonde, and signaled for a round, before looking to the young girl on his right. She wore a green kimono with dull red accents on it, and dark red wrappings on her forearms. Her Hazel eyes seemed to scan his appearance before stopping at his headband and tensing up.
"I don't care who you are girly, I'm just getting a drink." Naruto told her as the bartender handed them two sake cups.
"Aren't you a little young to be drinking?" the girl asked him while he chugged the drink.
"Old enough to drink, old enough to die. I'd say the same about but you but I want to drink and I can pay for it too." Naruto muttered a he pulled something from the backpack and placed a small rectangular plate on the counter. The plate was 15 by 5 by 1 cm of gold.
"This'll cover all my rounds and hers. So what's your name? If we're drinking then I should know your name?" Naruto asked as his cup was refilled and drained fast. Opting to simply take the bottle.
"It's Tsunade, no relation to the Senju." the girl explained as she downed her own cup.
"Senju? Right, you wouldn't happen to know where I could find her do ya?" Naruto questioned her while pounding back the bottle, and exchanged it for a fresh one.
"No, why's a Konoha ninja looking for her? You guys never did before." Tsunade asked back while a faint blush spread on her face.
"I'm looking for her to go to the hospital and help out. My friends hurt and I've been shot up with either over or under the amount of chemicals I needed. I say screw it, I've reset my own bone and who needs a check up?" Naruto laughed before taking another jug from the bartender and polishing off the bottle.
"You need to go to the hospital, how old are you kid? This isn't healthy." the blonde told him seriously. To distrust the hospital was dangerous for anyone.
"Bah, I've been fine for years." Naruto dismissed her concern with a second bottle following the first.
"This is serious! Your jeopardizing your future and health. At least let me look at you." Tsunade asked him with her small blush gone.
"I'm fine, but if you really want then play me at Chō-Han." Naruto offered as he pulled out an Ivory cup with two six sided dice.
"What's the stakes?"
"I'll keep it simple. You win and I'll get a checkup. I win, and you'll... uh owe me a favour." Naruto declared as he started rolling the dice around the cup.
"Alright, call it. Even."
"Odds." Naruto slammed the cup down on the counter and slowly started opening it. Before the number could be seen, he swept the dice into his backpack and quickly pecked her cheek.
"Guess you'll have to find me later Tsunade. Names Naruto, and good luck finding me. Hahahaha!" the teen told her while running out of the bar. After he left, a shoulder length lady with black hair and dressed pig in her arms entered the bar.
"Lady Tsunade. Please don't run off again. I'm sorry sir, how much did she drink?" the lady asked the bartender as she reached into a pouch to grab the bills.
"Don't worry about it. Some kid came by and paid for his and her rounds. So take your kid and go. She shouldn't be up this late." the liquor dispenser advised as he picked up the two cup.
"Yeah, some cheeky kid named Naruto paid for the round."
"Well wasn't that nice Lady Tsunade?" Shizune asked her teacher while leading her out of the building.
"Yeah, but he made me a bet and I didn't see how the game ended. We're looking for him later." The small sized lady ordered her as they headed towards their hotel room.
Outside the town, Naruto stood staring at many copies of himself. His pack, shirt and vest lay under a tree neatly folded. With I silent beckoning,each copy rushed at him with either their fists cocked or a knife held in the reverse grip.
He blocked the first fist and stabbed his clone with the approaching knife of another clone, causing them to explode. He quickly spun around to grab the arm of another clone and slammed down on the elbow. Exploding into a cloud of smoke.
A clone used the smoke to fire his knife which left a gash bleeding down his arm. A second lept out and held him is a standing full nelson, while three others charged at him to deliver a barrage of rapid punches. The original reached back to grab the head of the copy and threw him into the three, destroying them with the force.
By now, the wound had sealed shut and the dried blood covered the arm. From the canopy, a clone dropped with a knife aimed at his throat. He quickly grabbed his copy and twisted his neck nearly all around causing him to explode into smoke.
By now, a fair amount of the clones had been destroyed but many still remained like the ones rushed him from every direction. Naruto brought his hand to block a knife which stuck out from the back of his hand. Kicking the clone away, he used the weapon to brutally backhand a clone to death with the spike and parried a throat shot with the protrusion.
Using a spinning roundhouse kick, Naruto snapped the clones neck and caused the weapon in his hand to disappear. With the hole in his hand, Naruto sprayed the blood at the clones eyes.
Several were blinded and were quickly dispatched by a punch snapping their neck. Despite the majority of the clones gone, a copy preformed a running slide between his legs and slashed the calf. He didn't far as Naruto dropped his knee on his throat and destroyed the clone.
"Let's try this." Naruto muttered as he held out his hand, and slowly formed a howling ball in his palm. Before any clone could make a move, the ball exploded in destructive streams of air lacerating their bodies and the trees.
Left alone my the technique, Naruto ran his hand across the deep trenches littering his body. Each one gradually sealed their selves closed, leaving the trails and streams of dried blood staining his front.
Gathering up his belongings, he walked through the forest and sat his items beside to a stream and sat them on the coast. He hopped into the moving body of water and started scrubbing the blood off himself.
"You know, cleaning usually works better when you're naked." Nyx muttered from the depth of his mind, causing him to lurch in the water.
'Hello Nyx, it's been pretty quiet without someone else's voice in my head.' the partial blond thought as he worked off the blood off his arms and partially dyed the water a dull red.
"Well your adventure in her land is quite fascinating to say the least." The kyubi added with mirth in its base heavy voice.
'It is. I've never had a party quite that entertaining in Konoha, or in general.' Naruto added as he worked into the torn patches in his pants and started cleaning his bloodied legs.
"Well from what I saw from your memories, humans are quite dull. They are quite arrogant despite all their short comings. Ponies are not without their faults as well. Yet humans seem to embody theirs to an astonishing degree. Those from Konoha and wrath. That pervert with his longing and lust. That serpent Orochimaru and his desires. While they are fine alone, your people are embroiled in them." Nyx declared while Naruto moved to cleaning his chest with his hand lingering on his chest.
'Humans are a violent race that's true," Haku's father, the general residents of Suna and Konoha. "but there's some good." Ayame Ichiraku and her dad, as well Hinata.
"That can apply to many races. Hopefully you will see some of them next time you visit Equestria." the night mare advised him while he exited the river and put on his unsullied clothing.
'I will try, but I'll have to get the Rasengan down. How should I work on it? I need to work on the shell but I'm not sure when to start.' Naruto asked them as he packed the vest into the backpack.
"The Rasengan is a knock-off of my Bijudama(Tailed Beast Ball). Focus on the shape of it first then fill it in. You don't fill the balloon without having the balloon."
With an actual hint on what to do instead of a vague drawing, he started forming hollow balls of chakra and began filling them in with a swirling torrent of chakra.
*End*