Chapter 4 hide and listen

"Hide" Rarity gasped.

Twilight quickly dragged spike behind a group of dress mannequins and under a pile of discarded bolts of cloth.

Luckily not a moment too soon as the door was suddenly slammed open.

"hey Rarity how's it going" the rowdy orange unicorn practically shouted.

"oooh Naruto must you enter my abode with such pinky like behavior, what if you break my door." Rarity said quickly meeting him at the door to gain the stallions attention hoping he wouldn't notice anything amiss.

"don't worry I've had a lot of practice not breaking doors for my entrances" Naruto said with a satisfied grin.

"you've practised?" Rarity asked with a raised brow,

"I absolutely had to Rarity, making a great entrance is an art and I learned that art from the best, though Pinkypie sure could give the pervy sage a run for his bits" Naruto replied with confidence

"hmm, darling we must sit down and talk about this godfather of yours and how you address him, over tea perhaps, when I have a bit more free time, he sounds like quite the character." Rarity said as she led him from the entrance and over to his order.

Naruto once again smiled though it went unnoticed by all that it was more forced than before.

"sure that sounds nice. So is my order ready?" Naruto asked with excitement.

"oh of course it is dear, Rarity always delivers on time and in fashion after all." Rarity happily boasted.

She began showing Naruto a primarily black with orange jacket , similar to what he normally wore in the past.

"I am happy you let me at least alter the colors, that much orange just does not work sweety. I can't imagine what you were thinking."

"yeah you are the expert Rarity." Naruto replied while happily looking over his new clothes and imagining how cool he would look.

"Really? Wonderful so the next one can have blue or maybe red? Oh and of course it has to have gems." Rarity continued.

Naruto day dreamed while unconsciously nodding his head to Rarity.

Meanwhile the third unicorn in the room was quickly growing irritated. Twilight began to levitate a piece of paper into a ball which she then flew into Rarity's face and with a start both of them came back to reality.

"Did someone throw that at you?" Naruto asked while looking around.

"What? Oh! Oh no dear that was me,I must have wanted to write my thoughts down and wasn't paying attention. You know how magic can be sometimes, my what would Twilight say?" Rarity quickly made up an excuse on the spot.

"oh and speaking of Twilight Sparkle I hear you two have been getting to know each other better." Rarity had a sly grin as she brought her objective into the conversation.

"you're right she's been helping me a lot, she's always ready to research something with me. You don't think I'm being a nuisance do you, maybe I should give her some space."Naruto said with a worried look.

"NO"

"NO"

"NO"

Three different voices rang out in unison making Naruto whirl around with a vigilant look

"be careful Rarity I think someone else is here" Naruto said.

The orange unicorn began to look around as Rarity began to panic.

"uh uh uh echo ECHO it was a echo Naruto NO one else is here" Rarity managed to quickly stammer out.

Naruto turned back to her in a flash, a look of disbelief plain on his face.

"A echo? But I heard different voices." Naruto said with skepticism.

" The walls dear it's because of the shape of my boutique" Rarity said with confidence now in her voice,knowing Naruto's trusting nature.

"oh really?"

" yes definitely."

"ok then."

Rarity decided to get back on topic before Naruto could decide to try to replicate the effect.

"anywho, Naruto the answer is definitely, absolutely a no you are not a nuisance. Why just the other day Twilight was telling me how much she loves yo.. uh having yes having you over to talk magic." Rarity said

" Really, she said that." Naruto asked with a brightening smile, already forgetting about the earlier disturbance and not noticing Rarity's misstep in speech.

"oh yes she adores your company." Rarity began trying to drop more hints.

"oh that reminds me, Naruto are you aware that hearts n hooves day is very soon."

"hmm I guess" Naruto replied wondering how this was related.

Rarity decided that it was time to pry.

"Tell me Naruto have you ever had or perhaps have a special marefriend. I am just curious about how you go about the holiday?"

Naruto began to blush a bit

"well you see."