Shinobi of Canterlot High: Chapter 3

Alright, sorry for the long wait, but here it is. I'm currently dealing with a new job and as such probably won't be able to write as much as I want. Life happens. I do thank everyone for their reviews, and hope you continue to do so as chapters keep coming out. Also, go to our twitter page where we post updates on how the fic is coming along and what not. The link is in my profile.

Any way, Whoopie, here's Chapter 3

Naruto looked around in a daze, trying to get a better grasp on the situation. When he finally snapped out of it he rushed to help the unconscious girls, fearing they might be seriously hurt. He stopped at the girl with the multicolored hair first and began to try and wake her up. Naruto started calling for the girl to wake up and, the concern in his voice growing as the time passed but eventually, her eyes started to flutter. When Naruto saw that she was finally stirring, He summoned five shadow clones from the vast sea that was his chakra and sent them to other girl's aid. Each of the clones helped the girls to their feet after, making sure they were okay and that they could stand on their own. After Twilight said they were all fine he dispersed his clones and took at all six of them.

To say Naruto was startled was the understatement of the year, because these girls had horse ears, pony-tails, and three of them even had wings! Of course this state of surprise wore off rather quickly for he had seen stranger things on the first failed Sasuke retrieval mission. Shaking his head of these thought, Naruto walks back over to the first girl he helped to see what had happened to them.

"Are you alright? I saw this huge crater and you guys passed out, so could you tell me what happened?" The girl looked up at Naruto in a bit of a daze, trying to process what he had just said but she quickly regained her abilities to understand how to speak and replied: "I'm okay. As for what happened, we kicked serious butt that's what!" Naruto was a bit confused at this, but he looked at the crater and assumed it had to do with that.

"Hey what's your name? I haven't seen you around campus so you must be a new kid." Rainbow Dash asked out of curiosity.

Naruto, feeling no I'll intentions coming from the girls, decided there was no reason to lie to them.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I'm actually from a place called Konoha."

"Konoha? That sounds like a place from a story" Applejack said with a small chuckle. "So how did you end up here anyway?"

"I think it had to do with my mirror. I was sleeping when I heard a noise. I looked around my room and ended up in front of my mirror. I was a bit confused that my mirror was FREAKING talking, but then I tried to make out what it was saying so I leaned in closer. Just as I was getting a better hearing on what it was saying I fell right through it! Much to my surprise I didn't smash my face into the mirror like I thought, Instead I was standing on this green lawn with all these kids and a crater staring me right in the face.

"Oh, so you're from another dimension are ya? " Applejack said while slamming a fist into her palm in a sudden burst of realization.

"Er, another dimension?" Naruto said in confusion.

"Mmhm. It's really simple. Ya see that-"

"Can you guys talk about why there's a spikey haired hunk from another dimension later and help Twilight out!" Rainbow Dash said as Naruto came over and helped her to her feet. "Oh yeah, I'm Rainbow Dash. Nice to meet ya!" Rainbow Dash said as she shook Naruto's hand. After helping out Rainbow Dash Naruto went around to help the other girls up and learned each of their names in the process. Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Twilight Sparkle. So many names to remember and his memory wasn't the best. What would they do if he had forgotten one of their names? A slap to the face? A kick in the shin? Public execution!? As Naruto was nearing a panic attack Twilight spoke up.

"So you're from a place called Konoha?" Naruto looked up at Twilight and gave a small nod. "Yup. Born and raised there." Twilight looked him up and down, taking in every detail she could. His orange cloths, the black sandals, his beautiful deep blue eyes. Those cute lips, that butt-nope. Have to stop there, just observing him. "I think I can explain why you're here. " Twilight said with a serious look. "I think that you're from a different dimension. The way you look, your cloths and the way you carry yourself is much too different from the people around here." Naruto stood up and looked at her in surprise. "You really think so?"

"I'm fairly certain that that's the case. Could you tell me how you ended up here?" Naruto retold the events that had transpired before his arrival, hearing voices as he slept, listening to the mirror and eventually falling through. Twilight listened very closely to Naruto's explanation, taking note of all the important details.

"I think we can say for sure that you're from a different dimension." Twilight said with a nod. "If your cloths weren't a dead giveaway, than your whole story about falling through a mirror and ending up in the school yard certainly is."

"Wow Twilight, you're really smart. Figuring all that out on your own."

"Of course. I'm just surprised I'm the first one to figure this out."

"Hey now wait a min-"Applejack began to shout out

"Nope. Still surprised that none of my other friends weren't able to figure this out." Twilight said to herself.

Naruto took a look around at the field with a look of confusion.

"What happened here? It looks like something big went down" Twilight let out a sigh and nodded

"That's right. Someone from my world stole my crown, which contains a very special crystal called the Element of Magic. Alone, it is a very powerful artifact that could potentially destroy Equestria and in the wrong hands that power is only amplified." During this explanation, all Naruto could think about is how this Element sounded almost like the power of a Biju. "We had actually just finished stopping her from taking over Equestria. Right now she's knocked out so she'll probably be out for a while. Let's all sit down for a bit and get to know each other."

No disagreements were heard as the seven teens decided to sit on the lawn and talk about each other's lives. Naruto had sat on one edge of the crater, opposite of Fluttershy, and was just sitting there listening to the girls babble about the aforementioned battle, their awesome new wings (Rainbow) and there were some whispers that Naruto could pick up was a few words like "Cute" and "Goofy". In between their banter he had told them stories of some of the old pranks he did back in the village which would elicit laughter both laughter and awe at his skills of avoiding his homes elite.

While all of this was going on, in the center of the crater Sunset Shimmer was beginning to wake up. Her power was now gone and with it went her transformation. She slowly sat up, holding her head to stem the ever-growing ache from her abrupt landing. As she stood up and tried to regain her composure, she could hear the laughter of the ones that had defeated her.

"So there laughing at me? I'll show them, I'll make them all pay!" She looked around and grabbed a piece of glass that was nearby and began to crawl her way out of the crater. Spying over the edge she looked at the group and picked her target closet to her current position: Fluttershy. Sunset Shimmer crawled out of the hole in a way so that nobody saw her and her way to her victim.

Naruto was getting along surprisingly well with the six girls. They were probably some of the most exciting people he's meet since leaving his village. Hell this was probably the quickest he's made friends ever. From Pinkie Pies insane tricks to Rarity's fashion sense, he couldn't help but wish he could stay here instead of having to the Elemental Nations.

Everything was going amazingly because everyone was getting along so well. To Naruto it felt like nothing could ruin this moment. Especially some crazy girl with a sharp piece of glass. He laughed at this thought when he suddenly felt somebody nearby with ill intent aimed in his direction. Of course. Looking up he saw a girl with flaming hair standing behind Fluttershy. In her hand was a jagged piece of glass about the length of one of his smaller Kunai, and it was poised to strike into Fluttershy's jugular vein. Acting on muscle memory, he quickly jumped to his feet and applied chakra to his muscles to increase his speed.

Time seemed to slow down as Naruto rushed to save Fluttershy. Using every ounce of speed he had he just barely made it in time to push Fluttershy out of immediate danger. Unfortunately he did not have the chance to get out of the way himself, a yelp of pain escaped his lips as the dagger dug into his back just barely missing his internal organs. As he crashed to the ground, the others got ahold of Sunset and hold her back long enough for Fluttershy to go and check on the downed blond.

"Naruto are you okay!?" Fluttershy asked in a panic. Naruto grimaced

"Not yet, Fluttershy I need to ask you to do something for me" Fluttershy gave Naruto a quizzical look. "You see that glass stuck in my back?" Fluttershy gave a nod. "I need you to pull it out as fast as you can. I promise you that I'll be fine after that." Fluttershy gave a look of hesitance and reached out to the knife, grasping the hilt. She closed her eyes and pulled the knife out, Naruto let a grunt and quickly put some gauze and tap over the wound to stop any flowing blood.

"I'm sorry! I tried very hard to make sure I didn't hurt you when I pulled out the knife but it still looked like you were in pain and I couldn't help you and.." Naruto placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder and gave Fluttershy a smile.

"You did perfect." A blush bloomed on her cheeks as soon as the compliment escaped his lips. Naruto took his hand off Fluttershy and turned to face the assailant, only to see her running down the road in express. With a call of "Kage Bushin No Jutsu!" he began to chase after her, overtaking the five who had also begun to chase after Sunset Shimmer. Overtaking the five girls, one of Naruto's clones had reached Sunset, slapped a seal tag on her back and with a quick hand sign she froze mid step.

Twilight and the others were all frozen as, but not because of some piece of paper, rather they were perplexed as to how Naruto could make clones of himself with just a weird hand sign! Pinkie was the only one that didn't seem confused, instead she just went on to lecturing Sunset Shimmer who was frozen mid step. Thought was another thing that bothered Twilight: How did he make her freeze with just a piece of paper.

"Naruto, h-how did you do all that?" Twilight inquired. Naruto looked at her in confusion. "I used my chakra of course." Twilight tilted her head in a quizzical way. "Chakra? Do you mean magic?" This time it was Naruto's turn to be confused. Had they never heard of chakra? What the hell is magic?

Just as Naruto was about to ask Twilight what in the Five Kages magic was he got a flood of memories from one of his clones. Somehow Sunset had broken free from the seal. Naruto turned and saw Sunset running down the street and gave a sigh of annoyance as he was about to take off after her. Twilight saw what he was doing and shouted to the others to follow Sunset Shimmer. The others started to chase after her, Naruto himself had also begun to go after her himself but as soon as he took his first step, he collapsed.

"Kurama, what's going on!?" The fox had a worried look on his face. How had Naruto already exhausted his chakra? It's true that he usually went through most of it during training but there was no way he could have gone through that much chakra with just shadow clones. By Kurama's calculations Naruto should have enough to do over twenty TAJUU Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Kurama looked over the seal just to make sure nothing was wrong but upon inspection it seemed like something had messed with it.

"Bad news kid, it looks like more than half of your chakra got sealed, and with those clones you made earlier you're lucky to even be conscious." Naruto was a bit surprised that the seal had been tampered with, but at the same time he wasn't due to the fact that he HAD been through worse after all.

"C'mon! Is there any way we can get this freaking seal off?" Naruto said in annoyance. The Kyuubi thought for a good second and said "I can remove the seal, but it might take a while. A LONG while." Naruto let out a groan. "Why do things have to be so difficult? Can't you get rid of it in a couple hours?"

"Hey this seal is actually a pretty tough seal to undo, even for me!" Kurama snapped. "Just hold off on the clones and any powerful Jutsu for a while and I'll tell you when I've finished undoing the seal. If you do decided to use something like the Rasenshuriken though it'll probably kill you so just watch yourself."

Naruto gave a mental nod towards the Kyuubi, having already returning to his feet and brushing off his fall. Fluttershy, who had somehow reached him faster than Rainbow Dash could, blushed slightly upon seeing rub him rubbing the back of his head. She caught herself before the blushing got too intense. After all, Naruto would be leaving this world after Sunset was dealt with.

Sunset had not gotten much farther since Naruto had collapsed, but then again it had only been a few seconds. He quickly grabbed Fluttershy's hand, causing her to blush, and hoisted her onto his back. He proceed to apply a very minor amount of chakra to his legs and began his chase after Sunset Shimmer. Fluttershy had to admit, if this were any other situation, riding on Naruto's back while he ran would actually be pretty fun.

They caught up rather quickly, considering the speed of a Shinobi is a quite faster than that of any normal human, ex-pony or otherwise. Sunset had a look of surprise on her face upon seeing the blond, a little surprised that he wasn't even breathing heavily because of speed he was going, not to mention that he was carrying another human on his back. That in itself would have slowed anybody down. At this point Sunset was starting to panic as Naruto was almost upon her.

Naruto reached out his hand to grab Sunset Shimmer, his hand reached the hem of her skirt just as she vanished from Naruto and Fluttershy's site. He slowed down a stop to sense the surrounding are for Sunset Shimmer but alas, no dice. All Naruto could sense was the main six in their transformed states and recovering students. This confused him to the tenth degree and. How could she disappear without a trace? There was no chakra emitting from Sunset Shimmer when he had sensed around upon his arrival. At this point Naruto become aware that Fluttershy was confused as to why Naruto had stopped and not said anything. Shaking off the thoughts of the disappearing villain, Naruto set Fluttershy down and ran to the students to help them recover.

The other students were basked in relief as the stunningly handsome boy in the orange jumpsuit came to help them. As everything was winding down a bit and the students were regaining their strength Naruto took a look around at everything around him. Something very off caught his eye. In the distance near the statue he saw the masked man that gave him that strange mirror standing there. Odd thing was that he wasn't even looking at Naruto, but rather at the statue at which he had come out of. The masked man was also holding something in his left hand, a sledge hammer dropped previously by Sunset Shimmer, poised in the air as if to hit the statue. Before Naruto and the Main Six had any time to react, the masked man swung the sledgehammer into the pedestal of the school's mascot.

*SMASH*

Bits and pieces of marble went flying everywhere, scattering across the ground next to the statue. A wave of panic came across the main six and the young ninja as the masked man raised the hammer again

*SMASH, SMASH*

In the blink of an eye the masked man had destroyed the other sides of statue and was about to destroy the side the Naruto had come out of. Just as the man raised the hammer to break the last exit a kunai went sailing through air and landed at the feet of the man, causing him to look up.

Naruto was so rapidly closing the distance between the masked man and himself that the man decided to change the trajectory of the hammer from the last bit of the statue to that of the young blonde's chest. Naruto saw this and was about to dodge out of the way, but much to his surprise his body didn't move the way he wanted it to. Instead he a got a sledge hammer swung right into his chest, sending him flying backwards five feet. Naruto quickly recovered and got back to his feet only to see the masked man disappear into thin air.

"Kuso, he got away! For Kami's sake though, that hurt. Remind me to never go against a sledgehammer again." Naruto said while shaking off the numb feeling in his chest. The pain was beginning to subside as the girls came rushing to Naruto's side, with a look of awe on their faces because of Naruto's resilience.

Naruto looked at the six girls that surrounded him, all of them with their mouths agape, confusing the young man. Rainbow Dash was the first to speak up:

"Oh. My. Gosh. That was so AWESOME! We totally kicked bad-girl ass!" Said Rainbow Dash, predictably. Before Naruto could even say anything, there was a flurry of squeals, wings, and wings bustling about him, asking him if he was okay. He calmed them down easily enough save for Rarity who still wanted to make him a new outfit. Naruto stood up and took a look around, trying to find the masked man. Instead he spotted Twilight a short distance away, and began to head in her direction. Upon getting closer to her, Naruto noticed Twilight looked somewhat down.

"Hey what's wrong Twilight? We stopped Sunset Shimmer, isn't that what you were trying to do?" He questioned. She looked up and gave him a brief smile before it quickly morphed into a frown.

"Yes, that's what we were trying to do, but now that that bastard from destroyed all but one portal, you can't get home. I don't want you to be stuck in a foreign setting that you know nothing about." The concern in her voice struck Naruto pretty hard. His whole childhood before he became a Shinobi he was scorned by people. They didn't care if he got hurt, if he was hungry or even if he died. A smile crossed his face at the concern Twilight was showing him. His smile changed into a foxlike grin as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Aw heck Twi, you don't have to worry about me. I'll be able to survive until the next portal decides to rear its head. I'm sure they'll fix the statue by then. Besides, maybe I can learn some stuff about this world before I have to leave." Twilight just stared at the boy, perplexed at his ability to shrug anything off. She even felt it in her gut instinct that he would keep his word. It was an odd feeling, but not an unpleasant one. A smile started to cross her face when the pony-turned human turned pony-human hybrid was tackled by the other five magically enhanced humans, putting all of them into a group hug.

Right before the girls hugged them Naruto had to apply chakra to keep their full force from knocking him over. Once in their embrace he made no movements to get them away from himself, he actually enjoyed the feeling.

Before he could fully relax however, however, a new figure came walking towards the group. This figure was about 5'8, had a prismatic hair almost like one of his new friends, and had a certain aura of grace and regality around her. The others must have noticed because they very quickly disengaged from their embrace, the looks on their faces changing from happiness to embarrassment. Only Twilight walked up to greet the queenly woman.

"Principal Celestia! What are you doing out here?" Twilight asked, only to see Celestia pull the crown out from behind her.

"I believe this is yours, Ms. Sparkle. A true princess, in any world, leads not by forcing others to bow before her, but by encouraging others to stand with her. I think we all see that you've done that here today." Twilight took a peek at her friends after Celestia's small speech. All of them were grinning widely at her while Naruto was doing a classic "good guy" pose, which made her giggle. Naruto started clapping and cheering for Twilight, followed by the other five ponified girls, and then the whole school.

"Twilight! Twilight! Twilight!" Their cheers went on for a few minutes, congratulating the newly crowned princess. The cheers soon died down and Twilight felt a tap on her shoulder. When she turned around, Flash Sentry was there, holding out his hand with a Nervous look on his face.

"Er, would now be a completely awkward time to ask for that dance?" he asked, shyly smiling on hopes of a positive answer. Twilight looked up at the moon, estimating about forty five minutes before she and her element where locked in this world for another thirty moons. She let a smile cross her lips and looked at Flash "Sure, I think I have enough time for a dance" she said as she took his hand, being whisked away to the gym.

The dance itself was amazing. The decorations were placed perfectly, the music was as bright and upbeat as any soundtrack could possibly be. The local student/DJ, Vinyl Scratch, or more commonly known as DJ Pon-3, was playing the best records for the event (Making sure to avoid pulling out the Bass Cannon) and everybody was having a great time, with the party showing no signs of winding down anytime soon.

On the dance floor Naruto could be dancing with Main Six, excluding Twilight, but every so often he would switch to a random girl in the crowd. At one point Vice Principal Luna was seen grinding on Naruto, surprising most of the students, some of them looking away in jealousy. A little bit later he found himself dancing with a beautiful girl named Derpy. She was probably one of the most and unique girls he's ever met. Of course after they were finished dancing she was extremely flustered, wanting to stay with him for the rest of the night and then some….

This was just the beginning of the night though, for as the night wore on Naruto found himself dancing with every girl at least once, even managing to somehow rope Principal Celestia into a few of the more fun dances and one slow, in which Naruto had to look away a couple times because of her seductive glances. He paid equal amounts of attention to all the girls he danced with, making sure to switch partners every two to three songs.

Naruto went to go take a small break and noticed Twilight sitting at table alone, crying into her hands. He rushed to her side and placed a comforting arm around her shoulders, letting her know her was there for her.

"Twilight what happened? Where's that Flash guy you were with?" Naruto asked. She looked up and looked at Naruto, more tears pouring out as she wrapped her arms around him, holding him tightly and crying into his shoulder. Naruto just let her continue to her, opting to let her talk when she was ready. He did, however, decided to show Flash what the bowls of hell look like for making Twilight this upset. Twilight was starting to calm down a little bit, enough at least to speak, so he re asked her what was wrong.

"Twilight what happened?" She shook her head for a brief moment, shaking off the last of her sobs, and slowly started to answer.

"Flash and I were dancing and during one of the slow songs he leaned close to my ear and said we should go back to his place. I told him I wasn't quite ready for that but he kept on about it and I kept telling him no. Eventually he got upset and said that if I didn't leave with him he was going to take another girl home with him. I thought he was just bluffing so I told him to stop it. After that he didn't say anything, he just lightly pushed me away, walked in the crowed, talked to another girl for a second and then he took her hand and left with her. I didn't know he was like that, I thought he was a kind person that would never hurt me. I'm hurting and I don't know what to do Naruto." Twilight was clinging closer to him now, a fresh wave of tears over coming her defenses.

Naruto was outraged by this. Forget showing him the bowls of hell, he was going to give him the grand tour personally. After hearing all this and seeing Twilight so upset, Naruto wanted go on a man hunt for Flash. No one messed with his friends, NO ONE! For now, however, Naruto had to stay with Twilight to comfort her. So thinking quickly, Naruto discreetly made a clone of himself to go and request a slow song, something for "picking up a down friend". While his clone went to carry out its mission, Naruto coaxed Twilight out to the dance floor. Right as the song started he asked her:

"Twilight, May I have this dance?" She looked up and found herself captured in his gaze. Seeing as she had nothing to lose, she nodded and the two proceeded to dance.

Naruto did everything he was taught and had picked up, doing whatever he could to make the girl happy again. Twilight couldn't help but smile and follow his lead. She had to admit, she was feeling a bit better. What's more, she felt safe in his arms. It was like Naruto was an anchor so she couldn't drift away on a sea of despair. She couldn't have asked for a better friend, in her opinion.

As the song ended, Twilight at Naruto again. Though he tried to hide it, she noticed the concern in his eyes. It made he feel happy that she had such an amazing friend.

"Thank you, Naruto. I think I'm feeling a bit better now. You're such a great friend, I wish there were more people like you out there." She said. Naruto blushed slightly at the praise, but his next words made him stand firm:

"Actually Twilight, there are at least five others in this very room who would have done the same thing I did. Just turn around and you'll see them." He said with a smile. Confused, she turned around only to see Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie all standing around her, a smile on each of their faces. All of them came together for a group hug with Twilight in the center, her smile growing with each passing second.

"Thanks guys, you all really mean a lot to me." The girls hugged for a few more seconds before Naruto coughed to get their attention.

"Girls, I hate to break up this beautiful moment, but I think it would be best if we got to the statue….NOW!' Looking at the time the girls felt a wave of panic wash over them and they quickly hurried toward the statue, hoping they would make it in time.

As they began to approach the marble statue Twilight took the lead, hastily saying goodbye to her friends. Just as she was about to pass through however, the portal shone with a bright light and Naruto pulled Twilight back before she got caught between the two universes. They all stood there as the light quickly went out.

They missed their only chance for thirty moons for Twilight to return her element, and herself to her universe. All of the group lowered their heads, their transformations ending. Naruto grit his teeth and said one word to sum up the situation:

"Chikusho!"

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