Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Harem

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Story Start

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Pinkamena Diane Pie. The only pony festive enough to have a baby alligator for a pet and a birthday for him at that. Naruto arrived to see the room was filled with festivities, cake, punch, and decorations. The Herd had made it a little earlier than we did.

Pinkie Pie ran off to dance with Twilight. Beyond them, lay a wide bucket filled with water and apples. Applejack, Ditzy, and Rainbow Dash were dunking their heads in to bob for apples.

He went to join Rarity and Fluttershy who were enjoying the refreshments.

Applejack had just dunked her head in the bucket of water and brought it back up with an apple in her mouth. She threw it up in the air and caught it with her mouth and began chewing, giving Rainbow Dash a competitive look.

"Nice one!" Rainbow Dash commented. "Now, let me show you how it's really done."

Rainbow Dash was about to dunk her head in, but Pinkie Pie had come over to see what we were up to. "Hiya!"

"Hey, Pinkie Pie!" Rainbow Dash responded.

"Howdy!" Applejack added.

"Hey Pinky!" Ditzy greeted.

Pinkie Pie released a light squeal. "Just wanted to tell you how happy I am that you can make it to Gummy's party!"

"Are you kiddin'? Ah wouldn't have missed it for the world."

"Me neither. When Pinkie Pie throws a party, I am there!" Rainbow Dash threw her head in the water and pulled out an apple as well. "Ta-da!" She exclaimed as she held the apple in her teeth.

"Aw! It's just a boring old apple. Don't worry, there are plenty of other surprises in there!" Pinkie Pie assured.

Rainbow Dash immediately spat out the apple which Ditzy dodged by ducking resulting in it hitting Applejack in the cheek. However, Applejack ignored the hit and managed to share the excitement with Rainbow Dash about the surprises. "What kind of surprises?"

"I can't tell you that, silly. Then it wouldn't be a surprise." Pinkie Pie began walking away, leaving the trio of mares wanting to find out.

They stared at the water for a moment and then dunked both their heads in unison. When Applejack brought up her head, she had a green apple in her mouth. When Ditzy pulled her head out she noticed it was an orange instead of an apple. However, the green apple was attached to the bucket by a spring, bringing Applejack's face forcefully back into the water. When Rainbow Dash pulled her head out, Gummy was clinging onto her face with his mouth. Applejack had noticed this when she had pulled her head back out and began giggling. Rainbow Dash swung her head to throw Gummy off her face. She turned towards Naruto.

"Why don't you try, Naruto?"

"No thanks." He kindly rebuffed.

"Suit yourself." They continued to dunk their heads back into the bucket anyway.

Pinkie Pie soon made her way over to fill Rarity's chalice with more punch.

"This punch is simply divine. Is this the same recipe you used for your 'Spring Has Sprung' party?" Rarity asked.

"Nope! Something new." Pinkie Pie answered as Rarity continued to drink the punch with a straw.

Naruto was about to get more but then let out a grunt before spitting the punch that was in his mouth back into the cup. The reason being that Gummy was laying inside, motionless, as it stared at Rarity with huge eyes. Rarity noticed this and widened her eyes. She spat out the punch she was drinking straight at Pinkie Pie's cheerful face. "It's Gummy's favorite." Pinkie Pie continued to reply, despite the punch that was dripping from her face. Rarity looked over to Twilight, who returned a worried and confused look. Rarity turned back to Pinkie Pie who remained smiling. Rarity gave a nervous smile and continued to drink some more punch, hesitantly. "Ooh, this is my jam!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed when a new song began playing and she immediately ran from the area.

Rarity had held the punch in her cheeks and instantly spat out the punch in a nearby plant when Pinkie Pie was out of her sight.

Twilight and Fluttershy were now dancing happily as Pinkie Pie joined them.

"Having fun?" Pinkie Pie asked as they continued to dance in conversation.

"A blast!" Twilight answered.

"You always throw the best parties, Pinkie Pie." Fluttershy added.

"They're always the best parties 'cause my best friends are always there!" Pinkie Pie began dancing, accidentally bumping Twilight and Fluttershy out of the area. The two ponies were dizzy but regained their coordination quickly. "C'mon, everypony! Gummy wants to dance!"

She began dancing along with the other ponies around Gummy. "Go, Gummy! It's your birthday! Go, Gummy! It's your birthday!"

The party soon had to come to an end as Everypony made their way out of their on the cusp of midnight.

For a moment Naruto was concerned they would be able to make it out of there in time. After all they were going to need to get up bright and early for Pinkie's surprise birthday party tomorrow.

That morning he woke up bright and early and set out to Sweet Apple Acres. The barn was going to be the location of the party after all. "Morning AJ." He called out to the mare, startling her.

"Oh, hey Sugarcube had me plumbed frightened for a moment. Though ya might have been Pinkie."

Considering what happened this morning that was more than likely. "You're going to want to be careful this afternoon AJ. Pinkie Pie stopped by early for an invitation for an after party birthday party. I had to tell her I was busy with guard duties in order to get away."

"In that case ah better go and get the apples now. Mind watching the place for a moment?"

"Alright."

"Thanks." She began racing out the barn while he stayed behind. Looking around he took notice of the

decorations being set up. There were a few streamers across the ceiling, but there were still more to be placed. The tables were up and covered with some decorative cloth, but they were empty for the moment.

Noise from outside drew his attention in which he Applejack bringing in several carts of a bunch of apples towards the barn. Before she reached the entrance, something suddenly popped out of the hay, surprising Applejack.

"Huh? Oh, hi, Pinkie Pie!" Applejack announced, a little nervous. "What brings you 'round these parts?"

Naruto let out a muffled swore. If there was one pony that Pinkie didn't need to encounter about the surprise party it was Applejack.

"Who's ready to shake their haunches?"Applejack noticed the basket on top of Pinkie Pie's head and grabbed one of the invitations, but she didn't read it as she already knew what it was. "It's an invitation to 'Gummy's After-Birthday' party this afternoon. There's gonna be dancing, and games, and cake, and ice-cream, and punch!"

"Uh, well, ah… ah… uh… ah don't think I can make it 'cause… uh… ah have to… uh… uh, you know what? Ah… uh… pick apples! Yup, apples! 'Cause that's what we do! With the… apples. We… uh… pick 'em!" Applejack then threw out a nervous grin.

Pinkie Pie began staring at her weirdly, which caused Applejack to widen her nervous grin even more. Pinkie Pie narrowed her eye towards Applejack in a suspicious matter as Applejack could only return a nervous chuckle and gulp. Pinkie Pie increased the threat towards her stare even further until all of sudden, she responded in a cheerful voice. "Okey dokey lokey!"

Naruto let out a relieved sigh as Pinkie spoke a few more words to the farmer before heading on her way.

"That was a close one." Applejack commented as she brought the apples into the barn.

"Yeah…"

Applejack began unloading the apples until we heard another sound. It was Twilight.

"Hey, Twilight. You hadn't encountered Pinkie Pie yet have you?" Applejack asked.

Twilight sighed. "I was able to hide from her while she was walking back from here. She already invited me earlier this morning."

"Good thing. She's probably trying to find all of us to give us invitations to another party. Miss picking apples over here was just able to get out of it."

"Oh hush you."

"Uh-huh. I had to make an excuse about picking apples…"

"I told her that I was behind in my studying…" Twilight looked over to Naruto. "What about you?"

"Guard Duty." He said, tapping his armor. On the off chance he encountered Pinkie he could just say he was taking time to enjoy a meal.

"Oh, that's good one." Twilight shook her head. "Anyways, so what are we going to do now?"

"We have to wait for Ditzy, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity to get here. Hopefully they don't run into a problem with Pinkie Pie. I'm sure Pinkie Pie is going to feel weird with no one attending her party, but we can't let her know that we are throwing one for her."

"What about the cake for her at the Sugarcube Corner?" Enlisting the Cakes help had been rather tricky, but thankfully both of them were rather good at keeping secrets.

"I'll go check up on the rest of the girls. They might need help avoiding Pinkie." With their duties clear the three of them split up to hurry and get the preparations done.

As luck would have it Naruto encountered Ditzy who was picking up the cake.

"Ooh!" Mrs. Cake exclaimed when she spotted them. "You must be here for…"

"Shh!" Ditzy immediately shushed. "Is Pinkie Pie around?"

"Oh, I don't think so."

"Good. We don't want her to know anything about this."

"Yes, of course. I'll be right back."

As Mrs. Cake left to receive the cake, they continued looking around. Mrs. Cake thought Pinkie Pie wasn't here… but she loves this place… she'd most likely be here at anytime.

Mrs. Cake had come back a moment later and placed the cake on the counter. "There you go."

"Thanks, and remember, not a word to Pinkie Pie." She grabbed the box the cake was in. Once they were outside Naruto grabbed Ditzy and shushined to Rarity's shop.

Rarity opened the door and looked around. "She didn't see you at the sweet shop, did she?" She asked.

"I teleported us here. Highly unlikely she would have been able to catch up."

"Oh, good. I'd hate for her to ruin everything."

"Me too."

Rarity took the package. "Alright I now have to head to Fluttershy. "

"And I'll go find Rain and help her out. Hopefully we'll be able to get done before Pinkie catches on." Naruto said as the lovers went their opposite ways.

In the center of a few homes Rarity had met up with Fluttershy.

"Have you seen her?" Rarity asked.

"Not since this morning." Fluttershy replied.

"Me neither. Can you believe she was planning on throwing an after-birthday party today?"

Neither of them had noticed a figure slip behind the building.

"I'm just glad I was able to come up with an excuse for why I couldn't be there."

"Me too! This is obviously going to be so much better."

"As long as we keep her from finding out about it, it will."

Rarity dropped the box and whispered to Fluttershy. "See you later!"

At first Naruto had believed it was good fortune as to explain why they hadn't run into Pinkie Pie. Though once he begun looking for her and found that she wasn't anywhere in sight he began to grow worried.

When she couldn't be found at Sugarcube Corner Naruto had begun searching all over town for her with no luck. His worry soon formed into dread as he tried to keep calm before he thought about one last place he could find her.

The lake. He hurried to the lake and sure enough he picked up the sound of faint crying. He had finally come across the mare and the sight was heart breaking.

Her normally curly poof of a hairdo was flattened and straight. She was trudging along, not skipping or hopping or bouncing at all. There was none of the usual cheerful brightest about her, but rather a depressing dullness that seemed to mute the colors around her. There was just no…spark, no energy, no vitality about her.

"Pinkie Pie?"

"Oh Naruto, guess you must be finished with your guard thing." she muttered listlessly, and Naruto became officially worried. Pinkie never referred to him by anything but her nickname for him unless it was serious.

"You alright Pinkie?" he asked, stepping a bit closer to look at her better. Her eyes looked a bit swollen.

"Oh, yeah, I'm great," she replied, and smiled. That unnatural smile while brief had unnerved the blond.

"Excuse me…I have to go…throw a party…with some…" she trailed off, carrying a small collection of rocks.

"Talk to me Pinkie."

"Nothing," she said softly, one hand tugging absently at her mane. "I'm fine, totally fine, everything is just…really…awesome…"

He placed his arms on her shoulders and forced her to look at him.

The next thing he knew, Pinkie had let the rocks drop from her arms and half collapsed into his arms and was crying into his shirt.

"Pinkie?" he spoke with no little amount of alarm.

"Why…why…none…you…friends…excuses…parties…hate…alone…no more…" she sobbed incoherently.

Naruto wrapped his arms around her as he let the mare cry her eyes out as she simply comforted her.

Gentle as he could, Naruto scooped the sobbing mare up in his arms, and proceeded to carry her to the Boutique since all the others would be at Sweet Apple Acres.

After a good deal of time she finally settled down.

She slowly pulled away from him, and Naruto slipped his arm free to let her. She didn't look at him, and her long, straight mane fell to hide her face.

"Pinkie. Talk to me." He said placing his hand over hers.

"I drove them away. I drove everypony away." she whispered.

"Drive everypony away? What do you mean?"

"You and everypony else. None of you wanted to come to the party then I heard some of the others talking about if I find out what they were doing it would ruin everything. Its because I was annoying everypony wasn't it? All somepony had to do was say something…and I would have…I would have…"

Silencing her by grabbing her cheeks and pressing lips against hers Naruto pulled back after letting the sensation linger for a few seconds. "Trust me Pinkie that is not the case at all. Everypony in the herd cares about you. If you simply talk with them you'll see its all one big understanding. After all would I be with you right now if your fears have any validity?"

"What about the others? What If all this time my presence has been bothering."

"Just trust me. I assure you that nothing could be farther from the truth then the others wanting to abandon you."

"But…" she bit her lip, and her eyes shone with worry.

"You had this experience before haven't you?" He asked, his eyes softening into understanding. "Where others have abandoned you?" he asked.

Pinkie nodded, "They told me that I was annoying. That I was an embarrassment to be around sometimes, but I never let that stopped me from being me you know. This is different though. You and the girls mean so much to me and I don't want to lose that."

"Oh sweetness." He placed a kiss on her forehead. "You'll never lose us. There may be times when we're not up to partying or whatever you have planned out, but doesn't mean you'll lose us or we'll break up the herd over it."

"Naruto…thank you."

"You trust me right?" He asked her as she nodded. He stood up and grabbed her hand. "Then come with me." He said, as the kagebunshin he had left behind at the barn dispelled letting him know everypony was ready.

"Why are we at Applejack's barn?" Pinkie craned her head to ask Naruto as he simply smiled.

"You'll see," he said as he opened the barn door.

Pinkie Pie did trust the blond so she walked inside and noticed that oddly enough it was dark.

"Surprise!" The girls screamed out in unison, happily.

Pinkie Pie widened her eyes as Naruto pushed her towards the girls.

After, she burst into tears.

"Oh my, I thought she would be happy, not upset." Fluttershy whispered to the others.

"You girls really do care."

"Really do care?" Twilight questioned. "Pinkie Pie what's going on? Why are you upset?"

"Because I realize how foolish I was being. I thought I was driving you girls away and that I was grating on your nerves. I thought I was driving you away."

"Oh Pinkie." If there was anypony that understood what Pinkie felt it was Twilight. She knew just how fickle ponies could be.

"Why in the world would you think we didn't like you anymore, sugarcube?" Applejack asked with concerned eyes.

"Because you were all making excuses; lying to me and avoiding me all day."

"Uh, yeah! Because we wanted your party to be a surprise." Rainbow Dash explained.

"We've been planning this party for such a long time. We had to make excuses for why we couldn't attend Gummy's party, so that we could get everything ready for yours." Rarity added as she played with a yellow balloon.

Pinkie Pie slowly looked around the room, noticing all the decorations and effort they had placed for her. Suddenly, her hair inflated back to its original self and she smiled happily once again. "I can't believe I forgot my own Birthday. Everypony. Thank you." She said as everyone went forward for a group hug. Joyous laughter escaped her lips as the hug ended. "I can't believe I didn't pick up on this."

"You ponies are the best!" Pinkie Pie grinned, but then lowered her head and frowned. "How could I have ever doubted you?"

"It's okay, Pinkie Pie. It could have happened to any of us." Twilight responded as she walked over to Pinkie Pie.

"All right everypony! Enough of this gab." Applejack exclaimed as she turned on the music. "Let's party!"

As so… the party started. However, before everypony began partying, they walked Pinkie Pie over to the table with the cake. They had several candles on there, which all of them were lit.

"Okay, Pinkie Pie. Make a wish and blow the candles!" Applejack exclaimed.

Pinkie Pie thought for a moment as she placed her hand under her chin. Afterwards, she thought of something as she glanced back at Naruto. Finally, she blew the candles which led everypony to cheer.

"What did you wish for Pinkie Pie?" Twilight asked.

"I can't tell you or else it won't come true." She answered as she stole a glance at Naruto and smiled. That was a wish she planned on happening before grinning and began to speak.

"Okay, everypony! Time to PARRR-TAAY!"

Applejack and Fluttershy were bouncing a pink balloon to each other while Gummy stood in the middle trying to grab it with his gums. Rainbow Dash had gone over to the cake and grabbed a slice, taking a bite of it. Rarity was by the music as she was dancing to it to which Naruto and Ditzy joined her.

Soon enough a conga line was being formed starting with Pinkie and Twilight. Rarity taking noticed followed after Twilight. Then Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, followed by Naruto and Ditzy and finally Applejack.

"None of you mind d if we celebrated Gummy's after-birthday party too, would you? His party was cut short, and he's pretty upset about it." Pinkie Pie asked as she continued to walk to the music.

The others released comments agreeing to the subject.

"Yeah, why not? Let's have a party for Gummy." Twilight accepted and giggled. With that they all continued enjoying the party.

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