Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x ?

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Story Start

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It would only be a few days now. In a few days Spike would be on his way to undergo dragon training. It wasn't the easiest thing to accept, but everypony decided to be happy for Spike and support him.

In fact Pinkie Pie was even preparing a 'so long for now we'll see you again party for Spike' Everypony in town who didn't hold contempt for the dragon had already rsvp Pinkie's invitation. While the size of attendants wouldn't be the usual Pinkie Pie occupancy it didn't mean the pink pony wouldn't see to it that it wouldn't be as festive.

This party though was a simple party at a club celebrating one of the town members turning twenty-one. So there were drinks, loud music and those looking to hookup for tonight.

"There you are Narry." A perky voice said from his right. Pinkie's joy filled voice filled his ear as he finished downing his fifth cup of punch. "I thought you'd be dancing."

"Between Ditzy, Rarity, and Fluttershy I'm plenty danced out." He explained. He had spent time with all three of them before one by one they dipped out for the night, saying goodbye to their friends and heading home as it was starting to get late.

"But you can't be danced out Narry. I haven't had my turn yet." She said with a cute pout.

Her attempts to drag Naruto off the wall proved ineffective. "Sorry Pinkie…" He replied with a shrug as he watched Pinkie Pie go into her thinking expression. He simply leaned against the wall and watched as Pinkie pondered.

She just stared as she spoke.

"Alright Narry I can't get you to dance on the floor. So I'll dance with you right here." With that Pinkie was on the offensive. Her tail curled around his waist as she threw her arms around his neck. A flirty giggle escaped her lips as she gave her coltfriend a seductive look.

She started to rock her body against his, sparing not even an inch of space between them. She playfully giggled as she dipped on him twisting herself around while her tail continued to pull against his waist. As she turned around, she pulled his hips against her, landing him directly against the dock of her tail. As he made impact, he could see the ripples briefly under her skirt.

Naruto groaned as Pinkie rolled her hips in a circular motion, grinding against him. His hands found her hips as he helped guide her movements. Moving an arm back she wrapped it around his neck as her face was inches from his. "Looks like little Narry is coming out to play."

"Pinkie," he whispered in her ear, as the pink pony drove her pink pair of cheeks against his pelvis. "If you keep this up I won't be able to contain myself."

"That's the plan." She replied with a naughty smile.

In that case it was time to leave the party.

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A groan escaped Naruto's mouth as Pinkie went to work. Diving onto his cock, taking him even deeper into her throat.

Naruto gripped the sides of her head. His fingers ran through her frizzy mane, clutching at it, and Pinkie giggled around him.

He noticed Pinkie's shoulder moving, and he followed her arm disappear between her thigh as she started to rub herself. The sight of her, staring up at him, her eyes locked with his was incredibly arousing. "Pinkie," he stammered. "I'm close to my limit."

In response Pinkie just continued with even more enthusiasm than before, pushing him quickly to orgasm. He came deep into her mouth. Pinkie was able to swallow the volume.

Without giving her time to think he grabbed her and tossed her onto her back resulting in her letting out a cry of surprise. Immediately he returned the favor as his tongue began to explore her folds. He began alternating between the sides as he used his fingers on her sensitive entrance.

Occasionally Naruto would lick against her clitoris, gently circling it. Pinkie couldn't help but shudder when he did.

Pinkie's mouth hung open, the occasional gasp escaping her lips thanks to his meticulous treatment. No area was left unattended, and she felt the first crests of impending orgasm blooming.

Naruto kept varying his speed and pressure, toying with her by drawing so close to the places she wanted him, only to dance tantalizingly around them.

"N-Narry! Stop it! Let me cum already!" Pinkie Pie replied, her whine filled with frustration.

It was infuriating as much as it was arousing and Pinkie was reaching her limit.

Having teased his marefriend enough he began focusing on her clit while he pumped inside of her with two of his fingers.

Pinkie's climax hit her like a wall. She cried out from the hot intensity, her entire body felt hot like a blazing inferno. Light aftershocks ran through her as the pleasure slowly faded.

"So going to make you pay for teasing me." Pinkie said as she began to crawl towards the blond. Tonight was going to be interesting.

A few orgasms later the two of them were curled up under the sheets. Spooning as Pinkie gently nestled under his chin. "Narry. You doing anything the day after tomorrow?"

"No, why?" He said as he moved his hand to stroke Pinkie's hip before moving his finger to trace her cutie mark.

"My sister Maud is coming into town that day. I already invited the others, but I hope you could come over to the bakery tomorrow morning to help me finish my surprise for her."

Aah yes. Pinkie's very stoic sister. "Of course, I'll be over bright and early." He said as he simply held her as they drift off into peaceful sleep.

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It was bright and early in the morning and the herd made their way into the bakery. Pinkie issued out a warning. "Careful!" She pointed towards the pieces of rock candy on the floor leading to the massive piles that littered the floor.

"What is all this?" Twilight asked after shaking the pieces of rock candy off her shoes. She with the others as they had their first sight of the candy fiesta that stood before them.

"Maud's gonna be here soon, and I need your help taste-testing my rock candy recipes!" With an excited grin Pinkie Pie explained.

"Uh, we're happy to help you, Pinkie Pie, but this seems like an awful lot of candy." Applejack mentioned after noticing the entire piles of candy literally almost everywhere.

An expression of doubt formed on the unicorn's features at the possibility of anypony being able to consume all this."Even for you!"

"I may have gone a teensy bit overboard." She sheepishly shared and revealed a large grin afterwards.

"Welp. Better get started." Rainbow headed towards a pile, leading for the others to do the same.

They all started slow, and true to its name the candy was very tough to chew. Eventually, they picked up the pace as if they were eating regular candy. Despite all the candy that was already present, Pinkie Pie seemed to believe she needed to make more, and she did so, all while giving more details on her sister Maud. In time, the pace slowed down once again. Eventually the herd had to stop after consuming enough to the point they were feeling bloated.

What followed was a collection of groaning moans. Twilight even had the courage to toss one more red one in her mouth before Pinkie Pie, whom was the only one not feeling the pain of full capacities, rolled over a can overfilled with more rock candies. "Everypony ready for more?" The piles in the background weren't even finished yet!

"Ugh. My teeth hurt." Rainbow Dash spat pieces of rock candy out of her mouth as she held her hands to her stomach.

Fluttershy was only able to respond with a groan.

"I think we've had plenty." Applejack answered. "You said Maud was going to be here soon a while back. Shouldn't you be on your way to pick her up from the train station?"

"Oh, but you've only tried half of the flavors, and we have to choose the perfect ones before she gets here so I have time to make more!" Pinkie Pie denied the need to go out and grabbed a hand full of candy to stuff down her throat. She obviously seemed to have no problem swallowing it.

"Maud is your sister. I'm sure she'll love your rock candy." Twilight confronted Pinkie Pie and assured her. "And I'm pretty sure you've made enough." She glanced back at the unfinished stacks of rock candy. "She's only staying for the week, right?"

"Aw, it's not just for Maud, silly." Pinkie Pie responded, surprising Twilight. "I'm making candy for all of us!" Her correction led to another simultaneous group of moans from the group. "It's part of a very important, super-duper special tradition that only the closest and bestest of friends can share!" She made her point clearly and seriously. "We're going to make rock candy necklaces together!" She held up an example of the necklace and squealed excitedly loud.

"About that…"Naruto began, his metabolism burning right through the sugar. "Why don't you tell us why these rock candy necklaces are so special?"

Pinkie looked back in thought and appeared to begin drifting off into the days of her memories. "It all started when Maud and I were fillies on the rock farm." She then pointed a finger upwards to reveal she had gotten an idea. She ran to retrieve a coloring book, placed it in front of us, and began using her crayons to draw colorful pictures to describe what she meant. "She taught me the Pie family rock candy recipe! It adds a secret ingredient." She looked towards us and held a hand near her mouth. She answered with a loud whisper. "It's rocks!" Afterwards, she continued normally. "And she showed me how to string the pieces to make them into a necklace! And once we were done, we'd trade!" She dropped her crayon and bounced back up to continue speaking. "Maud and I have been trading necklaces back and forth since I moved to Ponyville. They're a sign that we'll always be best friends!" Pinkie ended with a bright beam.

"Aw, what a great tradition." Applejack expressed, seeing how adorable the relationship between Pinkie and her sister was.

The rest of the group showed similar expressions except for one.

"Hold on. The secret ingredient is rocks?" Rainbow Dash questioned shockingly.

"Wait, don't tell me we actually ate rocks." Ditzy questioned with a pale expression.

"Yes and no!" Pinkie Pie responded. "These are a special kind of rock that Maud discovered!"

"Oh, what kind of a rock are they?" Fluttershy asked intriguingly.

"Can't tell ya that, silly!" Pinkie then proceeded in a whisper. "It's a secret!" She whispered and patted Fluttershy's head. "Now that Maud is heading out to get her rocktorate in rock science, this may be our last chance to trade them for a really long time."

"I can't wait for you all to spend time with her. You never really got to get to know her because my family couldn't stay long after the ceremony, but I just know that my best Ponyville friends and my best sister friend are gonna become bestest friends! We can make bestest-est friend rock candy necklaces together!" She ran over to Rarity and wrapped an arm around her. "She expresses herself through fashion just like Rarity, and she's really smart and loves reading just like Twilight!" She held Twilight as well. "And she's honest, and loves forest things, and is good at games, and artsy, and..." Pinkie had grabbed ahold of the group and held them closely bunched up together. "Well, oh, she's awesome!"

"She sounds amazing, but would she not start worrying if you are not present at the train station when she gets here?" Rarity strained the sound through her lips as she was being squeezed between Pinkie and Twilight.

"She sure will!" Pinkie Pie reacted casually before she realized how awful that really was with a loud gasp. "I gotta get out of here!" She accidentally threw all of them aside and ran out the door to do so.

"A-hem…" Rarity reacted as she recovered from the impact Pinkie gave them. "Shall we get the picnic started then?"

"I really can't help, sorry, if I knew ahead of time I would have requested the day off, but I got to work." Ditzy apologized. "I'll try to get to the picnic as soon as I can." She said as she said goodbye to everypony and took off to her house to get ready for work.

"In that case…"Rarity spoke as she stood in front of Pinkie's mirror to observe herself. "I would truly appreciate it if you can get the food and refreshments ready."

"What do you mean?" Applejack questioned.

"It's just that…I need to find and put together something to wear for Pinkie's sister." She paused and looked closely at her reflection, making several gestures. "Oh… This might be a bit hard… I need to find something that just speaks rock."

"I don't think you need to do that, Rarity." Applejack offered her thoughts.

"If I am ever to befriend Maud, I say I must!" She turned and faced Applejack dramatically serious.

"Rare I think you'll be fine with just about anything." Naruto offered.

That kept Rarity silent for a moment as her eyes wandered around. Even though she seemed to take it to thought, she didn't really budge. "It is always important to make a good impression! I must go now." And with that she was on her way.

"Don't forgot about Opal!" Rainbow Dash reminded.

"What?" he questioned. "You're bringing the pets too?"

"Course." Applejack answered. "I think it's a good thing to do. We want to be sure that we are as friendly as possible to Pinkie's sister. We sure don't want her getting any wrong ideas."

"Pinkie said Maud had a pet too." Fluttershy added.

"Ah." Naruto responded. Pinkie never mentioned her having a pet. He supposed that made sense then. "Makes sense I suppose."

After everypony decided on what they were going to bring for the picnic, they split up and prepared for the day.

Pinkie Pie had already gone to the train station to wait pick up Maud, which left everypony else to have everything set up.

Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Applejack already having a nice set up as their pets roamed around. Fluttershy walked in with a smile and placed the basket of sandwiches and bowl of salad she brought. "I sure hope Maud has an appetite."

Angel had poked his head from Fluttershy's body and smelled something in the air. He focused his eyes on a certain basket and ran for it.

"Never met a pony or critter who didn't love Granny Smith's apple spiced muffins!" Applejack mentioned, noticing Angel heading for her basket full of muffins. However, she easily rejected him from digging in.

"Rare's not here yet?" Naruto asked, noticing she was the only one not around besides Pinkie Pie.

"Not that we know of…" Rainbow Dash answered.

"Oh, it's no use! I simply cannot find anything suitable to wear!"

Rarity took her seat as she revealed this out of the ordinary hat she was wearing along with her usual fancy blouse and sensible business skirt. In fact, the only thing odd was her hat that looked more like she had thrown on a purple top hat and just glued what looked like glass rocks on them. Despite her efforts, one of the pieces of rocks fell off and landed inside the muffin basket.

"I doubt she'll notice what anypony's wearing, so what's the big deal?" Rainbow asked.

"The big deal is that it will be very difficult to show Maud what a strong fashion presence we have in Ponyville if the most fashion-forward pony here can't keep her hat from falling apart!" Rarity answered as pieces continued to fall off and ended with a scrunched face in distress.

"I thought you wanted to make a good first impression." Rainbow recalled.

"Well… That too!" Rarity replied.

"Can't blame anypony for being nervous." Twilight said. "Maud is Pinkie Pie's sister, and it's obvious Pinkie really wants us to hit it off. Being able to make those rock candy necklaces together is really important to her. I'm sure everything will be fine—"

"We're heeeere!" Pinkie's voice could be heard from the distance. They looked to see her waving from the top of the hill. Then, she started to excitedly bounce back towards them.

"Where's Maud?" Twilight asked when Pinkie Pie was back, noticing that Maud wasn't with her.

"She's coming!" Pinkie assured and looked back with a wide grin in anticipation.

However, as they all stared at the top of the hill to wait for her to come out in sight, it began to appear as if somehow Pinkie Pie had actually forgotten about her.

"Uh... you sure?" Rainbow questioned after the moment of silence.

"She's not quite as fast as me." Pinkie Pie explained, making some sense. "I asked Gummy to stay with her in case she got lost!" She turned back to the top of the hill, excitedly expecting Maud to show up while they remained pretty clueless and lost with a hint of doubt.

After another moment with slight awkward silence, they finally noticed something appear. After a little uncomfortable while, a figure was now fully visible, but it was growing at a slow pace…very slow place.

"Is she even moving?" Rainbow whisper to Naruto.

Despite going downhill, Maud really took her time in joining us.

"We're over here, Maud!" Pinkie screamed energetically.

There was no change in Maud's facial expressions. She retained the same expression throughout the entire walk. There was no smile after hearing Pinkie Pie's scream. There was no worry that she might have been taking too long. There was not even any sign of nervousness coming from her end. It was just…blank.

Maud was exactly as she was the same as they last saw her. Wearing a dark colored frock with black belt the Persian blush gray mare had her grayish blue violet mane and tail in the same plain style. Her light turquoise eyes were neutral as always. Compared to Pinkie Maud was taller by half a foot and looked to be a bit more muscular, but

Nevertheless, when she finally arrived, the group lifted up their smiles and began their friendly approach. As Gummy remained attached to her tail with his gums, she only stared at them with no expression at all. In fact, it looked like she may have been irritated to be there with today, or it was as if she had had a bad day. But then she faced her eyes towards the ground, seeming to notice a rock.

She crouched down at the rock and closed her eyes, allowing the observant of the group to notice she wore eye shadow like Rarity, only it was a purple color instead. Picking it up she took a sniff of the rock and began to speak. "Hm. Sedimentary." She recorded with an absolute deadpan expression.

"Huh?" Rainbow Dash reacted, landing on her hooves and narrowing her eyes.

"This is a sedimentary rock." She picked it up and showed it to them in a very calm manner.

Dear lord. If there was any proof one needed she was Pinkie's sister this was it.

Twilight decided to be the first to break the silence. "That's... really fascinating, isn't it?" She commented. Then, she approached Maud to speak with her. "We're just so thrilled you could come for a visit before your big trip. Pinkie Pie has told us so much about you. We've met briefly once at the ceremony but allow me to introduce us again I'm Twilight…" She presented herself. "…and this is Applejack…" She pointed a hoof at Applejack, whom tipped her hat. "…Fluttershy…" Fluttershy waved her hand shyly. "…Naruto…" Nodded and smiled at the mare. "…Rainbow Dash…" Rainbow saluted. "…and Rarity." Rarity bowed gracefully.

"We're ever so glad to meet you." Fluttershy shared. "Well again." She added.

"We're just gonna have the best time!" Applejack included.

Even after the welcoming gesture, it looked to have no effect whatsoever on Maud. She only stood there and continued staring lifelessly at them. The girls were quick to notice this, but this seemed to be a completely normal thing for Pinkie Pie.

"Pinkie Pie tells me you share my love for fashion." Rarity advanced towards Maud, starting another topic to hopefully have a long-lasting conversation.

"I'm really into expressing myself through my wardrobe." Maud responded in an unchanging tone.

"A-and what is the delightful frock you're wearing now saying?" Rarity asked with a bit a nervousness in her eyes.

"It doesn't talk. It's a dress." Maud answered dryly, giving Rarity an odd look.

Naruto's lips quirked slightly. Rare of course didn't mean literally, but one couldn't help but notice more and more how the Pie sisters were alike even if they seemed opposites in every way.

"What Rarity means is what does that dress you're wearing express about you?" He said as he wrapped an arm around his confused and fretting Fiance.

"That I like this dress." Her response sounded more like it wanted to be a question, but her tone made it sound more of a statement.

"Yeah I can't be any simpler than that." He whispered to Rarity.

Winona seemed to prevent yet another awkward moment by running in and barking happily around Maud, to which Maud still showed no change of emotion to.

"Uh, so this here's Winona." Applejack began introducing the pets. "That's Owlowiscious, Tank, Opal, and Angel. Pinkie Pie told us you have a pet, too."

"He's in my pocket." Maud mentioned.

"Oh, you have a pocket pet?" Fluttershy's excitement rose at the thought of Maud's pet, which also led to a rise in Angel's jealousy. "Like a tiny mouse? Or a baby bird? Or a trained butterfly?"

"It's a rock." She answered and tossed out a little pebble towards the ground, surprising and deeply confusing Fluttershy. "His name is Boulder."

Before another awkward silence could ensue, Pinkie Pie screamed out in delight. "This is going to be the best week ever! I can't wait for us all to become best friends!"

However, the rest of the group just smiled awkwardly. Despite her being humorous in her own kind of way even Naruto had to admit interacting with her was going to prove a fair bit challenging.

Things seemed to lighten up when they all began eating though. Maud had been consuming one of Fluttershy's sandwiches until she placed it down on the ground and slid her pet rock right in front of it as if she was offering a bite. She wasn't even joking or anything. By the look on her face, she was dead serious.

"Maud?" Applejack called, bringing her attention away from her rock. "Would you like to try one of Granny Smith's famous apple spiced muffins?" She pushed the basket towards Maud, kindly offering one of them.

Maud sniffed them for a while. Instead of grabbing a muffin, she had actually grabbed the piece of rock that had fallen from Rarity's hat earlier.

"Oh, uh, heh, that's not– Um..." Applejack tried to warn her, but Maud continued chewing, which sounded more like crunching, the rock inside her mouth. It didn't even faze her. She was eating the rock like it was nothing to her!

After performing one big crunch, she faced Applejack to get her thoughts on what she just ate. "It's crunchy." She mentioned with her mouth full of rock.

Pinkie Pie decided to take a bite of one of the actual muffins in the basket to join her sister. "Maud's right! They are crunchy!" She slurped the pieces off her mouth. "Yum!"

"So, uh, Pinkie Pie tells us you like games." Rainbow Dash felt the need to change the topic.

"Boulder and I sometimes play a game called 'Camouflage'. It's kind of like hide and seek but way more intense." She actually emphasized without changing her tone at all other than just increasing her pitch by just a little.

"…Awesome?" Rainbow returned confusingly.

"Why don't you go ahead and show them how you play it, Maud? I'm sure they'd love to play along!" Pinkie encouraged.

"Okay." Maud stood up and placed Boulder back in her pocket. "I'm going to go find a bunch of rocks so Boulder can hide." She stood up, turned, and left.

"Wait a minute…" Rainbow began. "She's going to find a bunch of rocks…so Boulder can hide…?!" She turned to us in disbelief. "We have to find an itty bitty pebble in a bunch of rocks?!"

"Of course, silly!" Pinkie answered. "It wouldn't be fun if he had no chance in hiding!"

"It's a rock." Rainbow replied.

"Now, now." Twilight attempted to calm. "It's just a little game. Let's play it with Maud. It shouldn't be too bad."

"He's ready to be found now." Maud appeared nearby and spoke expressionless as usual.

Everypony but Pinkie Pie, whom looked too excited for the game, exchanged unsure looks with one another.

They searched at a sight not too far from the picnic area. There was weirdly a pile of rocks waiting for them to search through. Fortunately, there were a had a fairly large group, so it wasn't as boring or slow as it could have been. Everypony calmly flipped and picked up numerous rocks until things began to become a little unsettling, especially with Rainbow Dash.

"Any luck?" Twilight asked us, despite none of them showing any sign of finding this rock.

"I truly wish I'd spent more time with Boulder, because I'm having a very hard time remembering what he looks like." Fluttershy held up a rock and observed it closely.

"He's a small pebble." Naruto continued through his share of rocks.

"It's like looking for a pebble in a haystack." Applejack compared as she kicked a rock beside her.

"More like in a pile of pebbles." Rarity declared even further as yet another piece of rock on her hat fell to the ground.

"Well, you don't have to make it even harder!" Applejack mentioned to Rarity.

"Ugh! I give up! This is impossible!" Rarity submitted in frustration.

"It'll hurt Maud's feelings if we all stop playing." Twilight argued. "Besides, look how much fun Pinkie Pie's having."

"Is this him? Is this him? Is this him? Is this him?" Pinkie Pie continuously asked Maud, presenting various kinds of rocks and never seeming to lose an ounce of the energy inside her.

"Come on girls, I know this isn't what you were expecting, but we have to make the best of it." Naruto said as he glanced at the unchanging look on Maud's face. "She's a bit unusual, but everypony has their quirks about them. Lets just give her time. She's probably nervous about getting to know all of us."

Every one of the girls returned collective groans and continued to unenthusiastically search for Boulder. However, Maud unexpectedly made a deadpan announcement. "Found him." She held the pebble up.

"Oh!" Pinkie Pie concentrated her eyes on him in surprise. "Where was he?"

"He was hiding in my pocket." She answered.

"Oh, come on!" Rainbow shouted out, pushing away the pile of rocks she had been searching in.

Angel hopped by and tapped Fluttershy, pointing her in the direction where the other animals were. They seemed to be bored out of their minds. "I don't mean to interrupt, but we really should get these little critters home." Fluttershy pointed out. "It's getting awfully late, and they've had a very busy day."

"Maud and I better get going too." Pinkie Pie immediately agreed. "I want her to taste the rock candy we're gonna use for our best friends necklaces! Aw, yeah!" She cheered and left with Maud, bringing Gummy along with her.

"She sure is... different from what I expected." Applejack commented after the two were gone.

"We spent all day digging in the dirt, and he was in her pocket the whole time?!" Rainbow complained furiously.

"On the bright side, Boulder seemed really sweet." Fluttershy presented politely.

"He's a rock!" Rainbow Dash screamed out after appearing to be highly in disbelief after Fluttershy's statement.

"Maybe she was just acting a little 'off' because she was shy or somethin'." Applejack wondered.

"Good point." Twilight acknowledged. "It must be awfully intimidating to meet all of us at once, especially since we're already such good friends."

"Probably even more so specifically because of who we are. Some ponies are easily intimidated. Maybe she wants to make a good impression, but isn't sure how. After all it took all of us time before we started to really open up with each other so we should give Maud the same courtesy."

"Well, she didn't exactly make a good first impression…" Rainbow Dash mentioned with crossed arms.

"Look…" Twilight intervened before Rainbow could upset anypony with her stress on the matter. "Maybe we have to put ourselves in Maud's place. What Naruto suggested has merit. If all of us together could be so intimidating we can spend time with her one-on-one and see where that takes us?"

"I suppose that could work." Rarity accepted, removing the hat off of her head. "I could finally show her how fashionable I can be around here. Perhaps, I can even design her something in start of a good friendship!" Rarity began brainstorming ideas.

"I'm sure she won't mind seeing the beauties of nature." Fluttershy thought with a smile.

"Pinkie Pie said she loves books." Twilight recalled, growing a smile upon her face as well. "I'd love to discuss some of my favorite novels with her."

"She's sure to perk up after drinking the best cider here in Ponyville!" Applejack hoped.

"Who knows, maybe a little training session could help loosen her up." Naruto decided.

"And…!" Rainbow Dash landed firmly on the ground between us. "This time, I'll show her a real game to play."

"Sounds good. It's settled then." Twilight faced the others in hope and faith. "Tomorrow, we'll show Maud how much fun we can really be."

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Tomorrow had arrived and Naruto would be the one starting off the pie sisters fun filled day.

Knocks tapped on the front door, leading him to excitedly answer the door.

There was Pinkie Pie, whom grinned as widely as she could due to the possibility that she was excited for the time spending between Maud and him, and then there was Maud, whom unfortunately hadn't changed her expression since yesterday. "Alright ladies, I have a training session set up with a few locals. Follow me and who knows, we might even work up an appetite." He said as he made his way out of the house and down the path.

"Eehee!" Pinkie giggled and hopped after him.

Maud followed in a sort of slow and casual way.

"Hey." He greeted in an effort to have her respond back.

"Hi." She answered, but there was no smile or warming reaction.

What followed was awkward silence until they got to the park. "Alright we're going to have a review. Let's start off with some basic punches. Left and right, repeat without pause."

Pinkie dressed in a tank top and shorts was proving to be quite distracted to some of the attendees, especially the way her breasts wobbled. "Eyes ahead!" Naruto authoratively shouted gaining their attention. His eyes trained at Maud who attempts to emulate the gesture.

An equivalent of two gestures from Maud equaled about a ten from everypony else.

"Alright, now onto high kicks." These sessions meant everyone had to dress much more practically. Hopefully Pinkie gave Maud a pair of shorts to wear under her frock. He soon learned that wouldn't be a problem as Maud's equivalent to a high kick was only mid waist in height.

At the very least some sort of change in facial expression would have warrant this outing a success, but no, Maud remained impassive as always. He was beginning to have a feeling what Maud's deal was. She simply wasn't somepony outgoing or talkative.

There was only one way to see. He called the training session over a half hour earlier than he usually would have. "Hey Maud can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Okay."

"Pinkie I'm going to talk with Maud for a second."He called out to the pink mare who was currently stretching and drawing in a crowd of admirers. "Okie-doke." She said.

Naruto began to lead Maud away as they traveled to the small pond area in the park. Stepping out at the water line Naruto pulled out a gemstone the same color as Maud's hair and handed it to her.

She observed it in unclear silence for a moment before she returned a comment.

"What a remarkably beautiful gemstone."

"Considering your fascination with rocks I'd thought you like it." After giving her the stone he began to speak with her. "I was hoping you'd open up a bit more Maud. Because all of us want to be your friends. My herd and I. Not only because you're Pinkie's sister, but you have a good heart and I'm really hoping we can be friends."

Maud blinked and then responded. "Okay."She remained silent for a few seconds before she answered. "I like you."

Naruto was surprised by the sudden exclamation. "Really?"

"You're honest and caring. I can see why Pinkie Pie joined your herd. I like ponies who are honest with themselves and others. We can be friends." Maud clarified.

"Well that's great. So. Is there some kind of way I'll be able to tell when you're being something other than well…stoic?"

"Well…" Maud looked to the side before facing back to him. "I guess you just have to learn my tales. It would not be fun if I told you everything from the get go."

"Ah of course." Well since he had her hear. "Want to tell me a bit about what life was like on the farm? Pinkie doesn't talk about it much."

"Well, first of all… there were a lot of rocks."

Naruto didn't think there could be any more than at best a few stories about rocks. Was he ever wrong.

Pinkie Pie suddenly rushed up to meet them at the lake. "Hey, Maud! We better get going! We don't want to miss any of the fun things we have to do before you leave!"

"Okay." Maud answered in the opposite way, leaving Pinkie to dash back down the park.

"I guess I'll be seeing you later." He said.

"Yeah." She shared with no expression as usual, but her tone had been lighter than before.

That evening Naruto went to meet the group at Sugarcube Corner As much as he had wanted to see how Maud would get along with the others he didn't want to make the situation awkward.

Then he saw the look on the girl's faces and he noticed none of them looked to enthusiastic. To his surprise Ditzy had even made it. "How'd it go with you all?"

Instead of answering, they only looked at each other with frowning faces. Before he could question them on that, Pinkie Pie showed up at the front of the shop as she forced the door open excitedly. "Great, you're all here! Maud is out looking for rocks, so this is the perfect time for us to set up everything we'll need to make our best friend rock candy necklaces!" Pinkie whirled her hooves around in front of her, but she soon found it odd when I was the only one who appeared ready. She stopped and looked around to observe the girls' faces. "What's wrong?"

"Well, I'm not sure it's the best time to make best friend rock candy necklaces." Twilight took a moment to respond as she kicked her foot in the dirt.

"Why not?" Pinkie Pie cluelessly asked.

"Uh..." Twilight struggled to speak.

"You see…" Ditzy tried to find the words, but couldn't.

"Well, darling, you see..." Rarity tried continuing after Twilight glanced over to her but immediately paused. She turned her eyes towards Fluttershy and backed off nervously.

"You're ever so thoughtful to share your special bonding ritual with us, but, uh..." Fluttershy stopped, proving unable to explain either.

"But what?" Pinkie Pie pursued, seeming to not catch on to their nervous behavior.

Rainbow Dash buried her mouth in her hand and she held on to the mailbox in front of the building, not sparing a single word. It was as if all of these girls accidentally hurt Maud badly or something…

It wasn't until the Element of Honestly finally sighed and spoke up. "The truth is, we've all been tryin' real hard to get closer to Maud, but, well... maybe some ponies just don't click the way others do." After hearing Applejack perform the most difficult part, the rest of them muttered in agreement. "We just wouldn't feel right makin' somethin' that means we're best friends if, well, we aren't."

After hearing those last brutal words, Pinkie's hair instantly deflated as her heart was shattered in pieces. "Oh. Okay." Despite the obvious reaction, she still tried to answer in a happy manner. "If anypony needs me, I'll be in here trying to figure out what to do with two hundred pounds of rock candy." She backed away, grabbed the door handle, and closed the door shut.

As the girls all shared and exchanged looks of remorse and guilt.

"Was it that bad?" Naruto asked them. "I admit Maud and I aren't what you call best friends forever either, but I was able to come to an understanding with her. None of you clicked with her at all?"

"Believe us, we all tried." Twilight answered. "But…we just didn't…feel anything…" Twilight glanced over to the girls around her. "We didn't feel…any spark."

Rarity stepped up. "I thought I'd have a better time knowing we'd focus solely on fashion…but I wasn't expecting her to find a dish towel suitable as something to wear. I thought she'd adore fashion such as the dresses I design. To be frank, darling, I don't see how I could share any common interests with a pony who wears a dish towel as a scarf."

Fluttershy continued next. "I tried sharing my love of animals with her…but all she seemed to be interested was rocks…"

"Same here…" Twilight agreed. "But instead of animals, it was with my books and literature. I thought we'd have something to talk all day about when Maud said she writes her own poetry…but when I heard some samples of it…they were all just about rocks… She said she's written thousands of poems about rocks! How am I supposed to connect with that?"

"Speaking of rocks…" Applejack made her turn. "I was trying to make apple cider with her, but when I asked her to peel some apples for me, she crushed them with a huge rock instead! I don't mean to be rude, but who uses a rock to peel an apple if that's even possible? It's like the pony uses rocks for everythin'!"

"And I tried baking with her…" Ditzy spoke up as it came to around her turn. "I thought we could bond over food recipes, but everytime I let her try to cook something it came out like…well rocks." She finished with a sigh. After feeling left out Ditzy was finally going to share a bonding experience only for that to happen.

"That's not surprising." Rainbow Dash finally said. "She actually beat me in a game of who could throw a rock the farthest! I thought I was the strongest! But I guess since she's so about rocks, she was able to throw it to the ends of Equestria! And then she tells me she's not into winning!"

"What about you?" Twilight mentioned. "You sound like you actually got along with her."

"Well the whole training thing was a disaster, but I pulled her aside and we had a heart to heart of sorts. Despite how awkward things were I expressed a genuine interest in being her friend and she accepted."

"That's it? Of course the boring solution would get through to her." Rainbow Dash complained.

Applejack furrowed her eyebrows angrily at Rainbow's rude outburst pushed her off the mailbox she had been on.

"I'll go talk with Pinkie." He volunteered as he entered inside and saw the mare was wallowing among a pile of her rock candy.

"Hey there Pinks. I wouldn't mind making a necklace with you and Maud. I think she and I get along alright."

"Thank you Narry, that's really sweet, but its not the same. I wanted my sister and my second family to get along and make the necklaces together." She continued to much on the candy.

"I'm sorry that things didn't work out the way you wanted. There are just some ponies who don't get along. Now the girls really tried, but they just couldn't find common ground with Maud. We all have things we enjoy and make up our life purpose. Sometime those things don't align. If everypony was the same then we would have nothing to make us special or for us to realize why our bonds with certain individuals is so special. We all found each other because something occurred to unite us all."

"I think I understand what you're saying." Pinkie began thinking silently as she rubbed her hand beneath her chin. "To unite all of us we need to have a common interest. Something we can all relate to." Her eyes lit up.

"…what if I get them all together with something each of them like and combine into one big fun game?!" Her voice gradually increased in volume and excitement, leading to a great gasp. "I think I got it!"

"What?"

"I'll show you!" Pinkie Pie grabbed his hand, and with Pinkie speed, led him outside the building.

Pinkie Pie stopped when they were in a great, big, and open landscape, which kept him puzzled. "What are you showing me exactly?"

"Just you wait and see." Pinkie said with a grin as she dashed off to get some supplies.

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"No way I refuse." He said as he looked at the huge unique playground before him. He had only left for half an hour when Pinkie asked him could he go grab something to his room only to return to this. "Where are you Celestia? I know you're in the bushes somewhere." This obviously had to be a prank and the invisibility spell cast on this course had been removed.

Pinkie Pie bounced excitedly. "Like it?!"

"H…How did you…? I was gone for thirty minutes. And I'm not going to question this anymore."

"Yeah its for the best."

"I'm going to get everyone else! Wait right here!" She excused herself from the area and left him to silently wait by the sight of Pinkie's quick creation.

"What's going on?" Maud asked blankly as she appeared next to him.

"Pinkie Pie…" that was the only answer he had.

"Oh, okay."

Pinkie Pie finally made her entrance to explain what was going on herself. "Come on! Come on! This way! Keep going!" She directed the mares she brought for one last chance to bond with Maud.

They all held pretty surprised expressions when they arrived at the scene. They noticed Maud, who continued to look like nothing was amusing to her, even the playground Pinkie somehow had managed to build. Maud glanced back at them for a second but returned her expressionless sight towards the playground.

"Pinkie…" Twilight called once clearly observing her creation. "What is that?"

"I call it 'Pinkie-Rainbow-Rari-Twi-Apple-Flutter-Ditzy-Maud Fun Time-Stravaganza'!" She cheerfully announced.

They had no answer to that until Rainbow felt the means to question it. "Huh?"

"It combines everypony's interests into one giant activity that we can all enjoy together and that will totally bring all of my bestest friends together as bestestest friends!" She explained and directed its focus to complete the friendship between Maud. "You'll need these." She presented dress forms that wore some silly outfits. I had no idea where she got all of this in such a short amount of time.

"Like I said: 'Huh?'" Rainbow repeated.

"Probably better for me to show you." Pinkie Pie suggested and placed on a swimming outfit. "Watch this! Applesauce tunnel for Applejack." She swam through the applesauce that was in a tunnel. "Pretty shiny stuff for Rarity." She landed in a pile of shimmering fabric. "Reading material for Twilight." She broke through a wall of books. "Critter time for Fluttershy..." She played poker with a table of animals. "Baking for Ditzy." She brought out a pan of cake with mittens after the oven dinged. "Cupcakes for yours truly..." She caught a cupcake with her mouth after having had them float in midair inside a small dome. "…and it's a race for Rainbow Dash!" She finished.

Twilight released a short gasp. "Pinkie Pie, what is that?!" She pointed out, revealing how there had been a huge pile of rocks with a dangerous and immense boulder hazardously tipping over at the top.

"A rock slide, of course!" Pinkie happily answered. "For Maud! First you climb, and then you slide!"

As Pinkie Pie traveled through the slide that would apparently lead to this part of the obstacle course. "Pinkie! This is both crazy and dangerous. You can't be serious?"

"Completely serious!" Pinkie Pie responded as she began skipping onto the rocks. "More so than I ever been." She continued her journey up the rocky mountain as she giggled playfully. One skip she overestimated her strength and jammed her foot into between two rocks.

"My hoof's stuck!" She informed as she strained to pull herself out.

"Hold on! I'm com—" He tried to say until the mountain began shaking violently. The entire mountain seemed to be collapsing, leaving Pinkie to tap the rock on her hoof desperately.

"Watch out!" Applejack had warned from the bottom.

"Huh?" Pinkie looked to see multiple huge boulders coming down at a rapid speed. Panic had overwhelmed the mare as she lost all composure. The sight of this caused Pinkie to shriek in complete terror. "Help!"

With that they had shot into action. To their surprise one pony shot past them with speed they hadn't expected. Maud. Hell with her speed she could have given Naruto or Rainbow a run for their money provided they were only using their base power. Before the first boulder could impact Maud unless a rapid fire of punches that had turned the boulder into pieces. "Maud look out!" Before Maud could free herself more boulders had tumbled down. She wouldn't be able to free Pinkie and get them both out of there in time. That was when the rest of the herd appeared. The first two boulders had been shattered by Naruto and Applejack's fists.

Twilight and Rarity used their magics to blast and diced up the boulders respectively while Rainbow used her wings to cut through some.

Realizing they were being bought time Maud freed Pinkie with a pinpoint blow to one of the rocks keeping her in place. "Hurry! Get them out of there." Fluttershy and Ditzy flew down and scooped them out of there as the rest of the group retreated as the rock slide tumbled down, wrecking the course below.

They had made it all down safely with a relieved sigh. And to their surprise Maud was revealing emotion. She was actually furrowing her eyebrows and looked as if she was about to deeply scold her sister, whom returned a flinching face. However, Maud only wrapped a hand around her in a sign of great relief and love.

"Pinkie Pie, what were you thinking?" Maud revealed present emotion as she worriedly asked her.

"I guess I wasn't…" Pinkie sadly responded. "It just…looked so much better in my head. I thought we'd all have a fun time and get along."

"Listen." Maud held a hand under Pinkie's chin and brought it up. "I know how important it is to you that your friends become my friends, but I just don't think it's going to happen. If it has to come down to risking your life, I just don't think it's worth trying. I think it would be best if I just go back to the rock farm and spend the rest of the week there." After Pinkie had removed the equipment off herself, her jaw immediately fell wide open when she heard her sister say that. Maud turned to them as she returned back to her expressionless tone. "Thank you all. We owe you our lives and I will not forget this. It was nice to meet you all. It makes me happy knowing Pinkie Pie has such good friends." With that, she began leaving, lowering all of the other girls' heads in guilt.

"But... we never even got to make our rock candy necklaces..." Pinkie Pie cried out softly and gloomily. "Wait, Maud! I'll come with you!" She began running after her, leaving us all in silence.

"I can't believe…what just happened…" Twilight finally spoke. "We almost lost Pinkie…all because she wanted us to be friends with Maud."

"Yeah, but it does show us that we do all have something in common with Maud. Our love for Pinkie. To be brave and determined even if it puts your life on the line. I relate to her so well. Even if its centered around her rocks she knew what she had to do and she did it.

"You're right. Even if her focus is rocks it doesn't change all the wonderful qualities about her." Twilight came to a realization. "I was so focused on the fact that all her poems were about rocks I ignored her passion and devotion to have been able to create so many poems. I know what it feels to have that much dedication to something."

"Right." Ditzy nodded. "No matter how many times she failed Maud never gave up in trying to bake. I know, I know what its like to fail in a lot of things, but to never give up. Even if you're a little different from everypony else. I understand what it feels like."

"Ah had to admit ah thought it was a bit screwy why she was so hung up on rocks, but ah think ah understand now. She grew up on a rock farm How could ah not understand a pony who grew up like me and could understand farm life?"

Now it was Rainbow's turn. "Yeah, I had to admit I thought someone who didn't care about winning had a screw loose, but did you see her go. Heck she's an athlete if I'd ever seen one and she's just so cool about it. I have to admit I'm a little impressed."

Rarity nodded and began to speak. "You are right. She is different. Her fashion tastes and mine are not of the same page, but I do suppose that would make comparing the two interesting. "

Finally it was Fluttershy. "I have never known anypony who knew could know so much about something like…rocks. T-The way she talks about them. It sort of reminds me of well…me whenever I see a new species of animals for the first time."

"So you see girls. Once you look past the surface you see the wonderful treasure inside. To see what Pinkie sees in her big sister."

"We need to fix this!" Twilight decided.

"Pinkie might probably still be at Sugarcube Corner." Fluttershy offered.

"We need to hurry before they head to the train station!" Rainbow Dash ordered and flew out, leading them to follow after.

By the time they had arrived, Maud was already heading for the door of the shop with her bags intact and Pinkie trailing miserably behind her. When Maud saw them, she revealed no change of expression. She only stopped and pointed them out to Pinkie Pie.

"What are you doing here?" Pinkie asked in soft surprise.

"Pinkie Pie," Twilight began sincerely. "We're so sorry we hurt your feelings by not bonding with Maud right away. And Maud, we're sorry that you felt the only way to spare Pinkie Pie's feelings was to leave Ponyville early." The others agreed. "But we're especially sorry that we didn't get to see the real pony you are because we let our…" Twilight paused for a moment to shift her hooves in thought. "…cultural differences get between us. We weren't willing to give you a real chance and only went off what we saw on the surface. We realize now we're all more alike than we thought If Pinkie Pie can see you for the great sister you are, than we can do the same as a friend. Because even if our passions for our interests is different there is one thing we all have in common that we're on the same wave length. Our love for Pinkie Pie. She's not only one of our dearest friends, but a member of our little family. We wouldn't be complete without her and that means we wouldn't be complete without you either. How about it, Maud?" Twilight asked. "Are you willing to give us another chance.

Maud stared at all of them blankly for a second until she opened her mouth to respond. "Sure." The tone of her voice seemed happy for what she heard, but the expression she wore throughout the entire trip just couldn't help itself in making us doubt that.

This had the girls look around a little uncomfortably.

"What's wrong?" Pinkie noticed their reactions.

"Sorry, darling. I think we all just thought she'd be a bit more excited about this." Rarity apologized.

"Are you kidding me?!" Pinkie returned. "I've never seen her more excited in my entire life!" She pointed out to Maud's face, which still didn't seem much different to us.

"I don't know if you've noticed, but I don't show my enthusiasm for things quite in the same way my sister does." Maud explained as Pinkie performed excited cartwheels around.

"Uh, we noticed." Rainbow Dash acknowledged after sharing a look with the others. "And we're totally cool with it."

As a group of clear agreements was collected, Pinkie Pie couldn't help herself but internally explode from excitement.

"Well in the future you're probably going to have to vocalize your feelings to give us a heads up in the future." Naruto suggested to the mare.

The end of the week came sooner than any of them had expected and to their surprise the herd was sadder than expected to see Maud go.

They all stayed with her until it was time for her to head back. Pinkie was sure to take up as much time as she could in saying goodbye. Pinkie soon allowed them to wish Maud well.

"Maud, we'd like to give you something to take on your trip, so that you remember all your friends from Ponyville." Twilight said and pulled out the rock necklace she had made for Maud to place it around her neck. Each of the others brought up their own unique designed necklaces to share with Maud, especially Rainbow, whom seemed to use a rather large carved piece of multi-colored rock.

"Thank you." The last of the necklaces had been placed on her neck.

"Try not to eat all the candy before you leave!" Pinkie suggested as she held out her rock candy necklace towards Maud.

The two exchanged necklaces as tradition, and Pinkie Pie was already working her teeth to consume the candy. However, Maud pulled a box out of her saddlebag and opened it up to reveal a bunch of more necklaces. She dropped Pinkie's inside.

"Are those all the necklaces Pinkie Pie sent you?" Twilight questioned after seeing them.

"Mm-hm." Maud answered in a kind of exaggerated way.

"You haven't eaten any of them?" Twilight reacted in surprise.

"I don't really like candy." Maud paused to look back at Pinkie and smile for the first time ever that day! "But I love my sister dearly and I'll do anything to make her smile."

"Mmm!" Pinkie finished as she threw the last piece of rock candy in her mouth.

Maud's smile was absolutely heartwarming. As well as her dedication to her sister.

"We all wish you good luck and a safe journey Maud. We'll be seeing you soon hopefully." He wished her goodbye.

"Thanks. That means a lot." She returned in a tone a bit more positive than before. "What? No hug?"

Good lord Maud's neutral tone made it hard to understand if she was joking or not. Naruto then embraced her. "See Ya Maud."

"That was a joke. I actually don't like being touched." She stated frankly. Naruto backed off upon realizing his mistake. He almost missed it as she didn't betray anything but her smile. That and Pinkie Pie's laughter betrayed he had been tricked. "Just kidding."

"Uugh, you pie mares." Naruto grumbled.

Afterwards, she proceeded to enter the train. "It was nice seeing you all." She stated before she boarded and left their sight.

"So going to get you back for this Pinkie." He said as the mare stuck her tongue out at him.

"Nah-uh. You can only try Narry." She teased.

Oh try he will. Try he will.

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