Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x ?

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Story Start

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Twilight Sparkle was nervous.

She was currently shaking and in face was surprised she hadn't passed out from her nerves at the impending date.

She felt rather exposed and that was definitely thanks to the outfit Rarity had forced her in. A sleeveless, low-cut, midriff-bearing, dark indigo blouse, a white buttoned vest, a pair of thigh-high, high-heeled boots, and a black, curve-hugging miniskirt that stopped above her knees instead of far below her knees like she was used to. She had tried to tell Rarity that she felt it was too revealing, but the Unicorn insisted that she could never hope to show off her femininity with frumpy old clothing.

Naruto's choice of where their date was to be did not help that nervousness.

"Oh my," Twilight fretted. "This place certainly looks popular. " She commented as she observed the long line of ponies trying to get in.

"That's Vinyl for you." He said as he led her to the most popular club in what was deemed Canterlot's Urban section. The musician was on one of her tours and was slated to be working in this for the night. "Let's make our way in." He assured her as he led her to the line.

Eventually they reached the front where the bouncer there stopped them and looked them over. "Name?"

"Naruto Uzumaki and Twilight Sparkle," Naruto answered, much calmer than his still worried date.

The bouncer flipped up a page on his clipboard. "Not on the list," he said gruffly as he flipped it back down. Then he blinked and raised an eyebrow. "Wait…did you say Naruto Uzumaki and Twilight Sparkle?"

"Looking a bit confused by his question Twilight asked. "You've… heard of us?"

"Of course!" he exclaimed with a grin. "Hero of the Sun Summer Celebration Incident and Princess Celestia's student who saved Equestria."

Twilight's handling of the sudden fanaticism was that of a nervous awkward chuckle and confirmation. This of course was nothing new for the blond. They eventually made their way in after signing an autograph for the bouncer.

The weight of the energetic dance scene washed over them. Large speakers were set up in each corner of the large room, and an intricate stage crammed with equipment stood against one wall. Behind the control board was none other than Vinyl Scratch herself, a wild smile on her face as she spun and mixed on the fly.

A multi-panel dance-floor sat right in front of the stage, the panels changing colors with the beat of the song, or, at the whim of the DJ, in response to the pounding feet of the ecstatic dancing ponies atop it.

Of course on the opposite side of the dance floor was the bar. There a wide selection of drinks, tonics, and mixers took up a section of the massive wall behind it. Many of the seats were occupied as each pony was enjoying something mixed up by the bartender. On the side of the room were two bright chrome staircases that led to a higher floor stacked with tables of ponies enjoying their drink and trying to talk over the pounding music.

"You ready to dance?" Naruto asked her over the volume of the noise.

"Y-Yes." Twilight shouted her answer over the music. Dancing, one of Twilight Sparkle's beloved activities that didn't involve reading or writing.

For the first few minutes everything had been fine. Then that was when it happened.

Twilight fell into the groove of things and stopped paying attention to the world around her, her eyes falling closed. She flailed her arms about, only vaguely in time to the music and with little regard to the proximity of other ponies. As her movements became more chaotic and the stares mounted, the music was too loud for Twilight to see the amused expressions or hear the chuckling around her.

Naruto covered his mouth to smother the laughter that was escaping his mouth. It was becoming apparent that Twilight's definition of dancing was different from everyone else's but that was okay. While Naruto was no master of dance he was sure one's body wasn't supposed to be doing that. Either way Twilight was too adorable for her own good.

"Wish I had whatever drinks she had." One pony commented in amusement.

"I haven't seen someone cut that loose since my cousin's bachelorette's party." One mare said with a shake of her head.

While some of the patrons let the odd display simply go by them and went about going their night there is usually those few assholes that always have to ruin someone's night.

'Somepony call the paramedics I think she appears to be having a stroke.'

'You call that dancing?'

'I would think that a student of her majesty you would have more pride then that.'

Twilight's ears fell back, and as she looked around; suddenly she was finding herself being judged by several ponies that were looking down at her with judgmental eyes. She shrank down toward the floor, almost cowering as she tried to sink into it and away from all the mocking eyes. A gap appeared in the crowed, and she rose and turned to flee through it, but Naruto kept her from running.

"Twi, you okay?"

"Can we leave now please?" Between her plea to leave and the miserable look on her face, Naruto figured some unkind words were thrown the Unicorn's way and the last thing he wanted to do was to cause a scene during one of his friend's gigs.

"Let's go." He said as he led her out of the club. The two of made their way to Donut Joe's, a favorite haunt of Twilight's.

The quiet atmosphere of the bar would give them time to talk. "I'm sorry, I ruined our date." Twilight apologized still feeling rather down about what happened.

"You didn't ruin anything Twilight, it wasn't your fault."

"But my dancing…" before she could finish he cut her off.

"Is unique," He substituted. "I found it adorable and just because it wasn't conventional didn't give anypony the right to make you feel bad about your dancing. Were you having fun? Were you enjoying yourself?" he posed the questions as Twilight hesitated before nodded. "Then that's all that mattered. I chose dancing for a reason Twilight, I wanted you to cut loose and have fun without worrying about double and triple checking if you were following procedure of whatever activity I chose or whatever you hastily read and reread what should and shouldn't be done in whatever is the popular modern day courtship book for mares."

"H-How did you…" Twilight began to ask before letting out a groan. "…so going to get Spike for this."

"Leave Spike alone," Naruto then playfully added. "…not his fault you completely disappeared into that homes of yours after the Pinrcess's visit. Considering the only other thing besides Philomena was me asking you out the only conclusion to be fit was that you were studying up on the art of courtship." He left out the part he had come in and saw a stack of books rifled with dating advice, dating dos and donts, and other dating advice books and chose the club specifically so Twilight wouldn't stiffly be following the advice of books. "I didn't ask to date Love Bug's seven steps of romantic perfection; I wanted to date you Twilight."

"But I have never been out on a date my entire life." Twilight bemoaned as she was moments away of face planting into her plate of donuts. "I am not very good at romance in fact I should correct that statement by saying I am not good with romance at all. Whatever you are looking for in terms of a romantic partner I…I have no idea what I can offer you." She was the goofy, egghead apprentice of the princess that everypony always treated with either indifference or contempt. Stallions just did not court mares like her, at least not seriously.

"Twilight, at one point of time I was the one stallion on this planet who can legitimately say I was clueless when it came to a mare's feelings, signals, or interests. I was so hopeless I had to have an epiphany to realize I found mares sexy, now which one of us again has the better claim of starting off as hopeless?" He asked and was glad his comment was able to bring a smile to her face. "Started off as the most clueless stallion in Equestria, and I still somehow managed to gain the affections of a generous fashionista, the sweetest mare known to ponykind, a loving partymare, a dependable and honest farm mare, and an assuredly tricky yet noble, proud, and loving Princess of the Night by just being myself. Sometimes its not up to us to discover every worth of good in ourselves, but for those we care about and for those who care about us to help us discover our greatest qualities. Even if you don't see it Twilight I see a dependable, intelligent, driven mare, who yes, is beautiful, even if she doesn't see it. I see a mare who is a born leader and a great friend who is welcome to join my family anytime she wishes provided she can loosen up a bit and let herself have some fun."

"I want to try. I really do." Twilight assured him.

"It's just; the club was a bit much huh?" He asked as Twilight's cheek burned red. He supposed he went a bit too far in wanting to push Twilight into a sociable environment that was a bit more than she was comfortable with.

"To be honest I felt it was already a bit much when I was put into this outfit."

Twilight hadn't been aware but quite a few stallions and even more mares were eying her up at the club. "I'm sure Rarity was only trying to help. She did too good a job considering I almost had to chase a few ponies off."

"S-Stop. You're just joking." Twilight noticed the grin on Naruto's face. "Surely it was not that many ponies?" She find it hard to believe she garnered that sort of attention."

"Miss Sparkle ~ has it going on." Naruto sang as Twilight's cheeks darkened. He then reached out and cupped her hand. "Well, since my plan A was a bust how about my plan B?"

A backup date plan? Twilight perked up at this. "You know, I admire a stallion that always has a backup ready." To Twilight's utter delight Naruto's backup plan was star gazing. She loved the stars. She loved the constellations. She loved charting the movement of stars. The only disappointing part was that Twilight did not have her notes to chart tonight's movement.

Twilight's breath caught at the feel of his coat against hers. It was rather chilly so he brought a blanket over the two of them.

"Oh! I should show you Sirius. It makes up the head of Canis Major, the Great Dog." She wished they were using her telescope she knew just how to adjust it to find everything.

"In this case, should I make all of our dates during the night?" He asked, his lips brushing against her ear. A delicate frisson of electricity moved through Twilight's body as she became even more aware of the stallion beside her. "Well," she said when she found her breath again, "It would be a rather enchanting atmosphere to court one under. " Her tail twitched behind her as her voice faded to a halt. "Probably not the romantic…" Twilight found herself interrupted by a pair of lips.

Naruto's tender touch caught the Unicorn off guard as brought his hand to her back using the moment to bring the mare into a state of both bliss and of calm. When they parted, Twilight felt a sense of longing, her cheeks and breath warm from the intimate contact. "I- uh…"

"You're way too cute Twilight. I hope I didn't break some rule or law that has forever ruined our evening?"

"W-Well kisses on the first date are not mandatory nor are they to be expected. Usually they are reserved for the end of the date to express am interest to continu…" Twilight was once more cut off by another kiss, this time an audible moan escaped her lips. A tender smack escaped from their separating lips.

"The question was rhetorical in nature. I propose we test a hypothesis. Of testing a young couple's enjoyment of the physical activity, limited to kissing of course, and track the mental and emotional effects it has on the atmosphere for the rest of the date."

"I second that hypothesis." Twilight was feeling absolutely beyond giddy. That was her first kiss and it had been rather pleasant. Nothing like the earth shaking event described in all those romance novels, but a pleasant and warm sensation that put her at ease and wanting more.

One thing was for sure. After this date was over Twilight was going to read up on everything and anything regarding herding.

Image by Zeplich.