Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Harem

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Story Start

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Twilight's injuries were thankfully not something that couldn't be mended by medical aid. As they exited the Canterlot hospital they were greeted by her parents.

Having seen pictures of them he knew what they looked like and in reality they weren't much different. Twilight had definitely gotten her mother's hair and looks, the same long hair and face shape with only difference being she was pale with a hint of grey instead of violet as her daughter. Her mane was paper white with three stripes of the same violet as Twilight and she wore a simple pastel blue dress with purple heels.

It was clear her nose and eyes were from her Father who was night blue with slightly darker hair. He had a plain white shirt beneath an emerald green vest with a low cut and light brown pants. A pair of quite normal-looking parents.

"Hi Mom and Dad, it's been so long since I last saw you. I've missed you."

"Oh sweetie, we've missed you too," her mother says as she hugs her daughter. "Are you alright? Should you really be walking around?"

"Mom, I'm fine."

"Come now honey its our jobs as parents to worry." her father said. "

"Come on Dad, you're embarrassing me." They let go of the family reunion hug.

"Mr. Light, Miss Velvet hello I'm…"A sudden embrace from her father stops you.

"Of course we know who you are, Twilight talks about you all the time in her letters. Call me Night by the way. You saved our daughter's life after all."

"Its so wonderful to meet you Naruto."

"Thank you Velvet."

"Please, come back with us to our home and we can continue our discussion there."

The trip to her parents house took another hour since it was a bit on the outskirts of the big city. It did however, turn out to be a pretty decent sized place. Not big enough to be a mansion of course, but enough to house a fairly large family.

"So, please tell me how you and Twilight first met." the father asked.

"Well it was during the Summer Sun Celebration event in Ponyville. I happened to run into her when she first arrived to oversee the preparations and I volunteered to show her around town. We've been friends ever since. In fact I've been currently courting her and she has an open invitation to my herd if she wishes to take it."

A look over at her reveals she's looking at her plate with a slight blush.

"So you practice herding?" Velvet asked as her curiosity was sparked. Being a writer she wrote quite a few stories with romance being a central theme in a few of her novels. "Well that's interesting, but then again herding is not something that happens a lot in Canterlot unless its certain subsets of nobility."

"That's what I've been hearing. It's always interesting to hear how each location has their practices when it comes to that topic."

"So you're courting Twilight instead of the traditional way?" Night Light asked.

"Yeah, in fact we just had a date not too long ago after the stars. Picnic and star gazing. We camped out there all night and simply enjoyed the atmosphere, but other than that we've been taking things one date at a time."

The four ponies continued to converse and talk about their lives as Twilight's parents get to know the stallion. Twilight was relieved that he got along so well with her parents and as the sun began to set everypony began saying their goodbyes.

"Take care honey. You be careful out there now." Velvet said as mother and daughter embraced for a minute long tender hug before parting.

"Be sure to visit again soon." Night Light said as he and Twilight said their goodbyes as well.

"Night Light, Velvet, it was nice meeting you. "

"It was nice meeting you as well."

"Be sure to take care of our little Sparkle."

"Bye you guys," Twilight said, waving them off as she and Naruto began making their way to the closest Hirashin beacon.

Considering that Twilight had to spend a few more days resting Naruto has been stopping around the library a bit to help around occasionally. Meaning he was packing the quills, ink and parchment into the red cart that they were going to bringing up the hill, whilst Spike, who did the domestic duties, was packing up the food, punch and picnic blanket for after the shower would be completed.

Tonight was going to be a meteor shower and Rainbow Dash had pulled some strings to have a little patch of land cleared temporarily of the winter spread so they could have a nice view of the sky.

"This meteor shower tonight's gonna be amazing!" Twilight gushed. She had been looking forward to it.

"Awesome!" Spike added, throwing some bananas into the mix

"You know, this shower only happens once every 100 years," she recalled the fact from a science journal she read.

"A centennial celebration!" Spike noted, as he juggled some apples into the cart.

"I haven't seen one in a while I do admit it's going to be exciting." Hell he hadn't seen one since when he was probably about eighteen, nineteen years old. Man that was such a long time ago. He felt so old.

Naruto hurried forward as Spike had some difficulty with the punch bowl, placing it delicately on the top. "There. Thanks bro."

"No problem little bro," Naruto assured, sharing a fist bump with him. Now that Naruto had found himself around Golden Oaks Library more and more he essentially began taking Spike under his wing so to speak.

"Naruto, did you grab my quill and ink?"

"Yes," he answered.

"Scrolls?"

"Placed and packed, as requested. I got it Twilight." He answered her with a chuckle.

"Excellent! And Spike?" she turned to the dragon.

"I've packed a telescope, apples, bananas, fruit punch and my freshly baked home-made triple-decker nut-crazy vanilla cream cookies!" He held up the dish of sugary treats to prove his point, traces of crumbs around his mouth.

Twilight giggled at the sight of this. "I can see that." This prompted him to lick the crumbs off his face. "Once again you've read my mind, Spike. And that is why you are my number one assistant." She proceeded downstairs.

"I'm sorry. I didn't hear you." Naruto chuckled, knowing full well that he had and he just liked having his ego stroked.

"That is why you are my number one assistant," she repeated.

"Missed that! Huh...?"

"I said-" She stopped herself when she realized what he was getting up to. She giggled and shook her head. "Oh you… "

"Come on, let's get going. Wait! I almost forgot. I wanna bring the "Astronomical Astronomer's Almanac to All Things Astronomy"."

Spike expression changed to one of confusion. "The what? I don't think I've ever heard of that one."

"You know that really old big blue book on stars, moons, planets, the Universe...?" she prompted, as he finally recognized what she meant.

"Check!" He dashed off inside to get it.

"Man, is he always this chipper or am I only now just noticing because we started hanging out?"

"There was a good amount of time where Spike was hurting, because of his feelings for Rarity. I wanted to help him for so long, but I was Pinkie Pie bound not to tell anyone else and there was nothing I could say to cheer him up. When you talked with him and helped patched up that awkwardness and gave him the advice he needed about the Sweetie Belle situation he's been noticeably happier. I'm also glad he's not making a fool of himself anymore. I know it was not part of Rarity's attention to intentionally taking advantage of his feelings, but it hurt knowing that I could not come up with an answer to help. " Twilight realized at this point she was rambling and cleared her throat, getting to the point. "What I am trying to say is that you really helped him out and he is happier now. You are a really sweet guy and I appreciate everything you have done for us." She noted, a slight blush coming to her cheeks.

Naruto had noticed, since yesterday, Twilight had started to relax around him. She didn't ramble as much, what just happened not withstanding and she wasn't awkwardly spouting facts in their conversations as much. She didn't get as nervous as much and he was glad.

A few seconds later, Spike returned, but without the blue book. He also seemed to have tensed up a bit, a small bead of sweat trickling down his face. If Twilight noticed this, she didn't comment on it.

"Where's the almanac?" she asked him.

"Sorry, I couldn't find it, oh well never mind, let's go!" He said all of this rather quickly, grabbing the handle of the cart and rushing for the door.

"Did you look in right place?" Twilight persisted.

"Yep, but it wasn't there. Real shame, but I guess we'll have to make do. Now come on, let's go!" Before Twilight could ask further, he'd hurried out of the door and into the darkened streets of Ponyville.

"What do you think's gotten into him?" Twilight asked Naruto.

Something must have happened. He must have misplaced it or something. He'd asked the dragon about it later. "We'll worry about it later Twilight. We'd better get along if we don't want to miss the shower." He held the door open for Twilight. "Now, Miss Sparkle, I do believe its ladies first?"

"Why thank you fine sir." She replied, as they exited the library, heading out to a hill area where everypony would be gathering to watch the show.

By the time they arrived, the stars were shining in the sky, the dark blue cloak of the night being stretched across the sky. It seemed like the entire town had turned out to watch the show, with little groups of ponies scattered all around the hillside, waiting eagerly to view the astronomical event. Naruto could see their friends already gathered at the top of the hill, walking alongside Twilight with Spike bringing up the rear.

"I was sure I put the astronomer's guide back," she mentioned again. "The book would have helped me identify different planets and stars tonight. You didn't happen to see it Naruto?"

"No. Can't say that I have. Now if it was a missing cook book then guilty as charged."

"Well... Maybe someone borrowed it?" Spike suggested. "Besides, you don't need that book. You can already name all the planets and stars, cause you're super smart and astronomically awesome!"

"Thanks Spike. You're such a flatterer," she commented.

The baby dragon shrugged abashedly. "Yeah, I'm a sweet talker."

At this point, Rainbow Dash walked over and took a bite from an apple. "Wow, Twilight! You're lucky to a rad assistant. I wish I had someone to do whatever I told them."

Scootaloo perked up at this. "Ooh! Ooh! Me! Me! Me! I'll do whatever you want, Rainbow Dash!

"Oh yeah, pipsqueak?" She tossed her the apple core. "How about taking out the trash?"

"Yes ma'am!" She picked it up and hurried off, surprising them all at her willingness to comply. No sooner had she left, the others all gathered around.

"What?" Rainbow asked as she noticed the look Naruto sent her.

"I pray for whoever goes for the position of your assistant."

"Oh hush you're just jealous she likes me more."

"Do we have Spike to thank again for this amazing spread?" Rarity asked, joining the others in gazing adoringly at Spike. "Isn't he simply amazing?"

"Oh, come on." He looked quite embarrassed, then his expression changed to one of disappointment. "I said come on."

"Little Spikey-wikey!" Pinkie gave him an affectionate noogie. "Who knew that big ferocious dragon started off so cutesy wootsy?"

"Spike, you are such a little star that I had to make a little bow tie for you." Rarity levitated a red bow-tie decorated with little gemstones to fit around Spike's neck.

"Gosh. You guys are embarrassing me. Stop it." He paused for a second. "Twilight, your turn."

"Spike, that's enough," she said sternly.

"If your ego gets any bigger you'll float away." Naruto added provoking a smile from the dragon.

"All right. That's enough," he agreed reluctantly.

"Hey, everypony! The show is starting!" At Sweetie Belle's announcement, everypony hurried to get a good view of the sky and gazed up expectantly.

First there was one. Then there was two. It just continued to build, until the whole sky was full of them. Streaks of light began to shoot across the sky, shining just as bright as the stars that they flew past, passing an unearthly, yet beautiful glow across everypony's faces, as they all gasped and awed at the magnificent spectacle. They left streaks of starlight in their wake, darting across the night sky and out of sight, if only to allow more to sail by. It was strange that they seemed so close, when in reality they were so far away.

One by one he noticed he was slowly being enclosed by a barrier of heavenly beauty as each of the mares moved closer to snuggle him. He didn't complain.

"So pretty…" Dinky commented. Having joined with the rest of the crusaders up front. It was actually adorable, especially having learned that she was recently inducted into the CMC. Turns out during a little gathering of the Bearers and Ditzy that the latter had brought her daughter over to hang out with Bloom and Belle to hang out in the latter's room. It made sense for the young ones to become acquainted with each other if they were eventually going to become in-laws.

After the show was over, everypony was in animated conversation with each other about what they had just witnessed.

Pinkie wolfed down the last of Spike's cookies.

"Wow! These cookies are deeleesh!"

"Spike made them. Speaking of, Spike, can you bring us some punch?" There was no response. "Spike?"

They all looked to see Spike was sleeping soundly with the empty punch bowl over his face, snoring peacefully.

"Ooh, poor little thing," Rarity cooed.

"Aww... He's worked himself to the bone," Twilight added.

"And now the punch has been... spiked!" Pinkie joked, ensuing laughter from everypony present, yet still Spike slept on.

"I think it's time to go," Twilight suggested, levitating him gently onto her back and rolling up the blanket.

"Right behind you," Naruto whispered, taking the cart and bidding their friends farewell, escorting Twilight and Spike back to their home.

Naruto arrived bright and early as usual next morning. At first he didn't notice anything strange. Instead, he discovered that the library had one more additional occupant, neither pony nor dragon.

A plump little bird was perched in the middle of the room, with a square-ish body and bright orange beak. His feathers around his breast were a light brown, whereas the ones on his wings were darker in color. The owl just seemed to be sitting there as if it was natural.

Was he a new pet that Twilight had acquired? Deciding to ask her later, Naruto decided to at least be friendly to him.

"Hello little fellow," he greeted, walking over and stroking him gently. "Where did you come from?"

The owl gave a small hoot, not objecting to his hand moving over his feathers. Well, at least he liked him.

"Oh, good morning Naruto." He turned to see Twilight emerging from the kitchen. "I see you've met Owlowiscious then."

"Owlowiscious?" He glanced at him. "That's a fine name. Where'd you find him?"

"He rescued my parchment when it flew out of the window last night. I didn't like having to send him back into the cold, so I let him stay with me. I've decided to take him on as our new junior assistant."

"Well that's certainly interesting. Avians are one of the more intelligent species or at least what Fluttershy tells me." He then noticed something. "Where is Spike? Shouldn't he be up by now?"

"He's still sleeping upstairs; last night really took it out of him. I let Owlowiscious do his morning chores so he could get some more sleep."

"Really?" He gave him an admiring glance. "Wow, he's good."

"Pretty sure," she repeated, "Anyway, I gotta head out for a bit. Care to join me?"

"Sure. What about if Spike wakes up before we leave?" he asked.

"I left him a note." She said as they bid farewell to the owl and made their way into town.

Later on, the girls all arrived to meet Twilight's new pet. It seemed like everyone had taken to him. Except for Spike it seemed, who leaned against a window above, reading a book on owls, with the attitude of somepony trying to learn the weaknesses of his enemy.

"Oh, what a fantastical, fluffelicious feathery little friend! I'm... HOOked!" They all laughed at Pinkie's pun.

"He's just wonderful," Fluttershy said, always having something to say on animals.

They were all rather taken aback when Spike repeated what she said in a mocking tone. "Uh, yes. Wonderful. He's quite... the charmer." He said this last bit through gritted teeth.

"And Owlowiscious is just such a star I just had to make this little bow for you." Rarity presented, rather tactlessly, him with the exact bow that she had made for Spike last night.

At this Spike raged in frustration and slammed the window on them.

The next day came around and once more Naruto was checking on the mare. She had been doing better. She still had to take the medicine given to her by the hospital, but she was no longer complaining about any pains or burning sensations.

To his surprise Spike had angrily strode out, not so much as acknowledging his presence. Raising an eyebrow, he entered the library to find Owlowiscious sitting on his perch and Twilight levitating a blue bound book in front of her, shaking her head and looking quite perturbed about something.

"What's happened?" he asked.

"See for yourself." She tossed the book to him and he only just caught it. It was Twilight's astronomy almanac, but the pages had been burned away and the inside was blackened from soot. "Spike burned the pages out by sneezing and then tried to hide what he did from me."

"I see." That explained her expression. "How did you find it?"

"I didn't, Owlowiscious did, right where it was supposed to be." She let out a growl of frustration. "I can't believe that Spike tried lying to me, as if he could cover it up. He should know that he shouldn't lie to me like that." She growled again and shook her head helplessly. "He's been acting like this ever since Owlowiscious arrived."

"Maybe he is jealous that Owlowiscious is around here. Its just one of those things that happens sometimes, especially when one is young. He probably thinks he'll be replaced."

She sighed. "I just hope he doesn't let his jealousy get the better of him."

"It's just going to take some time. He'll warm up to Owlowuiscious eventually." He assured her.

"You may have a point there. Come on, we'd better go and find him before he does anything rash." She gestured and Owlowiscious flew onto her shoulder.

They ended up looking and asking all around town if anypony had seen Spike. A few had seen him, darting in-between hiding places. They finally got a lead saying that they'd last seen him going back in the direction of the library. With this information, they proceeded back the way they came and entered the library. On the floor was a torn-up toy mouse, with red liquid poured around it.

To which Naruto identified by scent as Ketchup.

Spike came from downstairs, with a pillow, no doubt from Twilight's bed and was throwing the feathers everywhere. Naruto figured out what he was up to even before taking notice of Twilight's shame and disappointment.

"That poor little field mouse!" Spike cried with effected emotion. "Torn to pieces! It must have been Owlowiscious! You know, since owls eat, you know, mice. What a terrible, terrible bird! He must be punished! Right?"

Twilight only glared at him. "Spike! I don't know what upsets me more. That you deliberately tried to set up Owlowiscious or that you actually thought this pathetic attempt would work! You've let your jealousy get the best of you, Spike. I am truly disappointed. This is not the Spike I know and love. Come on Naruto, I think Spike needs some time on his own to think about what he's done.

"Alright…" He complied, proceeding to follow Twilight out of the door.

"I can't believe he did that," Twilight fumed. "I've never seen him act like this before."

He only sighed in response, hoping Spike would be okay… and that he would resolve his issues.

When they thought they'd given Spike enough time to think about what he had done, they returned to the library as it was getting dark. Naruto escorted her back to the library.

"Spike!" Twilight called. "Come down, I need to talk to you." There was no answer. "Spike? Spike, where are you?"

There was no sign of him, even the mess he'd made trying to frame Owlowiscious was gone. Twilight hurried upstairs, while he searched the library. No sign of him in any of the separate wings, or the basement. A few minutes later they met up again, as Twilight was developing into full blown panic.

"He's not in my room either and all of his things are gone! Naruto, he's run away!" Fretting and muttering, she started to pace. "What are we going to do? Where could he have gone?"

"Twilight, please calm down," Naruto prompted, placing his hands on her shoulders. "I can find him in no time."

"Hoo!" Owlowiscious was flapping frantically, trying to get their attention. He landed and gestured his head to a set of claw prints stained red from ketchup.

"Or we could follow those. Good work Owlowiscious." The owl hooted and flew back out of the door, Twilight and Naruto following behind him.

Leading them to the Everfree Forest.

After battling through branches and brambles, but no monsters thankfully, they arrived at the mouth of a cave where the footprints went inside. A loud roar resounded inside, as did familiar cries for help.

The two of them ran to the mouth of the cave.

Filling up the whole interior was an enormous green dragon, one far larger than Spike. His scales glinted fiercely in the dark, the wicked points of his spiked tail as big as tree trunks. He was roaring in rage as Owlowiscious flew around his head, distracting him from a little purple shape that was crouched just behind his larger brethren.

Twilight began to wave frantically. "Spike! Over here!" He ran out of the cave past the dragon, his face a visage of relief.

"Am I glad to see you two!"

"Get back!" Naruto ordered as he quickly formed hand seals, the snow and ice that coated the ground came to life as it formed into mighty serpents and slammed into the dragon.

Stumbling back Naruto shot forward a he took to the air, twisted out of the way of its striking tail as he slammed his fist into the face of the dragon causing it to slam into the wall.

Out of the way he easily dodged the breath of the dragon. This was it. This feeling. A complete turnaround from when he last fought a dragon. Spikes of earth erupted from the ground, slamming into the tough hide of the dragon causing it to retreat back into the cave.

He began to continue to use the earth and create large earth walls to quickly separate them from the dragon. The roars and flames that flickered over the top were soon smothered out by the closed walls. It would take that dragon quite some time for it to break out and since its horde was inside it wasn't going to starve any time soon.

The four of them retreated, reaching the edge of the forest.

"Spike, I was so worried about you. Why did you run away?" Twilight's heart was still beating like mad.

Spike too now looked guilty. "I thought you didn't need me anymore. And that you didn't love me anymore."

"Spike," Twilight began gently, "sure, I was disappointed, but you are my number one assistant!" She then crunched down and pulled him into a hug. "No. You're more than that. You're family. You're my little brother and I'll never stop loving you.

I can't ask you to stay up late. You're a baby dragon and you need your rest. Owls are nocturnal. So I asked Owlowiscious to help. But not to take your place. No one could ever replace you, Spike. Not even when you are being a jealous numbskull."

"I'm sorry, Twilight. I never should have been so jealous," he admitted.

"And I'm sorry too, Spike. I should have been more sensitive to your feelings." She replied.

Naruto smiled at the warm scene. It was a rather touching moment.

Spike then looked up at his rival, who was perched on a branch nearby. "And Owlowiscious... I know now that you weren't out to take my job. Forgive me?"

"Hoo?" replied the owl.

"Me. Forgive me, Spike."

"Hoo!"

"He forgives you," Twilight told him.

"Hey! How did you guys know where I was?" he suddenly asked.

"It was your ketchup covered feet. Owlowiscious discovered your footprints and we followed them all the way to the cave," she explained.

"Funny how things work out like that," Naruto remarked.

"Oh yeah, the ketchup. It looked pretty real though, didn't it?" he said, referring to the earlier incident. Twilight just glared at him, making Spike giggle nervously.

After making sure they got home safe Naruto took off for his own home.

This was going to make an interesting report to the Princess for sure.

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