Sudden Intro! Why are there Horses!?
‘Ugh. What the hell happened.’ Was the first thought that ran through Arashi Hisako’s head as she regained consciousness. She was sore all over, but that wasn’t too new. She got quite use to pain in the academy, and even more familiar with it once she became a Genin and started going on missions.
Opening her eyes greeted her with the site of a white-paneled ceiling, and with a quick glance around, she came to the conclusion that she’s in a Hospital. ‘Huh, a actual Hospital, not a medic tent. That means they must have evacuated me, but now the question is, which side.’
As she sat up and got out of bed, ignoring the complaints of her body, she immediately noticed something wrong when she crumpled to the floor upon trying to stand up. ‘What the hell!’ Upon glancing down at her body, she immediately noticed what was wrong. She was covered in blue-green fur, a tail of a darker hue, and hooves on the end of her appendages. She was a damned horse. ‘What kind of obvious-ass Genjutsu is this!?’
She immediately moved to form the seal to dispel it, but ran into a problem, no fingers. ‘Damn. Going to have to do this the hard way’. So she sat still for a moment, trying to still her chakra, noticing it rather different than she’s use too, but ignored that for a moment. After a couple seconds when she deemed her chakra sufficiently stilled, she then flared it, trying to break the Genjutsu. Opening her eyes revealed it didn’t work. ‘Kami, how strong is this Genjutsu?’
She was drawn out of her thoughts when she heard the door open, her eyes were greeted by the sight of a white unicorn with a nurse hat. ‘Weird ass Genjutsu. Well, I can atleast be sure this isn’t Kiri.’
“Oh my! Are you alr-” Not understanding a word of what the unicorn was saying, Hisako instantly leaped forward and decked it in the face. Or at least, that was the plan. The body messed her up, and was meant to be a clean hard punch to the face turned into a body slam to the face.
“Kami, that’s embarrassing.” She muttered under her breath, standing up on wobbly legs still getting use to this body. It still accomplished what it meant to at least, the nurse is out cold and she’s out of the room.
Hearing shouting to her left, she spared a quick glance that way and noticed a couple more unicorns and a pegasus running towards her. ‘Gotta get out of here.’ She quickly turn the opposite direction and took off, only to have her legs not do what she was suppose to and she once again wound up face first on the ground.
“Damn it!” She swore, and as fast as she could got back up and took off, scrambling and sliding a lot more than she would have liked, and as a result was a lot slower than she would like, her pursuers being able to keep up despite only moving at a civilian pace.
“Hey! Please wait!” Ignoring the incomprehensible sounds behind her, she kept on running, slowly getting more use to this body. Turning a corner and bouncing off of the wall, she came face to face to a giant blue Unicorn Pegasus mix, who looked quite surprised to see Hisako barreling towards her. Quickly, she took advantage of the obstacles size, and went into a slide right between it’s legs behind it.
“What is going- *THUD*” Judging by the loud series of thuds and cut off speech behind her, her pursuers weren’t so quick to react to the obstacle. Quickly turning another corner she darted into one of the room, fumbling with the handle for a quick moment, while no-one could see her.
‘Right, this Genjutsu is something tough, and normal dispelling ain’t working. Why the hell would they use something this strong one me, I’m just a GENIN!? Something big must be going down, and I HAVE to break it’ At that thought, she grabbed a nearby scalpel carefully with her mouth, and turned to look back at herself.
‘Huh, I have wings. Those are suppose to be sensitive’ And with barely a moment's hesitation, plunged the scalpel in, and barely suppressed a scream ‘Yep, definitely sensitive’ Opening her eyes again revealed that the Genjutsu was still going strong.
‘WHAT THE HELL!?’ she mentally screamed ‘What’s going on that requires such a strong Genjutsu? Are they invading Kiri!?’ Growing increasingly desperate, she plunged and sliced at her wing, trying to use the pain to break out, but it wasn’t working, and when that wing started to lose feeling, she turned her attentions to the other wing.
‘WHY. ISN’T. THIS. WORKING!?!’ She mentally shouted with each stab, her surroundings by now covered with her blood and bits of gore. Shakily, she took the scalpel out of her mouth and held it between her front hooves and pointed it towards her face. ‘There- there’s only one more thing I can do’ she thought shakily, before driving the blade into her eye right as she heard the door behind her open and a shout of horror rang out.
Everything was black after that.
Luna sat in a Hospital break room, still in shock over what happened just a hour ago. During breakfast with her sister, they received news that a Alicorn filly was found in a alley way, covered with bruises and lacerations, and a few broken bones, and as such was hurriedly admitted to the Canterlot Hospital. While the news of her state was quite upsetting, the news that a new Alicorn was great, and since Celestia had duties to attend to, Luna offered to go pay a visit to the little one. It’s wounds, while upsetting, were overall minor, and should have healed in a few days with medical care.
They weren’t accounting for the debacle that happened when she woke up. There was a alert that the heart monitor came disconnected, so the assigned nurse hurried to check to make sure everything was alright. She was greeted with the sight of the filly on the ground next to her bed, where she presumably fell out. As she was asking if she was alright, the filly pounced on her, and knocked her quite hard in the face, knocking her out. This naturally drew the attention of the other nurses and doctors in the hall, who started to approach causing the filly to take off running in the opposite direction, them giving chase hoping to stop her before she accidentally hurts herself.
That was when they quite literally ran into Luna, who just arrived and was on her way to visit the filly. After untangling themselves, they started to look for the filly who vanished during their confusion. Luna was the unfortunate one who found her, sitting in the middle of a blood splattered room, her wings devastated, as she plunged a scalpel into her eye before fainting.
She was quickly spirited away to the Emergency Room while Luna was guided to the break room to wait and calm down. Just a half an hour ago she was told what happened before she arrived, and no-one had any idea why all this happened.
Then, in a flash of light, Celestia appeared. “Sister! What happened!” She was instantly tackle-hugged by Luna, who was crying, and said “I don’t know sister. I don’t know.”
While Hisako was unconscious, she dreamed, and remembered.
She stood outside a forest with 52 of her academy classmates, standing at attention before their instructor Oonishi. “Alright, listen up. You will go into the forest, and the Test will start at the sound of the gong. The test will end with both three days have passed, and half of you are dead. You will know the test has ended with the gong rings again. You are not to leave the forest the forest till the test is over. Doing so will get you disqualified, and killed. Do you understand.”
“Aye, sensei.” We chorused, as we were trained too.
“Good. Now go.” At his command, we rushed off into the forest, all splitting up and finding hiding spots to wait. Then the gong rang, and was almost drowned out by a series of yells and clanging metal as the test began.
Hisako sat concealed in a puddle, watching two of her old classmates fighting to the death. Metal clanged and clashed, water arced through the air as they used their limited repertoire of Ninjutsu to the best of their ability, and it all fell quiet when with a meaty thump, one buried a Kunai in the neck of the other. They stood there for a moment, before they separated and the dead one crumpled to the ground.
The victor stood there for a moment, looking stunned, before a look of glee spread across his face, and throwing his fists into the air, shouted “Yatta! I did i-” only to be interrupted by a senbon to the eye, courtesy of Hisako.
“Idiot.” Hisako remorselessly commented as he crumpled, before continuing on her way, looking for others while also trying to avoid detection.
Hisako was dashing along the ground near the end of the third day, trying to avoid detection, when a hand whipped out of a puddle that she didn’t notice, grabbing her by her leg bringing her crashing to the ground. Quickly rolling to her feet, she turned to face her new adversary.
“Well, well, well. What do we have here?” Shumkichi, top of class, said rising out of the puddle. “Another piggie that needs to be skewered?” he said mockingly, with a bloodthirsty grin on his face.
Hisako just fell into a ready stance, drawing the long Senbon from her sleeves and holding them ready to fight.
“Not going to say anything piggie? Oh well, better just make you squeal then.” With that, he darted faster than she could see, driving a kunai into her shoulder. Or at least, what would have been her shoulder if it wasn’t a clone.
“Damn.” Spinning around as soon as he saw the clone starting to revert to water, he blocked a quick barrage of Senbon, answering with some of his own.
Hisako dodged as fast as she could, and tried to run, knowing she is no match for Shumkichi, but only got a couple of steps before being hit in the back of the head, and went tumbling across the ground. Before she could get back up, Shumkichi, appeared over her, and stomped on her knee, shattering it. “Not so fast, piggie. You’re gonna squeal.”
He then broke her other leg, and both of her arms so she couldn’t resist, and drew a Kunai and slowly drew it across her face, leaving deep cuts wherever he went, laughing maniacally all the time while all she could do was scream. Then, suddenly he stopped. Hisako forced her eyes open, to see he had a shocked expression on his face, and a senbon going in one ear, and out the other.
Another boy appeared beside her, she couldn’t remember his name though she remembered he hardly ever said anything, and pushed Shumkichi off, before turning towards her and drawing a sword. He raised it high, and made to chop of her neck, when he suddenly stopped, the sword a inch above her throat, for the gong rang. He calmly resheathed his sword, carefully picked up Hisako, who had to suppress another shout, and carried her out of the forest. The test was over, and she passed.
Off to the side, unnoticible by both of the newly minted Genin, stood a Blue Alicorn, with a horrified expression on her face.
Luna was in the little alicorns hospital room. It’s been several days since the… incident. Her wings were barely salvageable, but the docs were relieved that it seemed like, in a month they should be fine. Her eye though, that’s gonna take longer. Modern medicine has methods to completely regrow lost limbs, but such procedures are lengthy, and prohibitively expensive.
Since the filly is now under the protection of the Princesses, money is no issue, but it is still gonna take a while, especially since they want to finish for the wings to heal before getting started on the eye, to help make sure that nothing will go wrong.
The reason she was here, was because she detected that the Filly was dreaming, and thus close to waking up, which was quite surprising. They expected her to be unconscious for a couple of weeks. So Luna came, and watched over her dreams, both to be there for when she finally did wake up, but to hopefully find out the reason behind her reaction when she woke up. What she found was both confusing and distressing.
She was dreaming of these bipedal creatures fighting to the death, employing savage tactics and dirty tricks to get any advantage they could, her personally being one of them. What made it more confusing, were they weren’t just dreams, but memories. Why did she remember being a mostly hairless bipedal creature? Why did she remember being in a war?
She would contemplate on that further, for right now, the child awoke with a groan. “Uwa, nan jigoku. Sore wa dōsa shimashita ka?”Ugh, what the hell? Did it work? She lifted her head just enough to look at Luna, before letting it drop back on the pillow. “Kuso ̄.””Damn.
Luna couldn’t understand a word she said, so softly asked “Do you speak Equestrian, little one.”
“Watashi wa, anata ga, josei o itte iru no ka mattaku wakarimasen.”I have no idea what you are saying, lady. The filly replied, not even lifting her head or opening her eyes.
Luna frowned at that. Her not speaking Equestrian is going to make things harder till they get a translator. If Luna had to guess, she would guess that she was speaking Neighponese. Maybe Celestia knows it, learned it during her… absence.
They sat in silence for a couple moments, Luna unsure of what to do now. A idea came to her, and she cleared her throat to get the filly’s attention. After she lifted her head obligingly and opened her good eye, Luna put a hoof to her chest and stated “Luna.” And then gestured towards her questioningly. After a moment of silence, Luna repeated the gesture, stating her name “Luna” before gesturing once more to the filly.
This time she seemed to get it, for she replied with “Arashi Hisako.” And then dropped her head back down onto her pillow. Luna smiled, hoping that despite how this began, that hopefully the situation would have a happy ending.
Hisako was laying in her bed, largely ignoring the blue Unicorn Pegasus with a Magic Starry Mane sitting at the foot of her bed, thinking deeply on what to do now. ‘What ever Genjutsu this is, if it didn’t break after sacrificing my eye, I’m not gonna be able to break it. So what else is there to do? I won’t reveal any information, that much is clear, but what besides? Just lay here and wait?’ And that’s precisely what she did for the next couple of minutes, till activity from ‘Luna’ drew her attention.
Luna stood up, and after making a stay gesture while saying some gobbledygook, trotted out of the room, leaving Hisako on her own. ‘No way they would leave me on my own. They must have cameras or something in here.’
Giving a furtive glance around that revealed no obvious ones, she laid back down. For precisely a minute, till that got too boring. So she sat up, and started exploring her new body, seeing how far each limb would stretch, and bend, and what’s what. Her coat was a light, slightly drabbish turquoise. Her hair and tail has alternating strands of bright sky blue and dark purplish ocean blue.
On her back where what she assumed were her wings from earlier, but both were encased in plaster. Over her left eye was a black eye-patch, and considering she didn’t feel anything with the fleshy part of her hoof when she tried to twitch her eyeball, it’s probably a write-off. Her flank is unadorned, unlike all the other horse creatures she has been seeing who all had some mark of some sort. And, she discovered on her forehead, a horn. ‘I wonder how good this is for stabbing.’
After said observations, she hopped out of bed, and paused to see if it would draw any reprisal or warning. After nothing happened, she started walking around the room, getting use to the feeling, before slowly speeding it up till eventually she was pretty much running, bouncing off the walls to make her turns.
This was the sight that Luna was greeted with when she returned, and stood amazed as she saw the filly run blur across the room, kicking off the wall, and blurring back. When she realized she had company, she finished by running up the wall a step and backflipping off it onto the bed into a sitting position. Or so was the plan. She still isn’t completely familiar with the body, so it ended up being more of a belly flop, which she quickly recovered from.
“Well… you certainly still have your energy.” Luna said. That didn’t SOUND like a admonishment, so Hisako assumed she was fine.
Hisako didn’t say anything in response, knowing it would be pointless, and just watched Luna as she trotted in, both her horn and a book floating along with her glowing. ‘A puppeteer huh? A rather unskilled one, with how much it’s glowing. Though… with how much chakra she’s wasting, she must have pretty big reserves...’
As Hisako pondered this, Luna trotted in and took her place at the foot of the bed, and futile said “A translator should be here soon. Then we can get started.’ And then opened her book and started reading.
Hisako kept watching, something feeling off ‘That chakra sure feels weird.’ While no sensor, every Ninja, and really every human can detect chakra to some extent, though for Civilians you have to be absolutely shedding chakra for it to be noticeable.
Heck, now that she looks closer, it even looks weird. A darker blue than the usual light blue. She was so engrossed in that thought process, that she only realized she was staring when she heard Luna giggle, having shifted the book around some and her gaze apparently following. Hisako quickly took to studying the wall, blushing faintly. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Luna smile before returning to her reading.
They sat like that for a couple minutes, before the door opened once more, and entered a white horse with a braided blue mane and a short blue tail, wearing a domed hat, brown coat, and a red scarf. He bowed to Luna - is she in charge here then? She didn’t bow back, so she must be higher rank - and they exchanged some words, before he turned towards Hisako “Hello, can you understand me.”
“Well, now that you’re not speaking gobbledygook I can,” She replied succinctly.
He chuckled, and replied “Well, that ‘gobbledygook’ is called Equestrian. The local language. Anyways, I’m here as the translator so you and Princess Luna can understand each other.”
Hisako’s posture instantly straightened.‘Princess!?’ Hisako was shocked ‘What interest does a princess have in me!?’
She quickly schooled her features, not thinking for a second that they didn’t notice her shock, but luckily they didn’t comment on it. “What- uh, what interest does a Princess have in me?” She nervously asked.
Translator-san quickly fell into his role, and conferred the question to Luna-sama, who replied with “Because you’re a Alicorn, little one.”
A part of Hisako bristled at being called ‘little one’, but she quickly shoved it down. “And what’s a Alicorn?”
“That’s the name for a pony with all three races’ magics. Earth Pony, Pegasus, and Unicorn.” Luna-sama replied via Translator-san.
Obviously by magic they meant Chakra, but “What do you mean there’s three types of magic?” If they were referring to three of the five Elemental Transformations, did they not know of the other two?
Judging by the expression on Translator-san’s face, Hisako could only assume that her question was suppose to be common knowledge. “Earth Ponies have enhanced strength and durability, Pegasi can fly and manipulate the weather, while Unicorns can directly manipulate magic.” Luna explain.
‘Riiight. Because my wings were totally functional beforehand. Really, what is even the point of this Genjutsu?’ She thought to herself, also wondering if it was just altering her perceptions, or if it was all a straight up fabrication.
Hisako sat there, thinking to herself, and when Luna-sama noticed there weren’t any more questions forth-coming, responding with some of her own. “And where are you from, little one?”
‘Ah, here we go. Interrogation time.’ “I am Arashi Hisako, Genin number #32014 of Kirigakure no Sato.” She recited, exactly as she was trained to.
Translator-san seemed a little off put by this for some reason, but did his job, and returned with “And where is this Kirigakure no Sato?”
‘No dice, unknown interrogators. Not getting anything from me.’ “I am Arashi Hisako, Genin number #32014 of Kirigakure no Sato. And that is all you are getting out of me.” She replied resolutely.
Upon hearing the translation, a small frown appeared on Luna-sama’s face, only for a second, before it disappeared, but Hisako caught it. “Alright. Can you explain why you… harmed yourself a couple days ago?” Translator-san of course didn’t pause, but Hisako assumed that’s where the pause Luna-sama had would have been.
“To wake up.” Hisako said before she could stop herself, and quickly mentally berated herself.
“Can you explain what you mean?”
“I am Arashi Hisako, Genin number #32014 of Kirigakure no Sato.” Hisako recited, careful to not say anything else. Don’t give the enemy anything they could use.
That once again caused Luna-sama to frown, and this time she didn’t bother hiding it. “I will be back tomorrow. My sister may pay a visit later today. Fare the well, Arashi.” With a short head dip, she walked out of the room followed by Translator-san. And so, Hisako was left in her room alone, left to think, and plan.
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Wow...
Never was a fan of Naruto(?), but this has caught my interest...
Oh, and great to see the author of 'Reconditioning' is working with you. I love 'Reconditioning', and nice to see you try to give it some love, Physics
5704309 Thank you! Trondason did most of the legwork! I was just on the side, giving ideas and fixing grammar.
5704653 Hey, I remember you! I had 3 different pm-conversations with you! Something about a P... you know what I mean, right?
And I hope to see where this is going. So the protagonist is practically an overskilled ninja, who has few to no morals and does not want anyone to know anything about him, right?
5704698 I shall be publishing Chapter 2 later. Then Tronadason and me are going to have to stop procrastinating long enough to get to chapter 3.
5704698
What do you mean by "overskilled"? In respect to what?
5705862 Yeah! What he said. Sorry. Couldn't resist!
5705862 In respect to the other guys who went into the forest.
5707946 In which case, she isn't overskilled. While she was able to fairly easily kill some of them, those were the weaker ones, who were foolishly standing in the middle of a clearing and not watching their surroundings. If you might have noticed, she was completely outmatched by the best in class (until he got too into it, and was killed by another watching genin).
5708238 Was that in the story or in the anime?
If in the anime... still never was a fan of Naruto(?).
5708246 In story.
The other mentioned scene is longer, but was right after.
5708255 Ah, okay.
...how about overskilled ninja in comparison to the Equestrian ninjas?
5708257 Considering Equestria doesn't have ninjas...
5708260 That was why I said that^^
5708269 Note, she's a ninja, trained to be one since ~3 and all that implies.
5708273 Is it bad that I am laughing really hard right now? Na, probably not.
5708278 It kinda is, but oh well!
FINALLY, a ninja fic that doesn't copy and paste one of the main characters from Naruo.