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// Unnatural Power 
// Story: Akatsuki in Equestria 
// by chaos2012 
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Swift's eyes slowly crept open, but he couldn't see anything. He felt as if his head was in a daze, like he had been asleep for hours. After a moment, he went to rub the side of his head, but his hoof wouldn't move. "What the..." Glancing to his left, his vision began to focus to see his leg strapped to a wooden beam by a metal brace. Quickly flipping his head to the right, he saw his other leg strapped down. He then realized he was being suspended in the air.

Looking around, he saw that everything seemed to be shaded in different tones of gray. He was over what seemed to be a dark lake. The sky was an eerie red tint, then floating high above was the moon, yet its color was blood red. "What is this place?"

"You are inside of the Tsukuyomi." a cold voice answered.

Swift looked forward to see a strange bipedal figure standing before him. The being was not a pony, but it wore the same clothing of the one that he was fighting. What really caught his attention were the red eyes that he just saw the dark gray pony had. "Y-you? You're that pony I was fighting?"

Itachi just stared at the pony trapped on the wood, "What you see before me is my true appearance. In the world of Tsukuyomi, I control everything."

"What are you going to do to me?"

"Now that you are inside of my genjutsu, you shall experience torment beyond anything you ever have experienced before." walking forward, he raised the sword he clutched in his hand and slowly plunged it into the pony's chest.

"Ahh!" Swift screamed out as the blade sunk deeper into him, slowly wiggling inside of him before being pulled out. He looked down to the wound, but to his surprise he saw nothing there. "What? Is this all a dream?"

Itachi’s cold eyes stared at him," In the world of Tsukuyomi, I control time, space and even matter itself. The pain you experience in here is real." he stepped forward and stabbed him again.

"Ahh!" Swift could feel the pain of the sword sink into his stomach, as well as the pain from where he was stabbed the first time. If this was a dream, it felt more like a nightmare to him.

After several more stabs, Itachi stepped back, his arm dropping to his side, "If you give me the location of Discord, I shall end the genjutsu. If you do not, this will continue for seventy two hours."

Swift gasped for breath as he sat there. 'I cannot let him find out where it is.' he thought to himself, 'Who knows what they would do. No, I am a member of the royal guard, and I will not betray my princess.' he looked up to Itachi and glared, "You can take that sword and shove it up your a-Ahh!" he was cut off as the blade reentered his chest.

The stabbing continued for what seemed like hours. Swift felt his mind spinning from the amount of pain coursing through him. Still, he refused to tell anything. Looking back up, he saw that there were two Itachi's now, each one stabbing him repeatedly. "How long can your mind handle this pain before you break?" one of the two asked.

The other one lifted the blade again and prepared to stab again, "The time left is seventy one hours, fifty nine minutes."

"What!?" Swift screamed out, "its been hours! There is no way it has only been one minute!”

"In the world Tsukuyomi, I control time and space."

"Y-you're making time go slower?" Swift could not believe any of this was happening. This was beyond any form of magic any normal unicorn could ever do. 'He is probably as strong as the princesses.' he thought to himself. Before he could continue to think, the swords once again stuck into his body.

Hours, or what felt like hours rolled by under the red moon. By now, Swift hardly had the energy to even scream out anymore. His body continued to quiver as he hung there helpless as the stabs never stopped. Finally, he was at the breaking point in willpower. He couldn't take any more pain. 'Princess, forgive me.'

"alright, st-stop." Swift shouted out, his throat burning from the amount of screams that had escaped.

Both Itachi's pulled the swords they clenched out of the tortured pegasus, "Have you suffered enough? Now, where is the creature Discord?"

Swift sat in place panting for breath, which led to another sword to pierce his chest, "Gah! Canterlot. He is in stone in Canterlot!"

"Where do I find this place?" Itachi asked as he twisted the blade in place.

"Northeast! Northeast!" swift was trying to thrash as much as he could, but his body was 
drained of nearly all strength. Clenching his eyes, he just wanted all of this to end. He lost the will to try to hang to whatever life he had left. He let his head fall forward, which suddenly hit the ground with a hard thud.

Shocked, Swift opened his eyes to see himself back in the center of Ponyville exactly where he was before. Forcing his head around, he saw Blaze and the others still around Kisame in the positions they were before the horrid experience. "Did... time not pass out here?" Trying to get up, his body collapsed back down, causing him to scream in agony.

Itachi took several steps towards the crippled pony as his eyes began to revert to their standard sharingan form, "Despite me only using a fraction of the power of the Tsukuyomi, I'm surprised you are even conscious still. I'm impressed, but your mind will still be tormented by the experience you went through."

Hyperventilating, Swift tried to move again, but nothing he did was working, 'my mind is burning. *huff* I can't focus. I can still feel every stab from that world'

Blitz looked over to see his commander slump on the ground in front of the dark pony, "Swift! Are you alright?" he began to panic when Swift didn't respond, "Blaze, what happened to him? They never even fought?"

Itachi looked over to Kisame as he raised his Samehada with both hooves over his head to reengage with the others. "Kisame, it's time to leave."

Kisame glanced over to his partner in confusion, "Hmm? What for?"

"We have the information that we need. Let's go."

Before he could respond, Kisame watched as Itachi turned around and dashed away from the town in a quick blur. Barren stared in shock to what he saw, "Did he just teleport?"

Kisame grunted in frustration that he couldn't finish what he started. "Hmm..." he looked back at the three guards in front of him, "You are lucky I have to leave." He then slammed his hoof into the ground, causing a small wave of water to appear under him. It picked him up and began to rush backwards after Itachi.

Blitz flapped his wings as he watched the escaping blue pony, "Oh no you don't!" as he began to fly forward, he felt himself enveloped in a cloud of magic. Looking over, he saw his friends horn glowing, "Blaze, what are you doing? We have to go after them!"

Blaze just glared at the short tempered pegasus, "Let them go. We don't stand a chance against them. If they are leaving without harming the town, we should take that as a bonus." Setting Blitz down, his attention turned to the two Pegasi lying on the ground, "Swift! Storm!"

Barren and Blaze ran over to Storm Chaser, his body burnt all over from that explosion he was caught inside of. They cringed when they saw how bad his wing was damaged; part of the main limb that stuck out had been completely blown Off, exposing the white bone from underneath the burnt muscle. 'I doubt he will ever be able to fly again.' Barren thought.

Blitz dropped by Swifts side to see what was wrong with him. Scanning over his body, he couldn't see any kind of injury anywhere. "What is wrong? He isn't hurt." he said to himself. Looking down at his face, he saw that Swift just stared forward, his eyes bloodshot and unfocused. Putting his hoof on Swifts shoulder, he tried to shake him out of the daze, "Swift! Come on buddy get up."

No response.

"Come on, get up "

No response.

Panic began to course through Blitz at seeing his friends condition, "What in Equestria did he do to you?"

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Outside of the town, Kisame and Itachi slowed their fast pace to a steady trot after a few minutes. Kisame came up to Itachi with an upset frown across his face, "Why did we just finish them off? We could have done it in no time."

Itachi never took the time to look towards his partner as he spoke, "We have to head back to meet up with the others. If this creature Discord is like that one told me was, it will be very useful to us."

"I still don't know why you didn't let me just kill them." Kisame sneered.

Itachi didn't respond to the last statement as he walked. After a moment, he felt a tingling feeling inside of his chest. Knowing what it was, he slowed his pace to allow Kisame to get ahead. He then brought the back of his hoof up to his mouth and coughed several times. Lifting it away, he saw the patch of blood that had come out of his mouth. He stared at it for what seemed like minutes until he put his leg back down and continued to walk again.

Trying to focus on his current mission, Itachi couldn't stop from thinking of the one he cared for most in his life, "I can't die yet..." He quietly said to himself, "... I must die by your hands."

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Kakazu and Hidan walked through the gently swaying meadow, becoming bored since they hadn't found anything that was of use. "This damn place doesn't have anything around here but fields. We should follow this road and see where it takes us."

Kakazu's solid green eyes turned over to his partner, "We might run into others if we travel on it. I'm not in the mood to waste time right now."

Hidan's eyes narrowed at his masked partner, "You’re never in the mood for anything but money. Why don't you take that stick out of your ass and enjoy the pleasures of combat? It would be a good chance for us to try out our new bodies."

"How about you just focus on looking for something that can get us back to our world." Kakazu sneered.

"And just what are we supposed to be looking for exactly?"

"Anything that has immense power. Perhaps this world also has its own form of tailed beasts that we can use to our advantage." Kakazu answered.

The sound of hoof steps caught both of their attention. Looking down the road, they saw a group of eight horses coming towards them, all of which were wearing armor. The group had three of the winged type, three of the type with the horn on the forehead, and then two more like them. Kakazu frowned under his mask, "Just when I thought we didn't have to deal with this."

Hidan smiled for the first time that day at seeing these soldiers walk towards them, "Now this is more like it."

Shining Armor stared at the two ponies on the side of the Road in front of him. He glanced back and forth between the white and the brown one, noticing the many things about them; eyes, weapons, clothing, and also the scratched metal headbands that each one had. The masked one wore his in his head, while the other one let his hang around his neck. He turned and whispered to Rain by his side, "These are the two that you saw?"

Rain nodded, "Yes. I'm positive."

Shining turned back to his front, raising his head up to increase his stature, "You two, I need to ask you who you are and what you are doing here?"

Hidan raised an eyebrow at the order he was given, "Who the hell are you supposed to be?"

"I am Shining Armor, Captain of the Royal guard."

"And what brings you out here... Sir?" Kakazu said, his words filled with sarcasm.

"By order of the princess, we are to look for any pony that seems suspicious and out of the ordinary. And looking at your dark outfits..." he paused as he stared at the red triple bladed scythe held by the white one, "... And your weapon, you seem out of place here. I am asking who you two are and are you doing here?"

Hidan grinned at the unicorn in the front of the group, "You got some balls trying to order me around."

Shining's eyes went wide at hearing that. He gritted his teeth at the cloaked pony, "I suggest you watch your tone with us. And I want you to answer my question."

Neon came by Shining and glared at the two, "If you continue refusing to comply with my captain's orders, we will bring you into custody and take you to the princesses for questioning. Just answer the question."

"How about you go fuck yourself. I’m not going anywhere or saying anything to a pussy group like you."

Neon felt his blood boil at that insult, "You arrogant foal! You will give us what we are asking.”

Hidan chuckled at the ponies in front of him, "Heh heh, alright then, it seems that I will be giving Jashin an offering today." Dropping his scythe to the ground, he reached into his cloak and lifted out a necklace with a symbol on the end; a circle with an upside down triangle on the inside. Lifting it up to his face, he closes his eyes and prayed, 'Now Jashin, I offer you a sacrifice. This is a token of my gratitude for the power you have given me. I hope this shall be a glorious kill.'