//------------------------------// // Where am I? // Story: Naruto: Chronicles of a swirly sky // by SilverShield //------------------------------// Hello Every pony! this here is my very first MLP:FiM Fan fiction and I pretty much had this Idea stuck the entire week just begging me to be written, to start with this is more of my take on equestrian's history and such but I'm using Naruto because he is my favorite anime character,if you like please leave me nice reviews, if you don't like it constructive criticism is always welcome, just don't flame please. "Its over Madara, you already lost" came the ragged but strong willed words of a very tired Uzumaki Naruto as he stood in front of a downed Uchiha Madara possessing the Jinchuuriki body of Uchiha Obito, the landscape showed heavy signs of a massive battle between the unnatural powers of the Juubi and the fully powered Sage Ninja Jinchuuriki. "P-per...haps that is so... Uzuma...ki" answered Madara in an even more tired tone of voice "but if... I am... to be d-defeated by the likes of you..." he said as he took the broken monk staff he had created with his black chakra "I'm going to make sure... I take you with me!" he said as he threw the staff towards Narutos feet and loosing the final wisp of life he held in the process. The broken staff stabbed the ground before Naruto and the floor beneath him seemed to ripple like water, not like sand but like if reality itself was being disturbed, his eyes widened and he barely had time to turn back and take in the final sight of his friends. Sasuke was still unconscious and being tended by Sakura, the kages and Orochimaru were either resting or unconscious, Even Tsunade was apparently mourning the death of Orochimaru, his father and the previous Hokages had been long since defeated by then so at least they were in peace, and the rest of the shinobi forces were still behind that black barrier made by madara although it was dissolving and Hinata was seemingly running towards him. "Yeah... I think they're going to be fine, I'm tired, I do deserve the rest right Kurama?" were the last word of Naruto as he disappeared into the ripple in time and space... "...to...ru...o...Na...to..., Nar...to... Naruto! wake up you Idiot! Naruto!" came the sound of a concerned but annoyed voice that gave hima headache that threatened his head to split in half. "Ugh... shut up Kurama.. Im trying to rest in peace..." mumbled Naruto still half-unconscious. "You're not dead you idiot!" Kurama yelled at the blond "I haven't the slightest Idea of where are we but we are not dead" he said with a huff making Naruto stir into consciousness. "Wha- what? what the hell happened I thought we died and why is everything so dark" Naruto asked as he tried to look around, he was surrounded almost completely in darkness, the only source of light seemed to be a low bluish light hitting some rock wall not to far from him "Are we in a cave? how did we get here?" Naruto said in curiosity of his current situation. "No idea but we better get out of here maybe then well have a better understanding of where are we" were the words of Kurama as Naruto stood up and tried to walk towards the light "Whoa!" exclaimed Naruto as he fell on his hands "what is it?" Kurama asked. "I... I have no idea... its hard to stand up, but i don't feel tired or anything" Naruto said as he tried to stand up once again and walk. "Maybe its because of the last battle, we don't remember anything of how we got here maybe your sense of balance is screwed up as well... in the meantime try to crawl towards the light we can try and fix that later" said Kurama as he considered the lack of balance in Naruto. "Alright here goes nothing I guess" Naruto said as he started walking on all fours, strangely enough it felt natural to do so once he reached the light he saw the entrance to the cave and hurried up to get outside. He was in the middle of a dense forest but everything seemed to be of much brighter color than he remembered things being, he heard running water and hurried up to a nearby stream as he tried to scoop up some water to drink he realized he had no hands anymore, his arms were furry and ended up in what appeared to be hoofs. wide eyed Naruto looked behind to see his legs ad notice they were also thick dark gray and ended in hoofs, he tried to glimpse his reflection on the water of the stream but it was night and the poor lighting combined with the movement of the stream prevented him to see beyond that of his silhouette, he noted then that it was not a human shape. he was quadrupedal and with a thick body, his head was big and had a muzzle, he seemed to have two horns on his head but upon closer inspection they were his ears and he had a mane and tail like that of a horse. "Am I a horse? Kurama what is going on?!" Naruto said entering in slight panic while looking at his frontal hooves. "I... I think so... although you seem shorter than a normal horse maybe a pony" were the words of Naruto's tenant as he also seemed stupefied by the change. "Great so I'm a baby horse! thanks Kurama that makes me feel better!" Naruto snapped back at the mental fox. "Hey I'm on your side remember? I'm just as confused as you are" answered Kurama "maybe we're in one the horse summon reals and the Natural energy here turned us into a pony?" came the tentative answer he came up with. "No, it makes no sense even if we were in a different summoning realm taking in the natural energy wouldn't make me into their summon Id still become a frog, and how do you explain that I haven't turned to stone yet?" Naruto said while pondering on Kurama's thoughts. "Anyway lets not dwell on it right now it seems to be nearing midnight if the moon is to be believed lets seek out shelter for now" Kurama advices Naruto who thinks a little. "Yeah I guess you are right how about the cave we were in it didn't seem to be inhabited by anything I could just shove a stone on the entrance to make sure nothing enters while we are asleep" said Naruto and he felt the mental nod of Kurama, tracing back his steps to the cave he noticed a nearby boulder big enough to cover the entrance. He pushed it while channeling chakra and was relieved to find it worked as he was easily able to push the boulder and used it to close the entrance, once he was finished he laid on the floor where the moonlight filtered through the boulder and tried to sleep. A few hours later Naruto woke up with a start "Ah! what the hell?" he yelled as the pale moonlight quickly was replaced by fierce sun rays "It can't be day it was pitch dark a few hours ago!" Naruto grumbled as he took once again upon his predicament "Damn it I'm still a horse it wasn't a dream" he mumbled afterwards as he proceeded to push the boulder away from the cave's entrance. As the sun rays entered the cave he noticed the cave to be filled to the brim with gemstones of many kinds, there were sapphires, rubies, amethysts, topazes, hell he even saw some diamond in there all incrusted in the stony walls "Bloody hell that's a hell lot of gems" he said his jaw nearly hitting the floor. "Naruto don't just stand there like a dumb ass grab as many gemstones as you can!" yelled Kurama from his mind "And how? I have no bags or anything to carry them much less something to scrape them off the walls like you know hands!" Naruto replied the annoying greedy fox. "Then remember where we are go to a nearby town or settlement or whatever and get a bag and tool or something, if you cant find anything then kill some animal from the forest and use its skin as a bag" replied his tenant with an indignant huff. With a roll of his eyes Naruto took to the forest he looked around and saw a rather large tree nearby, he channeled some chakra on his fee..hooves and jumped as high as possible into a rather tall branch, he did this twice more to reach the apex of the tree which reached above the forest leaves. Keeping himself steady with his frontal hooves he glanced around in search for a settlement town or otherwise, after a little he devised the edge of the forest a bit off to the south and what appeared to be huts and other buildings on it. he nodded and jumped down cushioning his fall with chakra. he then began running towards that clearing but on foot so as to leave a trace he could follow after getting supplies. About an hour later Naruto reached the end of the forest and cautiously he walked towards the village, the first creatures he saw there were other ponies, some were glancing at him in curiosity others seemed to ignore him. "how strange I haven't ever seen horses with such colors, much less ones capable of building and doing what these do... maybe we are in the summoning realms" Naruto said quietly to himself as he venture further into the village, then he happened upon a larger building with a sign and he glance upwards, a frown suddenly sat on his face "hey Kurama" he thought "can you read that?" he asked mentally to his fox companion. Kurama glanced though Naruto's eyes and saw the strange writing on the sign "Nope not in the slightest what do you think it says?" the fox asked Naruto. "It says Public Library... How can I read it? I know it isn't Japanese but I can read it just as easily" Naruto thought wide eyed. "I...I dont know... maybe because you are a pony? I just cant explain it" said Kurama at the implications "Anyway since you can read whatever that is lets head into the library luckily well come across a book that explains where are we and what is going on" the fox said to Naruto who just silently nodded and headed into the library. Inside Naruto tried to be as inconspicuous as possible and headed to the shelves in search of any book that could help him understand his predicament but on his way there he happened upon a mirror and for the first time he got a clear look at his appearance. Naruto gazed upon his own reflection shocked he had seen a blurry silhouette of himself before and he had see the color of his ehm... fur coat but he saw it in greater detail and he finally came upon the realization that he was a pony now, even his whisker like marks were on his cheeks and his eyes remained the usual ocean blue, his hair(and tail) remained brilliant yellow but it had a silver streak on it and finally he had this long glaringly obvious horn in the middle of his forehead. "How the hell did I not notice that before" Naruto said as he looked at his horn he shook his head after a bit and thought "calm down Naruto first thing's first you need to find out as much as you can about this place as quickly as possible" he rectified himself and with a final glance at his pony form he headed towards the bookshelves. He skipped though the sections names searching for history books much to the confusion of Kurama and finally in the 6th bookshelf there was the History and Geography section he took a book of geography and read the title out loud. "Divisions of the land: a guidebook for earthen ponies" he said and looked at the first large map in the book "this looks nothing like the geography of home, it doesn't even look like the summon realms... just where am I?..." Naruto said softly.