Adventures of the Equestrian Ninja

by hussbek

Party Time for a Party Animal

ADVENTURES OF THE EQUESTRIAN NINJA

Chapter 25: Party Time for a Party Animal

It was another beautiful day in Ponyville as everypony were going about their daily activities with smiles on their faces.

Naruto was currently at home reading from one of the scrolls that he received from Kakashi about wind manipulation "According to the scroll, wind style jutsus have an advantage against lightning style jutsus but is very weak against fire style jutsus since it rather empowers the flames. Better keep that tit-bit at the back of my mind," then he heard someone knocking at the front door and got up to answer it "I wonder who it is?" He opened the door only to be greeted with a shower of confetti much to his surprise, then he saw Pinkie Pie and her pet alligator Gummy wearing clown costumes as she started to sing.

This is your singing telegram
I hope it finds you well
You're invited to a party
'Cause we think you're really swell

Gummy's turning one year old
So help us celebrate
The cakes will be delicious
The festivities first-rate

There will be games and dancing
Bob for apples, cut a rug
And when the party's over
We'll gather 'round for a group hug

No need to bring a gift
Being there will be enough
Birthdays mean having fun with friends
Not getting lots of stuff

It won't be the same without you
So we hope that you say yes
So, please, oh please R.S.V.P
And come, and be our guest!

After Pinkie Pie finished singing, Naruto stood there stunned before finally catching on to what she meant and smiled happily at her.

"Of course I'll be there Pinks, be sure to expect Trixie and I to show up at the party. Believe it!" said Naruto.

"Okey dokey lokey, I have to go and give Twilight and the others my singing telegram for the party. Ta ta for now," Pinkie hopped away happily with Gummy clamping onto her puffy mane so as not to fall off.

"I hope she doesn't tire herself out if she's going to singing to everypony whom she wants to invite to the party," Naruto closed the door and was making his way back to the workshop when he heard hoofsteps and turned to see Trixie coming down the stairs while levitating some books on magic spells.

"Oh Naruto, Trixie was wondering who it was at the door," said Trixie.

"It was Pinkie Pie, she was inviting us to a party at her house to celebrate Gummy's birthday," said Naruto.

"In that case, Trixie will need to get herself ready for the party tonight," said Trixie before going back up the stairs to her room to freshen up a bit while Naruto went back to the workshop to continue reading the scroll.

Later on as Celestia's sun had already set and Luna's moon was rising over Ponyville, Naruto and Trixie had left the house and had arrived at the front door of the Sugarcube Corner. He knocked on the door and it wasn't for long till opened up to reveal Pinkie Pie who was happy upon seeing them.

"Naru, Trixie! I'm so happy that you made to Gummy's birthday party!" Pinkie was hopping happily.

"Come on Pinks, there's no way I'm going to miss a party that you invite me to," said Naruto with a smile.

Trixie was also nodding in agreement "Trixie agrees with him as she also enjoys your parties as well,"

"Well come on in, everypony is here!" Pinkie ushered them inside, they could see that the place was decorated with colorful streamers, bunting, and a banner which says 'Happy Birthday Gummy'. They could also see the tables were laden with snacks, pastries and punch.

"Hey Naruto!" he turned towards the voice to see Applejack and Rainbow Dash standing around a large barrel of water and figured that they were playing bobbing for apples before walking towards them with Pinkie in tow while Trixie went to chat with Rarity as well as help herself to some of the snacks.

"Hey AJ, Dash. I can see that you two are having a good time right now," said Naruto.

"We sure are, Pinkie has really planned for this party," said AJ.

"I'll say," said Rainbow Dash.

"Thanks guys, just to let you know there are a few surprises in there," said Pinkie Pie.

"What kind of surprises?"

"It can't be a surprise if you already know about it Dash," said Naruto with a smirk.

"Yes indeedy, you just have to find out on your own," Pinkie Pie walked away, leaving Rainbow Dash and Applejack to look excitedly at the barrel before dipping their heads in it. AJ pulled out an apple that had a spring attached to it which yanked her into the water, and Rainbow Dash pulled her head out with Gummy latching on to her snout much to Naruto's amusement.

"So there's the birthday alligator we were looking for, happy birthday Gummy," said Naruto, then Gummy let go and went to bite him by his tail. Naruto flicked his tail to send Gummy into the air before it landed on top of his head where it started to nip on his mane. Then he walked over to RARITY AND Trixie who were drinking glasses of punch from the table.

"This punch is simply divine if I do say so myself," said Rarity.

"Indeed it is, Trixie believe this is the recipe which was used for the 'Spring has sprung' party some time ago," said Trixie after finishing her own and going for a refill.

"Nope, it's rather something new and Gummy loves it," the moment Pinkie said that, Gummy made a dive for the bowl but Naruto quickly caught him with his tail.

"Now now Gummy, we can't have you hogging it all to yourself okay?" Naruto smirked as Gummy started biting his tail while the mares breathed a sigh of relief at what had almost happened.

Then the music started to pick up as everypony began to dance to the tune, although there were a few times when Pinkie Pie in her excitement would bump into the others and send them crashing into a wall with Twilight being the first and Naruto the most frequent victim but he simply shrugs it off. Soon enough it had gotten very late and everypony were making their way towards their homes while Pinkie Pie was looking at them from the window of her room.

"Whoo wee! I'm beat, I've never danced this much since…well since your last party. Thanks for the invite," said Applejack.

"See you later birthday alligator," said Rainbow Dash.

"Bravo for hosting another beautiful soiree," said Rarity.

"It's been lovely," said Fluttershy.

"Trixie is very happy to have been invited to one of your many great parties," said Trixie.

"This has to be one of your best parties yet Pinks, and I'm looking forward to your next one," said Naruto.

"Naruto is right, it was a great party. We should do this again soon, bye Pinkie Pie," said Twilight before walking away towards her home.

Pinkie Pie waved as she watched them leave "Bye guys!" then she thought on the words which Twilight said "We should do this again soon!"

The next day as Celestia's sun had risen over the horizon, Naruto was at home sleeping peacefully and dreaming about ramen when he was awakened from his sleep by loud knockings at the front door.

"Man what a party last night, I expect no less from Pinks," Naruto rubbed his eyes as he felt the sleepiness go away before he heard knocking on the door again "Alright alright, I'm coming," he headed downstairs and opened the door to see Pinkie Pie behind it and wearing a basket full of pink envelopes "Good morning Pinks,"

"Hiya Naru, do you know what time it is?" said Pinkie Pie excitedly.

Naruto was confused at her statement "I don't know, especially since I just woke up from bed,"

"It's…party time! I'm giving out invitations for Gummy's 'After-birthday party' which is this afternoon!"

"You mean we've having another party?"

"That's right! We had a lot of fun on the previous one, and now we'll have lots more fun in this one. All of our friends will be there, and there will be dancing, and games, and ice-cream, and punch!" Pinkie then noticed that Naruto was reading the letter quite thoughtfully "Or will you be busy? I hope you could make time for it,"

Naruto snapped out of his thoughts before waving a hoof in a placating manner "Don't worry about it, I'll be sure to make time to come,"

Pinkie Pie smiled happily upon hearing that "Great! Well I'm off to give out more invitations, catch you later," then she happily hopped away.

"Well now, let's see what we have on today's agenda," said Naruto as he went back inside the house to take a nice warm bath and have breakfast. Then he headed towards the Whirlpool and was looking through a list of orders for where the crystals are to be delivered before experimenting on some new seals. He was currently drawing a seal on a paper tag when suddenly the door was slammed opened which startled him to make a mistake on the seal.

"Naru I need your help!" said Pinkie Pie, but Naruto wasn't listening as he saw the tag beginning to sizzle. He quickly grabbed the tag and threw it out through an open window, and moments later a loud bang was heard outside the shop.

"Phew that was close," said Naruto before turning to Pinkie Pie "You have to be more careful, fuinjutsu can be quite dangerous if not handled cautiously. I almost blew up the shop,"

"Sorry about that, how about a muffin as an apology?" said Pinkie Pie.

"It's not much of a big deal, so what's up?"

"There's something suspicious going on. When I went to hand out the invitations, they all said that they couldn't make it to the party since they have plans for the afternoon. Twilight was behind her studies and had to hit the books, Applejack needs to pick apples, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are housesitting for a vacationing bear, and Rarity had to wash her hair. As I thought about it, I came upon one conclusion…they were making excuses not to come to Gummy's party!"

Naruto raised his eyebrows in surprise at what Pinkie Pie said "What makes you so sure that they were making up excuses?"

"I saw Twilight sneaking into the Sugarcube Corner from my window and overheard her and Mrs. Cakes talking about something that they didn't want me to know about which is very strange since we're friends, then I saw her sneak away with a white box,"

"That does sound suspicious," said Naruto.

"Which is why I came to ask for your help so that you can do your ninja thing and find out what secret it is that they don't want me to know about and why they won't come to Gummy's party,"

Naruto thought deeply for a moment before speaking up "Okay Pinks, I'll help you out. Are you ready for a stealth mission?" then he saw Pinkie put on a pair of eyeglasses with a pair of thick eyebrows and a mustache attached to it.

"Yes sir!" said Pinkie Pie with a salute.

On streets, Twilight was seen walking on the tips of her hooves as she made her way across town. She passed by a tall tree and failed to notice that a few leaves fell before a head wearing a black mask poked out and was staring at her silently before it dropped to reveal a pony in blacking clothing, the pony quickly hid behind the bushes as he continued to follow Twilight until she reached the Carousel Boutique, there he saw Rarity come out and seemed quite sneaky about it when she saw Twilight.

"She didn't see you at the sweet shop did she?" asked Rarity.

"I don't think so," Twilight replied.

"Oh good, I'd hate for her to ruin everything,"

"Me too,"

The pony squinted his eyes as he listened to the conversation, then he saw Twilight pass the white box over to Rarity who carried it with her tail and snuck away. He took out an empty can with a string attached to it and spoke through it.

"Pink Puff, this is Bushy Tail. Twilight has passed the mysterious package over to Rarity who is making her way towards your location," said the pony who turned out to be Naruto, we trail the string all the way to a rectangular bale of hay where a pair of eyes could be seen peeping out of it.

"Roger Bushy Tail, this is Pink Puff over and out," said Pink Puff who was Pinkie Pie, then she saw Rarity tip-toeing by and hopped after her while still in the bale of hay. She followed her to an alleyway where she saw Fluttershy poke her head out and was looking around to see if anyone was watching and listened in on their conversation.

"Have you seen her?" asked Rarity.

"Not since this morning," Fluttershy replied.

"Me neither, can you believe she was planning on throwing an after-birthday party today?"

"I'm just glad I was able to come up with an excuse for why I couldn't be there,"

"Me too, this is obviously going to be so much better,"

"As long as we keep her from finding out about it, it will,"

Hearing those words made Pinkie Pie sad that they didn't want to come to her party when they tell her that they always enjoy her parties. She felt something bump into her and looked to see Fluttershy had walked into her who screamed out loud upon seeing a pair of eyes staring back at her and took off with the white box.

"I thought everypony loved my parties," said Pinkie Pie sadly, at moment Rainbow Dash passed by while carrying some saddlebags.

"Hi Pinkie Pie," she went stiff upon realizing who she was talking to "Uh-oh!" then she took off at high speed.

"Rainbow Dash wait!" Pinkie Pie took out the can and spoke through it "This is Pink Puff and I'm about to pursue Rainbow Dash who is carrying bags of unknown content!"

"Roger Pink Puff, I'll be joining up with you soon," said Naruto, then Pinkie Pie jumped out of the hay and ran after Rainbow Dash.

She chased after Rainbow Dash throughout Ponyville as she tried outrun her or hide in places like the school bell but couldn't shake her off until she made her way over to Sweet Apple Acres where Applejack was walking to the barn.

"Applejack! We have a problem!" said Rainbow Dash, Applejack let out a gasp when she saw Pinkie Pie close behind, she let Rainbow Dash into the barn and quickly entered it while closing the barn door shut behind her.

Pinkie Pie was at the door and bonking it with her head, then she heard hoofsteps and turned to see Naruto approaching her "Rainbow Dash and Applejack are in there!"

"Now to find out what they're up to," Naruto walked up to the door and knocked on it, then the upper door opened up slightly to show Applejack who looked twitchy.

"Howdy pardners," said Applejack.

"Hi AJ, Pinks and I were wondering what you guys were up to," said Naruto.

"Nothing really, we aren't up to anything at all,"

"Then you won't mind if we take a look inside the barn," said Pinkie Pie, trying to poke her head in but Applejack was blocking her view which made Naruto quirk an eyebrow at her behavior.

"Uh no, not really, you can't come in, uh right now,"

"But Rainbow Dash just went in there and was carrying a bag,"

"Oh that? She was just uh bringing in some uh…supplies! Yeah she was bringing some supplies for some uh renovation! And there's a lot of construction going right as you can hear it," they listened in and could hear the sawing of wood and hammering out nails "Like I said before, we are doing some serious construction,"

"If it was construction, then I should be able to help out since I know a bit about it from my old world," said Naruto as he took a step forward.

"No! Uh I mean I appreciate the offer but I'm sure we can manage on our own, and uh I'm sure that you're busy with your shop and all that," Applejack smiled but was visibly sweating as Naruto and Pinkie Pie were staring at her quite intently with a slight frown on their faces.

"Okey…dokey…lokey," said Pinkie Pie.

"We'll be off then, just let us know if you need our help with the construction," said Naruto.

Applejack let out a sigh of relief as she watched Naruto and Pinkie Pie leave, Naruto turned his head slightly and saw Twilight and the others peep through the door and squinted his eyes a bit, soon they were back at Naruto's shop and having a discussion.

"It's obvious that they're hiding something from us, cause we all know that AJ is really bad at lying," said Naruto.

"That's right! It's nothing but secrets and lies with them, they're up to something and they don't want me to find out. Well I'm going to find out about it big time and I know just who to ask!" said Pinkie Pie.

"Really? Who?" asked Naruto curiously.

"Whoa! Nice spread!" said Spike who was sitting at a table with a large plate of gems, Pinkie Pie and Naruto at the Sugarcube Corner where the party was taking place.

"Yup and it's all yours Spike, all you have to do is talk," said Pinkie Pie.

"That's it? Okay… well uh what a beautiful weather we're having today eh? I love a sunny spring day, don't you? The birds chirping and the flowers blooming and-"

"That's not what she means Spike, Pinks is asking about our friends," said Naruto with Pinkie nodding in affirmation.

"Oh okay, though I find it weird since Pinkie knows about everypony. Well there's Twilight Sparkle, she's a unicorn, good with magic and a real brainiac. Then there's Rarity, a total knockout-," Naruto's left eye twitched upon hearing that though he can't seem to figure the reason why before focusing his attention back to the conversation "- and there's Fluttershy, a Pegasus who's afraid of heights. Heh what's up with that?"

Pinkie was shaking her head in negative "You're not understanding me! I want you to confess!"

"Confess?" Spike looked confused, then the room went dark with only a lamp pointing at him.

"Confess!" Pinkie was staring at him intently and Naruto was nearby with a pen and a notepad ready to write down whatever he says.

"Okay okay, I'll talk! I'm the one who spilled juice all over Twilight's copy of 'Magical Mysteries and Practical Potions'!" said Spike with a cringe.

"And?" asked Pinkie while Naruto was writing the statement down.

"And I'm the one who used up all the hot water in Ponyville yesterday when I took a seven-hour bubble bath!"

"That explains the cold bath I had back then," thought Naruto, he had to use a Pyro Breath to heat up the water in the tub after jumping in and getting the chills.

"Aaand?" Pinkie asked again.

"And sometimes…when no one's around…I do this," Spike brought out a tall mirror and started flexing his muscles and admiring his reflection "Looking good Spike, looking real good!"

Naruto quickly put a hoof over his mouth to keep his laughter from escaping "Not what we wanted to hear but I'm definitely writing this down," then he flinched upon receiving a from a shadow clone which he left behind at the shop, then he called out to Pinkie Pie "Hey Pinks, there's something I gotta go and get from the shop. I'll be right back,"

"Okay Naru," said Pinkie as she saw Naruto leave before turning her attention back to Spike who was intimidated by her stare.

"So w-what is it you want to hear? Tell me want you want me to say, and I'll say it!" said Spike.

"Tell me that my friends are all lying to me and avoiding me because they don't like my parties and they don't want to be my friends anymore!" said Pinkie Pie.

"Your friends are all lying to you and avoiding you because they don't like your parties and they don't want to be your friends anymore!" Spike repeated after her.

"Ah-ha! I knew it!" but then she felt depressed and even her puffy mane sort of deflated and draped over her shoulders "Oh no, my friends don't like my parties and they don't want to be my friends anymore,"

It went to the point that after Spike had left, she actually created imaginary friends with a bucket of turnips, pile of rocks, clump of lint and a bag of flour whom she calls Mr. turnip, rocky, sir lintsalot and madame le flour respectively. She was chatting with them when she heard someone knocking on the door "I wonder who could that be? Maybe Naru? He had been taking too long at his shop," But when the door opened up, she frowned when she saw that it wasn't Naruto but Rainbow Dash.

"Hey Pinkie Pie! Sorry I was in such a rush earlier. Had some place to be and couldn't slow down and say 'Hello', you know how it goes," Rainbow Dash walked in while looking apologetic.

"I know how it goes all right," Pinkie grumbled angrily, Rainbow Dash flinched a bit from the reply.

"Yeah…so why don't you come with me over to Sweet Apple Acres?"

"No thanks, I'm spending time here with my real friends and another real friend will soon be coming to join us. Isn't that right, madame le flour?"

"Oui! Zat iz correct, madame," said madame le flour with Pinkie acting as its voice.

"Uh...Pinkie Pie?" Rainbow Dash was bit weirded out by her behavior.

"Another slice of cake, sir lintsalot?"

"I'd love one," Pinkie mimicked for the clump of lint.

"Alrighty, what do you say we get out of creepytown and head over to Applejack's-" Rainbow Dash tried to approach her when a stool with a bucket of turnips got in her way.

"She's not going anywhere," 'said' Mt. turnip.

"I certainly am not, I'm having a wonderful time right here and Naruto will soon join me," said Pinkie Pie.

"You really should just come with me,"

"You heard the lady! She ain't goin' noweheres, chump!" 'said' rocky, which annoyed Rainbow Dash.

"Who you calling a chump, chump?!" Rainbow Dash paused upon realizing what she just did "That's it, party's over. Come on Pinkie Pie!"

"No!" Pinkie Pie turned away from her.

"Pinkie Pie, let's go!"

"I said no!"

Then Rainbow Dash to push her towards the door "You have...to come…with me!"

And Pinkie Pie refused to budge "No…I…don't!"

"Oh you wanna do this the hard way?! We'll do this the hard way!" Rainbow Dash grabbed her by the tail and dragged her out of the house with Gummy along for the ride, all the way to Sweet Apple Acres until stopping before the barn "We're here!"

She opened the door for Pinkie Pie to look inside and saw that the whole place was decorated with balloons, banners, and streamers. She also saw Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity and Applejack wearing party hats and smiling at her.

"Surprise!" they said happily, Pinkie Pie still didn't want to go inside but Rainbow Dash pushed her in despite that.

"I really thought that she'd be more excited," said Fluttershy since Pinkie Pie wasn't reacting like they thought she would.

"Excited? Excited?! Why would I be excited to attend my own farewell party?!" said Pinkie Pie angrily.

"Farewell party?" Twilight and the others were confused by what she said.

"That's right! You don't like me anymore, so you decided to kick me out of the group and throw a great, big party to celebrate! A 'Farewell to Pinkie Pie' party! And you dragged me away from my party which Naruto said he would attend and there's no one there!"

"Why in the world would you think that we didn't like you, sugarcube?" asked Applejack which pretty angered Pinkie Pie.

"Why? Why? Why?! Because you have been lying to me avoiding me all day, that's why!"

"Uh yeah! Because we wanted your party to be a surprise. Like Naruto said 'It can't be a surprise if you already know about it'," said Rainbow Dash with a smirk which made Pinkie Pie raise an eyebrow in confusion.

"We'd be planning this party for a while now for such a long time, we had to make excuses for why we couldn't attend Gummy's party so that we could get everything ready for yours," said Rarity.

"And if it's a farewell party, why does the cake I picked up from Sugarcube Corner say 'Happy Birthday Pinkie Pie'?" said Twilight as she pointed at the cake.

Pinkie Pie took a long look around the barn more clearly and saw that there were even presents on top of a table including the cake before it finally dawned upon her as her mane puffed up "because it's my birthday! Oh how could I forget my own birthday?"

"Because it's just like you Pinks," a voice spoke out, everypony turned to see Naruto leaning against the barn door with a foxy grin on his face.

"Naru? You knew about this?" asked Pinkie.

"That's right, when we learnt that you were getting suspicious and tried to find out about our surprise party. Naruto quickly sent a shadow clone to alert before creating more and turning into us to lead you on a wild goose chase," said Twilight.

"Although we almost had our cover blown when you saw the real Rainbow Dash and chased her to the barn, so my clones who were there made those sounds to throw you off," said Naruto, Rainbow Dash rubbed the back of her head sheepishly.

"Then why did you leave when we were talking to Spike?" asked Pinkie Pie.

"That's because I wanted to get your present ready, as well as invite other ponies to the party,"

"So all of you liked me so much that you decided to throw me a surprise party,"

"Of course Pinks, what's not to like about you? Your cheery and excitable personality, and your tendency to act randomly always puts a smile on our faces,"

This made Pinkie Pie smile happily as she scooped everyone into a group hug "You guys are the best friends ever! How could I ever have doubted you?" she looked apologetic.

"It's alright Pinkie Pie, it could have happened to any of us," said Twilight with everypony nodding in agreement.

"Happy Birthday Pinkie Pie!" they turned to see that the ponies whom Naruto invited had finally arrived. They were Trixie, Derpy and her daughter Dinky, Vinyl Scratch, Zecora, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, Mayor Mare and Big Mac.

"Alright everypony! Let's this party started!" said Naruto and everypony cheered out loud, then he turned to Vinyl "You know what to do Vinny,"

"Gotcha! Release sound system!" then several orbs came out her new medallion and transformed into loudspeakers, sound mixer and a CD player "You're on Naruto!" then she tossed a microphone towards Naruto who used his magic to catch it and started to sing as the music began to play with everypony slowly nodding to the beat.

Pharrel Williams - Happy

It might seem crazy what I'm about to say
Sunshine she's here, you can take away
I'm a hot air balloon, I could go to space
With the air, like I don't care baby by the way

Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do

Here come bad news talking this and that
Yeah, give me all you got, don't hold back
Yeah, well I should probably warn you I'll be just fine
Yeah, no offense to you don't waste your time
Here's why

Happy, bring me down
Can't nothing, bring me down
Love is too happy to bring me down
Can't nothing, bring me down
I said bring me down
Can't nothing, bring me down
Love is too happy to bring me down
Can't nothing, bring me down
I said

(Everypony joined in on the chorus with Naruto)

Happy, bring me down
Can't nothing, bring me down
Love is too happy to bring me down
Can't nothing, bring me down
I said

End of music

Everypony was cheering once the song came to, Naruto simply grinned and walked towards Pinkie Pie "Hey Pinks, I have got a nice presence for you. Release present!" an orb came out of his medallion and transformed into a parcel.

Pinkie Pie excitedly took opened up the box and took out an embroidered ball which had lots of colors and different pattern "Ooooh, what is it Naru?" the others came to listen as well especially Rarity.

"That is a Temari ball, it's pieces of silk fabric wadded up to form a ball before being wrapped with strips of fabric. They are known to symbolize deep friendship and loyalty, and whoever receives it will be blessed with a brilliant and happy," said Naruto.

"Thank you Naru! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Pinkie Pie hugged Naruto so tightly that he was finding it hard to breath, he took a glance towards Dr. Whooves and winked at him before receiving one in return. Turns out that he had the doctor do him a favor and transport him to his old world and buy the gift.

"I must say that this Temari ball has given me ideas for a new fashion," said Rarity with a twinkle in the eye.

"Hey guys, you wouldn't mind if we celebrate Gummy's after-birthday too, would you?" asked Pinkie Pie.

"Of course, I did say that I would attend," said Naruto.

"Alrighty then, let's have a party for Gummy!" said Rainbow Dash, the said alligator was seen chewing on a balloon in an attempt to pop it.