snapping twigs and rustling bushes were all that heralded that something was moving in the everfree forest but it was not the usual beast, instead it was a rust orange unicorn with a blonde mane and ocean blue eyes his cutie mark was a swirl with nine tails.
he had been traveling for weeks from his old home because he was attacked constantly for having three fox tails instead of one pony tail and it didn't help that he was bigger than most ponies (around big macs size) so he decided to pack his saddle bags and leave for a place called ponyville because of the supposed friendliness of the town, while he was grumbling about how stupid pony's could be to others that were different he hears a noise, stopping to listen he hears it again but it sounds like crying.
Searching around for the noise which was getting louder by the minute he finally brushes aside a bush and sees a little filly crying in the middle of a clearing, trotting up to her slowly he sees that she has a horn and wings which means she is a alicorn, next was her coat and mane, her coat was black like a starless night and her mane was purple,
"hello there little filly are you ok?" he said in the calmest most reassuring voice he had, she turned quickly still sobbing a little and looked at him with her blueish green eyes that he noted were slitted "what do you want, leave me alone" she said with a little fear, the unicorn smiles and says "im not here to harm you my name is naruto, naruto namikaze whats yours?" the young alicorn looks at him for a moment then decides he is safe and says "my name is nyx your not like everypony else I have met they usually shoo me away".
the way she said this reminded naruto of his own past "what about your parents surly they are somewhere worried about you" he said but he instantly regretted it when she started crying again "i... I don't h-have p-parents" she said between sobs now naruto really knew what was going on "its ok, if it helps any I never knew my parents either" he said trying to comfort the filly, she looked at him with wide eyes "r-really?" she asked he simply nodded and a sudden idea came to him "hey I have an idea but I need to know if you will accept it or not because it involves you, since neither of us ever had parents why don't I be one for you?".
the look on the filly's face was priceless "y-you mean, l-like you b-be my p-parent?" she asked he nodded and was suddenly thrown back as she hug tackled him crying tears of joy now "oh, thank you you don't know how much this means to me now that I have a daddy" she said but the last word caught him off guard but it soon sounded like music to his ears, naruto looked down at her and whispered "you have no idea how much I know what it is like" as he held his adopted daughter in his hooves.
They spent the night in the clearing and in the morning naruto and his new daughter walked on through the forest looking for the exit, about another week had passed and the bonds have only gotten stronger between the two as they had faced many dangers many of which naruto had to fight off powerful creatures to protect his daughter, during one of the fights he was wounded and nyx asked why he didn't run "because if I ran it would have went after you and I made a promise to myself to protect you from anything that would hurt you and I always keep my promises" he had said.
As the sun was descending naruto finally saw light through some trees so he decided to camp where they were for the night and go to the town in the morning, as the sun rose the duo walk through the edge of the everfree forest and made their way to the town of ponyville.
as they arrive he looks around and is greeted by many friendly ponies which caught him off guard because most ponies would look at his tails and instantly label him a freak, as he was pondering he didn't notice that a pink pony was slowly appearing beside him and his daughter until... "HI".
naruto falls over with his heart beating fast nyx just stood there with wide eyes stiff as a board "holy celestia you nearly gave us a heart attack" he said finally getting his heart to settle down, the pink mare had a smile on her face "oh, im sorry I didn't mean to scare you by the way my name is pinkie pie your new here I know this because I know everypony in ponyville and if your new here that means that you haven't made any friends and that makes me sad gasp that means you need to have a PARTY" naruto blinked rapidly as the pink mare disappeared as quickly as she appeared leaving him and nyx thinking 'what the hay just happened' eventually they set off again to see if their was any place to make their own.
Entering the town hall he walks up to the counter "um excuse me but is their any housing me and my daughter can get around here?" asked naruto, the mare smiled at him and said "one moment ill be right back" she walked to the back and about ten minutes later came back with a smile "there just so happens to be a two bed apartment available for 100 bits a month all utilities payed are you interested?".
naruto lifts the bag of bits out of his saddlebags and looks to see how much he had 'hmm 360 bits will get me food and the first three months' he looked to the mare with a smile and said "that will be perfect thank you very much" she gave him directions and the keys to his apartment and they set off to their new house.
Arriving at the apartment he opened the door and nyx rushed past him "daddy this place is awesome" she said warming narutos heart that he can make his daughter happy "it is nice isn't it" he said with a wide grin he notices that nyx ran into one of the rooms yelling "MINE" he chuckled at that and took the other room next to it, as they settled in naruto heard a knock at the door he opened it and gawked at what he saw.
in the door way was the most beautiful mare he had ever seen, she had a lavender coat and her mane and tale were purple with a pink streak in it he also noticed that her eyes were also a pretty purple (A/N I think correct me if im wrong) and her cutie mark was a large star with starbursts around it she was wearing a light blue tshirt "hello my name is twilight sparkle, I heard you recently moved here from one of my friends so I decided to stop by, whats your name?" asked twilight, naruto stared for a few more moments then said "o-oh um, h-hi my n-names naruto namik-kaze".
he said nervously, just then nyx appeared next to him "daddy who is this?" she asked with child curiosity "this is twilight sparkle she is our new neighbor, twilight this is my daughter nyx namikaze" "your daughter is an alicorn?" asked twilight with a raised eyebrow.
"well I adopted her when I found her crying in the middle of the everfree and found out that she was an orphan" said naruto trying to clear up some confusion, twilight had a shocked look on her face but that quickly transformed into a big smile "how noble of you, you are a very caring pony and from what I can tell you two love each other very much" she said giggling a little naruto though 'wow I could listen to that for a long time' "yes we have been through a lot together" he said twilight nodded and smiled which sent butterfly's into his stomach "well I hope we meet again Mr. namikaze" she said "please just naruto will do" he said and saw she made a mental note to remember that and she left.
Naruto left the door open and said "ok nyx time for us to go shopping" and with that they left for the market, a few hours later they return to the apartment and naruto opened the door and flipped the lights on.
"SURPRISE" naruto jumped into the air and stuck to the ceiling stiff as a board with a faintly heard "dattabayo" (I think that's how it is spelled), he looked down and noticed that they were staring at him so he jumped back down and shook nyx out of her own shock.
"umm wow didn't really expect company but thank you for the housewarming" he said and he notices the pink pony and twilight coming towards him with four other ponies with them "oh hello twilight who might I ask are your friends?" twilight smiled and said "well you have already met pinkie pie this is rarity she owns the carousel boutique, rainbow dash the self proclaimed fastest flier in equestria, applejack owner of sweet apple acres and fluttershy... um where is fluttershy?".
they each said hi then they looked around and I saw a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane hiding behind applejack "hi my name is naruto and this is my daughter nyx its a pleasure to meet you" he put his hand out for a shake witch she did nervously.
the rest of the night they spent talking and goofing around eventually the party was dispersing and naruto noticed that nyx was nodding off "thank you for the party it was nice I hope to see you all again but right now I need to get this silly filly to bed good night everypony" he said as they left, he tucked nyx in and gave her a goodnight kiss on the forehead then went to bed himself dreaming of a good future.
