Shinobies of Equestria

by Aint no thang homie

Chapter 4: A Failure Stands Tall

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"Fire style! Fireball jutsu!"

The fireball he had created was huge! Even for a boy like him! Senjee wasn't going to have enough room to evade the jutsu, so he had to counter it with his own jutsu!

"Water style! Water wall!"

Water from the river that was nearby began to swirl around Senjee! The fireball came into contact! A mist expelled from the water due to evaporation, and everything was covered with a thick mist. When it cleared, Senjee was standing, unharmed by the jutsu! His water wall blocked the move completely! Rioku stared down Senjee and, after a few moments, smiled.

Senjee saw this and asked, "What's so funny?"

"Nothing, it's just that I cant believe how persistent he is." He threw a kunai at Senjee!

Senjee easily blocked the kunai but, from behind him came Jetetsu leaping from the air! He had his blade drawn and at the ready! He slashed at Senjee from above! Senjee avoided the cut, and made distance between all three of them.

"So you managed to escape my hold, did you?"

Jetetsu replied, "Yeah, Rioku over there helped me out by sending that fire stream to pass you and melt the concrete! Now let's get busy!"

Jetetsu used every sword skill and technique at his disposal! However, no matter what he still couldn't land a single blow on Senjee! Every swing was either countered or evaded! Jetetsu went for his haunches, but Senjee jumped over the sword! Jetetsu missed but brought the blade back around for his head with a spin! Senjee ducked below to avoid the blow. Jetetsu jumped back to make room.

"All yours Rioku!"

"Whatever!"

Rioku charged in with his kunai at the ready. He took a slice at Senjee's neck, but Senjee blocked the kunai with his own! He then spun around to trip Rioku! Rioku jumped up and spread his wings to fly. He ascended to a safe distance before calling out to Senjee.

"Too bad your just a regular earth pony! Flight gives me the upper hand here Sensei!"

"In most ways it would, however in this way it does not." Senjee replied.

Rioku was then hit with a shuriken in the base of his left wing! He shook off the shuriken but still wasn't able to use his left wing! The unbalanced pegasus then preceded to fall to the earth. He managed to land on his hooves, but the fall still caused him to wince in pain.

"What? Why couldn't I use my left wing?"

He took a longer look at the point where the shuriken hit him on his wing. He then saw why he couldn't use it!

"Of course! He used poison!"

A purple liquid was oozing out of his wound, which wasn't very big. He saw that the liquid filled the wound to the rim with Senjee's special partial paralysis poison. The poison trickled down his back and around to the front of his leg. Luckily for him that Senjee used his partial paralysis poison and not his full. Otherwise, Rioku would've been out of the fight for good.

"You got cocky there and let your guard down. You need to work on your bragging, seriously." Senjee lectured.

Rioku was good on his hooves, he charged. He threw 5 shuriken that all but failed to hit Senjee. He then pulled out two kunai and double wielded them for faster movement and more hit chances. He worked up several sweats trying to slice the earth pony. All was for naught however, Senjee just wouldn't back down.

Jetetsu was hiding in a tree, watching the fight go on while he was safely concealed behind the leaves. He was working out a way he could get Senjee to keep still, again. He was growing real tired of this fight, he was sure that Rioku was as well. He didn't have to think about Asuna being tired, because she was out of it! Jetetsu could still see her body on the ground where Senjee had been, laying there lifeless with no sign of motion to come. Jetetsu was fine on his supply of chakra, but he was pretty sure that Rioku's chakra, even with the rest he had gotten, was going to be depleted soon for sure, again. Jetetsu was seriously thinking about getting a drink at his house, it WAS right there. Just a mile from where he was, he thought he could make it if he just went fast enough.

"Fuck it." Senjee jumped from the tree and ran off to his house.

He was sure that he wasn't seen. He arrived at his house's front door within at least 5 minutes. He had hoped Rioku was still putting on a good show for Senjee, at least good enough to keep him roused up until he got back. He opened the door and walked in. He went straight to the kitchen refrigerator and pulled out from within a pitcher of apple juice. He got a cup, filled it to the rim, and drank it down. He repeated this another 3 times before he decided it was time to go.

He put the pitcher back and headed for the front door. When he reached the door he heard somepony call out to him from behind.

"J-Jetetsu? Is that you? I thought you were still training!"

"Oh! Haruhi, is that you? I almost forgot about you! I am, I just came back for a drink, no problem. What are you doing?"

He was about to turn around. However, Haruhi tried to stop him from doing so.

"No! Please! Don't look Jetetsu! P-please don't!"

Too late, Jetetsu turned. He looked to see that Haruhi was....naked?!! Haruhi turned a bright red all over her face. She was going numb from the humiliation she was catching, and her haunches started to wobble. Jetetsu spoke up before she could however.

"Uh, Haruhi? Why are you naked in MY house?"

Jetetsu was still looking of course, it was hard for him not to! Her breasts were just too perfect to look away from. Of course this increased the amount of shame that Haruhi felt.

She replied, "I am so sorry Jetetsu! I was doing laundry and had nothing to wear and since you were out training I thought I could...y-you know." She finally decided to take cover behind a wall, breaking Jetetsu's gaze and saving him from an eternal stare.

"Oh! Of course it was laundry! HAHA! Well okay then! I better get back to my training! See you later Haruhi!"

He bolted out the door and ran as fast as he could back to the training ground. He had already wasted too much time! He hoped Rioku was hanging in there!


Rioku was not hanging in there. In fact it was kind of, no, COMPLETELY the opposite! Rioku had managed to put a few burns and rubble on Senjee at least, credit for that. However, he was on the verge of fainting again! He was actually going to use another jutsu. So Jetetsu decided to stay back and see what he was going to do.

Rioku formed a sign, "Earth style! Rockwall cannon!"

Boulders began breaking off from the ground and shot themselves toward Senjee! Senjee was able to dodge all of them easily, he even broke the last boulder with a punch! Jetetsu could see that Rioku needed help, badly! He jumped right in to join the fight! Rioku almost forgot he was even apart of the team.

"Where the hell have you been huh?! I've been calling you for help!"

He cringed at these words. He doesn't like admitting he needs any help. Jetetsu made up a little fib.

"I-uh-was actually ignoring you on purpose! You see, I was forming a strategy while I was in hiding and couldn't risk my cover being blown." He smiled, obviously trying to pretend he had nothing to hide.

"Well what is it?!"

"Wait, what?" Jetetsu didn't actually have any plan!

"I asked what it was you loser! Surely you have a plan if you jumped in to help me right?!"

Senjee charged the both of them at once. This made it difficult for Jetetsu to talk to Rioku without getting hit by Senjee's punches in this close combat situation.

"What! Of course I"-Senjee swung his fist at him-"Whoa!"-He dodged just barely!-"Yes I have a plan!"

Jetetsu jumped back to make room. Luckily for him, he had ONE more option that came to mind. However, if it didn't work, it would leave him too exhausted to fight any longer! It was a chance he had to take, for his sake of becoming the best! He clapped his hands together and began his jutsu!

"Chain style! Ranga's wa-"

"Hold it Jetetsu! Stop!"

Jetetsu halted his jutsu and pulled his hands apart. Senjee interrupted him and was about to say something.

"The sun has gone down, and all of you fail!"

Jetetsu's eyes widened, he let out a small gasp and said, "W-what? But how?"

Rioku was furious. He paced back and forth huffing and puffing his way around the field, cursing life under his breath. Jetetsu couldn't believe that after all he had learned, all he had done, it was for nothing!

Senjee continued, "But..." He started.

Jetetsu looked up at him and said, "But what!"

"You all are qualified to be genin in my book. From here on out you are all official genin!"

Jetetsu was joyous that he was finally a genin! He jumped up into the air and gave the sky a fist bump for glory! From here on out, he was a true ninja!

"Hold up", Rioku started, "I thought we failed the test. How come your still making us genin?"

"Rioku, it was never about passing the skills test. It was all for the teamwork grade. You all worked so hard together that I really didn't have a choice but to make you all genin!"

He then looked at Jetetsu with evil eyes, "However Jetetsu, if you ever leave training to get a glass of juice ever again, it's back to the academy for you! Understood!"

"Uh! Y-yes sensei!"

It seems that Senjee knew all along! Well, he should have known better than to undermine Senjee's intelligence like that. Rioku started nagging Jetetsu about what in the hell Senjee was talking about. Jetetsu just shooed him off and said he would explain later.

Asuna then finally woke up. "Huh? What happened? Did we win?"

Jetetsu used the moment to get a scare out of her!

"Asuna no! It was horrible! We failed Asuna, we all failed and now we have to start the academy all over again! No!!"

Asuna then shot up straight and started to form tears in her eyes.

"What! N-no! We couldn't have failed! Why did we have to fail!?"

"He's only screwing with you, Asuna. Stop worrying, we passed no problem." Rioku interrupted.

"Oh thank Celestia!"

She then looked at Jetetsu with pure demonic eyes and said, "Jetetsu! I'm going to kill you!"

"Oh crap!"

Jetetsu ran and Asuna went after him! He ran all around Ponyville trying to hide and run away from the scary woman, thus closing the day for training for the new genin of the ninja world!


Now what in the hell was he going to say to Haruhi when he got home!?

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