Sasuke's Equestrian Adventure

Sasuke had a calm night, finally sleeping inside a real bed instead of a broken tree branch. He’d have prefered a japanese style bed still, but it was still good to him.

As the sun was up in the sky Twilight Sparkle gently knocked on his door waking him up.

“Good morning Sasuke. I hope you're hungry, Spike's cooking breakfast and it's very tasty,” Twilight told him trough the door.

The unicorn got down from the bed and walked outside facing her.

“It better be...” he told her.

The two walked to the kitchen where Spike could be seen working at the stoves.

“Hey you're just in time! The pancakes are done!” He presented two towers of stacked pancakes to the two ponies.

Sasuke took one, bit it, then spit it out one second afterwards.

“Too sweet,” he said annoyedly.

“You could've just said ‘No thank you,’” Spike said taking back his meal.

“Um Spike, would you mind terribly preparing a breakfast salad for Sasuke?” Twilight asked the little dragon.

“But I already worked so hard on these!” Spike protested.

“No problem, I can make it without eating anyways,” Sasuke interrupted the two.

“Um ok then. Well Sasuke, how did you sleep?” Twilight asked.

“Fine I suppose, I'm more used to sleep on the ground.” Sasuke looked at the windows.

“Oh, well I'm happy to accommodate you. Hey, I thought after we finish breakfast we could go and better meet my friends,” Twilight said.

“Do we really have to?” Sasuke looked at her directly.

“I know you aren't really the sociable type, but I have a feeling it will be a while before you get to go home so you might as well. I promise you'll like them once you know them,” Twilight assured him.

“It seems I got no alternatives,” He answered. “The pink pony better not throw another party for me!”

“I can't really promise that, she doesn't give up easily,” Twilight confessed, earning another groan coming from him.

“Then it's better if I stay away from her, or it might end badly for her...” he said in a menacing way.

After Twilight finished her breakfast she and Sasuke went out of the castle, leaving Spike to tend to it in the meantime.

“Where shall we go today?” Sasuke asked.

“First I'm headed to Sweet Apple Acres to see if Applejack needs help with any of her chores,” Twilight answered.

“Chores?” Sasuke chuckled. “Don’t count on me”.

“Nopony said you have to help, but it would be very nice of you if you did,” Twilight told him.

“Yeah right, as you’ve seen I'm not a nice person.” Sasuke responded.

Twilight couldn’t do anything but sigh.

Some time later they both arrived at Sweet Apple acres, and Applejack could be seen working around the orchard.

“Howdy Twilight, hey Sasuke! You here to lend a hoof?” Applejack noticed them.

“No,” Sasuke answered rudely.

“Well what do you need help with Applejack?” Twilight asked.

“Our animals need feeding, and there are some ripe apples ready to be harvested.” She pointed at the barn with the cows and at the rest of the orchard.

“Alright, have fun doing that then,” Sasuke taunted them.

“Ain't you gonna help us?” Applejack looked unamused by his attitude.

“No,” He answered again, angering Applejack already.

“Let's just get started AJ,” Twilight suggested, getting some barrels to gather the apples.

After Applejack got some too, she and Twilight headed for the orchard and started bucking the trees with the most apples on.

Meanwhile, while they were doing that, Sasuke’s stomach started to grumble.

“Ow,” Sasuke felt it rumbling. “I should have eaten breakfast.”

He turned his head, seeing Twilight and Applejack working hard to get the apples down the trees.

“Hey you...” Sasuke called to them.

“Yes?” Twilight asked him.

“What's up partner?” Applejack asked as well.

“I'm hungry, do you know where I can find something to eat, possibly with tomatoes?” Sasuke asked.

“Well our farm specializes in apples, but there's a vegetable cart in town. You got any bits?” Applejack asked him.

“What's a bit?” he asked, confused.

“It's our currency, and if I'm not mistaken, you probably haven't got any,” she pointed out.

“I don't...” Sasuke took notice.

“I'd be happy to give you some partner, but first… I need some help.” Applejack looked at him confidently.

“Grrr… lemme guess, you want me to help you with the apples?” Sasuke frowned.

“Actually me and Twi are doin’ fine with the apples. It would be a big help to us if you could feed the chickens and other animals.” She pointed at the hen house and the pig pen.

“Fine, where is their food?” Sasuke asked.

“It's in the barn in a barrel marked ‘Feed,’” she said.

“Fine...” Sasuke entered the barn and bucked out the barrel in direction of the hen house.

On his way to it, the cutie mark crusaders noticed him.

“Howdy stranger! How are you today?” Applebloom asked him.

“Don't bother me,” Sasuke shot back.

The three fillies started to walk away sadly, and in that moment Sasuke noticed something different about them.

“Hey… why don't you have a mark on your rump?” Sasuke asked them.

“Oh, we haven't found our cutie marks yet,” Sweetie Belle answered.

“Yeah, that's why we became Cutie Mark Crusaders!” Scootaloo said cheerfully.

“Mmmh I get that cutie marks are important… how do you get one?” Sasuke touched his muzzle with his hoof.

“Cutie marks appear when you discover something special about yourself, like a special talent,” Applebloom explained.

“So… you get one when you know what you are good at?” Sasuke figured it out.

“Yeah, usually” Scootaloo confirmed.

Sasuke quickly thought up a way he could get the job done without even having to work for the ponies.

“Why don't you try to get the cutie mark helping me?” he asked putting on his face a fake warm smile.

“Oh, could we?” Sweetie Belle smiled warmly at him.

“Well you said it yourself, maybe your talent is helping other ponies to feed the chickens and other animals,” Sasuke convinced them.

“You ready for this crusaders?” Applebloom asked raising her hoof.

The other two crusaders high hoofed with her.

“Work quickly, I'll be in the orchard doing… other work.” He said going to the orchard.

“Yes sir!” The three fillies saluted.

As Sasuke got out of sight he ran inside a bush.

“It worked.” He chuckled.

Some time later Applejack and Twilight finished their apple gathering, and decided to go check out on Sasuke.

“Let's see how Sasuke is doing,” Twilight suggested.

“Alright sugarcube” Applejack approved and together they walked down to the chicken pots.

Sasuke took a little time to nap, but as soon as he heard the other two ponies arriving he snapped out of it and ran to the hen house simulating to look exhausted.

“Oh… it was exhausting, but in the end I got everything done! See?” He pointed to the chickens

“Aww.” Applebloom came out of the chicken house looking sore by all the work.

“Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo what are you doing?” Twilight asked upon seeing the other two joining her.

“We were hoping that doing those chores would help us get our cutie marks, but I looks like it didn't,” Applebloom explained.

“Huh? What chores?” Applejack asked

“The ones that the dark blue unicorn stallion told us to do.” Sweetie Belle pointed at him.

“Wait, you mean Sasuke?” Twilight saw the stallion run inside a bush.

The two mares frowned and galloped to the bush. Twilight then lifted Sasuke out of it using her magic.

“Care to explain why my sister and her friends were doing the chores we asked YOU to do?” Applejack demanded.

“Hem… I was… trying to help them get the cutie things?” Sasuke answered a bit unsurely.

Applejack angrily bucked him inside the shed where they kept their biological fertilizers, causing also a lot of barrels to fall on him opening up.

“Hey what's the big idea!? Let me out!!!!” Sasuke started to beat his hooves on the door, not managing to stand the terrible odor looming inside there.

After making sure that Sasuke thought about what he did, Applejack and Twilight freed him from the shed, from which he scrambled out breathing heavily for air.

Afterwards Sasuke and Twilight headed out of the farm.

“Dang… I'll never take this stench out of my fur!” Sasuke complained. Twilight just ignored him.

“Well, here we are again at Carousel Boutique. Rarity recently got some new fabrics and gems and she may need help organizing them.” Twilight pointed to the boutique.

“Oh no… Anywhere but here!!!” Sasuke tried to run away, but Twilight stopped him with her magic.

“Rarity, it's Twilight and Sasuke,” Twilight knocked at the door.

“Oh good morning darlings, it's good you came,” – she sniffed – “um… what's that smell?” She assumed a disgusted look, smelling the awful odor coming from Sasuke’s fur.

“Manure...” the stallion answered.

“Please darlings come in, I'll get a bath ready straight away for you Sasuke,” Rarity ran to the bathroom.

“Thanks… I'll wait here.” Sasuke sat in the middle of the room.

Some minutes later the bath was ready.

“Your bath is ready darling,” Rarity welcomed him inside the bathroom.

Sasuke followed her and once inside he got into the bathtub.

He cooed as the warm water enveloped him and leaned inside the tub, trying not to show too much of his relaxation.

Meanwhile on the outside Rarity and Twilight were talking.

“We don't seem to be making much progress with him. Should we tell Itachi?” Rarity suggested.

“Let's just be patient for now, maybe we will get through to him.”

“I really hope so… also at least I hope he'll appreciate the bath...” Rarity looked at the bathroom’s door.

Some time later Sasuke was done cleaning himself up and exited the room, finding Twilight and Rarity working around the shop.

“Hem… I'll be done here, thank you… very much for that. I really needed it.” Sasuke thanked them, much to their surprise.

The two looked shocked for a moment but quickly overcame it. “Oh… you're very welcome. It was my pleasure,” Rarity said.

“Now...” The growling sounds of his stomach could be heard. “Can I have some bits?”

“Oh, of course you may darling.” Rarity levitated a small bag of bits towards him.

“Um Rarity, I know you're the Element of Generosity and everything, but he didn't earn those,” Twilight pointed out, blocking the bag in midair using her magic.

“Twilight my dear, he actually said ’thank you’ to me! Such a leap in courtesy must be rewarded,” Rarity answered.

Sasuke grabbed it and made a break for the door, only to be stopped by Twilight’s magic.

“Why...? She said I didn't need to earn these!” he complained.

“Aren't you forgetting to say something?” Twilight asked him with a serious expression.

“Thank you...?” he answered.

“That's better.” Twilight smiled at him.

“Now can we go...?” Sasuke asked, impatient to fill up his stomach.

“Very well.” Twilight let go of him, allowing him to exit the shop and go outside.

“So where is the vegetable cart anyways?” Sasuke asked

“I’ll show you.” Twilight led the way to the cart.

After a couple turns the two ponies reached the cart, a lone earth pony was the seller standing by it.

Once they got in front of it Sasuke threw the bag of money to him.

“I'll take every tomato you have,” Sasuke said.

“Of course, here they are.” He handed to him thirty tomatoes.

“Are you sure you are gonna eat all of them?” the seller asked.

“Yeah!” Sasuke said, starting to gorge on them. “They are passable...”

The earth pony simply frowned at him, not wanting to take it personally.

In that moment a young colt arrived by the cart.

“Please sir, may I have a tomato?” the colt asked the earth pony.

“Oh sorry youngster, I'm all sold out,” he answered.

“Sir, may I please have a tomato? I just need one and I can give you bits for it,” the young colt said.

“Tough luck, get your own!” Sasuke answered rudely.

“Sasuke!” Twilight snapped at him.

“What?” Sasuke’s mouth was filled with tomatoes.

“You really can’t spare one tomato for that poor colt?! He even offered to pay you for it!” Twilight told him.

“He can get some tomorrow, and there are a lot of other vegetables he could get!” Sasuke kept stuffing himself with tomatoes.

“I've just about had it with you! I'm going out of my way to help you, and so is everypony else, and you don't give two bucks about it!” Twilight started to get mad and cursed.

Sasuke just looked uninterested and rolled his eyes again.

“Please Sasuke, I beg you. Just meet us halfway and try to care about others!” She calmed down and tried a more relaxed approach.

“Don't count on it… if you knew what happened to me you’d know why I behave like this...” Sasuke answered.

“Well, maybe we would understand if you told us!” Twilight told him.

“You won't like the answer... ” Sasuke warned her.

“Well we won't know until you tell it, will we?” Twilight answered him.

Sasuke started to think if he’d need to tell her about this, probably if he did she’d have left him alone. But then again he had no desire of telling her about what happened to his clan, nor did he want to go through that again.

“NO WE WON'T! NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!!!” He walked away with heavy steps.

“FINE!” Twilight answered and flew away back to her castle.

She landed in front of the main door and walked inside.

“Twilight? Are you alright?” Spike noticed her distress.

“Some princess of friendship I am. I've tried everything to get through to Sasuke, but in the end I failed.” She looked pretty beat down and frustrated.

“Oh, don't throw the towel so soon. He’s only been here for two days, give him time and I'm sure that the magic of friendship will get to him.” Spike tried to cheer her up the best way he could.

“I hope you're right,” Twilight answered, not feeling any better for the moment.

“The magic even reformed Discord, after all. I'm sure it will work on him too.” He tried to cheer her up again.

“Wonder where he is now...” She looked through a window.

Meanwhile, while Twilight was thinking about what to do, Sasuke hadn’t noticed that he got into the everfree forest...

“Oh no… that's just great I got lost.” He noticed the unfamiliar place he ended up.

“Now how do I get back to that stupid town?” He frustratedly asked to himself.

“Why hello, young stallion,” a deep dark voice echoed around him.

“What? Who is there?” Sasuke got in pouncing position.

“You're a long way from home aren't you?” A green unicorn came out of the shadows.

“None of your businesses, what do you want from me?” Sasuke asked.

“I am Briar Malice, and I am here to strike you a bargain...” the unicorn told him.

“what kind of bargain?” Sasuke asked to him not lowering his guard.

“I need your assistance with a plan to conquer Equestria,” Briar explained

“Oh yeah? Not interested, I have no will of conquering this place, I just want to get out of it.” Sasuke prepared to attack his interlocutor.

“But that's what I can give you in exchange for your help,” Briar said just in time.

“Are… are you telling the truth?” Sasuke asked.

As an answer Biar materialized a portal for Sasuke, a sphere of light showing the place he was before taken away.

Without thinking twice Sasuke rushed towards the portal, but before he could even touch it, it was gone.

“Ah ah ah, first I need a yes.” Briar’s voice felt very eloquent.

“What do you need from me?” Sasuke asked him.

“You possess a power unlike anything ever known in this world; hate. It is what is needed for my Malignants to grow strong enough to take down enemies and do my bidding. I will show you how to channel your hate along with mine to give the Malignants life and have them destroy all they touch,” he explained.

“What are these supposed to be? Plants?” Sasuke guessed what they were.

“Why yes” Briar answered.

“I see, you'll send me home before these plants will consume this place right?” Sasuke understood.

“Correct, but I must have your assistance first,” Briar said.

“Very well then… I accept,” Sasuke answered in the end, causing his interlocutor to smile.

“Good, we will begin tomorrow night. Oh, and if you want to return home, you will keep your mouth shut about our little meeting alright?” he asked in the end.

“What little meeting?” Sasuke joked.

“Goodnight.” Briar smiled and walked away.

“Good, I'll manage to get away from this place sooner…” Sasuke walked away too.

“Sasuke!” Twilight could be heard in the distance.

“Oh… what are you doing here, Twilight?” He asked her.

“I was looking for you, it's not a good idea to wander around in the Everfree Forest alone. Especially at night,” she warned him.

“Lemme guess, there are monsters here?” he asked her.

“Well in a way, unless you're Fluttershy the creatures around here might do you harm,” she explained.

“I see… don't worry however I can defend myself...” Sasuke answered her.

“Even so, you must be tired. Let's get back to Ponyville,” she told him.

“Alright...” He started following her.

Once back at the castle, Sasuke got in the bedroom and laid down in his bed.

“Sleep well Sasuke, goodnight,” Twilight told him.

He just drifted asleep without saying anything, just like the other night.