Sasuke's Equestrian Adventure

The treatment left Sasuke drained again but still he had enough strength to go back at the friendship castle and get in his bed.

Once again the night refreshed him, and as he woke up he was ready to face another day in Equestria.

“Good morning, Sasuke, here's a nice cherry tomato salad for you,” Twilight greeted him as he walked in the kitchen.

“Thanks, Twilight,” he said, sitting at the table finding it in place.

It had some green iceberg salad with a lot of small tomatoes around it, dressed with oil and salt.

Sasuke sat down and started to eat it, enjoying the taste and consistency of the small tomatoes.

“So Sasuke, what is in store for you today?” Twilight smiled at him.

“I don't know… however I think I might start to get some bits, do any of your friends except Applejack who need help?” Sasuke asked her.

“Well I think Fluttershy might, she has many animals that need care,” Twilight said.

“You mean the cream Pegasus with that nasty bunny?” Sasuke remembered about Angel.

“Just show that you mean her animals no harm and you'll be alright,” Twilight answered him.

“Alright, I know where she lives. I’ll go after I’m done with breakfast.” Sasuke kept eating his salad until it was done.

Afterwards he stood up from the table, exited the kitchen and then left the palace, headed towards Fluttershy’s house.

As he arrived there he could see her taking care of the pets, looking very busy.

“Oh, hello Sasuke.” She spotted him and flew towards him.

“Hello Fluttershy, need any help?” Sasuke asked.

“Actually I could use some help…” she whispered. “I mean if you want to”

“Of course I want to, I need some bits urgently,” Sasuke answered her.

“I see, well then I'll show you what to do.” She smiled and lead him to where she kept the food.

It was a small wooden locker she had in the back of her house, all filled with whatever her animals needed for sustenance.

She opened it and took out a bushel of carrots

“Well you can begin by giving these carrots to the rabbits.” She hoofed it to him.

“The rabbits?” Sasuke’s mouth dropped.

“It would be a big help to me. You can start with Angel here.” She pointed at him, and he looked back at Sasuke with an angry expression.

“I know that one.” He growled at him.

“Sasuke?” Fluttershy asked.

“Don’t worry, I’ll feed them. You can be sure of it,” he said, walking up to where the other rabbits were roaming.

Angel kept looking at him critically.

“I’m feeding you last,” he angrily told him before stomping a hoof.

“OKAY! NOW ALL OF YOU! IN LINE!” he yelled furiously.

The rabbits scared by his scream got in line trembling.

“That’s better.” Sasuke took a carrot in his hoof.

“Yours.” He shoved it in the mouth of the first rabbit.

“Yours.” He shoved it in the mouth of the second rabbit.

“Yours.” He shoved it in the mouth of the third rabbit and going on until he finally got to Angel.

“Grrr, here is your stupid carrot.” He shoved it in his mouth.

The white bunny just proceeded to spit out the carrot right in Sasuke’s eye.

“YOU LITTLE!!!” He grabbed the bunny and prepared to use his sharingan on him, scaring him visibly.

“SASUKE! How dare you do that to poor little Angel!?” Fluttershy stopped him upon hearing Angel’s squeaks of help.

“He spat his carrot in my eye!” He pointed at Angel who was smirking at him.

“That is no excuse! Come here my poor baby.” She took Angel in her hooves.

“Can I do something else away from that?” he groaned.

“Only if you promise to behave yourself,” Fluttershy intimated him

“Yeah yeah, I will, as long as i'm not anywhere near that.” He pointed at Angel, causing Fluttershy to sigh.

“Why don't you give the other animals their baths?” Fluttershy suggested.

“Fine… which animals first?” Sasuke asked without changing his rather bored and annoyed expression.

“How about Harry?” Fluttershy suggested. “And no using force.”

“Yeah yeah, don't be too violent and all that.” He answered taking a big brush.

“Sasuke...” Fluttershy looked at him in the eyes.

“So I should clean that bear?” He saw the lone bear sitting in the middle of a lawn. “No problem.” He went up to the bear who started growling.

Sasuke got in pouncing position and prepared to jump on him.

“Sasuke, remember what I said,” Fluttershy reminded him.

He ignored her however and jumped at the bear, who thinking that Sasuke was trying to attack him swiped at him hurling him away.

“Okay then! You asked for it!” Sasuke yelled getting on his hooves again and charging at the bear.

The bear on the other hand got on all fours and prepared to claw him, but Fluttershy seeing what was happening threw herself between the bear and Sasuke, and then proceeded to stare the bear down.

“How… did you do that?” Sasuke asked amazed. Yesterday he witnessed a sonic Rainboom and now a pony mastering what seemed a kind of Sharingan to him.

“Oh, that was The Stare,” Fluttershy explained.” I only use it in special circumstances, and your life was in danger. And I think I know why.”

“Hem… I had everything under control there.” Sasuke tried to look somewhere else.

“No, you clearly didn't, and it's because you used force even though  I told you not to,” Fluttershy told him.

“It was the only way to deal with that bear, except for your form of sharingan it seems,” he objected.

“You would have had more success if you had been kind,” Fluttershy scolded him.

“Yeah… I'm not really used to that,” he answered bluntly.

“I could show you how, if you want.” She offered to help him understand what she meant.

“Well let's say I want to… maybe it will be useful,” he accepted.

“Alright, just observe me.” She approached the bear.

She gently rubbed her hoof on his muzzle soothing him, then he laid down on his belly and then rolled on his back, purring almost.

“See?” Fluttershy looked at Sasuke who was amazed about how well she incapacitated the bear.

“I… do… I guess I really underrated this. How do you manage to communicate with them so easily?” Sasuke asked.

“It's just the power of kindness, but I always have had sort of a connection with them I guess,” she answered him.

“I wish I had learned something similar when I was younger...” He thought about all the trouble that an ability like that might have saved him.

Fluttershy arrived nearby Sasuke and put a hoof over his shoulder.

“What is it for?” Sasuke asked confused.

“It sounds like you had a tough time a long time ago, and I'm sorry,” she told him in a reassuring way.

“Trust me you have no idea...”

However Fluttershy didn’t back down.

“I know, but special people can still be there for you,” she told him. “And I and my friends will help you to see that”

Sasuke looked down but then he started to smile a little, he somehow felt relieved by the cream yellow pegasus’s kind words.

“Well I guess I should try and exercise in this?” Sasuke asked Fluttershy.

“You could say that, I’ll be happy to assist you,” she answered him, smiling encouragingly.

In the following hours Fluttershy helped Sasuke to understand how sometimes a kinder approach was a better one. Mostly by attending to different animals including bigger and more challenging ones, taming them by being appealing to them and understanding.

Once they were both done Sasuke managed to earn some bits by ultimately helping Fluttershy with some of the pets, putting in practice what he learned.

“Bye, Sasuke,” Fluttershy waved him bye bye as he left the cottage.

“Bye, Fluttershy!” He waved back walking towards the town.

Once back in it he headed for the restaurant to buy some lunch. He bought a nice dish of tomato soup, it was tasty and a bit salty. Then he walked around town again.

He was unsure why but the town was kinda starting to grow on him, it seemed peaceful, and at least they had good food there. Maybe being stuck there wasn’t too bad after all. Probably, but he wanted to go back home as soon as he could to continue with his projects to destroy the leaf village.

This place might feel nicer but I can’t stay here forever, I have to come back to my world and avenge my clan, he thought.

On the way back home he saw the three fillies that he used back when he was working at the farm. He tried to ignore them at first, but then something built up inside of him. A little sense of guilt for using them so shamelessly, and also seeing by their fur covered in paint; probably from a failed attempt to get one of those cutie marks they talked about.

“Hi kids,” Sasuke greeted them.

The three however frowned and ignored him, walking down their path.

Sasuke just shrugged and carried on, but not before he heard something coming from a nearby street.

“Look! it's the blaaank flanks!” an irritating voice called out.

“Hey Cutie Mark Losers, still having rotten luck I see,” Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon came into sight.

Sasuke turned around to see them approaching the three fillies from before.

“What, you don't have anything better to do than annoy other ponies?” Scootaloo angrily snorted.

“What could be better than showing blank flanks their place?” Diamond Tiara taunted her, getting Sasuke’s attention.

“Excuse me? Why are you bothering these fillies?” he asked the two.

“They’re blank flanks, they deserve it!” she answered haughtily.

Sasuke frowned and started to glare at her, activating his sharingan in the process. He loathed bullies, of any kind or species.

“What, you want a staring contest–” Diamond Tiara got her vocal cords paralyzed as fear started to cloud her mind.

“You like it? It's a sharingan, it's a ninja move, it makes you imagine your worst fear.” He told her in a menacing way.

He then pinned her down so that she couldn’t escape.

“No! NO!” Diamond Tiara wriggled trying to break free.

“You know… a friend of mine usually got bullied a lot when he was young, this led me to develop a big dislike for bullies, and… that includes you.” He remembered about how other kids picked on Naruto when they were little.

After a couple minutes he let go of her leaving her terrorized.

“Silver Spoon, I think we'd better go.” She bolted away along with Silver Spoon.

“Wow, neat trick, Sasuke,” Applebloom told him.

“It was barely an effort.” Sasuke rubbed a hoof on his neck.

“But really, thanks,” Sweetie Bell thanked him.

“You are welcome...” Sasuke paused. “And also, I'm sorry for how I used you back at the barn.”

The girls weren’t the kind to hold a grudge, and even if Sasuke was a jerk to them before they could tell he was being sincere.

“Apology accepted,” the three fillies said after pausing for some time.

“Thank you, happy to settle it. Oh, and you little one, Applebloom right?” He asked her.

“Yeah that’s me.” Applebloom looked at him.

“You are Applejack’s sister right?” He asked.

“Yeah I am.”

“Well, would you extend my apology to Applejack too for trying to skip the job by making you do it for me?” He asked.

Applebloom nodded and smiled.

Sasuke smiled back and walked away leaving the cutie mark crusaders to go get their fur cleaned up.

“I hope those two have learned their lesson,” he told himself, but suddenly he started to reflect.

If he kept going with Briar’s plan, a lot of ponies would have remained hurt, and probably these three fillies too.

However he quickly shrugged off that thought, they could probably escape somehow, or just be spared by submitting to Briar.

He walked back to the friendship castle and awaited the evening again resting in his room. Then he left the castle and ventured in the everfree forest to meet Briar again.