The next morning

Naruto woke up noticing it was daylight already. His flared emotions last night must have took more out of him than he thought. He walked into the bathroom and performed his morning rituals. Deciding to take a shower rather than a bath in the luxurious bathroom, he began to clean himself, washing his hair and body and scrubbing himself clean, rinsing off, stepping out of the shower and drying off. Brushing his teeth and rinsing his mouth out, he looked at the mirror above the sink, gazing at his reflection.

Sometimes he hardly recognized himself. There were so many scars littered about his body, although three major ones stood out from all the rest. The first one almost directly over his heart with a matching mark on his back. He earned this when he got a chidori shoved through him from his first fight at The Valley of the End. Out of sheer will power, he directed it away from the blood pumping organ. The second scar was an odd shaped puncture wound over his right kidney. He acquired this when Pain had invaded Konoha, pinning him down with his chakra rods. Last but not least is the fact that he has a prosthetic arm, remembering the day he lost it when he clashed a final time with his friend. On top of all of that, he looked younger. Now that he got a good look at himself, he did not have any of the signs of aging that he did when he held the position of hokage, which had drained him physically and mentally. Overall, looking pretty good for a thirty three year old.

‘Maybe twenty five?’ he thought as he looked at himself one again. ‘I’m going to have to talk with the nine about this, but that can wait for later.’ Nothing gets done when you dwell on the past after all.

Depositing the towel in the hamper next to the door exiting the bathroom, he walked across the room to where he had unpacked his clothing and some things. Opening his backpack, he pulled out a orange short sleeve t-shirt with the Uzumaki clan crest on the back, orange boxer shorts, a couple of hip pouches, a thigh pouch with bindings, black pants, and a pair of black combat sandals. Proceeding to put them on and sealing the rest away in his seal on his shoulder he gave himself a final once over. He then started yet another rant.

‘This apology is not going to be easy. I done fucked up big this time. All I wanted to do was try to connect a mental link though our minds, BUT NOOOO I HADDA GO AND BE A FUCKIN MORON ABOUT IT! CALL THE FIRST LEADER THAT I SAW A TYRANT! ‘SEEN IT A DOZEN TIMES BEFORE!?’ WHAT THE FUCK! GOOD JOB NARUTO! FUCKING BRILLIANT!’ he screamed internally. Heavily breathing after his mental rant, he felt a little more relaxed after getting that out of his system. ‘It’s not my time anymore. The world doesn't belong to humans anymore. They done fucked it up too. What even was that war!? This is going to suck ass!’

He got dressed he walked out the large oak door leading into the end of the hallway.

Waiting for him outside the door was Celestia, Luna and the six girls from last night who were still cautious around him.

He gave a frown and walked up to them. They tensed up. Though he said he was going to be peaceful from now on, doubt still lingered. Walking up to Celestia and Luna, he set his arms to his sides and bowed low at a ninety five degree angle and began to apologize.

“Gomeiwaku o okakeshite sumimasen” (I’m sorry for any trouble I caused), he said loudly and decisively.

“I am sorry for last night. I let my temper flare in my shameful display of outright hostilities towards your people. That goes against everything that I believe in. You being livid was justified. I tried to create a mental link by contact via my hands to your foreheads, but I panicked. Moreover, in one of my most stupid acts, I attempted to connect with you. I forcibly went through your mind to learn your language. I take full responsibility. It was stupid of me to go to such a length to learn a single language. I'm such a hypocrite.”

The ponies stood there stunned, surprised by his radical one eighty change in attitude from last night.

“I had been watching this world from inside that rock for a long time, but I still panicked, going against everything I believe in. I called you a tyrant when I knew full well how you ruled for two thousand years. I acted like a child! There is no excusing my actions. If you have any grievances then please name them and name my punishment. I said respect is earned, not given. As the Commander of the nations of the Elements, allow me to earn your trust and pay for my deeds. Last night was a spectacular example of me flying in the face of everything I stand for, a mistake that I don’t want to repeat. I want to be friends and allies princesses. Please accept my apology,”

Still bowing, he felt a pair gentle hooves on his shoulder. He flinched, expecting her to up and smack him. He still stood there bowing, tensing up they said gently.

“Commander, we want to see your eyes,” they said as one.

Complying, he stood up straight, and he did not expect what he saw; royalty looking at him with kind eyes and gentle smiles on their faces. He had earned a few notches of their respect in their eyes.

“Well commander, we would like to thank you for the sincere apology. Admittedly, all things could have been handled better and yes, I was livid that some unknown ancient creature with such power had rooted around in my sister's head. I acted with appropriate response and yes, the tyrant insult cut me deep. I too lost my temper. If you have been watching this whole time, you would know how rare that is. I am very defensive when it comes to my sister as she is dear to me. we share a bond of sibling after all.”

“We thank you for your for your most sincere apology, and we believe we can both learn from this mistake.”

“Allow us, if you will, to reintroduce ourselves.” They gave their titles again.

“My name is Princess Celestia, regent of the sun and all that is day, Co-Ruler of Equestria. I rule beside my sister Princess Luna, regent of the moon and all that is night,” declared Celestia.

“My name is Princess Luna, regent of the moon and all that is night, Co-Ruler of Equestria. I rule beside my sister Princess Celestia regent of the sun and all that is day,” declared Luna.

“We are the rulers of the sovereign land of Equestria. We would like to be friends with you as well,” they declared as one.

“If you are a commander of multiple nations, surely you would have titles yes? We are willing to look this over and let it be behind us if you would please tell us your full name, tiles and rank.” A golden trade if he ever heard of one.

Straightening his back, he looked her in the eye. He had not expected this. He expected, at the very least, to be thrown in the brig. Looking at the others, they had misty eyes and were giving him encouraging looks. Clearing his throat, he began, in a friendly but stern voice, listing off his titles.

“My name is Uzumaki Naruto, Seventh Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Hero of the Fourth Shinobi World War, the commander and general of the five armies in the nations of the Elements. Savior of the world and Legendary sage of the nine,” he finished, but added. “By the way, in my culture the last name comes before the first.” He warmly smiled. The other girls were now smiling at him.

“Well as much as we want to talk about all of this, we originally came to see if everypony was ready for breakfast.”

“You had me at food, I haven't eaten anything since a looong time ago.” He began walking down the hallway towards the smell of food.

“Come ooon, I’m hungry,” he whined.

“Girls come now.” Celestia chuckled at his foal like antics. They all followed.

0o0

“So , princeses, anything for me to expect? Like for example members of your family, foreign dignitaries, extended family, people of high class, etcetera, etcetera?” Naruto droned. He's been through this whole song and dance before.

In the chaos that transpired last night, she had forgotten to inform certain elements of the castle of his arrival overnight.

“Anyone in particular I should be aware of?”

“Yes, our nephew Prince Blueblood.” Both of the royal sisters exasperated in a tone that Twilight Sparkle had never heard her mentor use. The others who knew the name put their ears back to their heads. Rarity opted for grinding her teeth.

“Hmm, he sound like a real catch. If you tell me where the nearest cliff is, I can throw him off of it for you.” At this celestia laughed and luna chuckled.

“As tempting an offer that may be, we don’t want to deal with the fallout of his death at the hooves of what the nobles are calling a ravenous beast.”

“Oh your majesties.” His tone shifting to one of amusement. “Didn’t I tell you? I used to be a legendary prankster from hell. I said nothing about killing him now did I?” Naruto chuckled and smiled so wide his eyes closed and whiskered cheeks rising, all in all looking very fox like all of a sudden. They all shivered at the tone he used, almost feeling sorry for the prince. Key word being almost. He clapped his hand together loudly no longer smiling like a madman but still grinning. “Now I am famished. Let’s move on so that we can eat yes?”

One thing was for sure. They pitted whomever got on his bad side.

0o0

The large double doors opened to reveal the princesses and the bane of Canterlot himself, our favorite blonde, Naruto, with the element bearers in tow.

Sitting at the table was Shining Armor, Princess Cadance, a butt load of nobles and Blueblood. Naruto didn't even need to be told which one he was. He stood out like a sore thumb. Naruto grinned as his quarry looked at him with disgust.

As everypony sat, Naruto walked by princess Cadance. She shivered at the amount of malice he was radiating while smiling. At the end of the table was his seat seeing as he was the guest of honor. He pulled his chair out and sat.

There were a multitude of dishes, a feast if you will. They were waiting for him. Unknowing what his kind did before they ate, they looked at him carefully, watching his every move.

Putting his hands together, he uttered a single word, “Itadakimasu”, and started to dig in. In the middle of eating a salad that had been put before him, Naruto looked up at the confused ponies that had not been taught this.

“It does not speak equish, how barbaric. And it eats with its hooves, repulsive. Beast, do you not have the decency to speak equish at this royal table?”

“Blueblood that's enough! However, I am curious as to why you put your hooves together before you started to eat.” That actually got their attention

“From where I originate, it is customary to give thanks to the chef and say ‘Itadakimasu’ which means ‘I am grateful for this food’ before you eat. This is said regardless of whether the chef is present or not. People even say it if they are eating alone. After a meal, people say ‘Gochisousama deshita’ which means ‘That was delicious.’ To not do this an insult to the chef and hard the work he or she has put to in making the food on the table.”

“What a primitive tradition! Thanking the servant for doing their job? How barbaric your people are! They act the way the look, like apes!”

“NEPHEW!!” Luna was mortified how could she be related to him. Celestia shared similar thoughts.

“No it’s alright princess, I believe we have fought enough as it is, but I must say he’s not wrong as my kind did evolve from apes. Oh and don't eat the soup I hear it’s been tamped with. Whatever you do; Don't. Eat. The. Soup,” he warned. The others looked at the soup and did not eat it. He had sounded pretty sure about this, but Celestia’s pranking sense was going off. Something was about to happen.

“You can't fool me with that kind of foalish psychology. You're trying to get me to eat the soup. It's basic reverse psychology!”

“So why don't you eat the soup? I hear it’s delicious.” Naruto took a spoonful of soup and downed it. “Mmmm that's some really good soup if i do say so myself. Complements to the chef,” Naruto said, now highly amused at what was going to happen. It worked on his kids when they didn’t want to eat their veggies. Why wouldn't it work on a childish prince?

Celestia’s pranking sense was going haywire. She looked at Naruto, down at the soup, then to Blueblood, and then back to Naruto again and then she looked-WAIT.... For a fraction of a second she heard him hold back a laugh but then nothing, his face a grin, but a fine poker face if she had anything to say. Then it happened.

“You can't tell me what to do, ape!” he yelled as he plunge his head into the soup. Starting to gobble his so fast he put his entire head in the bowl, forgetting that he was royalty for a second, then it hit him. Cheeks full of soup and his face covered in the disgustingly fast way he gobbled the soup, he swallowed.

The nobles looked in disgust while Luna and Celestia looked at Naruto with wonder of how…

Rarity, on the other hand, was quite enjoying the spectacle. All it would take was some dirty gossip and he was as good as destroyed.

“It’s good ain't it!? Haha, you know that’s how I got my children to eat their veggies. I called it the ‘getting the stubborn children to eat the healthy food no jutsu’ and sometimes it would work so well that my wife would use‘sexy time no jutsu’ on me after the kids fell asleep. It was super effective, and we would be at it like rabbits alllll night looong.” He sung out lyrics as he bobbed his head and snapped his fingers to a non existing beat.

Celestia was blushing, holding back laughter at the song, Luna was also blushing but still laughing at such lewd lyrics. Cadence was giggling loudly like a school filly. Shining armor was some how envious. Rainbow Dash was cracking with Pinkie Pie’s loud laughter. Applejack had the decency to look embarrassed but still laughed. Rarity gawked at him. Poor Fluttershy was so embarrassed she hid behind her mane when she thought of Angel bunny having relations with the girl bunny from down the lane. She would have to give him the talk. She was not looking forward to that. Twilight Sparkle blushed. There was a book for this right?

The nobles were disgusted, especially Blueblood he fumed getting up. Marching over to the still singing Naruto he slammed his hoof on the table getting everypony's attention.

“Aww man you threw my groove off. Cutie over there was really enjoying it, right cutie?” He wiggled his eyebrows at Cadence that did it. She bursted out laughing falling out of her chair and everypony laughed again. Even Shining Armor was laughing at this point.

“ENOUGH! I AM PRINCE BLUEBLOOD AND HENCEFORTH I DECLARE THAT HOUSE BLOOD IS AT WAR WITH…”

“I’m ugly, and I have no friends.” Naruto snickered. God this was too easy.

“I’M UGLY, AND I HAVE NO FRIENDS!!!” he declared with a sense of self righteousness.

The laughter only grew louder.

“YOU FIEND! MARK MY WORDS YOU WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING.” His temper tantrum had reached a crazy point. Just a little more.

“But I already have made an ass out of you in less than ten minutes, so I think I’m doing juuust right in the world today.” Prince BlueBlood was stuttering. Never in his life had he been this furious. Everything slowed down. He snapped. In the first instance since he was a foal, he about faced and ran away crying. The nobles, who finally had enough, got up from the table and left in a huff, hearing the larges doors slam on their way out

“That's how you get rid of bothersome nobles. Just prey on their egos. Can't go wrong there.” The laughter died down.

“Aww man I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. You have to tell us how you did that.” Dash, still chuckling, needed that advice.

“I'm afraid I can't. Wait wait wait, before you ask why, let me finish. You can't simply begin on high self pranks. You gotta start off small and work you way up ya know? Like paint balloons graffiti, small acts of vandalism, ya know, stuff like that.” They were enraptured by his explanations of the ins and outs of pranking the do’s and the dont’s. For an hour he explained it all.

0o0

“Well since your in the mood as it were, could we go somewhere with a little more privacy?” Celestia and Luna had to agree so they went to her private study and sealed the doors. He asked them to sit down because it would take a while. Unsealing everything, all the knowledge he packed made a sizable stack of books of all kinds on the floor. Looking at their amazement, he chuckled as he began to tell them about humans and humanity, the rise and fall, and his eventual defeat at its own hands.

Author's Note

chapter 4 I doubt the apology chapter sorry for any of you that were turned off by naruto being a ass i wrote him like that for one chapter on purpose he panicked THAT'S IT no more edgy naruto. unless someone he cares about get hurt he will not blow up things of the old world may still be lurking but who knows?

any way he back to being happy go lucky blonde that doesn't mean he wont be serious at times but i hope that this chapter was a little entertaining for you it was sure as hell fun to write and i suck at apology scenes if you got any pointers on how best to improve the scene in question also i am not writing celestia as a tyrant WHY WOULD I! naruto dun fucked up in the last chapter. so i hope you enjoy chapter 4 edited by mah editor

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