One long history lesson later

The information that Naruto had given to all of them all quite frankly shocked them. He had told them about all the shinobi world wars, the moon incident, Kaguya, Toneri, Momoshiki, Kenshiki, and the army of darkness lead by a deranged Kawaki. That humans had fell not once but twice was shocking. His kind were a precursor race. Once they fell, humanity had to rebuild once again using increasingly advanced technology in lieu of chakra. As well as the fact that the ‘old world never went away, it was asleep’ and that the moon had been created to seal away the tyrant queen Kaguya by her very own sons. That had begged more questions than answers. Everything he had told them pertained to knowledge that had been forbidden. Naruto outright stated he would never reveal those secrets. When asked why not, he began his explanation.

“Many techniques are forbidden for a reason. I know there are too many to count, but I know all my clan’s forbidden knowledge and all its secrets. As to why I will never share said information, let's just say that your world is not ready for the coupeuse amounts of death that will follow with the release of my clan's secrets. My clan did not die off due to so many living for so long. No... they were exterminated because the knowledge they held posed a threat to every nation, big or small.” This earned gasps from all that were present. The history of the ninja world was brutal to say the very least. He continued, unfazed by his own history. “Some escaped and seeked refuge in nations closest to them and what few remained scattered to the wind. As for the old world, I told you that I can still feel the remnants of the past that still seeth. That is concerning.” Naruto finished on a serious note, a distant look on his face.

“What manner of secrets do you posses that you are the only one to wield them?” Shining Armor asked, now concerned about the knowledge that Naruto harbbored.

“I told you that is not up for discussion, and before you ask why I already told you your reason. I do not wish to bring genocide to this now peaceful world. I will leave it at that and you will not question. It is forbidden knowledge for a reason,” he said a tad harsh and cold. He did not like what he knew, but alas, what he learned can never be unlearned.

“Unless it is you that holds the knowledge. That hardly seems fair!” Armor retorted, not relenting.

“I never said it was fair! I HATE IT that I know the what I do, but had to learn it nonetheless to save my race from Kawaki and his army. I have been very compliant, overtly so, and I have shared much, too much perhaps, but the forbidden knowledge will stay just that - forbidden!” he declared, looking at Shining Armor as he spoke. “It may seem like a blessing, but I can assure you it is the exact opposite.” Everypony remained silent at the slight outburst. He seemed very touchy on the subject of his clan's secrets. He would not budge on the subject, that was a guarantee. The two looked at each other with tension in their eyes, but before any more words could be thrown, Celestia decided to intervene.

“Enough, both of you. Naruto, thank you for sharing your history with us as well your techniques. I believe you when you say that you protect us by not revealing to us your forbidden knowledge. I believe we would be hypocrites to force you to tell us about it, especially since we have forbidden knowledge of our own that we do not want anypony to see except Cadence, Luna, and myself. So we can understand that you safeguard such secrets. You said yourself that with the help of your team, you saved the world more than once. That in of itself holds great merit, but captain Armor is merely attempting to keep the peace, as it were that is the only reason. You have also pilfered my sister's mind with your eyes that can see the unseen. Is it that important that you do not share any secrets in return?”

“What I pilfered Luna's mind for was the basic knowledge of how to speak your tongue and how to interpret words, sounds, and body language, nothing more, nothing less. On that you have my word. Although, I have a question for you all.” Tone shifting again, he now looked at Celestia. “Have you ever fought the undead, ones that can not die, no matter the damage to the body?

“Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei (Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation) binds the soul of a deceased person to a living vessel, restoring them as they were when they were alive in order to do their summoner's bidding. They do not rest, they do not eat and they do not die. Their power is unlimited until they are sealed away. They will continue to grow stronger with each and every strike to their body. That is one of the many forbidden techniques I know. Do you want me to continue princesses, because that is the most tame technique of the forbidden.” Silence.. “No, then I will leave it at that and we will not mention this subject ever again.” All that were present did not need to hear the implied or else. They shuttered at the very thought.

The sisters and Cadence looked at each other for a second and looked to Naruto.

“Well your history is amazing to say the least. I believe it is late and you said you would like to gaze at the stars yes? I will show you to my observatory. That lightened up the mood considerably.

“I am sorry that I snapped again Prince Armor, your Highness. I do not have the words to express how sensitive a subject like this is to me. Also, gazing at the stars sounds wonderful.” With that he sealed everything away on his arm. The doors opened and they all followed the royal sisters and Cadence.

It was late evening when Celestia and Luna excused themselves to lower and raise their respected celestial bodies and Luna began her nightly process of making the night sky.

Cadence lead him and the girls to the observatory while Celestia went to lower the sun and for Luna to raise the moon.

0o0

The sisters returned to the group who were talking about random things. Approaching them, they took their own seat.

Naruto was standing looking through a very large telescope pointed at a certain group of stars. Luna got up walking over to him wondering which group he had been observing when he started speaking, still looking through the scope.

“Did I ever tell you why I love gazing at the night sky?” His tone unknown.

“I do not believe that has ever come up in our conversations.” Luna hesitated. She did not like the empty sounding voice.

“It’s been a thousand years since i woke up and observed the world in my prison, and yet I have still have not come to grips with one thing. I understand that everyone everything I knew is gone and I’ve had a long time to grieve and come to terms with that, but there is one thing that I still can’t get over”.

“What would that be?” Luna urged him.

“I am the last one of my kind, the only one left.” They all looked down at that sobering statement. “Heh…. I have to admit I am envious of all of you, but not for the obvious reasons you may think.” His tone still sounded distant. That had got Cadence’s attention.

“Why are envious of us?” she asked tentatively, not liking where she thought this might be heading.

“Well…just to name one, the ability to have children. My biological makeup is different than all the species of your world. My chromosomes total to a number of forty six. Twenty three from mother and twenty three from father. Your species has sixty four… you do understand where I’m going with this right? That even if I fell in love and maybe even had a herd that it would be impossible to continue my legacy. So if start getting all depressed on you, just know that's why my legacy ends with my death and that scares me.” He looked up from the scope to see that they all had looks of sorrow aimed at him. Celesia walked up to him and rested her head on his shoulder, silent tears streaming down her face. That was the reason he had been overtly hostile in the gardens last night. Putting an arm around her and petting her head he reciprocated the gesture.

“I am so sorry. If I only I knew that the reason you were desperate last night wasn't that you were a threat, but because you were angry at everything. I just happened to be the target of choice to lash out at.”

“We will work to find a solution to this problem, I swear it. There has to be a forgotten tomb that holds the answer somewhere in the royal library. That is a fate I wouldn't wish on anypony.”

“Thank you.” He broke the hug and turned back to the open sky filtering into the observatory.

“That's why I gaze at the stars, they remind me of my family. The moon reminds me of my wife's eyes, and the stars and heavens remind me of my children.”

“Your wife was blind?! That must have been horrible!” Twilight lamented. If the girls were not already sad enough already, this had been an arrow that pierced her soul.

“No no no she actually had better vision than me. Her entire clan had a very light shade of lavender to their eyes, but like me, her eyes were special.” They looked up at him, confused at his statement. She had better eyes than him, but had eye color was most associated with blindness?

“Byakugan, literally meaning: White Eye. The Byakugan gave the user a near three hundred sixty degree diameter field of vision, with one blind spot at the back of the neck above the first thoracic vertebra. The range of this vision varied between users and could be improved with training. For example, Hinata, my wife, as a genin, a low ninja, could see targets fifty metres away. By age eighteen, she could see targets twenty miles away.

“Its vision could penetrate through any solid objects or obstructions, and likewise remained unaffected by blinding interferences. It was hell to put up with when fighting a user of such visual prowess, as they were able to follow high-speed movements, which allowed the wielder to analyse their opponent's actions, and allowed the user to predict and better react to them.

“A little known secret of her clan's eyes was the fact it could magnify on small targets, seeing infrared to detect a target through their body heat. It can also emit powerful chakra pulses to subdue an opponent. The Byakugan was also able to see chakra to a higher degree than the Sharingan, which I have by the way, such as identifying where a person's chakra signature originated from. It could discern certain types of clones from the real person. Its ability to see chakra was acute enough to see the chakra pathway system and the 361 tenketsu that run along it.

“The Hyūga devised a fighting style, the Gentle Fist, to take advantage of this ability, wherein they strike an opponent's tenketsu to either seal or forcibly open them, thus giving the user complete control over their opponent's chakra. In other words, if she was angry with you, there was no hiding no matter what. But if a user wielded it for a prolonged amount of time it caused severe but temporary eye-strain, leaving said user blind for about a week.

“I can remember coming home from a mission to find bandages on my Hina’s eyes and, being the calm and collected individual that I am, proceeded to freak out.” That got them giggling lightning the mood some and he chuckled at the memory. “She was fine by the way, just needed to rest her eyes for a few days so I had to take care of her helping with almost everything. Any excuse to spoil her I took full advantage of. She didn’t like it when I spoiled her like an empress, lavishing her with attention, carrying her bridal style everywhere, feeding her, loving her, you name it, I did it, and she hated it.”

“Darling why would anypony ever hate being spoiled in such a fashion and like an empress no less?” Rarity was highly confused.

“Yeah sounds like you were an awesome husband!” exclaimed dash.

“She never liked it when other girls would be mean to her because she came from the richest family in the village and did not like that I spoiled her in such ways enabling bad habits. She was everything to me and I had been blind to her affection for sixteen years.” Jaws dropped and he retorted before the shit storm. “I never said that I was smart. Can you believe I was soooo damn dumb as a kid?!” he admonished. “Everybody in the village knew about it but me! There was even a betting pool made up by most of the ninja population in the village as to the when, the how, and where the confession would take place. Shit, if I met my sixteen year old self in some bizarre time shift I just slap my past self without any explanation for being, dumb as a stump.” The element bearers were giggling again. At least he dodged that kunai to the face.

Luna, still chucking, said, “She sounds like she was an amazing mare Naruto”.

“Oh don't get me started I could tell you all night about everything about her. Her fears, what she liked her favorite food and all her favorite things. I could also tell you her most deepest desires all of her hobbies and everything in between.”

“Well I don’t have to raise the sun for some time still, and you could always sleep in tomorrow. We could go to the lounging room and continue your stories in there. I'm sure the girls are more than willing to listen. I know you have my curiosity peaked Cadence and Luna's as well.”

He looked at them and shrugged his shoulders. “Very well, if that’s what you want I will be happy to talk about my wife and my two children.” They all got up and followed Luna into her lounging room adjacent to the observatory and got comfortable.

He unsealed a Leaf book laptop that was his personal device that he had in his office of his home. He had brought a lot of random things to the apocalypse. Bad habits such as pack rating died hard after all. This being a new technology brought into the fray piqued all the ponies’ interest. He explained how it worked, that it ran on chakra, not electricity like the future laptops would. He explained this and so many more things through the night. He explained everything until the sun rose as he told and showed pictures and videos of his friends and family.

They never did make it to bed, only waking up when Luna felt a slight tug on her ethereal mane, telling her company was crying for her help in their dream. It was like no other night mare she had witnessed.

0o0

Princess Luna watched the dream, or in this case memory unfold.

Utter chaos and primal rage. Cries of pain. Screams of terror. Killing, so much killing. Men and women were getting slaughtered left and right dropping like flies. For the past three days one Uzumaki Naruto had been on a bloody rampage assault in the Land of Waves. Two years into his marriage, a crime syndicate had been growing in power. It had no name and no identification, no face until they had been brazen enough to sneak into Konoha and attack Hinata in their own home. Naruto had not been home at the time but sensed his wife's distress though his emphatic ways.

Barging into his home and finding her a knife point… red, RED was all he could see as he ripped them apart piece by piece, leaving one breathing and barely alive, taking his wife to the hospital and telling the hokage what had transpired.

Latter it was revealed that the five dead bodies and one alive were part of this no name crime syndicate only known as the Organization. The Hyuuga demanded blood for blood, and Naruto was all too eager to agree.

Enraged, both him and Sasuke had been seeing red for the last three days, carving a bloody path into the crime syndicate’s base camp.

Four days later, Naruto and Sasuke were found still alive among seventy dead members of the Organization in a burnt piece of land that used to be a forest.

0o0

Luna awoke in a cold sweat, breathing heavily, but calming herself when her sister calmed her and told her that she had felt everything through the link. Looking at the human in question, they saw that he was snoring loudly, mouth open, drooling, and body twisted in a strange way. They went to wake him up along with the rest of the girls. The girls woke up, but he did not and the more they tried to wake him, the more he snored.

“Mr. Naruto.”

“Sugarcube.”

“Darling.”

“Hellooo Mr. sleepy bones.”

“Naruto.”

“I got this!”

“WAAAKE UP!” Dash screamed in his ear

“AHHHHHHH WHAT THE HELL!” Naruto screamed, holding his head in pain. “SASUKE I TOLD YOU IT’S A THREE POINT PLAN TO DISMANTLE THE ENEMY’S BASE OF OPERATIONS YOU DUMB mother.. Oh hello. Did i miss something?

“You didn't have to scream at me” Seeing the ponies shrink in on themselves, Naruto quickly added, “I didn't know that you were there. I'm sorry I yelled,” he apologized, now slightly embarrassed. Standing up and stretching to were his joints popped, he then walked over to where his stuff had been for the night

“Ha no prob. You yell really loud though.”

“Yeah well, when talking over artillery fire, you have one volume, loud, or you’re not heard and... what are you all staring at?”

Following their gaze, he looked down and saw that he did not have any clothes save for a pair of boxers on. ‘Whhhyyyy,’ he whined in his mind. Instead of freaking out he walked robotically around a corner to the right. He didn't freak out. Did he die a little on the inside? Yes. Were the Bijuu laughing their asses off? Yes. Mental breakdown? Check. Was he crying? Ye-NO! He doesn't cry, but if he does, it is only when the manliest of tears are shed. But he did not freakout.

Unsealing some clean clothes from the seal on his right bicep, he pulled out a black t-shirt, black boxer shorts, orange pants, and some black boots along with some pouches, putting them on all in a record 2 seconds.

*Ahem* “That is why humans wear clothing. It’s not about just fashion and to keep ourselves warm when it gets cold, no. In fact, it is a big cultural taboo to parade yourself around in the nude because our gentiles are exposed and hang freely about.” They blushed at this admittance.

“Who's hungry? I'm hungry, haven’t eaten since last night. No no no I'm fine, just fiiine. Ya know just a little dead on the inside, that’s all well and good. Well I’ll be going now.”

“No I'm not having a mental break down. Why would I have a mental breakdown? Hmmm can't think of why I’d go and do something like that ladies.” He then proceeded to open the door, walked through it, and then closed it, leaving the mares on the inside trying to piece together what just happened.

“I think we broke him.” Pinkie Pie summed it all up.

“We should go check on him. I mean, he’s ancient for Mother's sake. He might be losing his sanity.” Luna looked at her sister wide eyed at what she just said as it could be true. He is ancient and with that dream the two saw, sane wasn't the best thing to describe him. Maybe bipolar? They all looked at each other and rushed the to door opening it, rushing through it and closing it with a slam. They all stopped at what they saw.

Naruto had found where Luna stashes her booze and was chugging it at an alarming rate. Never mind that it’s seven in the morning. He needed a drink damn it. The princesses were staring at him with a disapproving look.

“What prey tell is the reason you are dinking like a fish this early, and out of my stash!” Luna was a little bit miffed that it had been found so easily. She had hid that well from her sister.

“My line of work and sanity mix as well as oil and water. Why am I drinking? Well it calms my nerves and finders keepers. Don't judge me!” he said between chugging.

Putting away the half bottle of whisky in the stash in between, exhaling loudly, “I needed that. So is breakfast going to be around another parade of nobles?”

“No fortunately it is not. We will be dining in a more private hall this morning. After which, I believe it is time for the girls here to go home, and you will be joining them. The question is who will house you for the time being?”

“Oh maaan, and here I thought we were going to be besties ya know? I thought I was your favorite pain in the ass. That's what I been downgraded to right?” He grinned as if that was a compliment.

“Yes, you have been downgrade to that name. Also you have to go and see the world. You aren't a threat as long as nopony hurts your friends isn't that right? And you can’t see the world cooped up in the castle,” she explained, and Twilight was all too eager to house him.

After they ate they went to their rooms to do their morning rituals that they couldn't do since they fell asleep in the observatory, packed their bags, said their goodbyes and before they got on the train, Naruto bowed to the princesses once more.

“Thank you for allowing me to stay in your home. I look forward to the next time we see each other my friends.” Standing straight up he received a hug from the royal sisters, telling him that they would start on the genetic problem right away. Thanking them one last time, he boarded the train bound for ponyville.

He took a seat across from Pinkie Pie, after putting his scroll in the storage car. He got out some cards and played poker with her. As the train left the station, he looked out the window and thought, ‘Who knows what the future holds for me?’

Author's Note

usual but here is chapter 5 sorry if it feels rushed i am working on 2 hours of sleep in a 48 hour time period having a cold sucks and with asthma suck super bad.
criticism and comments are always very much appreciated.

this chapter has been edited by this awesome dude

XIII Hearts

give all the love you can he deservs it without him this fic would be a mess.

The story will be heading to ponyville now PROGRESS YES! also tell me what you think of possible romance and the whole genetic thing is that a valid thing to be upset with also yah i know I wrote naruto like cheese ball when it come to hinata but that's just my headcanon but I like lovey dovey naruhina fics sue me!

also naruto does have a mac or whatever constitutes a mac in the new gen i just call it a leaf book dont no if it runs on chakra but i'm working on a theory on that or am I?

V.S.