Chapter 1: I am Discord, thus I am awesome.

Forest of death – Konoha – Chuunin Exam -

“I am sorry, my boy! But I can't let you interfere with my plans. Five-pronged Seal!” a man with deadly-pale skin said while thrusting a hand covered in purple energy on the stomach of a blond boy with whisker marks, knocking him unconscious with the painful sensation of his chakra being sealed away.

“NARUTO! Damn it!” a boy with raven-coloured hair hissed angrily, watching powerless as the blond boy went thrown down from the huge tree branch they all were in and slamming his head on one of the rocks resting under the tree.

“Ops!” the pale man said with a mocking chuckle as he loomed closer to the two remaining teens.

“W-W-What are we going to do now?” Sakura asked shivering in fear.

“We find a way to escape and...and recover our Teammate’s body.” Sasuke answered grimacing with clenched teeth.

Meanwhile – at the base of the tree -

Blood was slowly flowing from the cracked skull of the blond boy as between his chakra being in disarray and the fact that his brain as well got seriously damaged, his life was slowly slipping away.

“Boy! Pull it together! BOY!...Can you hear me, you brat!?” the voice of the nine-tailed fox sealed inside his body echoed in the blond’s mind as the Biju too could feel his Vessel’s life fading away, meaning that he too would have perished along the young shinobi.

It was the exact moment when the boy’s heart stopped beating that “Something” happened, it felt as if the Universe itself got forcefully stretched to the side and then left spring back in position, a lurching to the side that had even Kurama inside the Seal stumble forward.

“What the fuck?!” the Biju muttered unsure as he tried once again to force the boy’s heart to beat only for it to do it by itself, through the perfect rendition of the macarena at that.

“Eh?!” Kurama asked aloud with a dumbfound expression as a full mariachi orchestra now joined the heartbeat, vocalists comprised.

Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena
Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena
Hey Macarena!

At the “Hey Macarena!” the blond’s eyes snapped open as he jumped to his feet.

“OLE!” he yelled in incomparable happiness while opening his arms as if to welcome Creation itself.

It was an instant, an instant in which EVERYBODY heard his cheerful scream and could somehow hear every single Law of Physics and Common Sense scream in agony in answer to this happy voice.

In fact, as soon as the last echo of the blond’s 'Ole!’ died down, every single cloud above the Forest had turned immediately pink like cotton candy and started pouring down chocolate milk in a thick deluge.

With Sasuke, Sakura and Orochimaru -

“W-What?” Orochimaru asked dumbly as several squirrels escaped the trees while barking, mewling or just turning into pink-with-blue-polka-dots flamingos.

“Chocolate? It’s raining chocolate?” Sasuke asked in disbelief as the whole Forest of Death turned into something out of a demented kid-show, eyes and big mouths on the trees comprised.

“S-S-Sasuke-kun...T-The trees are watching us...Everything looks like one of my cousin’s drawings over my grandma’s fridge!” Sakura stuttered in horror as several plants started blowing soap bubbles, turn to licorice or even sing merrily like a barber quartet group.

“This is not an Illusion...This is real...” Orochimaru muttered with narrowed eyes while taking a pair of turtles that had seemingly decided they wanted to be completely made of bread and tearing them to pieces.

“Even the organs are made of bread, and the blood too...How?” he wondered while throwing away the two dead animals uncaring.

“Of course is not an Illusion! I take pride in what I do, thank you!” A cheerful voice said merrily.

“The brat?” the Snake Sannin asked confused.

“Naruto!” Sasuke said shocked.

“Who?” the blond replied as his hand came out from Sakura’s ear to grab a near branch and pull his whole body out of her head.

“Eeeep!” the girl in the meantime screeched in horror at watching her Teammate exiting her ear like that.

“What do you mean, who? YOU are Naruto!” Sasuke answered.

“Uuuhm!...Nope! Sorry, but the name doesn’t ring any bells...See? No bells’ ringing!” the blond replied beheading himself with a plastic Pop! Sound to shake his head before popping it back in place.

“I-I-I...Y-You...” the two teens tried saying with their mouths opening and closing without a single coherent word coming out.

“What have you done, brat?” Orochimaru hissed angrily.

“Again with the ‘Brat’. You are awfully rude,” the blond answered with an exaggerated pout as he was now the size of an apple while sitting on the Sannin’s shoulder.

“GAH!” the man yelled in surprise and shoving the tiny boy away.

“Rude and completely tactless, did your mother teach you manners at all?” the young boy replied huffing as he returned to his original size, snatching a butterfly mid-air to turn it into a lollipop and then start eating it.

“N-Naruto...Are you okay?” Sakura, looking extremely scared, asked slowly as if trying to not anger him.

“Again with that name. I am not this Boruto-”

“Naruto.” Sasuke corrected.

“Naruto guy. I am Discord!...And you two look awfully familiar...”

“Of course we do! We are in the same Tea-GACK!” Sasuke tried saying before the blond stomped on his feet, but instead of making the Uchiha boy scream in pain it opened the top half of his head like a lid to show his brain.

“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” Sakura at that answered by rerouting all her power to her lungs to scream in horror as hard as she could.

“There is the problem! I’ll fix it in a second.” Nar-Discord said happily as he took out the brain to put it inside a blender that was NOT in his hands a second ago, and without plugging it anywhere, he turned it on (without the lid and somehow not making a mess) until the brain turned into a pinkish goo he then poured back into Sasuke’s head and then closing the boy’s cranium without leaving a mark on him.

“FUUUUUU-DGE!” what started as a pretty-common curse soon turned into a kid-friendly one as Sasuke’s eyes turned blue and he fell sitting down.

“S-Sasuke-kun!” Sakura yelled.

“...Who?” the boy answered confused.

“Glad to see you are back, Shining.” Discord said happily.

“Back...Wait!...Discord?!” Sasu...Shining Armour said shocked.

“In the flesh!...More or less, but I’ll fix it later. How’s it being reincarnated? Sure as Tartarus it’s confusing for me!” Discord answered laughing.

“What have you done to him?” Sakura growled.

“I’ll help you in a second, Cadence.” Discord replied uncaring as he took away the marking on Shining’s neck with a faint frip! Sound.

“Eh?” Orochimaru muttered always more confused as his beloved Cursed Mark went removed like a band-aid and tossed on one of the dancing bears under the tree that like that gained a new tacky tattoo on its forehead.

“Cadence? Caddy?” Shining asked unsure.

“In a moment.” the blond replied appearing behind the pink haired girl making her jump and take a fighting stance.

“D-D-D-Do not touch me or I will-”

“Boop!” Discord replied booping her on the nose making her go cross-eyed and fall down sitting on the floor.

“WAIT! Why I got my brain blended and she got a boop?!” Shining asked outraged.

“Meh! Who knows!” he replied smirking.

“That’s favoritism!” the Uchiha boy said shocked.

“Yes, yes it is.”

“Oh my...Celestia...My Head.” Cadence in the meantime moaned in agony.

“Caddy! You okay!?” Shining yelled in apprehension as he immediately hurried at her side.

“Shiny? SHINY!” Cadence yelled as she dived for a hug as soon as she heard his voice.

“Aaaaw! Isn’t this just so sappily romantic, Snake Guy? I can feel the sugar levels in my blood sky-rocket just by looking at them!”

“What are you doing?!” Orochimaru asked finally growing tired of the whole thing.

“Uuuhm! Do you guys believe in reincarnation?” Discord asked curious as he snapped his fingers, making his old dragon tail break through the back of his pants so to use it as a make-shift seat.

“...I’ll sew them later.” he then said huffing.

“Reincarnation?” Orochimaru asked amused.

“Yep! You see...I am Discord! I am the King of Chaos and Disharmony! And wherever there is Chaos I always pop-up! It has been a while since last time I was alive though. Fluttershy had eventually grown old and...I didn’t like the idea...So I left myself go.” he admitted.

“Aaaaw!”

“Do not read too much into it, Cadence!” Discord said rolling his eyes.

“I can’t help it! I KNEW you two would make an excellent couple!” the former pink Alicorn, now pink-haired human, gushed happily.

“Blah! Blah! Blah!” the Chaos entity replied sarcastic.

“So you let yourself die, and now you are back?” Orochimaru asked sounding even more amused.

“You are not believing me...I see...”

Striiip!

“Do you believe me now?” the blond asked holding the Sannin’s mouth in his hand, and not his flesh, but literally his mouth, as if the thing had been a sticker on the man’s face leaving him with smooth flesh on his now mouthless face.

“UUUUHM! UUUUHM!” going from smugness to panic, the Sannin kept pawing the area where his mouth should be and looking at the opening (teeth, throat, tongue and everything else) in the boy’s hand.

“To say it in a manner that even you will understand...I am Discord, I can do everything I want, whenever I want. EVERYTHING.” the reborn entity said clapping his hands haughtily, immediately switching day to night.

“Uh?!”

“Everything.” he said returning the time-frame to day,then summoning a top-hat on his head he gave it a tip, action that caused everything around him, except himself, to tilt to the side following the hat for an instant before everything returned to normal as soon as he made the accessory disappear.

“E-ve-ry-thing.” he finished saying snapping his fingers four times and turning the sun blue, green, purple and then back to normal at each snap.

“Got it?” Discord said slapping Orochimaru’s mouth back on the man’s face making him stumble back.

“Eh?”

“I think you broke him.” Shining said while still looking at his new hands in great interest.

“Yes, Shining, you and Cadence have hands instead of hooves...How strange!” Discord answered bored.

“I get it we have been reincarnated in a new body by you...It’s just strange to not be a pony...” Cadence said looking at her lack of tail with a pout.

“It was easy, you ARE reincarnated into new bodies, I just made sure you would remember your old life and notice the differences with this one.” the Chaos Entity answered uncaring.

Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!

“...Have you quite done?” Discord asked with a raised eyebrow as he watched Orochimaru try to use the Kusanagi sword to pierce his stomach and getting a quacking sound as the only answer every time the tip pierced flesh.

Even then, the stabbing looked like done in auto-pilot as there was no viciousness behind it, just childlike curiosity as he gently shoved the tip of the blade deep into Discord’s flesh without a drop of blood coming out.

“...What are you?” the Sannin finally asked as the lack of sense in the whole situation forced his brain into desperate rebooting.

“I normally look like this.” he answered grabbing his tongue and pulling his whole body inside-out to transform into his old Draconequus persona, mismatched animal parts and all.

“Oh.” was all the intelligent answer the normally genius Sannin could come-up with.

“I know, I know, I was just too gorgeous.” he answered repeating the tongue-grabbing gesture and returning human.

“Can you please return the forest to normal? I fear you are attracting even too much attention.” Shining asked looking at the Mad House the forest had turned into.

“And I should care why?”

“Pretty please?” Cadence replied with a gentle smile.

“...Oh, fine! Just because we have to look for the girls.” Discord answered annoyed as he used the tuft of fur on the tip of his tail to form a hand, snap its fingers and return everything to normal.

“The girls?” Shining asked surprised.

“If I am here it means the Elements of Harmony are here, and if we both are here it means something big is going to happen that will require the Elements. I just hope this also mean that since Cadence (Alicon Princess of Love) is here then Lulu and Celly too are somewhere, and I need close proximity to recognize them in their new bodies. I just woke-up, I need time for my powers to return.” Discord answered.

“So Twilight is somewhere?” Shining asked immediately.

“She was the Princess of Friendship and her friends were the Elements, if we are lucky it should be enough for them to be here like us...Even if with you I had to force things a little, Shiny.” he answered.

“Ooh!” the former stallion answered in surprise.

“Alicorns were always defined deities, so it makes it easier for us to reincarnate?” Cadence asked as the trio walked away leaving Orochimaru standing there while still stabbing the air in front of him.

“It’s because you ARE Love, Lulu is the Moon and Celly is the Sun and Twilight Friendship itself, like me you others are constants, as long as the thing you embody exist, you exist. Hopefully the Elements will act as a good enough anchor to bring the others back as well, I would prefer them being back instead of dealing with whoever is the new group of Chosen Ones.” he answered.

“And the others? And Fluffy Heart?” Cadence asked in sadness.

“Probably are back, probably are not. Until I recover my full power I won’t be able to tell, it will take me pretty much a month to “wake-up” fully and recover, same goes for you and your Magic.”

“Our Magic?” Shining asked.

“It will return, you already have your cutie marks back...Your shoulder.” the other answered tapping his own shoulder.

“My...Oh!” the captain said in surprise as he rolled his sleeves to see the tattoo of his old cutie mark on his shoulder.

“But we don’t have a horn.” Cadence said confused.

“The people here, and I refrain from calling them humans as they definitely aren’t, have their own brand of Magic. Just do as I do and use your hands for it and-”

“WHOA!”

“Shining! Your eyes!”

“Exactly. You have your memories old and new, use them.” Discord said waving him off as the Tower in the middle of the Forest came into view.

“This is...So freaky…” Shining said as the morphed eyes of his body scanned the whole forest.

“I am sure you will pull through, or Twilight will. I am sure she will love to study a whole new branch of Magic and how her new body works.”

“...”

“...”

“Yes?” inhaling deeply to reign-in his anger, the Chaos Entity looked at the two blushing teens with narrowed eyes.

“...While we do that...” Cadence asked shyly.

“...If we are in private...can you give back our pony bodies to us and the others?” Shining finished asking.

“You are awfully trusting.”

“We are kind of lost at the moment, any help matters.” Cadence answered with an uneasy smile.

“I’ll think about it, now let’s enter.” Discord answered shrugging.

“We lack a scroll for it, we need to have two...I think.” Shining said unsure.

“Please see to study your new memories.” Discord answered whining as he turned a hiding trio of Genin from Kusa into frogs to recover their scroll.

“Here it is. Now get inside.” he then said pointing towards the entrance of the Tower.

Meanwhile – with Orochimaru -

“Orochimaru!” Hiruzen yelled as he and a squadron of ANBU reached the area the Sannin was in to find him still stabbing in front of himself.

“Sensei?” Orochimaru answered turning to look at him with a broken smile.

“What are you doing here?” the Third Hokage demanded with a furious expression.

“And why everything is covered in chocolate?” an ANBU muttered curious as he looked around.

“C-Chocolate? Hee-hee-hee…BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” at that the Sannin broke down into mad laughing as he clawed the sides of his head until blood started pouring out and sporting wide eyes lacking every form of sanity whatsoever.

“Oh, God...He finally cracked.” another ANBU said in shock as the now-fully-insane Sannin kept laughing and laughing.

“Orochi-kun?” Hiruzen asked sadly as he neared the poor man.

“Chocolate rained from the sky, Sensei! Flamingos danced and turtles were made of bread! Bwahahahahaha!” the crazy man replied as he fell deeper into madness and into broken giggles.

“We have several Genin Teams saying that they were attacked by gummy bears and others rambling about the few sources of water they found turning into orange juice. There must be something here that causes people to hallucinate, Hokage-sama.”

“But there really is chocolate here...OH, GOD! WE ALREADY ARE UNDER ITS EFFECT!” Another ANBU screeched in horror.

“Evacuate the Forest! Wear the breathing masks and do not touch anything! Take every Genin out of here and to the hospital! The Forest is under quarantine until we understand what is happening!” A wide-eyed Hiruzen ordered as he immediately covered his mouth and nose with a sleeve of his clothes.

“YES, HOKAGE-SAMA!” the ANBU replied as one.

“And...And take Orochimaru to the Asylum...For him is already too late.” the Hokage then said with a broken heart.

A week later – Training Ground 7 -

“You sure you removed every trace of your passage from that Forest?” Cadence asked worried.

“I did, I did. But I still think people here overreact to the smallest things.” Discord answered whining childishly.

“Until we find my sister and the others we need to lay low.” Shining said as the three of them were still waiting for their Team Sensei to arrive.

“Tch!”

“Good evening! How do you feel?” Kakashi asked curious while discreetly checking them from head to toe.

“Just peachy.” Discord answered turning into a giant peach and breaking free from inside it with a wide smile.

“GOOD GOD I AM RELAPSING!” Kakashi shrieked with a high-pitched tone.

“You are not relapsing, Mister Kakashi. Please let us explain.” Cadence answered sighing, she knew they needed to find Fluttershy as soon as possible if they wanted to have some kind of leash to keep Discord under control.

One hour later -

Kakashi was not crazy, nooo! Years of sorrow and guilt have not finally made his brain collapse on itself so to have him suffer of vivid hallucinations, like Itachi’s brother turning into a white Unicorn with blue mane, little cute Sakura into a winged unicorn colored in shades of pink and Minato-sensei’s beloved son into...That orgy of animal parts now talking to him about an Equestria place and their being reincarnations...Nope! He was sane! SANE!

Everything was normal! NORMAL! HE WAS SAAAAANE!

“Can we enter?” Cadence asked as she looked at the straight-jacket wearing Kakashi from outside his personal padded room.

“Yes, but if he gets violent we are pulling you out.” one of the doctors said shaking his head in pure sadness.

“Have you calmed down a little?” Shining asked as he, Cadence and Discord (all three back into looking human) sat in front of the man as soon as the door closed behind them.

“I told you that transforming in front of him was still too soon.” Discord said bored.

“Ponies don’t talk,” Kakashi said in desperate defiance.

“Depends on the kind of ponies you are dealing with.” Discord answered shrugging.

“What is happening?” the bound man asked weakly.

“There seems to be something going on for me and the others to be here, and I think I know who to ask?”

“Who?” Cadence asked confused.

In answer the blond Chaos Entity zipped open a hole in the wall to drag Hiruzen inside the padded cell for the shock of the ones watching.

“What the?!” the old man yelped in surprise for his improvise change of location.

“Hokage-sama?” Kakashi said in shock.

“What have you done, you old fool?” Discord asked grumbling annoyed.

“I don’t understand, my boy.” the Hokage replied taken aback.

In answer the short boy grabbed the sides of the Hokage’s head to behead him with a Pop! Sound to shake Hiruzen’s head vigorously and then put it back together, also causing one of the doctors watching faint at the scene while Kakashi seemed about to relapse into mad raving.

“I need to talk to Starswirl in there. What happened?” Discord asked again with narrowed eyes.

“STARSWIRL?!” Shining and Cadence yelled with wide eyes.

“...Eeeh! How can I explain this, now?” Hiruzen answered sighing as he snapped his fingers making a pipe appear in his hand.

“Start from the beginning.” Discord answered doing the same, only his blowing out bubbles instead of smoke.

“Yes, that sounds like a nice plan.” Kakashi answered faintly.

“In short: While I was trapped ‘outside Time itself’ I saw the end of the world happen, and took countermeasures...Only I fear I miscalculated the time needed for the ‘forced’ reincarnation to happen and overshot of a couple thousand years.” the old man said looking ashamed of himself.

“And Discord too featured in this plan of yours?” Cadence asked.

“Not even in the slightest. Nothing personal.”

“Meh!” the Chaos God answered uncaring.

“I guess his existence is linked to the existence of the Elements of Harmony, being their perfect reflection and counterpart means that if they awake then he too does.”

“Yes, he said the same thing.” Shining confirmed.

“And let’s hear, what caused the ponykind to disappear and those pseudo-humans to pop out in their place?” Discord asked curious.

“Believe it or not, The Tree of Harmony did.”

“EH?!” Cadence and Shining yelled in shock.

“...I am not following...” Kakashi muttered unsure.

“Let him explain, then I will give you a rapid run-down of terms and background trivia.” Discord answered bored.

“Thank you.”

“The Tree did it? Why? How?!” Cadence asked shocked.

“Apparently taking away the Elements of Harmony from it left a ‘hole’ in its essence, and even giving them back to remove the Pluderseeds Discord created did not refill it...My best guess is that in the period where the Elements had been removed the tree got corrupted by itself as it was no longer kept absolutely pure by their Magic. The tree had so started longing for its Elements to be returned, and in that state it knew ‘Hunger’ and ‘Greed’...So when Twilight and the others gave it back the Elements it saw that the ‘Hole’ it had in its spirit was not fully satisfied...And it started wanting more Magic.” Starswirl explained sighing.

“And you saw all that.” Discord asked rhetorically.

“I can’t tell if it was a vision of the Future or if I was literally living through it as for me Time no longer held meaning, but I saw that through the ages the tree’s roots had covered the whole planet like a spiderweb, and when it found the right time, at the same time the roots broke-out to engulf everything and every living thing holding Magic inside at the same time. In a week there was not a single magical being on the whole planet, everything had been consumed by the Tree of Harmony, or ‘Tree of Greed’ as I came to call it.”

“What about Twilight? And Princess Celestia? Why they didn’t stop it?” Shining asked with wide eyes.

“The old owners of the Elements had long since passed by the time that happened, and even Discord had left himself die...As for Luna and Celestia as soon as they saw Twilight and Cadence too grow old and perish...They where struck by Grief and simply joined the sun and moon to finally find some eternal rest themselves. They loved you so much that they could not simply accept your passing as they did in the past. The Tree had been waiting for that, so it had sprung to action in the small window in which Equestria was truly defenseless, catching the new chosen ones of the Elements, of Love and of both Sun and Moon unprepared and so unable to fight it off.” Starswirl answered with a tone of pure sorrow.

“It must have been horrible to see it happen.” Cadence said grabbing the old man’s hand to console him.

“It has been, that is why as soon as Twilight and the others managed to make me return I did my best to force you others to reincarnate, I knew the Tree needed to be destroyed the moment it started attacking, because then its Greed would have been at its peak, thus giving the Elements the opening to strike and purify it, had we used them before that nothing would have happened because the plant would have not become ‘The Tree of Greed’ just yet.”

“It was a gamble then, you old fool.” Discord said scoffing.

“Discord!”

“No, he is right, I took a gamble with the whole existence of Equestria, and in my hubris I did not even consider asking for help...And we all paid the price for it.” the third Hokage admitted covering his face with a hand to hide his tears.

“I am sorry...But...Then why we humans then came up? That Tree had eaten everything, right?” Kakashi asked confused.

Sigh! “That happened because Life is the greatest Magic of all. Once everything Magical had been eaten the Tree suffered again from hunger, but this time there was nothing Magical to eat...Beside itself, so it started attacking itself in its blind hunger, and it went on and on in this circle until it shriveled and died, leaving behind a bare land. But, from its carcass, new life came up, only this time WITHOUT Magic as that had been all consumed by the tree itself.” Starswirl answered with a tiny smile.

“Ages passed and animals and nature retook the world, then you others came along, without Magic uplifting the ponykind, another animal could raise to power, the monkeys. They evolved and changed using their intellect, and changed to the point they become what you are today...Then started waging war between each-other for control.”

“Yes, ‘The Age of Endless War’, we all studied it at school at a certain point, it was where the first shinobi Clan came to exist.” Kakashi confirmed.

“Yours is a race of Beings of Chaos, contrary to the ponies that were beings of Harmony, thus your blood was a natural carrier of that Magic, and when the bloodshed reached its peak, deep underground a tiny seed awoke thanks to the huge amount of blood and latent Chaos Magic submerging it.”

“The Tree of Harmony!” Cadence said gasping.

“The Tree of Greed, you mean.” Discord corrected her.

“Exactly, all that blood and Magic had awoke it, and further changed it until it finally sprung to life in what the locals named ‘Shinju Tree’. But unfortunately for the Tree, another being coming from the stars was way stronger than the new-born plant, and consuming its single fruit that woman gained control over its powers, becoming the closest thing to a God in that world.”

“So?” Kakashi asked.

“So her descendants could use a...Please forgive my terminology...a ‘Bastardized’ version of our old Magic, one you others now call Chakra and Ninjutsu, along every other branch that came from it. Even if contaminated by Chaos Magic and the inner power of that woman herself adding an extra flair to it.”

“That is why your spell worked then, in a way our Magic returned, so Cadence could return as Princess of Love and Discord as Chaos Entity.” Shining said in realization.

“Yes, but it also mean that somebody or something is trying to make the Tree of Greed return, because had this not happened my ritual would have not come to work.” the old man explained.

“So your fail-safe activated because the tree is starting to revive?” Discord asked with crossed arms.

“If not the tree itself, its empty husk at least, since you were the first to return I know at least this is happening.”

“And how do you know I was the first?” the Chaos God asked smirking.

“Because I have been waiting for you to ‘wake up’ for the last two decades, I knew that you would have been the first to return and I would have used it as a Warning to start preparing for the Tree’s return.” Starswirl answered somberly.

“...Soul Transmigration...” Discord said with narrowed eyes.

“Yes, I kept jumping from Next Life to Next Life while waiting for you and the Elements to awoke, it was painful and maddening, but it needed to be done to fix my greatest mistake, so I took that soul-tearing pain as part of my punishment. And now, the time has come, we can finally stop that tree.” he answered.

“And how are we supposed to do this?” Cadence asked.

“Again, we’ll need to wait for the tree to fully wake-up before using the Elements on it, at the peak of its Greed we’ll need to blast it with their full power to destroy it completely and forever, we’ll need to wait for that exact moment, otherwise as the former source of the Elements it will be immune to their power.”

“So we have to take that gamble once again?” Shining asked unsure.

“Unfortunately yes, there is no other way.”

“Then we’ll need to find this Twilight girl?” Kakashi asked.

“Yes, we need the Elements before the Tree awakens fully.” Starswirl answered.

“Because otherwise this time it will eat every chakra source it will find?”

“It’s a good possibility.”

“Good. So we’ll have to save the world...Count me in.” Kakashi said nodding.

“You sure?” the Third Hokage asked.

“Well, had anybody else said this normally I would have tossed them here in my place, but I trust my Hokage to not bullshit me...And I saw those three turn into ponies and a strange creature so I am open to the chance that this is true. So I say let’s go find those Elements or whatever.” the man answered getting up.

“Well, you’ll need to do this without me. I am no hero so this does not matter for me.” Discord said smirking as he walked towards the door.

“And what about Fluttershy?” Cadence asked with narrowed eyes making him stop abruptly.

“...”

“What about her, eh? She will fight with Twilight and us and if we fail the Tree will eat her as well, does this mean nothing to you?”

“...”

“I got it: Discord only loves Discord! But you do not fool me, Fluttershy too matters because otherwise you would have not left yourself die just to follow her. So drop the machismo and admit you care about her!” the Princess of Love said growling.

“I-”

“I don’t care if you don’t care about this world or us others, but please do not take me for a fool by not admitting that you care about Fluttershy! Nopony...” the girl said cutting him off.

“Nobody, Cadence. They use Nobody here.” Starswirl said.

“Ah, yes. Nobody will think any less of you if you admit to care about her AND ONLY HER, you will always be Discord, but for the love of Harmony at least grow a pair and admit you like her!” the former Alicorn hissed angrily.

Shining didn’t know what to say, on one hoof-HAND, he was worried for Cadence well-being since contrary to her Discord already had recovered most of his powers making him dangerous should she anger him too much...And on the other he was finding her angry expression just so DARN HOT that he was having troubles thinking straight, so he simply nodded along and kept silent.

“...Darn it.” they heard the Chaos God growl angrily before his body simply faded away without any trace of his usual theatrics behind.

“So?” Kakashi asked confused.

“He will help us.” Cadence answered with a proud smirk.

“You sure?” Shining said confused.

“Call it Mare...Woman Intuition, but he can’t hide it from me, he can play the ‘Unconverted Macho’ all he wants, but he cares about Fluttershy, so he will help us even just to keep her out of harm’s way.”

“Very well, luckily this room is sound-proof so nobody else heard us, let’s take Kakashi out so then we’ll be free to look for the others to reincarnate.” Starswirl said undoing Kakashi’s straitjacket.

“Aaah! My arms were going numb, thank you, Hokage-sama!”

“My pleasure, and sorry about dragging you into this mess of ours.”

“It’s okay, sir. I can understand the urgency...Should I tell Nar-Discord-san about his past family?”

“I don’t think he will care.” Shining said unsure.

“True. Can I have a rapid run-down of who you others, and Him, are? I need some more background info.”

“Let’s go to my Office, we’ll be more comfy there.” Starswirl said nodding.

“And Discord?” Cadence asked.

“We’ll find a way to drag him there as well, as long as FOR NOW you stop pestering him, Cadence.”

“Okay, I’ll be good.” the girl answered shyly.

“Wonderful! Let’s go then.”

Meanwhile – with Discord -

“I enjoy being single...I do not care about anybody else...” the blond Chaos God said grumbling as he sat on the usual stool of his old self at Ichiraku Ramen.

“You okay?” Ayame asked worried.

“Yeah, just keep bringing bowls...” he answered with a miserable expression.

“What his happening?” the girl’s father asked.

“Something bad, I think. He is drowning his sorrows in Ramen.” she answered.

“And put extra ginger in the next one!” they heard him call-out from outside making the two wince.

“Oooh! It must be something big then,” the owner of the stand muttered saddened.

“Should I take out the XXL bowl then?”

“Yeah, I fear he needs it.” the old man answered with a sad tone.

“Naruto-kun...What happened?” Ayame muttered with few tears leaving her eyes as she took out of storage the custom-made giant bowl.

“I am not in denial, no sirre. I am a badass that has no attachments, especially with shy ponies with cute squeals and adorable tiny pouts whenever things don’t go their way.” Discord muttered to himself in denial as he emptied the whole bowl in front of himself in a single gulp.

Author's Note

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or anything else I will use nor I make a profit out of this, I am writing just for the pleasure of doing it.

First Chapter done!

Guess who are the reincarnate Characters? I will tell you!

Applejack – Temari (I think I will make Gaara be BigMac, for giggles)

Twilight – Hanabi Hyuga

Fluttershy – Hinata Hyuga

Rarity – Ino Yamanaka

Rainbow Dash – Kiba Inuzuka (soon to be converted into a girl as per Dash’ request)

Pinki Pie - Tenten

Discord – Naruto

Shining Armour – Sasuke

Cadence – Sakura

Celestia – Tsunade

Luna – Shizune

Starswirl – Hiruzen Sarutobi

What do you think...Should I bring along the CMC? I already know who to use, sure it would take some gender-bending, but I already did much worse...