Chapter 7: New foes come out of the shadows.

Itachi was by the lake using his jutsu, training, the last time he trained like this was before the massacre. He made every Saturday a day where he would train his ninjutsu, or taijutsu, for two hours, if the library was not getting anypony. During the week Itachi wrote one friendship letter, it was something he was not used to writing. When he did make letters, it was a mission report on him killing his target and if he had to keep others from spilling his secrets to the world.

"I think that is enough for today," Itachi told himself.

During the week he learned there wasn't that much difference between magic and chakra, the two were closer to one another than he thought. It wasn't very clear, but, if Itachi was correct then he could learn magic like jutsu, he would have a harder time, due to not using hand signs, but, it wasn't going to stop the Uchiha.

Itachi saw a glimmer of light from the Ever-free forest, Twilight told Itachi that the forest was dangerous, she said that the animals took care of themselves, and the plants grew by themselves. And the weather moved on its own, He thought that was a stupid fear to have there was a forest in the land of fire that was called the forest of death. It was 100 times more deadly than this Ever-free forest, he didn't tell Twilight that, he figured that she would have nightmares for weeks if the Ever-free was able to scare his new friends.

He followed the glimmer of light into the forest, as he walked through the trees, Itachi saw a bed of blue flowers, for some reason he felt a strange chakra flow through the blue flowers. Itachi thought nothing of it and walked through, if it was any genjutsu he could break out of it.

After walking halfway through the forest he heard the whooshing sound of something coming at him fast, he ducked out of the way and heard the sound of a kunai knife cutting into the tree.

"What the, who in this world has that?!" Itachi thought shocked.

He saw more kunai fly towards him, he took the kunai embedded in the tree and used it to deflect the others. He picked the others and placed them in his saddlebags Twilight gave to him to Carey things without having to use his magic. Itachi used his Sharingan to find the attackers and saw two unicorns dressed in ninja clothing. Making identifying who was attacking him impossible to know, it didn't matter, he was going to get answers, also, they were terrible at hiding even genin were better at hiding than these ponies.

By the time he placed all but one of the kunai knives into the saddlebags, the two unicorns jumped out of the shadows, one had a straight katana blade. Even from here Itachi could tell the sword was poorly made, he used the kunai to block the blade it snapped in half, leaving the pony in shock that the sword broke so easily. The pony was not ready for the kunai to come to his throat and feel his neck being cut, after the attack, the pony used their magic to stop the bleeding, but it was too late. The unicorn fell to the ground dead, the knife that dealt the final blow cut far into the neck and sliced both artery vanes.

The remaining unicorn was in shock that this pony they were tasked with catching killed without mercy, filled with rage at the death of the pony, the other used a blast of magic. To try and hit Itachi. Seeing the attack coming before it happened he jumped out of the way and threw the kunai into the leg of the unicorn. The pony screamed in pain, feeling the warm blood gush from the attack, the unicorn's rage turned to fear, and ran away. Three more kunai hit the other legs of the unicorn, who fell in pain, tears falling from the pony's eyes.

Itachi used his magic and ripped the cloth off the ponies face, he saw a mare that seemed to be in her mid-early thirties, she was scared at this monster of a pony. Itachi noticed the smell of someone losing control over their bladder, yes this mare pissed herself that is how scared she was of him. It was clear these ponies were not trained to fight at all, so whoever sent these ponies knew they signed their death warrants, it made Itachi a bit mad.

"Who sent you?" Itachi asked in a menacing voice.

Even though she was scared to death of this pony she would not tell who sent them.

"I-I, w-won't t-t-tell you!" The mare shouted back.

Itachi was getting tired of this, activating his mangekyou Sharingan and using the Tsukuyomi on the poor mare, the world was colors of red, black, gray, and white. Seeing a vast ocean of water, the pony noticed she was hanging on some sort of T-shaped cross. Her target standing in front of her with a stare that sent so much fear not even Sombra would be able to pull off. It was those eyes, those unnatural eyes.

"This is my Tsukuyomi, you are the first pony I have ever used it on," Itachi said with a wicked smile.

His face went back to that of a neutral one, he pulled out a kunai and stabbed into the gut of the mare, not deep enough to hit vital organs, but, enough to send pain. The mare grunted in pain, then passed out, once she woke up, she saw there were two of the same pony, even though she passed out it felt like only a second had passed. She looked down to see the wound was gone.

"Who sent you?" Itachi asked again.

Feeling not as fearful the mare replied, "I told you I won't tell you."

"Think about what you say... in my Tsukuyomi, time, space, even physical matter, it is all under my command in this place," Itachi stated.

Normally he never told anyone this, but, he only told those who he was going to kill, again the mare refused to answer. This went on for hours, every time Itachi asked, she didn't answer, he would stab her until she passed out, and when she woke up another Itachi was there. Itachi started to clone his target and do the same with that one. He had to admit this pony was impressive, he was thinking about not killing her, but, she knew too much, he was going to continue until.

"STOP! Just stop, I don't know who hired us, but, he asked us to capture you," The mare said sobbing.

"What can you tell me about him then?" Itachi asked feeling good he was getting something.

"All I know is that his eyes are not normal, like yours," The mare said still crying.

"Eyes like mine?!" Itachi thought shocked.

Even though 72 hours passed after he tortured the mare only a second passed in the real world. After breaking the Tsukuyomi, he saw the mare was a blubbering mess, her eyes were bloodshot from crying, and it seemed like the whole thing broke her. He walked over, the mare noticed Itachi moving closer, and started to back up trying to escape death. It seemed to the mare this pony was the reaper and he was here for her soal. Itachi plunged the kunai he had deep into the pony's neck, she gurgled on her own blood and fell to the ground her eyes trying to find a way to live but clouded over, dead.

He picked up the bodies of the unicorns and placed them in a small pile, he used his Amaterasu to burn the two to ash, leaving no trace of the ponies being there. Itachi made sure nothing saw the act of death, and after not seeing even one living thing nearby, he breathed a sigh of relief, he was told that Fluttershy could talk to all types of animals. Itachi didn't want the yellow pegasus to think of him as an evil person.

Itachi saw a river, he walked up to it and washed the blood off himself and the kunai, after cleaning, he made his way out of the forest.

"Yeah, this forest was not scary at all," Itachi said to no one.

Once he made his way out, he looked at one of the kunai in more detail and saw it was more different than the ones he used to use. The kunai looked like it was cast in a mold, and to be made of bronze and not steel, there was magic on the knife, there was a faint glow, to anyone else they would not notice. But, Itachi had sharp eyes the kunai had a pinkish glow to it. The blade was not as thick, and instead of a ring at the base, it was flat and had a dark red leather grip.

Itachi thought it was odd that it had a handle, but, it could be for non-unicorn fighters

There were at least twenty he got from the two, he made sure to place them in the saddlebag so they didn't cut the bag open, they might have been made of bronze. They were still sharp and strong as steel. The kunai he collected were sturdy, it most likely had to do with the magic running through them, making them strong. Itachi did know he would have to fight something, he was sent here to fix something, and he decided to keep the kunai just in case he was attacked again.

"Whatever this problem is it was bad enough to send me, and they have knowledge of my world's weapons. Maybe I can ask Twilight what jutsu this is? Maybe not, she would ask questions, and ones I can't answer right now," Itachi thought to himself.

Before walking into the town he put the kunai in his bag, holding a weapon while walking in the town would send fear into the ponies. It was high noon, and Itachi was thinking about who wanted him dead or alive. When he walked into the library, he bumped into Twilight, when the two landed on their back ends, Itachi saw two golden pieces of paper land on the ground. He picked one up to read it.

Grand Galloping Galla ticket.
Only good for one pony.

"Sorry, I was, (She saw that Itachi was looking at one of the GGG tickets), (Sigh) Let me guess, you want to go to the Galla as well?" Twilight asked annoyed.

Itachi raised an eyebrow at Twilight's attitude and asked confused, "What do you mean?"

Twilight looked into Itachi's eyes and realized she got mad at him for no reason.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to get mad at you like that, my friends were just asking me if I could take one of them to the Galla," Twilight said apologetically.

"Don't worry, I won't ask, I'm not the type of persor-pony to go to large parties like that," Itachi replied.

"Well, at least that makes two of us, parties like that are just girly," Spike said not wanting to go.

"It isn't that bad Spike," Twilight said annoyed.

"Well, if this Grand Galloping Galla is anything like any of the larger parties back at my home, this Galla is more for keeping peace with the neighboring countries," Itachi stated.

Both Twilight and Spike were in a small bit of shock that Itachi said that, it wasn't that they thought Itachi wasn't smart, it was more they didn't expect him to say that.

"Well, that is what it was when it started out, but, it's more for tradition," Twilight said.

Itachi gave the ticket back to Twilight.

"It is nice to see at least two of my friends won't beg me to take them to the Galla... Not that I am saying I wouldn't take you if you asked," Twilight said a bit nervous.

"Twilight I did say that I was not interested in that, there is no reason to be worried," Itachi replied.

"Oh, alright, I'm going out to eat, do you want to come?" Twilight asked.

"I'll be fine here, someone needs to keep an eye on the place if someone comes," Itachi answered.

Twilight gave her goodbye for the day and walked into town Spike behind her. He was going to ask her if she could just ask Celestia for more tickets. But, if others found out that the princess was treating one pony, (even if she was the star pupil of Celestia), with more kindness, they could get jealous and that could start a fight. So Itachi didn't ask, of course, when it came to fights between civilians in this land he doubted it would get too bad.

"If she does ask for more tickets let's hope it doesn't go bad," Itachi thought as he went upstairs to drop off his bags in his room.

After an hour or two Fluttershy walked into the library and saw Itachi was dusting the shelves.

"Oh, hi Itachi I didn't think you would be here," Fluttershy asked a bit shocked.

"Well, I do work here," Itachi said in a joking way.

Fluttershy blushed at that, she felt stupid for forgetting he worked with Twilight, she came over to clean the treehouse to get the ticket, but, seeing Itachi cleaning made her want to help him.

"Hey, Itachi do you mind if I help you clean?" Fluttershy asked.

Itachi stopped what he was doing and stared at the pegasus, he knew something was up he thought about what Twilight said. He was confused about this obsession with the Galla, he was going to say no, but, decided to not do that. Fluttershy knew Itachi saw through her lie, she was going to leave but stopped when he spoke.

"I don't mind if you help," Itachi answered.

Fluttershy was shocked did he say that to get her to stop with the Galla, or did he not mind at all, either way, this was a good chance to learn about the mysterious unicorn.

After cleaning half of the bottom floor Twilight and Spike walked in, as the purple unicorn looked around she saw animals cleaning the room with Itachi and Fluttershy.

"Not you too," Twilight said disappointed.

"Well, at first it was because of the ticket, but, I changed my mind, I wanted to help Itachi clean the tree," Fluttershy stated.

"Yeah, we got half of the room clean, we might be able to finish the top floor before dinner," Itachi added.

Twilight breathed out a sigh of relief that Fluttershy didn't ask for the remaining ticket, she was going to ask her to leave, but, saw Itachi had everything under control.

Angel hearing that she changed her mind like that made him mad, he would have thrown a fit but unknown to everypony Angel saw Itachi stare at him. Angel felt a killing intent come from the pony, not enough to cause the bunny to die on the spot, but, it was enough to send the message to not even try it. Angel feeling fear for his life just continued to toss the salad he was making for Twilight, he gave the salad to the purple unicorn and went to help clean.

~~Ten Minutes Later~~

After Twilight ate the salad Angel gave to her she made her way out, once the door was opened Twilight was pulled through, The first level of the house was finished. After a couple of minutes, Itachi heard the shout of multiple ponies.

"THE GRAND GALLOPING GALLA!"

"May Hashirama have mercy on her soul," Itachi thought worried for the unicorn and baby dragon.

The hours passed by, and Twilight and Spike haven't returned, he went upstairs to see if he could find her on the second floor. He heard to sound of a pop where he was before and heard Twilight telling Spike to lock the door and windows, with turning the lights off.

He was about to go downstairs to see what the problem was when he heard Twilight yell out in shock. Itachi out of sight saw as all the ponies he would call his first friends were comforting her. All saying they no longer wanted the tickets, he thought this was a perfect time to go downstairs.

"Hey, Itachi, didn't notice you were here," Twilight said shocked.

"I was cleaning my room when I heard a shout, I thought something was wrong," Itachi replied.

"Well, if something was wrong her awesome friends would help her," Rainbow dash said with pride.

"Spike please take a letter. Dear Princess Celestia. I've learned that one of the joys of friendship is sharing your blessings, but when there are not enough blessings to go around, having more than your friends can make you feel pretty awful. So, though I appreciate the invitation, I will be returning both tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala. If my friends can't go I would feel awful if I didn't go, so I won't, I hope you can understand, from your faithful student Twilight Sparkle."

The five were trying to talk Twilight into keeping the tickets, but, it was too late.

"Girls, I rather go to the Galla with all of you," Twilight said.

They were hugging one another, which made Itachi smile.

"This magic of friendship is contagious, but, it isn't that bad, if only Sasuke was here," Itachi thought with a saddened smile.

Spike like any boy his age would pretend to be sick until he grabbed his stomach.

"Well isn't that typical of a boy who can't handle a little bit of sentiment," Applejack said annoyed.

Spike burped up a cloud of fire and smoke, it turned into a scroll.

"If only we had that, it would make missions easier," Itachi thought to himself.

Spike opened the scroll to read it, "My faithful student Twilight, Why didn't you just say so in the first place?"

He had in his claw six tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala.

The ponies were excited that they all could go.

"Here let us treat you to dinner," Rarity said.

The ponies made their way out of the house, once they all left Spike noticed he didn't have a ticket and became upset.

"Why didn't I get a ticket?" Spike asked saddened.

After burping up another scroll he opened it to read it.

"And here is one for you Spike and one for Itachi,"

After giving the one ticket to Itachi, they both followed the group, Spike was happy he got to go, and he stopped when Applejack saw.

"I mean, yuck I have to go too," Spike said in a fake annoyed tone.

He ran off to join the rest.

"And here I thought ya the type who didn't like to go to big parties?" Applejack asked Itachi.

"I never said I wouldn't try if I was given the chance," Itachi answered.

The two walked to join the group for the night. Through a crystal ball, a pair of eyes golden eyes with slanted pupils were watching with an evil grin.

Author's Note

If you are wondering why this is a longer chapter than normal, I didn't feel like making a part 2 after not being able to make anything for so long.

And sorry for not making something anytime soon.

Angel felt a killing intent come from the pony, not enough to cause the bunny to die on the spot, but, it was enough to send the message to not even try it.

This is my favorite line of the entire story.