Kanji Tatsumi: Equestrian Bad Ass

Kanji blinked. Naoto blinked. The ponies blinked. Everyone blinked.

“Naoto...is that, you know, really you?” Kanji asked tentatively.

Naoto nodded, “Yes it's me. We've been looking for you for awhile now. Now... where are we?”

“Right now we're in a shadows castle...thingy. But we're in some world called Equestria. I'm sorry Naoto, but I'm exhausted. I saved the kingdom from an invasion and just saved Pinks here from her shadow.”

Pinkie smiled tiredly at Naoto before collapsing.

“Pinkie!” A chorus of cries erupted from the rest of the mares around him.

“Pinks!” Kanji knelt down next to the mare. He visibly relaxed after a moment. “She's fine, just exhausted from this whole ordeal. And so am I. So we're gonna get the hell outta here and I'm gonna crash.” Kanji lifted Pinkie in his arms, cradling the unconscious mare.

“Come on let's get out of here. This place creeps me the hell out.” Kanji said as he looked around Pinkie's playhouse anxiously.

…

As Kanji and the group of friends emerged from the massive castle, the human and five ponies tried very desperately, and failed, to understand a single flanking word the two egg heads said. Kanji was sure that they were saying...words...of some sort. But there were WAY too many syllables to keep track and even the rest of the ponies seemed completely unable to make heads or tails of what the two geniuses were saying.

“Twilight Sparkle! Are you alright!” The panicked voice of Celestia cried out as the regal Alicorn flew up to the group the moment they were off the draw bridge.

Twilight smiled, “We're fine Princess. Kanji here saved us...again. And one of his friends showed up to boot!”

Naoto smiled gently, “I have to admit, I was highly skeptical of the idea of magic, controlling weather as well as manipulating planetary bodies....but then I realized that only a few months ago if one had tried to tell me about shadows and personas were real, I'd call you crazy. So I've been keeping an open mind.”

Celestia blinked at Naoto, before a warm motherly smile spread across her snow white muzzle, “Well then, allow me to formally welcome you to Equestria. Any friend of Kanji Tatsumi, savior of Canterlot, is welcome here.”

Kanji mumbled under his breath that it was nothing as his foot kicked at the ground. That's when Celestia noticed Pinkie Pie.

“Wha-”

“She's perfectly fine Princess. Just trust me, I went through the exact same ordeal that she did.” Kanji cut off the princess before her question could even fully leave her lips.

“I don't mean to be rude Celly, but I'm balls to the wall tired. Where can a guy crash?” Kanji asked with a yawn to punctuate his point.

Twilight gasped aloud at Kanjis blatant use of such guttural language but everyone was caught completely off guard when the princess of the sun laughed. “Yes of course. Right this way, I would be more than happy to show you the way. After all you've done so much for my precious ponies today.”

…

They were doing it again. Only Celestia made it a trio of people/ponies spouting something resembling words. Kanji....his head....HURT. And from the look...so did every pony else. But that was the least of Kanjis worries.

The teen...was so...fucking tired. It had felt like hours since they had entered the castle. It probably did take an hour to get through the crowd of ponies that bombarded the group with questions...and the gawkers that had stared at Naoto.

Kanji stumbled, his eyes struggled to stay open as Celestia led them through the halls.  Twilight, Naoto and Celestia continue to talk to each other in excited tones using words with far too many syllables to make any sense of.

“Are we there yet?” Kanji injected the simple sentence into the conversation, not giving a single shit about being rude.  Celestia chuckled, “Only right down the hall Kanji, there you can put Pinkie in her room and I can lead you to yours.” Kanji simply grunted in response. Great...more walking.

After what felt like an eternity, which was made worse by the continuation of the conversation in a language Kanji could never comprehend, they made it to Pinkies room. Kanji only knew it when Celestia stopped and pointed a hoof to her left.

Before words even formed on her lips Kanji kicked open the door, and charged inside with a battle cry. What? He couldn't be loud. It'd wake Pinks up. The wood splintered loudly at the force of Kanjis kick.

Screw doors, he didn't have time for that shit. “RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!” Kanji roared...in a whisper as he surged into the door frame that once had a door. The troubled youth raced through the massive chamber, looking for a bed to deposit Pinks. He saw the sweet heavenly bliss that was a bed to the far right of the room.

And it was a such a beautiful sight. The bed was massive, far bigger than an average sized pony would need. Kanji looked upon the bed...it...was...so....beautiful. So angelic. Kanji could swear he heard angles singing in the background as he approached the majestic bed.

The human lifted up the covers, and slowly deposited the pink party pony into the magnificent soft...ok ok, just a quick five minute cat nap.

Kanji was dead to the world the moment his head hit the gloriously soft pillow.

…

“Kanji...are you done yet?” Naoto Shirogane called into the bedroom. The teenager sighed, “I'm really sorry about the door princess, he can be really thick headed.”

Celestia laughed, “It's no problem, there are a lot of repairs to be done in the city anyway. Kanji saved all of Equestria today.”

Naoto cocked an eyebrow, “He did?”

Celestia nodded quickly, “I can tell you here shortly, I'm gonna go inside and check up on him, see if there's a problem.” And with that the alicorn princess stepped around the...misplace... door and into the chamber.

After no more than a handful of seconds the princess let out a hearty laugh from within. “Everypony come in here for a minute.”

Naoto looked at the pastel ponies around her, only for them to shrug their shoulders at her. The group filed into the room, careful to dance around the broken door and with Naoto in the rear. The moment one of the ponies trotted down the small hallway and turned the corner a laugh or a “D'aww” was let loose.

When the detective rounded the corner, a soft smile graced her lips. Kanji was snuggled up to the pink pony, his arms wrapped around her midsection, her chin rested atop his head as they slept. Naoto couldn't contain the quiet chuckle that escaped her lips.

“He really was exhausted wasn't he?” Naoto asked the group quietly.

Twilight, ( Which Naoto was still struggling with maintaining her sanity at see a talking unicorn, albeit a highly intelligent one...and one that makes for a great conversation partner.) laughed and said, “Yeah he, well we all had a pretty rough day today. But they look so cute!”

The lavender unicorn squeed into her hoof while Rainbow Dash laughed, “Oh I am so going to rib into him for this later.”

“So ya'll are gonna nit pick at the guy that nearly knocked our heads off fer lookin at him funny when he said he likes to sew? Lets not forget when he done declared Fluttershy were his 'huggable pony'. Ah reckon he'd kick yer flank the moment any words left yer mouth sugar cube.” Applejack laughed as Rainbows eyes grew to dinner plates.

“As adorable, and funny, this is, we should leave quietly my little ponies. I'd rather not deal with an irritable Kanji Tatsumi after all.” Celestia whispered to the group.

Everypony froze, before very slowly and quietly leaving the room.

…

Naoto stabbed at the salad in front of her. Very intently thinking at the mystery before. How in the name of science did she, and Kanji for that matter, end up in this world of magic and logic breaking non-sense.

And the detective was still trying to  absorb the fact that Kanji had not only saved Equestria from an invasion, but stopped a shadow as well. How was he able to use his Persona outside the T.V world? Isn't that the only place a persona can be used? Where did the shadow come from?

The teenager eyed her food as more and more questions danced their way into her skull, vying for control of her articulated thought.

“Naoto!” A voice shouted from outside her head.

The teen blinked before looking up the massive dining table at the source. Celestia smiled motherly at the human. “I'm sorry to disturb you Naoto. No doubt you're trying to piece together this mystery as much as I. But...I need all the pieces. As does everypony in this room. Would you tell us about personas and these...shadows?”

The way the regal voice of Celestia carried itself to Naoto made one thing perfectly clear. This was not a question, it was a polite demand. The teen placed her fork down as her gaze drifted over each and every pony in the hall.

“Very well, but know two things. First, I didn't play a part in this story for a long while. And even then it was minor until...well it doesn't matter. You'll find out anyway. Secondly, this story is...rather frightening and gruesome. Just be warned .”

Naoto took a deep breath before beginning her narrative, “It all began when Taro Namate was discovered having an affair with a local reporter in Inaba.”

…

“And with that Izanami No Oukami was defeated. We had finally saved not just Inaba, but all of the world from the wrath of a deranged goddess. Later that day, Yu Narakumi left to go back to his parents.”

Naoto looked around at the ponies surrounding her. The elements, and both princess' eyed her with great curiosity. Only Celestia had her usual poker face as the facts of the story were absorbed.

It was Rainbow Dash, who broke the silence. “THAT!IS!AWESOME! You guys were like, 'Take this' and 'Take that' and the shadows were all like 'Oh no I'm dying'! SO COOL!” The cyan pegasus flitted about the room punching around with her fore hooves and acting out shadow deaths.

Before anyone could say something else, she gasped. “You NEED to show us your persona! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!” The pegasus had soared to Naoto and poking her with a hoof.

“RAINBOW DASH!” A chorus of voices scolded the pegasus which couldn't help but make Naoto smile.

Naoto stood up, pushing her chair back as she prepared herself.

The teenage detective reached inside, like she had done so many times, grabbing at the power that was her persona. “ PERSONA! SEKUNA-HIKONA!!!!”

Only not a thing happened.

The teen looked around, “Where's....why can't I summon my persona?” Naoto asked no pony in particular.

To be continued...

I'm sorry.I'm sorry. I'msorry. This took WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too long and for no good reason other than two words. Skyrim Addiction. Long story, got it christmas last year, couldn't get into too much because I played so much oblivion. Months later friend said try different build. Went to play rim of sky, couldn't load shades and textures properly even though it worked great when I first had it. Wait more months, finaly decide to contact support, begin working with support to get it working. Got it working when I started this chapter....got addicted. Sorry. The next chapter will come out in the next couple of days. I refuse to let it take this long again.