To newcomers, hello. To veteran readers, welcome to another. YatsuKat here, this time with a MLP/Naruto story actually.

First off, in regards to this, I'd like to point out the MLP/Harry Potter story 'Six' by Flitty. A pretty good story, and actually part of what brought this one on.

Secondly, for the moment, this will be updated similarly to 'Dark Side of Justice,' but won't be quite as explicit/implicit/etc. Biggest thing on that front would really be the pre-story scene I'll have the characters bring up on occasion. So don't expect too much if that is what you prefer.

Finally, backing up a bit to the 'influence' I mentioned, here's a small clue for the moment: If six guys, who were once one single guy, had different girlfriends from each other, would it be called a harem or a nuclear relationship?

Don't own MLP or Naruto, by the way.

Vengeful Hellfire...is Pink?

Dark clouds hung over the place, but the village known as Konohagakure no Sato, or simply Konoha, wasn't concerned. It wasn't even coming close to actual rain or thunder, so the Kyubi Festival was in full swing the 11th in a row since the reason for the festival happened. Granted, they didn't have a mob break out like before, but otherwise, things were pretty well standard practice for them.

But the change to the normal routine for the festival attendees came during the reenactment. As the actor representing the hero, the Fourth Hokage, was about ready to face off against the representation of the nine-tailed fox-like monster known as Kyubi, a young girl with dull, unkempt pink hair somewhat swayed her way onto the stage between them. Her clothes were about the same state as her hair.

[Hunchback of Notre Dame – Hellfire (use 'Hellfire (animatic) [Ocs included]' for tune)]

She seemed to not notice much of anything, especially when she turned to the Hokage actor and surprised everyone when she started singing.

"I'm sorry, Sun Child, I may no've been a helpful friend. On my honor, I am justly shamed." Her words confused a good many of the villagers that witnessed it, but mostly they were curious as to just what was happening, "E'en still, Sun Child, you know I'm so much better than the common, vulgar, weak licentious crowd." Now a few were starting to feel a bit insulted, but a select few were getting a bit concerned with where she was going with this, "Please tell me, Sun Child, why're you still standing there? Why your skylight eyes still drown my soul?" She wrapped her arms around her slim frame, "I feel you. I see you! The sun caught in your golden hair, is blazing in me out of all control!"

Now people were openly concerned with how the girl was acting, not quite caring anymore about the reenactment as she took a step back and her eyes widened a bit. "Like fire! Hellfire! This fire in my skin." The girl pulled out a piece of orange cloth stained with some blood and caressed it with her cheek, eyes beginning to water, "Is turning me to sin."

Just as she went silent, she slumped onto her knees, cloth still in her hands. But what surprised the onlookers was when a silent flash of lightning momentarily blinded them, and a seal array suddenly appeared underneath the model Kyubi, which started moving on its own. The girl's next words ensured that everyone watching were starting to feel fear towards her. No one really noticed the sky growing darker with thunderclouds in response to her actions.

"Its not my fault! I'm not to blame! Kyubi, it's my father! He's the one who set this flame." She cried in anger and fear, gesturing out to the crowd, coincidentally where said man was watching, "It's not my fault, if men like him, are more a monster than a man!"

With that, the strange sight became even stranger, when the model fox roared and energy started pouring into the seal beneath it. The girl then tucked the bloodied cloth into her chest before taking out a knife and cutting her hand with it.

"Forgive me, Sun Child. All you ever did was care, even for this village of fools." She threw the dripping blood at the seal, causing it to glow as well as the knife. "But look at what they've done to you! Justice needs to be served! This crime can not be allowed to stay."

Just then, a few people came up on the stage, careful to stay far enough away to not spook her. One of them, a woman wearing a masking designed like a cat, spoke in a soft voice to show she wasn't a threat.

"Haruno Sakura." The name seemed to calm the girl down enough to continue, "We ask that you come with us. You need help."

The last three words she spoke sparked a response from the pinked haired girl, officially identified as Sakura, but it wasn't the response that the woman wanted.

"I...need help? Where was that help when my father destroyed the sun? I don't care what makes him pay," she turned an angry face to the woman, "even if I have to burn down Konoha to do it!"

"Hellfire. Darkfire. Now daddy, it's your turn. Your actions are dire. To pay, you will burn!" Sakura then caught everyone off guard by turning the knife in her hand, and stabbing both the cloth and her chest with enough force to stagger back into the seal array. Falling to her hands for a bit, the seal started moving up onto her, transferring the accumulated energy into the girl's body.

As the seal finished, the energy started making visible changes to Sakura's body. Her fingers grew claws as her arms developed feathers, while her feet gained an extra appendage before doing similar to her fingers. Her hair grew and filled out, stopping at the small of her back like a mane of sorts, while it and her skin took on darker shades of red. The final changes was in her face, when her eyes gained a bit of a narrow slant and slit pupils, her nose shrunk a bit and making it harder to notice, while her canines became fangs. A fiery aura seemed to draw all other lights into it except the natural light coming the the thunderbolts over head that were by now plain as day, intensifying as she started floating up above the crowd. All the while, she sang one last time.

"Kami have mercy on him. Kami have mercy on me. But for his crime...he...will...BURN!"

As Sakura's show went on, no one noticed when a dirty-blonde woman quickly made her way away from the crowd and to a fence separated by an over hang sign, with a barn a little ways in beyond it. Running into the barn, she came up to a pretty large horse in one of the stalls.

"Big Mac." she said, huffing a bit from exertion and anxiety as she got closer, "I need your help. My daughter's gone insane, and the entirety of Konoha is at risk."

That seemed to rile up the horse, but thankfully not enough to make the woman's attempt to get on futile.

"We need to get Sunset, he's the only one who can talk sense into her." she explained as she finally got on, having no time to put anything such as a saddle on the horse. Just in time, too, seeing as that was when Big Mac rushed on out of there, heading for the village gates to find the one known as Sunset.

However, the gallop out of the village quickly became a chase as fiery feathers started raining down after them that turned into small explosions that somehow sprouted thorny vines that burned the few that touched them. The woman held on for dear life as the horse ran, seeing the feathers in their wake and hearing the occasional cry of panic from the villagers back near Sakura, as well as the laughter from said girl. Tears flew from her eyes as she imagined the horror that her daughter was unleashing on their home in search of her father.

Sakura. She thought in sadness at what Sakura had willingly become. I sure hope that Sunset can help set things right. I don't want to lose you as well, my dear child.

Big Mac just crossed the gates as the last of the feathers fell, fully ensnaring Konoha in a thorny prison as Sakura's voice echoed out into the night.

"If Haruno Fumihiro isn't dead by dawn, and by my hands, your lives will be forfeit until that happens."

Why exactly do I have this feeling that something is very wrong with Sakura right now? Sunset, a boy with a slight golden tan to his shirtless chest and red hair with violet highlights spread throughout, wondered.

Even though it was night in a village somewhat situated between Konoha and the Capitol, he couldn't sleep, unlike his primary traveling companion the Hokage. The old man was sound asleep in the room next door, while parts of their escorting guard weren't to keep an eye out. So there wasn't much for the boy to do at that moment but think back to a few old memories, such as the when he snapped at Sakura after getting out of the hospital.

After that incident. He thought before quickly shaking his head, not wanting to think about the moment that destroyed his former self and created he and his brothers. Let alone how he acted afterwards, to what he was truly starting to realize was just Sakura trying to apologize for being the bait. Not like I originally thought. Sigh, I just hope I can apologize in time.

It was at that moment when he heard the faint sound of Big Macintosh, his farming brother's horse, coming closer at a fast pace. He looked out the room window to just see said horse closing in, but instead of any of his siblings, it was a woman he easily recognized in the darkness.

"Haruno Mebuki?" he exclaimed in wonder, "What's she want?"

Pulling on a shirt, he jumped out the window to intercept the pair.

Pulling up near the boy, Mebuki saw him and started talking, although her early upheaval left her pretty tired. "Sunset! It's Sakura."

Sunset quirked an eyebrow at both the coincidence and the woman's state. "What's wrong?"

"She's gone insane." Mebuki got out as she was helped down, "She's taken Konoha captive, and will start killing if she doesn't personally kill her father by dawn. She was saying something about him destroying the sun as well."

By then, the Hokage was awake and moving to them, but they all were shocked at what they had just heard from her lips. Sakura was holding Konoha hostage?! But it struck Sunset worst of all, realizing just what was the reason behind it all.

"It's all my fault." Sunset muttered out aloud, catching everyone's attention.

"What're you talking about, Sun?" asked the Hokage, before the boy started running off.
Sunset stuck to just simply shouting while running off. "She means Naruto!"

He only had until dawn to try and fix things, so he needed to hurry and get back to Konoha before then.

I just hope that the others can hold her off long enough. Otherwise, even for Sakura, it'll be too late. So I better not hear the drums of war!

That's right, this starts off with Sakura being insane, but there is a solid reason behind it. Which will be explained next chapter, but I won't be going into any real detail beyond a summary to give you an idea of what happened. Just note that it involved Naruto and Sakura, but on separate fronts.

Also, for the record, her transformed state looks like Bakugan's Ventus Harpus (roughly).

As for Sunset and his mentioned brothers, they are basically the full male versions of the Mane Six, with Twilight being fused with Sunset to create Sunset Sparkle. That's mainly to help translate Twilight into a male, but there's also how they came to be as well.

So nothing like 'Rari (Male Rarity) wears make up and dresses' or really any of them. Closest will be more 'Avatar the Last Airbender Sokka face paint' in comparison. Same can't be quite said for things such as simple shopping, though.

Here are their names so far:

Sparkle Sunset (Twilight + Sunset)

Rari/Rare (Rare's in English)

Apple Jack (Split name to make Apple the family name)

'Rainbow' Dash ('Rainbow' is a title instead of a name)

Fluttershy (not sure if it's like this in canon, but his is centered around things like 'The Butterfly Effect,' especially considering The Stare.)

Pinkie Pie (no real difference for that name, while 'Pinkamena Diane Pie' doesn't exist)

As for professions/abilities, just really add 'Shinobi' to Sunset and 'Chakra' to the rest. Otherwise, same as canon.

Until next time. Please let me know what you think.