Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto or A Song of Ice and Fire. They belong to their respective author.
Warnings : Cuss words and a lemon at the end of the chapter. This is rated M for a reason. If you are not of legal age, you can skip this part, as it does not impact the story.
Summary : Naruto had many names : the pride of the Lannisters, the bastard child of Tywin, the prodigy. One thing is certain; he will do his utmost to uphold the name of his prestigious House. The Seven Kingdoms shall hear him roar!
Welcome to the second chapter of Hear me Roar! I hope that I didn't bore you too much with the lengthy first chapter, but it was needed to lay some solid groundwork upon which I shall build the story. This one will be much shorter and shall explain a lot about Naruto's past, upbringing and character development. Then, without further ado…
One of my favorite quotes: "If you think that your story is great, it is probably shitty. And you're a bad writer to think so."
(Hear me Roar! – The very first lesson)
Naruto bounced on his chair as he waited for his father to finish his work. He was lying if he said that he wasn't nervous about the topic of today's lesson. It was his first lesson with his father. Sure, there had been a few meisters that taught him some boring subject, but it didn't get through his rock hard head. As Jaime said, and he hated the man for that, there was a large gulf between his two ears that was filled only with gaz.
Tywin finished signing a paper, and set down his feather quill. He folded his fingers and laid his head on them as he gazed stoically at his youngest son. Naruto fidgeted nervously at being the recipient of such a look. After a few long minutes of Tywin simply assessing the blond, he spoke in a serious tone,
"You are a disgrace." The words were spoken harshly, and what hurt the young boy the most was that he was utterly convinced. Like he was stating some obvious truth.
"You do not hold yourself with the poise of a Lannister. You are a slow, stupid child with an ego the size of the moon, and no skill to back it off." He spat.
Naruto wanted to cry. Tears brimmed in his eyes, but he refused to indulge in self-pity. He would remain strong in front of the man he looked up to.
"However, you are my son." Tywin said, and some of the ice melted from his tone, "And you are still young. You are rough as call, but given the right push, you can become one of the finest diamonds of the kingdoms."
Naruto's chest burned with joy at his father's kind words, earlier bitterness forgotten.
Tywin got up from his chair, and marched toward the window of his office, Naruto in tow. He gazed upon the city of Casterly Rock, his eyes missing none of the details of the lively city.
"Tell me. When you look at the city, what do you see?" Tywin asked sternly.
Naruto looked confused for a second, and responded unsurely, "I see people. Merchants and soldiers. It is very peaceful."
Tywin nodded. "That is true, although this is a partial answer at best. What I see are countless families, looking up to us Lannisters for guidance. I see soldiers willing to lay their lives to protect the town. I see merchants hoping that the laws we pass are fair and can help them in their businesses. I see respect and I see fear, as I exterminated ruthlessly uprisings. Do you understand what I mean?"
Naruto shook his head.
"You must look beyond what is obvious. You must not only see what's in front of you, you also have to have a look at the bigger picture. What makes people act the way they do? What is their history? What is their aim, and how do they want to achieve it. You must look underneath the underneath."
Naruto nodded. He could see what he meant now. It would be hard, but he would manage to do so.
'I won't let you down, that's the promise of a lifetime!' He vowed internally.
Tywin got back to his desk and sat down, Naruto mimicking it a moment later.
"Now, time for a history lesson." Naruto winced but seeing Tywin disapproving look quickly schooled his features.
"What is the sigil of our House, and the motto?"
That was an easy question, "A golden lion in a field of crimson. The motto is 'Hear me Roar!'"
Tywin nodded. "House Stark?"
"A grey direwolf running across a field of white. Motto is 'Winter is coming'"
"House Greyjoy?"
Now Naruto had to stop a few seconds to think. "A… yellow kraken on a blue sea?" He asked hesitantly.
"No, though close call."
"In a black field! Motto is 'We do not sow'" He answered confidently.
A tiny smile stretched Tywin's lips. Good, he had learned. Now time to up the game.
"House Tyrell?"
It took him a few minutes to answer, "A golden rose on a green field. Their motto is 'Growing strong' I believe."
"House Cargyll?" Tywin smirked internally at the flabbergasted look of his son. This wasn't fair, he knew.
Naruto surprised him when he threw him a smirked and answered without any hesitation, "A golden goose on a red and black stripped field. The motto is 'Staying true'"
Tywin was impressed. Not many knew of their sigil, as the House was extinct.
"What is the direction of the stripes? Vertical or horizontal?"
Naruto had absolutely no idea. He took a shot in the dark, "Vertical?"
Tywin shook his head. "Then vertical."
Tywin shook his head again. "It's diagonal."
Naruto pointed a finger at him, "That's cheating!"
Tywin got up and walked to the door. Pulling it open, he cast a glance at Naruto over his shoulder. "Second lesson for today. People do not always play by the rules. You'd do well to remember that."
With these parting words, he left, leaving Naruto to mull on the two lessons he had learned today.
(Hear me Roar! – Learning about the chemicals)
"Boooring." Naruto complained. Chemistry was truly a boring subject. Couldn't he learn something cooler, like a secret sword style, instead of learning about plants of all things?
"Now, now, young man," Grand meister Clover admonished, "Chemistry might not be the most interesting of subjects, but it is essential to have a rudimentary formation in the art in order to become a respectable Lord. A Lord is someone well-versed in many subjects, and a basic education in Chemistry is one of the components of a true well-rounded learned man."
Seeing Naruto's vacant look, he sighed and took out a vial from his pants pocket.
"Do you know what it is?" He asked genially.
Naruto shook his head. Finally, the vacant look had subsided, leaving burning curiosity in its wake.
"This is the deadliest substance in the world. It is Botulium toxin. A hundred Nano grams of this toxin is enough to kill a human adult." He carefully took away the flacon as he had gained Naruto's undivided attention.
"Do you see the interest in studying chemistry? You will know of the most powerful poisons, and how to brew the antidote to them. A true master of the craft is said to be able to make a poison and a healing salve with any herb or plan he encounters."
Naruto studied the art with a renewed vigor.
(Hear me Roar! Inte-what?)
"Integrol?" Naruto asked in a confused tone of voice.
"Integral. Anintegralis defined informally to be the signed area of the region in the xy-plane bounded by the graph of f, the x-axis, and the vertical lines x = a and x = b, such that area above the x-axis adds to the total, and that below the x-axis subtracts from the total."
"Do you even speak our tongue?" Naruto asked in disbelief.
Clover heaved a deep sigh. It was going to be a long night.
"Tell you what," Grand meister Clover whispered mischievously, "If you can grasp the concept of an integral this week, there will be no more chemistry lesson for two weeks."
"You got that, old man!" Naruto whooped while Clover twitched at being called old. "I'll have it down in no time!"
(Hear me Roar! – Two years later)
Naruto's knowledge in all the fields he had to learn had grown by leaps and bounds. It was a spectacular thing really. Once the boy set out to learn something, he would not rest until he had learnt it.
"I've been thinking about something, Grand meister Clover." Yes, he had come a long way from the boy calling him 'old man'.
"What is it, my young Lord?" Clover asked.
"Well, about the integral. Wouldn't it be easier to calculate the sum of the sub-rectangles comprised in the integral?"
Clover scratched his chin, "It is indeed a solution, but Cromwell proved-"
"That such a solution is suboptimal, as it takes two cycle of calculus to reach a satisfactory result. However we could apply the method of Barriston-Smith, coupled with the Matheus property on rectangles."
This was an interesting take on calculating it. One he had never thought about. Giving it some thought, he nodded. "That is true, it would tremendously simplify the equation. However, using Barriston-Smith's method leaves us with a cubic equation."
"Which can easily be solved by Cardano's method. But let's take it a bit further. Applying Clark's second form leaves us with the simplified equation, x² + ln(x) minus cubic root of the cubic equation yields the result. Barriston-Smith's method clearly states that in a definite set, we can replace the cubic root by the complex matrix of the Turringan State."
Now Clover was feeling a little lost. Some of it had truth, but he couldn't quite grasp what the young genius said.
"Replacing the complex number by its second form, leaving us exponential of I times alpha, minus beta squared, whose cubic root leaves alpha responsive to beta gamma in the scope of epsilon. We could find a gamma whose i equals the root of beta. However we still have to find alpha. It is quite simple, as it is equal to tan of sigma upon epsilon squared."
"Naruto…" Clover's weak voice was lost on the math-possessed child.
"Alpha beta times gamma yields epsilon on theta's field of delta. Theta gamma is obviously epsilon's pendant in delta, so a minus b equals beta time gamma divided by epsilon. A = b + beta time gamma divided by epsilon. So angle alpha equals tangent of (b + beta gamma on epsilon), and the area of the integral equals of atan of (b + beta gamma / epsilon), right?"
Clover could only nod weakly, feeling completely lost in the sea of complex theorems, some of which he had never heard, and abstract letters floating in a confusing miasma.
Naruto beamed at the Grand Master's answer and proceeded to write his finding on the sheet of paper.
'The divine forgive me,' Clover thought, 'what monstrosity have I unleashed?'
It was truly ridiculous to see a boy, merely a quarter of his age, juggling complex and abstract theorems with the same ease a clown juggles balls with.
Naruto's skills as a writer had been abysmal at best. It had been a torture to decipher the scrawl he had the gall to call letters. Now though, it was neat calligraphy. He wrote with a flourish befitting someone of his stature.
He could not wait to see what the boy would amount to. Naruto could well revolutionize the way of thinking of the world, if his brilliant theory of today was anything to go by.
The future would indeed yield great results, and he only hoped that he would live long enough to see the fruits the great tree called life would bear.
(Hear me Roar! Naruto the teacher?)
Clover had prepared a very thorough quiz for his favorite student. It was designed to test the depth of his knowledge, and to push him to his very limits.
Naruto was ecstatic and couldn't wait to show the old man how much he had progressed in the last two years.
The time limit was four hours. The quiz covered History, Politics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Etiquette.
The timer went off and he quickly looked at the sheet of paper, determination to prove himself burning brightly in his sky blue eyes.
What is the solution of the equation x² + 2x + 4 = 0?
Given the matrix A = (4 2 10), give the solution of tA x A.
Given f(x) = f(x1, x2) = (x1 – x2; 2x1 + x2), prove the linear application f(ay + bz) = af(y) + bf(z).
His eyes skimmed the mathematics section, occasionally scribbling notes beside the exercise.
It took him three hours to finish it, and he was confident that in the end he had done a good job at answering them.
Now he just had to wait for the results.
Two days later –
Grand meister Clover could not believe his eyes. He knew that his pupil was talented, but this was borderline ridiculous! He had answered every question thoroughly, sometime pointing out facts that the meister did not even know about. Who knew that before being a golden goose, House Cargyll's sigil was a golden stag? They had to change it when House Baratheon laid claim to it.
The questions had been easy at first, then growing increasingly difficult; so much that it even took him some work to answer two or three of them.
The middle-aged man knocked on his Lord's door. Waiting the customary permission to intrude, he entered the office once it was uttered.
He bowed deeply and gave the results to Tywin Lannister. The man's eyes skimmed over some answers, looking more and more impressed with each correct answer.
Finally he eyed his son's score and couldn't stop his eyebrows from rising skyward. He had indeed come a long way from the idiot he had been.
"My Lord, if I may, I have a suggestion for young Naruto. We could enroll him at the academy as an assistant teacher. He knows his lessons very well and could explain it to the knuckleheads there. It takes one to teach his own."
Tywin carefully considered it. It was something unseen to see one so young teach. The boy was barely ten. However, it would help him mature immensely. There was also the fact that he was of noble blood. It would however be a great boon to Naruto's reputation.
"Agreed. However, he will not be teaching commoners. He will teach the sons of noblemen."
(Hear me Roar! – Naruto's classroom)
When professor Iruka of House Dolphin heard that there would be an assistant teacher, he was relieved. He had had enough of teaching lazy, knucklehead and hormonal teenagers. Really, what were their parents teaching these days? One did not even know what a fractional number was, for the divine's sake!
The scarred professor was torn out of his musings by soft rapping on the wooden door. At his signal, the door slid open with a loud creak and in stepped a blond midget, for lack of a better word.
"Is this professor Iruka's classroom?"
Iruka nodded but felt the need to point out, "The elementary school is on the other wing of the school, I'm afraid you got the location wrong."
A vein throbbed on his temple, and the blond had to pinch the bridge of his nose to stop an incoming headache.
"My name is Naruto Lannister. I will be the assistant teacher. Nice to meet you all." He bowed twice.
Silence engulfed the classroom. Then a snicker was heard. Two, three. Faster than you knew, the whole class was erupting in laughter.
"Is this a joke?" one of them called, "the midget can't be serious!"
His classmate elbowed him sharply, "Silence you fool. This is Lord Tywin's soon. You do not want to face his wrath." This was enough to quell any contestation.
"Grand Master Clover granted me full access to the grading, so I'll be asking a few question which may, or may not, raise your grades. Now, can you tell me the ten uses of dragon's blood? If it is not well-known, you will be awarded more points."
A few hands shot in the air, glee evident on their face at the prospect of gaining a few easy points.
"It can cause dragonblight when absorbed."
"Very good. One point." He scribbled something on a paper. The guy looked disappointed. Only one point?
"It can also cure the red disease."
"Two point for Miss Harrow." He scribbled another answer.
"Mixed with asphodel, it is a potent reagent of the mixture known as the Death concoction."
"Oh, you know about that one? Ten points to Mister Humphrey."
The boy whooped as he heard the amount of points he had gained. Ten points, neat!
"It can also be exchanged in the DragonHall for a hundred gold coins!"
"While it is true that one of the dragon's body part can be used this way, it isn't the dragon's blood, but his claws. Minus ten point, Mister Humphrey." He crossed the points he had given him.
"What! That's totally unfair!" He protested.
"Life is unfair, so suck it up and do try to come up with correct answers next time."
Needless to say, a lot of hands shot down. When he saw that nobody was willing to give an answer, for fear of getting it wrong and losing points, he gave the rest of the uses. Some of the students had never heard of them, and were impressed by the blond's knowledge. The boy really knew his stuff.
"And a bonus question. What's the current rate of exchange for 10 grams of Liquid Panacea? Give it your best shot!" When he saw no hand rising, he frowned and quickly added. "No point will be deducted if your answer incorrect."
A flurry of hands shot in the air.
"Twenty pounds of gold!"
"Three Ageless Rubies!"
"A hundred basic diamonds!"
And so on and so forth. Then the good answer came.
"About a hundred pounds of pure diamond from House Greyjoy's mines."
Naruto whistled, clearly impressed. "You are correct, Mister Humphrey. You never cease to amaze me. It shouldn't be surprising, though, as your family has close ties with the merchant district. Alright, you shall be exempt from handing your report next week."
Jealous glances were cast his way, but he only smirked. It was their fault for being so damn ignorant.
"To the rest of the class, you will have to give me a detailed report on how to extract Botulium Toxin. Those who fail to do so shall receive a zero. Have a good day."
He left the room, singing merrily the air of the Rains of Castamere as the students groaned and noted the assignment for next week.
(Hear me Roar! Chapter 2, the end!)
And that concludes chapter two. A lot shorter than the previous one, ain't it? So Naruto is a teacher… He won't be teaching for long, only a few months.
Naruto learning the two most important lessons of his relatively short life. Look underneath the underneath, and life's unfair, so suck it up!
Next chapter shall deal with the King's procession 's arrival and Naruto's enrollment in the Kingsguard.
A lot of shady deals will also be concluded inside shady alcoves, but that is for next time. Meanwhile I thank you for reading this, and see you next time!
Of, and if you have a request, don't hesitate to put it forward. I may or may not integrate with the story, but if it does not contradict what I have in mind for the story, it should be alright.
Also, on another note, there shall be not Harem and absolutely no bashing. Not even Joffrey bashing –gasps-. I find it childish in the extreme and not worthy of figuring in any story. And Harems are just… Well, Naruto might have the courage of a donkey to satisfy multiple spouses, I still find it a bit childish and only a mere phantasm. It works well in certain anime, like Love Hina, but with Naruto… just no.
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