AN: Life is keeping me busy, but I really enjoy writing this story, so at least the motivation is high :)
Chapter 5
Revelation
With Samui
She didn't have high expectations for this tourney, the last one she attended was at Casterly Rock, over half a year ago, where her grandfather Tywin held a tourney to celebrate Joffrey's name day, it was held in Lannistport and back then Ser Loras Tyrell won and had named her his Queen of Love and Beauty.
It was a worthless crown though, she would never refuse it, she was honored of course and all through her childhood and still she was called a great beauty and she was the eldest unmarried princess, she was the obvious choice to give the crown to, but Samui knew Loras crown and charm as hollow, she had heard the rumors about him and her uncle Renly and she had observed how they looked at each other, Ser Loras didn't give her the crown because he found her attractive, but because she was an obvious choice.
When Naruto unseated Ser Loras in the final joust, the people cheered, her father had stood up so abruptly, he tilted his seat back over, his loud cheering made her wish to plug her ears and then she had to watch as Naruto made her way closer to the stands and give the crown to a woman. She wanted it, she couldn't deny it, she wanted the crown, not the honor or glory of receiving it, she only wanted it because it would come from Naruto.
She didn't believe she would receive though, any other man who would have won, would have instantly handed it over to her, even now she could feel the eyes of men upon her, wanting and desiring her, she once confessed feeling those eyes to her mother, who had given her a knowing look and told her that she will get used to them in time.
This was different though, for the first time, she wanted a pair of eyes to gaze upon her with lust and desire and she wanted Naruto to do that. A small part of her knew it was wrong, she still remembered the trembling crying boy she had kissed goodbye, as he set sail for Winterfell and when they came to take him back, the crying cute boy was dead and instead she had laid her eyes upon the most handsome man she had ever seen.
The long stand with single women, from both great and smaller houses, leaned forward and yelled his name, "Naruto, oh sweet prince Naruto!" It was a desperate attempt to get his affection and attention and it didn't work as Naruto in his armor kept riding past them, until he came to a stop, her eyes falling on his beautiful form.
With the crown on the tip of the lance he rose it up high and for just a moment her heart fluttered with hope, but it wasn't meant to be, instead the crown went for her handmaiden Alys, she was disappointed, but she understood, the crown represented a lady whose beauty had captivated him and a desire of courtship, when a married man would win the crown would always go to his wife, with the rare example being Prince Rhaegar. The only times giving the crown to a member of family could be considered normal, would be in her uncle's case, when a man couldn't marry.
"It would be the greatest honor, your grace." Samui could hear, Alys voice tremble, with shock and excitement as she took the crown from the tip of the lance and slowly placed it upon her own head, without a doubt she would be the center of attention at tonight's feast. Naruto gave a small bow last bow to the crowd from atop his steed, before he rode down the list, a small break would take place before they moved on to the melee.
"Samui, who is that girl, she's yours isn't she?" The voice that had begun speaking to her belonged to her father and Samui had to grit her teeth, if he wanted to know who she was, he could ask her himself, she still hadn't forgiven him for the one time he said she resembled a Targaeryen whore, due to her platinum blonde hair.
Still, she held in her distain and talked to him, not as her father, but as her king. "It's Alys Karastark, she's my handmaiden and she came back with us from the North." Samui spoke keeping her tone polite.
"Argh, Alys of course, I did think I recognized her, I got to remember that for later." Samui felt slightly worried at her father's words, what exactly was he thinking?
"Pfft, if that level of jousting is what's needed, I could have won it myself." Samui wasn't surprised, when she could hear her big brother Joffrey being green with envy, she had noticed how his face distorted, when the commoners and nobles had begun cheering Naruto's name.
"You will keep your mouth shut boy and wish that you one day will become half the man your little brother is." Robert held nothing back, as he was still filled with pride for his second son, he would not take any slandering of him at the moment.
For just a moment Joffrey looked like he wanted to bark back, but when he saw his father's angry glare, he suddenly found his own feet more interesting.
The only one who wasn't with them was poor Tommen, possibly for the best, Cersei believed that while Myrcella was old enough to go, Tommen wasn't, the poor boy had been crying, but then again, a man did die yesterday, which did fill her with relief that Tommen wasn't here to see it.
"Come on children, we must go and congratulate, your brother." Cersei spoke as she stood up, the other following after her.
With Naruto
"Congratulations your grace,"
"Hahaha thank you." He was getting annoyed at this point, he participated in the tourney, because it would be fun and a way for him to test his skills, he didn't sign up for all the ass kissing that would come after winning.
"Your grace!" Another voice called out and Naruto was about to roll his eyes and turn his head and put on a fake smile but was pleasantly surprised when he saw Ser Loras, quickly approaching him.
"Ser Loras, it was a grand finale, hope there's no hard feeling between us. "
"Of course, not your grace, you were most magnificent, and I just wanted to congratulate you." Loras spoke, with a charming glance, while his eyes worked over Naruto's body.
Naruto was clearly taken a bit back, by Loras high praise. "Oh, thank you, you were great yourself, shall you be returning to Highgarden after the day?"
"I see no rush in returning home, no I think I shall stay in King's landing for a few days, who knows perhaps we could get to know each other a bit better those days?" Loras suggested, his charming smile never dropping.
"SEVEN FUCKING HELLS HE'S HITTING ON ME!" Naruto's thoughts were raising, of course he too had heard the rumors over the feast last night, Naruto wasn't one for court intrigue, but he had overheard those rumors and as he watched Renly and Loras last night, he was pretty sure they were right.
"Ah, well if you're looking for a sparring partner, I might be able to set off some time, but I'm being kept pretty busy as it already is." Naruto spoke, it was a small white lie, somedays he did have meetings with nobles and small council meetings that would eat up his time, but for the most part, he had lots of free time. He was simply trying to gently turn Loras down.
Before Loras could come with his next idea another voice interrupted. "Big brother!" The voice yelled and Naruto instantly felt his heart swell with love and gratitude for Myrcella for taking him away from Ser Loras.
"Sorry, Ser Loras, let's pick this up another time, family calls."
"Of course, your grace."
Having said goodbye, he turned around and Saw Myrcella come running to him, holding up the bottom of her silky dress, to not get it muddy at the bottom. "Ooh, if it isn't my favorite little sister." Naruto said playfully as he easily scooped her up into his arms.
Myrcella looked at him with a bright smile, that could melt any man's heart, "you were amazing, you won the joust, father kept on yelling about you to all the other lords, mother and big sis also said you were amazing, Joffrey disagreed with them and then dad got angry at him!" Myrcella told him eagerly, a small chuckle escaped Naruto's mouth.
"Really, well if you had fun then it's good enough for me." Naruto responded, while watching as his mother and Samui approached.
"And here I was looking forward, to being crowned two tourneys in a row." Samui spoke first. Her tone was playful, but Naruto took it a bit more seriously, "apologies sweet sister, I did consider it, but decided to go with the safer route, I'm sure you can understand the pressure, well knowing what happened the last time a prince crowned a Queen of love and Beauty." Naruto responded.
"It wasn't a bad decision my cub, but your father might take it a bit too far, tell me are you honestly interested in her?" His mother asked him, her tone more serious and both Myrcella and Samui also fixed him an intense look while waiting for his answer.
"Well, I'm not uninterested." Naruto admitted. Alys was beautiful and she was from a powerful house which could count themselves among the five strongest bannermen to the Starks, which consisted of the Karstarks, Boltons, Manderlys, Umbers and the Reeds.
"Don't worry about it, you will get plenty of time before you have to make a choice, both of you." Cersei spoke, also talking to Samui, who had been up debate as to who she will marry, as she had already reached an age more than suitable for marriage.
Plenty of men were suitable for Samui, some of the suggestions that had been brought up were. Edmure Tully, Quentyn Martell, Willas Tyrell and Robb Stark. Though Samui had simply shrugged her shoulder when anyone of them were mentioned.
Robert and Cersei having fought a few times over the subject, with Cersei insisting that Samui could take as long as she would want and never be forced into a marriage, something Cersei herself had experienced and would never want her daughters to go through.
Naruto spent the next small hour along with his family or at least the feminine part of the family, as Robert and Joffrey were no places to be seen, which suited Naruto just fine, returning to his tent her found guards outside waiting for him, they were carrying his winnings from the joust.
40.000 gold dragons, money wasn't really something Naruto lacked, if he needed anything all he ever had to do was ask his mother, but this was an enormous fortune to say the least and this did open a few possibilities to buy things around his mother, which may have a few advantages.
They were in a chest, filled to the brim with the loose coins laying inside, with Naruto having it sent to his room.
Then it finally became time for the melee, the rules being very simple that if you got knocked down, you were out, participants would enter the arena from two different entrances across the field, Naruto already looking around to see if anyone of note was taking part on his end.
Looks like the big event was the joust and the melee was just the side attraction, still his eyes did catch a few notable sigils on some of shields, mainly the grapes from the Arbor, and the bridge from the Twins, to mention a few.
The low sound of whispering filled the entrances before the gates opened up and they began taking the stage, it was a common thing, small temporary alliances being formed, the weaker ones grouping up to help each other.
When Gregor Clegane was kicked out of the city, many desperate last minute sign ups was made to the melee, understandable a lot of people had kept away from the chance of meeting the mountain's sword.
He could feel their gaze burning into his neck, obviously, he was going to be the main target of many others, having already won the melee he was seen as the biggest threat, not that he cared, win or lose he had already reached his objective, he had won and tonight he was going to enjoy the company of Obara, Nymeria and Tyene once more, a small smile spread on his lips behind his visor, already tired and sore from the joust, he really did look forward to tonight.
Then the horn blew, and swords were unsheathe, to say the ensuing show was a slaughter, would be an understatement, a little over 70 men took part in the melee and it took less than 10 minutes to sort out the weaklings, with only five men being left
Naruto Baratheon.
Thoros of Myr.
Jason Mallister.
Cortnay Penrose.
Parmen Crane.
The only one among them that Naruto didn't recognize would be the last man, he did recognize the five cranes as being a lesser house from the Reach, but as for his skills, Naruto wasn't sure.
Thoros was quite famous in King's landing and greatly admired by his father Robert, for having taken part in the Greyjoy rebellion and being one of the first to charge into the battle with a sword lit by fire, an amazing sight that Naruto was currently experiencing as the flaming sword met his shield.
Jason Mallister was the only other person except for Naruto that had taken part in the joust, he had performed admirably, but had been unseated by the hound in one of the earlier bouts. He was by far the man Naruto feared most in the melee.
Cortnay Penrose, like the other were an experienced fighter in his late thirties, he was serving as the master-of-arms at Storm's End, he was also the man in charge of raising Naruto's bastard brother Edric Storm, a boy so rarely bought up that Naruto would sometimes forget about his existence.
Finally, Parmen Crane, the youngest except for Naruto, from a minor house, the man was handling a sword quite well and held a firm stance, as he took a powerful blow from Lord Jason without falling to the ground.
"You aren't paying attention, your grace!" Thoros bellowed as he slammed his plain shield against Naruto's torso. Making Naruto take a few quick paced steps backwards. Still Naruto refused to fall to his back just yet, he had to admit this was much more his style, on the ground with a sword in hand, did beat that fancy lance on horseback.
"It's an honor to see that flaming sword of yours, exactly how does it work?" Naruto asked as another clang was heard, when their swords collided.
"A blessing from the lord of light, the one true god, you interested?" Thoros asked, while Naruto jumped back avoiding a leg sweep.
"Oh, so you're a missionary now, well if I convert will I get a flaming sword too? Might have to talk to the high septon about membership benefits." Naruto joked, as he stomped down on one of Thoros feet while pushing his body up hard against the old warrior priest, sending the man back on his ass in the mud.
By the time Thoros had fallen, he saw Parmen Crane had been sent into the mud as well, leaving only Cortnay Penrose and Jason Mallister, both seemingly ignored the prince as they were already engaged in the own fight.
Naruto sheathed his sword, he heard the audience talk wondering what he had planned and then Naruto began running towards the two elder fighters in a full sprint, both men barely got to see the flash out of the corner of their eyes before it was too late.
Naruto had tackled them both down around the waist, his arms spread wide as he grabbed both their waist powerfully and for just a moment the audience could see Naruto pick up both the armored elderly knights, before he leaned down and slammed both of them back into the ground on their sides.
Naruto wasn't sure but, being declared the winner once more felt lack luster, there was no satisfaction, most likely because the most skilled fighters like Ser Barristan wasn't participating, maybe it was weird, but he missed getting knocked to his ass.
One more Naruto listened to the applause he received, a small smile did tug on his lips, when he could hear his father laugh and cheer louder than any other, though his eyes lingered more on his sister Samui and on his mother, hoping he had put on an impressive display.
Once more Naruto got paid, beginning to feel disgusted, by the sheer amount of money he was racking up, it just felt wrong for one man to have so much coin, still he accepted it and will find better use for it later, moving to his tent he could finally take his armor off for good, the only thing left was the archery, which he was more than happy to participate in, easily the most relaxing out of all the games.
Moving towards the grounds, Naruto heard a deep voice behind. "You've been most impressive my prince, hopefully you wouldn't be so cruel as to steal all the winnings." Turning around Naruto saw a man with skin so dark he had to be a native of the summer Isles, it was the so called beggar prince Jalabhar Xho.
"The glory is more important for me. I'm not exactly shot on gold dragons at the moment." Naruto spoke, there was a certain cockiness in his voice, as he fixed the summer Islander a small smirk.
"Yes, I've noticed, you know with 60.000 gold dragons you could afford to hire the golden company 5 times over." Jalahbar spoke and Naruto rolled his eyes, of course he would speak of mercenary, the man still wanted the throne that he claims was stolen from him and the golden company was easily the largest sellsword company in the world.
"Is that so, well if the need should ever arise to hire the golden company five times, I will make sure to keep that in mind." Naruto spoke, before his name was called to the field.
The archery was a nice change of pace, with most getting eliminated pretty early, a few people did remain when the targets reached 100 paces, when Jalabhar Xho missed his target, Naruto got quite surprised not believing a man with such a dark skin tone could turn so red. It must have been quite embarrassing, Archery was a beloved sport on the Summer Isles and their bows were made by heartwood, which supposedly would always help their arrows find their marks.
Naruto was among the final three, along with a commoner he didn't know, called Anguy, still the man was quite impressive and for someone without credit to his name, he did manage to impress quite a lot of nobles, the last finalist was Balon Swann, the second son of Gulian Swann a powerful bannerman from the Stormlands.
When the target got moved again, it did become slightly more difficult and Naruto did begin having fun, as this turned out to be the most difficult challenge since jousting with Loras, at 125 paces, they had to begin aiming further upwards as the arrow would begin sinking before it reached it's target along with beginning to take wind resistance into greater account.
Once more all three men hit the target, but Ser Balon Swann lost as his arrow didn't hit the bullseye unlike Naruto's and Anguy's.
Another two arrows were sent flying, Naruto once more hit the bullseye and the next arrow hit the green circle around the bullseye, much to his irritation, then it was Anguy's turn, his second arrow hit the bullseye and if his third arrow would do so as well, he would win.
"Sorry, your grace, a pity so close to taking all three games and falling just short." Anguy spoke with a small smirk, Naruto didn't reply he simply gestured for Anguy to take the shot and get it over with. When the last arrow of the tourney was released breaths were held, but Naruto saw it, the arrow was perfect and was going straight for the other two.
In fact the arrow Anguy shot was too perfect, there were legends in archery contest about some archer managing to split the previous shot arrows, but that was done in the first rounds, when the arrow would sail through the air at fast speed, Anguy's arrow was amazing, perfect even and hit the other arrow, but after traveling through the air it lacked the power to imbued itself and simply bounced off the other arrow.
"…"
"I lost, but I won?" Naruto realized as he looked over the target, Anguy had been the better archer, he couldn't deny that, but it seem luck was on his side, which was also a factor he supposed.
Looking over at Anguy, he could see the commoner wasn't faring much better himself, looking quite shocked, it was a rare sight, losing a game cause your shot was too good.
The tourney was now officially over, and Naruto managed to take away all three games.
Evening, Red Keep
"Look everyone here he comes, my son! The winner of all three games!" Robert announced loudly and Naruto was a bit flustered as he walked up to the high table, next to him waked an equally flustered Alys Karstark as they were seated together, so Naruto could spend time with his Queen of Love and Beauty.
Naruto waved out awkwardly to the long lines of tables that had been placed inside the great hall, with Alys eagerly copying his actions, before they both took their seat.
The tourney took a total of two days and over a thousand people had traveled to King's landing to bear witness and tomorrow most of them would leave, he had to make sure he that he would make the best out of it, before then.
Talk filled the great hall, while the people ate, when people finished Robert stood up once more. "Everyone It's in celebration of my son and his fair queen, I think we should give them some space!" Robert announced loudly and Naruto and Alys both looked at Robert slightly confused, but then the bard began to sing, it was an old song from the North, called The Winter Maid.
Naruto understood what his father meant and while he was slightly surprised at being put on the spot like this without warning, he did his best to remain calm and stood up and gave Alys a polite bow, "would you like to dance, my fair lady?" Her cheeks turned red, her pale skin and dark hair complimented her already dark as night dress and she reached up and grabbed his hand.
"I love to."
Naruto had to admit it was rather scary dancing when he had a rough estimate of 500 hundred people watching from the sides, Alys too blushed up a storm, but the two of them focused on each other, while Naruto lead her across the floor, when the song was over followed yet another applause and Naruto and then people began joining in as the next song began being sung.
Naruto went from partner to partner, while the bards kept singing. "Naruto get up here!" Naruto turned as he saw his father call him back to the table, his mother sitting next to him, while Samui was out dancing with a young man he didn't know, Joffrey was talking with Sansa, poor girl and Myrcella and Tommen had both been sent to bed.
Naruto quickly walked back to the high table. "Yes father?"
His cheeks were red as he had clearly been drinking a lot since the feast began. "She's a pretty lass, good hips too, if you want her give me the word, a quick letter and I can have her in your bed in a fortnight." Robert said with a small leer.
"Oh," a small blush did appear on Naruto's cheeks. He looked back and saw Alys dance with a beautiful smile on her pale lips.
"Surely there's no reason to rush such things." Cersei cut in.
"It's not that I'm against it, but I would like to take it a bit slower." Naruto said agreeing with his mother, while Robert let out a long sigh.
"Naruto." A new voice cut in, making Naruto look back and saw his beautiful big sister in the same crimson and golden color he wore himself.
"I need a new partner." She offered and Naruto smiled widely.
"With pleasure."
Next morning, With Arya
The tourney had been surprisingly exciting, and Naruto had been amazing, he had been the talk of everyone. Naruto was the first one ever to win all three games, most people she had listened to had praised him an called him amazing, with a few whisperings how he should be the next for the throne.
She had also heard a few people curse him, with most of the people having mentioned about the loss of money he had caused them, nobody really knew how skillful Naruto was when he signed up, so nobody really thought about betting on him.
Currently Arya was running through the Red Keep, having met up with her dancing instructor Syrio this morning he had told her that today she would spend the day chasing cats, which didn't sound too hard, the Red Keep was full of them, but none of them seemed very happy to be caught by her, with her fingers and hands full of small scratches, she had half a mind to fetch Nymeria and see how tough the cats would be then.
Especially this one black cat, some of the guards had dubbed this cat the true king of the keep, she had heard that one time when Robert was feasting with the queen's father Lord Tywin, the cat had jumped up on the table and snatched chicken right out of Lord Tywin's fingers, the king had laughed so hard, the guards thought he was about to piss himself.
She didn't pay attention as she followed and ran after the cat as she took turns and ran downstairs in parts of the keep, she didn't recognize and before long she found herself down in a deep cave, a large gasp escaping her mouth as she came face to face with an enormous skull.
It took her a small moment to realize exactly what she was looking at, a dragon skull, a small, surprised gasp escaped her mouth when she heard someone nearby approach, thinking quickly she hid herself inside of the giant skull.
"He's found a bastard, who knows when he finds the others or the truth for that matter?" Arya couldn't recognize the voice.
"And what exactly do you expect the hand will do when he learns the truth?" The other voice that spoke held a strong accent from the free cities, Arya barely managed to catch a quick glimpse when they walked past, the man who had just spoke had a big round build.
"Only the gods know, but no matter what, the wolf and the lion will soon be at each other's throat."
"The boy isn't ready yet, and the princess is pregnant, you know the Khal won't act before his son is born."
"And what would you have me do? Stop time, I'm not a wizard, we will have to move up our schedule, get the boy ready and I will require 50 new birds."
"That many? The streets will soon empty. Are you sure we can't just get rid of this hand, the last one died, why not this one as well?"
Their voices grew faint as Arya could only hear muttering as she had held her breath, she might not have understood most of what they said, but she did understand the part about killing the hand, they meant her father!
When the sounds fainted completely Arya emerged from her hiding place and run away the same way the two men had appeared from and she soon found herself outside of the Red Keep far below in the caves, where water from Black water Bay would meet the rock the Red Keep was built on.
Thankfully it wasn't hard to find her way, she began running along the shoreline until she reached the docks, where her eyes fell on Naruto.
With Naruto
"I have half a mind, to command you girls to stay by my side." Naruto said as he looked on sadly as the sand snakes were getting ready to depart from King's landing and sail back to Sunspear.
After the feast last night, Naruto had spent another most memorable night with the three girls. "Oh, my aren't you a needy prince, well it's for the best, had we stayed I might have gotten addicted to that fat cock of yours." Tyene spoke playfully as she reached down and grabbed his groin roughly, while Naruto released a small, surprised whimper.
"Oh yeah, I'm going to miss them."
"Should you ever come around down to Sunspear, send us a message, we will make sure to show you the utmost hospitality." Nymeria said giving Naruto a small wink.
"Sweet words don't come as easy to me as my sister, so have this instead." Obara spoke as she kissed his cheek, "till we meet again." With that the three girls boarded their ship and Naruto watched sadly as the ship began to take off.
He was sure they were going to meet again, one day.
"Naruto!"
Turning around Naruto's eyes widened when he saw what he first believed to be a young boy, no wait a girl, no wait Arya come running to him, her small arms instantly wrapping around his sides while she hugged him powerfully.
"They said they were going to kill my father!" Arya yelled while looking up at him, with a panicked expression. Naruto had to progress her words.
"Huh? Who did?" Naruto asked, that was quite the information that was suddenly thrown on him.
"I don't know I didn't recognize them, but one of them was fat!" Thy said something about the lion and the wolf being at each other's throat, something about a khal, empty streets and a boy not being ready!" Arya kept speaking loudly, while Naruto went down on one knee to get in eye height with Arya.
Except the thing about the lion and the wolf, clearly meaning Lannister and Starks, Naruto didn't really understand anything else. "Well, that sounds, troublesome. How about we go back to the Red Keep together? Then you can talk with your father about it and I'm sure no matter what you hear, nobody is going to kill him." Naruto spoke, while Arya gave a quick nod as he began escorting the girl back to the keep.
Leaving the docks, a few gold cloaks began escorting them back to the keep, it might seem weird for someone as Naruto to be walking around with bodyguards, but his mother did assist. They had barely gotten to the keep before Renly came walking up to him quickly.
"Ahh nephew, there you are and who is this little boy?"
"I'm a girl!" Arya retorted angrily.
"Is something wrong?" Naruto asked as he saw both Petyr Baelish and Varys quickly moving past them, only giving a minimalistic greeting.
"An emergency meeting at the small council, Robert's livid." Renly spoke and then dashed away, Naruto decided to move quickly as he and Arya kept on moving towards the tower of the hand.
At the council meeting
"The whore's pregnant." Naruto raised both eyebrows slightly, as he listened to the ongoing conversation. While Eddard who stood in front of the table, threw his head back a little and adapted a tired look on his face.
"You can't be serious, this again Robert?" Eddard spoke, his tone not doing the slightest to hide his tone.
"I warned you Ned! Back on the trip to from Winterfell, I warned you it would only be a matter that the whore would spread her legs and breed, you didn't listen then, but you will listen now, I want them dead, all of them you hear?! The girl, her son and that fool Viserys as well! All of them dead!" Robert yelled, while Naruto and the other councilors attempted to make themselves look small, none of them fancying the king's attention at the moment.
"Who brings this message to us anyway?" Eddard asked coldly.
"Ser Jorah Mormont, is spying on the girl for me, he's quite desperate for a royal pardon." Varys spoke, while Eddard looked annoyed at the mention of the traitor's name, while Naruto too recognized the name, Eddard and Naruto had traveled to Bear Island to take his head, for selling slaves, but the man had run away well before they reached the island, at least Eddard and Naruto got a good trip out of it.
"A traitor." Eddard scoffed.
"A desperate traitor my Lord, believe me the princess is with child." Varys confirmed.
"Even if, there's still an ocean between us, I will fear the Dothraki the day, they teach their horses to run on water." Eddard kept arguing.
"My gods, you're stubborn Stark, what about the rest of you, have you forgotten how to speak, will someone please talk some sense into this honorable fool?" Robert spoke, finally sitting back in his seat.
Varys was the first to lean forward and speak. "I do understand your hesitation Lord Stark, it's a terrible thing to discuss, but we as leaders most sometimes to terrible things, for the good of the realm."
"We should have had the girl and her brother Viserys killed years ago." Renly agreed with Robert.
"There is honor in killing your enemy on a battlefield, but none can be found killing a child in it's mother's womb, forgive me your grace, but I must agree with Lord Stark." Ser Barristan spoke.
"I harbor this child no ill will, I served her father for many years, just as I snow serve our great King Robert here, but would it not be more merciful, no kinder even to kill the child now, so that thousands may live in the future?" Pycelle spoke adding his own opinion.
"When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, best close your eyes and get it over with quickly." Baelish agreed as well.
"And you boy, what do you think?" Robert spoke and Naruto did raise a single eyebrow, surprised he was allowed to add his opinion.
"While I can see the benefit in stamping out embers before it becomes a fire, in this case I can't spot a single ember yet, I must agree with Ser Barristan and Lord Stark." Naruto spoke.
Despite everyone on the council giving their own opinion, none of it seemed to matter much though, instead Robert just kept looking annoyed at the ones who disagreed wit the plan. "She dies, her child and brother too, that's the end of it." Robert stated, his tone dark, leaving no place for a discussion.
"The princess is approaching the city of Vaes Dothrak, it's a holy city to the Dothraki people, surely we could find someone willing to take the chance, for a bit of gold." Varys pointed out, while Robert nodded.
Lord Eddard stood up. "I will have no part in this murder Robert, do as you wish, but I will not fix my seal to it." Eddard spoke firmly and Robert did look surprised, mostly because the king wasn't used to being talked back to, defiance was something rare for the king of the seven kingdoms.
Slowly Robert's face changed into one of fury, as he began processing Eddard's words. "You're the king's hand Lord Stark, you will do as the king commands or I will find me a hand that will." Robert stated, it was meant as a threat, but Naruto already knew Eddard wasn't happy about the job, so without any hesitation Eddard began taking off the pin strapped to his vest.
"Then I wish him luck." Lord Stark spoke as he threw the badge on the table, while Robert's face began turning purple.
"Out. Out damn you, run back to Winterfell and make sure I never see your face again or I have it on a spike!" Robert bellowed, while Eddard turned around and walked away.
Evening, With Samui
It was quite fortunate that the tourney was over now, while the weather had been as amazing as it had been, cause right now, it was pouring down, the sun has barely left the sky and darkness had started to pull up over the sky.
As she approached the door that belonged to Naruto, Tommen and Myrcella that were accompanying her began running past her and up to the door, while quickly beginning to knock, she listened to the gentle sound of the footsteps inside the room before the door opened.
"Why hello you two, what are you doing here?" Naruto asked with a smile as he looked down on his younger siblings with a smile, before he also saw Samui come into view.
"We're going to take a bath, will you come along?" Tommen asked quickly, while jumping up and down with Myrcella.
"Sure, sounds great, let's go." Naruto agreed quickly and Tommen and Myrcella were the ones to lead the way while Naruto and Samui walked behind them at a slower pace.
"Father was furious, I do believe Lord Stark will return home, which will be kind of strange, I've spent more than 10 years with the man now, I miss my friend Robb and it will sadden me to see Sansa and Arya leave as well." Naruto spoke to Samui of today's council business, while Samui listened with a single ear, she did believe she picked up a hint of jealousy when Naruto spoke of returning to Winterfell, perhaps he missed the North or maybe he missed someone in the North?
"Well dad's a little more than fool:" Samui spoke, and Naruto did threw a small look around making sure no one heard Samui's statement, "but still he is the king, murdering children, isn't too uncommon when considering the long lines of kings, the seven kingdoms have had to endure." Samui continued, while they quickly approached the bath.
Walking inside, they saw that an excited Tommen and Myrcella had already stripped naked, having thrown their clothes in a basket, the space was open and vast, but this place was only to store clothes and dry up, the great stone bath, would be found in the next room.
Samui felt Naruto's eyes drink her form as she began undressing, her naked breasts coming out into the open, for being a young woman of 16-year-old, soon to be 17 she was considered quite well-endowed, though as she threw a quick look at Naruto's manhood that hanged flaccid between his thighs, she did realize she wasn't the only one that could be considered well-endowed.
She was snapped out of her thoughts when Tommen came and grabbed one of her hands, "come on, let's go." He spoke eagerly. Tommen and Myrcella weren't allowed to use this bath by themselves, due to the water being deep enough for them to drown, so they only ever used it with mother, Samui or Joffrey.
Mother was busy most of the time and didn't see the big need to use the largest bath in the keep, there were smaller ones closer to her and the children's room and Joffrey no longer had any desire to bath with his family, so they were mostly going when Samui agreed to come with them.
The reason why the children loved using this bath more so than the others was due to its size and the pretty statues of animals that was constantly working as a fountain, it was a large stone bath, with plenty of animals and turns, big enough to fit over a hundred people, though it was only ever being used by royalty.
Sinking into the water both Samui and Naruto released a small please moan, as the warm water began surround them, until they finally sat down, it was the shallow end, so both Tommen and Myrcella could easily stand up and have fun in the water, the warm water only reaching down beneath Samui's breasts.
"Don't stare too hard." A hard blush appeared on Naruto's face.
"No idea what you're talking about." He defended while Samui gave a small chuckle, while they both watched as Myrcella tried to teach Tommen how to swim or maybe float, the display was very confusing.
A small smile showed on Samui's usually stoic face, while she leaned back against the edge of the pool and closed her eyes, enjoying Naruto's presence and listened to Tommen and Myrcella play.
"Naruto can you teach Tommen how to swim? He can't do it." Myrcella came over and asked.
"I can almost." Tommen defended with a small pout.
Samui then opened her eyes, when she felt herself being grabbed or rather, she felt her breasts getting grabbed, looking at the perpetrator, she saw Tommen look at the chest curiously, while the small fingers sank into her soft breasts.
"Tommen." It was Naruto who spoke, Samui just looked at him with a mix of surprise and amusement, "you can't just grab Samui's breasts." Naruto continued, though Tommen made no movement to pull away, instead the boy looked up at Samui.
"Sorry big sis." Tommen spoke, feeling like he had been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
"Don't worry sweetie, liking breasts is just part of being a man." Samui stated plainly and Naruto did have to admit she wasn't wrong. "One day you will have a beautiful wife and you can touch her breasts as much as you want." Samui continued and Naruto had to look away, not wanting to be dragged into this kind of conversation with his family.
Still Naruto had to admit Tommen was growing up to be a man of culture, just like himself.
Naruto and Tommen then went over to the deeper end of the bath, where Naruto had to help Tommen stay above the water and began helping him swim, while Samui took a seat on Samui's lap and leaned her head back into Samui's cleavage, "men are childish." Myrcella spoke as she watched Naruto and Tommen begin spraying water on each other.
"Yes, they are." Samui spoke as she stroked Myrcella beautiful long curly hair, "but men are also strong, Naruto is exceptionally strong, while also being childish, that's why they need smart women like us, otherwise they would around with all that strength and nobody to reel them back." Samui said with a smile as she watched Myrcella's face beginning to relax in her soft embrace.
"I wouldn't mind being to one to reel Naruto back in." Myrcella admitted, while releasing a small yawn, the young girl expected to get a response from her big sister, but when she received none, she opened her eyes to look at Samui's face and Myrcella got a bit scared, when she saw how shocked Samui looked, it wasn't a face Myrcella had ever seen Samui make before.
"Big sister?" Myrcella asked carefully, and Samui blinked once, before turning back to Myrcella a small smile back on Samui's lips, "sorry honey, but can you stay here with your brothers for a while, I just remembered something I have to take care of." Samui spoke, while standing up, having gently lifted Myrcella off her lap.
"Naruto." Samui spoke quickly as she began walking towards him, while both Tommen and Naruto turned to look at her, a small blush came to Naruto's cheeks as he watched the water drip off her body, and her breasts jiggled with each step.
"I just remembered something I had to do, watch over Myrcella as well, I'll be back in a while." Samui spoke and Naruto looked quite confused, but Samui didn't really leave much room for argument.
"Oh, okay." Was Naruto's simple response, while the three siblings watched Samui get up from the water and began walking towards the exit.
When she was out of view, from her siblings in the bath, steam began to emit from her body and the water from the bath was gone in less than two seconds, having no need for a towel, before she grabbed her clothes, quickly getting dressed and leaving the changing room.
Out in the long halls of the keep she walked with a great pace, until she reached her goal, it looked like just another wall, but when she placed her hand on the wall and gave it a great push, it opened up just like any door would, revealing one of the many secret passageways Maegor Targaeryen had gotten created.
Entering she came to a staircase leading further down, despite the staircase and the long narrow hall she moved in being completely covered in darkness, Samui had seemingly no problem seeing where she walked.
Finally, she reached her destination, far below the dungeons, she reached an old, abandoned armory, the place was dusty and covered in spider webs, the weapons had clearly not seen any use for more than 200 years. Yet a single torch was lit in the room, showing that someone had indeed at least passed through here. "I know you're hiding here, come out." Samui spoke her tone being far harsher than the usual one she used.
A young man with short dark hair did begin walking out of the shadows, he was roughly the same age as Samui and their eyes met, her pale blue against his empty dark eyes. "You're like me?" The man spoke, there was a strong accent in his voice, his features very foreign, most likely from Yi Ti, Samui concluded.
"Well maybe, what exactly do you mean people like you?" Samui asked, she wasn't afraid she already knew she held the advantage.
The man didn't look amused by her question. "You've got chakra, have you also seen memories from a past world?" The man asked and Samui released a small sigh.
"I had always hoped me and Naruto, were the only ones, but no such luck." Samui spoke, ever since she turned 13, she had begun having certain dreams, that felt so real, that when she awoke, she wasn't sure what was real.
In her dreams she saw another world, a world where people controlled a strange magic called chakra, the memories were hazy at best, but slowly she had begun remembering a past life and a battle an enormous battle and in the middle of the battle was Naruto, covered in golden light battling a huge monster.
"My name is Sai, in the past world I remember I believe me, and Naruto were friends, it's him right Naruto Baratheon, that's the Naruto from the previous world, right?" The boy called Sai began asking quickly, while Samui eyes remained steely.
"He is." Samui simply answered and the young boy looked excited at the confirmation.
"Then-"
"It changes nothing, I won't let you see him." Samui spoke firmly and the boy looked confused for a few seconds, before his expression turned into one of anger.
"Why not, can't you feel it in the air, his power and the memories, I remember more of Naruto than I remember of myself! If anyone knows how we all ended up in this world then it's him, doesn't he remember anything?!" Sai asked raising his voice enough that it could be considered shouting.
Samui did understand what he was talking about, she could vaguely remember things from her old world, she remembered how strong she used to be, strong enough that she could possibly defeat all the armies of the seven kingdoms by herself, but that wasn't true anymore, at most she had chakra enough to defeat between 300-500 men before running dry and would have to rest, the boy in front of her was even worse off, having less chakra than her, if anything he could use that meager amount to enhance his speed and strength a bit to defeat possibly 20 men, but that's about it.
Naruto was different from them though, as far as Samui believed Naruto remembered nothing from the previous world, but he was leaking chakra in vast amounts, even know the chakra he was leaking out was enough that it surrounded the entire Red Keep, if he knew how to use that, Samui doubted anyone, or any army would stand a chance.
"It's true I share some of those memories, but that old world means nothing to me, my name is Samui Baratheon, and I have one big brother, two younger brothers and a little sister, I have no interest in what happened in the previous world, this is my life now and if you wish to interfere, then I will kill you." Samui spoke, before she leaned down and Sai looked shocked, reaching behind to grab his short sword.
"You can't be serious, me and Naruto were frie-" No other words escaped his throat, before Samui was in front of him in a burst of speed, she had grabbed him by the throat, easily picking him up, before slamming him powerfully in against the wall, a loud sickening quench could be heard as the backside of the man's skull got destroyed and his brains painted the old dusty wall, releasing her grasp around the now dead boy's throat, his body began sliding down the wall and laid dead on the floor.
She wasn't going to take any chances, Samui could see people with chakra and feel them clearly if they got close enough, her own chakra reserves grew every day, just from being in Naruto's presence, whatever this boy truly wanted to return to his old world or if he just wanted to bask in Naruto's presence and grow his own powers Samui couldn't be sure, still it didn't matter, nobody would touch her family and if Naruto ever were to remember like herself, then he would do so by himself just like she did.
There was only one thing that still bothered her as she began leaving same way she came, when she approached Winterfell, she had remembered how shocked she was seeing the massive pillar of chakra that filled the keep and when she had finally seen her brother again, she had confirmed it was indeed his doing, but Naruto wasn't the only one who had chakra at Winterfell.
To her great curiosity Lady Catelyn Stark was also surrounded by a powerful chakra, much strong than Samui's herself, it did come to her as a bit of a shock and for a moment Samui believed Lady Stark was just like Samui and Naruto from another world, but the chakra that surrounded her felt exactly like Naruto's, everyone had a different feel to their chakra, but Catelyn had the exact same kind of chakra as Naruto.
She had wrecked her brain at Winterfell thinking about it and when they had left another girl on the way back had begun showing the same trait as having the same chakra as Naruto, later one Samui would finally learn it was a girl Naruto had bedded.
Which led her to think Naruto was handing out small bits of chakra through his bodily fluids, that did explain somethings for Samui, but also raised other questions, one of the troubles this revelation had caused was that she couldn't look at Lord Eddard with a straight face anymore.
Samui didn't believe Naruto could have managed to seduce Lady Stark by himself, so Samui believed it was a deal Lord Eddard and Naruto had made, she had read in a book some men had a fetish from watching their loved ones being fucked by others, perhaps Lord Stark was like that.
She also felt a bit bad for the women Naruto had slept with, unlike Samui and Naruto who were born with chakra, whenever they had used their chakra, they could rest and store it back up, it wasn't like that for the ones Naruto had sex with, it was temporary, like a loan of chakra and Samui had to believe it must be quite addicting.
Still this young dead boy also gave her new trouble, she had no idea how many from the old world was in this new one or how many would come seeking out Naruto, who seemed like a god in their old world. She would kill anyone that tried though.
Naruto belonged to her.
END OF CHAPTER 5 REVELATION
AN: The melee and archery was so damn annoying to write it had me stuck for so long, but thankfully the rest of the chapter had a good flow.
At the end of the chapter of the chapter we got a revelation surrounding Samui, which is why I've tried to keep her a bit in the background, not seeing to much of what she's been thinking, but it's an idea I had when I started the story and I'm looking forward to build more on it.
Also go watch Arcane it's great.
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