7

'I had forgotten how beautiful the countryside of the North was,' Naruto thought, 'I spent so long on that bloody Wall staring North, I had forgotten the beauty that lay just south of it.'

Naruto rode in his full armor on top of a black war horse, marching his 17,000 strong force to Last Hearth. Melisandre, Sansa, Brienne, and Davos rode beside him. The Freefolk had 20,000 capable fighters, but he left some behind to protect the non-fighters of the group, as well as 15 of his 25 giants and mammoths. The 123 Baratheon men that were with Ser Davos rode marched with them, carrying the banner of House Stark. Naruto had decided in order to keep up his ruse, he would march under House Stark's banner…Well, technically it was his banner, but so not the point. The Northerners were a stubborn lot, yet they would be more accepting to the idea of him being their ruler if knew his true nature AFTER he had risked his life to restore House Stark.

They were currently a mile from the Last Hearth.

At Last Hearth

Hother 'Whoresbane' Umber and Mors 'Crowfood' Umber were overlooking the Wildling army, as well as a boy with a hood over his head.

"It doesn't make any sense," Hother muttered, "Why are they flying that altered banner of the House Stark?" Naruto was using a white direwolf with red eyes on a black field as his sigil.

"Better yet, why did Jon let them come South? He's Ned's son, I know, but I don't understand why he would let these savages come south." Mors said in agreement.

"Can I see the spyglass, please?" asked an innocent voice. Hother turned to the boy and gave him the spyglass. "It's Jon and Sansa!" Rickon said happily.

"What!?" Mors said, "Are you sure, Lord Rickon?"

"Yes, I know that red eyed, white furred Direwolf anywhere. That's Ghost, alright, and he only follows Jon. And I'd never forget my sister's face."

Hother and Mors looked at each other. "One of us needs to parley with them, to make sure it's them." Hother said.

"You go," Mors said, "of the 2 of us, you are the only one who has met Jon."

"Alright, but if I don't make it back, seal the gates." Hother said.

Outside

The gates of Last Hearth opened allowing 2 riders through. Naruto squinted his eyes before he realized it was Hother Umber thought the hooded midget he couldn't make out. He turned to address Melisandre, Davos, Tormund, Val, Sansa, Brienne and Karsi. "Alright, the Umber's want to parley. Melisandre, Karsi, Tormund, Val you stay here. Don't attack unless I give you the signal." They nodded. "Davos, Brienne, Sansa, Ghost, with me." He ordered as he turned to gallop towards Hother Umber, with his companions following close behind.

They met halfway between the castle and the army.

"Hother Umber," Naruto said.

"Is that you, Jon? It sounds like you, but I can't tell with the armor," Hother commented.

"The cunt of House Bolton told me all about how you people handed Rickon Stark over to him, along with his dead Direwolf." Naruto growled, "I'm disappointed, to say the least. I remember that House Umber was one of House Stark's most loyal houses, yet you would break faith with our House, for one filled with Oathbreaker's, Rapist's, and Kinslayer's! A house filled with men who condone the murder pregnant woman and babies, flay people alive for their own amusement, and break the sacred guest right!"

"I can assure you, Snow. We have Rickon Stark right here." Hother gestured to the hooded boy.

"Oh really? Prove it," Naruto demanded. Rickon took off his hood and Naruto gasped. Naruto, thanks to Jon's memories, could never mistake Rickon for anybody. "Rickon?"

"Jon. Sansa" Rickon said. Naruto may be covered from head to toe in Valyrian Steel Armor, he may look like a Targaryen, but his voice have not changed. They both got off their horses while Naruto took off his helmet and embraced his surrogate brother, while Sansa got off her horse and made it a 3 person hug.

"Jon, Sansa", Rickon whispered, "It's really you, big brother, big sister." Rickon pulled back from embracing his big 'brother' and sister to examine him. "You're hair and eyes are different, but your voice are still the same. What happened to you, brother?"

Naruto looked at the ground and sighed before saying, "A lot of things. The most obvious being finding out I'm actually your cousin, not your brother."

Hother examined Naruto and after a few moments, his aged eyes widened. "Aye', so it would seem." He said, causing the other's present to look at him. "I knew Ned for a long time. He was the most honorable man of this era. And his story about your origins, boy, never made any sense to me. Ned Stark, betraying his honor and that of his wife by sleeping with some tavern wench? Bullshit. Ned wasn't so weak-willed. He would never have betrayed his wife, despite being a thousand miles away."

"So," Hother finished, "if I had to guess, I would say your parents are Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen." Naruto nodded.

"Yes," Naruto said as he got back on his horse and put his helmet back on, "While I would like to continue this conversation, I'm going to have to 'assault' Last Hearth for the 'crimes' committed against House Stark, thus 'seizing' the strongholdfor myself before continuing onward."

"Aye," Hother nodded in understanding, "Well, we shall have to 'mount' a defense in order to 'halt' your advance, Jon Snow."

"In all seriousness though, just make it look convincing." Naruto said before turning around and heading back.

Suffice to say, the 'Siege of Last Hearth' only lasted ten minutes, which was exactly how long it took Wun Wun and Dongo to run across the field, get through the 2000 of the 17,000 freefolk throwing themselves against the wall without stepping one anyone, and to break open the gate. The archers of Last Hearth had orders to fire arrows into the crowd, but they always missed on purpose.

Last Hearth

Main Hall

Naruto was standing in Last Hearth main hall looking out the window with his hands crossed behind his back. Ser Davos, Melisandre, Sansa, Val and Tormund were in there with him. The doors opened to show Mors, Hother and Rickon walking in. The doors closed and Naruto turned around to face them.

"I take it by now you all know what I am." Mors, Hother, and Rickon all nodded.

"Aye, I didn't believe it until Hother explained this shit to me." Mors said. "Never realized little Lya might have actually loved the Bard Prince and went with him willingly."

"It was a shocking revelation for myself as well, especially when I was resurrected on my own funeral pyre." Naruto said.

"Jo-I mean, Naruto, there is something you need to know. Before King Robb died, he gave his last will to Maege Mormont and Galbart Glover to hold onto. They managed to survive and get a copy of this to us." Hother said, handing the parchment to Naruto.

"Let it be known that I, Robb Stark, King in the North and the Trident do hereby proclaim my brother Jon Snow as my lawful Heir until a son is born to me. By my authority as King, I hereby release him from his oath to the Night's Watch and strip him of the taint of bastardy and name him Prince Jon of the House Stark.

Signed, Robb Stark, First of His Name, King in the North and Trident and Lord of Winterfell."

Naruto felt the tears in his eyes as Jon's emotional attachment's broke through. All of Jon's life, he had wanted to be a Stark, and apparently so had his cousin, to the point that when having to choose between Sansa and Jon, he had chosen Jon to continue his House.

"I've wanted this my whole life, back when I was still just Jon Snow. I would have given anything to be Jon Stark." Naruto said, saying something Jon would say, before folding Robb's Last Will back up. "I will make this clear, My Lords. Once we finish retaking the North for the Starks, I intend to retake the Seven Kingdoms for the Targaryen's. But for now, I will accept the title of King in the North."

"Ramsay Snow is a mad fuck who will flay the whole North for his own damn amusement," Mors admitted. "For thousands of years House Umber has kept faith with House Stark, I'll not be the first to break that faith," he drew his sword and went to one knee, "THE KING IN THE NORTH!" soon enough the other Umber men were joining in.

"Rise," Naruto said after he managed to calm them down. "We need other Houses if we are to make the defeat of Ramsay Snow meaningful," he turned to Hother. "You still have your Maester?"

Hother shrugged. "Yes."

"Good, I want you to prepare to send ravens to every House in the North asking for their allegiance."

"Your Grace," Mors interjected. "Might I suggest you visit some of the Houses in person? It will be easier that way."

Naruto scratched his chin in thought. "We don't have time to visit every House," he admitted. "If you take we Robb's Will with us, you believe we can convince Lord Manderly, since I'm guessing he doesn't know about the will?" he asked as he held out Robb's will.

"Aye, only Maege, Galbart, me and my brother know about the Will," the older Umber said. "I've known Wyman since the time he was thin enough to see his own cock when taking a piss."

Naruto snorted, that must have been some time ago. "I thank you, Lord Hother. In the meantime, we'll rest for a few days and then go take Karhold and the Dreadfort, then get my Lord Wyman's support, I assume you can spare a few men to accompany Ser Davos to Bear Island?"

Mors nodded. "And what of me?"

"The sigil of your House is a giant breaking his chains, yes?" Naruto asked

"Aye." Mors said.

Naruto grinned. "How would you like the honor of being the first man in thousands of years to commission armor to be made for some giants and mammoths?"

Crowfood's eyes widened as he remembered Wun Wun and Dongo who had been the ones to break open the door to the castle, and the other 8 giants and ten Wooly Mammoths.. "Fuck me..." he said before breaking out in laughter. "Ramsay's gonna shit himself when he sees a fucking giant clad in steel from head to toe."

"That's the idea. Also, we probably need to get a message to Lord Smalljon since I'm guessing the plan was to install Rickon as Lord of Winterfell after the Bolton's were defeated. But delay the message, as well as those ravens until a few days after we leave. I want to take the Karhold and Dreadfort while the element of surprise is still ours." Naruto said, getting nods from them. "I need to speak with Melisandre alone for a moment."

The elder Umber's left to attend to their business and prepare his army. The Red Woman approached her king. She bowed low and asked, "How may I serve you, my king?"

"I need something from you, Melisandre," Naruto pulls a small leather cord necklace of the with a moonstone that had the engraving of House Stark on it and puts it on.

Melisandre looked questioningly at him and he said, "I need to look like my old self for a while." Naruto said. Naruto looked a mirror and saw his old face as Jon Snow.

"The thing I need from you is two-fold. I need you to summon the bodies of Ser Gerold Hightower and Ser Arthur Dayne, along with their weapons and armor here and resurrect them." Naruto said. Naruto would do it himself, but he was still weak from his resurrection, and half of his essence was still inside his old body and he couldn't get that back until the protections around the tree he was fused to were destroyed, because those same protections also kept him bound to the Weirwood. Plus, he was still figuring out this bodies secrets. All his magical feats since his possessing of this vessel so far had been on his own power. Magically speaking, he was operating at maybe 10% if he were being generous, though realistically, was probably 5%.

Melisandre shook her head and answered, "I do not have the power on my own to complete this task, my king."

"You can do it, then?" Naruto asked, to which Melisandre nodded, "What do you need then?" Naruto had watched her using his Greenseer power and saw she had birthed 2 shadow assassins to kill Renly and Ser Courtnay Penrose, and used Stannis's life force to do it. And how she survived Strangler like it was nothing and burn people alive with a look. She would have been able to bring Jon back on her own power, had he not stopped so he could possess it, so he knew it was possible.

"It may be possible, if I had both the blood and seed of a king. Especially if that king is Azor Ahai." Melisandre said. She knew that Valyrian dragonlords held power within their blood. Their blood could be used to supplement her magic. The Baratheon's had the dragon's blood, but their blood was diluted, Gendry's more than Stannis. Naruto had the blood of the Winter Kings and the blood of the Dragonlords of Valyria. He had an insane amount of magic power at his disposal. She could sense his great power, now that it had been awakened, and it was like standing in the presence of power given life.

"And I am I going to lose years of my lifeforce if I give you my seed?" Naruto asked quizzically. He had seen what happened to Stannis and had no desire to shorten his lifespan, thank you very much.

"No, my King. I can feel the massive magical energy you exude. Stannis lost some of his life force because he had no magic power of his own, only the little bit that rested in his blood. I can safely say that you wouldn't lose even a few seconds off your life force." She stated, pleasing Naruto immensely.

"I have to begin distributing proper weapons and armor to the Free Folk. But tonight after dinner, meet me in my chambers. We'll do this there," Melisandre bowed in acceptance as Naruto walked out to see to his troops.

Before he did that though, he went to find Val. "Hey lover," She said.

"Come here, Val," Naruto said as he pulled her in for a deep kiss, his tongue slipping into her mouth and exploring it.

"You look different," She noted as they broke the passionate kiss.

"Moonstone Broach. I need to look like my old self until we win the war in the North. The Northern Lords will be less likely to act up if they think I'm still Eddard Stark's son." Naruto said. "Now, I wanted to ask you something. How would you like to experience your first threesome?"

That night

Naruto walked into the guest room he stayed in after reconnecting with Rickon along with Sansa that night and distributing some of the Last Hearth's excess weapons to his Free Folk, with the Umber's permission, while they're smiths forged more. He found Melisandre and Val already waiting for him, both of them already naked, on the bed, kissing each other. "Aw, you got started without me." Naruto mentioned.

"Well, when you told me about this, I was skeptical, so I thought I'd try it beforehand. Melisandre has been very helpful with accepting the idea." Val said cheekily.

"Well then, let's get started," Naruto said as he took his clothes off.

Next Morning

It was morning when they woke up. The sun brightened up the room. The Targaryen, Free Woman and Red Priestess lay underneath the sheets, the priestess spooning the right side of Naruto's body, the wilding woman on his left, their heads resting on his chest. Naruto's arm wrapped around their waists, holding them comfortably against his body. Melisandre was the first to awaken. Smiling at her king, who was still resting peacefully. That was the best sex she had ever had. The Dragon King had fucked her and Val for 3 hours straight and filled both of their stomachs and cunts full of his extra hot seed. She noticed that some had leaked out of her during the night.

As Melisandre moved herself off Naruto and sat up some, she noticed a heat in her stomach and cunt. The seed that Naruto has spilled inside of her was still as hot as it was when he first let it out. That wasn't possible. Not for a normal person, but she was starting to see that Naruto was not normal. That same heat in her core was making her horny.

"Sleep well?" Came Naruto's voice, indicating he was awake as he looked to her.

"Yes, I slept well, my king." Melisandre said before she coyly replied, "I must regret to inform you though, that some of your seed was lost last night."

"Well," Naruto said as he gripped and threw her under him and inserted his hard cock in side of her as Val slowly awakened to join in the fun, "We'll just have to fill you back up, won't we?"

Last Hearth Courtyard

2 days later

The clashing of metal could be heard in the courtyard. Naruto was sparring with/training Val and Tormund. He had Umber men instructing the Freefolk in some basic sword fighting techniques and stances, as well as battle formations for them and the archers, which would help them utilize their natural talents more effectively. Since Val and Tormund were his commanders in regards to the Free Folk, they were receiving training from him.

He also was giving his dragons regular exercise and feeding them what few prisoners of the Last Hearth and wild animals he could scrounge up, as they needed to that to keep growing.

"Come on, you two. I'm hardly trying here!" Naruto said as he taunted them. Naruto parried a strike from Tormund, before parrying 2 more from Tormund and kicked him away before blocking a strike from Val and forcing it her sword to the ground, bringing his free hand up to block Val's horizontal shield bash several times, before ducked under her sword swipe, swinging his practice sword and tripping Val up, causing her to hit the dirt.

"Well, I'd say two hours is enough for now." Naruto said as he helped his lover up. "Its only been a couple days and you two have already started to show improvement."

"We still can't barely land a hit on you." Val mentioned that she could only manage to land about 5 hits in the whole time.

"In your defense, I've been doing this longer compared to you." Naruto said, knowing it was true.

Naruto examined them both. Val preferred to wield a decent-sized shield and sword in combat, while Tormund had always preferred his single blade, though recently he had taken to using two short sword's. Naruto had created for them several weapons made of Valyrian steel. He was able to do this, since he knew the formula to make it and the spells that made Valryian steel so feared. All you need was molten steel, a shard of dragon glass, and dragonfire, which he had plenty of all three. The spells could be applied to any sword, but the dragonglass and dragon fire combo acted as binding agents that made the spells permanent.

For Tormund, he had forged 2 Valyrain Steel gladii, as he explained to Tormund that his old weapon was more suited for slashing, and against opponents in full plate armor, of which they're were numerous in the South, a weapon designed for slashing was ill-suited. This way, Tormund had options to work with. Tormund had not decided to name his yet.

For Val, since preferred a sword-shield combo, he made her a Valyrian Steel blade that was suitable for her hands and a shield a black round shield with the face of a dragon on it. She called it Dragonheart, in honor of her lover who gave her the amazing gift(1).

"How do you southerners even wear these tight clothes?" Tormund asked as he fidgeted with the leather jerkin he was wearing. He was used to wearing the looser fitting animal furs of the Freefolk.

"At one point, the Northmen wore furs like the free folk, until we came up with a better way. The leather on the outside keeps the snow and ice from getting into our clothes, while the insides are lined with fur, which keeps us warmer in the long run than the loose fitting animal-skins of the Free Folk. And that's all before you add the fur cloaks into the mix." Naruto said.

"So, you trying to make us kneelers now too, King Crow?" Tormund asked with a wide grin.

"Do you honestly think it would work?" Naruto asked dryly.

Tormund laughed while Val snorted contemptuously, "Of course not," she said.

Naruto nodded, "Didn't think so. I know when I'm fighting a losing battle."

Tormund gave Naruto a hearty slap on the back. "Well you go and do your kingly stuff King Crow. I'm gonna go see if I can't steal that big woman." Then he sauntered off, to their amusement.

"Brienne's going to fucking murder him, isn't she?" Naruto asked Val.

Val let out an uncharacteristic giggle. "From the way she was been looking at him the last week… he's either gonna be the happiest man in the world tomorrow, or he'll be making us miserable as we try to stitch him back together after she breaks him in half."

Naruto snorted as they walked inside, "If I know Tormund, he'll fall even harder for her if she does beat him to pulp."

"Aye there is that," Val agreed.

"That isn't to say, that I don't understand the appeal of a woman who can fight better than most men. Because I certainly do," Naruto said as he pulled Val close to him. They were alone in the halls of Last Hearth, and shared a passionate kiss. Val, he learned, had a loving and compassionate side, but she preferred to only show it in private, as she had had to keep it hidden from men of the Freefolk so they didn't take advantage of her for most of her life.

"Let's continue this in our bed," She suggests as she pulls away and drags him up to their bedchambers for another threesome with Melisandre.

War room

That Night

Naruto, Val, Melisandre. Tormund, Sansa, Mors, Hother, and Ser Davos were all looking at a map of Winterfell, with wooden figures on the map to represent battle numbers.

"Alright, we've lingered long enough. Let's go over our strategy," Naruto said. "Before we even think going to the other houses for their aid, we need to take the Karhold and the Dreadfort. Taking the castles of Ramsay and his biggest supporters, although I guess should say supporter, since Smalljon is secretly working for us, without him even realizing it will make Ramsay look incompetent and weak, while putting us in a much stronger position when recruitment time comes. I know thanks to you, Lord Mors, that Houses Reed, Mormont, Manderly, Forrester, and Umber are all with us, and House Glover will be on our side when Galbart returns to Deepwood Motte, since he and Maege are laying low with the Reeds, but some of the smaller houses may be fearful of fighting House Bolton, considering the reign of terror Ramsay has waged since Roose committed his treachery against Robb."

"Houses Ryswell and Dustin likely won't support us either, your Grace," Hother said, to the confusion of some of the occupants in the room.

"What do ya mean, milord?" Ser Davos asked.

"Barbery Ryswell married William Dustin back during the Rebellion. After his death at the Tower of Joy she continued to rule Barrowton in his name. She hates Ned for failing to return Will's body due to his grief at losing Lyanna, and House Stark as well, and because her sister was Roose Bolton's 2nd wife, she would most likely support Ramsay. And Lord Rodrick Ryswell will follow her. So we can't count on them." Hother said.

"Traitor's," Sansa cursed under her breath.

"We can't expect them all to join us, Sansa, especially not one with such hatred for this family. I wouldn't trust them to not betray us." Naruto said.

"How do we take these castles?" Tormund wondered.

"First, there's the Dreadfort." Naruto said as he moved a wolf head to the Dread Fort's location on the map. "Under normal circumstances, taking this fort would be tough. The Dreadfort is one of the strongest Castles in the North. It is situated in elevated terrain with cliffs surrounding three sides. With thick walls and massive towers, a standard garrison of 500 men could hold it for two years with ease."

"Lucky for you, these aren't normal circumstances then," Val quipped, to his amusement.

"Indeed," Naruto said as he looked his war council. "Not only do we have secret weapons that can break down the doors of any castle with a few blows, aka giants, my spies tell me that Ramsay didn't even leave a full garrison in the Dreadfort, about 200 men. The majority of the Bolton men are at Winterfell."

"You have spies?" Sansa asked in surprise as she never thought Jon had that kind of foresight. Then again, this was not the same Jon from her childhood.

"Not many, but enough that I can place them in certain key positions. When I heard about the Bolton's being named our successors as rulers of the North, I put a few spies in key positions in the castle." Naruto lied, as he had merely checked by possessing the birds and ravens around the castle.

"The Karhold will be trickier though." Hother said. "Like the Dreadfort, the Karhold is situated on eleveated ground, two stone hills that rise above the tree tops, with only about 10 yards separating the two damn things. Unlike the Dreadfort, the Karhold has two parts. There's the Main Keep, and the Great Tower. They're connected by a narrow wooden bridge. Taking the Keep would be simple enough, but they can easily cut the bridge and then we will only have 1/2 the castle."

"Then we do what Stannis did you to us with his horses. Attack both sides at the same time." Val announced before anyone else could say anything. She placed two wolf head figurines on the dot on the map that indicated the Karhold. "While our giants break down the gate to the Main Keep, Tormund and 30 of our best climbers could scale up the hill that holds the Great Tower. Their forces will mostly be focused on the Main Keep, as they likely would not suspect we'd send climbers up their Great Tower."

"Can it be done?" Naruto asked Mors and Hother.

"It should be. That stone hill has a lot of spots that with a good set of climbing gear, you could crawl up all the way to the top of the tower." Mors said.

"You up for another climbing job, Tormund?" Naruto asked.

"After scaling up the Wall, this will be easy," Tormund said with a smirk as they continued to make plans.

Later that night

Melisandre and Naruto were standing in front of a pentagram that had been drawn with his blood. Melisandre was chanting and Naruto was channeling his power into her to give her more than enough power to summon the two Kingsguard.

Qarth

A woman with a red lacquer mask who was standing in a garden, thinking on her recent visions concerning Daenerys as she felt a prick in the back of mind, letting her know that someone was trying to summon two people she did not want leaving her side. Extending her magic, she blocked them entirely.

Last Hearth

As Melisandre chanted, they felt their combined power straining against something.

'Something is blocking us.' Naruto realized.

All of a sudden, they were knocked off their feet by a powerful gust of wind as white, ocean blue and emerald green flames rose up from the pentagram, stayed there for a moment, and then dissipated, leaving only scorch marks on the floor.

"I'm sorry, my King. I cannot summon them. Something is blocking me." Melisandre apologized for failing in her task.

"How? The only two that have the power to block me at my current level are the Night's King and…" Naruto trailed off as he realized who had them.

"So, you're in the game again as well," he muttered to himself before he turned to face Melisandre. "We won't try that again. Whoever has them already resurrected them and has them with her. I have a feeling, now that we have made contact, they will be coming here."

Qarth

Quaithe smiled at the feeling of familiar magic. "So, you have finally managed to claim your true vessel, Naruto." His magic felt weaker than she expected from him. Perhaps he had not learned how to use his new bodies full potential yet in conjunction with his own power.

Quaithe walked back back to the manse that she stayed at in Qarth. She walked down it's halls until she came to dark room lit with torches. There were two male figures in black cloaks that were kneeling.

"I take it you are not feeling any discomfort." Quaithe asked.

"None, my lady. Thank you for the help." One said.

"So, the prince tried to summon us." The other said.

"The spell he used was not meant for the living. He was still under the belief that you were dead. Now he knows you are not." Quaithe said.

"Our Prin- no. Our King needs us. We must go to him." The first one said.

"My thoughts exactly. Remove your masks, Sers," Quaithe said as her two companions removed their masks, reveal their faces to the world. The faces of Ser Arthur Dayne, and Lord Commander Ser Gerold Hightower. The only difference now is that they had aged 5 years, since They had been resurrected at the same time that Jon Arryn died.

"Where is the King now, Lady Seastar?" Arthur asked as Quaithe took off her mask and her form shimmered to reveal her true appearance with long Targaryen silver-gold hair, and a heart-shaped face. Although she had two mismatched eyes—one blue, the other green this so-called defect seemed to only make her more beautiful. Her beauty could almost be considered divine.

"He's in the North, fighting the Bolton's to destroy them and put House Stark back in control of the North." Shiera Seastar said. "Come Sers, let us leave this place behind. It's time to go home."

And with that, they walked out of the Manse in Quarth for the last time and made their journey to the North.

Karhold

The Karhold. A massive set of twin castles erected on a twin set of stony hills that were connected by a small bridge, considered to be meaner, by those in the north, than Harrenhal despite being smaller. It was a difficult castle to take. But not this time.

A couple sentries were on the lookout for anything. Down below on the steps, Val made a signal with her hands, and a couple freefolk archers took the sentry's out. Unfortunately for them, one of the sentry's did see his fellow sentry fall to the earth and shout that they were under attack.

"To the gates!" Val shouted, knowing that they needed to get to the gates before they lowered the portcullis, otherwise they would have a lot more trouble trying to take the castle. They reached the gates when the portcullis began to lower. Dongo and Magmar came to the front of the freefolk army. The giant's new armor included a simple, thick steel breastplate that covered the chest back and torso, pauldrons on the shoulders, steel vambraces on the forearms, grieves that covered the lower leg, and a simple helmet that left the eyes, nose, mouth and jaw exposed. Dongo raised his arms and caught the portcullis and Magmar helped him. A third giant then slipped between them and beat on the wooden gates.

While Val was assaulting the gate, Tormund and his climbers had reached the base of the castle where it connected with the stone hill and began to climb up it.

Inside the Karhold main courtyard, where the giant was pounding on the door, Arnolf Karstark was rallying his garrison, along with his son's, Cregan, Arthor, and 3 of his 6 grandsons. "Men of the Karhold!" He shouted as the door was nearly broken, "This castle has never fallen before. We've beat back the Boltons twice when they tried. We're not gonna fucking start now, especially not to an army of wildling savages!" The men were getting pumped by the peptalk.

"Who owns the north!?" Arnolf asked and the men shouted back "We do!"

"Who owns the north!?" Arnolf asked again and the men shouted back "We do!"

"Show me!" He finished as they drew their weapons and readied their shields as the third broke open the wooden gates and the freefolk rushed in. Archers that he had lined on the walls fired into the freefolk army rushing in, but the archers in the Freefolk army quickly took them out as the garrison and the army clashed. Growling when he saw his few archers taken out, Arnolf turned his attention to the blonde haired wilding dressed his Northern clothing, who cut down 4 of his men and Arthor.

"Arthor! You'll pay for that, you Wildling whore!" Arnolf shouted angrily as tried to shield bash Val, but she brought up the shield part of Dragonheart and blocked his attack. He brought his sword down in an arc, only to be met with Val's shield again. He tried to stab her with his sword but she parried the blow and swiped at his stomach, which he jumped back to avoid. He stepped back into range, swinging his sword wildly several times, all of which were blocked by Val, before she knocked away a wild swipe at her face that put Arnolf off balance before she stabbed him in the stomach with her sword, cutting through his chainmail like it was made of hot butter.

Hearing someone behind her, she pulled her sword of his guts, before slicing the throat of Cregan Karstark open, turning back around and slicing Arnolf's back open, causing him to stagger forward a bit, before coming up behind him and stabbing him through the back, piercing his heart. Arnolf's groaned as Val whispered to him, "That's for calling me a whore." She pulled the sword out of his back and tossed his body to the ground.

They continued to slaughter the entire garrison and made it to the bridge that connects the two parts of castle. Val and her men hurried across the bridge as quickly as they could without risking it's stability and broke down the door, only to find Tormund and his men standing near Alys Karstark who was frightened and huddle in a corner.

"About time you got here," Tormund jokingly said, "You took so long getting here that I had enough time to kill the troops and take a nap."

"Only cause you got the easy part of the assault," Val fired back, before she turned back to Alys, "This is your only chance. Surrender."

"I surrender. The Karhold is your's." ALys said, with tears in her eyes.

"Then this castle belongs to Jon Snow." Val declared with a smile, "Put her in the dungeon's with her cousin's." Tormund and some of the female Freefolk took her down to the dungeons, while Val went to go rest, before she sent a raven to Last Hearth to let them know the result of the battle. The bodies of the dead were gathered in a pile in the courtyard and Khalamet and Aithuisa lit the pile on fire and began feasting.

Dreadfort

1 day later

Naruto and his portion of the army came up on the Dreadfort. They were sticking to the forests so they had less of a chance of being seen.

Inside the Dreadfort

Two of the Bolton garrison watched at a group of 10 fish monger's gave out their fish for a price. "Don't you think this is a little odd?" the first soldier asked.

"What's odd?" the second soldier said as he bit into his cooked fish.

"Lord Ramsay sent a raven to be on the lookout for Jon Snow and his band of Wildling's, and suddenly there are fishmongers giving out a full feast? Something doesn't feel right." The First one said.

"Relax," said a 3rd soldier as he drank some wine. "Jon Snow is probably headed toward Winterfell. He's never fought a battle in his life. He'll try and take Winterfell first, because it's his home and Ramsay will destroy him. Now come on and enjoy the food and wine. With Winter nearly here, it may be the last decent meal you have for a while."

"I guess." The first solider replied and he too partook in the food.

Nighttime

It was nighttime at the Dreadfort and the men had fallen asleep after feasting on the fish and wine. It was at that moment that on of the fishmongers pulled off her cap to reveal Karsi. She and the other 20 freefolk that posed as fishmonger's pulled out their weapons and made their way to the gate. All of the guards were asleep, even the ones that would normally be awake at this time, likely due to the sleeoy stuff that had been laced with the fish and wine. Karsi and 9 Freefolk moved up the stairs to the top of the wall, while the other 10, slit the throats of the guards closest to the gate. Karsi lit a torch and waved it around some before throwing it over the walls as the other 10 slowly pulled the gates open.

"That's the signal." Naruto announced as 2000 freefolk charged with him. Within a minute, Naruto's army had reached and entered the gates and began to slaughter the entire garrison. Several of the men did wake up and try to put a fight but they were easily slaughtered. Even the 10 men that mounted a resistance inside the main hall were felled by Naruto with Blackfyre in hand. Like with the Karhold, the bodies of the enemy were gathered in a pile for Acnologia and Midhir to eat.

While the men rested, Naruto found the Lord's Chambers and took off his armor. "Well, that was a disappointing battle." Naruto said as Melisandre entered the room.

"They were nothing more than fodder, my king," She said, looking the door behind her, "Little more than food for your dragons."

"That's true, they will make good meal's for them. Gorging on those bodies should help them reach a large enough size to be useful in combat," Naruto said as he turned to Melisandre and walked over to her. "Now then, your king desires your company."

"And I am happy to give it, my king," Melisandre seductively said.

Lemon

Naruto wrapped his arms around her and immediately kissed her, which she returned without hesitation, wrapping her hands around his neck. Melisandre kissed him, before he picked her up and placed her on the bed. Melisandre sat up and roamed her hands along his body before she started unbuckled his breeches. Melisandre stopped as he forced her to look up at him, before the two began to kiss lustfully, the two closed their eyes as the kiss deepened and got hotter while their hands began to roam each others body.

Naruto went from leaning down to her, to sitting on the bed with her in his lap while wrapping her arms around his neck while they continued to make out. Naruto brought one of his hands down south and felt her moan into his mouth when he gave her ass a nice squeeze.

Before they broke the kiss to allow Melisandre to catch her breath. Naruto wrapped his arms around her waist and brought her forward then took her left tit in his mouth to begin suckling it. Melisandre moaned in pleasure when she felt him swivel his tongue around her hardening bud, using his teeth gently nibbling on it to make her gasp and moan from his actions. She wrapped her hands around his head to hold him in place on her chest almost like she was begging for him not to stop, while she began to grind her hips against his lap. Naruto took his lips off her nipple for a moment to flick his tongue over it before he switched to her right breast.

Melisandre was getting hotter by the second as Naruto gave both of her breasts equal attention, but she gasped loudly with eyes shooting wide open when she felt his hand slip down to her nether region and begin massaging her moist womanhood. Naruto continued sucking on her hardened nipple and thought that her loud moans of pleasure were music to his ears while she panted and gasped and moaned loudly from him working his fingers inside of her cunt, which was tightening around his fingers.

Melisandre shut her eyes and moaned in pleasure from feeling her orgasm hit her. Naruto let her lay down on her back so she could come down from her pleasure high. She watched as he got on his knees and cleaned his fingers off licking her sweet nectar from them and savoring the taste.

Naruto then moved over before her and reached down to spread her legs. Naruto gazed at her soaking wet womanhood and took a moment to breath in the sweet scent of her arousal. He leaned forward and gave her pussy a quick lick which sent a shiver of pleasure up her body. Naruto traced his tongue over the folds of her wet pussy making her emit soft moans of ecstasy. Melisandre was in heaven when she felt him switch between her lips then her clitoris and back again. Naruto smiled when she started moaning even louder from his actions. The Red Woman loved how this king pleasured her. Stannis certainly never did this with her. In fact, none of her other lovers ever did this with her.

He then used his fingers to spread her open wide giving him a great view of her moist caverns then dove his tongue inside her body. Melisandre gasped from the sudden feeling of him moving his tongue around inside of her. She was blushing hard and panting even harder from the pleasure that racked her body.

Her walls were growing tighter and wetter by the second as he continued tasting the red woman and he loved the sweet taste of her wetness. Soon enough, she was at her end. With a moan, she unleashed a torrent of her fluids that coated his tongue. Naruto took a moment to lap up her juices and he moaned from the rich taste as he felt it all slither down his throat. Naruto got back up and smiled down at her as she panted hard.

Melisandre seeing the smile got up on her hands and knees before Naruto who was standing before her. She quickly pulled his pants down past his thighs and marveled as his thick manhood stood at full attention just inches from her face, which only made her more horny. With a grin, she licked her lips in anticipation, hardly able to wait. She brought one of her hands up and took his length in her grip to begin stroking it. She looked up at him when he hissed and his eyes closed in pleasure.

As she stroked his cock in her hand, she then gave it a quick lick and savored the taste. She licked again this time ringing her tongue from the bottom of his shaft then up to the head of his cock. Naruto was moaning from the feeling of her pumping her hand along his length and she loved every second of being able to make him feel good. Melisandre then brought his shaft into her mouth still working her hand around his cock and began sucking on it. Naruto watched as she began bobbing her head up and down his length.

Her moaning from the taste only raised Naruto's arousal as it sent shivers up his body and he was in bliss from feeling her suck him off. "Melisandre, that feels so good." he said barely able to keep on his feet. He brought one hand down to help her work her mouth over his penis. Melisandre smiled when she felt him twitch inside her mouth which signaled that he was nearing the end. She brought him as far into her mouth as she could till she choked as he hit the back of her throat, while she stroked what she couldn't fit.

Naruto groaned loudly and exploded inside her mouth. Melisandre worked diligently to swallow as much of his cum as she could, not wanting to waste his royal seed. It was tough, but she got all his semen down her throat in several large gulps. Once she took her mouth off of his shaft, she sat back and licked her lips savoring the rich taste of his cum, as it was so good. She watched as Naruto took his pants off all the way. She got the message. Her king wanted her for the whole night, and she would happily obey him.

Naruto and Melisandre came forward and wrapped their arms around each others necks and began another heated make out session. Melisandre made Naruto lay back on the bed so she could climb up over and straddle him. Once she was planted firmly on his pelvis, she smiled down at him feeling his manhood at full strength again, grinding up against her soaking wet pussy. Melinda got up on her knees and reached down to line him up then sit back down bringing him into her body, moaning loudly as he stretched her for more than any of her other partners ever had, before she slowly begin to work her hips, lost in ecstasy as she felt his length bury itself deep in her womanhood and how he stretched her to the brink. Melisandre began to speed up the rolling of her hips, before Naruto gripped her hips and began thrusting up into the beautiful red head on top of him. Both lovers were beginning to sweat from the motions of their hips working in sync.

Melisandre leaned forward a bit to better balance herself over Naruto who brought his hands around to begin squeezing her ass cheeks again. Melisandre smiled and started picking up the pace to which Naruto began thrusting up harder into her. Both of them were breathing harder with Melisandre moaning loudly as his cock was thrusting in and out of her faster and harder. Melisandre cried out as she orgasmed again while Naruto gave her ass a nice slap.

Melisandre placed her hands on his shoulders now and then switched from rolling her hips over him to bringing herself up and slamming back down on him. Naruto brought his hands up to her waist and started thrusting up even harder causing her to bounce up and down and soon they were breathing hard, moaning loudly, and sweating bullets as the sound of wet flesh smack against each other filled the room. Naruto felt her walls tightening around his shaft with each thrust till they both met their end.

"Shit!" Naruto groaned as he felt her walls throb around him orgasmic bliss and he reacted by filling her with his cum. Melisandre moaned with a wide smile as she felt his extra hot cum fill her up and she also unleashed her own fluids which soaked both their crotches. Naruto caught her as she fell forward and she looked into his eyes and he back at her. They locked lips again in another lustful kiss. Naruto sat back up and gently worked his legs under so she was still in his lap.

As they kissed, Melisandre smiled as she felt that her king was still supremely hard inside her body and she broke the kiss and smiled as she started working her hips again. Naruto pulled out of her and quickly flipped her over on the bed and put her in the missionary position, before slamming back into her. His quick and powerful thrusts caused the priestess to moan loudly as she orgasmed around his horse-like cock. Naruto did not let up as he continued his pleasurable assault on her body, peppering her neck with kisses while pounding into her. Melisandre wrapped her legs around his waist, trying to drive him further inside of her.

Cave Beneath Great Weirwood Tree

Bran and the Brynden were both having a vision, their eyes whited out, or in Brynden's case, his one remaining eye. Meera and Hodor were preparing for travel.

"We can go home now, Hodor. Well, maybe not home home, but somewhere that isn't a cave." Meera said.

Hodor chuckles and responds with his usual "Hodor".

"Eat something that isn't moss. I want an egg. How do you like 'em? Boiled? Fried up with some butter? With a rasher of bacon and some blood sausage." She finished, her mouth salivating at the thought.

"Hodor." He responds with a laugh, as he too would like some real food.

Meera notices she can see her breath. She looks at Bran and then runs to the entrance of the cave. Leaf and the other Children of the Forest are gathered outside. Across the field, the Night King, three White Walkers, and the army of the dead are gathered. The Night King stepped forward, kneels, and placed his hand on the ground. A rift cracks through the ice all across the field and into the Great Weirwood Tree.

When the barrier broke, Brynden's single remaining eye turned red and he smiled. "Finally."

Brynden snapped his fingers and Bran was pulled out of his vision. "Wha-What?" Bran said as he looked around in confusion.

"The Night King and his army are here. Our time has come to an end, Brandon Stark." Brynden said as he used his now unrestrained powers to maneuver the branches to pick up the paralyzed young man and bring Bran up to Brynden.

"What are you doing?" Brandon asked as his direwolf, Summer, growled.

"I'm giving you what you originally came here for. I'm fixing you." Brynden as he placed his two finger's on Bran's spine and chanted, "Hoc reficere pueri spina. Sana ejus crura musculi. Hoc reficere pueri spina. Sana ejus crura musculi. Hoc reficere pueri spina. Sana ejus crura musculi."

A loud snap of bones was heard as Bran cried in pain as his spine snapped back into place, his nerve endings repaired themselves, and his leg muscles, once atrophied from years of disuse, filled out as if he had never stopped walking.

Meera ran back into the cave at that moment, retrieving a sword on the way back. "Bran!" Meera said, as she needed to get him out of here.

"By the Gods," Bran said as he felt his legs. "I can feel my legs again."

Bran tried to stand and he rose his knees of the ground but then toppled to the floor. "I may have fixed your legs Brandon, but they haven't been used in 5 years. You'll have to learn how to walk again." Brynden said.

Brynden groaned as the vines wrapped around his body more and he forced his old body to stand. He summoned some of the tree to forge a staff for himself so he would not fall. "You three and Summer need to leave and get back to Winterfell. The Children and I won't be able to hold off the Night King for long. This is where our path's end, Brandon Stark. You will not see me again."

"Goodbye, Brynden Rivers, and thank you, for everything," Bran said as Hodor and Meera carried him away, but not before grabbing 2 dragonglass spears. Brynden then turned to the cave entrance.

Outside, the few remaining children of the Forest were throwing their exploding acorn bombs at the Night King's army, when suddenly, roots flew out of the ground and impaled the children of the Forest. Brynden slowly walked out of the entrance. The Night's King, interested in this new development, stopped his armies advance, leaving the army of the dead still as a grave.

"Why? We saved you," Leaf said weakly as her sisters died.

"No, you didn't. You damned all of humanity when you created the White Walkers. I was sent here by the Old Gods to save the human race. And I could have already prepared humanity for this, but you genocidal tree-hugging maniacs bound me to that tree so I couldn't reincarnate into Jon Snow. But that hardly matters at this point." Brynden said as the tree roots flung the dead bodies of the Children to the side, igniting them, creating a line of fire that prevent the Army of the dead, minus the walkers, from crossing.

"Hello, my old enemy." Brynden said as he leaned on his staff.

"You." The Night's king spoke, in a voice that sounded like knives scraping against stone.

"Yes, me. The man who has been stopping you for 8000 years. Just in the old body. How do you like it? It should have died a long time ago, but still." Brynden said.

"You cannot stop me. You are weak and old, while I remain unchanged. You will perish here." The Night's King said to him.

"Maybe so. But you are already too late. My will has been done regardless. And even if you kill this body, I'll just take another until you have fallen. And make no mistake, your downfall starts here." Brynden said ominously as the Night's King laughed. His laugh was like something straight out of the pits of hell.

"Stop me? I am the bane of all living things. I am Winter, I am Death." The Night's King proclaimed.

"Maybe not you, but your army on the other hand," Brynden trailed off as four spears of dragonglass shot out the ground and hit the Night King and his three Whitewalkers, killing the White Walkers while the Night King broke the spear and pulled the broken thing out of his eye. The Night King then saw Brynden glowing, just as he had all those years ago as Azor Ahai. Before he could pull out his magic Ice scythe and kill him, Brynden exploded in a blast of flame, the flames seeming to only travel towards the Night King's army. The Night King watched as the 8,000 freefolk from Hardholme, and 4,000 more were burned to ash.

The flames finally died and the Night King looked at the scorched earth and saw nothing of the 12,000 troops he had lost. He wasn't worried though. He still had half a million more meat suits to use. He could have gone after Bran, but he saw no point. The brat was going back home behind the wall. He'd kill him then. Although, the Night King did notice that his eye where he was stabbed with the Dragonglass was not healing.

As the Night King and his army began their slow march again, he didn't see a cloud of red smoke fly away.

Dreadfort

Naruto was sleeping peacefully with Melisandre sleeping soundly next to him when the red smoke came into the room and Naruto was awoken and sat up as the red smoke entered his body through his mouth, his essence from Brynden recombined with his true essence, and his staggered out of bed, which woke up Melisandre, who was stunned by the development. Naruto fell to his knees as he adjusted to his new power.

Naruto rose to his feet as he clenched his fist and a red aura surrounded him as he smiled as he closed his eyes. Naruto knew he could now use up to 75% of his full power. But he still needed to unlock the rest of his bodies secrets.

"My King," Melisandre said as she stood next to him, hugging his arm to her body, laying her other hand on his chest, her eyes shining with devotion and lust. "Your power feels as though it has been magnified." Naruto was extremely powerful at 5%. Now, he was many times stronger than he was before.

"It has," Naruto said as he opened his eyes, and his once black sclera, were now colored a normal white again, before hugging Melisandre close to him and said, "And I'm feeling particularly horny right now, so let's have some more fun, my sexy Red Priestess." Melisandre was more than happy to obey.

Later

It was still nighttime out as Naruto was in the courtyard of the Dreadfort, contemplating his next move. Now that more of his power was restored, he could start taking care of that wildfire in King's Landing. All of Aery's old wildfire was still underneath King's Landing, placed all throughout the city, since Jaime Never told anyone about it. He needed to take care of that, because if Cersei went through with her insane "blow up the Sept of Baelor" plan right now, she would blow up all of King's Landing. Set one off and they all go off.

Naruto held his hand, which was in a claw shape, and breathed red smoke into it, until it formed into an orb of red smoke. He then thrust his hand forward and the orb exploded into a thousand wisps of red smoke, that became a thousand red human-like silhouettes, all standing in formation.

"You all know what to do. Go," Naruto ordered, and the thousand clones he had made flew off to complete their objective.

King's Landing

A number of the gold cloaks were sleeping, including their Commander, Humfrey Waters. The red smoke entered into their bodies. Humfrey and the men that the smoke entered got up and opened their eyes, showing blood red irises, showing that Naruto's clones were possessing them.

"Come on, boys. Let's find that Wildfire," Possessed Humfrey said, working to bring his master's command to fruition, along with 999 more possessed men.

2 weeks later

With the Karhold and Dreadfort under his control, Naruto and Sansa were able to secure the allegiances of the Hornwoods, and the Mazin's. At Mors' suggestion, they feasted with the Northern mountain clans who were loyal to the memory of Eddard Stark. 'The Ned', as they called him. By doing this, they were able to earn the Mountain Clan's allegiance. Val and Tormund kept their men at the Karhold while they continued to arm their men with good castle-forged steel. Naruto had sent 4,000 men to escort Sansa and Ser Davos as they traveled to Bear Island, to secure the Mormonts had also taken Highpoint, the seat of House Whitehill, the bitter rivals of House Forrester. Besides Ludd Whitehill, who was at Winterfell swearing his allegiance to Ramsay, and Gywn Whitehill, who was the lover of Asher Forrester, who Naruto had also managed to acquire, the Whitehill bloodline was gone.

The sacking of the Dreadfort, Karhold and Highpoint came at a cost of just over 100 men, while the Bolton casualties were 7 times that.

With two of the Bolton's major strongholds and one minor one in possession of the Starks, the time had come to call their banners. Now, it was time to finish the Bolton's off once and for all.