This is Marcus Greendil again with a new story. I do apologize to those who are expecting an update for The Story of Two Legends. It may be a while until I update or maybe just abandon it. Hopefully though I would maybe try but the story was just something that I could picture in my head but sadly writing seems to be a tad bit difficult than I originally thought but then again I did start to write because there are stories that I am obsessed with reading but there was no one who has the plot I was looking for.

On another note I am writing a Naruto x Game of Thrones story and hopefully I would write longer and much more enthusiastically.This story will be based on Japanese characters. More specifically, the characters from Samurai Warriors 2 (PS2).

They may not be accurate with the actual history but this is a story and it is based in GoT world. So please just read and then tell me if you think I should continue or not. I always need the encouragement from you guys so review please.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, GoT or Samurai Warriors 2.

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Introduction to the Land of The Rising Sun.

In this world of supernatural creatures and war-lustful men there were two continents known to man. The one situated on the west was Westeros and on the east, Essos. Men have fought for as long as its history goes. Wars for conquest, wars for slights against another, wars for jealousy and any kind of wars have been waged only to satisfy the lust, greed and pride of many a ruler. As always, the casualties were always supplied with the smallfolk who lived under the protection of said rulers but they cannot question this since the only response a ruler would ever need is that since they are under a lord's protection and they live in his lands, all of them must abide to his wishes. This type of ruling system is much more prominent on the continent of Westeros.

In Essos, the ruling system is harsher and crueler, along with the religion and its vastly different cultures. Of those cultures, the most feared are the Dothraki tribes who roam the grasslands on horses. This would be nothing to those without a city since who would fear facing a bunch of horsemen when you have walls that could render them obstructed? No. Their intimidating features lies in the fact that a single khalasar or a segment led under a Khal consists of about twenty to sixty thousand people and two thirds of that amount are capable fighters. Their numbers were trumped by their reputation of slavery and city razing. Most cities would either pay tremendous amounts of tributes or evacuate when they have nothing to offer. To face a khalasar would be suicide unless their city is called Braavos or any other with huge walls and huge armies.

Mercenary companies offer contracts with cities who want to expand their territories by acts of war and will fight without any notion or thoughts of betrayal.

Religious influences are quite numerous but of them all, the religion of the Lord of Light outclasses them all. Manipulating people's troubled minds and showing magical traits allowed them to easily win over many followers. Sacrificial offerings were quite common in this religion and they do not allow anyone to stand in their way. They get rid of the competition and non-believers by accusing them of made up crimes like the most common crime; association with the Great Other.

This religion has another rival but unlike the Lord of Light's followers, the Many Faced God's followers only allow members who have potential. Another difference was that unlike the Lord of Light, the Many Faced God is mostly based on eliminating cruel people and helping anyone end their sufferings.

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For a long time, they have come to accept that only two continents are all there is in the world but what others do not know that there was another land farther to the east. The people were much smaller in stature compared to the normal height of Westerosi and Essosi people. They have a much more organized structural status. The common people work a land they are given by their daimyo and are protected by the samurai, an equivalent to knights. Samurai learn the arts of bushido with a one edged, slighly curved sword called a katana. Sometimes a nodachi was used but the katana was a must for any samurai. The daimyo was the equivalent of a lord in Westeros. He has a massive territory which belongs to his ancestors. He lets people live in his land and in turn they serve him. Most daimyos were quite spoiled, pompous people who think everything revolves around them. But where there is bad, there is also good. Other daimyos treat their people fairly and consider them as important as themselves but sadly, there were only a few good ones.

The land was called Yamatai and was controlled by the Emperor and governed miltarily by the shogun. The Emperor was more of a puppet ruler than an actual one but the shogun was the real power behind it all. The land was in a bloody era with most daimyos trying to claim each other's territories but a new player quickly rose into power.

Oda Nobunaga, a son of a samurai family solidified his position throughout the land by quickly claiming territories of the Imagawa clan who strong-armed the Matsudaira clan to stretch its influences further. It was said that the Imagawa-Matsudaira alliance was 40,000 strong while Nobunaga could only gather 3,000 men. Relying on his intellect, Nobunaga ordered dummies to be made and made small flags with his insignia on them and situated them at the mouth of the gorge which the Imagawa-Matsudaira army was resting directly in. Dividing his men to both sides of the gorge, they waited for the end of the rain which fell heavily at dusk and charged the larger army. The Imagawa clan head, Yoshimoto initially thought it was a brawl since the partied under the rain to improve morale and went out of his tent to stop it but was surprised when two samurai ran towards him brandishing a spear and the other, a sword. He deflected the spear but the sword lopped off his head. The Imagawa was defeated but Nobunaga, in a surprising show of mercy given his ruthlessness, offered an alliance between their clans which the Matsudaira head at the time, Motoyasu, accepted.

The alliance was official the next year and Nobunaga now desired to rule over Yamatai. The next few years were kind to Nobunaga. Many coalitions were raised just to repel him and he managed to defeat them all. Other times it was luck that saved him. Takeda Shingen, a well known general who has battled him to a standstill, died of natural causes. So did Uesugi Kenshin, another well known general or possibly the greatest since Takeda Shingen. He died of brain hemorrhage and as his replacement was being chosen, Nobunaga quickly defeated the divided and leaderless Uesugi clansmen.

After long campaigns, the unification of Yamatai was becoming more and more real. However there was a drawback to the completion of his dream. Akechi Mitsuhide, one of Nobunaga's well known retainers, betrayed him out of vengeance. Nobunaga had negotiated a peace treaty with a hostile clan who held hostages, one of whom happened to be Mitsuhide's mother, but turned on them in the middle of negotiations. Outraged, the enemy clan killed all of the hostages along with Mitsuhide's mother. Since then, Mitsuhide swore to avenge his mother and all those who suffered, all because of Nobunaga's stupidity and cruelty.

At the temple of Honno-ji, Nobunaga wanted to pray and since he was in the middle of his territory, he was too confident that nothing will happen to him. Mitsuhide gathered all his clansmen and blocked all entrances and exits to the temple and set the whole building aflame. Nobunaga's retainers and his two most trusted allies, Toyotomi Hideyoshi; Nobunaga's former sandal-bearer who rose through the ranks after Nobunaga realized his potential in the battle against the Imagawa-Matsudaira. The other was Tokugawa Ieyasu; formerly Matsudaira Motoyasu, the clan head of the Matsudaira clan. He showed total loyalty and courage along with his men who became the Four Heavenly Kings. Tadakatsu Honda, Ii Naomasa, Sakakibara Yasumasa and Sakai Tadatsugu.

They arrived and checked the remains of the burnt building. In one of the inner rooms, the two lieutenants, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu found the charred corpse of a man with a slash mark on his torso while kneeling. The sight of the corpse still holding a knife to its split stomach made them conclude that Oda Nobunaga had committed seppuku.

Hideyoshi left the next day, while Ieyasu returned home as the bulk of his men were at his hometown, and pursued Mitsuhide for the next ten days until they caught up with him at Yamazaki where he took a final stand. He escaped in the end but was murdered by bandits at a village he hid in and soon, Hideyoshi became the most powerful daimyo in the land since he was more influencial.

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However, no one knew that Nobunaga survived. At Honno-ji, his most trusted companion who was apprenticed to him, Ranmaru Mori, led him away from the burning temple to escape through a hidden pathway. Knowing that Mitsuhide will not rest until he sees Nobunaga dead, Mori returned to the temple and committed seppuku under the burning embers of the building in order to give the illusion that Nobunaga was dead.

Nobunaga was saddened at the death of his friend but rode on until he lost consciousness and his horse headed straight for a cliff and fell to the ocean.

When he came back to consciousness, he was amazed when he saw the place he woke up in. A castle with beautiful designs and magnificent architecture this place had until he realized he was looking at the castle from the outside.

He found that he slept in a stable with the horses and rushed outside only to find an alarming sight. Redheads as far as the eye can see. Everywhere he looked, no one seemed to have another hair color. The most different that he saw was lighter red and that was because the man was old enough to be his grandfather and Nobunaga was 47 years old at the moment.

Likewise, people stared at him like he was some sort of freakshow sent by the devil himself.

A laugh brought him out of his shock and he saw a typically red haired man about his own age walk to him with several red armored samurai. The man was ornately garbed in an expensive looking kimono quickly giving Nobunaga the deduction that he was a nobleman.

Straightening himself, Nobunaga introduced himself and demanded to know where he was. He was shocked when the samurai acted like he wasn't even worth a penny while the man laughed again.

Nobunaga lost his temper and rushed forward and grabbed a nearby samurai's sword. The rest of the samurai then began to reach their swords but never brought it out of the sheathe.

The nobleman only kept chuckling infuriatingly prompting Nobunaga to attack the nearest samurai. Just as he was about to hit him, he saw the samurai tense and suddenly, Nobunaga found himself staring at the blue sky and he heard the sound of the sword click back into a sheathe.

The nobleman appeared in his range of vision but this time, looking serious.

"That was not a wise decision my friend. You were lucky that Butsumi-san here hit you with the blunt edge of his katana and not the other." He said while Nobunaga looked at the samurai he attacked.

"How did you do that? I am the best swordsman in all of Yamatai and you defeated me with a single sword stroke. Are you a lord and you are testing me?" He stated in confusion since he had never been defeated in this fashion.

The samurai never spoke or even indicated that he heard but the nobleman sighed, "You are not from around here are you? Butsumi-san is only a simple samurai from modest upbringing. He is certainly not a lord." The man finished while the other samurai began to tease Butsumi being hailed as a lord while the man sputtered in embarassment.

"Then how do you explain his skill in swordsmaship. Surely he must be a general at the least. Defeating me is an impossible feat! I demand answers right now!" Nobunaga was getting more and more angry. He doesn't know if he was angry at being defeated like nothing or the fact that the samurai kept laughing annoyingly.

After controlling his men, the nobleman introduced himself as Uzumaki Nagato of the Uzumaki clan of Uzushiogakure. After explaining to Nobunaga that one of their own found him floating on the corpse of a bloated horse.

"And that is how you came to be here horseman." The nobleman finished with a jib while the samurai chukled humorously.

They led Nobunaga into the castle and he saw quite a lot of samurai training in kenjutsu while others just kept slashing at the air once and then put the sword in the sheathe once more, repetitively.

He almost shouted in horror when this ears were filled with an unfamiliar loud cracking noise. Turning to where the sound came from, he saw men standing in line while holding a long wooden tube with smoke coming out the hollow end. At approximately fifty meters away, numerous targets were filled with small holes.

"What are those things?" he questioned Nagato.

"Ahh, you like them? Those are tanegashima firearms. A rather ingenious breakthrough of warfare invention by Masamune-jiji. They basically shoot little balls of metal at extremely high speeds. Quite dangerous and yet….quite slow to reload." Nagato shook his head in disappointment as he observed the men took almost forty seconds to reload.

Nobunaga was very impressed at the equipment and soon moved to the entrance of the castle. As he stepped inside, he saw the samurai escort disarm themselves and laid their weapons beside the door.

They then entered and soon Nobunaga was faced with samurai wearing dark armor with red lines running diagonally from the righ shoulder to the left hip and another from the left shoulder to the right hip to make a red X on the chestpiece. The helmets were adorned with crescent gold while they held spiked kanabo but do not carry any weapons.

Nagato informed him to remember that no weapons will be carried inside the castle. They reached the throne room and Nobunaga saw a flight of stairs in the middle of the room, connecting to a platform where a small room was situated. The room was walled with transparent screen and he saw the silhouette of an old man behind it.

Nagato quickly bowed low and Nobunaga followed suit. The old man then asked Nagato if this was the horseman who survived the journey to Uzushio.

Nobunaga was a little stumped at why the old leader would be impressed at his survival journey to their lands. The old leader laughed amusingly while Nobunaga could only furrow his eyebrows in contemplation. Nagato told the old codger that he will show what the inside joke was later that day to their guest.

Suddenly, out of the blue, or the dark in this case, the whole castle was shook as the doors slammed open and much to Nobunaga's amazement, a red haired, amethyst eyed angel in human clothing walked angelically, almost gliding with elgance and grace.

Returning to reality, Nobunaga was treated to the fact that due to his lovestruck gaze, her walking with elegance was actually stomping on the floor as she walked enraged towards Nagato.

"You will pay for what you did, Nagato, I will beat your ass into the ground so hard you will be fossil!" The young woman shouted angrily while Nagato uncharacteristically yelped and dove behind Nobunaga.

"Kushina-chan, I thought you wouldn't mind if I, you know, hosted your guest while you were asleep. Oh look, what would your-" He quickly wrapped an arm around Nobunaga's neck, "-guest say about your….unladylike actions." He spoke arrogantly while paying close attention to his fingernails.

Kushina blushed cutely when she saw Nobunaga staring with a blown away expression. He was introduced to her and found out that she was the one who found him. After granting him permission to live in the castle, the old leader made him a resident at Uzushio.

Thus started the life of the dead conqueror in an unknown land and his impending return to take back what was rightfully his.

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This is only the prelude. Naruto will be born to an era of samurai and to the first unifier of Yamatai and Kushina.

No, for those who will ask, Minato will not be present as will most of the Naruto characters, even the bijuu.

Next chapter will be Naruto's birth and the start of an invasion of Yamatai.

Marcus Greendil. Over and Out.