A/N: Important Author's Note here, so be sure to read it.

A MAN LIVES! A MAN RETURNS FROM WORK! A MAN WEEPS AT GAME OF THRONES AND HER ENDING!

And holy hell everyone loves Joanna.

From what little I've managed to dig up on her, I apparently got her personality down pat. She's essentially a nice version of Cersei but WOE TO YE if you threaten her babies/family. She'll tear you to pieces like a proper lioness would. Even ran across a line that said she "rules Tywin at home" my oh my whatever could that mean?

So lets clarify things:

Naruto is NOT Tyrion. Our favorite Lannister will still be brought into the world. Quite soon, actually~!

In terms of years, he's is clearly the middle child of the Lannister family, but not so young that he wouldn't be involved/take notice of things during the whole mad king debacle. For example, Jaimie and Cersei were near seventeen during the sack of King's Landing. Naruto's approximately three years younger than them, which makes him three years older than Tyrion. Clearly he won't be the Westeros definition of normal, either.

Someone mentioned the Maesters sending assassins after our boy because he has what they view as "magic" in his blood. That may well happen.

Still undecided about NarutoxCersei, some reviews say yay, some say nay. More votes are needed. I will say this. IF it happens she won't be the same spoiled shit we see in the show. The Naruto we know would never allow that and this IS him, reborn. He's just a bit more...persuasive thanks to his upbringing, less likely to tolerate injustice when he sees it, and more keen to throw hands and kill his adversaries when he has no other choice.

A classic example would be what the Mountain does to Ellia Martell.

Naruto would have PROBLEMS with that if he heard of it, much less witnessed it. At his core, he believes in family. He's no Targaryen supporter, but he believes family is sacred. He would balk at the idea of the Red Wedding, much as Tyrion did.

On another note, this story will incorporate elements from the books and such, so expect some surprises~!

Sorry if its short~!

"We should kill him."

"Unhand him or the hand comes off."

~?

First Steps (Interlude)

Joanna Lannister loved her children.

Every true mother treasured their children. More than life itself. Any woman who cared not a wit for their offpsring was no matriarch in her eyes, but a wench and a craven; something to be reviled and spit upon. A parent had a duty to those that came after them, and a mother's duty was to her children. Always her children. They were Joanna's light, her life, her everything. Second only to her husband himself; and only then because she'd grown up with Tywin as a little girl. She would live for them, fight for them, die for them if she must.

Never before had

Ah, but her children!

As such, she adored the twins just as much as she did the babe in her arms. Stubborn Jaime, still struggling with his letters and only just now learning to hold a sword, yet wide-eyed with wonder when he saw the bundle in her eyes. Sullen Cersei, petulant at no longer being the center of her mother's world, yet curious about her new brother all the same.

"Blue eyes," he murmured, "That's new."

"What of it?" Cersei gave a sulk, heedless of the look it garnered her. "They might yet change."

Joanna offer Jaime an indulgent smile. "Would you like to hold him, then?"

Jaime jolted, but shook his head fiercely. "But...I might drop him!"

"Don't be such a coward."

Of course, Cersei wasn't going to take that lying down; anything Jaime couldn't-or wouldn't-do was something she absolutely had to. She wanted to be the center of attention, and if that meant holding this burbling infant then so be it. Naturally, Joanna had anticipated this, and as such when Cersei pushed her brother out of the way, she offered little Naruto to her gladly. It was a good thing for her to take an interest in her brother after all, and she would gladly give the twins the nudge they needed to accept their sibling. They were family. Family looked after one another.

"Careful, now." she instructed as young Cersei cradled the infant in her arms, "Watch his head."

"I have him, mother." Cersei tossed her head. "I don't see what all the fuss is about."

Then the babe reached up and did the unthinkable.

Her daughter blinked.

Once.

Twice.

Finally, she dared a small smile.

"He is rather...cute, I suppose." she mumbled weakly. "For a babe."

Jaime crowded in at her elbow. "Quite the grip he's got."

Joanna would forever vividly recall her first memory of them interacting with one another; of watching, spellbound as the babe clutched at Cersei's outstretched finger and cooed softly. That drew a rare smile from her daughter and she even unbent enough to deign a giggle. In that moment there eyes there was no distinction to be made between the three of them. They were her children. She would love them until the end of her days and beyond. Any child that came after this one would be just as loved. So she swore. By the old gods and the new.

Tywin kept insisting they name him Nathaniel at least. Naruto was too foreign a name for a Lannister, he said. It won't command respect, he said.

Eventually she yielded, if only in part.

Let this rotten world call him what they willed.

If her beloved was so keen on calling him that, then so be it. Joanna had sworn she would always call him by the name she'd given him. It just felt...right somehow. When the maesters had tried to take him from her she'd refused then, just as she refused them now. She no longer trust them. But she trust family. Jaime and Cersei...they'd look after him. Even after she was gone. She couldn't be there for him forever. But his siblings, Cersei and Jaime and-any future children Joanna herself had-would be there for him.

Naruto.

Yes, it was just as she'd said before.

One day, she knew this boy would change the world.

A/N: Whew! I'm emotionally drained after writing this. Can't say whether Joanna will live or not...after all, this is Game of Thrones and we all know it seldom has a happy ending for everyone; as the finale would well attest to. Some survived to the ends. Others didn't. Still, while I may be beat, I've never let exhaustion beat me before...but its a near thing today.

Two updates in a day tends to do that to you.

Oh, did I say two? Why, I believe I did.

So...in the immortal words of Atlas...

...Review...Would Ya Kindly? And of course, Enjoy the previews!

Potential ones...

...and a VERY tentative one.

(Preview)

When her womb quickened again some years later she welcomed it wholeheartedly.

It was as a difficult, birth, one that nearly killed her.

A dwarf.

With that, she became possessed of the belief that her middle son wasn't normal. Whatever he'd done had healed her; prevented her from bleeding out. Most mothers would've balked at such a display. Not Joanna. She'd sworn to love all her children, and she resolved to love this one, imperfections and all.

She named their newest son Tyrion.

She'd never forget the look on Tywin's face when he saw him.

Naruto wrinkled his nose. "Don't wanna be a kingsguard. Too many oaths."

Father actually laughed at that, a rare bark of genuine laughter that echoed through the keep.

"Good!" he chuckled ruefully. "Then you've more sense in your head than Jaime. Now, onto your next letter...

"It isn't right!"

"Clegane! Stop!"

He was going to kill that baby.

The Mountain growled. "Move aside, boy."

He expected him to do just that; to back down.

Instead the hand on his arm hauled him down into a waiting fist.

R&R! =D