Carefully Regulus inspected the large golden locket and held it under the pale sunlight of the frosted window next to his bed. With a slight smile, he put the locket back into his cloak and sat down on the bed. "A small victory, but a victory nonetheless."

"Itachi made a decision. He had already damned himself to the pits of hell, the most he could do was to help someone out of hell." What if, on the night of the Uchiha massacre, Naruto had been at the wrong place at the wrong time? And what if Itachi left him a gift to atone for his sins?

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved" Luke Vader is beginning his first moves in the Imperial galaxy as a diplomat to Alderaan. What will destiny hold for him?