"How does it feel to be just a few days from turning ten?" Iruka asked as he watched Naruto eat another bowl of ramen. Iruka had really been surprised by Naruto, as he had never given up even with his rather poor grades. He might be a troublemaker and be lacking the book smarts but he made up for it in determination and raw talent. Iruka was proud to say that Naruto ended up growing on him, as he saw a lot of himself in the boy at his age.

"It feels good." His voice muffled by the food in his mouth. And that was another thing, Naruto was just as big of a ramen addict as Iruka was. Iruka had to cut back on his favorite meal due to his Shinobi diet but when he was younger he ate almost as much as Naruto did. He had heard that Naruto had been taken to Ichiraku when he first was taken in by his Guardians. Iruka could understand how Naruto developed a taste for it being a place that held a very special memory for him.

"Are Alpharius and Omegon planning a party to celebrate?" Iruka inquired as he thought of the Brothers. He had met them a few times, and in his mind Alpharius was polite and wise while Omegon was friendly and loud. They were the classic 'identical twins but opposite personalities'. He had been completely taken off guard by the size of them and he had yet to fully get used to it, but Naruto seemed to be very happy living under them. Even if Naruto was completely terrified of them at times, like the times when Naruto's pranks began getting on the villagers' nerves or his grades began slipping even further than they already were. Iruka knew they were good people and happy that they had found Naruto, even if Iruka had no idea why they had taken an interest in Naruto. It wasn't like they had a connection to the boy via family in any way.

"I think so... but I'll let them do what they want so long as it ends up back here." Naruto said before finishing off another bowl.

"That's good to hear..." Iruka stopped at the sight of Naruto's face becoming a bit more sullen than it normally was.

"Iruka Sensei... I want you to know that I'm thankful for everything you've done for me. And everything Alpharius and Omegon have done. Without them... I don't want to think about it."

"That's fine Naruto, it's good to think about what might be because it helps you realize what you already have."

Hinata was walking through her clan's compound. It had been a trying few days. Her father had completely disappeared from her life and the rest of the clan had taken advantage. Every time she passed a Main Branch member they would at best look at her with looks of pity and disgust and at worst say things that she rather not remember. The lower branch families either took their chance at venting their feelings for the Main branch on her or were sympathetic to her plight, but the latter was few and far between.

Things weren't that much better at school. She had yet to make a single friend outside of Naruto. For which she was eternally grateful for. Both for even having a friend and also she hated to think of a life in which Naruto wasn't around to make her day brighter.

"Lady Hinata." Hinata turned around to see one of the branch family members addressing her. "Your father wishes to speak to you in his study." This was completely unexpected, she had not seen her father in the last few weeks and now he sends for her. A small part of her was angry at this but that small side of her was crushed by the side that craved to appease her father. In about five minutes Hinata found herself sitting across from her father as he worked. The quiet between them was still, devoid of anything that could give her any indication of what this meeting was for or how her father was feeling.

"Hinata… it has come to my attention that you lack the necessary traits the Hyūga need in their head of the clan." Something was very off. Off enough to keep Hinata from focusing on this topic her father was on. "I have decided to name Hanabi as my heir instead of you." But that had caught Hinata… and hit her like a sack of bricks hitting her in the head. Already her mind was going to the worst possible place, banishment from the Main house, that meant the Caged Bird Seal and worst of all likely that she would be taken out from the academy and away from Naruto. "This however I am keeping between us." Hinata didn't fully hear her father but soon enough those words sobered her from her thoughts. 'I have decided to take the advice of someone I know to be of wise character. You will be placed away from the Hyūga clan but not banished. I intend to secure an alliance between the Hyūga and another clan by marrying you and their next head of clan."

Had Hiashi had a mischievous bone in his body, he would have chosen this particular choice of delivering this information for no other reason than funny. But that was not the case, it was just his normal blunt and rather tactless way he spoke when it came to his children.

Meanwhile Hinata was braindead. The second she had head her father's plan to marry her off to some random man that she had never met and more importantly to her wasn't Naruto… all thoughts in her head cease to exist.

"But as I said before…" Hiashi continued, noticing his daughter's look of complete and utter dead to the world. "This is between just you and I. This is due to the Clan elders would never agree to this plan which is why I plan on executing it before they even hear about it. However the future clan head I spoke of is of yet even be a part of his clan. As the Uzumaki clan has yet to be formally refounded, but I along with… Hinata?" Hiashi said as his daughter fell over as she had fainted from a combination of relief, shock embarrassment, and a cocktail of many other emotions. "Oh dear… it would seem that Alpharius was correct in that she would not be able to handle the news." Hiashi thought as he stood up and walked over to his eldest daughter "Since this is the case then I think I will follow their advice on the matter." He took out a small sealing scroll and unsealed the two-headed metal eagle within it. It was a talisman loaded with a memory altering Jutsu, something the brothers had come up with. They had told him that if Hinata could not handle the news of her eventual engagement to Naruto then it would be best for her not to know about it until she could. So they gave him the talisman to change the memory of the meeting to a small informal meal that went well. Hiashi placed the small eagle on Hinata's forehead and it briefly glowed golden light and then nothing. Hinata stirred a bit but then went back to normal. Hiashi picked up his daughter in his arms and started off to take her to her room.

Satsuki was walking through what used to be the Uchiha clan district, only now it was a bit of a ghost town. It was completely empty but for her apartment and Kojiro's home. She enjoyed that she was given her own place where she was granted some comfort of privacy, and she liked the fact it wasn't the size of Kojiro's huge mansion. She liked her small little two-story apartment, made things feel more like things weren't missing.

At the moment, she was on her way to Kojiro's home for a small informal dinner between him and his two wives, she was still getting used to that idea, a few nobles interested in the status of the Uchiha restoration and herself as Sasuke of course. She wasn't going to say much, just eat the food, nod when spoken to, and grumble about time being taken away from training. Just like Sasuke would.

Things had not improved for Satsuki in any fashion in the years since her clan's destruction. In fact, they had begun to get worse for her. For one thing, she had begun to go through puberty. Something that Kojiro had informed her hit Uchiha women rather hard and fast. He had been chuckling perversely when he said it and at the time she had punched him in the gut on principle. But she had at the time not known what he had meant. Well now she did, he body had begun to develop rather quickly. Much to her annoyance. When it had started to happen, she went back to Kojiro for a more thorough explanation as he had said this happened to Uchiha women and since there weren't any left he was the only source of information she had at disposal. He still had that stupid grin but he kept control and explained that it was common among their clan for Uchiha women to develop quickly and generously. He had used those words and in a monotone voice that kept him from getting punched again. So now she had to deal with a developing body that under any other circumstances be a nice little boost to her self-image issues and confidence, but instead it was a new problem that needed to be dealt with. That came in the form of binding her chest. At the moment she didn't notice it… that much. But from way Kojiro spoke, it was going to be an issue in the coming years.

But as stated before, it was not an issue today. Today's issue was the company she would have to deal with for the night. Nobles trying to set HER up with their daughters. It was sickening how they attempted to basically sell their own flesh and blood for future influence and favors. She would be spending the whole night politely turning down offers while on the inside be fuming and wanting to scream at their slimy ways. And she would have to deal with the two women that her fellow Uchiha had chosen as his first and second wife.

The first was Kukiko Moriai… now Kukiko Uchiha. While Satsuki honestly wasn't entirely into the whole Pride of the Uchiha, the words Pride Isn't Worth Extinction coming back to her when she thought of the topic, Satsuki did feel a little sick knowing she shared a last name with the woman. In private, Kojiro had fully admitted that he married the woman for political reasons. She was the sister of a respected merchant and the Uchiha clan needed the income. They had no Shinobi bring in mission payments, nor did they have any civilian Uchiha working shops and more mundane jobs. Much of the clan's assets were tied up in legal red tape, while they did have to the clan's accounts now that Kojiro was clan head it was never going to last forever. So that's where Kukiko and her family came into the picture. Not only would she be used to bare his kids but her family now acted as the Uchiha's commercial arm. Something Kojiro was going to try and change as soon as he could but that needed bodies that they just didn't have. Satsuki did not enjoy being around the woman because not only was she insufferably shallow but she couldn't get over the fact that she had joined the great Uchiha clan.

Kojiro's second wife was a bit better than the first, and Kojiro admitted that he genuinely liked being around Anri Akiyama far more than Kukiko, along with the fact that their marriage had far more substance than the first. Satsuki had noted that Kojiro still sounded like he was saying these things more for himself than for Satsuki's sake. She could tell that even though Kojiro enjoyed being around Anri it wasn't the same as love. Satsuki could also tell that she wasn't the only one that had noted this, Anri did so and she took it far more gracefully than Kukiko would ever do if she figured it out why Kojiro had really married her. Anri was a gentle woman by nature and she seemed to understand what seemed to pain Kojiro and accepted it, and he treated her very well. Fromm what Satsuki knew about where she had come from that wasn't a sure thing for her before she had met Kojiro. The problem Satsuki had with Anri was that Kukiko had completely scared and threatened the meeker woman into submission and now did whatever she said, which included shunning her.

Kukiko had gotten it in her head that Sasuke was planning on taking the position of Clan Head from Kojiro, all because Sasuke was the original Clan Head's son and because Sasuke still had the ability to be a Shinobi. Kojiro had indeed ended up retiring from the Shinobi forces due to the loss of his arm and so there had been many rumors floating around that someday the other Uchiha survivor would be taking the title of Clan Head in the future. Kukiko had heard these rumors and taken them to heart, and became fearful that her newfound power and influence would disappear, so at every turn she made it a point to shun and try to put 'Sasuke' in 'his' place. Satsuki didn't give two shits about it, as she had no plans on becoming Clan Head. She was going to become like a Primarch and help everyone, not just the clan.

"But how… the position of Hokage is already taken." She smiled as she thought back to what a certain blond had declared. But Satsuki quickly caught herself and returned to her moody Sasuke face. Satsuki soon came to Kojiro's large mansion of a home, and she didn't even bother knocking on the door. She wanted to come in without notice so people wouldn't make a fuss and hopefully get through the whole night without Kukiko seeing her. She passed through the doors and made her way to the dining hall where everyone was enjoying the small party. It was quite large and people were already enjoying themselves and speaking among the guests. She quickly spotted her fellow Uchiha sitting at the head of the table with his wives to the right and left side. He clearly had noted her entrance and already distracting his first wife with conversation so Satsuki could sit down without incident. He knew of his wife's opinion of Sasuke and just like Satsuki did not really care as he knew that she could do little and her fears were unfounded in fact.

Satsuki sat among the lesser nobles who were quite exhilarated to have the Sasuke Uchiha join them instead of with the other Uchiha. Satsuki gave them the same excuse that all she wanted to do was get this over with and return to her training. It worked a little too well as their faces lit up at the prospect of an even stronger Uchiha. They began offering all sorts of advice that they had no business giving, as well as offering to pay for her equipment and other such things. It was all so damn annoying to her, so it made the scowl that Sasuke was supposed to have even more real. But she would endure this for a time and then return to her home for the night.

"Aaannnnnd they're gone." Omegon smiled as he watched the two flashes of light disappear. The two lights had been Kakashi and Anko who the brothers sent back so they may return to the village and give a verbal report to the Hokage. "We'll finish the salvaging of what we can use and then we'll send the bitch through, then our new friends." Though Omegon didn't expect much from this ship regarding useable material. The ship was heavily damaged and made by the Eldar, so it wasn't like the raw structure was something they could use. They didn't have the ability or means to handle Wraithbone and given that most of the ship was made of the stuff it meant that the majority of the ship would have to be destroyed.

"What do you think of them by the way?" Alpharius asked as they turned to the working humans. They all were malnourished and in rags, their bodies haven't been cared for in the slightest under their previous masters. The brothers would be sure to change that, as they had plenty of stocked food and emergency clothes in the Cave. The former slaves were on a long road to recovery but it wasn't an impossible task if they were strong.

"They're going to help, that's given. They'll need to be taught how to live in the new world. But they will be an asset worth having." Omegon said as they thought over the work that would need to be done to acclimatize them to the Shinobi. First it would need to be made very clear to them that this was not an Imperial world and thus the worship of their father was not as commonplace as it was where lived before the Dark Eldar took them. The culture shock was going to be great but hopefully after the lives under the care of the Dark Eldar they would be happy with anything that was not the Dark Eldar.

"Are any of them followers of Chaos?" The Brothers did not need any of that. After learning that people with Charka could still be corrupted they decided easily that any sign of cults needed to be stomped out. So, bringing in a follower of Chaos from the wider galaxy was something that they needed to make sure they didn't do.

"No, I don't think so. But then again most of them are so beaten down that even remembering their own names is hard." Omegon sighed, the former slaves were in such a sorry state that they were running on bare instinct. Instincts like follow and listen to orders. Getting personal information had been a little hard for the Primarchs.

"Most of them?"

"Two of them are different, that one over there…" Omegon nodded to the tall lean teen boy standing over the rest, his eyes watching over them like a guard dog watching his master. "… he doesn't speak much but from what the others have told me he never gave the Eldar the satisfaction of hearing him scream."

"Strong, even at the hands of those sadists an Astartes would give out a scream." After millennia of bring pain and suffering and perfecting the skills of doing so, even Astartes fell to the torment of the Dark Eldar.

"Well, maybe one from another legion but not ours, right?" Omegon said with a palatable air of smugness that nearly all Primarchs had for their sons.

"Oh, that goes without saying." Alpharius chuckled before looking back to the former slaves. "And the other?"

"The woman over there." Omegon pointed to the woman going through the dead Eldar bodies. "She comes from Klavahr if you can believe it."

"The planet Corvus' boys own." This was a gift, the Raven Guard and the Alpha Legion were very similar the fact they preferred the smart approach to anything, where the Alpha Legion used information to conspire and manipulate, the Raven Guard used information to find the best tactical and strategic plan possible. Even if the woman wasn't a Raven Guard Astartes, she would still be influenced by their ideals if she came from their homeworld.

"The same, she was the only one that didn't call me lord Omegon. Likely because she'll only ever call Corax Lord." Omegon smiled at the fact that his dour brother would hate being called that. Corax hated all forms of needless honors or titles. Oh sure, he accepted many titles and honors but only those that he had earned. Lord was not one. As he took it as a representation of tyranny.

"We don't need to be called that, if anything then that could harm us." Alpharius shared the Raven's views on nobility and meaningless titles. Omegon took them more in jest but Alpharius just wanted to blend back into the background and labels prevented that. But he was a Primarch and such they came easy to him, and he would use them to the fullest in his duty. If he could manipulate foolish nobles and the powerful with a word before his name, then he would take full advantage of that.

"Let them if they want… in private. They need something to hold on to and if it's us? All the better." Omegon said before turning back to the large window that had a spectacular view of the world below. "Because father knows that we could use the loyal help."

The moment Ynarae stepped off the teleporter pad she felt her entire body burn. This wasn't some feeling of having flames touch her skin, but a deep tearing heat that ripped through her body that pierced to her bones. She dropped to the floor barely able to catch herself with her arm before hitting the smooth dirt floor. The brothers teleported back behind her a split second after her body reacted to the warp field.

She had planned to make her escape in that time but was caught off guard by her reaction to the warp field. Black ash seemed to dust off her flawless skin while every bone in her body began to crack under the strain of many centuries of abuses that seemed to catch up with at this very moment. Worst of all she could feel something happen to her mind, as if someone was pouring acid into her brain to wipe clean the darkness that had covered it.

"What have you done to me?" Ynarae screamed at the brothers though this was a very laborious thing to do from the pain she was in. It was the pain of the untold numbers of people she fed on to stave off the pull of She Who Thirsts on her soul came back with a fury.

"Your soul is condensing and becoming chakra, forming into a vein like network throughout your body." Omegon said as he stepped down from the teleport pad. "We went through the same thing but since your soul is most likely dripping with evil and darkness this is probably a lot worse. That's because Chakra is not inherently dark, think of it like this, your soul is a really really really dirty rag and now the warp field is ringing it out until it becomes clean." Omegon picked the suffering Eldar, throwing her over his shoulder and carried her over to a small energy field cell. After Alpharius put some food and water in for her, the brothers locked her in.

"Try to look on the bright side, you won't have to feed on pain anymore to survive and can live a somewhat peaceful life." Alpharius offered. But he knew that was like spitting in her face. Peaceful living wasn't in her, she was a warrior, performer, model, and tormenter, all rolled up in one.

"You talk as if I need a second chance." The Eldar spat out, still reeling from the effects of the Warp Field. The gall these Brothers had in teller her she wasn't living a life worth living. She had climbed to the very top of her coven and went through each and every day in keeping that spot through blood and bile.

"You fight in arenas for sport for people who simply see you as nice-looking meat." Omegon pointed out, the Dark Eldar may have twisted morals but even that jab at their culture would be felt. "Your entire people are fucking whack jobs." Omegon yelled from the armory.

"Thanks for the commentary brother. This world has far different rules than what you're used too." Alpharius said as he began walking back to the teleporter. "Brother, go easy on the new prisoner."

"Whatever…" Omegon waved to his brother as Alpharius was eclipsed by light. When Alpharius opened his eyes he found himself back on the Dark Eldar ship. Alpharius walked back to the last area that had to be salvaged to bare bones, the bridge.

"How are we doing on the salvaging?" Alpharius said as he walked in.

"Just about done." One of the freed slaves reported. "If it's not too much to ask sir, what's it like down there?"

"It's acceptable… it's not a Hive, Forge, or Agri world. I would like to say this is a Civilized world, but I would classify it as a Feudal world. It does not know of the Imperium or of the greater galaxy. The people of the village we will be at are decent people, but to what you all have had to get used to over your time aboard this ship they might as well be saints." Alpharius chuckled at this. "The whole planet is surrounded by a warp field…" at the mention of the warp several of the humans gave a shudder. "… that causes souls to become a physical network of energy called Chakra. This energy can be used to alter the martial world in ways that you all would see as something a psyker could do." Alpharius watch the reactions of each of the humans. They all were too beaten down to accurately gauge their feelings on all of this. But he had one last test to give. The Daemon Primarch extended his mind out. Feeling out the souls that were nearest to him. The test worked and soon his hand was wrapped around the neck of one of the males who had begun to raise his fist. "It would seem that we have a follower of Chaos in our presence."

"What are you doing my lord?" the man gasped as Alpharius tightened his grip. "You are one of us, a Daemon Primarch of the gods."

"I despise the gods more than anything! It's because of those fucks that happiest days of my life ended, they had to go and ruin everything! I finally had the family I wanted, and my brother and I finally felt like we had a place in everything and they ruined it!" Alpharius growled before finally snapping the man's neck. Alpharius took a deep breath to compose himself. "The rest of you are still not safe, you all might not be Chaos followers but if you are followers of that Cult" He spat out cult like it was a disease straight from Nurgle "That took over the Imperium then we need to get you all ready. Come forward if you are a follower of the Imperial Creed." Five of the remaining seven stepped forward. Alpharius was saddened that the potential Astartes did step forward. Of the five that did, only one seemed to concern Alpharius. The look on the rest showed that they understood that because they followed the Imperial Creed they were in trouble but the one man was clearly not ashamed. Alpharius then looked at the last two. The first was a woman that looked fairly uncomfortable and the last was a pale man with many tattoos all of them were clearly holy symbols and texts. "For you five, get over it. I don't need fanatics of any kind. When we get to the planet you need to blend in, that means being friendly." The humans understood what the Primarch was saying, which was to be on their best behavior or risk their wrath.

"Kakashi, I need you to tell me just what happened." The Hokage asked quite bluntly. The Hokage wasn't that desperate to understand what went just beyond the grasp of their world. But, he would be remised if he didn't at least try to learn from this in some way. Just in case a situation like this came up again.

"Well sir… I'm afraid I can't tell you." Kakashi would have readily given a full report of what he saw and fought… a day ago. But now he had seen things that could never be unseen and fought against beings that outclassed him in almost every way. He had only beaten that Incubus because it had been worn down by Omegon and the Eldar was taken by surprise by his Jutsu. And even if that was the worst that had been on that ship, Kakashi had a feeling that was still nothing compared to horrors waiting out there in the wider galaxy.

"And why is that?" Sarutobi asked but was resigned to the answer, knowing it before Kakashi even said it.

"I think it might be best to let the Brothers handle anything from their… world." Kakashi said having fought things from that world. The Shinobi of the Leaf or even the Shinobi world in general wasn't prepared for anything in the vastness of space. How Humanity could fight and live against forces like the ones he saw he had no idea.

"Yes… perhaps you're right on that." The Hokage let out a breath of smoke in the acceptance of this. "The Brothers have never shown us anything but loyalty and friendship, but others in the village don't see them in the same light we do."

"You mean the Foundation sir?"

"Yes… they have never been in favor of the situation with the Brothers or Naruto for that matter. The Brothers are not of the Leaf but they certainly have the same spirit. I see them as our own, but that view is shared by even fewer and this mission will not help it. Even more so if they plan to bring their own here."

"I'm not sure if they plan to do so right away."

"We still need to keep the peace and right now I'm running out of options on how to do that."

"My name is Osmadiel." The possible Astartes candidate said as he kneeled before the brothers in the Cave. When the teen stood he was easily seven feet tall but also lean, but that could have been from the malnutrition. Most of the scars had already started to fade from the brothers' medicine but many seem to stay around his hands and feet. This indicated that these were far too old to heal. "I am from the world of Chrysis, I was a cook apprentice for a noble of Knight House Krast."

"A Knight House cook… wasn't expecting that." Alpharius said as he looked him over.

"Hot and he can cook, my kind of guy." Anko commented from the table lined with food for the former slaves. But the former slaves had wish to introduce themselves before eating the brother's food to show that they truly meant to never show them any disrespect. Anko however had already started along with the former slave covered in tattoos. She wanted to stick around to see the new additions. Alpharius smiled at the Ninja's comment before turning back at the rest of them.

"I am also from Chrysis my lords." One of the women of the group said. "I'm called Sabrella and was a chambermaid for House Guin." Osmadiel shot Sabrella a dirty look causing the woman to back down in fear.

"Whatever feud your two houses had will end between you now." Omegon calmly ordered while he worked on dismantling some of the salvage over by the Cave armory.

"Yes my lords." The two of them intoned, hanging their heads in shame. Alpharius' mind was already jumping for joy at the catch they had gotten, a possible Astartes in training, and a chambermaid that could help in the raising of the boy.

"Good, now you." Alpharius said as he walked over to the only man not kneeing but instead eating the food the brothers provided.

"Name's Factus Cordarus, I'm from Okassis." The man said before eating more.

"That's a cardinal world." Alpharius was surprised at this, as he was the one covered in holy tattoos. For him to be born on a cardinal world and not consider himself a follower of the Imperial Creed was truly something.

"If you're worried that I'll do something stupid like try to burn some poor girl over something stupid like disagreeing with me, don't worry I'm fucking done with all that holy shit."

"I like this guy." Both Anko and Omegon said, she as she looked up from her meal and he looked up from the sparks of his blow torch. Alpharius just sighed then looked at the man staring with anger at Factus.

"You have a problem with the man?"

"I just think he should be more respectful." The man said. This was the one that had Alpharius concerned. Alpharius looked the man over a bit more. He was skinny and the Primarch could tell he was so before his ordeal with the Dark Elder. His hair was gray and short, Alpharius was sure that it was not from age but maybe a Dark Eldar experiment with the way it seemed to shimmer.

"Respectful to who? Us or our father, name and planet of birth."

"Narcariel Poxus, I was born on Miral."

"Death world huh… what was it like?"

"We had bugs… millions of them. Small little fuckers that would get into anything not energy shielded. And even then they would find a way in. They would suck all the water, eat everything in sight, and chew anything that had the smallest spark of electricity."

"No wonder you're such a faithful follower, people need something to believe in the face of hardship. But now you're on a planet that could welcome you with open arms… so long as you don't say one certain word."

"Don't call anyone a fucking heretic!" Omegon yelled out to all of them. Everyone was a little scared at the tone the Primarch used, even Anko was a little on edge.

"Yes, you must understand that people have never heard of our father. They live in peace, something that should not be ruined." The man nodded his head more in defeat than agreement. "Good, now you." Alpharius walked to the next one. "Name and place of birth."

"Fio'Ui Vas'talos Jax'fel." The girl was about nineteen from what her body showed but both of the Primarchs knew that the torture she faced might have caused her body to appear slightly older. Her face was slightly thin but that was likely from malnourishment, on her forehead behind her straight bangs was a series of circle like tattoos that appeared Xeno in origin.

"What?" Both the brothers said with the unfamiliar feeling of confusion. To them it sounded Xeno but not any Xeno they were familiar with. And they thought they knew about every Xeno civilization that included humans, there were very few of those.

"I am a child of the Tau." The woman lifted her bangs to reveal Tau Earth Caste symbols.

"What the flying fuck is a Tau?" Factus asked as he gnawed on a turkey leg. Alpharius silently chuckled but kept a good face. This one was the youngest and from what the others told him had only been on the ship and never to Commorragh itself like the others. She was most likely the last of the slaves picked up on the ship's last raid.

"Vector, deconstruct the name Fio'Ui Vas'talos Jax'fel keyword Tau."

"Processing… first segment Fio'Ui meaning Earth Caste Senior, second segment Vas'talos name of birth Sept… Sept Vas'talos formally Imperial Fortress World of Prefectia, third segment personal name."

"I see… do you want to live?" Alpharius said as he crouched down to the girl's level. The girl nodded. "Good then I'll help you." The girl smiled and Alpharius got up and walked to the next. "You're next."

"It seems so… my name is Cyshan Kus and I'm a Vat born. I have no clue where and how, I really don't give a shit what happens I'm just happy to be alive." The man was a decently formed human but it was clear that there was a bit of misshapenness to him, his skin in places looked to contort in various ways and his face was mismatched. Eyes and bone structure not completely natural but not ugly… just strange.

"And why is that?"

"Because I was about to become a Servitor. All the fucked up shit that I went through with those sadists is nothing compared to the suffering I could have been through."

"Well good… now you free of both those sadists and the Tech-Priests."

"Yes… the Tech-Priests." The man said with a slightly dark look on his face.

"And you?" Alpharius asked the last woman. She was fit… very much so. Her body was something all warriors wanted, strong and not built to be admired but used. But the woman still held a shimmer of femininity, but it was like something that clung to no matter how hard it was attempted to be discarded.

"Moriah Staun. I'm from…"

"We know; you are one of the serfs of Corvus' little birds. ` Omegon said smiling at the woman's frown. "Don't take that the wrong way, Corvus was one of the best of the Primarchs in my opinion. A bit on the depressing side but a good head on his shoulders."

"Yes brother, anyone that can put Guilliman in his place is good in my book. I trust that my boys told you that the Alpha Legion is as true to Father as the Ultramarines are blue." Omegon, Cyshan, and Factus all laughed at this joke.

"They did."

"Good! All of you know that we are the good guys, the people of the Leaf Village are even more so than us. These are the people we must aspire to be, if there any in this galaxy that live up to our father's hope for humanity."

"You know it's really not necessary to tie me up like this!" Naruto yelled as he was being dragged by Omegon.

"Shut up, this is the only way to keep you from running around." Omegon said focused on keeping to the path to the Cave. Off the small dirt path was a myriad of Genjutsu traps that the brothers set up to keep outsiders out.

"Is this how you treat people on their birthday?!" Naruto demanded.

"No it isn't but this is to keep you safe." Omegon dragged Naruto through the forest and up the back of the mountain that held the Cave. "Calm the heck down, we're here." Naruto appeared surprised as he looked around.

"Where's here?"

"Our Cave." Omegon smiled as he uncovered a hidden panel. "Hydra." The stones began to shift and open to the rest of the Cave.

"Wow…" Naruto said as watched in amazement as he was dragged into the dark cave. The entire place was pitch black but for a few small LEDs that couldn't have been turned off. Naruto had even begun to get a little scared at how dark it was then place lit up. Naruto smiled at the banner that read Happy Birthday above the massive table filled with food.

"Happy Birthday Naruto!" Everyone in cave cheered out. Though only half really meant it. The other seven humans merely did because they were told to. Naruto's eyes began to fill with tears as he saw his friends and their families had come to celebrate his birthday. He didn't care that he didn't know some of the other people there, he was just happy that there any. Alpharius and Iruka walked over to Omegon leaving the rest to eat and talk.

"Did you really need to tie him up?" Iruka asked as he began to untie Naruto.

"It was the only way to get him to be still." Omegon mumbled as Iruka finished untying Naruto. Omegon did a quick head count, Shikamaru and his family, Chōji and his.

And there was Hinata. Omegon still loved to hold it over his brother that he had found her… well Naruto found her but it was Omegon that intervened and made sure that the two would become friends. And hopefully a bit more than that. But that was going to be a challenge, what with her shyness and Naruto's extreme denseness. Omegon had more on one occasion banged his head into a nearby tree repeatedly at the boy's complete unawareness at Hinata's feelings for him. While they may be too early to call them anything more than a childish crush… there was certainly within those feelings a solid and most importantly lasting base.

And the brothers were going to help those two along any way they could… both because love is one of the few things that the Gods have a hard time twisting. So long as it is true love, as anything less would be Slaanesh's plaything. But they also wanted the boy to have some chance at finding happiness with another, the village's attitude towards him had made all other options within the village limited to so the very least. From what the Primarchs saw it was either Hinata, outside the leaf or Naruto would have to pull some kind of hero bullshit on some girl. But for now they Hinata and both felt she was perfect anyways so any other plan was only ever made as a contingency… as they still were if anything realists and knew that life is random and you best prepare for it.

Alpharius was contributing with his calm understanding of mutual respect with her father Hiashi. They needed the father-daughter pair to be on better standing with each other as it was needed for the Primarchs' plans. It was Alpharius that convinced Hiashi that Hinata was not suited to the future that he wanted for a clan head but at the same time she was not completely useless. Such advice had taken the form of a strange gray area for the Hyūga family. Hinata was no longer pushed as much as she was and her father focused more on her sister in terms of training, yet at the same time Hinata seemed much happier. Her father stopped acting like the head of the clan and more like a real father. It provided a nice bit of breathing room allowing the girl to grow without the overbearing pressure of her family. It was still there in the form of whispers behind her back and occasional insults to her face but those had stopped when Hiashi brutally disabled a main branch man that had done so in his presence.

Omegon would eventually help the boy with his denseness and help him realize what was right in front of him… right there… in plain view… and he didn't even need to look that hard. Omegon began to work himself up at the thought but reigned himself in and returned to his headcount.

Then there was Anko, arguing with Factus over who had the better aim with a Las-gun. Kakashi was giving Naruto a new set of Kunai. Sarutobi was laughing at joke Alpharius made about someone on the council. Most of the former slaves were just enjoying the chance to enjoy life in this small party… except for one.

"Not enjoying the party?" Kakashi asked the brooding Narcariel who had been contained to the corner of the Cave. The former slave gave the gray-haired man a slight glare.

"This isn't exactly how I envisioned my freedom. I don't understand why Lord Alpharius and Omegon would take the effort to set this party up for that boy." Narcariel glanced over at the boy as Naruto was pushed down at the head of the table that had been set up.

"They have come to care about him. What other…"

"But why?" Narcariel interrupted. "Why would a Primarch lower himself to care for one insignificant child?" Kakashi had contained his anger at that statement, calling the son of his sensei that was not something he would forgive easily. The only reason he did not yell at the man as he was a stranger to the Leaf and had no knowledge of who Naruto could possibly be.

"Ignore him... he's always been an irritating ass." Kakashi turned to see the one who introduced herself as Moriah approaching. "Even when we had them to hate he still couldn't act decently to fellow slaves."

"Doesn't sound right to me, comrades in bondage should stick together."

"Should and do are two different things but I agree. When faced with an equally hated enemy... humans should stand together." She said with a warm smile that Kakashi could swear hinted at other things. "You were the one to finish off the Incubus right?"

"Just doing what I had to do." Kakashi confirmed in a slightly joky and slightly serious way.

"Don't feel for the Xeno... he and the rest of his kind feed on our suffering. It was as needed to them as water is for us." She said before taking a pause. "He particularly liked to torture me. Found out that I was a Marine Wife, and wanted to break such a strong spirit."

"Oh, I had not realized you were married. Do you miss your..." Kakashi started but stopped at the laugh she gave at his attempt to cover his intentions.

"Marine Wives are the nickname for the women that want to be like the Astartes that rule over their homeworld. We train to become like them because we can never be them. So no... I am unmarried. But I wanted to thank you for killing that waste of space Xeno. In the state that I was in I couldn't do it myself." She said with a continued smile that both terrified and intrigued him. "So thank you, for killing my tormentor and also not giving the pity that I don't need." She finished with a small wink and returned to the rest of the party, leaving the normally unflappable Kakashi a slightly confused and reeling man.

"They seem to be enjoying themselves." Tzeentch intoned as he watched the party.

"There seems to be some new faces." Nurgle gargled.

"Yes… and I can feel something else." Slaanesh said completely engrossed on the presence of a Eldar soul. "I can feel one of the dark ones… it's been so long since had one of them."

"Great, the hag is getting a hard-on." Khorne groaned.

"Stop calling me that! Go back to whore."

"And why would I? Calling you hag riles you up more!"

"Both of you quit your bickering! We need to watch these faces for any sign of infiltration."