Naruto's Sharingan

Okay, so I don' own the characters or their techniques, but I can at least own this story.

In this chapter we'll get to meet a surprising character.

Once the trio had returned to the village they reported to the Hokage, who became very pleased with their progress. Unfortunately there was still the thing with the CRA.

The council was against having Naruto invoking it, but the Hokage pointed out that Naruto was in all his legal rights to do it. Hinata added that she was okay with it if she got to judge every wife candidate in order to confirm that they could make her new fiancé happy.

Danzo wasn't too happy about the arrangements. Sure, it would give him a chance to make ROOT stronger but with Naruto's new powers and obvious dislike of the old man it could be very dangerous to try and take his kids, especially since he would have several clans behind him once he had married their chosen girls. As the head of a clan he would also become part of the Ninja Council which would lessen Danzo's influence even more. At least he still had Kushina Uzumaki.

She had somehow survived 16 years ago and was now locked up in a secret place in case he would somehow need her to control Naruto. That time was now. Add to the fact that she appearently had a bloodline of her own was a nice surprise.

In a dark but warm room, Kushina Uzumaki was laying on a bed in only her underwear with her hands and feet strapped with chakra draining leatherstraps to the bed with a cloth stuffed deeply into her mouth. She shivered. Something bad was going to happen to her. The red head could only sigh.

"Mmph."

Once the Uzumaki clan's restoration had been confirmed invitations were sent out to the other four Great Ninja Villages, informing them about the situation and asking for suitable candidates.

The Hidden Leaf had, except for Hinata, five candidates;

Tsunade Senju (because she was the last member of the powerful Senju clan).

Ino Yamanaka (because she was the heiress to the Yamanaka clan).

Anko Mitarashi (simply because she had been a student of Naruto's mother Kushina and had asked for it).

Sakura Haruno (because she and Naruto were team mates, though she was quickly disapproved by Hinata because of her behavior towards the blonde in the past. The girl also had a hard time to completely abandon her feelings for Sasuke).

Kurenai Yuih (since she was the village's best genjutsu user and wanted to look after Hinata).

The list of candidates wasn't exactly low-class. The council also hoped to add the Mizukage, Temari and the Tsuchikage's granddaughter, for political reasons. The blonde and busty Samui, who had been trained by the Raikage's little brother Killer Bee, would also be a good candidate. The dark skinned man would probably not have anything against it, especially since the Hidden Cloud owed them a lot and wanted strong members anyway.

For some reason Naruto had also suggested Tsunami, Tazuna's daughter. He thought that her experience as a wife and mother would be an asset. The council at first didn't want that but since they didn't want to mess with the last Uzumaki any longer they had no choice but to send the woman an invitation.

The candidates and the other Kages would arrive in two weeks. Tsunade had decided to name Naruto her official successor then, though this was something that only she knew about at the moment. In the mean time Naruto was given a large compound with ANBU guards and servants from smaller villages to live in with his girls. He would also go on dates with them in order to get to know them better before the others arrived.

As Naruto left the room he decided to follow Danzo. The old warmonger was definitely up to something, and it was most likely something really illegal and immoral.

Being a master of stealth, especially after Hinata "suggesting" to cut down on the orange, and with the help of his Sharingan, he could easily follow the old man to wherever he was going.

Being the ever fateful and loyal girlfriend/fiancé Hinata decided to go with him. Good thing she too knew how to move unnoticed.

The couple followed their target deep underground. Sure they had to kill a few ROOT who somehow had managed to notice them, but they soon found themselves outside a door that Danzo had walked through.

Hinata used the Byakugan to look through the door and was surprised at what she saw. Inside the room was a restrained woman whom she recognized from a photo that Jiraiya had showed them. Sure the woman was older but there was no mistaking it, especially with that long red hair. It was Naruto's mother!

She immediately whispered her discovery to the blonde beside her.

Naruto was furious, to put it lightly. His mother had been alive all along? And now Danzo was probably going to use her to create soldier with the Uzumaki clan's bloodline. Like he would allow that.

Less than a hour later Naruto and Hinata was helping Kushina support herself as they helped her out of the ruins that had recently been ROOT's headquarters.

Naruto had started by throwing a kunai at Danzo. The old man had easily managed to stop only to suddenly find his head pierced by another kunai. Good thing Jiraiya had taught his two students the Hiraishin. Danzo was dead before he even knew what had happened.

After freeing the captive they had to literally fight every member of ROOT that came at them. The sneaking was over and Naruto wanted to let his anger out, and who could be better targets then the ones that was the cause of it? Fueled by both his anger and the fox's chakra Naruto managed to make short work of their enemies.

They soon found themselves at the hospital where Kushina was now resting on a hospital bed, with only Naruto, Hinata and Tsunade in the room.

Despite her ordeal the woman was mostly mentally exhausted. Naruto was just happy that his mother was still alive.

The blonde boy explained to the busty woman about his and Hinata's discovery. Needless to say Tsunade was shocked over what she was hearing. Danzo had discovered that Kushina had been alive and kept her hidden in order to control her son?

This made his end pretty ironic, since that was the reason why he was killed. Well she at least knew what to tell the village. That Danzo had been discovered making business with Orochimaru.

A couple of days later Kushina had recovered most of her strength. During that time Naruto had told her about what he had missed.

The red hair was beyond furious when she heard how her son had been treated, but she shined with pride when she heard of all his accomplishments. He even had found a good girl to marry. Too bad he had to go through the CRA. At least she knew that both Anko Mitarashi and Mei Terumi would make both good wives to him and good mothers to her grandchildren. Mei had even been a good friend of her. The others would have to work hard to gain her trust. Boy would they be surprised when they would find out that their mother-in-law was still alive, a fact that was still sinking into the rest of the village.

Kushina could soon leave the hospital and was given a private room at the Uzumaki Mansion. Once she had settled in it was time for Naruto's next challenge; dating the village's candidates before the candidates from the other villages would arrive.

First date: Hinata Hyuuga.

The date was a simple picnic on top of the Hokage Monument. Though they were eating ramen Hinata didn't mind it. Mostly because it reminded her of Naruto. They discussed the awaiting marriages and realized that the Uzumaki clan would have no less than 11 members within two weeks, including Naruto and Hinata. Add to the fact that each girl was expected to have at least one child with the blonde and the clan would become one of the biggest quite fast.

Neither of them liked the idea, but in order to unite the villages it was something that had to be done. Though Hinata and Naruto would still be the leaders of the clan. That didn't mean that they would treat the other girls without respect.

The least they could do would be to make the girls feel at home.

The date ended with the two of them making out in the onsen that belonged to the Uzumaki Compound. Of course Kushina couldn't help but spy on them. She could tell that they would have a happy marriage.

Second date: Ino Yamanaka.

Even though Ino still had feelings for Sasuke she was willing to give Naruto a chance, mostly because her father had told her to. He had said that there was no idea waiting for a traitor who never wanted to return anyway, so why not look for someone else? Naruto had very good recommendations and he had heard rumors about him being a ninja that could make any family proud.

Kushina had never met the blonde girl before so she was a little skeptical and decided to follow them in secret.

The date was a trip to the movies. Normally Naruto would never been let in but with the council behind him as well as being the head of a powerful clan that wasn't a problem. On Ino's request they watched a romantic. The atmosphere was enough to make the blonde girl cuddle up to her date while he wrapped an arm around her. Too bad nobody else wanted to watch the movie because Naruto was there. Ino had to remind herself to ask Naruto about that later.

Kushina smiled at the romantic scene between the two blondes. Seemed like that Ino girl really wanted to give her son a chance. That was a good sign.

After the movie they had a dinner at a nice restaurant that Ino knew. The owner was first reluctant into letting Naruto in but he had to keep his mouth shut. Ino couldn't help but notice that her date didn't seem comfortable with the environment, especially all the glares he got from both staff and customers.

She finally decided that she wanted answers.

"Naruto, how come everyone seems to hate you?"

Her date sighed. Both he and his mother knew that some of the girls would ask this question which was why they had decided along with Tsunade, Anko, Kurenai and Hinata that if any of the girls asked he would answer them truthfully. So he did just that. He even explained why the reason behind the CRA.

Ino was in shock at what she was hearing. She had always seen him as a spoiled troublemaker, but the truth was much more complicated. How he could still be so kind after everything he had been through. Ino then thought that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to be married to Naruto. She wanted to know more about him and this marriage would give her the chance.

Once the blonde boy stopped telling his story he found himself being hugged by the girl. Seemed like she decided to give him a chance out of her own free will.

"It seemed I've misjudged you Naruto." Ino said. "From now on I will do my best to be much nicer to you."

The boy was at first shocked at the confession before wrapping his arm around the beautiful girl, kissing her passionately. A kiss she was more than happy to accept.

Kushina smiled at the scene. Naruto's future looked bright. She just hoped that his next date wouldn't end in heartbreak. Luckily she trusted her old student with her son.

Quite the plot twist, wasn't it? Let's see next time who will get a date with Hidden Leaf's number one bachelor.