Chapter 9: Important Night

The group gasped at the very young girl's question. That was a really serious question and she seemed to understand that.

Being the one with the final vote Naruto decided to give the answer.

"Hanabi-chan, you're very cute but you're too young at the moment, but if you still want to marry me when you're sixteen I'll take you as one of my wives." He then added with a look at Hinata. "If that's okay with you Hinata-chan."

The older Hyuuga thought for a moment. While she didn't want to share her Naruto with her little sister she knew that she could never deny the boy anything. A nod confirmed her answer. Hanabi would be a candidate until she turned sixteen. Better not mention that the rest of the girls would be having sex with their fiancé while the youngest one would have to wait until they were married.

Hanabi shook her head. She had no intention of marrying. Right now she just wanted to get stronger.

"Sorry to burst your bubble, but if I have a choice then I choose not to marry anyone."

The rest of the girls sighed in the back of their minds. Luckily the younger Hyuuga wasn't interested in marriage or even love, at least not yet. By then they hoped that she would have found someone else.

"But I would like you to train me. Please, Naruto-nichan?" Hanabi knew that she was one of the cutest non-genin girls in the village so she considered her puppy-eye look a good weapon when she wanted something, and that had never failed her before. Her future brother-in-law was no exception.

"Sure, but I think the other girls would be better for that, especially Hinata-chan."

Hanabi smiled as she saw the rest of the group nod. No one could deny a cute girl like her.

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Back in Hidden Leaf Danzo was furious. Hanabi Hyuuga, his last chance of getting the Byakugan under his control, had not only escaped but whoever had helped her had also killed Sasuke. Not only that but the other four Great Ninja Villages had declared that they had decided to form an alliance, without the Hidden Leaf. He had even lost several loyal ROOT members. There were also rumors that he was so unpopular because of his ideas about greatness that some of the ninja clans were planning on moving to other villages. As things looked now the old man was soon going to lose everything unless he could find a solution to these problems. Unfortunately everything had gone out of his control once Anko had decided to train that Uzumaki.

Only ROOT seemed to be completely loyal, but that wasn't enough to help him. His best choice would be to leave the village and go underground. The warmonger cursed the snake-loving future Mrs. Uzumaki for interfering in the blonde's training, something that he had tried to prevent for all these years.

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During the trip the group couldn't help but feel that they were being watched, which was true.

Two pair of eyes observed the group.

"Seems like both the jinchuriki and that Hyuuga girl have grown a lot stronger for being able to take care of your little brother so easily, Itachi-san." The bigger one who resembled a shark said.

"I agree," The smaller one replied, "however, Danzo is still a serious problem, not to mention that the Uchiha clan is facing extinction."

"What about your little brother's murderers? Aren't you angry?"

"Yes I am, but mostly because of myself for failing to protect him from forgetting who he was. His death isn't something that I will get over but as things turned out it might have been for the best, at least now he won't suffer any longer." A tear however could be seen in the corner of his right eye.

"May I ask what we're going to do now Itachi-san?"

The young boy sighed.

"First we're going to deal with Danzo, and then we're going to talk to Sasuke's former teammate Sakura about her helping keeping the Uchiha clan alive."

Kisame was getting confused.

"Shouldn't more girls than just her help with that?"

His companion shook his head.

"No, right now the situation is too delicate to entrust our genes to some stranger. At least that girl loved him the most and even knew him. She's the only one I can depend on. After securing my clan's future we'll go back to spy on Akatsuki, just as the Hokage and Mizukage ordered."

The human shark nodded as they slipped away towards the Hidden Leaf in order to meet their contact who had informed them of the death of Sasuke Uchiha.

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Danzo was in his office preparing to leave when he suddenly felt a presence in the room. As he turned around with one of his stolen Sharingan activated he realized to late who it was before he was hit with the Tsukuyomi and fell in to a coma before dispersing.

"Seems like the old geezer is too smart to gather his things himself and instead sent a Shadow Clone to do the job." Kisame said at the sight of their discovery and his partner nodded.

"Yeah, but the old rat couldn't have left the village already so he's probably hiding somewhere and it will be harder to sneak up on him now that he knows that we are here."

"So what do we do then?"

Itachi closed his eyes and thought deeply before looking up again.

"He'll most likely try to avoid us so finding him will be quite difficult, so this is what we'll do. I'll send a Shadow Clone with you to help with the search. In the meantime I'll go and find this Sakura. She should be in a very vulnerable state right now which will make it even easier to get her to accept my proposal."

The two, well three if you were counting the Shadow Clone, ninjas then split up and went on with their assignments.

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Sakura Haruno was devastated. She had just found out that the love of her life, Sasuke Uchiha, had been killed and his murderer was unknown. So at the moment she was at her room crying her eyes out. All her dreams of a future with Sasuke were destroyed.

The pink haired girl's sadness then turned into anger. Whoever the murderer was would pay dearly.

"I'm glad to see that someone misses my little brother."

The voice caused Sakura to look up with a tearstained face and find a black haired young man in a black coat covered in red clouds standing by her window.

"W-who are you?" She asked.

"My name is Itachi Uchiha, I'm Sasuke's big brother and I've come to offer you a deal."

The younger girl wiped her eyes.

"A deal?"

"Yes, it has come to my attention that you wanted to help Sasuke rebuild his clan, correct?"

She nodded.

"I've decided to help you by giving you an artificial insemination with my sperms along with this."

Itachi took out a small cylinder containing two familiar eyes.

"These eyes belonged to Sasuke and they contain the Sharingan. My life won't last much longer so I want you to take these eyes and implant them in yourself, but make sure no one finds out yet. When I'm dead you'll be the only one who will be able to teach the next generation of Uchiha about the Sharingan."

Sakura was a little doubtful.

"How do I know that you're telling the truth?"

The double agent wasn't surprised at the question. It was expected.

"You don't, but this could be your only chance to fulfill one of Sasuke's last requests if I am telling the truth."

Sakura clenched her teeth. She knew that he had a point. This would be a risky decision. The pretty girl looked into the strange boy's eyes. He was definitely serious at least. She sighed. Without Sasuke not much mattered. Sure she still had her parents who loved her but her future was a complete mystery. Sakura decided to take the chance, for Sasuke.

Now there was only one problem left.

"But I don't know anything about the Sharingan."

The boy took out a scroll and tossed it over to the girl, who easily caught it. She didn't need to ask what was in that scroll. It was obvious. Sakura decided to ask something else instead.

"Do you know who killed Sasuke-kun?"

Itachi decided to only speak half the truth.

"All I know is that it was a ninja from the Hidden Mist who acted on his own. He wanted Hanabi Hyuuga and Sasuke happened to be in his way."

"So Sasuke-kun died trying to protect her?" The pink haired girl asked as new tears formed in her eyes.

The black haired boy nodded. It would be better if she didn't know that the ninja from Hidden Mist had come to save the young Hyuuga from Sasuke.

Once he had given his answer he vanished, leaving behind the items he brought for her.

Sakura Haruno promised herself that she would look after them and when the time was right she would impregnate herself and train her child to avenge its father's death (she would consider the child Sasuke's).

But first she had to freeze the sperm sample. There would be a few years before she could use it anyway and she was not going to let someone else get in her way.

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Back in Hidden Mist the former Hidden Leaf ninjas were given new headbands with the Hidden Mist's symbol on, while Hanabi was accepted to be trained by Anko.

Since they had just returned Naruto, Hinata and Ino were given a couple of days off so they could bond with both each other and the rest of the Mrs. Uzumaki-to-be.

Yep, life right now was as good as it could be.

Meanwhile Mei was preparing a hellish training for her fiancé and his former classmates. She intended to make them so strong that they could be the strongest ninjas the Hidden Mist had ever had, and with the rumors of a organization consisting of some of the world's most dangerous criminals floating around that would be necessary.