Chap.3: Tora the Protector!
AN: This story takes place after the two and a half year jump. Sasuke came back for his own reasons.
Hinata and Neji prepared to fight the intruder. They activated their Byakugan but something was off. "Impossible! I don't see any chakra coils with this guy!" Neji said.
"No wonder, look closer. He is a robot!" Hinata said. With that the robot dropped a holographic field revealing it to be a black humanoid with a skull like head. Hinata seen some pictures of the E-80 and it was grey with head like a gas mask. "So where did this thing come from?" Hinata thought.
"Byakugan, attack the upper vertebra and sever the spinal cord death is immediate." The robot said.
"We got to stand back to back that way no matter what we'll se him coming" Neji said. But something popped out of the arm their attacker. This device fired a beam at Hinata which caused a burn on her arm.
"Ahhhhh!" Hinata held her arm.
"Don't move! He's trying to separate us!" Neji said. "This is bad, the Juuken style is useless because he's just a machine and if we don't move in perfect sync he'll be on us in seconds. Why do you want to kill The Hyuuga clan?"
"Not the clan just her." The assassin said.
"Well forget it! I won't let you kill her!" Neji said.
"Neji, if it means that we both don't die then…" Hinata said.
"Hinata, you got to become the next head of the clan you can end the enslavement of the branch family."
"Irrelevant, she will die either way." The robot raised his weapon.
"SONIC BIRD JUTSU!" someone came in with amazing speed with a cloud of dust coming in right behind him and struck the gun with a katana.
"Naruto?" Hinata said as the dust cleared the man did have a face like Naruto and his hair was the same style it was black like hers and had the Byakugan, not to mention that he looked older than Naruto. The robot struck him but as he landed he let out three small boxes with wheels that zipped along.
HUD
MOTORIZED EXPLOSIVISES
(Looks to where they're heading)
PRIMARY SUPPORT PILLAR: STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE EMINENT
The pillar was destroyed and the whole mansion was falling around them. "Hang on!" Hinata and Neji were grabbed by their rescuer. "SONIC BIRD JUTSU!"
He ran them out of the manor just as it collapsed in on itself. "Where are you taking us and why does that thing want to kill us?" Hinata said.
"I got a lock on Naruto's chakra. That tin man is after him too. As to why I can't tell you just yet."
"What about father and Hanabi? Are they okay?"
"I saw man of Hyuuga clan carrying a young girl. That could be them."
"How could you be a member of our clan? I never saw you before." Neji said.
"I can't tell you."
"Can we at least know your name?" Hinata asked.
"Just call me Tora. We better hurry that won't hold him for long." He said.
Tora got Hinata and Neji to the Hokage where Naruto was, Hiashi and Hanabi were there too along with the rest of Team 7. "Hinata are you okay?" Naruto said.
"It burns…" Hinata said holding her arm. Tsunade preformed a healing jutsu.
"Okay, we know that this guy tried to kill Naruto but why did he go and attack the Hyuuga clan?" Sakura said.
"That man is a robot and he was after me." Hinata said feeling ashamed that her family suffered because of her.
Naruto went up Hinata. "I'm glad you're safe. Hinata when I was losing to that man I realized how precious you are to me. I…I you love too." Hinata smiled the biggest smile in her life.
Hiashi grabbed Naruto. "No! If I find out that this thing is after my daughter and we lost our home because of you…"
"Father No!" Hinata said.
"It's his fault! She never disobeyed me until she started expressing the stupid feelings for you!"
"Don't call her feelings stupid! We love each other and we want to be together so you better so better get used to it, Dad." Naruto said the last part mockingly.
"Why you son of a…" Hiashi got ready to strike him.
"That is enough!" Tsunade said. "Right now what I want to know why is this robot assassin after these two. Other than that they went to the academy together and they now have a budding romance I don't see want have in common."
"I can tell you that ma'am." Tora said.
"And who are you? I know all the members of my clan and I never seen you before." Hiashi said.
"His name is Tora and he saved me and Neji." Hinata said.
"And as for your second question its simple why you never seen me before. I haven't been born yet."
"What!" everyone said.
"Like that thing I'm from thirty years in the future and I've come back to protect Naruto and Hinata from him." Tora explained.
"But what is it and why does it want them dead?" Tsunade asked.
"It's an Eliminator." Tora said with hateful look on his face.
"But that robot doesn't look like the E-80." Hinata said.
"True but this is an E-800." Tora said.
"Great then it's ten times worse." Kakashi said.
"But why Naruto and Hinata?" Sasuke asked.
"Right now the Land of Iron has probably just finished making their ultimate achievement. An Ultra AI computer called 'Mother Net'. Ten years from now either though some kind glitch or that it amassed so much knowledge it will gain consciousness itself and took over the nations weapons. Weapons that destroyed all the major cites and all the ninja villages. Mother Net continued to build strong and faster machines with one goal; to wipe out human kind. We all would have been dead if it were for two people who took some weak and starving orphans and taught them out to survive and how to fight back. Mother Net sent this Eliminator to change history and kill them before they are a threat. Those two great ninja who I'm sure if they had a rank in my time it would be Kage sent me back to protect their younger selves. Their names are Naruto and Hinata Uzumaki."
With that Hinata and Naruto blushed. "No, No." Hiashi said.
"But how did they survive? If what you say is true it then it mustn't have been easy." Kakashi asked.
"Well all they ever said about that is that they eloped andleft the village ten years before the attack and lived alone together in the wilderness." Tora said.
"That's this year. But that would also mean we would have to list them as missing ninja, and I would have to send Anbu to kill them." Tsunade said.
"Yes that and the government will also send E-80's too. Fighting them will help these two learn how they think, which will be vital." Tora said.
"That doesn't sounds like much of a life, isn't there some other way? Can't we just stop this from happening?" Sakura said.
"You sure are noisy. What's your name pink hair?" Tora said.
"That's Sakura Haruno and Mr. Sunshine over there is Sasuke Uchiha we go back years." Naruto said.
"Uchiha?" Tora said. Tora then thought. "A man whose last name is Uchiha and a woman with pink hair, could they her…"
"Is something wrong?" Hinata asked.
"Nothing, it's nothing. Look the reason I'm here is to protect them and the Mother Net development labs location was never found by the time you find it may be to late. So I want to focus on keeping Hinata and Naruto alive. In my time I considered one of the best. I took two of these guys down myself and believe me that is no small feet." Tora said.
"This is all so hard to believe but I have no choice but agree with Tora, the two of you are to remain under his protection until this crisis is resolved." Tsunade said.
After the meeting was dismissed Naruto was looking up at the stars on a patio of a safe house. "Why?" he said to no one.
"Why what?" It was Hinata.
"It just seems that know you and I don't have any say in our own lives any more. That we have to leave the village andlive in woods or someplace like that and be hunted down for no good reason." Naruto fumed.
"Well I wouldn't say that. We are going give all of mankind a chance to live, and from what Tora said most of those who we saved were kids so in a sense we're going to have a big family." Hinata said.
"Yeah but, this means that all most of the people I know are going to die and there isn't anything I can do about it. Why is this happening? Why does it seem that I not allowed my dreams?"
"Life doesn't always work like that; I guess I was lucky that my dream came true."
"And that was?"
"Hearing you say that you love me." They pulled into their first kiss.
After an awkward silence Naruto asked. "So where is Tora? I wanted to ask him about the older me from what I heard I'm going to be pretty cool."
"He was going to take a shower and to call him if anything happens." Hinata then asked. "Naruto do you think he looks a lot like…No never mind. She was going to say "Like you" but today had enough weirdness.
About an hour earlier the Eliminator burst thought the ruble of the Hyuuga manor.
HUD
38 PERCENTDAMAGE
ESTIMATED REPAIR TIME: 12 HOURS
It projected the form of an old woman and walked away.
Next Time
Hinata: "The future. There things I want to know but do I really want to ask?"
Tora: "No time for that; you two need to prepare for the Eliminator. I'm going to put you through the toughest training session of your lives."
Naruto: "He so fast I can't keep up!"
Sonic Bird Jutsu, Catch me if you can!
Tora: I'm the world's fastest ninja!
AN: Tora means Tiger