As Naruto trained for the next two days nonstop, he could not believe he would have to let Hinata out of his life. She was the only thing he ever dreamed of in a woman but the thought of living in the Konoha was too much pain for him, even more than losing Hinata. Every time he thought she was out of his mind for a minute he would think about her and try to concentrate to get her out of his mind. It had gotten so bad that he started having day flashes of her and Sasuke making love and having kids, which drove him really crazy with grief. As he decided to take a break from training he went to the ramen shop to get something to eat. As he sat there Shinata approached him.

"What is your problem? Everyone keeps looking for you and you disappear, do you know how dangerous that is? You should be more considerate for your teammates, there are ninjas that want you dead and you pulled this kind of bullshit" as Shinata became more angry!

"Damn are you my mom? Relax I have things on my mind, so let me eat in peace" as Naruto placed his order.

"Yeah that's another thing why is Hinata upset? What did you say or do to my moth…friend? As Shinata almost said her mother.

"I have to part ways with her; I can't come back to the village and live. This village and its people are the cruelest people I have ever encountered. I could never raise a family here so they could torture my love ones" as he gave a blank stare at the wall in front of him.

The first thing Shinata thought was the future was changing because of her and the Kazanawa clan, she knew she had to intervene at this instant.

"You love this village don't you? Even if you didn't, you love Hinata right? To me it seems you want to take the easy way out. Hinata doesn't care what anyone thinks except you, she traveled with you for years and you can't take in consideration how your actions hurt her deeply" as Shinata was ready to start screaming.

"Lower your voice, I love Hinata very much and the thought of anyone in this village treating her bad would make me die a little inside everyday. Maybe she need status, that's why the council said if I don't take her as a bride, that an arrange marriage to Sasuke Uchiha would take place. I rather have her take that status of a Uchiha than that of a jinchūriki and….."

Before Shinata knew it she slugged Naruto so hard that he flew out of the chair and onto the ground.

"Sasuke is a vile and loathsome human being, he has no honor and he is not the man you are. If being a jinchūriki means being like you I would wear it as a badge of honor as she unclenched her fist. You're not doing this for Hinata you're doing it because you're afraid, you're doing it because it's quicker to give up. I thought you were a fighter to the end no matter how impossible it looks. Being a hero starts with not hurting the ones you love and you hurt Hinata, so what are you going to do" as Shinata eyes literally turned red which Naruto saw and could not believe. As she calmed down they went back to ocean blue.

"Nice punch, I never been hit like that before especially by the fairer sex as he chuckled. You really seem to care about Hinata, I guess you're right about me being scared. But if you who just met Hinata are willing to stand up for her like you did by punching someone who could put you in a body bag in a minute I guess I could be the man Hinata needs" as he picked himself up, he could see that she may look like Hinata but she was to tom boyish and could slug harder than a man. As Naruto bowed he went to talk to Hinata about what laid heavy on his heart.

As the mission began Hinata and Naruto were in a better mood, in fact everyone noticed and was glad they were back to the usual love birds. As they traveled to the Sand village they could not believe they were actually going to talk to Garra the Kazekage who tried to kill them at the chunin exams. As they traveled Hiashi felt very uncomfortable having Shinata next to him. He heard rumors of how much she looked like his daughter but the rumors should have actually said they were twins.

As they rested they only had a half day to travel. Naruto decided to take the time to practice his skills and asked Hinata to join him. Hinata said the traveling made her a little sick and that they would practice together another time. As he looked around he asked where did Shinata go? Shikamaru informed him that she went to go practice and that she should be back in while. Naruto thought that was dangerous and decided to go check up on her. As he searched he came to a little camp looking like a bunch of refugees that had escaped from being tortured. As he looked he saw Shinata.

"Let these people go, I don't want to hurt you but if I must I will. Let them leave in peace I'm begging you" as she looked in horror of all the children screaming and the soldiers trying to grab the women they wanted. Shinata knew she could mess up the time line but she could not sit back and watch things come to such a horrific sight.

"Well aren't you a beautiful sight I was just going to take theses to women and have little fun, but I going take you also and have all three of you live up to my juvenile fantasy. Don't worry her husband over there is tied up, he doesn't mind if I sleep with his wife and daughter" as he laughed.

"I hate to do this but if you so much as touch them I will cut your got damn balls off and feed them to you" as Shinata pulled out her machete like sword.

"Hey boss, I think the bitch thinks she can take out all fourteen of us? She will be fun to rape when she sees that she should have never opened that mouth of hers" said the rat looking man.

"Don't bruise her to much I don't like screwing bruised up women, get her and put her in my tent" said the fat hairy tattooed man.

As Naruto was about to step in and intervene, something inside of him told him to just watch the outcome. As one soldier came and put his hand on Shinata shoulder she grabbed it so quick and broke his wrist, Naruto could not fully see the movement but it was a blur. As the man howled in pain, another soldier came and pulled out his sword and attacked Shinata, Shinata easily blocked his sword with her machete and sliced him across the leg and arm and then stabbed him on his foot. The soldiers looked none wanted to go near her. The leader ordered them to attack but they stayed frozen in fear.

'You cowards, I'll kill this bitch and none of you touch these women to get some sex since you can't handle a little girl as he frowned on the cowardice of his men. You little bitch, you ruined my threesome I'm going to put your head up on that post so these refugees will fear me for the rest of their lives. As he pulled out his sword he waved it with great accuracy and speed. I used to be a samurai for my country now prepare yourself" as the fat tattooed man looked at her.

Shinata threw her sword in the ground and took three steps away from it. Naruto wondered what the hell she was doing?

"You amateur, your good as dead now as he rushed her".

As he rushed toward Shinata he swiped at her and noticed that she almost literally disappeared, as he turned around he saw a spinning orb in her hand.

"Rasengan" as she connected to the chest of the fat tattooed man.

As he went spinning into one of the carriages, the soldiers let go of the hostages and started to run. The refugees came and bowed down in front her thanking her so graciously on saving them and their children.

"Impossible, there are only two who know that technique, who are you? Are you an angel come to punish me or a demon that comes to welcome me to hell" said the fat tattooed man?

"Neither, I'm a woman that wants to kill you but I can't, but if you come around this refugee camp again it will be me that sends you to hell" as Shinata walked away and untied the husband to be reunited with his family.

Naruto could not believe his eyes, she knew the Rasengan and she was very skilled. He looked and saw Shinata heading toward him he quickly ran to escaped her sight. As he was far enough away from her he tried to come up with the answers on how she was able to master a technique that was handed down from his father to Jiraiya to him. He started to think the Kazanawa clan that had attacked him kept saying that they were from the future and that Hinata was his wife, it only made sense that they could have children but he knew that time travel was impossible. The more he thought about Shinata the more it made sense, she was overprotective of Hinata, she knew when the Kazanawa clan would attack, she had his color eyes except when she got angry they turned red just like his. Naruto really started think hard now, if Shinata is his daughter and they kill him she will never be born. He was so distracted he almost passed the carriage he was so deep in thought.

"Naruto –kun are you okay asked Hinata? You look very distracted; you didn't get enough training done"?

"Yeah I got enough just thinking about going to the Sand village, that's all " as Naruto sat next to Hinata by the fire.

As Shinata came back she looked at her mother and father sitting by the fire holding hands. It was just like when she was little they showed each other how much they cared to the whole world.

"So how was your practice" said Naruto?

"It was good but I going to eat and relax by the fire" as she took a seat next to Hiashi who just kept staring at his daughter pseudo.

As they went to sleep, Naruto went and laid next to the carriage instead of by Hinata. He didn't want Hiashi to choke or hit his chakra points so he stayed his distance. Hinata understood even though both were eighteen years old.

As they woke up and left for the Sand village, everyone was quiet the whole trip nervous about the treaty and how the Kazekage would react to their presence. Once they reach the gates of the Sand village Naruto seen an old face and waved at her.

"Hey Kimko, how are you doing" asked Naruto?

The woman looked confused and asked just who he was. Naruto forgot that she only knew the alias of Mikado Tae Shin when he lived in the Sand village. As he told her he visited before and they spoke, she apologized and greeted him properly. As they continued to the Kazekage council hall, Naruto told the driver to make a detour. As they approached an abandoned house Naruto stared at the house feeling nostalgia from his past.

"This is where I stayed when I left the Konoha, this is where my hate grew and my desire for revenge fester here for a year" as he grabbed Hinata's hand.

"You lived in the Sand village and you ran away from the village? I didn't know that as Shinata looked at him.

"Long story, let's go I just had to look at this old place one more time" as they got back into the carriage and headed to see the Kazekage.

As they entered to see the Kazekage, they were greeted by Temari who looked directly at Naruto.

"So Naruto Uzumaki, or do you prefer another name? I have one thing to tell you if you step out of line, you're dead. I don't know why they sent an assassin to a delegation but be warned I want you dead and I'm itching just to take you out" as she stared at Naruto.

"Well I don't want to kill you so let's just bury the hatchet and move on" as Naruto kept walking not even looking at Temari.

"How about I bury my fan straight up your ass, you are not welcomed to see the Kazekage , so why don't you go fuck off" said Temari!"

"Now , now temper temper, why don't we just go to a museum and look around, it seems that your not welcome here and we don't want to offend the Kazekage since he was so gracious to let us visit. Tell me where is the history museum located at around here" as Shikamaru played peace maker?

"Good idea it's just the street on the left, lord Hyuuga will please follow me as she cut her eyes at Naruto and lifted her middle finger at him.

"She's not mad much" as Hinata started to laugh at her antics.

As they walked inside the museum Shinata asked to speak to the curator Keisuke, as the young man went to get him, they looked around at all of the old stuff. As Keisuke looked at the ninjas he got kind of nervous but still went to talk to them. Shinata looked at him he was only about thirty-four years old, in her time he was a scrawny old man who ribs showed.

"Yes, how can I help you" as he looked at them?

"Can we speak in private? Naruto, Hinata do you mind if me and Shikamaru asked the curator some questions we will be right out if you don't mind" asked Shinata?

"Go on I want to look around anyways" as he grabbed Hinata's hand.

As Shikamaru and Shinata followed him to the back and took a seat, the curator smiled and asked them what kind of questions that they needed answered.

"I want you to tell me about the Tears of the Dragon, if someone goes back in time how do you stop them from changing the past and how can you get back to the future" as Shinata looked at him?

"That is one strange question, the answer is if something changed in the past it will affect the future no matter how small. The only way to keep the future the same is to stop yourself or people from leaving in the first place. The Tears of the Dragon is said to keep people who are from a different time to remember all realities past/ present/ future. The ones who don't possess the tears will remember nothing it will be just life as they know it" as he looked at Shinata.

"What if I told you that I was from the future and that you told me to seek you out? Would there be a way to keep the future the same? Actually not only me but nine others came back, three the first trip and then some more two week later and then the rest two months later how could I go back to the future without the tears and stop them" asked Shinata?

"Have you stolen my notes and read them? Well I think that this conversation is over get out of my office now! Before I call security on you.

Shinata showed him three of the Dragon tears.

"How did you get those? Have you stolen those from my museum, no you couldn't have I only have one and you have three. Tell me how many are there "asked Keisuke?

"Eight" said Shinata.

He knew from his research she was right, everyone thought it was seven and that it took enormous amount of human chakra to pull it off. He knew it would take eight people with strong chakra or some jinchūriki to make it actually work

Keisuke covered his mouth on Shinata's answer. He looked as though he was ready to cry. As he sat back down he told Shinata not to leave out any details about what happened. As she told him about the portal and how he begged her not to let them change the past, he listened in horror about it all.

"I see, I'm glad you didn't use any type of jutsu when you were in the portal you could have been vaporized. See the portal concentrate on chakra, spirit energy and the Dragon tears, any kind of spark jutsu or explosion inside that void is like a big bang theory it let loose energy inside that void that nothing can survive, I mean nothing. The dragon tears it lets out its own energy to open the portal, a different type of energy would offset it. The only way to get back to your time is to get all eight dragon tears and think about the time you left in the present or minutes before you activated the Dragon tears in the future. If done correctly only you will remember everything and the people in the past won't remember you or what you did and history will stay intact" said Keisuke?

As Shinata and Shikamaru asked more questions, they finally realized they had enough answers to get an idea how to end this.

"By the way since it was nine of you instead of eight my calculations says it will not be two weeks for the second time travelers but a week and for the third time travelers a month, there was more chakra in the void to make it to the destination quicker" as he looked at the two of them.

"Damn that means we have less than three days to get back to the Konoha to deal with these bastards "said Shikamaru.

As they went back to the hall to get Naruto and Hinata they told them that they had to leave quickly to get back to the Konoha. As they ran to tell Hiashi that they were leaving eight assassins stopped their pace and asked where Mikado Tae Shin was.

"Why are you looking for me" asked Naruto?

"You're not him! Mikado is dark haired not a blonde with blue eyes. Tell me where he's at and you might live "said the old crippled man.

"Wait I know you, you're Shindo the Headhunter, the one I defeated in a tournament when I was thirteen. The years haven't been kind to you have they" said Naruto?

"Shut the hell up you're not him, you're just someone who using his name, for that I'm going to have the Eight Devils of the Sand kill you for wasting my time, then I'm going to kill that son of bitch from the Kamizurui clan for lying to me".

"I see it's the one who got his arm cut off by Shinata, he must have had his bees following us and listening to every word we said, it's a safe bet he knows about the others coming" said Shikamaru.

"Hey Shindo is this the Mikado you're looking for" as Naruto had the Kyuubi change his hair color black and his eyes. Shinata looked over and could not believe her eyes; she never knew that he could change his hair color and eyes with a single thought.

"It is you, after all these years of searching I finally found you. You took away my arm and both legs, so I trained these assassins to kill you and to make a quick dollar. You will make my existence worthwhile when I see you cut up into tiny little pieces I can feed to my dogs to" as Shindo gave the order to attack.

Everyone separate into two's Shikamaru and Shinata keep each other covered and make sure that you don't get yourself killed or your partner" said Naruto.

Both Hinata and Shinata activated their Byakugan to take out the assassins, Shikamaru pulled out a couple of kunais and waited patiently for an attack. As they attacked many had small swords and some had wooden pole staffs to take out the enemy.

As they attacked the women first thinking it would be easier, both the Hyuuga's charged and struck the assassin with two swords. Hinata struck his torso and legs and Shinata attacked his chakra point in his head. Naruto moved so swift he used his wind jutsu and took out three of the assassins. Shikamaru grabbed four of the assassins with his shadow strangulation jutsu as they struggled for oxygen they dropped their weapons and passed out. As the last assassin looked at the four of them, he dropped his weapon and ran.

"Coward get back over here and kill them! I trained you bastards like my sons and you all failed, you're all worthless scum" as he kept screaming more obscenities at his assassins.

"Well , well, looks like you still didn't learn from last time. Let's see last time I defeated you using the shadow clone explosion right? As three shadow clones came out of nowhere they latched onto Shindo.

"No not again " screamed Shindo?

"Shadow Clone Explosion" screamed Naruto!

As Shindo waited for the blast to occur all he saw was the shadow clones disappeared and made a puff of smoke.

"Gotcha" as Naruto smiled and started laughing.

"You son of a bitch how dare you do something like that! How much more insult are you going to dish out to me? Just kill me so I can die a warriors death" as he bowed down.

"You're an assassin, not a warrior, don't ever come after me again or I will dish out some more humiliation to you" as he ran with his comrades to get back to the village.

"Before we go back we need to stop at the cloud village, I need to talk to the leader of Kazanawa clan to see if they can shed some light on this situation" as they continued to run.

Shinata knew that was a bad idea but she knew Naruto would never be persuaded not to go. As they got into the carriage and headed to their destination.