Hello everyone I'm back once again to bring you the final chapter of my story; I know this hasn't been the most popular story but I'm glad to be finishing it. I'm thankful for all of your support for this story and my other works. Now with nothing else to say; lets end this baby.
Virtue and Venom: Chapter 57
In the Iwa chunin exam arena (30 minutes after the fight ended): With Naruto and the others
Naruto was marching towards the infirmary with a sense of urgency as he was worried about both his and the others children after their fight with Tokara; Konan was right next to him not putting up any kind of resistance as she followed Naruto.
"I swear to Kami, if one of those children died-" Naruto began but Konan interrupted.
"They're all alive" Konan said as she walked beside Naruto "Tokara didn't want to kill any of them; and she even made sure to use non-lethal attacks".
"Well excuse us for not trusting the daughter of our dead arch nemesis" Sasuke said as he walked beside Mamushi towards the infirmary "it's not everyday a girl comes out of nowhere, assaults out children and just says 'I win'".
As the adults approached the infirmary Naruto approached the doors and saw Gaara and Kurotsuchi standing in front "are they in there?" Naruto asked and Kurotsuchi nodded.
"Yes they are and both me and Gaara chose to guard the doors ourselves" Kurotsuchi said and Naruto nodded.
"Good, I want to see Tsubaki and Asuma" Naruto said as he approached the doors; Gaara say this and was about to speak.
"Uh Naruto, you might want to-" Gaara began but Naruto already opened the doors and looked inside with the rest of the parents; everyone's anger, worry and fear was immediately dashed.
"Aww I'm sorry I hurt you cutie; can you ever forgive me?" Tokara asked as she sat on Minato's lap on his bed while rubbing his cheek. Tokara was still in her 'Chomei mode' as she did this.
"I don't know; you hit me kind of hard" Minato said slightly blushing from both Tokara sitting on his lap and the flirting "I might need a few days of rest".
"Oh no" Tokara said holding her hands to her mouth until she got a smirk "well I guess I have to just nurture you back to health then". Naruto and the rest of the adults sweat dropped at this and Konan marched forward and grabbed Tokara by the ear.
"No, no, no; bad Tokara" Konan chastised as she pulled Tokara away by her ear making her yelp "you are too young to be dating boys yet".
"Ow, ow, ow; ok mom, please stop" Tokara whined; Konan let go of Tokara and pulled out a scroll from her sleeve and handed it to her.
"Now put on your cloths now young lady" Konan said and Tokara nodded as she began to walk to the bath room.
"Wait… her cloths?" Anko asked and Tokara stopped and looked at her.
"Uhh… yeah you see; when I used my snake skin and my Chomei mode I wasn't wearing any cloths" Tokara said making Minato and Kakashi go wide eyed "if i do that then my cloths either burn or tear off; so I just take them off before hand".
Tokara jogged to the bathroom and closed and locked the door while Minato began to giggle and poke his finger together "hehehehe" Minato chuckled "I had a naked girl on me".
"Nice job son" Kakashi said giving him a thumbs up; Anko proceeded to slap him on the back of the head.
"Don't praise that; she hurt our son damn it" Anko shouted before looking at Minato "and wipe that shirk off your face before I slap it off". Minato immediately got fearful as his smile vanished and he held his hands up.
Naruto, Ino and Karin saw Tsubaki and Asuma sitting together in some chairs and they both walked over to them and Ino spoke up while holding Natsu.
"Tsubaki, baby are you ok?" Ino said as she wrapped an arm around her and gave her a hug.
"I'm fine mom" Tsubaki said and Ino let go "the only thing hurt is just my pride… and my ribs"; Natsu seeing Tsubaki so close reached his hands out and Tsubaki reached out and picked him up. "Are you ok buddy; I hope you weren't scared for me?" Tsubaki said as she held her brother who began to giggle.
"She kicked the crap out of us dad" Asuma said gaining Naruto's attention "she took everything we had and threw it back in our faces". Asuma sighed and leaned back "Tokara is one tough cookie; if that was her going easy on us, I'd hate to see her serious" he said.
Naruto leaned forward and patter his shoulder and smiled "you're alive and that's all that matter to me" Naruto said and Asuma nodded. Asuma then looked to Karin and spoke.
"Hey mom, you doing ok?" Asuma asked and Karin nodded.
"Other than nearly shitting my pants because I thought you were going to die, yes I'm fine" Karin said making Naruto and Asuma chuckle. Asuma got up and gave his mother a kiss on the cheek and a hug and Naruto went in and hugged both Karin and Asuma.
Sasuke and Mamushi both walked over to Aoi and Mamushi spoke up "haha, you got you're ass kicked on live t.v" Mamushi said mocking her own daughter who got a tick mark.
"Hey it's not my fault; she has a damn demon in her like uncle Naruto and uncle Gaara does" Aoi protested.
Sasuke karate chopped Mamushi on the back of her head and had an annoyed look "our daughter just got done with the toughest fight of her life and you're mocking her" Sasuke scolded and Mamushi rubbed the spot that was hit.
"Hey, we have to have a sense of humor in times like this" Mamushi said and Sasuke groaned while pinching the bridge of his nose "besides, if she died we could just have another one".
"MOM!" Aoi shouted and Mamushi laughed.
"I'm kidding, I'm kidding; we'd never do that" Mamushi said and Aoi sighed in relief "I mean pushing you out sucked; we're a one and done couple".
Aoi sweat dropped at this "gee thanks" she said.
Hinata and Gaara went over to Hajime and sat next to him and he spoke "I apologize mother and father; I did not win and I put the others in danger due to my weakness" he said "I will try harder next time".
"Do not worry about it son" Gaara said putting his hand on his son's shoulder "I am just glad you're alive and safe; we had quite a scare".
"I'm glad you're alive son" Hinata said with a tear falling down her face as she wrapped her arms around Hajime and hugged him tight "how are you; do you need anything?"
Hajime nodded at this and looked at both of his parents "I need more training" Hajime said flatly "Tokara showed me that despite how hard I trained up to this point it wasn't enough; I need more advanced training, both in my sand and in my taijutsu".
"I'll talk to father and see if he can help" Hinata said as she was willing to ask Hiashi for assistance.
"Fucking hell she really rocked your shit" Tayuya said to Hotchiku and Hichiriki who were both sitting in bed with Hichiriki having her leg and wrist wrapped and Hotchiku having her ribs taped.
"Yeah, nothing like getting your ass handed it to you in front of thousands of people to make you feel humble" Hotchiku said.
"I swear next time we fight I will kick her ass into next Tuesday" Hichiriki said before looking at her mother "I wanna increase my training to kick Tokara's ass… once my ribs heal".
Temari hearing this looked over to Tayuya who smiled and nodded "ok you two; when you're both healed I'll begin training you again" she said and both her daughters nodded "but remember, just because you're my daughters doesn't mean I'll go easy on you".
"Ok" both girls said at the same time and Tayuya looked at Temari.
"God it's so sexy when you're all bossy and serious" Tayuya said as she moved her hand over and put it on Temari's butt.
"Keep it in your pants Tayuya" Temari said making her wife chuckle.
A few minutes later the bathroom door opened up and Tokara walked out "sorry that took so long; I had to pee real quick before I got dressed" she said making everyone sweat drop. Naruto, Kakashi, Minato, Gaara, Hajime and Asuma all went wide eyed at what they saw.
Tokara was wearing black short shorts and thigh high black socks, black sandals and a thigh length black skirt with the Akatsuki red clouds on it; she wore a crop top white shirt, fishnets underneath and no bra. She also like Konan had several piercings on her belly button, ears, her right eyebrow and since she wasn't wearing a bra they all saw she had nipple piercings.
Tokara looked around and spoke "what?" Tokara asked.
Kakashi and Minato were both giggling like idiots until Anko smacked them on the back of the head, Asuma had a blush on his face as he looked away, Gaara and Hajime also had blushes as well with Hinata going wide eyed at Gaara and Tsubaki shocked Hajime was checking her out.
"Woah, woah, woah" Naruto shouted as he took off his jacket and threw it over Tokara "you can't wear something like that in public; you're showing too much skin".
"But this is what I normally wear" Tokara protested and both she and Naruto got into an argument while Ino looked on.
'She's showing as much skin as I used to when I was her age' Ino thought as she saw her husband argue with his long lost daughter.
A few hours later; Iwa hotel: With Naruto, Ino, Sasuke, Mamushi, Anko, Kakashi, Gaara, Tsubaki, Asuma, and Orochimaru
Naruto and his group were sitting across from Konan and Tokara who were looking at the group completely calm with Konan having a cool demeanor and Tokara playing with her hair.
"Ok now that we have time for ourselves some privacy lets just get down to business" Naruto said rubbing his face as he was tired.
"Yeah lets get down to business" Tsubaki said leaning forward "first of all, how are you even related to my dad?"
"Tsubaki" Naruto said with a sigh "there's not really a simple way to explain it".
Tokara looked at her and spoke "I'm dad's rape baby" she said bluntly.
Naruto looked at her and spoke "I would've put it more delicately than that but… yeah pretty much" he said.
"Wait!? What?" Tsubaki shouted as she looked at Naruto and spoke "you mean she's the result of… what happened to you?"
Naruto nodded sadly and spoke "yeah, she is" he said.
"Wait you knew about what happened to dad?" Tokara asked and both Asuma and Tsubaki looked at her and nodded.
"Dad told us when we became genin" Asuma said and both Tokara and Konan went wide eyed "he told us that something like that isn't something we should keep secret; he told us as both a warning and to let us know that if it ever happens to us don't hold it in and ask for help".
"Wow Naruto" Konan said looking at Naruto "that is very brave and mature of you; I applaud your personal courage on such a hard subject".
"Thank you" Naruto said.
"Like I said I was born because of my mom… you know" Tokara said and the rest of the group nodded "I just hope you don't hold it against me or hate me because of what my mother did".
Naruto looked at Tokara and spoke "I have the Kyuubi sealed inside me; the people of my village blamed me for years and some still do over that the Kyuubi did" he said "I know not to judge someone of what their parent or an outside force did". Tokara smiled at this as Naruto continued "although I am still pissed about you attacking our children" he said.
"Yeah, what the hell was that about?" Ino asked "I and what was this 'avenge my mothers' crap you were talking about?"
"Oh two reasons really" Tokara said "I wanted to avenge my mother Habu and my other mother Fu for honor".
"What?" Ino said.
"Yeah, I just wanted to avenge their honor and their name; and the best way to do that was to either defeat you all personally or defeat your children in the field of combat" Tokara said "Now I know that my mom Habu was an evil, psychotic, murdering, rapist and my mom Fu helped her and the Akatsuki". "But they were still my moms… and I wanted to honor the side of them who loved me; not the side who hurt all those people" Tokara said and Konan spoke up.
"Habu was complete monster, with out a doubt" Konan said "but when I saw her and Fu hold, play and feed Tokara, I didn't see that side of them; I saw two loving mothers and their baby".
"Well coming after our kids for revenge was the wrong damn way to do it" Sasuke said speaking up and Tokara looked at him.
"That's very hypocritical, coming from a guy who's entire mission in his childhood was to kill his brother" Tokara said "if I wanted to kill you're kids I could've, but an ass kicking was good enough in my book".
"She's got you there Sasuke" Mamushi said making him look at her "with all honesty if me, Naruto, Kakashi and Anko never entered your life, I could see you becoming a real monster". Sasuke was about to rebuke this but stopped himself as he remembered how cold and uncaring he was until Mamushi barged herself into his life.
"Alright" Sasuke said as Mamushi smiled and wrapped her arms around him.
"And what was the reason you decided to do this now?" Kurotsuchi asked "I mean why here, why during the chunin exams and what did you do with the other teams?"
"Well with the teams… I found them and knocked them out an hour before the exam began" Tokara said making everyone sweat drop "and the reason why I did it during the chunin exams; the same reason you host the chunin exams in the first place, for money."
"Money? What money" Gaara asked and Tokara smiled.
Tokara reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone and opened it "I'm trending all over social media, with this kind of publicity me and the Akatsuki will be getting more job offers" she said.
"What do you mean by that?" Naruto asked and Tokara looked at him.
"Ever since Pein died me and mom here have been rebuilding the Akatsuki; but we're different than the one you fought all those years ago" Tokara said and Konan spoke up.
"We are refocusing on the Akatsuki's original goals; ending war and suffering for those who don't have the power to do so" Konan said "we take dirt cheap missions from people who don't have a lot of money; farming villages, convoys, pilgrims and the like".
"We use the money we make from the jobs to finance our equipment and traveling expenses" Tokara said "we take no money for ourselves except what we get from fallen enemies; all our members are volunteers".
"How many members do you have?" Orochimaru asked and Tokara spoke.
"About fifty or so; we're pretty spread out and we work in loose teams" Tokara said "but everyone answers to me and mom; she's the leader and I'm her second in command".
"So you attacked our children to avenge your mothers and to advertise your organization?" Naruto asked and both Konan and Tokara nodded.
"Pretty much, yeah; but there was a third personal reason" Tokara said looking at him "I wanted to meet you and my siblings; now I know that this may seem unorthodox and I don't expect anything from you or for any kind of relationship". "But I thought it would be best if you at least you knew I existed" Tokara said as she reached into her back pocket and pulled out several pieces of paper "I've been following you all for a while".
The pieces of paper were news clippings from various dates and times; Naruto and Ino's wedding, Naruto's Hokage inauguration, Asuma becoming a chunin, Tsubaki graduating the academy and even the birth of Natsu.
Naruto seeing this looked at Tokara as she spoke "I don't expect you to love me like a daughter; but it's nice to actually meet you for the first time in my life".
Naruto hearing this looked at Tokara and saw her eyes were genuine; Naruto stood up and walked halfway over to her and Konan and looked her in the eyes. Naruto smiled and opened his arms "come give your father a hug Tokara" he said softly; Tokara hearing this flinched and looked at Konan.
Konan looked at her, nodded and smiled "go on" she said.
Tokara got up and walked over to Naruto and wrapped her arms around him and both of them began to hug with Tokara crying softly; everyone looked on at the scene as Naruto hugged Tokara with differing emotions.
Ino, Tsubaki, Mamushi and Aoi were all wiping tears from their eyes at the heart warming scene as father and daughter were reunited while Asuma, Kakashi, Anko and Kurotsuchi smiled softly. Sasuke, Gaara and Orochimaru were as stoic as always but felt slightly touched by the moment.
"My home is always open to you Tokara" Naruto said "you can come by for birthdays, Christmas and every other holiday, or even if you just want to stop by".
"Thanks dad" Tokara said as she snuggled into Naruto's chest as he rubbed her back.
Later that night: With Naruto, Ino, Tsubaki, Asuma, Karin, Natsu, Tokara and Konan
Naruto along with his family and Konan were in their room sitting at the dinner table getting ready to eat food they ordered; while this was going on Tokara was sitting in her seat while holding Natsu.
"Oh my god you are such a cutie" Tokara said with a dopey smile on her face "your chubby little cheeks, your big blue eyes; and look at your tiny little feet". Natsu began to giggle as he reached out and began to touch Tokara's face "oh my god" she said as she brought him in closer to nuzzle him.
Ino was looking on with a smile as she saw her new step daughter play with her son; Ino was at first hesitant to give Natsu to her because she didn't trust her but after some badgering from Naruto she did. Now she sees how wrong she was as Natsu giggled and laughed in her arms; Ino realized that Tokara was not Habu and she was a good girl.
Natsu made a face and began to strain and Tokara looked at him "what's wrong buddy?"; suddenly a smell hit her nose and Tokara looked at Ino "Uh… Ms. Ino; I think he may have pooped".
Ino chuckled and got up and went over to grab her son "Ok you little stinker, lets go and change your diaper" she said.
"Can I come too; I never seen a diaper change before and I have to learn?" Tokara asked and Ino looked at her "you know so I can do it the next time".
Ino smiled and nodded "you know what; I'll show you how to do it" she said "You'll take off the old diaper, wipe and clean, powder his butt and wrap him back up". Tokara lit up at this and got up "really? I can" she said with a smile before looking at Natsu "lets get you changed buddy".
Ino, Tokara and Natsu all walked off into another room as Tsubaki looked at this "wow she really likes Natsu and Natsu likes her" she said "usually Natsu doesn't like to be held by anyone other than mom, dad, me, Asuma, Aunt Mamushi or Aunt Hinata".
Konan looked at her and smiled "Tokara loves babies; she wants to have a bunch of them one day, but first she needs to find a man" she said.
"And I'll need to meet him first; there is no way my daughter is going to marry some dick head" Naruto said and Konan chuckled.
"You've only know her a day and you already treat her like you've known her a life time" Konan said and Naruto grinned while rubbing the back of his head.
A few minutes later Tokara, Ino and Natsu came back in "all done" Tokara said as she sat back down with Natsu "oh my god he has the cutest little booty and such a big belly".
"I know; he's my precious baby boy" Ino said "Tsubaki is a daddy's girl and Natsu is going to be a momma's boy".
Asuma chuckled at this "I'm glad I didn't turn into one; otherwise I wouldn't have a girlfriend" he said.
"What are you talking about; that civilian girl you were dating dumped you for going on too many missions" Tsubaki said "although Aoi is single; why don't you just date her, she already likes you"; Asuma blushed at this and spoke.
"Shut up" Asuma said until there was a knock at the door "jerk"; Asuma opened the door and saw Minato there with a bouquet of flowers. "Minato? What the hell are you doing here" Asuma asked as the entire room looked at him.
"I'm here for my sexy blonde goddess" Minato said as he barged in and walked straight up to Tokara "Tokara, even though I've only known you for a little while and most of that time was you kicking my ass; I realized that you are perfect in my eyes". "Please go out on a date with me" Minato said before wiggling his eyebrows "I promise that I'll- Gaah".
A Snake shot out and wrapped itself around him and Anko walked in with the snake originating from his sleeve "what the hell are you doing out of bed; get your ass back to the room" Anko shouted.
Anko began to drag Minato out of the room while Minato was dragged away "wait for me my love" he said before he was dragged out leaving the whole room silent. Tokara looked down at the bouquet of flowers and picked them up.
"Aww he got me flowers" Tokara said as the whole room sweat dropped; a few seconds later room service arrived.
"Uhh… there was a lady dragging a kid away with a snake" the guy said confused "anyway, here is your food; six adult bowls of ramen and one kids bowl".
"Yeah, ramen" Naruto cheered with excitement; Tokara chuckled at her fathers antics and spoke.
"I like ramen too" Tokara said as she and the other got ready to eat.
The next day: Iwa front gates
Naruto and the others were all looking at Tokara, Konan and the small contingent of Akatsuki with them; they were about to leave and wanted to say a final goodbye.
"Alrighty then, sadly I got to go; I have missions to do and villages to save" Tokara said with a smile before looking at Tsubaki "bye sis, you did really good in our fight; get stronger so next time we fight we can have a real battle".
Tsubaki smiled and nodded "I will, and next time we fight I'll win" she said and Tokara nodded and gave her a hug; Tokara broke the hug and looked at Asuma.
"Later little brother; I'm so glad to meet you" Tokara said and Asuma nodded "you are a lot cooler than I thought you were; I hope next time we can hang out more".
"It was nice to meet you you too Tokara" Asuma said before going in and giving her a hug; Tokara broke the hug and looked at Minato.
"Hey cutie; here take this" Tokara said as she handed Minato a slip of paper; Minato read it and went wide eyed.
"T-this is your chirper (twitter) account" Minato said before looking at her and Tokara giggled.
"Next time I come to Konoha how about we have that date?" Tokara asked before leaning down and giving him a kiss on the cheek before pulling away; Minato began to giggle with a goofy smile on his face with Tokara giggling herself.
"Atta boy son" Kakashi said patting Minato's shoulder "keeping the family tradition of dating a crazy girl; I'm so proud".
"Shut up" Anko said as she slapped Kakashi on the butt before hiding a small smile.
Tokara went up to Mamushi and Aoi next "technically you guys are my aunt and cousin; so next time I come by how about we hang out?" Tokara asked "I wouldn't mind fighting against my mom's good twin".
Mamushi smiled and nodded "trust me, I'm a lot stronger than your mother was when she was alive; I'd kick your butt in a heart beat" she said.
"And next time we meet I'll kick your ass and show I'm the best cousin" Aoi said and Tokara nodded.
"I expect nothing less" Tokara said before walking over to Ino and Natsu. "Hey buddy; his sis is going to have to leave now, I'm going to miss you" Tokara said poking Natsu's belly making him laugh; Tokara looked up at Ino and spoke "It was nice to meet you Ms.Ino; I hope one day you'll see me as a second daughter".
Ino smiled and gave her a hug "I already do Tokara; take care" she said before breaking the hug.
Tokara was about to move on until Orochimaru and Kabuto stepped out "what are you two doing?" Tokara asked and Orochimaru spoke.
"I was an Akatsuki member once before" Orochimaru said making everyone go wide eyed "all I've really been doing for the past few years was travel; might as well do something different". "How about I train you and make you into a better ninja?" Orochimaru asked making Tokara go wide eyed "that is unless you don't want me?"
Tokara looked at Konan and waited for her to respond; Konan looked at Orochimaru and spoke "you follow our rules and you better not pull any crap like you did in the past" she said and Orochimaru nodded.
"Of course; I wouldn't want to ruin a relationship with my second granddaughter" Orochimaru said as he looked at Tokara with a smile.
"Thanks grandpa" Tokara said as she hugged Orochimaru; Tokara let go and then went over to Naruto last. "Well dad this is it; I'm so glad we finally got to meet each other" Tokara said "I know that we have a long way to go, but I hope that we can continue to build out relationship".
Naruto smiled and reached out and hugged Tokara who hugged him back "I hope so too; at least try and come once or twice a month" Naruto said "I'll have a room prepared for you and I'll take some time off work".
"Thanks dad" Tokara said before breaking the hug "well guys, see you later; try not to get into too much trouble".
Upon saying that Tokara, Konan, Orochimaru, Kabuto and the rest of the Akatsuki started walking east to head home; Naruto seeing Tokara leave smiled and Ino looked at him.
"What is it babe?" Ino asked as she grabbed his hand.
"Nothing Ino; it's just…" Naruto began before he paused "I think she's really going to make a difference out there".
"I think so too" Mamushi said walking up "she's got this kind of air around her; like the exact opposite of what Habu had".
"She's using her power for others not herself" Sasuke said "if there is another problem we should be glad she's on our side".
Naruto nodded as he turned to Ino and gave her a kiss on the cheek "every generation is different; we can either learn from the past or repeat it in the future" he said "choosing to learn is a Virtue; while repeating that past is like drinking Venom, it'll only brings death and suffering".
"Virtue and Venom" Asuma said with a smile "who knew you were so poetic dad".
"I have my 'Talk no Jutsu' in my arsenal" Naruto said with a chuckle "lets go guys; we have to get back to Konoha".
"And we have some training to do" Tsubaki said and Naruto nodded and smiled.
"Yes we do sweetie" Naruto said wrapping his arm around her "lets go; we're burning day light".
Naruto and his group began to walk back to Konoha, as the strange circumstances of the last two days replayed in their minds. Everyone now had a new outlook on life as they all realized that what they did in the past does not dictate their path to the future.
Naruto looked to the direction that Tokara and her group were heading and smiled 'until we meet again… Tokara' he thought as he continued to walk with his family back home to Konoha.
Ok the final chapter is done; I hope you all enjoyed it. Even though this wasn't my most popular story I'm glad that you all stuck around to finish it with me; if you enjoyed it please like, comment and share with your friends. And until next time, bye.