The Blessed Realm | By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1746 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3 |
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The
Blessed Realm
A/N I have drafted and abandoned a lot of stories since I finished my last one, mostly because canon kept catching up with me. Now I think that I have found a condensed form for all the ideas I had during the last months - I will attempt to update at least once a week, but it may be that chapters are rather short.
The story diverges from canon at chapter 439 - and it will contain spoilers up to chapter this chapter.
Thanks go again to my beta Maruguritto. However she is not a native speaker, as little as I am, so I want to apologize for grammatical mistakes and clumsy language.
Prologue
– Part 1
Naruto
and Sakura had made a habit of meeting in Kakashi's room in the
hospital, before or after Naruto's turn of watching over the workers
who rebuilt the walls of Konoha, and when Sakura had a break between
two shifts at the hospital. There was much work for both of them
these days, so that they were on double shifts, and they had hardly
enough time to sleep, so that even Naruto, with his seemingly
inexhaustible resources of chakra was beginning to feel the strain of
it.
Yet
still they met in Kakashi's room every evening, or in the morning if
this was not possible, to see each other, to talk, to relax, and to
think of something else than the immediate needs of their work and
their lives. They might speak of happier days in the past during
these meetings, or sometimes, more carefully, of the village's
future, sometimes of those who had died – luckily it were not
too many, and only Shizune of those who were close to them – or
about the progress of Tsunade's recovery, whom they visited too, but
not on a daily basis as Kakashi, mainly because Sakura, who had to be
available even during her breaks, was not allowed to leave the
hospital.
They
avoided to talk of Sasuke during these meetings, and least of all
they would speak about their plans, or rather their dreams, to search
for him and retrieve him, without knowing exactly why they were
silent on this subject. Naruto observed this taboo just as much as
Sakura did, even though he was burning to talk about his friend, and
even though his dreams of bringing him back to Konoha was stronger
than ever, probably because it seemed more impossible than ever that
this dream would come true. He longed to speak to Sakura about it as
he knew that she would be the only one to understand him, but he did
not dare – some unexplainable fear was holding him back. So he
confined himself to talking about their time as genin, so that it was
just unavoidable that they would mention Sasuke, and Sakura's smile
when this happened was enough for him.
Kakashi
would smile too, faintly, he was still very weak, spoke little, and
sometimes fell asleep while his two former students were talking, and
just as with Tsunade, Naruto feared that he would never fully
recover. Jiraya dead, Tsunade and Kakashi badly wounded and maybe
invalid for the rest of their lives – Naruto's life had
suddenly taken a turn to the worse, and he did not want to think that
it might never change again and get better. It must not be, he
thought. And Sasuke was far away and might never come back.
He
thought of this morning's events – another turn to the worse –
and how he might tell Sakura about them - as he ascended the stairs
to the second floor of the hospital to Kakashi's room. Sakura was
late, so he sat down next to Kakashi, asked him how he felt and got
the same answer as every day: „Fine, don't worry!“ Naruto
had learnt to look out for other signs that told more about his
former teacher's health: He still remembered the joy Sakura and he
himself had felt when Kakashi had first asked them to go to his flat
and bring him his collection of Icha-Icha-novels, and now on entering
Kakashi's room Naruto always looked for the location of the book
Kakashi was currently reading: Was it lying next to him on his
blanket, or on his nightstand, or on some table, out of reach for
him, where the nurse who had washed him in the morning had placed it,
because he had not yet summoned the strength to ring for some nurse
and tell her to give it to him. (After some initial reluctance and
embarrassment he had come to enjoy this, laying all the blame on the
nurse who had washed him in the morning.)
Today
seemed to have been a good day: Kakashi had been reading when Naruto
came in, and after saying: „Fine, don't worry“, he
continued to talk: „There is something I want to tell you.“
Kakashi
paused, and Naruto held his breath, waiting for him to continue, but
when Kakashi spoke again it was only to say: „We'll wait for
Sakura“, and closed his eyes. Naruto gently lay his hand on
Kakashi's, knowing that he was not asleep, and that he would be
grateful for this physical contact – when he had first done
this, on the advice of some doctor, it had felt awkward, but the
doctor (not Sakura but some woman in her thirties) had insisted, and
then he too had seen how Kakashi, who had been too weak to talk then,
relaxed when he felt Naruto's hand on his own.
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