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The Blessed Realm	By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1746 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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Chapter one hundred and two: Imports and Exports
Sasuke feared the appointment with the state attorney: Having been accepted by the training center of the police the idea of making use of his years in prison to acquire some academic qualifications had lost a lot of its attraction. On the other hand Sasuke was glad that the time of uncertainty would now be over – either way.
Again he asked Naruto to accompany him. He felt more secure with Naruto at his side, but mostly he wanted Naruto to see and hear how he dealt with the affair.
When Sasuke entered the state attorney's room the man already had his file on his desk. He asked both boys to sit down (wondering a bit about Naruto's presence), but instead of following the invitation Sasuke directly opened the discussion:
“I have attacked the jinchuuriki of the Cloud with the intention of abducting him and delivering him to Akatsuki. I didn't do it in the end, as just in time I remembered that this was wrong. I understand that I should not have attacked him at all, and I regret that I did it. I am ready to accept punishment according to the laws of Music Town.”
The state attorney looked at him, obviously annoyed that Sasuke had taken charge of the conversation. “Now first sit down,” he said, “then we may talk.”
Sasuke obeyed, sensing that he had misbehaved. Naruto followed him.
“You speak of the law of Music Town, but this is where the problems begin. The laws of Music Town, as well as its legal procedures, have been in flux for the last twenty years as we try to adapt them to the customs of civilized countries. According to the laws of civilized countries it's not permitted to execute a minor. Even a life sentence is not considered appropriate for a minor, not even when he has committed murder, which you haven't. On the other hand, according to the laws of the ninja countries, a person who attacks someone else may be hunted down and killed by the offended party or their village, irrespectively of his age. So we have now two legal systems, and Music Town is not free to do what it considers just and legitimate.
If we make public that you live here in Music Town the Raikage will ask for you to be delivered to Cloud village. We can't risk to deny this request – Music Town can't afford an open confrontation with a major ninja country, not when we're already risking trouble with the Leaf by accepting you and your friend as political refugees. When it gets known that you have found refuge here, the Hokage will demand that you are sent back. We are able and willing to protect you against any claim Konoha has on you, but we cannot face a conflict with two ninja countries at once. Music Town's survival as a free town depends on the ninja countries' readiness to protect us against any threat against our sovereignty from one of them.
On the other hand we can't simply deliver you to the Raikage as this would mean a violation of several international conventions we have signed, with the consequence of losing our trade privileges with the rest of the world. Our economy depends on these privileges: It's via Music Town that advanced technology is imported to the ninja countries, and it's via Music Town that food specialities and folkloristic artefacts are exported to the countries beyond the mountains, beyound the desert, beyond the sea. We export traditional music too: people in the ninja countries no longer care about it, as they prefer the shallow modern stuff, but people elsewhere are fascinated by it.”
Sasuke had never given any thoughts to the peculiarities of the economic situation of Music Town. Waiting to hear whether he would be put on trial or not he was not able to appreciate the state attorney's explications now either.
“In short, we can't afford to endanger our relations with the civilized world by delivering you to the Raikage, and we can't endanger our relations with Lightning Country and Cloud village by making known that you have attacked Killerbee and not giving you over. So as the alleged victim of your attack has claimed that the whole fight was a fake I suggest it's best to shove the whole story under the carpet.”
This Sasuke understood:
“Under the carpet? Then what about justice?”
“I already explained it to you: People in different areas of the world have different ideas about justice. Not only are there differences between the ninja countries and the rest of the world, but also there are huge differences between different places among the civilized countries.”
“But no one except the administration of Konoha considers it right to murder innocent people, most of all children.”
“I've heard about your family's fate,” the state attorney answered. “I'm sorry about it. I'd be even more sorry if you died too, meaning that your clan would be entirely extinguished. I'd also be sorry because you appear to me an unusual young man. So getting back to your question: In the history of the world you will find societies that considered the killing of children legitimate and necessary under certain conditions. They would have praised the killers for their lack of sentimentality. They are exceptions, though, and according to the current view of almost all civilized countries the killing of children or other innocent persons is a crime. This includes minors up to the age of eighteen, even if they are accused of a serious crime as yourself. Therefore we'd lose the respect of the civilized countries if we sent you to the Raikage.”
“What about judging me according to your own laws, and keep it all secret?” Sasuke insisted.
“It's not possible, at least not if Killerbee refuses to act as a witness. We can't build a trial solely on your confession, but we need some hard facts or some other people's versions to compare your words to them. After all, there's always the possibility that your confession was gained by illegal means. So without other witnesses or evidence which we would have to request from Kumogakure we cannot put you on trial, and we cannot request these witnesses without drawing the Raikage's attention to you.”
Sasuke still found the explanations not satisfactory. He had already learnt a bit about the interrogation techniques of the police of Music Town and knew that it would be easy to blow up Killerbee's wrong story.
“So it's best to keep you in Music Town without a trial, at least until Cloud Village and Lightning Country have adopted the standards of civilized countries.”
He laid the file to the side.
“You should thank Killerbee,” he said. “If he had not decided to forgive you we'd put you to trial, with his testimony against you. But as I said, scholars of law in Music Town have been studying the different legal systems of the world, and some, though not all, allow that a perpetrator goes out free if the victim is ready to forgive him.”
Sasuke listened without moving.
“Maybe if you had been put to trial you would have been put on parole.”
Sasuke had to ask what this was. He was not sure what to think about it – letting go off a perpetrator without punishing him in the hope that this would me more effective in preventing him from committing further crimes than putting him in prison. It seemed reasonable, but when he thought of his own grudge against Danzou he found it unbearable.
“Normally we don't do this in the case of a serious crime,” the state attorney continued. “But with you there might have been reasons to make an exception.”
“Reasons that don't have to do with Music Town's imports and exports?”
“Yes.”
The state attorney scribbled down some notes on a piece of paper.
“So maybe if it helps you you can consider yourself on parole. You may talk to some social worker – that's what we require of people who are on parole. Here's an address and a letter you may give them so that they know why they should spend some time on you.They'll answer to your questions, and maybe they will find some words to give you peace.”
Sasuke took the letter.
“So if you will excuse me – I have some other work to do.”
Sasuke felt numb, and Naruto had to nudge him to make him get up. “They won't accept you to their prison, not matter how much you try,” he said when the door had closed behind them.
He laid his arm around Sasuke's shoulders and together they went to the place Sasuke had been sent to. Sasuke had to persuade people to grant him an appointment as they thought it weird and a waste of time that he wanted to talk to them without having been made to by a judge, but in the end he managed.
“Why is this so important to you?” Naruto asked him when they left.
“I don't want things under the carpet,” Sasuke replied. “That's what they do in Konoha.”
It was not the whole truth: He also wanted Naruto to see that he repented and that he was ready to accept punishment. He wanted them to be again as close as they had been before Naruto had learnt about his attack against Killerbee. They still had sex almost every day, and when they hadn't (mostly for lack of time, or for being tired) they at least cuddled and kissed, and Naruto was gentle and even had improved his technique, but there was no longer the look of bliss and surprise in his face when Sasuke passed him the bottle of lube, the look Sasuke craved for, the look of the twelve-year-old boy who had not expected that Sasuke would offer his lunch to him during Kakashi's bell test. Also, with Naruto talking to the kyuubi all the time, sex had gained a somewhat experimental quality. Sasuke felt that they weren't two people any more in bed but three, and he didn't like it.
“You cannot change the past,” Naruto said, interrupting Sasuke's thoughts and making him return to the present.

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