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The Blessed Realm	By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1746 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: Naruto, his friends and the world he lives in don't belong to me but to Masashi Kishimoto. I write this story only for my pleasure and I don't make any money with it.

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Chapter One Hundred and Seven: Consequences
Naruto was not in the best mood during the days after the interview. He knew pretty well that the interview had not gone well and that it would have gone even worse if Sasuke had not intervened. He began to see that those who criticized him might have a point – that his ideas about peace were still a bit too simple. He began to doubt himself, and his capacity of creating peace.
Things got even worse when on the Friday after the interview there was an argument among the kids they were supposed to teach taijutsu. Naruto didn't even know what it was all about: they were already fighting and shouting insults at each other when he arrived at the place. They were quite out of their mind, and Naruto tried to talk to them, telling them that they had got along well the week before and that this week they should be friends too. They just continued shouting at each other as if Naruto had not said anything, and when Naruto tried to take one boy by the shoulder the boys simply shook it off.
Sasuke managed to end the argument by taking one boy's arm and not allowing him to shake it off, while at the same time he kept the other kid from hurting him. “You stop fighting,” he said, using his strict policeman's voice.
Naruto felt hurt: normally these kids would get along well with him, they listened to him and respected him and liked him more than Sasuke, who was only good with small kids, and altogether too stiff and not cool enough for the older ones.
They were relieved by one of the women who organized the project. “Now, what happened?” she asked the kids and took them to the side. Later she talked to Naruto: “You call me when there's trouble. You don't have to resolve such a situation all by yourself.”
Seeing Naruto's frustration she added: “Don't expect yourself to be able to deal with it. It's not easy, you're young yourself, and you haven't been trained to deal with children. You can teach them taijutsu, but it's natural that you can't cope with difficult situations. There's seminars to learn this – you can participate in one of them if your job allows it.”
Naruto had felt even worse. People here didn't even trust him to cope with a conflict among kids.
In the evening he and Sasuke went to the gay community center for open dance training. There were women present (actually more than men), and a young couple, younger even than Sasuke and Naruto themselves, had brought the Urban Lady. They were busy reading it, holding it in a way that made sure that everyone saw the line “Interview with the Gutsy Ninja” on the title page. Occasionally they looked at Sasuke and Naruto and smiled at them, making Naruto feel irritated while Sasuke reacted like he had reacted as a little boy when he had suspected a girl to take a romantic interest in him: he looked cold and aloof. (He had learnt to get along with his new classmates by now, and he had actually come to like the young women at the riverside, but these two girls who looked at him and grinned and giggled as if they were twelve-year-old best friends and not a lesbian couple made him return to his old patterns of behaviour.)
People got aware of the two girls, first some of the women, but they were much too serious and busy with their own lives and their own jobs to take any interest in Sasuke and Naruto, then the men too. The magazine got passed around, and even though Naruto asked for it, wanting to read the article first, everybody else got to have a look at it before it got near to him and Sasuke.
“You really should pose more often,” they were told. “Though it's a waste that you do it for a women's magazine. There's lots of magazines for gay men too.”
They knew these magazines by now, and they knew that contrary to Urban Lady they were not about fashion. They were resolved not to model for them. They were glad when the guy from Earth Country got the magazine and allowed them to look over his shoulders while he read the article.
“Our Ninja enjoy the possibilities of Music Town, but they still long for Konoha,” was written below a photo that showed them sitting on the lawn of Heroes' Park, with the Town Hall and the Main Temple in the background. They were not holding hands, but they only had their arms around their shoulders.
“Having applied for citizenship they need to learn to dance. They think it's fun,” they read below a photo that showed them in front of the community center.
“They should have taken a photo of you dancing,” the guy from Earth Country said.
“They took some,” Sasuke replied. “Somehow none of them made it into the article.”
He turned the page to see whether he was wrong, but there was no picture of him and Naruto dancing with each other. Except for the photo that had been taken in the dojo they all showed them with their hands around each other's shoulders, never holding hands, never leaning against each other, and of course none of the pictures showed them kissing, in short, no photo made unambiguously clear that they were lovers, not friends.
“Do they mention anywhere in the text that we are gay?” he asked the guy from Earth Country who had already finished the article.
“They don't state it clearly. But with you touching each other on every picture people may begin to wonder.”
“I don't want them to wonder. I want them to know.”
“You should have thought about this before you gave an interview to a woman's magazine. With a gay magazine you would not have run into such a problem. With a women's magazine you should have expected them to take photos that keep their readership interested in you – they will give some hints that you might be gay, as some women find this interesting, but they won't state it clearly, implying that you are out of reach.”
“But I want them to know that Naruto's out of reach,” Sasuke said. “He's getting a couple of love letters every evening even without the interview, and now I fear that it will get worse.”
“Probably you'll even get some of your own.
“That was his true aim,” Naruto joined the conversation. “He won't admit it, but he wanted some females to tell him that they want his baby.”
“We don't have time for a baby,” Sasuke replied, knowing that everything else he might say would only be regarded as another attempt to deny it.
The guy from Earth Country turned the page. “Now, let's see what they write here: The Gutsy Ninja explains his ideas about peace.”
They read together: Sasuke, Naruto and the guy from Earth Country, then the guy from Earth Country passed the magazine to his husband who had not been able to look into it too.
“Now that's some interesting political ideas,” he said.
Sasuke felt embarrassed. He sensed that the man actually considered them rather naive. He knew that during the interview he had spoken without much thinking, and now he anxiously watched the man's husband reading the article, waiting for his judgement.
“Don't idealize people from other countries,” the man said when he had finished. “They have their civilization, but there's good and evil people in other parts of the world too. In other parts of the world there's war too, and political oppression, and it's just as cruel as in the ninja countries.”
“But there's peace too, and peace that has lasted for decades, and sometimes even centuries, longer than any of the ninja countries have managed.”
“But it's not the durable peace Naruto dreams of. Also, what you say about putting people as Danzou to trial: Normally this takes generations. There's enough heads of states like Danzou in the rest of the world too.”
“But in the end they'll be put to trial.”
“Or they die from some natural cause. That's the most likely fate of Danzou too, even if you manage to make him resign from office.”
Sasuke didn't answer.
“Even if you manage to make him step down there will still be a lot of people who support him, and they will demand immunity from prosecution as precondition for his surrender. You'll be an old man when your family gets rehabilitated, and Danzou and his allies will be long dead then.”
“Naruto and I will see that this doesn't happen,” Sasuke replied.
“Don't. Don't overestimate your power.”
The man put his arm around Sasuke's shoulders. “Stay in Music Town. Here people like you.”
On their way home Sasuke and Naruto bought a copy of Urban Lady too. They sat down on a park bench and read a second time what had become of their interview. In print their words seemed more naive than when spoken. They didn't notice the figure that was approaching them.
“So here you're hiding.”
Both boys looked up, immediately recognizing the voice from their former life. It belonged to the Akatsuki with the mask.
“You're enjoying life, I see.”
“I do,” Sasuke answered. His arm had been lying loosely around Naruto, now he pressed him against himself.
“You're no longer planning to take revenge against Konoha,” the Akatsuki continued.
“I still plan to take revenge against Danzou,” Sasuke replied. “I'm busy working out what will be the best plan.”
“You're busy enjoying life. Your parents and your brother would be very disappointed and sad that you have forgotten about them.”
“My parents are proud that I learn to deal out justice the way a policeman does. They know that this takes time.”
“They know you're wasting your time. You've even abandoned your plan of refounding your clan, thinking only of your own pleasure.”
He pointed at Naruto who had his arm around Sasuke too, holding Sasuke's free hand with his own. He felt the kyuubi getting nervous within him, and he had difficulties calming it down.
“There's enough females who will carry a child for us and give birth to it,” Sasuke said. “Continuing the clan won't be a problem. - How did you find out about us anyway?”
The Akatsuki with the mask – Uchiha Madara, Sasuke remembered – reached under his cape and produced a copy of Urban Lady. “You told everyone in the ninja countries.”
Sasuke leant back, smiling, knowing that now he had the upper hand. “I didn't expect you to read Urban Lady.”
“Kisame reads it,” Madara replied. “You have developed some interesting ideas about how to deal with Danzou.”
“It's not my ideas,” Sasuke answered. “It's how people from civilized countries deal with such a man.”
Madara didn't answer, giving Naruto a chance to speak. “Who's that man?” he asked Sasuke. “Is he the one who told you that Danzou ordered your brother to murder the clan? Is he the one who ordered you to abduct Killerbee?”
“He's Uchiha Madara,” Sasuke answered. “And he didn't order me, and I didn't abduct Killerbee.”

Naruto didn't react to this. “What does he want” he asked. “He wants me, or rather the kyuubi, doesn't he? And he wants Killerbee too.”

Sasuke shook his head. “He wants me,” he said. “He promised me the bijuu, if I caught the Hachibi, but such a deal doesn't make sense, as he gains nothing from it. So I myself was the price, wasn't I?” He was looking at Madara now. “In following your plans I was to become yours. It's like what people here tell me about the police: they offer to train me as a policeman, and the price is that I will become theirs. But I prefer to be theirs to being yours.”
Madara didn't reply.
“He's still after the kyuubi,” Naruto said. “I feel it.”
“You're right, I'm after the kyuubi,” Madara answered. “But not today, so don't be afraid. Today I only want to talk.”
Naruto looked surprised, then confused, then he began to giggle uncontrollably.
“It really runs in the family,” he said. “Just like when you said: today I only want to kiss, not to have sex.”

He kissed Sasuke on his cheek. “I'm glad you changed your mind.”
It took Sasuke some time to remember the situation. “I'm glad too,” he answered, kissing Naruto back. He kept looking out for Madara, expecting an attack any moment, but it didn't happen. Having no one to talk to Madara soon disappeared.

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