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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 Twelve: The Seventh Letter
Sasuke deactivated first the Mangekyou, then the ordinary Sharingan. He took Naruto's hand, and Naruto accepted it, but they didn't look into each other's eyes.
“I think for today this was enough training,” Killerbee said.
Sasuke and Naruto went home hand in hand, still not looking at each other. They had supper, but they did not talk more than absolutely necessary. Sasuke knew that Naruto was deeply disturbed about what had happened, but he did not know how to ask him about it, or how to apologize, or what for.
“I'll go to bed,” Naruto said after supper, though it was still early. Normally if said at such an early time of the evening the sentence was followed by the question whether Sasuke would join him: it was one of Naruto's ways to initiate sex. But tonight the question did not follow, and Naruto did not sound as if he wanted company in bed, so Sasuke hesitated before he got up and followed Naruto to the bedroom all the same.
Naruto was sitting on the bed, waiting for Sasuke, and when Sasuke entered he began to undress, and he undressed completely, one piece of clothing after the other, as if he wanted Sasuke to watch. Normally he undressed in a casual way, and then he would put on his old sleeping-T-shirt and a pair of boxers. Sasuke felt irritated: obviously Naruto wanted him to join him, but it still felt all wrong. He approached the bed, and Naruto began to undress him too, opening the buttons of his shirt and the belt of his pants, and Sasuke did the rest, except that he kept on his underpants.
Naruto's expression had not changed since they had had supper in silence, and he still avoided Sasuke's eyes, only that he occasionally looked up at him and tried to smile seductively. It did not work for Sasuke: he felt not aroused, but irritated. (Indeed he liked it best when Naruto simply said: “Come on, let's have sex,” because then Naruto was most like Naruto, in Sasuke's opinion, showing the essence of his self.)
Naruto lay down on his back, still naked, and drew Sasuke onto the bed too, inducing him to lie upon himself. He opened his legs, making Sasuke lie between them, he put Sasuke's hands on his bottom while raising his knees to give Sasuke better access. Sasuke felt even more irritated: the signals Naruto gave him seemed all too clear, but Naruto still avoided his eyes, and also, it would be the first time that Naruto would be the passive partner with anal sex: before, he had always refused to do this, mostly bringing up the kyuubi as an excuse, and after some time Sasuke had stopped asking. He considered it weird that Naruto should agree to being the passive partner just after the kyuubi had got out of control.
“You really want this?” he asked.
“Why do you hesitate?” Naruto asked in return. “You've been inside me today already, haven't you?”
Sasuke still felt insecure.
“Isn't that what you've always wanted?”
He had managed to hit a sore spot: this was indeed what Sasuke had wanted when he had dreamt of Naruto in Orochimaru's lair, and what he had been ashamed of longing for. Now Naruto offered it by himself, and Sasuke did his best to accept the offer, caressing Naruto's face and his chest, teasing his nipples and his cock and the inner side of his thighs. Naruto remained as he was: all relaxed and passive, but not looking at Sasuke, or smiling at him, or returning his caresses. After a while Sasuke broke off.
“Not like this,” he said.
He withdrew to his side of the bed, his back turned to Naruto. He felt desperate – after Naruto had learnt about his attack against Killerbee he had done his best to pretend that everything was well, and Naruto had done his best too, but it just didn't work. He felt how the abyss opened again, threatening to devour him: without Naruto everything he had gained in Music Town would be pointless.
Naruto felt Sasuke's sadness, and it finally made him drop the anger he had felt since Sasuke had activated his Sharingan. He returned to his ordinary emotional reactions: the need to comfort his friend. He lay his hand on Sasuke's shoulder, then he embraced him from behind. Sasuke took his hand and pressed it against his chest, and for a while they lay in spooning position, Naruto kissing Sasuke's neck.
“I dreamt of you as the passive partner when I lay in my bed in Orochimaru's lair,” Sasuke said. “I dreamt, and I was ashamed of my dreams, but I could not stop them.”
Naruto kept kissing his neck and caressing Sasuke's chest with his thumb (His fingers were firmly held by Sasuke.)
“I don't dream any more,” Sasuke continued. “What we did when we were awake was better than every dream. I no longer need to be the active partner.”

Naruto kissed his neck again, and Sasuke turned around and saw that Naruto no longer avoided looking at him, that he was smiling again, and that his eyes were full of warmth as they were when Sasuke thought of him in moments when they were apart. Sasuke caressed his hair and kissed him.
“We can do blow-jobs,” he suggested.
Naruto shook his head. “Not now.”
He rested his head on Sasuke's chest and for a while they remained like this and even fell asleep, but after a quarter of an hour they woke up again. (The position was just too uncomfortable for sleeping.) They still needed to get ready for the night, and when Naruto got up to brush his teeth he remembered that he still had to fetch the mail from the letter-box. He returned to the bedroom with a bunch of letters from fans of the Gutsy Ninja, and when he went through them he found a letter from Sakura too, and enclosed in it was another letter from Hinata. Sitting on their bed, leaning against each other, they read Sakura's letter.

Dear Sasuke, dear Naruto,

thanks for your letter! I am glad to read that you are doing fine in that Music Town, and that people there have started to value your true talents, offering you jobs as policemen so that you no longer need to work as waiters.

I'm sad, however, too: your letter makes me fear that you are going to stay in Music Town, and never return to Konoha.
“We'll have to write her that we still plan to come back and to drive Danzou out of office,” Sasuke said.

I've seen horses in illustrated history books, by the way. I'm certain that you look great on them.
Sasuke had seen these pictures too: Warriors with spears, or with bow and arrow, but he did not feel like these warriors. He felt like the women who taught him: Caring for an animal that was helpless without him.

We've found the article in Urban Lady about the two of you. It has slipped the censors' attention, probably because they don't care about women's magazines. They even overlooked the announcement on the title page. It was nice to see photos of you, and of the place you live at. It looks as if it's a beautiful town.

We've read the interview too. People discuss it, though they are careful when supporters of Danzou might hear them. But it's ordinary people who discuss it, not only those who are part of our network “mothers of Konoha”. They wonder whether Danzou is really the wise leader he pretends to be, the leader who will protect Konoha against all threats from outside. No other village has attacked us for twenty years, they say. Maybe their feelings against Konoha aren't as hostile as Danzou says. We used to have quite good relations with Suna, after all. Maybe we don't have to put too much effort into protecting us against them.

These days the strain mostly consists in not knowing how to pay the rent, or how to pay for food. Not going on missions means that people are seriously short of money. They are not short of work, as Danzou has strengthened the defense of the village, and most people are constantly on guard duty now, but wages have fallen. Konoha is going through rough times, Danzou says. We all have to stand together now and make sacrifices for the benefit of the village. He suggests that Konoha should strive for autarky, and no longer depend on money from other places.

The shinobi accept this as they are used to sacrifices and hard times, but the civilians of the village have sent a delegation to Danzou to protest against the new rules: in order to make life easier for shinobi Danzou has decided that there should be fixed prices for most goods. It means that civilians have to sell some of the essential products, mostly rice, at a price below the price they paid for it themselves. Danzou also wants them to engage in producing goods instead of just selling them, and they protest against this too: Being civilians does not mean they can do every civilian job. A lot of them have left Konoha, looking for better opportunities in other places, and now Danzou has made a law that forbids them to leave the village, just as if they were shinobi.

Ichiraku from the ramen stand led that delegation of civilians. He sends you his regards, by the way. Danzou sent them home with the message that they, too, are part of Konoha, and have to contribute to its survival.

He's negotiating with the Daimyou for financial support for Konoha. We're protecting Fire Country, after all. So far the Daimyou refuses to give any extra money to Konoha. My mother thinks he's quite annoyed with Danzou.

Sai has continued his research in the archives of the Hokage Tower. Obviously the Uchiha have broken into the Hokage Tower only a short time before they were killed. Sai has found evidence that Danzou framed that as an attempt to murder the Hokage and seize power. Sai however thinks that other interpretations are possible too: they might have been trying to break into the archive, just what he is doing now. He has followed the trail trying to find what the Uchiha were looking for, and he found traces of another break-in, right before the kyuubi's attack.
Don't touch anything, Sasuke thought. Make sure that no one else touches anything before the experts arrive. If he were there he'd organize things – he had done it a few times already, putting up keep-out band around some office and telling people to stay away and send them to his colleague if they insisted. (He was not yet trusted to stand his ground in a discussion with insistent people. He himself thought that he was getting better at discussions.)

Hinata has run into trouble with Danzou again. He demands that she puts the Caged Bird Seal on her sister Hanabi, and she refuses. He keeps pressuring her, but until now she remains firm and repeats that it is her desire to reform the Hyuuga clan and not make her sister hostage of her own survival. He cannot force her, however, except by threatening her and using emotional pressure, saying that as a shinobi of the Leaf she has the duty to seal her sister: the byakuugan is not the property of the Hyuuga clan, but a weapon that belongs to the whole village and must not fall in anyone else's hands. She replies that she loves her sister and that therefore her sister's happiness is most important to her.

The arguments don't change, and neither Hinata nor Danzou are ready to give in, even though Hinata is now forbidden to leave her clan's compound. But people discuss the conflict, and a lot of them admire her for her steadfastness and for her love for her sisters. Others say that she should give more consideration to the needs of the village. But as people are getting more and more aware that Danzou, not foreign countries, is the real problem, admiration for Hinata is growing. We fear that as a last resort Danzou will imprison or even kill her, and I've warned her and told her to be more careful, but she says that for her sister she is ready to risk her life.

Danzou has also published an article against the two of you in the newspaper. It's mainly directed against Naruto. I've included it as I think that you might be interested.

I'm glad that you're doing well. Don't worry about me – my life is not in danger, only Hinata's is. But life no longer looks as bleak as it did just after your flight.

Love, Sakura
Still leaning against Sasuke Naruto put Sakura's letter back into the envelope and unfolded the letter from Hinata. He hesitated for a few seconds, then he decided that Sasuke might read that letter too:

Dear Naruto!

Thanks for your good wishes for my marriage and my unborn child! Your kind words are very precious to me. I will hold you dear until the end of my life, and all my actions are inspired by your ideals.

We in Konoha are glad that in your thoughts you are with us, but it's better if you remain in that Music Town. Sakura tells me you're happy, and you're looking like it on the photos in Urban Lady. In Konoha we'd have to hide you and keep you out of Danzou's reach. Your words in the preface to the Gutsy Ninja and in the interview in Urban Lady are enough to give us courage and hope, and the knowledge that you're doing well gives me the greatest happiness I can imagine.

Love, Hinata.

P.S. Danzou says you're selfish, but you aren't.

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