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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 Thirteen: Traitor
Naruto regretted that he had let Sasuke read Hinata's letter. Being told by her that he'd better stay in Music Town as in Konoha he'd have to be hidden from Danzou hurt. Sasuke did not make any silly remarks, fortunately, but just leant against him and caressed his shoulder.
“Let's read the article,” he said.
Speech by Danzou, to the people of Konoha, full transcript:
To my fellow citizens of Konoha, leaves from the same tree,
We all know that these are days of hardship. Konoha was almost completely destroyed less than a year ago, and the strain of rebuilding it and at the same time going on to live our normal lives as ninja, doing missions and protecting the villages against an attack from enemies from outside or within is taking its toll on all of us, all the more as the village suffered severe losses from Pain's attack. I know that you are all working hard, and I assure you that I do my share too, toiling day and night to see through my fellow kages' plans to use Konoha's present weakness, and take measures to prevent them from succeeding.
We all have to stand together now, to endure present hardships, to do our best to help Konoha recover its old strength, and try not to let anyone know of Konoha's weaknesses. It was for this reason that I pretended that Naruto, the kyuubi's jinchuuriki, is still with us here in Konoha, ready to defend it when our enemies attack. I kept hidden the truth that he left Konoha only a short time after Pain's attack, kept it hidden not only from foreign countries but also from you. I did it all for the best: to avoid that any of you might accidentally tell the truth to some foreign shinobi. I know that with the policy of détente of recent years a lot of you have become careless, which is okay as you are simple citizens of Konoha, but all the more it is important that I, the Hokage, take responsibility and act with caution and circumspection.
Therefore I decided that it is best if no one knows that Naruto is no longer in Konoha, and everything would have been fine if he himself had not made public that he lives in Music Town now and spends his time enjoying himself instead of considering how he might best serve Konoha. He has left our community for the superficial pleasures of a place where thinking only of oneself counts as virtue and having fun is considered the highest aim in life. He has abandoned the higher happiness of being close to his friends and staying true to the bonds that unite him with his village for a life of ease among people who've never understood the bliss that comes with forgetting your petty self and understanding that you are just a leaf from a tree that's much greater than you, so that even if you die it won't be a tragedy as long as if its for the benefit of your village. They are busy all the time protecting their small lives, even avoiding war, instead of seeking the purifying experience you gain from risking your life in battle and understanding that all your daily troubles are insignificant in comparison to your people's concerns. He has chosen a life of immorality and banality instead of the wisdom and commitment he may have found in Konoha.
Naruto has left and betrayed Konoha. He has applied for citizenship of Music Town, and he has formed an alliance with the last spawn of the Uchiha clan with its tradition of caring more for themselves than the village as a whole
He is forming friendships with people from other countries, enemies of Konoha. He has made public that he lives in Music Town, and that Konoha no longer provides over the kyuubi to protect it. He can no longer be seen as a leaf from the tree we all belong to.
I know that this is hard to accept for those among you who consider Naruto a friend. But for you, and for the whole village, it's best if we all face the truth and realize that he is no longer a friend of Konoha but an enemy.
I, Shimura Danzou, will remain a friend of Konoha, and protecting it will always be my highest priority. You may rely firmly on me to guide you through these times of troubles, and together we will soon see a brighter future.
Sasuke finished the article before Naruto did, not because he was a faster reader in general but because Naruto had trouble to cope with Danzou's accusations. Sasuke felt it, and drew him closer to himself.
“Hinata is correct,” he said. “You aren't selfish. Danzou's words are complete rubbish. He doesn't know you at all.”
“But he's right,” Naruto replied. “We are enjoying ourselves, while people in Konoha suffer. We are wasting our time.”
Sasuke didn't think that he was wasting his time. He thought that he was learning a lot of important stuff, and that actually a lot of his time in Konoha had been wasted. Yet Naruto's words brought back to his mind what Madara had said about not avenging his clan and instead having fun.
"What would you do?” he asked Naruto. “You know that Danzou would target us specifically if we tried to live in Konoha and help Sakura and Hinata with distributing information and disobeying to Danzou's orders. They'd have to hide us, and we would endanger their lives.”
“We wouldn't,” Naruto replied. “We're too strong. We don't need to be protected.” He paused for a second. “We might challenge him openly.”
Sasuke hesitated, surprised by the suggestion. From Naruto it sounded weird, but else it sounded all too familiar, reminding him of his original plans of taking revenge: Challenge Danzou, kill him, and then accept punishment for killing the Hokage.
“And then?” he asked. “We'd have a fight, though not necessarily against Danzou. It's far more likely that he sends some of his supporters to fight us. There's still people in Konoha who support him after all. There'll be a lot of damage to the village. It's not what you want, is it, and it's not what people will make you Hokage for.”
Naruto didn't answer, and he didn't look at Sasuke.
“Let's go to sleep,” Sasuke said.
When they woke up in the morning they did not have sex, which was what they normally did when they had enough time before work. They caressed each other's faces and hair, they kissed, but when they tried to do more Naruto broke off.
“The kyuubi's still within me,” he explained. “You pushed it back, but not completely. I still feel its chakra in every part of my body, except my head. I cannot sleep with you like that.”
Sasuke smiled sadly and acceptingly, sensing that this was not the whole truth, and they just lay side by side, caressing each other and carefully embracing each other, laying their cheeks against each other's and feeling each other's heartbeat.
After a while they separated, feeling that no more was possible. Naruto sat up and looked down at Sasuke, and finally he admitted to himself that they had been faking intimacy for quite some time now. Having sex had still been enjoyable, but without emotional intimacy it was just not the same. He had longed for Sasuke with all his heart since Sasuke's departure from Konoha, and when he had understood that this was okay he had longed for him with all his body too, but the Sasuke he had longed for was the one who had left Konoha, not Sasuke as he was now. He had changed a lot, Naruto thought, becoming softer and less clumsy in his interactions with people (though still not as extroverted as Naruto), he had plans and a life of his own, and worst of all, he had a past of his own. When he had dreamt of Sasuke during his years with Jiraiya he had dreamt of being his door to life, and his door to forgiveness. Now Sasuke needed neither – people in Music Town were more ready to forgive him than he, Naruto, was .
Sasuke was sad, but he was also relieved that they had stopped pretending that everything was all right. He was afraid of losing Naruto, but he was also concerned. He knew that Naruto felt restless and aimless, that he was hurt by Danzou's words, and that he was wondering whether life in Music Town was not indeed a selfish affair. He did not want to lose Naruto, but now he also did not want to lose hm for Naruto's own sake: he was afraid of what might happen if they broke up.
“I don't want to lose you,” he said, and for a second Naruto was as he used to be, smiling confidently and proudly.
“You should know by now that it's not that easy to get rid of me.”
That evening there was an opportunity for free training at their dance school, and as they still planned to dance at the upcoming tournament Sasuke and Naruto made use of it: it was better than staying at home, not knowing what to talk about. They tried to practise their sequence, but their minds were elsewhere, and they were relieved when there was some opportunity to dance with other men (or, in Naruto's case, to discuss football with them.)
The guy from Earth Country approached Naruto when he was standing at the bar, watching Sasuke dance with someone else.
“No longer jealous?” he asked. “There was a time when you would not let him talk to anyone else.”
“It's not sex, just dancing,” Naruto replied. “For sex he'll return to me.”
“You enjoy watching him?”
Naruto nodded. “No one's more elegant and at the same time more manly than him.”
“There were times when you would not have dared to think about him in that way.”
“I thought of him like that even when I was a little child,” Naruto replied. Only then he realized what the man was alluding to, and his heart ached as he thought of the innocence of those days when his fear that Sasuke might fall in love with someone else had been his worst problem. He had been foolish then, he thought.
“I didn't know then that what I felt for him was love. Now I do.”
Naruto remembered how he had been afraid of sex, and how it had turned out to be just great. He remembered how he had been afraid of being gay, and now he had completely stopped thinking of women. His heart and his body longed for Sasuke, and no one else.
“You're very thoughtful tonight,” the man said. “Everything okay?”
“We didn't have sex this afternoon, or yesterday afternoon,” Naruto answered.
“You have sex every afternoon?”
“When we return from work, normally. It's the best time. We get home, have sex, and then we go dancing, or meet some friends.”
The man thought for some seconds. “Such a regular routine is not always the best thing. It easily takes away the tension and excitement.”
Naruto could do well without tension and excitement. He decided that the man, though he liked him and considered him a friend, was not the right person to discuss his sex life with.
“Do you know that Danzou made a speech where he calls you a traitor?” the man continued. “It was printed in full length in the newspaper.”
“Even here in Music Town? I thought only Konoha's papers had access to it.”
“When Konoha's papers have access to it ours reprint it. It was quite an ugly speech, actually – don't take it to your heart. You did not leave Konoha in order to forsake it. You left it because otherwise you would have been imprisoned by Danzou and turned into a weapon.”
Naruto considered it. “Not necessarily. But even if he had succeeded I'd still be with my people.”
“You would not help them. Danzou would have turned you into a means of their oppression.”
“He wouldn't. No one has ever managed to turn me into a tool. - When I fled I just thought of my own safety. I should have stayed.”
“It's okay that you cared for your safety. People care for you, and they want you to take care of yourself. Your friends in Konoha are certainly glad too that you are here, and safe.”
“They are,” Naruto replied gloomily
“You aren't selfish, no matter what Danzou says. You should not care about his words.”
“You don't understand. You are not far from everyone you care for. If you were in my place you'd long to be with your people too, even though it's dangerous.”
The man looked hurt, and did not answer, and thus the conversation ended.
After dancing Sasuke took Naruto to the riverside. It was unusual: normally they met their friends there only on evenings without dance training. Tonight, however, Sasuke did not feel like staying at home with Naruto. He felt that both of them needed the company of other people.
As it was later than usual the group was only half its normal size. The rest had already gone home.
“Some late guests!” they were greeted.
“We've been dancing,” Sasuke answered.
“Ah. But don't you have to work tomorrow morning?”
“We'll manage,” Sasuke replied, sitting down.
Naruto sat down too. People looked at him, irritated that it was Sasuke, not him, who did the talking.
“We've been talking about you,” one of the women said. “We've read that speech by Danzou where he calls you a traitor. Seems that you managed to scare him with that interview in Urban Lady.”
“He must see himself in a tight spot if he considers it necessary to react to it,” one of the men added.
Naruto did not feel comforted. “I should be there, not here,” he said. “I'm wasting my time here. I should be with my people in Konoha.”
“To fight for Danzou and strengthen the village's defense against its non-existent enemies?”
“To be with my friends and support their resistance against Danzou.”
“But you did support them with your interview.”
“It's not the same. I'm still enjoying life here. In Konoha I'd share my friends sufferings.”
“But you would not help them. It does not make sense to share your friends' sufferings when you can't improve their situation.”
“I'd be with them at least.”
“Danzou's your enemy,” one of the men said. “You should not listen to him. You should not even spend a second considering whether he might be correct. You don't have to suffer, or to sacrifice yourself, in order to help your friends. And also, there's nothing wrong with being selfish.”
Naruto was silent.
“What happened to that other guy by the way?” a woman asked. “The one with the mask who wanted you to sacrifice yourself for peace?”
Naruto felt Sasuke stare at him. He had not thought of Madara lately, and he hated the woman for bringing him up when Sasuke was listening.
“Have you talked to your superiors about him?”
Naruto did not answer. People correctly took this as a “no”.
“Really, you should inform them. He's the head of Akatsuki after all. If you don't, we'll inform the police ourselves.”
“You can't. You are still in trouble because of that drug affair.”
“Of course I can. Drugs are petty crimes compared to what Akatsuki did. The police knows that too. Tomorrow afternoon I'll go and inform them, so if you haven't spoken to them before it will be you who's in trouble.”
Naruto had never thought that his friends would go so far as to blackmail him.
“Really, you should alert the police. This is no game, after all. The guy's the head of Akatsuki, he's after you, he might become a danger to other people in Music Town too. The police needs to know.”
Naruto straightened, knowing that he was running out of arguments. “I'll go home now,” he said. “It's getting late, and tomorrow I have to get up early.”

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