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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 Twenty-Seven: Juugo's True Age

There was no third round because during the second round Sasuke used up all the massage oil. One of these days they'd need to buy some new oil and give it to the women, they decided when they lay cuddled against each other, looking at the empty bottle.

They had been able to achieve again that feeling of being not two, but only one person, yet as they had strived for it instead of experiencing it by surprise it had not been the utter bliss it had been the first time. It felt more comforting and reassuring than like a mystical experience: the feeling had been real, they had been able to work for it, and it was not a once in a lifetime experience.

Having run out of massage oil they went down to the living-room where Juugo, his foster mothers, and a girl, apparently Juugo's girl-friend, were sitting around the table. She was fifteen or sixteen (again Sasuke and Naruto considered her much younger than themselves though in fact she wasn't), and she leant heavily against Juugo. The four of them had been engaged in an intense discussion, but when Sasuke and Naruto joined them they fell silent.

“You were having fun,” one of the women said, and it was not clear whether it was a statement or a question. “The bed's old and no longer fit for anything but sleeping.”

“How do you feel, Naruto?” the other woman asked.

“Great,” Naruto answered, pressing Sasuke's hand, then he realized that the woman probably had not wanted to know whether their sex had been good.

“You looked quite ill during lunch,” the woman continued. “I hope it was a good idea that you did not simply take some rest.”

Naruto shrugged. “It's okay.”

The first woman took over again. “We're glad to hear this,” she said, and then she looked at Sasuke: “How old is Juugo really?”

It took Sasuke some seconds before he was able to answer: “Eighteen or nineteen, maybe even twenty. Older than Naruto and me.”

By now, Juugo was taller than Sasuke, but he did not yet have a man's broad figure, but was slender as a boy.

“During a fight he gave a lot of chakra to save my life, and as a result he was turned into a child. Now the effects of this severe chakra depletion are wearing off.”

The women were silent for a few seconds.

“Why did you not tell us?” the first of them finally said.

“He enjoyed being a child. He enjoyed having parents and playing with other children. I did not want to spoil it for him.”

“Still you might have told us.”

“It was his own decision.”

The women were silent, and Sasuke and Naruto could watch them readjust their perceptions of the situation. If Juugo was really nineteen they could not hold Sasuke responsible for Juugo's action.

“Why did you not tell us your true age” they now asked Juugo.

“I wanted to be a child. I was afraid you'd turn me away. I wanted to be a child with parents and siblings. I never had the chance to be such a child as I was raised in Orochimaru's dungeons, spending most of my time on my own.”

“Yes, you told us about it. So you grew up with barely any contact to other human beings, and never had a chance to learn to live with people.”

“How can anyone do this?” the other woman joined in. “It's well known after all that children need people to grow up with.”

“I was considered a lunatic. Occasionally I would get into a killing-frenzie and kill random people.”

“You killed people?”

“Yes. Quite a few of them.”

Naruto was just as shocked as the two women.

“When it was over I regretted what I had done. I did not want to kill them. It was just that every now and then I was overcome by these impulses. I hated myself for it. But when these impulses got hold of me I wasn't able to think, or to hold myself back.”

“And now?”

“Now I no longer feel these impulses, or if I feel them I am still myself and can subdue them.”

The women swallowed. “You know you put us into great danger,” the first one said. “Not only us, but our kids too.”

“We might have accepted the risk for ourselves,” the second woman added. “But we would have liked to know about it, so that we could have taken precautions to protect our kids.”

“It was no longer risky when I arrived in Music Town,” Juugo said. “I learnt to control myself when I became a member of Sasuke's team. He and his team mates accepted me in spite of these impulses.”

People looked at Sasuke.

“I needed him because of his extraordinary strength,” he said. “And why should I have treated him differently from my other team members?”

“It was easier to control these impulses when I was with people,” Juugo continued. “Before I was always angry at people because they were happy outside, living with other people and caring for each other, and when I was angry I would kill whomever I met when I was outside. And when I was in my dungeon again I was angry at myself for what I had done and believed that I deserved being shut up.”

There was a silence of a few seconds.

“You don't happen to be a jinchuuriki?” Naruto asked.

Juugo shook his head. “I am not. Akatsuki has caught all the bijuu except yours and Killerbee's”

Naruto suddenly felt dizzy. He and Sasuke were still standing in the door of the living-room but now they sat down at the table.

“How did it come that you got these impulses in the first place?” one of the women asked Juugo.

“I always thought I was born with them, but now I wonder. I was born with that extraordinary strength, however, that's for sure.”

“How did it happen that you got separated from your biological parents?”

“People came and offered to raise and train me. I think they were from the government. But then there was another offer from Orochimaru that seemed better to my parents. Maybe he offered more money. I used to hate them for it, but maybe they simply didn't know better. Maybe they really thought they chose what was best for me, and had no idea that Orochimaru planned to hide me away in some dungeon and used the extraordinary power in my blood.”

Naruto shivered again. The two mothers were silent too. Only the girl-friend remained active, kissing Juugo on his cheek.

“How can any parents give away their child for money?” the first woman said.

“And it's also well-known that people who offer to train your child ask for money and don't offer money,” the second woman added. “One should always ask: what's in it for them? before you agree to such a deal.”

“Anyway we're glad we accepted you as our foster son. We liked you right form the beginning. We're glad we could give you a few months as an ordinary child when you never had the chance to be one. We would only have liked to know the truth beforehand.”

It would not have worked, Naruto thought. They would not have treated him as an ordinary child if they had known the truth.

“I mean, we saw that you were extremely mature for a child of twelve, but it never came to our mind that maybe you weren't a child at all.”

The women looked at Juugo, and after a while he answered them:

“I have to thank you. You have accepted me and treated me as if I was one of your own children, and given me three months of childhood I never had when I was a real child.”

“It was a pleasure,” the second woman said.

They were all silent for a while. The girl-friend was the first to speak: “So will your grow even higher?”

“Yes. A few centimetres.”

“And stronger?”

“I'm even now an extremely powerful ninja with some special powers of my own.”

“Cool.”

She snuggled against him.

“If he's really eighteen or nineteen he's too old for you,” one of the women said, obviously disapproving of the girl's desire for a strong, powerful man. Naruto thought that she had not seen the girl's true strength: not being afraid when she had heard of Juugo's fate.

“So you've been turned into a monster too,” he said. “Just what they tried to do to me. Though I escaped the fate of being hidden away in some secret place in Konoha.”

The women turned to him. “Did they want to do this to you too?”

“Yes. I escaped to Music Town just in time.”

“So you're lucky you escaped. Being kept from other people would truly have turned you into a monster.”

“I was kept from people during my early childhood. Not completely, but I wasn't close to anyone. Sasuke was among the first to recognize me as a human being.”

“So it's thanks to him that you aren't a monster now.”

Naruto shrugged. He took Sasuke's hand without noticing that he did so. “I guess I'm a monster all the same. It's within me, and I can't get rid of it.”

“But you don't plan to kill people, or to go on a rampage and destroy the town?”

“No, of course not. It's just - ” Naruto had to think to find words for his feelings. He was keenly aware of the kyuubi's chakra in all his body at that moment. “I've spent my whole life pretending I'm not a monster, trying to persuade people I'm human and doing my best to subdue the kyuubi. Now I think it's better to stand by it.”

The women looked confused, only Sasuke thought he understood what Naruto meant. He saw the change in Naruto's expression: looking more serious than on ordinary days, more like he looked when he was reading books about the Rikudou, or when he was reading and answering his fanmail, dreaming of peace. Sasuke liked that expression, and thus he did not mind that Naruto did not seem as funny and optimistic as on other days. He was sadder than when he dreamt of peace, but Sasuke considered this understandable, and then there was still the afterglow of the experience of being one they had just shared. Sasuke pressed Naruto's hand to revive the memory of that experience, and then he kissed Naruto's shoulder.

The women still looked irritated.

“Do monsters like tea?” one of them asked. “Or do they prefer other substances?”

“Tea is okay,” Naruto replied.

She got up to fetch cups for him and Sasuke and filled them, and for the rest of the conversation they avoided the subject of monsters. Only when the boys were about to leave one of the women asked another disturbing question: “You've told us so much about your father sealing the kyuubi into you, but you never talk about your mother. Do you know anything about her? Did she accept that you got turned into a jinchuuriki?”

“I never considered it,” Naruto answered. “I've never known her, and no one ever spoke to me about her. It 's a weird thing, now that I consider it, no one ever telling me anything about my parents or about any other relatives, making me wonder whether I was descended from human beings at all.”

“And when you were old enough to know that you must have descended from human beings, did you then ask about your mother's identity, and why she gave her consent to the kyuubi being sealed into you?"

Naruto shook his head. “It never came to my mind. I was made to feel that asking questions was something you didn't do.”

“It was the same for me,” Sasuke explained. “Naruto was made to believe that he didn't have any parents, or that they had not been from the village. I was made to believe that my brother had turned crazy. No more questions needed to be asked.”

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