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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-Eight: Acceptance
Having arrived at their own place Sasuke and Naruto decided that they would not miss dance training that evening. They felt fine again, after all, and the tournament was approaching. The policewomen who were watching over them frowned when they heard of that plan, but when the boys promised that the next morning they'd turn up at the training center they gave them permission to leave the house (and organized their protection).
They urgently needed to train if they wanted to win the tournament, but they started slowly. Dancing had become something they did as a sport, caring mostly about the accuracy of their steps and the flexibility of their movements. They had forgotten that in the first place dancing was a way to move in harmony with someone you liked. They discovered that while they were dancing they could also invoke the feeling of being one, communicating with the slightest pressure of their hand. Sasuke was leading, meaning he had to decide which figure they'd dance next, but he thought that he could sense which figure Naruto wanted to dance, and obliged to Naruto's wishes.
People perceived that something had happened between them and left them alone. They did not even comment on them starting a kiss-in when a figure had gone wrong instead of a discussion, as they usually did. Only after some minutes the dance teacher reminded them that they had a sequence to practise.
So they practised the sequences, including the acrobatic figures, and finally Naruto could entrust his weight to Sasuke, leaning back as if he was some maiden in need of being rescued, while Sasuke had to bend forward to hold him. It was fun, actually, and Naruto enjoyed pushing Sasuke to his limits, forcing him to admit that he was no longer able to maintain the balance. People watched them and shook their heads and told Sasuke to take care as he might seriously hurt his back.
“It won't happen,” Sasuke replied. “I know what I'm doing.”
He was happy too: Holding Naruto was something he deeply enjoyed.
They changed roles, and now it was Sasuke who had to allow himself to be held and to trust Naruto to be strong enough to hold him. It was a bit of a change for both of them as during the whole day Sasuke had been the one who had taken responsibility for both of them, but Naruto was still Naruto, and liked being strong and the one in charge. Sasuke, when he saw into Naruto's eyes, knew that he could trust him, and let go. He enjoyed it, thinking it was a game, as neither of them really needed to be held, but both of them were strong enough for the two of them.
He reached out to caress Naruto's cheek. Naruto bent lower to kiss Sasuke, he tried to change the position of his hands, he stumbled and dropped Sasuke.
People turned when they heard the fall. They asked what had happened, and Naruto knelt down to see whether Sasuke was hurt, but Sasuke laughed and supported himself on his arms.
“I'm a ninja. I know how to fall.”
He stopped laughing. He was not used to the sound of his own laughter and found it still scary. Indeed he drew Naruto into a kiss.
Naruto felt irritated. He had expected Sasuke to tell him off, or make fun of him for not being able to hold him, but he was just laughing and kissing him. Things were special on that day, which was otherwise an ordinary Monday. They kept kissing until they were told to find themselves a place on one of the benches next to the wall, as other people wanted to dance.
Sitting in a corner they continued kissing for a while, then they watched the top couples, admiring how they combined extravagant figures with gracious movements and prefect harmony.
“We'll have that too,” Sasuke said, caressing Naruto's hands. It was not very important however: it was much more important that they were together again, no longer separated by distrust.
Their friends joined them now. They asked Sasuke whether he was really not hurt from the fall, and he confirmed that he wasn't.
“People here are always concerned about our health,” he said. “But it's not necessary. We're well used to looking after ourselves. Just this afternoon some other friends tried to persuade us to use condoms.”
It was a mistake of course. People stared at them in shock.
“Don't you use them already?”
“No. They're weird. And we won't get pregnant anyway,” Naruto replied, his tone making clear that he regretted the last point.
“They are not just about getting pregnant,” one of the men said. “You should be old enough to know this.”
“They're indeed weird,” another one added, “and not very erotic either. But it's really not safe to have sex without them.”
“We won't contract any diseases,” Naruto continued. “We've never had sex with anyone else.”
“Are you certain?” the guy from Earth Country asked.
“I know who I've had sex with, and it's only Sasuke.”
The man looked at Sasuke, and then at Naruto again. “Are you certain about Sasuke too?”
It took Naruto some seconds to understand him. “Why should he have sex with someone else when he can have sex with me?”
He had managed to silence the man, at least for some seconds. Luckily Sasuke came to his support now:
“Why should I have sex with anyone else when I can have sex with Naruto?”
“Nonetheless you can never be certain.”
“Maybe you can't be certain, but we are. We trust each other.”
Again Naruto had managed to silence the guy from Earth Country for several seconds.
“You don't trust each other,” he said finally. “You stick to each other as if you were glued to each other. You don't even give each other the chance to have sex with someone else. That's not trust, that's paranoia.”
Naruto had no idea what to answer to this accusation.
“The way you keep watching over each other is considered pathological even among straight people. If you're gay it's even more important to grant each other some freedom. We don't consider our partners our property, as straight people do.”
“We don't have to sleep sleep around just because we're gay,” Sasuke replied.
“You don't have to, but it's your right to do so. You'd be fools to give up your rights.”
He left the boys in order to dance. His husband remained with them and sat down next to them: the rest of the group had already taken up dance training a while ago.
“You don't need to sleep around if you don't want to,” he said. “Sex should be a pleasure, after all, not some duty, so if you only enjoy sex with each other that's fine too. But you should use condoms. They're a nuisance and make sex more complicated but it's just not safe to have sex without them.” He shrugged. “Anyway, it's your decision. There's some sex education center in town where you can ask experts about your personal risk and whether you may have sex without condoms if you really trust each other not to sleep around, but I guess they'll also tell you that it's better not to take any risk.”
He fell silent. The boys didn't answer because they felt that something else was wrong, and after some minutes Naruto managed to put it in words. “What was that about granting freedom to each other and not owning each other?”
“He wants an open relationship. You grant each other affairs with other men and trust each other to return when the affair is over. It's a different form of love, and a different form of trust than the ordinary kind.”
“Sounds stupid,” Naruto replied.
“What does he expect from it?” Sasuke asked.
The man shrugged. “Some change. Some fun.”
“You don't accept it, do you?”
“If he wants more freedom I guess I have to grant him more freedom. I can't force him to stay with me. I only need to decide whether I can accept an open relationship, or whether I want to end it altogether.”
“You should tell him to stay with you and not mess around with other men,” Naruto said.
“I can't force him to stay with me if he no longer loves me.”
“But he does,” Naruto said. “Just tell him.”
The man shrugged, making Naruto feel that he considered his advice naive. “You should make use of the rest of the evening and practise your sequence. If you don't feel like training hard you should just dance it for fun. Sometimes that's a good idea.”
He left the boys and after some time they followed his advice. At first it was hard for them to focus on their dancing as they were both troubled by what they had just heard, but with time their thoughts returned to themselves and their own relationship. They did not need to discuss it to know that they did not want to change it into an open relationship, and they both felt that even an attempt to discuss it would signify a lack of trust, so they just held each other more closely and kissed as soon as the music was silent.
When training was over they got compliments all the same.
“You were much better balanced than on other days,” their dance trainer said. “I guess that for you it's better if you, Naruto, just look at Sasuke and don't flirt with the audience. It also helps Sasuke to loosen up.”
When they arrived at their place it was already late, and they went straight to bed, but as on every evening Sasuke made a point of meditating in front of his family's photo. It were always awkward moments for Naruto, waiting for Sasuke to join him in their bed, and though he knew that Sasuke would join him after a few minutes he still felt lonely, and also it hurt to be reminded that he did not have any conscious memories of his parents, nor any photos.
This evening, however, Sasuke did something he had never done before: he turned around, and with his hands he invited Naruto to join him. He laid his arm around Naruto's shoulder and drew him close to himself. Naruto was surprised and happy about not having to wait for Sasuke in their bed, still he felt weird and excluded, leaning against Sasuke, who was lost in his thoughts.
“What do you think in these moments?” he asked.
Sasuke returned to the present.
“I talk to my parents,” he said. “I tell them I'm happy. I tell them – I say: I've found a friend and a lover and I'm happy with him, and we'll find a way to have kids, even though we're both men. He's got a monster within him, but it's a nice monster, so it's all right. You'd like him too, if you were able to get to know him. You'd accept him as another son.”
Naruto was not certain what to think of all this. He had been thinking a lot about his own parents these last weeks, and he did not want to be adopted by Sasuke's parents. However he understood that Sasuke really meant to include him into his own family, and to have him accepted by those he loved. He kissed Sasuke's cheek, and Sasuke returned the kiss. He continued:
“I've found a place where I can be happy. I've found a place where I can live. So I need to ask you to forgive me that I've postponed taking revenge against Danzou until this is possible without risking my life. I promise not to forget you anyway. I think of you every day. I tell people of you. You won't be forgotten, and people won't forget who's repsonsible for your murder. It's just that I'm happy and that I want to live an ordinary life.”
Naruto kissed his cheek. “I'm certain they would be glad to see you happy. That's what all parents want, at least according to people here in Music Town. Your parents would be glad to see you happy too.”
“In Konoha, happiness is not the first priority. In Konoha, parents want their kids to live up to their clan's standards, and to preserve the clan's honour.”
Sasuke turned again to his family's picture, and spoke to it again.
“I do my best to honour you,” he said. “I learn to be a policeman. Here there are people who are able to teach me how to be a policeman. In Konoha there aren't such people any more. People here have weird ideas about how to be a policeman, but somehow their way to do things works, but most of all, people here know the difference between right and wrong.”
He swallowed.
“I'll still see that your murder won't go unpunished. They have different methods here. They think I should find proofs and publish what happened, then Danzou's days as Hokage will be over. They think I should not risk my life. They think that exposing Danzou's crimes will be more satisfying than killing him.”
He needed to calm down again.
“That's what I'll do. I'll see to it that the world won't forget you.”
Naruto felt Sasuke's relief.
“I'll tell the world that not Itachi, but the government of Konoha is the real culprit.”
Naruto put his arm around Sasuke's hips. “You're not alone,” he said. “I'll help you.”
It was only fitting, he thought. If Sasuke wanted his parents to accept him as a son he should behave like a son.

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