The Blessed Realm

Chapter One Hundred Fifty: Hold On!

Sasuke and Naruto were still leaning heavily against each other, their arms around each other's shoulders.

“Can I have a look at the document?” Naruto asked.

Sakura passed it to him, and he and Sasuke read it together.

“I had no idea that there might have been the possibility of being taken in by another family,” Naruto said.

“Why not?” one of the women said. “That's what people have done everywhere and at every time when there was a child without parents. It's the most natural thing to do, isn't it?”

“Not in Konoha.”

“In Konoha probably too: just as everywhere else.”

Naruto caressed Sasuke's hands. “We might have grown up as brothers,” he said.

Sasuke embraced him and then kissed him deeply for more than a minute, not caring that people were watching them. He felt Naruto's despair.

“It was not fate that you grew up in loneliness,” he said. “It was people.”

Again he kissed Naruto's cheeks. “Now I understand my mother's warning that I should keep at a safe distance from you. It was stupid all the same: My clan got killed anyway. I should not have listened to her.”

“We might have been friends much earlier. We might have been brothers,” Naruto repeated.

“See it like this,” one of the women said. “If you had been raised as brothers you could not be lovers now.”

“Why not?” Naruto asked.

“It would be incest.”

“Not for us!” Naruto embraced Sasuke and kissed him. “If it had not been for Danzou we would have been together for all our lives. There would not have been years of separation.”

“If it had not been for Danzou you'd have been raised by your own parents. We would have become friends in the academy or even on the playground.”

Naruto took up the documents again. “Your mother was friends with my mother,” he said. “She gives this as a reason why she wanted to take me in. They would have met on the playground and watched us play, just as all mothers do. In the sandbox we would have become friends.”

He caressed Sasuske's hair, and again they kissed without caring about the people around them. Slowly Juugo's fostermothers and Sakura left the living-room, not wanting to disturb them. The children followed.

It took both of them some time to calm down. They knew it would take them more than an afternoon to digest the information. When they felt ready they dissolved their embrace and followed their friends to the kitchen.

“We want to go home now,” Sasuke said. “We did not get much sleep last night, and we need some time to rest before the dance tournament starts. We also need to change.”

“You don't need to rest, do you?” Sakura said, staring at him with wide eyes. “You're the most powerful ninja of our generation.”

“When they say they want to rest they don't mean the same thing as other people,” one of the women said. “It's best if you stay with us: you won't want to listen to what they're doing. We'll meet again at the tournament!”

“Yes! See you then!” Naruto replied.

They went home silently, their arms around each other. When he saw a bookshop Naruto went inside to buy a newspaper – the one where Sasuke's own article would be published the next day. When they arrived at their own place they prepared some tea and then sat down on the sofa, cuddled against each other. Naruto opened the newspaper so that they could read together.

Apparently the conflict was quite in the open by now. Hinata had announced in public that she, and with her the entire Hyuuga clan, would protect Kurenai and her child. Danzou's answer had been that from now on he'd consider the Hyuuga clan traitors. There were photos of ANBU positioned around the grounds of the Hyuuga clan, threatening to attack and take Kurenai's child by force, and there were also photos of members of the Hyuuga clan, preparing to defend the child.

“They'll be attacked and killed,” Naruto said. “And the kid will be raised as an orphan, just like Sai. Or there'll be a civil war.”

“Maybe Danzou's opponents will win that war,” Sasuke replied.

Naruto got up to look for pen and paper. “I'll write to Hinata,” he said.

Sasuke followed him with his eyes. He accepted that Naruto sat down at the big table, but he watched him anxiously while he was writing, and when he saw that the letter was finished he sat down next to Naruto to read it.

Naruto was not certain whether he approved of this. His feelings towards Hinata were complicated, and the fact that she had been in love with him still turned their relationship awkward. Now he admired her for standing up against Danzou. He would have preferred not to let Sasuke have a share in this relationship, but sensing that Sasuke was jealous he allowed him to read the letter:

Dear Hinata,

Sakura and Kakashi have arrived here safely, and they told us about how you offered protection to Kurenai and her child. My heart and all my thoughts are with you, and with Kurenai and her child. Hold on: you will succeed. There's just one thing you must not do, and this is that you must not employ violence. It may seem absurd to you, just as it first seemed absurd to me, but this is because we are ninja and because we were raised in ignorance of what people in the rest of the world know: you can defeat your oppressor without taking resort to violence, and your victory will be more certain like that than if you take up arms to fight him. If you are courageous and ready to stand up for what you believe in, but refuse to hurt anyone, all but the most cruel-hearted people will admire you. People will unite behind you, and Danzou's ANBU and Root won't be able to fight. It works – it worked more than once in the countries beyond the ninja countries, and there's no reason why it shouldn't work here, too.

Love, Naruto.

Sasuke put down the letter. “You tell her to sacrifice herself for Kurenai's baby,” he said. “You can't do that.”

He took the pen and added another line to the letter:

Hold on! We'll be with you soon.

Sasuke.

Naruto looked at him. Sasuke had felt a bit insecure while he had written the line, but the question in Naruto's eyes reassured him.

“I mean it,” he said. “They've told us more than once to stay here in Music Town, as our presence in Konoha would make their situation more complicated, as then they'd have to protect and hide us from Danzou. But now their situation can't get more complicated than it is.”

Naruto took some time to digest Sasuke's words and to understand their implications. “When shall we leave?” he asked.

“We should stick to our plan to publish Sakura's documents,” Sasuke replied. “We can't leave immediately.”

Naruto nodded. “We have to do for them here what can be done only here.”

“And we can still dance the tournament.”

“We can. That's what you dreamt of since we met here in Music Town, isn't it?”

“It is. But this is only because at the time I did not dare to dream of having sex with you.”

Naruto smiled. He caressed Sasuke's hair and cheeks, and then he kissed him on his mouth. Sasuke responded by opening his mouth, and by caressing Naruto's naked back under his shirt.

Naruto broke off the kiss, smiling: he led Sasuke to their bedroom, and made him lie on his back, then he knelt over him and just looked at him. He was very much in love now, full of gratitude for what Sasuke had just offered to him. He was beaming, and Sasuke smiled back at him, and his smiled turned him unbelievably beautiful. Slowly Naruto kissed him again, and then he started to unbutton Sasuke's shirt. Sasuke did the same to him. They helped each other take off their shirts and then continued to caress each other: They had been a couple for quite some time now, and still to Naruto it felt like a miracle that a good-looking man like Sasuke had fallen in love with him, but now he thought that Sasuke was not just good-looking but beautiful, and that it was his beautiful soul that turned his body beautiful. He would not have cared if Sasuke had had a belly, or an ugly scar – he would have caressed him all the same just because he was Sasuke.

“We'll grow old together”; he said. “We'll grow old and wrinkly, and fat or thin, whatever happens to us.”

Sasuke's smile grew even warmer. “I take this as a promise,” he said. “Don't get yourself killed before you're old.”



“I won't,” Naruto said, continuing to caress Sasuke while Sasuke's hands wandered over his body.

“You're beautiful,” Sasuke said. “Did I ever tell you that you're most beautiful when you're reading?”



“A couple of times. You don't want me to read now, do you?”



“No. It's just that you look like that now, too, all serious.”



“You want me to remain serious while we're having sex?”

Sasuke started to unbutton Naruto's pants, and to pull them down. He smiled when he saw Naruto's boxers, even though by now he had got used to Naruto's fancy for colourful boxers and accepted it as part of what Naruto was. He pulled the boxers down, too.

“You can't remain serious for long, can you?,” he said. “It's just not possible.”

He was laughing – a silent laughter that originated in his belly and was barely audible. Naruto laughed too, and his laughter was deep and full and from his belly too: a laughter from pure happiness.

“That's not fair,” he said. “How shall I remain serious when you laughing?”

He opened Sasuke's zipper now too and undressed him completely. He kissed him and lay on him, naked skin on naked skin. Sasuke moved a bit, cradling him. Naruto supported himself on his hands, and Sasuke caressed his ass. They were going to have sex eventually, but Naruto wanted to extend this moment of anticipation. He could not have been happier than he was now.

“We could have been friends from the sandbox,” he said. “I have met some people who have been best friends from the time when they still wore diapers. I've even talked to a couple who got engaged in the sandbox and married twenty years later. But now we shall not waste even more time being separated from each other.”

Something else came to his mind. “Next year you won't organize my birthday without telling me. We'll do it together.”



“We may celebrate our birthdays together,” Sasuke said. “A lot of young people do this here in Music Town.”



“Next year we'll celebrate our birthdays in Konoha,” Naruto answered. For some seconds they got serious again, thinking of what lay ahead of them.

Sasuke's hands wandered over Naruto's body. Naruto bent down and kissed him.

“Now what shall we do?” he asked.

“You may ride me,” Sasuke answered. “You haven't ever done that, have you? And then I'll do a blow-job for you. We haven't done that for a long time.”

“As you desire,” Naruto answered. He liked both Sasuke's suggestions, and it was true: both were things they had not done for a long time, or never. He set to work, caressing Sasuke's cock, which was half aroused already, but not enough for having sex.

 

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