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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 Fifty-Three: Nanas
They still had no idea whether they had been admitted to the final, but the guy from Earth Country and his husband had made it. They were very excited now, and in some corner they kept practising their most difficult figure. People teased them about their original idea of participating only for fun, but the guy from Earth Country told them to shut up. They needed to focus on their figure.
Finally the dance teacher told them to stop as they had to get ready to walk onto the stage. Sasuke and Naruto embraced them to wish them luck, just as everyone else did.
The finals were different from the preliminaries in that there were no lists, but the judges showed their judgement immediately, holding up big boards with numbers to show the couple's place in that dance. It was a highly ritualized procedure: After the judgements had been shown the couple in question had to step forward and present itself to the audience, and then thank the judges for their judgement, no matter whether they were happy or disappointed. The smile on most couples' faces was genuine, but people told Sasuke and Naruto that in the higher classes this was different.
It was more exciting like this: You always knew your position, and the audience could also see that a neck-to-neck-race for the first place between their friends and another couple was taking place. Sasuke sought the proximity of their dance teacher (dragging Naruto with him) so that he could explain to them the exact rules: that the jury first counted the number of first places to figure out who had won the tournament, and that then the other places were counted.
“It's going to be quite close,” the dance teacher said, showing Sasuke his notes.
They watched the quickstep, which was the last dance, and then the judgement for the quickstep. With the dance teacher's explanations Sasuke was able to figure out that the guy from Earth Country and his husband had won the tournament and he cheered first and loudest. Naruto looked at him, wondering about the outbreak.
“They've won,” Sasuke said.
“Ah,” Naruto answered. He had not counted the votes as Sasuke had, so he cheered for them when they presented themselves to the audience, just as everyone else did, not because they had won but because they were his friends, and because indeed they had danced well. He cheered for every couple: it was what you did at this tournament, but of course you cheered loudest for your friends.
“You've made it to the finals, too,” the dance teacher told Sasuke while they were waiting for the next couple's judgement, but Sasuke could hardly absorb the information. He had to wait for the last couple's judgement, then the dancers were allowed to leave the stage. Sasuke was the first to embrace the guy from Earth Country and his husband: “I've counted the votes: you've made it,” he said. “You were great!”
They were both still out of breath. “I can't yet believe it,” the local born of the men said. “Others practised far more than we did, and they took this far more seriously.”
“Why?” the dance teacher said. “You were wonderful and very much in harmony. Now I think you need to return to the stage: they figured out the other places too.”
One by one the couples were called to receive their document that told that they had participated and won this or that place. The top three couples received some medals in addition to the document and also colourful statues of thick women in various sizes. Having won the first place the guy from Earth country and his husband got the biggest one: it was more than sixty centimetres high, and they had to carry it like a baby.
“What are these?” Sasuke asked.
“It's called a nana,” the guy from Earth country explained. “They are the traditional prizes at same sex dance tournaments.”
Sasuke considered them weird. They were definitely not realistic. They looked a bit like ancient fertility goddesses with huge round torsos and very small arms, legs and heads, but they were made from plastic and painted in bright colours: white and blue and red and green. They were dancing if you could call dancing what they did with their tiny arms and legs
“What are you going to do with it?” he asked.
“Put her on some shelf. Show her around so that everybody sees we've won. - I think it's now time for you to prepare for your own final.”
Again Sasuke took Naruto with him. This time the husband of the guy from Earth Country accompanied him. “I'll help you,” he said.
He urged them to renew their make-up, starting with the foundation. He had brought cream and powder in various shades, and he suggested to them to congeal Naruto's whisker marks, but both Sasuke and Naruto were against it.
“Without them, Naruto is not himself,” Sasuke said. “I would not know who I am dancing with.”
The man gave in and continued to help them renew the eyeliner and the mascara, and he offered them some gel as Sasuke's bottle was empty by now. Then he told them to open another button of their shirts.
“It's the finals: you may show off your body,” he said. “You look great after all, so you don't have to hide anything.”
They were extremely nervous when they left the changing-room, and they were in a hurry: they were in fact the last couple to line up and walk on stage. Only when they chose their position next to the other couples on the stage they remembered that they had to calm down.
“We'll have fun and we'll win,” Sasuke told Naruto while they were waiting to be introduced. They had already been introduced for the preliminaries, but now the moderator took more time to introduce them.
“Now our next couple with the number seventeen are Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke,” he told the audience. “I have been told to announce that they're not from the centre of Music Town, as it's printed in your programme, but from Konoha. Is that correct?”
“Yes, that's correct. We're from Konoha,” Naruto answered.
“So we're happy to present you a rarity: two guests from the Hidden Leaf,” the moderator continued, speaking to the audience, and turning again to Sasuke and Naruto he said: “Feel welcome here!”
Naruto blushed: he had not expected that changing the information on their place of origin would give them some extra time in the spotlight. He felt confused: for a few seconds his thoughts had not been with Sasuke, or with the friends he had found in Music Town, or at all in the present on the stage where he needed to start to dance when the last couple had been presented to the audience. His thoughts were with the people in Konoha, whom he wanted to support in their struggle against Danzou.
For Sasuke the situation had been easier, and he had managed to remain calm. Taking Naruto's hand he helped him to reorient and to return to the present. When the music started they were both ready to dance.
The first dance was the rumba. Dancing it for the third time this evening they were quite relaxed by now, and they could spare some attention to smile at the audience and at each other. When the dance ended they revived their judgement: a mix of numbers from one to six, but most were somewhere in the middle. It was also clear that some other couple from their dance club had won the rumba.
They focused on the cha-cha, trying to make up for the rumba they had lost. Even Sasuke did his best to smile at the audience.
They concentrated and had fun all the same, but again they got a mix of numbers, only that this time there was neither a one nor a six. The same couple as before got the majority of the ones, and Naruto was happy for them, as they were their friends from their own dance club.
Next was the samba, and Naruto sensed that he no longer needed to support Sasuke. Sasuke loved competing, he loved dancing, he knew what he could do, and the only thing he needed was some smile from Naruto to lighten him up. Naruto caressed his cheeks.
“This time we'll make it – just trust me!”
The samba was a very energetic and very erotic dance, and Sasuke liked it best. He also liked to be close to Naruto while they were dancing. Even though it was a tournament, he felt the excitement that touching each other and then being distant again gave to him. Naruto's smile was all sunshine, it warmed Sasuke's heart, and he smiled in return.
It did not help: again they got a mix of threes and fours, with a single one in between. It was more or less clear now that the other couple from their own club would win the tournament.
The jive was Naruto's favorite dance. Knowing they were no longer able to win the tournament Sasuke turned to him to tell him that they would just enjoy the dance.
“We'll give our best,” Naruto said. “We won't give up!”
They danced and this time Sasuke felt that he was supporting Naruto, turning him around and leading him into complicated figures. Naruto seemed to enjoy it, and Sasuke enjoyed that Naruto enjoyed it.
The dance ended, and again they got a mix of threes and fours with a one in between, this time from a different judge. One last time they thanked the judges for their votes and presented themselves to the audience, then, when the last couple had got their final judgement, they were allowed to leave the stage. Sasuke managed to return to his place next to their dance trainer, while Naruto received their friends' embraces and congratulations (and also in his turn he congratulated their friends who had made the first place.)
“I've counted the votes,” the dance teacher said. “You should come out third, if I have not made a mistake.”
“I don't know what I did wrong,” Sasuke said. “I really tried to remember everything you told us.”
“You were better than ever before,” the dance teacher replied. “I have some ideas what you may work on for the next tournament. One of these days I'll tell you about them, but not now. Now it's not the time. Now is the right time to celebrate what you achieved today. Join Naruto and secure your fair share of the praise!”
Sasuke did so, and he, too, was embraced by everyone and received everyone's congratulations. He also remembered that he was expected to congratulate the couple who had won the first prize, and they congratulated him in return:
“You really did well too! You surpassed yourselves in that tournament! You learnt a lot in no time at all, and if you continue like this you'll make it to the A-class next year, be it at the tournament on Gay Pride Day or at next year's edition of this tournament.”
Sasuke felt happy again. “You may dance in the A-class too,” he said, remembering what was polite.
“We aren't sure yet,” the men answered. “It would mean that we have to train even more than now. We have jobs and friends who don't dance, and family, and they all missed us these last weeks. We need to relax, and to take a break from dancing. We don't know whether we will again invest so much time in a dance tournament.”
Sasuke found it difficult to understand them. They were good, so why did they not want to train hard to become even better?
It was time to enter the stage again,as the jury had now finished counting the votes and figuring out who had won which place. One by one the couples were called and received their moderators' congratulations, and a document telling which place they had won. Naruto leant against Sasuke. “They haven't forgotten us, have they?”
Sasuke shook his head. He had understood that they did this from the last to the first place. Having not been called yet was a good sign.
“So now we get to the places on the pedestal: First the third prize which goes to Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke from Konoha.”
Hand in hand they went forward and were welcomed by a man and a woman carrying medals, documents (one for each of them) and a nana of about twenty centimetres' height. They draped the medals around the boys' necks, then Sasuke took the documents and Naruto took the nana. The man and the woman left the stage and the moderator took charge again.
“So now I have a couple of questions for you. I guess I'm not the only one who wondered why you gave Music Town as your place of origin when you registered for the tournament and then changed it to Konoha when you checked in this evening. So where are you really from?”
He turned the microphone to Naruto.
“We're from Konoha,” Naruto replied.
“And you?” the moderator asked Sasuke.
“Me too.”
“So is it Konoha itself, or one of the surrounding villages?” the moderator asked, turning again to Naruto.
“We're from Konoha itself. We're ninja,” Naruto said in anticipation of the next question the moderator was going to ask.
“So this is a real premiere for us: the first ninja who participate in our dance tournament. You know, we always have some guests from the ninja countries here, but you're the first actual ninja to participate. So are there some dance schools or dance clubs in Konoha, or are you members of a dance club somewhere else in Fire Country?”
“We're members of the dance club Pink and Silver here in Music Town,” Naruto answered. “They have their home in the gay community center here.”
“So now you live in Music Town?”
“Yes. We've been living here for half a year now.”
“And did you start to learn to dance only here, or did you begin your careers as dancers in Fire Country?”
“We started to learn to dance only here.”
“So you started to learn to dance only half a year ago, and you are already able to win the third place in a B-class tournament: this shows us that true ninja can do everything they set their mind on.”
He turned to the audience again. “I think our young ninja deserve an extra applause for this!”
People clapped and cheered. The moderator embraced them both, and congratulated them again.
“I wish you a great stay here in Music Town. I hope that next year we'll see you again.”
Finally they were allowed to leave while people clapped and cheered again. Sasuke had found the whole interview rather stupid and embarrassing, and he had been glad that Naruto had taken it upon himself to answer the man's questions. Only when he looked at Naruto he saw that he was smiling, and that there was a tear in his eyes.
“They like celebrating,” Naruto said. “They celebrate everyone here, no matter whether they made the first place or the last.”
This was what families did, Sasuke thought: they showed their happiness about every member of the family. Understanding why Naruto was moved he was moved too, and he drew Naruto closer to himself.
From their place at the back of the stage they watched how the second and then the first couple were called by the moderator to receive their prizes. They cheered and clapped for them now too, and finally even Sasuke allowed himself to melt with the crowd and be engulfed in the general atmosphere of happiness. The victorious couple made them all take each other by the hand and in a long line they ran from one side of the stage to the other, and then back again, raising their hands and cheering to the audience. They did it several times, and even Sasuke forgot himself.
Finally they had to leave the stage, as the tournament now continued with the straight couples. Together with the couple who had made the first prize they sat down among their friends. They passed around their nana, so that everyone could have a look at her, and they also had a look at the winners' nana, which was not only bigger than their own but which also had three breasts. They laughed and made silly jokes about the nanas, and finally Sasuke was able to relax: they had danced better than ever before, they had achieved more than most people had expected, they could be content and celebrate with the rest.

A/N: For Nanas, ask your favorite search machine about Niki de SaintPhalle.

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