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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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A/N:
KALOS and ItaNaruLover: Many thanks for your favourable
reviews and your encouragement for the rather short piece of text I
posted on Wednesday! I hope you like this part too...

Prologue,
Part Two

Finally
Sakura entered the room: quietly at first, afraid of waking up
Kakashi, but he turned to her opening his eyes; he had not been
asleep after all.

Naruto
hoped that Kakashi would now tell them what he had to tell, and also
he was still impatient to tell of what had happened to him this
morning, but Sakura was the first to talk.

“I
was kept up by Shikamaru”, she said and produced a letter from
her backpack, holding it up so that the two men could see it. It was
written in a neat, round hand, on pink paper, with some fancy
drawings of dinosaurs on the edges – obviously not a letter
from Shikamaru. If only there had not been those large black spots,
destroying the overall impression of cuteness and neatness.

“What
about it?” Naruto asked. “Who is it from? What's in it?”

“Female
affairs”, Sakura answered. “Temari wrote it. But that's
not why I show it to you. It's just – I'd never thought that it
would come to this – that a girl can no longer write to her
boyfriend without her letter being read by strangers.”

So
that was the explanation for the black spots, Naruto thought. “But
they trust us in Suna”, he said. “They are our allies.
Gaara is my friend. Why should he have his own sister's letters
censored?”

“Are
you sure it's them who are doing the censoring?” Sakura asked
back.

A
few months ago Naruto would have been enraged by the mere idea of
this, and have called it a lie. Yet with his recent experiences, not
only his encounter with Pain and what he had told him about the
history of Konoha, but also considering his experiences with the new
administration, he had learnt that a lot of things were possible in
Konoha that he had formerly believed only to happen in far away
countries. Though on the other hand he was not sure what to think
about censorship – certainly it felt bad for Temari, but on the
other hand they had to prevent classified information from getting
known outside of Konoha.

“She
writes that Shikamaru's letter has arrived with a lot of blackened
sentences too”, Sakura continued. “Actually this is what
they tried to hide in Temari's letter, but Shikamaru managed to
recover the information. He's wondering whether she was able to do
the same with what he wrote, as after all she is a fighting nin and
not a cryptographer. Else they would long ago have started writing in
code.”

She
sat down on Kakashi's other side. “I mean, I could understand
it if it were something political. But it's nothing, just the private
talk of a couple about subjects that only concern the two of them.
Shikamaru is mad that they don't trust him not to betray any secrets
of the Leaf, just because he is in love with a girl from Suna.”

“I
don't think that they are interested in any political information”,
Kakashi entered the conversation. He supported himself on his arms so
that he could better talk, and Sakura helped him stuff a big pillow
behind his back. “I think they just want them to feel
uncomfortable with each other, not being able to speak freely.”

“But
they are in love, aren't they? Do they want them to break up?”

“You
must understand that he is in a sensitive position, training for a
job in the cryptography unit. He may think that he can be trusted not
to tell anything he learns to Temari, but men usually talk to their
lovers and wives about what is on their mind, and generally what
happens at their jobs is a lot on their mind. It is only to be
expected that one day he will have to decide between his love and his
job...”

“But
why would there be a problem?” Naruto asked. “They are
our allies, aren't they?”

“They
have been our allies for four years now, but before they were our
enemies, and they can turn into enemies again at any moment.
Alliances between ninja countries are never for eternity, they always
only last as long as it seems advantageous. And even with one's
allies it is usually a good idea to keep some secrets for
yourselves.”

Naruto
felt stupefied. This was not the way Kakashi usually talked.

“If
they are lucky they will have to marry”, Kakashi went on, and
Naruto wondered again if he had missed some important information.
Should it not have been: “If they are lucky they will be
allowed to marry?”

“Shikamaru
fears that even this won't be possible. And just now when she needs
him most they cannot meet.”

“He
should not be too pessimistic. They won't risk insulting Suna by
forbidding them to marry if he really got her pregnant. They might,
however, ask for proof that it is really him who is the child's
father.”

“It's
all embarrassing”, Sakura answered. “It's bad enough that
everyone knows that Temari is pregnant, and now they even publicly
discuss who is the father. Shikamaru says that what he most longs to
do is announce publicly that yes, he is the father, and will marry
her. Even though they are not sure yet whether she is really pregnant
– only everyone else in Suna and Konoha seems to know. Why do
you know about it, anyway?”

“Kurenai
told me. She hopes that Temari is pregnant and that Shikamaru will
stop bothering her with advice about her unborn child she does not
need. Actually, last time he visited her, it was to ask her for
advice about Temari's pregnancy.”

“Which
advice has she given to him?”

“What
I told you: Hope that they will be allowed to marry.”

Naruto
wondered why everyone seemed to know about Temari and Shikamaru and
only he did not. He tried to imagine Shikamaru as a married man –
it might suit him, he thought, he had become so terribly serious and
responsible recently. He must be happy to marry the woman he loved,
Naruto thought, and unbidden some other thoughts crossed his mind. If
he was together with Sakura, and had gotten her pregnant, would he
want to marry her? Now? It was difficult to imagine when he was
honest about it. Maybe he had grown too used to her turning him down.

“Shikamaru
told me that it's getting just too much for him. When he fell in love
with Temari he did not imagine that one day he would have to face the
authorities of Konoha about it. He feels as if he had suddenly become
the hero of some romantic novel, and he has never had the ambition of
becoming a hero.”

As
in Jiraya's novels, Naruto thought. He still found them boring –
in his opinion a story should be about more than two lovers being
separated by averse circumstances or their own stupidity, and then
overcoming all obstacles, coming together and having mind-blowing
sex.

“If
it turns out that she is not pregnant he might even consider that it
may be better for both of them to break up and look for partners from
their own villages”, Sakura said.

Even
though Naruto did not think much of love stories this idea made his
heart freeze.

“The
situation as it is now just too difficult. They can hardly see each
other. He won't get more than two days off in a row, and when she is
visiting here, there are always some ANBU around, chaperoning them so
that they have hardly any time to be on their own.”

“You
must understand them”, Kakashi said. “The two of them
have already shown that they cannot be trusted to act responsibly.”

Not
as in Jiraya's novels, Naruto thought. In Jiraya's novels the lovers
only had mind-blowing sex when all problems were solved and the story
was approaching its end.

“I
would not do it”, he said. “I would not break up with the
woman I love only because some old bastards are causing trouble. I
would not give up on her.”

“You
should try to understand them”, Kakashi repeated. “They
prefer people to marry within their villages, so that their loyalties
are undivided. It is nice to read about lovers who insist on their
love, ready to face the whole world in order to be together, not
caring about convention and neglecting what other duties and
responsibilities they have, but in real life it is better to be more
rational. They are worried about you too, Naruto.”

Naruto
registered that his teacher did not dare to speak openly.

“I
know they are worried”, he replied, and his voice felt heavy
even though he had longed to talk about it since this morning. I was
summoned to the Hokage today. He told me that in the future, once the
walls of the village were rebuilt, I was to stay within them, and no
longer go on missions. The risk of me getting killed, or losing
control again over the kyuubi, was too high, he said – I should
rather remain here, so that as the jinchuuriki I would be the last
weapon, the last resort when it comes to defending the village when
the danger was so great that it was worth the risk of the village
getting damaged, and me being overcome by the kyuubi.” And
maybe killed, he thought. He still wondered what would happen if he
completely lost control.

He
tried to read Sakura's and Kakashi's expression when he said this,
hoping they would be as shocked as he had been this morning, but
Sakura only looked sad, as if she had expected it, and Kakashi seemed
unmoved, as he always did behind his mask.

“I
have thought for some time now that they were probably going to keep
you in Konoha” he said. “Actually Tsunade suggested this
possibility to me.”

When
had she seen him? Naruto wondered. She lived in some small house in
the outskirts of the village now, weak and fragile as an old woman,
far older than she really was, and some people looked after her every
day, helping her with the household. Naruto would not have thought
that she was able to walk all the way to the hospital to visit
Kakashi.

“It's
for your and the village's safety”, Kakashi went on. “You
must understand.”

And
suddenly Naruto did, though he did not yet understand the full
implications of what Kakashi was attempting to convey.

“I
understand”, he said in a harsh voice.

Kakashi
reached out for the copy of the latest volume of the Icha-Icha-series
which had come to lie on the blanket when he had stopped reading on
Naruto's entry. He opened it and took two sheets of paper that had
been lying inside the book – not the usual, modern paper that
was used in Konoha for mundane purposes as administrative affairs or
books, but the papyros from which the ninja roles were made.

“Jiraya's
will” he said, giving both sheets of paper to Naruto.

Naruto
looked at them, with tears in his eyes, as it always happened to him
when he held something in his hands that came from his former master.
But the paper he was looking at now was not written in Jiraya's hand,
nor did it look like a will: It was Jiraya's contract with the
publishing-house that held the rights for the Icha-Icha-series,
granting Jiraya ten percent of the price of every sold copy.

“It's
yours now”, Kakashi said.

Naruto
went on reading. “It says that Jiraya has to write a new sequel
every year – I don't have to do this, do I?”

“I
don't think so. But I think that you should talk to them and explain
to them the change of the state of affairs.”

He
pointed to the address of the publishing-house at the top of the
letter. It was in a town Naruto had never heard of, in some obscure
little country in the West.

“I
have thought long about it”, Kakashi said. “I know it'`s
not easy, but I think it's best if you comply. You have to
understand.”

Naruto
was under shock. He had not expected this, not from Kakashi. “I
understand”, he said.

“It's
not easy for me either”, Kakashi continued, and then in a
strange gentle gesture he took both of Naruto's hands, anthe weakness
of his touch reminding Naruto that Kakashi would still need a long
time to recover.

“I
have always been proud and happy to have you as my student”, he
said. “I wish you the best. Take my blessing.”

“Thanks”,
Naruto answered, still unable to move.
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