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The Canalized River	By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 944 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter
Twenty-Five: Two not so sexless angels

Naruto
found himself kneeling on the lawn below the still barren trees,
exhausted, with a terrible pain in his left shoulder, but the pain
was nothing compared to the pain in his heart. It had beeen a
nightmare of a genjutsu, not knowing where he was and what and who
was around him, the only certain thing being Sasuke clinging to his
left arm.

Finally
he had found him, and he had not rejected him, nor attempted to kill
him, but he had protected him and helped him complete his jutsu.
Naruto felt a bit stupid that he had needed Sasuke to tell him to
leave the forth arm blunt, and he was angry at his teachers who had
not seen that simple trick but had rather told him not to use the
jutsu at all.

Sasuke
wanted him to be strong, he thought. He had even helped him to
stabilize the wind shuriken with his chidori, but Naruto felt rather
uncomfortable about this: He did not want to depend on Sasuke with
what was to become his principal jutsu.

Nothing
of all this really mattered now: Sasuke was lying next to him,
unconscious, hopefully unconscious. Naruto took his friend's lifeless
form into his arms, cradled him, searched for a sign of life and
found none: The breath indiscernable, the pulse too weak to be felt –
or non-existant. He despaired, tears ran down his cheeks, he pressed
Sasuke's body against his own, caressed his cheeks and his hair –
that he should have found his friend just to lose him immediately
afterwards...

“Don't
be dead!” he cried. “Please don't be dead! Why did you
have to sacrifice yourself for me again? I never asked you to!”

“Let
me out!” the kyuubi said. “I will avenge him.”

“Not
yet”, Naruto answered. “Let me hold him for another
while, just as long as his body is still warm, and then let me bury
him properly: then you may take over.”

Because
now that all his dreams were gone, all his bonds broken, his home
village forbidden to him, he did no longer care to live. The kyuubi
might well take his body and his soul, it did not matter, he might
use both to go on a rampage and destroy all the ninja villages, it
did not matter either. Just a little while, as long as Sasuke's body
was still warm, as long as it still bore some resemblance to how he
had looked in life, Naruto wanted to go on living.

He
looked at Sasuke's pale face, still beautiful, yet not peaceful as
the faces of dead people tend to be in stories, but distorted by
pain. He bowed down, so that their cheeks touched, he cried again,
clinging to Sasuke's body, for he had no other support in his sorrow.

Finally,
when all tears had left him, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He drew
his kunai and looked up: The hand belonged to a woman, and there was
a man standing next to her.

“You
may put that down”, the man said. “You don't want to hurt
anyone, do you?”

“Who
are you?” Naruto asked. “What do you want of me?”

“No
need to be afraid”, the man replied. “We don't want to
harm you, nor do we want to disturb you in your sorrow. But Uchiha
Sasuke was our captain, so we have come to look for him.”

Sasuke
had had a team of his own, Naruto remembered with sudden envy.

“How
is he?” the man asked. “Still alive, I hope. You would
not embrace a corpse as you do, would you?”

“I
am not sure”, Naruto answered, and then fear, exhaustion and
anger overcame him. “If you are his team, why did you not come
to his aid in this fight?” He broke into tears again.

“We
were engaged in other fights ourselves”, the woman said, laying
her hand on Naruto's shoulder again in order to comfort him.

“Now,
maybe you can lend me your forehead protector so that I can check
whether Sasuke is still alive.”

Naruto
obeyed, as there was not much danger in giving her his forehead
protector. He was still not sure whether he could trust her. She took
the metal plate and held it in front of Sasuke's mouth and nose, and
soon the shiny surface turned blind. Naruto felt stupid because he
could have come up with this himself, but then he was overcome with
relieve and his tears were tears of joy.

“Will
he live?” he asked the woman.

“Probably”,
she answered. “Can you put him down?”

Gently
he let Sasuke glide into the grass without breaking the physical
contact. The woman reached out to open Sasuke's clothes, but catching
her wrist, Naruto stopped her.

“Don't
touch him”, he said. “You may say that he is your
captain, but how do I know that I can trust you?”

“You
should not trust her”, the man said. “She is a perverted
old bitch who's only thinking about molesting pretty young boys when
they are helpless. So you better take care.”

The
woman stared at the man, who was just smirking, then she punched his
face. The man did not parry the blow, obviously not having expected
it, but his head turned into water, and transformed into a head again
after she had withdrawn.

“But
as chance would have it”, he continued, “Karin is quite a
competent medical ninja as well. So it would be wise to let her
examine Sasuke, but take care that she does not more than is
necessary to check on his health.”

Naruto
watched and listened in wonder, and when Karin turned back to him, he
allowed her to take off Sasuke's shirt. These were crazy people, he
thought, but he was confident now that they did not want to hurt
Sasuke. Still he closely watched Karin, keeping the man's warning in
mind: he really did not want her to do anything indecent.

As
far as he could tell, she only felt for Sasuke's chakra, moving her
hand above his chest and his belly, not even touching him directly.

“That
should be enough”, the man said. “You are not doing this
to have fun. How is he?”

“His
chakra level is low, and what's worse, the flow has almost stopped.”

“Can
you make it flow again?”

“Yes
– if you would trust me that I am not doing it to molest him.”

“Oh,
well, do what you have to do.”

She
pushed the waistband of Sasuke's pants a few centimetres down, so
that the navel was exposed – not more, and Naruto was glad of
it. She touched his body with the tips of her fingers, and Naruto
watched the rising and falling of Sasuke's chest becoming visible
again.

“There
are no outer wounds”, Karin said. “Do you know how it
could happen that he ended up in this state?”

Naruto
shook his head. “He was fighting by my side, and just when I
thought that we had finally got his brother he broke down.”

“Must
have been one of their genjustsu things”, the man said. “It
was quite creepy, seeing you standing opposite your opponents and not
moving at all until you suddenly threw that giant shuriken. That was
a hell of a jutsu by the way. I would not want you to be my
opponent.”

Naruto
tried to figure out what the man was attempting to convey to him, but
before he had succeeded the man continued to speak:

“Anyway,
I prefer a decent sword fight to all these mind techniques.”

So
do I, Naruto thought.

“I
have done everything I can”, Karin announced, covering Sasuke
with her cape. “He will recover, but it will take some time. It
would be quicker if I had been allowed to include the lowest center
as well, but as you were against it...”

“I
just assumed that Sasuke would have been against it”, the man
replied.

Karin
did not answer. “Keep him warm”, she told Naruto. “I
have not yet fully understood what has happened, but I am quite sure
that holding him and keeping him warm were the best things you could
have down. You probably saved his life.”

Naruto
nodded, understanding that she was trying to reassure him. He could
not stop wondering about these two people who had appeared from
nowhere as if they were two angels, changing his situation from
absolutely hopeless to quite fine, strange angels to be sure, always
joking and everything but sexless, as true angels are supposed to be,
but angels nonetheless.

“Is
it safe to move him?” the man asked.

“It
should be”, Karin answered, waking Naruto from his own
thoughts.

“Why?” he asked. “Where are you
going to take him?”

“There's
an empty fortress not far away”, the man answered. “It
offers more protection than the open countryside, so we have set up
our camp there. Our forth teammate is there as well: He is badly
wounded, so you will understand that we don't want to leave him alone
for too long.”

Naruto
nodded again. Emptiness was creeping up to his heart and he fought
hard not to break into tears again, this time for himself. He had
always dreamt of saving Sasuke, leading him back to Konoha, to the
friends he truly belonged to, but now it seemed that Sasuke had found
new friends, had formed new bonds, while it was him, Naruto, who was
friendless and alone, without any companion but the kyuubi.

“You
and me, we will carry him”, the man said.

“If
you feel fit for it”, Karin added. “I am sorry. I should
have asked before whether you were wounded.”

“It's
fine”, Naruto answered, though the pain in his left shoulder
was now making itself be felt.

“I
have the kyuubi sealed inside me, and it takes care of all my
wounds.”

He
had meant to say it cheerfully but his voice broke when he remembered
that the kyuubi had been the source of all his sufferings as well –
and besides, he did not know how these two people would react to the
announcement.

“If
you are wounded, I will help carry Sasuke”, Karin said, making
Naruto's heart drop down.

“It's
fine”, he said, but he knew that he did not sound very
convincing.

“Always
looking for an opportunity to touch him”, the man said. “Naruto
will help me: this is a job for men.”
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Xzanayu:  Thanks for your comment! I hope the new events will be to your liking!
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LadyRonin:
Thanks for your comment! I did my best to protect you from sugar
shock, but maybe it cannot be helped that the first encounter between the
two boys is a bit sweet. ;-)

Halskr:
Thanks again for your review! You know, when I planned that story I
made some drawings so that I could keep track of the movements of the
different people, but I did not manage to keep it consistent.

In
this chapter I imagine the different characters to be quite near to
each other, but not too near. Say some hundreds of metres apart, or
even less, like fifty metres, but not less than that... Also during
their various fights, they get separated again.
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