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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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A/N:
Thanks for all your reviews! I
did not manage to answer them today, but I will do so tomorrow!

Chapter
Twenty-Six: More old legends

When
they finally arrived at the fortress the pain in Naruto's shoulder
had become unbearable. Karin deactivated some traps they had set up
both at the fortress' entrance and the door to the room they were
staying in, then, when they had entered, she spread out her and her
companion's cloaks so that they could lay Sasuke down, which came as
a real relief to Naruto.

Karin
immediately turned her attention to their forth teammate who was
lying unconsciously at one side of the room. Her companion began to
set up their camping stove in order to prepare tea.

“Do
you happen to have some matches?” he asked Naruto. “We
never needed any, having Sasuke with us.”

Naruto
lit the stove, and the man put the pot with water on it, then he
began to prepare dinner. Naruto helped as good as he could: It was
amazing how difficult some things became when you were not able to
exert any force with your left arm.

“How
does it come that you know my name?” he asked.

“Isn't
it obvious?”

Naruto
gave him a confused look, then the answer dawned on him.

“Sasuke
told us about you”, the man said just when Naruto had found out
himself.

Sasuke
had told his new team about him... He had been envious, but now he
saw that there was no need to be: Sasuke might have new friends, but
he had told them about him, in a way that made them welcome him and
care for him. The thought let everything shine in a new light, and
his heart – not only his heart, but all the left side of his
chest felt warm and wide.

“So
he does remember me”, he said.

“Course
he does”, Suigetsu replied. “He just saved your life,
didn't he.”

“I
saved his life.”

Naruto
looked down at Sasuke who was still lying unconsciously by his side,
pale and breathing flatly. He laid his hand on Sasuke's shoulder: I
will never let go again, Naruto thought.

Tea
was ready and the man gave some to Naruto. There was nothing more to
be done for dinner, just to watch it while it was cooking, and the
man decided to leave this task to Naruto.

“If
you would excuse me”, he said. “I have to look after our
prisoners. We locked them up in another room.”

So
Naruto was left to ponder his thoughts, but there were not many. I am
among people again, friendly people, friendly for Sasuke's sake,
because they love him... Naruto did not dare to continue this
thought, and it was not important anyhow, he rather enjoyed the
warmth of the tea and the warmth that came from knowing that he was
not lonely and deserted any more.

“I
am a jinchuuriki”, he said when the man returned.

“Yeah,
we know that” the man answered. “We saw you fight against
Akatsuki in the demon's form.”

“So
why did you accept me among your team? Don't you know that the demon
can get out of control any time, attacking friend and foe alike?”

“You
don't want to leave, do you?”

“No.
But so far, everyone's rejected me sooner or later because of the
demon, and I prefer it to happen sooner, because then the
disappointment will be less bad.”

The
man sat up, looked at him very seriously for some seconds, then he
answered: “I will be honest: We have Sasuke with us, who can
control the demon, or at least he says that he can control it, and as
he can control Juugo, I trust him to be able to control the demon as
well.”

“Who's
Juugo?”

“Our
forth teammate. Sometimes he freaks out and is uncontrollable, except
for Sasuke, and I am glad that Sasuke can control him because when
Juugo's not freaking out he is a great companion. Same goes for you:
I am glad that we can welcome you here because you certainly deserve
it, but I am not sure what I would do without Sasuke: I might simply
be too scared. I consider myself quite a good fighter, but demons are
not really my cup of tea, as little as genjutsus.”

Naruto
had of course hoped for a different, more positive answer, but for
some reason the man's words had not hurt him. After all he might be
more courageous than he was ready to admit: Sasuke was still
unconscious and not able to control the demon. They were hoping that
nothing would happen until Sasuke woke up.

I
must avoid the strong feelings that wake up the demon, Naruto
thought. Fear, anger, hatred – what about love?

“I
think I will be able to control it”, he said. “The last
times it got out of control it was because people were teasing me
about Sasuke.”

“Because
you like him? I have no problems with that. Besides, he likes you
too.”

Naruto
was confused again. He had the impression that the man was trying to
tease him about something, but he did not get what it was. Besides,
the man's behaviour was really irrational: Had he not just explained
that the demon got out of control when people were teasing him about
Sasuke? And the man was doing just this? Yet at the moment the kyuubi
was not even trying to break free. Slowly Naruto calmed down.

“You
have told me all your teammates' names by now”, Naruto said.
“Only your own you have kept secret.”

“Did
I? It was not my intention. I am Houzuki Suigetsu of the Mist.”

“I
am Uzumaki Naruto of the Leaf”, Naruto answered.

“Yeah,
we know that already.”

“How
does it come that you have prisoners?” Naruto asked.

“Did
we not tell you? We were fighting against the Akatsuki who were on
your trail, and against Kisame, who was with Itachi.”

“Did
you? Why did you take them prisoner? There's nothing you want to
interrogate them about, is there?”

Now
it was Suigetsu's turn to look confused.

“You've
just told me that you are from the Leaf, haven't you. Sasuke has told
us not to kill anyone, except if it was the only way to defend
ourselves, and I thought that this was because he is still a Leaf
Ninja.”

“We
don't tend to be that nice to S-class criminals”, Naruto said,
but Suigetsu's words had made him think. Sasuke forbidding his team
to kill anyone – this came as a surprise indeed.

“It
was rather difficult,” Suigetsu continued. “We had
thought that we might take our time, not attacking them but just
seeing that you were safe, yet then it turned out that we had
overlooked Itachi.”

“You
overlooked Itachi?” This was an even greater surprise than the
last one. “You travelled with Sasuke and did not notice
Itachi?”

“I
just told you, didn't I?” Suigetsu said with a wide grin. “We
were busy watching over you. I wonder that you have not noticed. -
Besides, Sasuke himself overlooked his brother.”

So
Naruto had been right when he had concluded that Sasuke and his team
had attempted to prevent him from getting caught by the Akatsuki
members, and it had not only been wishful thinking. It did him well
to get it confirmed by Suigetsu.

Karin
had finished looking after Juugo and joined them. Her face was full
of concern.

“I
have done what I can. His condition seems stable, but it can change
any moment.”

“Damn”,
Suigetsu said. “Sasuke will have to answer for this. Making us
pay the price for his childish fear of meeting Naruto. We should have
picked you up much earlier”, he continued to Naruto, “and
then we should have stuck together.”

Karin
shook her head. “It would not have changed much. They were too
many and too strong. We are lucky that we could defeat them. Now,
Naruto, I want to have a look at your shoulder. I could see quite
well that you were trying not to put any weight on it while you were
carrying Sasuke.”

The
pain had lessened since the shoulder had been allowed to rest, but it
was far from fine: For some reason the kyuubi had not been able to
heal it.

“Can
you take off your sweater by yourself, or shall I help?” Karin
asked.

“You'd
love to”, Suigestu said.

“You
may help him”, she replied.

Naruto
tried to do it himself and found that he had to twist his arm in a
way that hurt his shoulder. He was beginning to feel annoyed by their
constant bickering: He wanted to get rid of the pain in his shoulder
without wondering what Karin might or might not feel when she helped
him get out of his sweater or looked after his wounds. Still he could
not help paying attention whether she was indeed looking at his naked
chest for a bit too long, or touching his shoulder more than was
necessary.

Completely
unprofessional, he decided. Sakura was much better when it came to
keeping a clear distance between herself and her patients. Sometimes
Naruto would have wished that it might be otherwise.

“It's
out of its joint”, Karin declared. “Now I do wonder how
something like this happens in a fight.”

“Sasuke
was dragging at it”, Naruto explained.

“He
did not want you to get away”, Suigetsu said.

“As
if I wanted to...”

“And
then he felt so embarrassed about showing his true feelings that he
passed out. Now I understand what happened.”

There
was a sharp pain in Naruto's shoulder: Karin had made use of the
moment of distraction to push the shoulder back into its socket. Now
she touched some points around it, supporting the chakra to get
flowing again.

“Better
now?” she asked.

He
nodded, and again he thought that she was probably touching him more
than was necessary. It was not bad, however, rather pleasant, if he
was honest to himself: a good-looking, young woman, probably with
some experience, looking after his body – if this was not an
interesting prospect.

He
was much more watchful for Sasuke than he had been for himself when
she had finally finished with him and removed the cloaks that still
covered Sasuke and then moved her hands above his chest to check on
his chakra flow.

“How's
he doing?” Naruto asked.

“Better.
The chakra is still low, but he will recover.”

“And
will it be in time?” Suigetsu asked.

“In
which time?”

“In
time to fight Itachi when he returns tomorrow morning. He's not dead,
is he? We have not found his body anywhere.”

Naruto
remembered the last seconds of the fight: After Itachi had broken
down, the raven had turned into a man and carried him away from the
site of the fight.

“Itachi's
not dead”, he said. “And besides, there's that other
guy...”

“So
we can just hope that Sasuke will be fit in time to fight against
this lovely brother of his. Against their genjutsus we are all
helpless.”

“Not
completely”, Naruto said. “If it's two of us against one
of them we might make it. An old woman I once met told me how: They
can only catch one person at a time in their genjutsu, so the other
one can get them from behind, or help his comrade out of the
illusion.”

“Ey!
You are useful!” Suigetsu said. “We should have made you
join us much much earlier. Now, this is enough!” he continued
to Karin. “Time to stop enjoying the sight of his beautiful
young body, time to wrap him again into some blankets so that he can
get some warmth and get well again.”

She
glared at him, but obeyed.

Is
he still unconscious, Naruto thought, or is he only sleeping? He
removed a strand of hair from Sasuke's face and then let his hand
rest again on his shoulder, though above the blanket. Pretty as a
girl, he thought, and all fragile-looking, but once he had woken up
and recovered he would be one of the strongest shinobi of the world
again.

“Is
there nothing I can do?” Naruto asked. “I mean, I have a
lot of chakra – I could share.”

Karin
and Suigetsu looked at each other.

“I
can show you where to put your hands”, she said. “Maybe
Suigetsu will let you do what he won't permit to me.”

“It's
not – somewhere private?” Naruto asked. He was not sure
where he had got that idea - well, of course he did. Karin's and
Suigetsu's constant insinuations did have some effect after all. He
felt increasingly uncomfortable.

“There
are several points”, she said, “some more private than
others. I can show you the other ones, if you want. The main problem,
however, is to get the chakra flowing again, and that cannot be done
by simply giving him a bit of yours. It would be stuck at the point
you put it into, without being able to get anywhere else. We have to
wait until the channels open by themselves.”

“So
there's no way to accelerate the process?”

Again
Karin and Suigetsu exchanged looks, and Naruto wondered what it
meant.

“There's
a way, both to share chakra and to get it flowing”, Karin said.
“But I don't think you would like it.”

“Sasuke
might enjoy, however”, Suigetsu added.

“Anyway,
it won't work while he's still unconscious.”

“Won't
you tell me what you are talking about?” Naruto asked.

“No
way! You are too young.”

“I
am fifteen.”

“That's
what we mean.”

They
looked at each other again, and somehow they changed their minds.

“Perhaps
you are indeed old enough”, Karin said. “You are not a
small child after all.”

“Just
don't include too many graphic details” ,Suigetsu said.

“There
are not too many”, Karin replied. “It hasn't anything to
do with details...” She turned to Naruto. “It's a legend,
and I don't know whether there is a true core to it. It is said that
if you and your partner are truly in love with each other and have
sex, that then not only your bodies but also your souls will unite,
and the chakra systems will interlock, so that your chakra will mix
and you will be one being.

“It
is much more than giving a bit of chakra to this or that point of
your partner's body where he needs it: The chakra mixes completely,
so that one cannot tell any more which is your and which is your
partner's, the flow patterns will synchronize, pressure and velocity
will even out, and even the chakra signatures, which are unique to
every human being, will change and assimilate. Well, that's what
would happen from a medical point view.

“What
one experiences – it's said that it is heavenly bliss, like
being back in paradise, or returning to the dawn of time when
everything was still connected with everything else, depending on
which religion you adhere to. I have never experienced it myself, so
I can only tell what I know from hearsay.

“It
is said to be extremely rare, and even those who are truly in love
don't experience it every time they have sex, but only once or twice
during their lives, or when they are lucky and live long enough and
stay in love for long enough, maybe three times, and all the other
times they have to contend themselves with normal sex just as
everyone else.”

Naruto
was still looking at Sasuke's fine, clear features. He felt irritated
by Karin's story, and he withdrew his hand from Sasuke's shoulder but
then he decided not to let her words influence him and returned it to
its former place.

“I
told you that you would not like it. But it's not necessary, as he
soon will recover by himself, and anyway, you cannot make it happen,
and least of all you can make it happen with a person who is still
unconscious. I can show you however where to put your hands, if you
want. The place where it is at the moment is not too bad, actually,
as there are a lot of chakra lines going through the shoulder,
connecting the arm and the rest of the body. Another place would be
the heart, or the solar plexus, or the lower belly just above the
sexual organs, or the point where the legs meet the hips, if that's
not too intimate for you.”

Naruto
looked up, first at Karin, then at Suigetsu. These were the weirdest
people he had ever met.

“Do
you ever think about anything else than sex?” he asked.

“Oh,
sure we do”, Suigetsu answered. “Normally we are busy
watching over Sasuke and preventing him from doing anything foolish,
but as at the moment he is not in a state for this, we are happy to
have some time to think about what is really important.”

“Speak
only for yourself”, Karin said.

“Oh,
sorry. Karin of course thinks of sex all the time. At this moment she
would be very happy to be in your place, and she would be much less
cautious than you are.”

Again,
Naruto felt the impulse to withdraw his hand from Sasuke but then
thought better of it: There was nothing wrong or unnatural with his
hand lying on his friend's shoulder, was there?

“Anyway,
I am quite sure that Sasuke if he were awake would be happy to find
that it's you and not Karin sitting at his side.”

“How”,
Naruto asked, no longer being able to put up with all this, “how
did you ever manage to get accepted to his team?”

“Actually
we did not have to. It was him who chose us. With Karin it took him
quite a bit of persuasion, as she was playing hard-to-get-to.”

Karin
shoot a angry glare at her companion. “Don't let him irritate
you”, she said to Naruto. “And concerning Sasuke: Just
follow your heart.”

“And
not some other part of your body”, Suigetsu tried to complete
her sentence.

She
could no longer hold herself and punched his head. It simply turned
into water and then transformed back into its usual form.

I
must ask him to teach me that trick, Naruto thought. It might come
useful against Sakura...
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