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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
Twenty-Seven: Which tells about Sasuke's reaction to the Gutsy
Ninja

It was on this
afternoon that Sasuke finished the Gutsy Ninja. Naruto watched
him while he was reading the last pages, eagerly waiting to hear what
Sasuke thought of the book.

When there were only
some twenty pages left Sasuke looked up. “They've been kissing
for two pages”, he said. “Does anything else happen in
the rest of the book?”

“They have sex
of course”, Naruto answered.

Sasuke counted the
pages. “It takes so long to describe it?”

“It is meant
to be good sex of course. Actually it's rather boring. You don't have
to read it: The story itself is over.”

Sasuke looked
irritated. He hated it when Naruto tried to patronize him, be it in
his interactions with the inhabitants of Music Town or in his access
to works of art dealing with sexuality, as the picture in the front
hall of the editors of the Icha-Icha series. Naruto might think that
he knew everything after training with Jiraiya for three years, but
Sasuke had stayed with Orochimaru and was far from innocent either.

(He was also
convinced that he was getting better at dealing with the locals. He
was quite proud that he had managed to discover that dance school and
convince the women in the registration office that he wanted to dance
with another boy.)

He turned to the
book in order to read the final sex scene and read it to the end,
just in order to annoy Naruto. He was not sure how he felt about the
scene: Certainly it was not as arousing to him as it was meant to be.
There were far too many descriptions of the heroine's perfect body to
his taste, and the moments when the protagonist touched her breast or
her hips did nothing for him at all. The (much rarer) moments when
the heroine touched the protagonist's chest, the inner side of his
thighs or even his genitals were somewhat better, but he had to do a
lot of mental twists to enjoy them: Either try to imagine the whole
scene from the heroine's point of view, or stick to the protagonist's
point of view it was written in and shut out that it was a woman who
was touching him. At least he got some nice descriptions of the
protagonist's cock (while else Jiraiya had not even cared to tell the
colour of his hair.)

It was not really
helpful that the protagonist's name was Naruto, least of all when the
real Naruto was sitting at some metres' distance watching him. Why
did he not have the decency to turn around while he was trying to
enjoy a sex scene? Now the heroine had begun to suck the
protagonist's cock – suddenly he was switching between her and
his point of view without being able to control it, and the images in
his head no longer had anything to do with Jiraiya's story – he
had done his best to get rid of his fantasies, hadn't he, so why did
he have to insist on reading the rest of the story when he knew that
it would bring them back again? He could not afford to indulge in
them now, not when Naruto was watching.

He was not sure what
he wanted of Naruto. Certainly not what he had watched Orochimaru and
Kabuto do, which was just disgusting. Some making out as people did
in Heroes' Park might be okay, and he looked forward to dancing with
Naruto, but he did not dare to dream of anything else, only that
sometimes it just happened, as a few moments ago, making him realize
that in the long run dancing and making out would not be enough.

There would be no
long run, he decided. They'd set out to get him his revenge and then
he'd die, while Naruto would marry Sakura and have real sex with her.
He remembered dimly that Naruto had refused to allow him to die and
insisted that he, Sasuke, married Sakura and refounded his clan with
her, but it was not a prospect that Sasuke was looking forward to.
Naruto would have to learn that things did not always go according to
his plans.

He returned to the
book: Now the protagonist had entered her vagina, and she was
expressing her pleasure in various ways (mostly by praising the size
of her lover's cock.) Sasuke had difficulties empathizing with her –
wasn't she in a helpless humiliating position? Jiraiya probably had
gained a lot of experience in his life, so he should know: Maybe
women enjoyed this.

Both the
protagonist and his partner had an orgasm, and this was how the book
ended. Sasuke put it down: Naruto was still looking at him.

“What do you
think of it?” he asked.

“About the sex
scene? It's okay.”

“No, the whole
book.”

Sasuke had to shake
off the memories of that last scene before he was able to recall the
overall impression the book had made on him.

“The ending is
a bit weird. It reads as if we were supposed to consider it a happy
ending, but I can't be happy when the hero's friend is dead, when his
brother has been crippled and his home country has been laid waste so
that he cannot return. We are supposed to feel happy because he has
survived and can marry that girl he hardly thought about while he was
fighting.”

“Well, he has
won in the end. He has managed to protect her and her country.”

“He had to pay
a high price for finally being allowed into her bed. And the peace he
has achieved is not the lasting peace he was looking for. I don't see
why it should be more than any other truce that only lasts until one
side feels strong enough to strike again.”

“He has
forgiven them for what they did to him, hasn't he, and now they can
start an alliance”, Naruto answered irritatedly. Was it not
obvious?

“But have they
also forgiven him for what he did to them? He's humiliating them, and
they give in because they're defeated, that's all. They'll strike
again. The sex scene is meant to cover up for it, or to keep people
from thinking.”

Maybe the sex scene
was not even necessary. Maybe it was just him who was particularly
sensitive to the hero's and the heroine's selfrighteousness. (He
rather blamed the woman than the protagonist himself, mostly because
the protagonist was called Naruto which made Sasuke take his side.)

Naruto thought for
some minutes before he answered: “Jiraiya longed for peace with
all his heart. In the Gutsy Ninja he imagined a way how it
might be achieved. Maybe it was not perfect. Jiraiya was a ninja,
just as we are, and had never encountered true peace. How should he
have known how to achieve it? He had some ideas, and his dream of
peace, which is more than most people do.”

He paused and
thought again.

“But even
if Jiraiya could not find a way to real peace, and even if the peace
his hero found is flawed, I will find the real thing, a peace that is
not just a temporary truce but a peace that will last. It's my quest,
the legacy Jiraiya has passed to me, just as you have inherited from
your clan your mission to avenge them. I won't give up on it.”

Only that, just as
Jiraiya's hero, Naruto was still clueless how to achieve it, Sasuke
thought. On the other hand he envied him for this quest: He felt that
it was of a different quality than his own quest for revenge which
was not a dream left to him by his family, but just an attempt to
prevent himself from falling into that black hole of despair he
always fell into when he thought of how they had been murdered –
the hole where everything went black except for a nameless pain and a
desire to vanish from this earth just as his family had.

“The book must
mean a lot to you”, he said, “considering that Jiraiya
even named his protagonist after you.”

Naruto did not feel
like explaining that the book had actually been inspired by Nagato
and that he had been named after the hero, not the other way round.

“Karin told me
it's out of print”, Sasuke continued. “What about a new
edition?”

“In the book
store they told me that none is planned”, Naruto answered
hesitatingly.

“You are
Jiraiya's heir, aren't you? Why don't you talk to the editor at the
publishing-house?”

“I haven't
thought about it. But I might do so.”

Sasuke smiled,
pleased that he had been able to be of some help to Naruto.

Later Naruto sat
down to answer Sakura's letter. He asked Sasuke whether he wanted to
add some lines of his own, considering that Sakura had written to him
too, and Sasuke, who still felt embarrassed about Sakura's renewed
declaration of love and did not really know how to answer to it,
settled for annoying her:

Dear Sakura!

I cannot return
to Konoha as Naruto is lonely in Music Town and I have to keep him
company.

Sasuke

He did not even care
to keep these lines hidden from Naruto with the result that he
managed to annoy him, too. He was on the brink of telling Sasuke that
he did not need his pity and could do quite well by himself, but
luckily he remembered in time that actually he wanted Sasuke to stay.

His own letter to
Sakura was not for Sasuke's eyes:

Dear Sakura!

I am happy to
hear from you again after such a short time, and I am sad that there
is no better news from home. I wish I was with you and could support
you in everything you are going through. I am sorry for Shikaku too,
that he has been demoted, but maybe Kakashi is correct and it is
better not to be part of any council that is led by Danzou.

Sasuke is still
with me, as you will have concluded from the lines he has sent you. I
have persuaded him to stay, but I don't think that he will return to
Konoha, not as long as Danzou is still in power. He told me that
Itachi was ordered to murder his own clan, or rather manipulated into
doing it by Danzou and the two councillors. Their original plan had
been to kill Sasuke too, even though he was only a small child at the
time, but Itachi managed to have this part of the plan cancelled.

I am not yet sure
whether I should believe this story, as Sasuke learnt it from the
Akatsuki with the mask, and I don'T trust him. Sasuke doesn't trust
him either, but he believes that Itachi killed the clan on orders of
Danzou. I think he wants to believe that Itachi still loved him, but
also I have evidence of another kind that this might be the case.

(Naruto did not want
to tell her of his encounter with Itachi while they were pursuing
Sasuke.)

Sasuke explained
to me that Itachi was told that the Uchiha clan was planning a
rebellion that might have turned into a civil war if Itachi had not
killed them. I think however that they said this only in order to
scare him: Preventing a blood bath by murdering a whole clan does not
make sense.

It has become
clear to me now, however, that Danzou cannot remain Hokage and I am
resolved to turn him out of office. I hope that this day is not too
far away.

Take care!

With love,Naruto

He folded the letter
and put it into the envelope, then he let Sasuke's message join it
and took it to the post-office. When he returned Sasuke was reading
again, this time the Do-it-yourself book on carpentry and building
furniture. It was a quick read, as the book contained a lot of
pictures and Sasuke skipped the pages on building things he was not
interested in. The introduction and the pages with general advice he
read very carefully however.

When their shift in
the restaurant began, at a time when it was still rather quiet,
Sasuke made use of the opportunity to ask the patron's daughter where
he might get the tools and material he needed according to his book.

“There are
several do-it-yourself-markets around town”, she answered and
told him the location of the nearest one. “What do you want to
build?”

“A shrine.”

“A shrine? Who
for?”

“My parents.”

“Are they
dead?”

“Yes.”

“Oh. I'm
sorry.”

There were some
minutes of awkward silence as Sasuke had no idea how to answer to
this. The regulars who had assembled around the bar were silent too.

“That's quite
an early aga to lose your parents”, one of them finally broke
the silence. “I mean, my own son is twenty-five and he still
needs a lot of parenting.”

Sasuke stared at him
blankly.

“My father has
a workshop in the backyard”, the patron's daughter said. “I'll
ask him if you can use it.”

“Thanks”,
Sasuke answered. The spell was broken now.

“Do you have
any experience working with wood?” another of the guests asked.

“No, but I
will learn.”

“Then let me
give you some advice. Get some massive wood, made of a single part,
not any plywood. It does not look well in the long run.”

“And use some
decent laqueur”, a woman contributed her advice. “Or,
even better, bee wax. It smells nice, and it will protect the wood
against moisture. With flowers in a shrine, you're bound to spill
some water.”

“Don't let
anyone talk you into using screws, or, even worse, nails.
Professionals use glue, or, even better, bolts.”

“And consider
well the colour you want. I suggest something natural, and not too
dark, but not too light either.”

The advice
continued, much more than Sasuke could digest, or even remember. Soon
the many voices merged into a single one, telling him to do things he
had never heard of, but he also understood that somehow, in their
clumsy way, these people were trying to be of help. He felt a bit
dizzy. Only in the end, when people had run out of ideas, he was able
again to hear their single voices, and the suggestion they had agreed
upon: He was supposed to do a draft and then show it to his helpers
so that they might approve of it.

His heart was
beating faster than normal, he felt as if he was in a light fever,
and he messed up more often than on other days, but on the other hand
he was finally able to make people accept his apologies with a smile.

Naruto, who had
watched the whole scene, felt excluded and slightly jealous. When
they went to sleep he offered Sasuke that he might help him too with
his shrine, but Sasuke was lost in his thoughts and not able to
respond.

It turned out that
there was not much opportunity to help. The patron introduced Sasuke
to his workshop and taught him how to use his tools, and two of the
other regulars, both trained craftsmen, helped him draft his sketch
and develop a plan he could work with, and then gave him advice with
choosing the materials and the correct tools. So in the mornings
Sasuke now sat in the backyard of the restaurant, smoothing the board
for his future shrine with sand paper and applying bee wax to them,
and Naruto was only needed to hold some pieces of wood together while
the glue was getting dry.

Sometimes he sat
next to Sasuke and watched him. (Sasuke would not accept any help
with anything he could do by himself). He admired the peaceful almost
transparent expression on Sasuke's face when he was doing some
repetitive work, or his joy when some piece had turned out well, a
joy that might change into sadness in the spur of a moment, and then
Naruto was needed.

Naruto also wondered
how Sasuke behaved with his helpers, listening to them and accepting
their advice, and also the occasional soft drink the patron's
daughter brought him.

“You've
changed”, Naruto told Sasuke about his observations. “Back
in Konoha you always kept people at a distance.”

Sasuke stared at him
blankly. “Did I?”

A/N: Next
week there won't be any chapter as my friend and beta-reader eowyn
unquendor will visit me. I thought I could do it, but now I realized
that I cannot.

In two weeks, you
may look forward to a whole chapter dedicated to dancing.

Sneakyfox: Don't
worry – it won't become a football story!

msuzumaki:
Thanks for commenting! Yes, things are going downhill in Konoha. And
Sasuke is not considering leaving these days. He is not in any hurry.

Ladygizarme:
Sakura... I am not sure what you expected of her. But I can promise
to you that she will do far more than just writing love letters to
Sasuke – she is already doing a lot right now.

Glad I managed to
move you with that line about the Gutsy Ninja. And I hope that you
will continue to be content with Sasuke's development, even though he
will make blunders a few more times.
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