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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
Thirty-One: Weird

Three
days with Juugo were left to them, and during these three days Sasuke
could observe how Juugo had thoroughly adopted his new persona as a
twelve-year-old boy: Even when Naruto was not around he stuck to it
unless Sasuke asked some serious questions that demanded Juugo to
answer as a grown-up, but even with them, Juugo increasingly sounded
like a serious twelve-year-old child.

He's
always been like this, Sasuke thought, a child trapped in the body of
a grown-up man, and a huge one in the bargain. It had to be expected,
he thought, after having spent years in Orochimaru's dungeons. He
remembered that this was what Danzou had had in mind for Naruto, and
shivered at the thought of how this would have affected him and
stifled his development, and was glad that both Juugo and Naruto were
with him here in Music Town – at the moment they were climbing
around in the ruins of the old fortress, pretending they were
preparing to defend the town against some evil rogue nins. (In their
efforts to spend more time with Juugo both Sasuke and Naruto had
begun to show him the touristy places of Music Town they had avoided
after Sasuke's decision to stay.) Naruto had to catch up on his
childhood too, Sasuke thought, but he was glad that he was sixteen
and looked like it, and that he would return to behaving like it
(more or less) once he had finished playing with Juugo.

They
also introduced Juugo to football, or Naruto thought he would do so,
but it turned out that Juugo had already begun to learn to play, and
also happened to be a fan of the team Inner Center was playing
against on that afternoon, which led to some tension between him and
Naruto. It got even worse when Inner Center lost and Juugo kept
teasing Naruto about it. Sasuke had not known that it was possible
for Naruto to be in such a bad mood.

He
had come to enjoy football in his own way. He always took his book
with rules with him to check whether the referee's decisions were
correct. He had discovered that lack of knowledge of the rules let
the referee lose all respect but that knowledge of the rules was not
enough to gain him the respect of players and spectators. He also had
to see everything that was going on and not let himself be
intimidated. Sasuke did not hesitate to use his Sharingan to check
the referee's decisions, but even more he loved to watch the
summaries of the matches on TV, particularly the repetitions in slow
motion. (They always showed them in the restaurant.)

Just
on this evening, however, he got into a serious row with Naruto
because Inner Center had lost one-zero because of a penalty. It had
been a rather obvious affair in Sasuke's opinion, but Naruto kept
contradicting him, and when Sasuke actually opened his book and
pointed out the rule that should have clarified it, Naruto accused
him of being a bad fan and not loyal to his team. Apparently it was
easier for Naruto to deal with Juugo's teasing than with Sasuke's dry
and serious insistence on the rules, and then Juugo changed sides,
claiming that the penalty had not been correct and that by right
Inner Center should not have lost (even though the quality of their
game meant that they deserved the defeat.)

Sasuke
was enraged at Juugo's lack of loyalty, and turned his anger against
the regulars of the restaurant (all fans of Inner Center) by
explaining to them, too, that the penalty had been correct. In the
end the patron's daughter asked him to follow her to her office.

“You
sell beer to our customers”, she said. “You don't discuss
football with them.”

He
returned to the front room, humiliated, no longer contradicting the
regulars when they complained that the referee was stupid.

One
of their excursions during these last days Juugo spent with them was
initiated by Juugo himself, and it was to the local onsen. He told
them that it was different from traditional onsen in that it was not
only a hot spring for bathing but also contained a swimming-pool, a
diving-board and a really long really fast slide, as Juugo put it.

Sasuke
hesitated whether he should join. He had developed a habit of not
looking at Naruto when Naruto was naked, mainly because he suspected
that Naruto did not like being looked at. On the other hand, he liked
looking at Naruto and going to the onsen might give him some
opportunity to do so without being noticed. In the end he just did
not have any viable excuse not to join.

When
they arrived at the entrance they discovered that the local onsen was
not divided into two sections, for men and women, but three: family
was the third one, and this was what the man at the counter suggested
to them.

Naruto
protested: “We are men, not children”, he said.

The
man at the counter shrugged. “If you think so.”

It
was in the morning when most grown-up people were at work so that in
the changing-room they got the impression that they were the only
guests. They were mistaken, however: in the main room they ran into a
couple who was having oral sex, one of the men sitting on the edge of
the pool, the other in the water between his partner's legs. Naruto
could not see many details, just enough to be shocked and leave
immediately. Juugo looked surprisingly unmoved, not as if he had
stumbled into something he had not expected, and Sasuke did not show
any emotion, as always. Naruto did not care – he was busy with
his own surprise that people would dare to misbehave in such a gross
way. He looked around, and a staff member spotted them and seeing the
expression on Naruto's face he asked whether something was wrong.

“There's
two guys in there, sucking each other's cocks”, Naruto said.

“I'll
have a look”, the man answered calmly as if Naruto had
complained about the temperature of the water. When they reentered
the men had stopped their activity.

“You
are not at home”, the staff member told them. “We still
have underage guests here.” He turned to the boys: “Just
tell if there are any more problems.”

Naruto
was still confused about the incident and how it had been dealt with.
Juugo was unmoved, just watching what was going on. Sasuke seemed
rather annoyed.

“Was
this necessary?” he asked when they had found places for
themselves. “Now you got these guys into trouble.”

It
was not the reaction Naruto had expected.

“When
I arrived you told me to get used to it”, Sasuke continued.
Seems you're in need of some getting used to it of your own.”

“I
told you to get used to couples making out on the lawn of Heroes'
Park. Not to people having sex in public.”

Sasuke
shrugged. He regretted that he had followed Naruto outside, though of
course he knew that the men would have stopped anyway as soon as they
had got aware that they were being watched. Now they were sitting at
the opposite end of the pool, inside the water, talking silently and
behaving perfectly normal. If Sasuke would not have seen them having
oral sex a few minutes before he would have thought them mere
friends.

“Don't
be prudish”, he told Naruto. “You are a man, aren't you,
not a child? I've seen much worse than this at Orochimaru's place.”

“Yeah,
Karin told me. You were having sex all the time as there was nothing
else to do.”

“What?
I was not having sex. I was training to get stronger while you were
having fun on your journeys with Jiraiya. Besides, who do you think
should I have had sex with?”

Naruto
shrugged. Sasuke was contradicting himself, wasn't he? “Did you
not just say that you saw far worse?”

“I
saw far worse but I didn't participate, that's a difference.”

Naruto
felt relieved. He believed Sasuke – had he not shoved away
Orochimaru's arm when they had found him at his lair? It was unlikely
that he had allowed him to touch him in a more intimate manner.
Naruto was also glad that Sasuke had not had any sex with random
strangers.

“I
watched Kabuto and Orochimaru having sex with each other, that's
all.”

The
two men on the other end of the pool had ceased to talk and were
listening to the boys instead. (It was impossible not to listen, as
both were rather loud.) Now they intervened: “They made
you watch them while they were having sex?” one of them asked.

“They
didn't make me. I watched because I wanted.”

“You're
really perverted”, Naruto said, surprised at discovering this
hitherto unknown side of Sasuke. “Getting off on watching
Kabuto and Orochimaru having sex.”

“I
did not get off on watching them”, Sasuke replied. “They
were disgusting.”

Actually
it had been a bit more complicated but Naruto didn't have to know.

“Then
why did you watch?”

“To
humiliate Kabuto. He hated that I was watching.”

“It's
still perverted.”

“I
was bored and I needed to have some fun. And later, I had even more
fun when Kabuto tried to order me to do something, or to tell me off
for not paying respect to Orochimaru: I just had to look at him to
tell him: Now you pretend you are great and important, but some hours
ago I saw you on your hands and knees.”

“How
old were you then?” the other of the two listeners asked,
sounding quite disturbed.

Sasuke
shrugged. “Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.”

“They
should have locked you out. At that age you are not fully able to
understand what you see.”

“There
was not much to understand. Whenever Orochimaru was in a bad mood,
criticizing Kabuto for everything and nothing, Kabuto would ask him
whether he needed to relax, and then lick his cock or offer himself
for anal sex. He did it to humour Orochimaru, to keep his favours, to
remain his principal subordinate. He hated it, though, he was
completely straight and found it humiliating, most of all when I
watched.”

Naruto
felt weird: This was not Sasuke as he knew him. He would not have
thought that he would have enjoyed watching Kabuto and Orchimaru have
sex, nor that he would talk openly about it. Maybe it was the hot
water that made him lose control. Now he got out of it to sit on the
edge of the pool, showing off his muscular chest. What did he think
he was doing? Naruto followed him, sitting on the edge of the pool
too, ready to intervene if anything should happen. Juugo stayed
inside: He watched without commenting.

“Still
it was not a healthy environment to grow up in”, the first of
the two men continued.

Sasuke
thought for a few seconds before he answered. “Well, not
really.”

(Naruto
was content to hear it.)

“Did
they try to molest you too?” the other man continued.

“They
tried.”

“You
never talked about it”, Naruto said.

“Why
do you think did I develop my full body chidori?”

Unwanted
images appeared in Naruto's mind. He pushed them away.

“What's
that?” the man asked.

“I
can make my whole body buzzle with electricity so that everyone who
tries to touch me gets hit by an electric stroke.

“Like
if you rub your feet on a plastic carpet?”

“A
bit, just much stronger. I can't show you here, it's too wet and too
dangerous.”

Naruto
had a vision of Sasuke standing up and presenting himself in all his
beauty to the two guys, surrounded by the miniature bolts of
lightning of his chidori. He was glad that Sasuke refrained from it.

“Have
you considered sueing these guys now that you got away?” the
other man continued.

“What's
sueing?” Sasuke asked back.

“You
go to the police, explain to them what these men did to you, and then
the police go and arrest them so that they can be put to trial.”

This
time Sasuke hesitated even longer before he answered. “No, I
didn't. I killed them. That is, I killed only the boss. The other was
not dangerous.”

It
was not the exact truth, as he had not killed but absorbed
Orochimaru, but Sasuke considered the exact truth too complicated for
these men. They were quite shocked as it was.

“You
killed him? And you didn't get into any trouble for it?”

“Why
should I? He was a major criminal.”

“You
did not even have to prove that you killed him in self-defense?”

“No.
Everyone was glad that he was gone.”

The
men were silent for some minutes: They were not used to teenagers
with blood on their hands sitting with them in the onsen and chatting
animatedly.

“You
are not from her, are you?” one of them asked.

“No.”

“I
guess there are different rules in the ninja countries.”

Sasuke
hesitated too with his answer, realizing that again he had run into a
point where Music Town was fundamentally different from the world he
knew. “They are”, he said.

Again
there was a silence before the men continued. “Well, we hope
you like it here.”

“Oh,
we do”, Sasuke answered, this time without any hesitation and
completely sincere.

The
men got out of the water. “We've got some work to do”,
they said. “Have fun boys! See you later!”

Sasuke
followed them with his eyes, regretting that they left. Naruto felt
rather relieved.

“Why
did you tell them all this?” he asked.

Sasuke
thought before he answered. “You are right. I should not have
told them that I killed Orochimaru. People are different here.”

“Yeah,
you scared them.”

“Maybe
we'll meet them again. They were nice.”

“They
were weird”, Naruto replied. “Having sex in public and
then pretending to be shocked when you told them about Kabuto and
Orochimaru.”

He
himself was shocked – it still did not fit his image of Sasuke
that he would have enjoyed watching Kabuto and Orochimaru having sex.
He tried not to imagine too many details of what Sasuke might have
seen.

“You
are weird, that you don't see the difference.”

“What
do you mean?”

“They
are both gay, and they're in love.”

“Sure
I saw it”, Naruto answered. “It's no excuse for having
sex in public, or for watching them.”

Sasuke
felt caught.

“You
are weird too”, Naruto said. “Climbing out of the water
and presenting yourself to the men as if you wanted to do them a
favour.”

For
some seconds Sasuke wondered if he should consider this a compliment.

“You
climbed out of the water too”, he said.

“Someone
has to look after you.”

Naruto
was aware that Sasuke did not need any protection against a pair of
civilians, still with him losing control as he had he felt the need
to see that nothing happened.

“They're
together”, Sasuke said. “Why should they take any
interest in me?”

“They
still might enjoy looking at you.”

It
was a compliment, Sasuke decided. Suddenly he felt embarrassed by the
way Naruto was looking at him and got back into the water. Naruto
followed, and soon after this they left.

“Did
you enjoy your stay?” the man at the counter asked them when
they passed him.

“Sure
we did”, Sasuke answered.

“It
was okay”, Naruto added.

Juugo
spoke up only when they were back at home.

“Next
time I want to go to the family section”, he said. “there's
the slide, the diving board, and the pretty girls.”

Naruto
understood what he had missed.

“We
aren't allowed there”, Sasuke said. “You may go there
with your future foster mothers, but we may not. We are men.”

“I
go there when it's only me and my friends. We play and swim and look
at the girls.”

“You
don't stare at girls”, Sasuke said. Suddenly he remembered that
Juugo was not twelve but eighteen...

“Sure
I do. Everyone does, even grown-up men. They stare back, anyway. You
only go to the men's section if are not interested in this.”

A/N:
I feel a little insecure about this chapter... For a long time, I
knew about onsen only from Naruto, then I looked it up at
Wikipedia, and then I happened to see one in a movie from Thailand I
saw during the Gay-Lesbian festival I mentioned some weeks ago. I
know that in all likelihood I got most things wrong, and my only
excuse is that “Music Town” is not a real place but a
town I invented for the purpose of my story.

Else
I can say that the whole scene got inspired by one of the Coming-Out
stories I read in order to “research” for this story.
There the protagonists have sex (well, hand-jobs) in the men's sauna.

So
I will ask all Japanese readers and Japan-based readers and others
who care to forgive me. I know hardly anything about Japanese
culture, and only after I became a fan of Naruto I began to read
about in order not to be a complete idiot.

Sneakyfox:
There will be a birthday party, but only in ten days – well, in
a few weeks. A lot happens in ten days. The next chapter will be
dancing again.

Rahvin68:
Sasuke does not know yet that the Yondaime is Naruto's father. He
will learn about it, but I have not yet made up my mind how.

Btw,
does 68 refer to your year of birth?

Lola
Jimenez: Thanks for the compliments! Naruto's aimlessness has
nothing to do with maturity but is a consequence of his situation.
His aims have always been protecting Konoha and saving Sasuke, and
now he is far from Konoha and cannot protect it, and Sasuke, while he
has agreed to stay in Music Town, does not approve of Naruto's
overprotectiveness.

Else
I can assure you that there is a plan for the story, and I am slowly
moving along it (and your comment made me realize that I should take
it out and have a look at it again). I must admit that sometimes I
get self-indulgent, as I did with this chapter, thinking “oh,
that's a cool scene” and forgetting to consider wehther it
advances the plot. But the next chapter will bring another step...

And
even though Konoha has moved to the background, it will never
disappear, and it will resurface at some point with full face. Only
at the moment the boys are busy coping with the new situation.
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