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The Blessed Realm	By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1746 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: Naruto, his friends and the world he lives in don't belong to me but to Masashi Kishimoto. I write this story only for my pleasure and I don't make any money with it.

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Chapter
Thirty-Seven: All these kids

Sasuke
caressed the little boy who was sitting on his lap: Holding him gave
him some comfort.

“It's
okay”, one of the mothers said. “We should have thought
of it.”

They
were very careful now, asking him twice even when they offered him
tea or coffee, just to make sure that everything was as he wanted it.
(They still did not have any cocoa, as their own kids drank apple
juice, and he did not dare to ask them to prepare some just for his
sake.) They even asked him whether he wanted the candles lighted, and
this time he declined and lighted them with his katon, to the kids'
delight and the mothers' horror.

“You
can spit fire?” the children asked.

“It's
a trick”, the mothers explained. “He surely has taken a
sip of gas when no one was watching.”

He
had successfully turned the kids' minds to other matters than the
fact that his parents were dead. They lived in a world where parents
did not die, just as he had until he was seven, and he wanted them to
remain like this.

Conversation
turned to another urgent question: Local authorities had to be
informed that Juugo was living with the two women as their
foster-child and they needed the testimony of one of his companions
that he had indeed escaped from some evil place and had not just run
away from home. Sasuke found himself confronted with the question
whether he wanted to make his own stay in Music Town official. He
preferred not to – not yet.

“Is
it necessary to tell about Juugo?” he asked.

“It
is”, the mothers answered. “We plan to send him to school
in autumn. People have to know who's responsible for him.”

Pretending
you are a kid has its drawbacks, Sasuke realized.

Suigetsu
was also reluctant about making his stay official (even though he had
not had any issues with printing his full name on the cover of the
CD), so this left Karin, who agreed readily.

“I've
arranged everything for myself, and I can help you to arrange things
for Juugo too. I'm officially accepted as a refugee, with permission
to stay in Music Town as long as I want. I'm also eligible to become
a regular citizen in a few years.”

“What?”
Suigetsu exclaimed. “Have you learnt to play the triangle?”

“I'm
learning belly-dancing”, she explained. “And I learn to
play the finger cymbals that go along with dancing.”

“Belly
dancing!”

All
her former companions, and Naruto too, leant back to have a look at
her. She had put on some weight since their arrival in Music Town,
meaning that she was no longer underweight but just a bit on the slim
side.

“Is
that not a dance for prostitutes in some other part of the world?”
Suigetsu asked.

“That's
what men think”, one of the mothers replied. “Men always
think that everything is only about themselves, and if a woman dances
beautifully they think she's available. So, first, women who perform
in front of an audience are paid for dancing, not for having sex.
They are not even allowed to be touched. Second, normally women don't
dance in front of men at all, but only when they're among themselves
and have fun by themselves.”

“You
see!” Karin said in triumph.

“What
a waste!” Suigetsu said. “But you will dance for us,
won't you?”

“I
may, if you ask nicely.”

Sasuke
could do without it (even though he had no idea about belly-dancing.)

They
returned to the subject of making it official that Juugo would have
two foster-mothers.

“We've
discussed the possibility of an adoption”, one of the mothers
explained. “But we cannot do this without his biological
parents' consent.”

“They
turned me out when I was a kid”, Juugo said. “They can't
reclaim me now. I would not return.”

“They
turned you out?” Naruto asked.

“I
used to be a monster.”

Sasuke
saw the shock on Naruto's face. He'd have to explain later.

“Whatever
you were, you're a great kid now”, one of the mothers said,
laying her arm around Juugo's shoulders. “But I've told you
already: The law says that we cannot adopt you unless your parents
agree. We can try to contact them, however.” She looked at
Juugo's former teammates. “Do you happen to know where to find
them?”

“He's
from Earth Country, I think”, Karin answered.

“What's
the difference between adoption and taking him in as a foster child
anyway?” Sasuke asked.

“Adoption's
irreversible”, Juugo answered.

“Taking
him in as our foster-child means that we care for him until he can
return to his parents. Or until he's grown up. Adopting him means
that we are legally his parents and that his biological parents give
up all claims on him. Though normally kids seek out their biological
parents once they're off age.”

“I
wouldn't”, Juugo said. “And you have adopted the baby.”

He
was speaking of the little boy on Sasuke's lap. “That's
not the same. His mother is sixteen and his father has deserted both
mother and child. We know both their names.”

Again
Sasuke saw the shock on Naruto's face.

“Maybe
your biological parents can be found”, he tried to comfort
Juugo. “Maybe they'll agree to an adoption.”

He
turned to another question that had been on his mind since Juugo's
welcome party: “So that's how you got all these kids: By
adoption.”

Embarrassed,
the women looked at each other.

“Well,
first, they are not all our own”, one of them began. “Most
are just friends. In the evening they'll return to their own
families.”

Sasuke
should have guessed. There were between twenty and thirty children in
the garden, the youngest sitting on his lap, the oldest Juugo's
friends – too many even for two mothers.

“But
actually even of our own most are not adopted, only the little one
and now, if we are lucky, Juugo.”

“So
how did you get them?”

“Just
as anyone else.”

“But
this...” - he sought for words - “would imply that you
had to have sex with men.”

“You
sound as if you considered this a truly horrible idea.”

Again
he had to think to come up with an answer. “I thought it would
be for you.”

“It's
not that bad, actually.”

He
looked doubtful. He felt reminded of the dance teacher explaining to
him that dancing with girls was not that bad: not the same as having
sex with them. But you did not get kids by dancing.

“You
did not have sex with men just in order to get pregnant, did you?”

“No,
we didn't. Both of us used to be married to men, and our older kids
are from these previous marriages.”

At
least this explained why the two oldest boys were almost the same age
while they were obviously not twins.

“And
what about the younger kids?” he asked.

“They
are the children of both of us.”

“But
how did you get them?”

The
women looked embarrassed and hesitated before they continued.
“Well, there is artificial insemination of course.”

“What's
that?”

This
was when Naruto got up and left to play football with the older boys.
Sasuke was free to make a fool of himself if he insisted on it, but
he, Naruto, would not listen. Suigetsu and Karin had left earlier,
and Juugo was playing. Sasuke was content that his team were not
listening – he was not so certain however whether he would not
have preferred Naruto to stay.

It
was a bit awkward, actually, and Sasuke tried hard not to imagine any
details. The women also did their best to keep it short and stuck to
the technical facts.

“It's
more complicated for gay couples, isn't it?” Sasuke asked.

“Sure.
It's just a fact that a man's part in creating a child is smaller.
Still there are solutions, as surrogate mothers.”

Again
they had to explain the term. Sasuke was content: It sounded all
weird and awkward and embarrassing, but he'd be able to handle it. He
wasn't a kid any more, was he? He had survived three years at
Orochimaru's place, hadn't he, he had learnt to deal with the Cursed
Seal, he had accepted a bunch of jutsus and weapons and summons
inscribed into his body so that he could call them at need. It had
been painful and embarrassing and awkward to allow another person to
manipulate his body, but he had dealt with it.

He
looked at the various groups of children playing in the garden, he
caressed the little boy on his lap. He felt reminded of family
convention at home, before the massacre, when the lawn had been full
of cousins of first, second and third degree. They had been more
polite and respectful to the grown-ups but between meals they had
been allowed to play in the open grounds of the Uchiha compound. The
children here were nice children too, he decided, even though they
had ruined his birthday cake.

Refounding
his clan had been rather low on his priority list these last years.
Actually it had always been an abstract idea, not really a dream of
his own, rather a project other people had suggested to him in order
to offer him a new goal, and in order to comfort him. It had not
given him the satisfaction that planning his revenge had given him –
in fact he had not been able to dream of it at all. Whenever people
had told him that he might refound his family he had thought of his
parents, who were dead, and not of children of his own he might have.
He had adopted the aim as it had made sense and seemed appropriate,
but his heart had not been in it, and as he got older and understood
that for refounding his clan he'd have to marry a woman, or at least
have sex with one, he thought of it rather as a duty towards his clan
than something that might give him joy, and more and more often his
fantasies of revenge ended with his own death.

Since
his arrival in Music Town, with Naruto insisting that he survived and
married Sakura, the project of refounding the clan had resurfaced,
and Juugo's foster siblings made him realize that it might be more
than just fulfilling some duty. He would not even need a woman, he
thought, at least he would not have to have sex with her.

Naruto
was still playing with the older kids. He had taken off his shirt and
the sweat on his chest glistened in the sun. He'd need him at his
side, Sasuke realized: Never accepting that anything might be
impossible, and then refusing to step down on his word. He'd have to
trick him into promising that they'd get children that were both
their offspring, not just the kids of one of them, as it was the case
with the lesbian mothers' kids: Naruto would do everything to make it
come true.

Sasuke
turned back to the two women: “Why did you marry men if you are
lesbian?” he asked. “Why did you have sex with them if
you were not in love with them?”

Again
the women looked embarrassed and confused.

“We
were in love with them”, one of them explained. “They
were nice and good-looking and reliable, a lot of reasons to fall in
love.”

“Only
that with time her husband behaved more and more as if he was the
boss”, the other continued, “while mine just grew boring.
And then I met her at another friend's place, the most beautiful,
most charismatic woman I've ever seen. She smiled at me and sat down
next to me, and for the rest of the evening none of the other guests
existed for us, or we for them.”

For
some minutes they told Sasuke of the beginnings of their love, how
both of them had realized that their former marriages had been
founded on convention and convenience alone, which they had mistaken
for love, not knowing what real love was like: the kind of love that
took hold of your whole soul, lifting it to another level of
existence. Slowly both of them had overcome their doubts and decided
to leave their husbands and move in with each other.

Sasuke
listened in astonishment. In his eyes, these were both ordinary
women, except that they were lesbian and had an unusual number of
kids. They were practically minded and firmly rooted in real life, no
dreamers, nor particularly beautiful (though he was certainly not a
judge of female beauty) and all in all they were far too sensible to
give up their ordinary lives for some dream of romantic love.

“So
you both thought that you were straight and only realized that you
were lesbian when you met each other”, he said.

“Basically
yes. It's quite common. Wasn't it the same for you?”

He
shook his head. “I always knew it, even as a kid, though I did
not have a name for it. I had difficulties, however, to connect to
anyone, boy or girl, right after my family's death. Still from far I
preferred boys. Later I understood what I felt, but hated myself for
it and tried to get rid of it. The guy who held Juugo and the rest of
us prisoners was gay and I did not want to be like him. Here it's
okay though.”

“Being
evil is independent of being straight or gay”, one of the women
replied. “Though it's easier to be good if you are accepted as
you are.”

Sasuke
could not make sense of her words. He did not mind, however. He felt
content with himself, and also, the women's stories had given him
hope. Naruto's crush on Sakura did not mean that he would be straight
for all his life. It was quite likely that it was only founded on
convention, Sasuke thought. He turned to watch Naruto, who was still
playing with the kids, making a fool of himself as the boys were far
better at football than him, and instead of accepting that they had
begun to play at a very early age (the guy who had been sitting on
Sasuke's lap had now got hold of a ball of his own that was as high
as his knees, and tried to kick it around) Naruto refused to give in
and tried to prove to the boys that he was at least as good as they
were.

“You
like your friend”, one of the women said.

Sasuke
shrugged. “It's hopeless. He's straight.”

Naruto
seemed to sense that he was being watched, and looked back at Sasuke,
smiling and inviting him to join the game. Sasuke apologized to the
two women for leaving them.

“Don't
force it”, they said. “It does not work out. Not in the
long run.”

A/N:
This is the last chapter for this year! I posted it early because of
Christmas. Chapter 39 will be posted on January 9^th. I am
not yet sure about chapter 38 – I guess it will be posted at
some point of the first week of January.

Merry
Christmas to all of you!

Sneakyfox:
Glad to see that you are still on board! Thanks for your compliments
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