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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
Forty-Six: Tango Argentino

Somehow
Sasuke had managed to lay his hands on the bag with Naruto's
purchases. He had also managed to secure himself the place on the
table, so that for Naruto only the bed remained.

Sasuke
began to check the contents of the bag. The first item he found was
the tight, black, sleeveless shirt. He tossed it at Naruto: “Try
it on!”

Naruto
felt weird: There Sasuke was again, sitting in an elevated position,
his feet on the chair so that he would look cool, making him, Naruto,
dress up so that he could judge him, while at the same time it was
clear that Sasuke looked much better. But then, just while he was
sitting half naked on his bed and looking for the label of the shirt
to put it on in the correct way he saw again that look of confusion
in Sasuke's eyes, and a hunger he had not expected. He was satisfied
with himself again. He put on the shirt and moved his fingers and
arms so that his muscles flexed and enjoyed how Sasuke could not look
away.

“Looks
good!” Sasuke said, trying to get a grip on himself in order to
appear as if he was nothing more than a friend giving advice to
another friend.

He
had to force himself to turn from the sight of Naruto and get the
next item out of the bag: The shirt Naruto had bought against the
advice of all his female advisors. Sasuke unfolded it and held it up
and did not know what to say, then he passed it to Naruto.

Naruto
changed into it. “You don't think it makes me look girly?”
he asked, moving very carefully and even giving in to a sudden
impulse to mess with his hair.

“Nothing
will make you look girly” Sasuke answered, recognizing the
gesture only too well. “You can wear the black shirt
underneath. That would look cool.”

“You
think that only you can pull off wearing such a shirt without
anything underneath?”

“My
shirts are not semitransparent.”

It
was not true, Naruto thought. When the sun shone against Sasuke's
back you could see his silhouette.

“Wearing
such a shirt without anything underneath is as good as wearing no
shirt at all”, Sasuke continued.

“But
I look good without a shirt, don't I?” Naruto said, remembering
how Sasuke had looked at him while he had been changing.

“You
do”, Sasuke said, not wanting to lie. Then he got annoyed
because he felt he was losing to Naruto. “Wear what you want!
Or go naked! I don't care!” He felt confused and irritated: Why
would Naruto try to look like him instead of looking like himself?

He
turned his attention to the bag and took out Naruto's fight suit.
“This is for winter”, he said.

Naruto
felt oddly comforted. He enjoyed being complimented, on his new
clothes, be it by strangers or the men of the dance class or by
Sasuke, but it had itched him that people thought that with his fight
suit he had looked like a teddy bear. He was glad that Sasuke thought
it okay, just not for summer.

Sasuke
had now found the remaining two items, the movie and the magazine.

“Why
did you buy this?” he asked, holding up the latter.

“I
thought it might interest you. You like to know what's going on in
the world, don't you?”

“I
do. Thanks”, Sasuke answered, blushing. It was the first sign
that Naruto acknowledged that he was gay, and he felt moved, and more
relieved than he would have expected.

“What
about the movie? Is it for me too?”

Naruto
hesitated. Actually he had chosen the movie for himself, but now
admitting that he had rented a gay movie seemed embarrassing. Telling
Sasuke that the movie was a gift too seemed an easy way out, but then
he would not be able to watch it himself. Inwardly he cursed Sasuke:
Who had given him the right to question him about his purchases?

“I
thought we might see it together”, he said.

“Yes.
Thanks”, Sasuke answered, now really moved. He wondered what
Naruto was intending when he suggested that they watched a gay movie:
It might just be a sign of friendship, a sign that he cared. It would
fit Naruto. On the other hand anything might happen when they watched
the movie together: Sasuke was definitely looking forward to it.

Naruto
watched him and saw how he suddenly looked all soft and vulnerable.
He'd protect him, he thought, feeling all warm and tender. He longed
to reach out for Sasuke, but he was too far away at the moment.

“We
can borrow the TV-set and the DVD-player from downstairs”, he
said.

This
evening it was too late for it, however, and also on the next days
they did not find the time. Life was busy with work in the restaurant
and dancing. Also they often volunteered when one of the gay men
needed help, be it with digging out a pond for a garden or with
carrying beams for someone who wanted to renovate the attic of his
house, but they also helped buying groceries for a man who had broken
his leg. Volunteering to support other gay men (as Sasuke thought of
them) or the gay men (as Naruto would have put it) helped them get
accepted as members of the community, but it also helped that Naruto
tried to behave in a way that did not offend them. Sasuke is one of
them, he thought, and I have to be polite, as being polite to them
means being polite to him.

One
day he'll leave me for one of these men, he thought, and it still
hurt even though he did his best to accept it. Sasuke was still
rather reserved, however, and if he showed any preferences it was for
Naruto himself, so there was no danger of Sasuke leaving him any time
soon. He did not have to watch him closely now and could turn his
attention to the general conversation: They were just having lunch
after helping with renovating the attic, and the owner of the attic
had thanked them particularly and praised them for
their efficiency.

“We
learnt this when we were still genin and doing D-rank missions”,
Naruto explained. “Not carrying heavy beams of course, but
quite a lot of the lighter stuff and doing some carpentry.”

He
told them more of their early peaceful missions. The men listened and
wondered.

“Who'd
have thought that the ninja villages make their kids do communal work
and call it ninja training!”

“It's
not just communal work”, Naruto said. “It's for private
clients too.”

“You
mean the ninja villages rent out their kids for unskilled labour?”

“Not unskilled. We were good at it.”

There
was some discussion: Some of the men disapproved and called it
child's labour, others claimed that not doing any real work at all,
not even in their parents' household as it was normal for children in
Music Town, was not good for their self-esteem. “As long as
it's not the kind of work that's detrimental to a child's mental and
physical well-being, as long hours of repetitive work in a factory,
or prostitution, or being child soldiers, it's probably okay if
children do some work.”

They
stopped, remembering that Sasuke and Naruto had been trained to be
ninjas.

“What
did you think of the work you had to do as kids?” they asked.

“We
hated it”, Sasuke answered honestly. “We longed to do
some real fighting.”

“Weren't
you afraid?”

“Not
really”; Naruto explained. “We were just proud and
excited. Only when the fighting got real I was scared, but only for
one moment, then I overcame my fear. Anyway, there was our teacher
who'd protect us so that there was never any real danger.”

“I
would have died if Haku had intended to kill me for real”,
Sasuke said.

The
men around them fell silent, becoming aware that what the boys had
been through was real.

“You
get used to it”, Naruto said. “You don't think of the
danger. If you think that you might die, you have lost.”

“Or
you know that you will die, and do everything necessary to achieve
your goal before you get killed”, Sasuke added. “Sometimes
you're even lucky and survive.”

The
men looked quite impressed.

They
live in a different world, Naruto thought. A world without fighting
where it's not necessary to risk your life.

“Are
you glad you're here now?” one of the men asked.

“We
are”, Sasuke answered, smiling. “We like this place and
enjoy living here.”

Naruto
was glad that Sasuke had spoken for both of them: His own answer
would have been less clear as half of his heart was still in Konoha.

They
were not only invited to occasions for helping other men but also to
events that were meant to be fun. On one evening they attended a
ballroom dancing party together with several other couples, a
mainstream event at the community center, meaning that most people
were straight, but gay people were welcome too. For Naruto it was a
weird situation: Dancing with Sasuke he was glad to be in the company
of other gay couples, and for the first time he thought of himself as
one of them.

By
now they had become quite good at figuring out which dance to dance
when the music changed, but suddenly there was some music that left
them all confused.

“It's
Tango Argentino”, the husband of the guy from Earth Country
told them. “It's got nothing to do with European Tango.”

The
population of dancers changed almost completely. Only one couple of
their own group knew how to dance Tango Argentino, meaning that the
rest of them sat down to have some drinks and watch. Mostly they
talked, but Sasuke watched in fascination as he had on the day of his
arrival: It was an altogether different way of dancing, as it had
neither a clear pattern nor a clear rhythm, and there were no
athletic elements. Just two people standing in loose embrace, not
upright but with round shoulders, their heads lowered as if they were
busy with some intimate conversation, lost in a world of their own
while the person who followed (mostly a woman) did some intricate
steps.

It
seemed a very gentle and tender way of dancing, and Sasuke could not
help but take Naruto's hand: “I want to learn this too.”

“With
me as your partner?”

“Yes.
If you want.”

It
was no surprise any more; still Naruto did not know whether he was
ready to dance with Sasuke in such an intimate way. “That's not
a sport”, he said. “That's just standing around and
moving in a weird way. We don't make fools of us like this. We're
still ninjas. If you want me to embrace you just tell!”

Sasuke
looked surprised, then he opened his arms. They held each other for a
few seconds.

“You
see, we don't need this”, Naruto said.

Sasuke
was not content. He liked being embraced by Naruto but the hugs
Naruto gave him, pressing Sasuke against himself with all his
strength, were no longer a substitute for the tenderness he longed
for. The music changed and another unknown dance followed, similar to
Viennese Waltz in that it was in three quarter time, but softer and
more playful. The two men of the group who had been dancing joined
them.

“Interested?”
they asked as they had noticed how Sasuke had been following them
with his eyes.

“No”,
Naruto answered firmly. “We don't need a pretext for
embracing.”

“It's
more than that”, the men explained. “It's also a
complicated pattern of leading and following. You don't just give
signs but you guide every single step of your partner. It takes a lot
of trust and most women only dance with their own boy-friends.”

Naruto
considered it: Moving Sasuke around by a soft pressure against his
shoulder and then watching him do complicated fanciful steps, while
Sasuke just had to let himself be guided. The idea held some
attraction.

“I
may consider it if you follow”, he said.

Sasuke
did not answer. He had come to enjoy leading, and this was how he had
imagined them while he had watched the dancers. He was no longer as
ready to give in as he had been when they had started dancing. “You
know you're better at following”, he said.

“You'll
never master the dance anyway”, the guy from Earth Country
Said. “You'd never stop discussing. Besides it's not a dance
for virgins.”

Sasuke
knew that he had won: Naruto would never admit that there was
anything he could not do. He wondered whether he should tell Naruto
that there was an easy solution to the problem that they were both
still virgins.

“It's
European Tango again”, he said. “Let's dance.”

A/N:

Sneakyfox:
Thanks again for your review! Someone will inform Naruto, but only
when it's too late. In the meantime, Sasuke is taking a lot of
interest in the idea that a person might be attracted to both sexes,
or switch from being straight to being gay.

Anon:
Ah, he's not super insightful suddenly. He has suspected it for quite
some time (otherwise he would not have had to „protect“
Sasuke against being seduced), he even bought the magazine and rented
the gay movie. And Sasuke is quite courageous when it comes to
fighting, but the person who's truly courageous when it comes to love
is Hinata.

^^:
But Sasuke has been humiliated in the early parts of the story. He
had to get glasses, and then he had to ask his team to extend their
stay in Music Town so that he could get contacts as well. Also he has
messed up more than once in his interactions with people from Music
Town. It's true, in the last chapters Naruto has made a fool of
himself more than once, in the last one by protesting when he was
asked to follow, but this is mainly due to the situation: Sasuke is
well aware that he is gay and behaves like it, and the other gay men
accept him as one of them, while Naruto considers himself straight,
and the other gay men perceive him as someone who behaves strangely
and does not know what he wants. But this does not mean that Sasuke
is a Sue: he is more reserved and knows that he is gay, so he does
not make a fool of himself, but just in the last chapter he was
jealous without reason, and also, Naruto is really the better dancer
of the two of them. They have to switch roles because Naruto is
better at following, not because Sasuke is better at leading.
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