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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
Fifty-Two: Coming Out

They
were naked while they had breakfast, and they kept looking at each
other and touching their cheeks, arms and chests. Embracing and
kissing they found hardly any time to eat.

“I
had not thought that it would be so easy”, Naruto said. “Just
following my desire to be near you. I would not have imagined that
you would like it.”

“Sure
I like it”, Sasuke said. “You make me feel alive.”

He
had desired it and worked towards it for several weeks now, and still
he was surprised both by his own feelings and by Naruto's desire
(though he should have known, of course). He had not known that
Naruto's caresses would make every single part of his body feel
alive. He was still not sure whether he wanted to come alive under
Naruto's hands, but he had chosen it, had he not: he had chosen
Naruto knowing he'd make him feel alive again (even though feeling
alive was a new and unexpected feeling) and he could not chicken out
now.

“You
make me feel human”, Naruto said, taking Sasuke's hand and
moving it over his body. “When you touch me I know I'm no
longer a monster.”

“You
never were”, Sasuke said. “You're definitely human.
Everything about you is human.”

Carefully
he touched the seal around Naruto's navel, and then began to play
with his pubic hair. Naruto laid Sasuke's hand around his cock, and
Sasuke brought him to orgasm again. He watched him lose control,
supporting him with his free arm while Naruto leant back: Never
Naruto looked more beautiful, he thought. Naruto blushed and smiled,
then he drew Sasuke into his arms, kissed his face and his shoulders,
and caressed him until he came too, losing himself in Naruto's arms,
dissolving in bliss.

They
were late for their shift, even though it began only in the
afternoon. They had agreed to hide the change of nature of their
relationship, or at least not to announce it openly, as it was not
the business of the people who ate at the restaurant. Still Naruto
could not resist touching Sasuke's hands, or his back when he passed
him, and the regulars soon noticed that something had changed. Some
smiled, some frowned, and Naruto smiled back, proudly or defiantly.
He had avoided appearing gay for weeks, but now he did not care any
more: He had finally won not only Sasuke's friendship but also his
love. He felt triumphant: Sasuke would not leave him, and also, he
had now gained the recognition he had craved for for all his life. He
was human now, body and soul, and in his happiness he could not
restrain himself and touched Sasuke whenever there was an
opportunity, just to make sure that Sasuke was still there. Sasuke
was shyer and more embarrassed, but he was happy too, and proud in
spite of his embarrassment: proud that Naruto would show to everyone
that now he belonged to Sasuke. He did not know that the radiance in
his eyes betrayed him just as much as Naruto's more open display of
affection.

“Now
you're happy, aren't you”, the man who had helped him with the
shrine said to him.

Sasuke
nodded and smiled, but the man's words had made him feel sad as they
reminded him that his family was dead and that he still had not made
any progress in avenging them.

“You
know, I've always thought it strange that a man should be in love
with another man, and I still do, but if you like it I guess it's
okay. You're okay, anyway – well, it's weird, and I really
cannot understand it. But I'm glad that you're happy now.”

Among
their fellow dancers there was no need to hide anything, and Naruto
put his arm around Sasuke's shoulders as soon as they entered the
room, looking triumphantly at the other men. I have won him for
myself, his eyes said, none of you will lay hands on him now. His
hands glided down Sasuke's back, ending up on his ass, and then moved
upwards again. He was not aware that the most obvious change was not
his but Sasuke's behaviour: He had slung his arm around Naruto too,
and he smiled, neither in triumph nor flirting with people but just
in happiness.

They
joined the guy from Earth Country and his husband.

“So
you've managed to persuade Naruto that you're special”, the
husband said.

“No,
he hasn't”, Naruto replied. “I have persuaded him that I
am special.”

Both
men looked confused, and Sasuke felt annoyed. He had hoped that
Naruto would no longer embarrass them now that they were together.

“Don't
you think he's special too?” the man continued.

“Well,
he's my friend”, Naruto said, drawing Sasuke closer to himself.
He thought a bit and decided to be serious. “He's always
recognized me as a human being”, he said. “He was ready
to accept me from the very beginning.”

“That's
not special”, Sasuke said. “That's just normal. You are
human, after all.”

“Sure
you're human”, the husband of the guy from Earth Country said.
“Why should people not accept you?”

Naruto
shrugged. He did not feel like telling the men about the kyuubi.

Dancing
had gained a new quality: Both were more aware now of the seductive
nature of the movements of their hips, and both felt still insecure
and embarrassed about it. They were also very sensitive of the
other's movements, and partly wished that they weren't here,
training, but at home, so that they could give in to the desire that
awoke in them. They were glad when the break began so that they could
sit down and snuggle and kiss.

“It's
okay here”, Naruto said.

Sasuke
doubted it as he had never watched any of the men engage in extensive
kissing sessions during the break; usually they confined themselves
to a kiss on the cheek, if at all, when they greeted and welcomed
each other.

In
the end, the other men effectively prevented them from spending the
whole break kissing: When Naruto went to buy them some drinks the men
who were standing at the bar made him stay.

“Enjoying
yourself?” they asked.

“Yeah,
sure”, Naruto answered, blushing.

“So
you've figured it out, finally. Now stay with us and have a drink
with us, as you're one of us now.”

Naruto
had no choice, he had to stay and give Sasuke a sign to come over, so
that instead of kissing they had to discuss football. This time
Sasuke joined the discussion too, as it was about a referee's
questionable decision. He was still more interested in the referees'
performance than in that of the players, even though he enjoyed
playing football himself.

I
am one of them now, Naruto thought while he listened to Sasuke's
explanations why the referee had been wrong. It still felt weird,
though he had actually come to like the men and thought there was
nothing wrong with being one of them. Yet they were from Music Town,
while he was still from Konoha, and still a ninja, wasn't he?

Juugo's
mothers, when they had lunch together on Sunday, immediately
perceived the change in their relationship. They didn't try to hide
it, admittedly, with Naruto touching Sasuke's hips or shoulders every
other second, and Sasuke caressing Naruto's hand or laying his hand
on Naruto's arm.

“So
you've finally won his heart”, the women said. “But you
didn't force it, did you? Naruto did not just give in to you in order
to do you a favour.”

“I
don't give in to anyone”, Naruto said, “least of all to
Sasuke. But he's my friend, isn't he? There's nothing wrong with
doing him a favour.”

The
women looked confused. “There is, when it's about sex.”

“I'll
do everything to make him happy”, Naruto said, kissing Sasuke's
shoulder and neck and caressing his belly.

The
women looked even more confused. “But you enjoy it too?”

“Sure
I do. What makes you think I don't?”

“Sasuke
told us you're straight.”

Naruto
sat up. He was feeling increasingly annoyed. “You may think
that Sasuke won my heart because he realized earlier than I did that
having sex with each other might be fun. But in reality it's me who
won his heart, making him stay in Music Town instead of travelling
aimlessly around the world.”

Just in time he had
remembered that telling the women of Sasuke's plan (and now his own
too) of making Danzou pay for his crimes probably wasn't a wise move.

“We
guess you must have won his heart, or he wouldn't be in love with
you”, the women admitted, not wanting to annoy him any further.

The
women's daughters, who were around seven, were more sceptical about
the boys' love. To their mothers' disappointment they had all turned
out very girly, always wearing pink, playing with dolls and loving
horses. The mothers tried to get them interested in football, they
had also tried to persuade them to join the taijutsu class Sasuke and
Naruto taught (they were just the right age), but it did not work
out: they remained girly.

Now
they approached the two boys, three of them (with a close friend),
holding hands and leaning against each other, obviously embarrassed
and pushing each other forward, until one of them found the courage
to talk.

“Are
you in love now?” she asked.

“We
are”, Sasuke answered, laying his arm around Naruto's hips.

“But
like this you can't have children”, her sister said.

“Your
mothers could have children too, even though they're lesbian”,
Sasuke said.

“Yes,
but they're women,” the girls replied, smiling proudly.

Sasuke
considered explaining to them that in order to create a child men
were just as vital as women, but he decided against it.

Naruto
wondered too: He had completely forgotten about Sasuke's plan to
refound his clan: Being gay had seriously complicated this project.

Juugo's
friends, now his fosterbrothers, were even more reserved than their
sisters.

“So
you're gay now”, they said.

“Yeah”,
Naruto answered, suddenly feeling embarrassed. For the first time
someone had made him feel that this was something to be ashamed of.
Sasuke looked cold and without expression.

The
boys withdrew without answering. After some time they returned. Juugo
spoke for them.

“I
have persuaded them to ask you to play football with us even though
you're gay now. You're still the same persons, aren't you?”

“Sure
we are”, Naruto answered, and so they played football for the
rest of the afternoon.

They
did not much change their behaviour in public, meaning that Naruto
still laid his arms around Sasuke whenever he felt like, only that
now Sasuke would occasionally return the gesture. Sasuke also asked
that they went to Heroes' Park to make out on the lawn. He had longed
for it since he had first observed the couple making out on the lawn
in front of the Museum for Natural History: For him it meant that
they had become true inhabitants of Music Town. He was a bit shy,
however, and left it to Naruto to watch the couples around them and
figure out what was okay and what not.

Naruto
also suggested that they should visit the sides of the river where
the young people hung out in the evenings. There the rules of
behaviour were even more relaxed than in Heroes's Park: They could
sit or even lie in close embrace, they could take off their shirts
and caress each other's upper bodies, or wear short pants and touch
their legs and feet. They could lose themselves in kisses, but they
also did what Sasuke desired most: Naruto lay down with his head on
Sasuke's lap and Sasuke caressed his chest and sometimes his thighs,
but mostly his hair and his face: his cheeks with the scars, his
mouth, his forehead, or he would kiss Naruto's closed eyes. He told
Naruto not to do anything, which posed a true challenge to him as he
liked to be active and take the initiative, but he gave in,
entrusting himself to Sasuke, being vulnerable. It was extremely
arousing, not just in a sexual way, but he felt moved and touched
through and through.

On
one of these evenings the young men they played football with met
them at the riverside, and they invited them to join them at the
campfire they had lighted nearby. Of all their acquaintances they
were the only ones who did not comment in any way on the fact that
they were lovers now.

From
that evening Sasuke and Naruto made out and had sex at home, and went
to the riverside to hang out with other young people. They still
could lean against each other or kiss, but not too deeply. Sasuke was
content: making out in public had been important, but now that they
had done so it was not necessary to continue it. The reservedness he
had grown up with returned, and he wondered about the young people
who would do everything except openly have sex.

“Why
don't they make out at home?” he asked the husband of the guy
from Earth Country. “It's more convenient, and you don't have
to care about being watched.”

The
man had hesitated for a few seconds but then answered honestly: “Most
people of your age still live with their parents. Not all parents
approve of their kids having sex, or of their kids' choice of
partners, or it's simply embarrassing for the kids if the parents
know what they are doing. Or they want to wait with introducing their
partners to their parents until they are sure it's the right one, or
they are embarrassed of their parents and don't want their partners
to know them. There's a lot of reasons.”

Sasuke
nodded. He had not considered that other young people still had
parents – even though he often thought of his parents he rarely
imagined what it would be like to actually live with them. It would
have taken them some time to accept that he was gay, he realized.

It
was on one of these evenings at the riverside that Suigetsu passed
their group with some of his own friends. Seeing Sasuke leaning
against Naruto and caressing his hands, which lay on his, Sasuke's,
thighs, Suigetsu stopped to have a closer look.

“Enjoying
life?” he asked.

“Sure”,
Sasuke answered, sitting up, blushing, and then trying to look cool
and unmoved.

“Glad
to hear it. It suits you.”

Sasuke
did not answer.

“Karin
will contact you soon”, Suigetsu continuied. “She's
bought a second-hand washing-machine. She needs some strong men to
carry it, and I can't do it, because you know...”

He
made his arms turn into jelly, and then turned them back into flesh.
So he was again able to control his limbs' aggregate state, Sasuke
thought.

They
weren't contacted by Karin, however, but by one of the female couples
of their dance class. They had just moved in with each other, so that
one of their washing-machines was no longer needed. Karin had heard
of it from Juugo's fostermothers, and it turned out that the two
women knew Sasuke and Naruto, though not very well. Without taking
counsel with Karin they found a day that suited all four of them when
the boys would pick up the washing-machine.

“Don't
do it on your own!” one of the men of their dance class told
them. “You're young and still growing.”

“We
are ninja”, Naruto replied. “We can deal with this.”

“Well,
yes”, another man said. “You already told us that this is
what ninja really do.”

“It's
the muscles in your back”, a third one said. “You've been
trained to use them more efficiently than ordinary people, haven't
you?”

Neither
Sasuke nor Naruto had ever given much thought to their backs. They
did, however, after their first attempt to lift the washing-machine:
It had not looked that heavy, but had just seemed a case of thin
metal. After some thought on how to have a good grip on the thing,
however, they finally managed to lift it. Still they had to change
positions twice while carrying it, and they were quite out of breath
when they had arrived downstairs. Juugo was helping too: he held the
cables and tubes, and wiped up the water that had been dripping from
he machine. Suigetsu did not help: He had brought a sack of dirty
laundry that was more than enough for him. He dropped it gladly on
the pushcart brought by Juugo.

It
was one of these useful inventions Music Towns had imported from
other places, Sasuke mused while he followed Suigetsu and Juugo, who
were pulling the wagon, simple and effective, just not for getting
the washing-machine upstairs. Naruto offered to create some bunshin:
He had not dared to when they had still been with the couple who had
sold the washing-machine (and also he had not thought of it.) He knew
that he would feel all exhausted as soon as they dispersed, but he
would cope with it. Sasuke however refused: It would be cheating, he
declared.

Karin
looked horrified when she opened the door for them and saw that they
were sweating and struggling to keep the machine from falling.

“Oh
no”, she said. “You shouldn't have carried it! I have
borrowed a sack truck so that you wouldn't have to lift it.”

It
was too late now – neither Sasuke nor Naruto were in a state to
discuss, they just wanted to get the thing in the bathroom as quickly
as possible. Only then they were ready to have a look at the thing
Karin had mentioned: So people here had even invented a device that
would help them get things upstairs too, meaning they did not need
any ninja at all.

Naruto
went to their place to grab a sack of his and Sasuke's dirty laundry,
and Sasuke sat down in the living-room where he had a look at Karin
herself. She was covered in bandages, meaning she had finally had the
surgery to get her bitemarks removed.

“Interesting”,
Suigetsu said, “But I'm afraid you'll look very boring once
you've lost your scars. It will be a pity. Nobody really cares about
perfect-looking women.”

Karin
looked annoyed and threatened to beat him, but restrained herself in
the last moment.

“You'll
look very pretty”, Sasuke said to calm her down. “People
will like you.”

“Oh,
you think so”, she said, taking off her glasses and looking at
Sasuke with the expression she normally put on when she tried to
seduce him. He froze – he should not have forgotten himself.

“You're
wasting your energy”, Suigetsu said. “You've always been.
He's gay. He's with Naruto now.”

Karin
looked incredulous.

“I
caught them in the act at the riverside, so I know for sure”,
Suigetsu continued.

“We
were not having sex in public”, Sasuke said, quite annoyed.

“The
situation was still clear”, Suigetsu said.

Karin
thought about it. “So this is why it was so important for him
to keep us with him”, she said. “We should have known,
then we would have taken better care of you, and may left this town a
bit earlier, or at least not the three of us would not have moved
out from his place.”

Sasuke
felt even more annoyed. He thought that it had been Karin who had
made them stay so that she could accept that job to teach medical
ninjutsu, and get her bitemarks removed. He thought of the
washing-machine he and Naruto had just carried upstairs: “Don't
tell me that you don't want to stay here”, he said. “You
don't buy something as heavy as a washing-machine if you plan to
leave and travel again.”

Karin
looked embarrassed, as if she had been caught.

Juugo
had been busy in the bathroom, connecting the washing-machine, and
then he had opened the door for Naruto when he returned. Now he and
Naruto were listening to the conversation that took place in the
living-room.

“Don't
worry”, he said. “I will carry your machine when we leave
Music Town.”

A/N:
It's been pointed out to me that answering to reviews in author's
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also, I don't yet have any posting rights. So for this week I want to
thank you all for your reviews, and I hope that this won't keep you
from reviewing. Next week I hope I will be able to give you a link to
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