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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
Fifty-Nine: Sasuke fails again at dealing with the locals

They
decided to leave and to read the books they had chosen at home.
Naruto had to remind Sasuke that they needed to register the books,
and Sasuke was astonished that it was possible to rent the books for
free. They were told, however, that they needed a library card, so
that after standing in queue for a while they had to wait again,
though this time for much shorter.

“Do
you have your ID with you?” the woman behind the counter asked
them.

“No”,
Sasuke answered. He had no idea what an ID might be, but he was
certain that he did not have one.

“Or
some other official document proving your identity?”

Sasuke
got nervous: “You want me to disclose my identity before you
allow me to borrow some books?”

“Well,
we need your address in case you don't return the books.”

“You
want me to tell you my abode too?”

“Yes,
we do.”

Sasuke
was thinking, searching for a solution. Naruto wondered too:
Borrowing a movie had been much easier.

“What
if I give you my address and keep my name secret?” Sasuke
suggested. “Or if I give you some deposit as security for the
book?”

The
woman looked weirder and weirder. “There isn't any problem, is
there?” she asked.

“No”,
Sasuke answered. He considered using a genjutsu on her, but he
decided against it.

“Are
you eighteen yet?”

“No”,
he answered, this time honestly.

“Then
you will also need your parents' signature. I can give you the form:
just fill it out and have your parents sign it, and then return with
your ID. Shall I reserve the books for you so that no one can borrow
them until you return?”

“It's
not necessary, thanks”, Sasuke answered, knowing he would not
return.

“It's
no problem, really.”

“No,
thanks.”

He
turned around and left, feeling very embarrassed now. Naruto
followed, taking his arm. He knew that Sasuke did not cope well with
a defeat as this one, all the more as it was definite: They did not
have any ID. Few people knew their true identity at all, Naruto
thought: The publishers of Icha-Icha did, of course, but they had no
idea about Sasuke. The people at the restaurant, Juugo's
fostermothers and their fellow dancers only knew their given names,
except that they had now disclosed their identities to the husband of
the guy from Earth Country: But he was their friend, wasn't he? He
would not betray them?

At their next training session Naruto
told him of his worries, and the man assured him that he would not
betray them. He laughed, however, when he heard the story of their
adventures at the library.

“Seriously,
get officially accepted as refugees, then you'll get documents and
may acquire a library card, too”, he told them. “Life is
much easier if you don't have to hide your identity.”

The
boys did not even discuss the question. Both knew that revealing who
they were was too dangerous. Instead they asked Karin, who was
already a naturalized citizen of Music Town to borrow for them the
books they wanted to read.

They
had become very close these days, spending most of their time
together: Either working or in bed, or dancing or hanging out
together on the lawns of Music Town. Reading meant that they spent
time by themselves, taking an interest in something the other did not
care about, even if they sat side by side, cuddled against each
other, or lay back to back in bed. It was weird, and Naruto had to
get used to being on his own while he was reading the Tales of the
Rikudou.

It
was not completely true that they did not take any interest in the
other's reading matter. Sasuke was curious about ninshuu and the
Rikudou Sennin, both because he was a ninja himself and wanted to
learn about the origins of ninjutsu and because he was curious about
the Rikudou's idea of peace. He wanted to know whether the Rikudou's
position had been that peace should be extended even to people as
Danzou. After several months in Music Town he no longer needed his
hatred to feel alive, and he rarely thought of Danzou, but if he
thought of him the idea that he should be allowed to live in peace in
spite of his crimes almost caused him physical pain.

Naruto,
on the other hand, was very curious about the book on the history of
Konoha Sasuke was reading, but he would never admit that his
knowledge of the history of his village was very fragmented and that
he needed to learn more. In the meantime he enjoyed the stories about
the Rikudou: Overcoming monsters and demons, stopping fights between
ordinary people and telling them to resolve their conflicts and
become friends.

He
was wasting his time in Music Town, he thought, he should go and
change the world instead. Sasuke loved him, Sasuke needed him, still
making love to Sasuke could not be the purpose of his life. There was
of course his promise that they would return to Konoha and make
Danzou pay for his crimes, but even though he had been shocked when
Sasuke had told him that Danzou was ultimately responsible for his
family's death and even though he truly hated the way Danzou ruled
Konoha Naruto was not very passionate about returning and making
Danzou pay: It seemed such a small dream compared to his greatest
ambition, creating peace. When he read the Tales of the Rikudou he
dreamt of the kind of peace that even included Danzou. (He did not
tell Sasuke though.)

He
turned the page to read the next story, which was about how the
Rikudou created the moon. Even the picture on the first page was
disturbing: a creature with ten tails and only one eye. Naruto had
always believed that the kyuubi within him was the demon with the
highest number of tails, and the idea that there was another, worse
demon, was creepy.

He
began to read:

How
the Rikudou created the Moon

The
most evil demon the Rikudou ever fought was the Juubi. It lived in a
small province that's since been divided between Wind Country and
Fire Country, right at the heart of hte ninja countries. When it beat
its tails it caused earth quakes and when it shook its fur spars fell
over the country and set it in flames, and its breath itself spread
pestilence. People lived in terror of it, yet the rumour went that
they had created it themselves, engaging in war all the time,
everyone only fighting for himself. Their greed, their hatred and
their lust for power had fed the demon's chakra and even when they
were suffering under its threat they did not change their ways but
remained selfish, only building shelter for themselves and glad when
the juubi went for their neighbours.

Still
when news reached them that a holy man had appeared who was able to
do miracles they agreed to send for him and ask him to fight the
juubi.

The
Rikudou came when he heard their call and set out to meet the demon.
The Juubi, sensing that there was a new power challenging its
domination of an area he considered as its own, sought him in his
turn and met him half way, and when it perceived the power and the
holiness of the Rikudou's eye it got angry and beat its tails and
shook its fur, making the earth tremble and the trees catch fire, but
the Rikudou stood his ground: He did not waver, nor did he fight to
defend himself. He simply held fast to his staff, waiting until the
earth quake and the fire had died down.

“I
know who you are”, he said when the Juubi took a break. “I
know what you are. You are not a demon, you are just the essence of
people's hatred that has grown so huge that it gained solid form. You
are nothing, neither beast nor human being. You are not even an
assemblage of hatred, because hatred is nothing but the absence of
love. You're less than nothing.”

The
Juubi roared in despair for it knew that the Rikudou's words were
true, but the Rikudou stood firm, knowing that the Juubi was less
than nothing and thus could not hurt him, and when the Juubi attacked
he absorbed its chakra. Seven times the Juubi struck, and seven times
the Rikudou did not strike back, nor did he defend himself. He
incorporated the Juubi's chakra which was nothing but the solidified
hatred of mankind. With the seventh attack the Juubi's chakra was
spent, and it died.

The
people of the area had watched the fight and when they saw that the
Juubi had fallen they approached the giant corpse, poking at it with
sticks, then getting bolder and climbing on top of it, or mutilating
it and decorating it with a pair of horns to make clear that it was
truly a demon.

The
Rikudou watched them, and soon he got angry: The Juubi had been a
valiant opponent, after all, and deserved to be respected in death,
not to be dishonoured. So he took the stones the Juubi had created
with the strikes of its tail and made them move and hover and form a
giant ball around the Juubi's body and transferred it to the sky
where you can now see it as the moon. The people who watched,
however, he told: “This was the juubi, created from the
emanations of your own hatred. You were right to fear it and to call
me to defeat him, but you were wrong to despise him and to defile his
body. You only despise yourselves, your own feelings of hatred and
your own acts of destruction that gave birth to the Juubi. Rather
than triumph over him you should feel ashamed of creating it. Yet I
won't blame you, nor punish you for the mischief you brought upon
mankind: The devastation of your fields and villages, the death of
countless of your friends and relatives will be punishment enough.
Just remember the Juubi and remember that he was created by your own
hatred whenever you look at the sky and perceive the moon.”

The
listeners took his words to their hearts and ceased to indulge in
hatred but learnt to live in peace with their neighbours, and
whenever they got angry or impatient they looked at the moon and
remembered the results of their violence, and thus decided to choose
another way. The Rikudou, however, moved on, with the chakra of the
Juubi, which was pure hatred, enclosed within him.

So
this was the first time that the Rikudou fought not against an
ordinary enemy, be it beast or demon or human being, but against the
hatred of people itself, having to incorporate it and thus hastening
the end of his days in this world.

Naruto
shivered when he had read the story. He could not help thinking that
the kyuubi probably consisted of pure hatred too . What had been
sealed into him at an age when he had been far too young to be asked
for permission? A creature that was himself, feelings that were not
his own. In spite of his proud words to the husband of the guy from
Earth Country he suddenly felt insecure whether he was truly himself,
and not something or someone else that had been implanted into him,
while his true self was busy restraining it instead of becoming what
he might have been without the kyuubi. Also he was worried because of
the last line of the story: that the Rikudou had died prematurely
because of the Juubi.

The
seal his father, the Yondaime, had used to lock up the kyuubi was
still in place, but it might break at any time. Losing control during
sex weakened it even further. Naruto felt sad and bitter about what
had been done to him. He did his best to get his bitterness under
control and return to his usual cheerfulness but before he had
succeeded Sasuke, who was lying back to back with him, reading the
book about the history of Konoha, sat up and looked over his shoulder
– maybe he had sensed that something was wrong with Naruto. He
had a look at Naruto's book:

“Is
this the kyuubi?” he asked when he saw the picture.

“It's
the Juubi”, Naruto replied. “Count the tails!”

“I
had no idea that such a creature existed”, Sasuke continued
when he had convinced himself that the demon had ten tails. “May
I read it?”

Naruto
gave him the book.

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