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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
Sixty-Six: Defending their friends

They
had gone to the cinema with some of their friends: some fellow
dancers, to be exact, among them the guy from Earth Country and his
husband. Sasuke and Naruto had watched various movies on DVD by now,
mostly gay romantic comedies and action flics. There were gay action
flics too, but compared to the mainstream ones they were looked as if
the producers lacked money, resulting in special effects that were
all too easy to see through, so they stuck to the mainstream ones.

The
movie they had been invited to was also an action flic, and a
mainstream one, but their friends explained to them that the good
looks of the lead actor almost made it a gay movie. Being still young
and considering each other sufficiently handsome Sasuke and Naruto
did not care much about the looks of the actor. They were looking
forward to the action, but also to the cinema itself as neither of
them had ever been to any cinema before. Even Jiraiya had not cared
to take Naruto to the movies in one of the capitals of the ninja
countries they had been to, but had rather gone to some R-rated
movies by himself and told Naruto to train in the hotel. (He had been
a great teacher during the day, however.)

They
took in everything: the red curtains, the darkness, the popcorn and
the trailers before the movie started. They allowed themselves to be
overwhelmed by the music that surrounded them and by the pictures
that spread over their whole field of vision. Soon they were captured
by the movie's plot, more than ever when they had been watching a
DVD. It was about an attempted assault against an evil dictator in
some foreign country, and it was more realistic than any movie they
had ever watched before. They soon stopped participating in their
friends' jokes, Naruto snuggled to Sasuke and held his hands, while
Sasuke in his turn stiffened and pressed Naruto's hands so hard that
it hurt. When the assault failed and the conspirators got executed it
was Naruto who pressed Sasuke against himself and began kissing his
cheeks and his neck.

Their
friends had to remind them to leave the cinema, yet luckily they soon
realized that jokes about no longer being fourteen and no longer
needing the cinema as a safe space to make out were not appropriate:
both boys were too much affected by the movie. They left them alone
on their way home, discussing whether the actor looked as good as he
had ten or twenty years ago, and their chatter provided a comforting
background for the boys' darker thoughts, reassuring them that they
were safely in Music Town and neither in Konoha nor the evil place of
the movie. Yet they also knew that they did not belong to Music Town
and that they would not stay forever.

They
did not pay much attention to their surroundings. Neither did they
notice that they were walking through an area of town they hardly
knew. They also walked with their arms around each other's hips and
shoulders, not noticing that their friends avoided showing any signs
of affection and did not even hold hands. Finally one of their
friends warned them.

“You
should be careful here. It's a dangerous quarter for gay people.”

Naruto
stared at him blankly: “What do you mean dangerous?”

“People
have been beaten up here.”

“Not
us”, Naruto replied.

The
man sought for a reply, and an explanation why the boys' behaviour
was still not advisable, but while he was searching for words the
danger he had spoken of had already arrived in the form of a group of
young men blocking the way, both more numerous and more muscular than
their own group. Sasuke's and Naruto's friends were already
retreating, but unlike the football fans of the opposing team they
had almost got into a row with some time ago these young men would
not retreat in their turn: They were not content with some
provocations, they were looking for a real fight, or rather an easy
victory over what they considered weak opponents.

Both
boys sensed it, and they also sensed that to retreat further was a
mistake. They let go of each other to be better able to fight but
Naruto kept holding Sasuke's hand in his left hand. Sasuke was
left-handed, he remembered – it was quite convenient now.

They
looked at each other and smiled. It had been a long time since they
had last fought side by side.

Naruto
took off his jacket and passed it to one of their friends. He knew he
looked impressive.

“Spent
too much time in the gym”, one of the young men said. “But
that's not where you gain real muscles. Real muscles come from
fighting.”

For
a second Naruto was confused, then he got a grip on himself again:
“Certainly”, he said. “And now, if you will please
let us pass. We don't have all night to stay.”

He
proceeded, still holding Sasuke's hand. For a split second a gap
opened in the line of young men, an automatic reaction to Naruto's
determination, then it closed again. When they finally clashed
everything went very quickly: Sasuke placed a genjutsu on one of the
men, the other were defeated with taijutsu. They took care not to hit
any vital points, or cause any serious injuries, just take them out
so that they were no longer able to fight. Most of their opponents
gave up when they saw that they were facing capable fighters.

“You're
really ninja”, one of their friends said.

“I
told you so”, Naruto answered.

“They
did not think that gay men are able to strike back”, another of
their group said. “Must have been a new experience.”

The
husband of the guy from Earth Country was missing, but now he
returned with two policewomen in tow, just when the men who had
attacked them were gettng back to their feet.

“Now,
what happened?” the policewomen asked.

“They
provoked us, and then they attacked us”, the man who had spoken
to Naruto said.

The
policewoman raised her eyebrows, but she proceeded to ask the young
men for details, while she took a pencil and a notebook from her
pockets.

The
other woman turned to the group of gay men.

“Now
you tell me your version of events”, she said.

One
of the men explained how the group of young men had blocked the way
and then threatened to attack them.

“The
two boys fought them off”, they said.

“They
alone?”

“They
are highly skilled at martial arts.”

“Is
that true?”

Naruto
nodded and she wrote it down and then went to her colleague to
compare notes.

“You
are accused of using weapons, and unfair tricks”, she said when
she returned.

“We
did not. We don't need weapons to defeat a bunch of men who never had
any proper training.”

She
wrote down Naruto's answer. “So they blocked the way and you
proceeded anyway to force your passage?”

“We
were defending our friends”, Naruto said, finally understanding
that he was being interrogated. “There's nothing wrong with
this, is there?”

“Self-defense
is okay”, the woman answered. “But it needs to be in
proportion, and we need to make sure that you really only defended
yourselves and your friends.”

“They
attacked us, not the other way round. Why don't you question them?”

“We
did, and their version differs from yours. Yours is more coherent,
though. Now we have to test you for alcohol.”

“I'm
not drunk! I haven't drunk anything! You should be able to see this!”

“We
have to test everyone”, the woman insisted. She took out a
decice people had to blow into. She begun with the other men to make
it easier for Naruto. The men seemed rather bored, but they did not
protest. A few of them had drunk quite a lot, but there was no law
against drinking. It took credibility from their testimony, however.

“You
better give in”, the guy from Earth Country said.

“But
why?” Naruto asked. “I haven't done anything wrong, have
I?”

“It's
the rules”, the man insisted.

Naruto
gave in, knowing that he did not have any choice. Sasuke did not show
his indignation openly, but he, too, felt humiliated when he had to
blow into the testing device. It showed correctly that neither Naruto
nor he had drunk anything.

Sasuke
was fascinated by what was going on, to the point that he forgot that
he himself was involved in the conflict and not just an observer. He
watched how the men who had attacked them, all of them strong and
heavy and confident of their fighting skills, were obeying the orders
of a woman without offering any attempt of resistance, not counting
that they kept talking and trying to convince her of their version of
events. Sasuke tried his Sharingan on her to see whether she was
using a special trick, but the only one he could detect was that she
was shutting out the men's words in order not to get influenced by
them. The men kept talking even when they were made to lift their
arms so that she could search them for weapons.

“Is
that not a bit indecent?” Sasuke asked her colleague, who was
standing next to him, watching with him the other policewoman.

“Would
you prefer to be searched by a man?” she asked.

He
hesitated for a moment. “Yes, I would.”

The
policewoman who had done the searching came over with a collection of
knives. She gave them to her colleague and went over to Naruto to
search him. He looked shocked, but he obeyed and lifted his arms. “My
friend also prefers to be searched by a man”, Sasuke said.

The
policewoman stopped her activity and looked questioningly at Naruto.
His face was without any expression, except some surprise and
annoyance at Sasuke who had again spoken on his behalf. She let go
off him and joined her colleague.

“I
don't want to be searched at all”, Naruto said. “I don't
have any weapons. I don't need them.”

“You
were accused of using weapons”, the woman said. “So we
have to check you.”

“Why
don't you understand that it was them who attacked us, and not the
other way around?”, Naruto asked.

“We
understand that this is your version of events. But we have to find
out what really happened. You'll come with us to the police-station
so that one of our male colleagues may search you. Both of you.”

Only
now Sasuke fully realized that the question whether he would prefer
to be searched by a man had not been purely theoretical. Just like
Naruto he felt humiliated and feared the procedure, even though he
knew that he did not have any weapon with him. At the same time he
was curious to see a policeman as so far he had only met female
members of the police of Music Town.

Both
the guy from Earth Country and his husband were in shock. “We'll
accompany them”, the latter said. “They're staying with
us as our guests. They are not from Music Town and don't know about
our customs.”

“Well,
certainly in Konoha we don't know of any custom that the police
arrests you for defending your friends”, Naruto said.

“This
is because there hasn't been any police in Konoha after my family got
murdered”, Sasuke replied.

The
two women looked confused, but they did not answer. They went around
taking down names including those of a few witnesses who had watched
the scene from their windows and then come down to testify. Everyone
except Naruto and Sasuke was now free to go home, only the guy from
Earth Country and his husband stayed voluntarily.

“Why
don't you arrest the men who attacked us, instead of bothering us?”
Naruto asked.

“We've
taken down their names and addresses, that's enough”, the women
replied, quite annoyed by now. “And we haven't arrested you
either. If you agree ot have one of us search you for weapons you can
go home too.”

“And
what about my friend?”

“He'd
still have to come with us, as he prefers to be searched by a man.”

“I
won't forsake my friend”, Naruto said.

The
women shrugged, and they all set off to the police-station, where a
middle-aged man without uniform was sitting behind a desk waiting for
his colleagues.

“How
did it go?” he asked them.

The
women told him, and he chuckled. “You beat them”, he
said. “I guess it was a nasty surprise. They'll think twice now
before they again attack a group of gay men.”

Naruto
smiled, for the first time since the arrival of the policewomen at
the site of the fight.

“The
young men insist that it should be a man who searches them for
weapons”, the woman said.

“But
you believe us!” Naruto protested. “So why do you have to
search us?”

“It's a formality, but we have to do
it in order to confirm your version of events”, the man said,
standing up and coming to them from behind his desk. “Come on.
Have you never been checked for weapons when you went to a disco?”

“What's
a disco?” Naruto asked.

“The
boys aren't from here”, the husband of the guy from Earth
Country explained. “A disco is a place for dancing and drinking
and hooking up with girls. Some people have tried to open one
specifically for gay men but it hasn't been successful. Most people
prefer parties organized by the community.”

“People
take weapons with them when they go dancing?”

“Some
do. It's not allowed, though. That's why they're searched.”

“Now
let's get it over with”, the man said.

It
was embarrassing, but it was over in a few seconds, with the expected
result. They sat down and were invited to a cup of coffee.

“They'll
be put to trial, and then they'll get punished”, one of the
women answered. “It won't be too harsh, however, as no one got
hurt. Maybe they'll be ordered to buy a bouquet of flowers and
apologize to you, and thank you that by defending yourselves you
prevented them from injuring anyone, which would have led to a
harsher indictment.”

“Maybe
they'll have to do some hours of communal work”, the other
woman added. “Probably at the gay community center. Those who
join such a clique only in order to appear cool often change their
mind when they actually talk to some gay people. It does not work of
course with those who are convinced that beating up gay people is a
moral action.”

“You
place people who hate gays and beat them up in a gay community
center?” Naruto said, shocked. “What if they start
fights?”

“They
won't. They don't attack if they're outnumbered. Don't worry: People
at the community center are used to dealing with them.”

“We'll
also contact victims of former assaults, where the attackers could
not be identified”, the male officer said. “Maybe they
will recognize one of the men who attacked you. Then they'll get
convicted for these crimes, too.”

Sasuke
nodded, as the last point made sense to him. The rest did not: he
found the town's way of dealing with criminals very weird. He
wondered whether they would also have ordered Itachi to buy him a
bunch of flowers and apologize. But so far everyone he had talked to
had been shocked when they had heard that his clan had been murdered.
Maybe they did not have any really serious crimes in Music Town,
Sasuke mused, only crimes that could be dealt with by telling people
to buy flowers and apologize.

“May
I ask you a question?” he asked the male officer.

“Go
ahead!”

“Are
there more men at the police? Except you I've only seen women.”

“Really?
That must have been a coincidence. It's a bit less than fifty percent
men now. It used to be almost only men, but the job has been getting
more and more popular with women.”

“Then
why do you send them out to fight while you remain behind your desk?”

“Why
should it be only men who do the dirty and dangerous jobs, for the
same payment as the women?” the policeman asked back. “Actually
we have discovered that women are quite good at dealing with
potentially violent situations. A lot of men have a natural
inhibition that prevents them from fighting women, so women have a
higher chance of resolving the situation in a non-violent way.”

Sasuke
understood this as he shared this inhibition.

“If
it comes to any real fighting they still need us of course”,
the man continued.

Both
women protested. “We can fight, too”, they said. “We've
been trained at martial arts as well.”

Sasuke
still doubted that they would have defeated their attackers if there
had been any real fighting.

“So
there's no need to fight off the aggressors yourselves. Rather call
the police”, the women said.

“But
how?” Naruto asked. “You would not have been there in
time.”

“There's
a system of emergency buttons. We receive the signal and rush to the
place it came from. Your friends will explain it to you. There's
really no need to act he hero.”

Naruto
looked stupefied.

“I
pressed one of these buttons”, the husband of the guy from
Earth Country explained. “This is how we deal with emergencies
here.”

“So
it's wrong here to defend one's friends”, Naruto said.

“Self-defense
is okay, but it's wiser if you refrain from fighting and call the
police. Withdraw to the next emergency button and engage the
offenders in talking. Only fight if it's absolutely unavoidable in
order to avert damage from yourselves or your friends. It's less
heroic, but it's safer and more effective.”

Naruto
looked as if he still had difficulties to accept it.

“We'll
show them the system”, the guy from Earth Country said. “But
now we have to go home, I think.”

“We
just need your names, in case we need to contact you again.”

Sasuke
considered putting a genjutsu on her: just a small, painless one that
would make her think that he and Naruto had already shown her their
documents. It would not work, he realized, as he had no idea what
official documents of Music Town looked like.

“Here's
my ID”, the guy from Earth Country said. His husband showed
his, too. “As we said, the boys are not from here, and they are
our guests. They don't have their documents with them.”

“You
already told us: They are from Konoha”, one of the women said.
“How long do you intend to stay?”

She
looked at the boys, but it was the guy from Earth Country who
answered. “They don't know yet. Things don't look good in
Konoha these days.”

“They
are lucky they got out”, the woman agreed. “We would
appreciate it if you stayed at least until the case is solved.”

“But
it is solved, isn't it?” Naruto said. “They attacked us.”

“It's
not up to us to decide this”, the woman said. “And we may
need you as witnesses. So have a nice stay here in Music Town!”

“Yes,
thanks”, the guy from Earth Country said, standing up and
urging Naruto to stand up, too. His husband did the same with Sasuke.
“We wish you a nice evening, or rather that in the second half
of the night things stay calmer than in the first half.”

“Ah,
never mind, it's easier not to fall asleep when something happens.
Good night!”

Both
men now gently pushed the boys out of the police station. There the
guy from Earth Country took a deep breath.

A/N:
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