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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-Seven: Advice

“So
let's go home now”, Naruto said. “Thanks for coming with
us, and sorry for taking so much of your time.”

“Never
mind”, the guy from Earth Country answered. “And you
should now come with us for a glass of wine. You're our guests, after
all.”

Naruto
looked confused. “But you only said this so that the police
would leave us alone, didn't you? We are not really your guests.”

“You
are – this evening”, the man insisted.

“It's
not necessary”, Naruto replied. “We know it's late. And
you don't have to thank us for fighting for you. It's what we're
taught in Konoha.”

“This
is not Konoha”, the man said. “And you are our guests.”

Finally
Naruto understood that there was no way of turning down the
invitation and agreed to come with them.

They
had never been at their friends's place. It was small and crowded,
but also cosy. They were invited to sit in the kitchen, and as
promised they were served some wine. Neither the guy from Earth
Country nor his husband spoke: both of them had been silent from the
moment Naruto had accepted the invitation. Only when they had all
settled down around the table the guy from Earth Country finally
spoke:

“You
should really apply for official status now.”

Naruto
shook his head. “We've told you our stories. Both of us left
Konoha without permission. Sasuke is an official rogue nin, and
listed in the bingo book of Konoha's ANBU. It's too dangerous.”

“Too
dangerous!” the local-born of the two men broke out. Both boys
realized only now how he had struggled hard to contain his anger from
the moment they had left the police-station. “Too dangerous!
You get involved in a fight, you get picked up by the police, you ask
to be taken to the police-station because you insist on being
searched for weapons by a male officer, you chat amiably with people
there – but it's too dangerous to apply for official status.
What were you thinking?”

“We
had to defend you”, Naruto said. “And we did not tell our
names.” He felt both confused and hurt.

“We've
covered up for you, if you haven't noticed”, the man continued.
“We lied for you. We may get into trouble if the police decides
to check on us to see whether you are really staying with us.”

“You
can still set it right by applying for official status now”,
the guy from Earth country said, somewhat calmer than his husband.
“The policewoman at the station expected it from you. Just do
it.”

“If
local authorities ever find out that you live and work here without
official permission and without official status you are in deep
trouble, and the restaurant you work for too. Every encounter with
the police, no matter how trivial, may lead to your expulsion.”

They
would survive it, Sasuke thought. He and his team had survived in the
wilderness for quite some time. He could live there again, this time
with Naruto, if he had too.

“They
won't dare to expel us”, Naruto said. “We are too
strong.”

“They
can do a lot of things beyond fighting. Your patroness may fire you,
and turn you out of your flat, for example.”

Both
boys imagined it.

“Just
apply! If there's something you're afraid of you may first go to one
of those initiatives that support political refugees. But as I said:
Normally being gay is enough to be accepted. If you finally have some
official documents life will be much easier for you. You can get a
library card, you can ask for better payment, as your patroness is no
longer able to blackmail you, you can consider going to school.”

“Why
should we want to go to school?” Naruto asked.

“To
learn something”, the guy from Earth Country replied. “To
get some degrees that are of some value here.”

“We
have our degrees”, Naruto replied. “We are ninja with
certificates of the ninja academy of Konoha.”

“That's
what I mean. We aren't a ninja village, so people can't legally
employ you as ninja. You'll have to learn something else, if you
don't always want to work as waiters.”

We
could found some taijutsu school, Sasuke thought.

“What's
wrong about being waiters?” Naruto asked.

“It's
not a job you want to do for your whole life.”

“Of
course not. I intend to become Hokage of Konoha.”

“Yes.
Sorry. I forgot.”

They
still did not take their plans seriously, Sasuke thought. At least
Naruto had managed to silence them. But the silence only lasted for a
short time.

“It
will take a long time until you can become Hokage. In the meantime
you should do something meaningful.”

“It
won't take a long time”, Naruto contradicted him. “I'll
see to it myself. I've promised Sasuke.”

Both
men looked at Sasuke, waiting for an explanation.

“Danzou
shall not live happily ever after until he dies from a natural
cause”, Sasuke said. “He shall be held responsible for
his crimes and learn that he cannot take out the Uchiha clan without
facing retribution.”

Listening
to his own words he realized that he had not spoken of killing
Danzou. People here put offenders to trial, he thought. He wondered
whether there were worse punishments than being forced to buy a bunch
of flowers and apologize.

“This
is why it won't do to wait for too long,” Naruto explained.
“Danzou is old. If we wait for too long he will die by
himself.”

The
men still looked confused. “You're really from some
fairy-tale”, the local-born of the two said. “A
fairy-tale where the hero has to slay some monsters before the
heroine is ready to marry him.”

Just
as in the Gutsy Ninja, Sasuke thought.

“You're
lucky that Sasuke hasn't heard about staying a virgin until
marriage”, the guy from Earth Country continued his husband's
musings. “Or has he promised you something else? Some tantric
sex with multiple cosmic orgasms? You're bound to know about it,
being ninja...”

Some
time ago Sasuke and Naruto had met Karin, who had told them about the
new seminar on tantric sex she was giving, funnily to a class that
consisted solely of women, but only one lesbian couple among them.

“He
has promised to me that he won't do anything stupid by himself”,
Naruto said.

“And
so you're now going to do something stupid together”, the guy
from Earth Country said.

There
was a silence of a few minutes.

“You
don't understand this”, Sasuke finally said, speaking very
slowly. “You don't understand how it feels when all your family
are dead and you're the only one left. You don't understand how it
feels when your whole world is destroyed and you are left in the
void. You don't understand how it feels when you and those you love
are considered free game who might be killed by anyone and you
yourself are expected to become an excellent ninja as if nothing had
happened.”

“You
don't understand that I have fled from Earth Country myself”,
the guy from Earth Country interrupted him.

Sasuke
bit his lip. He had forgotten that gay people were persecuted in some
of the ninja countries.

“I
didn't lose my whole family, however”, the man continued.

Sasuke
felt a bit softer now as he continued to speak.

“It's
unbearable to think of those who were responsible for the murder that
they are now living happily in Konoha, enjoying the fruits of their
crimes: It is as if I accepted that they were right in murdering my
family and that they would have been right if they had murdered me
too.”

“No
one says that murdering your family was okay”, the local-born
of the two men said. “But don't throw away your own life in an
attempt to take out Danzou. You are too precious for this.”

Sasuke
shook his head. “It's no longer possible to throw away my life.
My life ended when I found my parents lying dead on the floor of our
house.”

“That's
obviously not true”, the man replied. “Otherwise you
would not sit here and talk to us.”

Sasuke
was silent.

“If
you throw away your life, you confirm those who denied you the right
to live. If you insist on living you refute them”, the man
continued.

Sasuke
tried to makes sense of this logic. He wondered whether the man
thought that Danzou and his accomplices should go unpunished.

“Your
parents would have wanted you to be happy, I'm sure”, the man
concluded.

“My
parents would have wanted me to avenge them and restore the honour of
the clan”, Sasuke replied, but even while he spoke he wondered
whether this was true: His parents had expected him to become an
excellent ninja, even if he had no chance at competing with Itachi,
the genius, and else he had been expected to join the military police
of Konoha, just as the rest of the clan, to live a decent life and
perhaps found a family of his own. It had been the people who had
looked after him after the clan's murder who had told him that now it
was up to him to uphold the clan's honour.

The
man got up to get another bottle of wine and some peanuts, and in
passing, he laid his hand on Sasuke's shoulder. (Naruto watched and
managed not to get upset.)

“It's
too early to try to remove Danzou from office”, the guy from
Earth Country said. “He's still too powerful. You'd really just
throw away your lives.”

He
was looking at both of them now.

“We
are strong too”, Naruto said. “Actually we are among the
strongest ninja of our generation. We are well able to defeat
Danzou.”

“And
then?” the man asked. “Do you have any plans to take over
the government, once he's gone?”

Naruto
shook his head. He was annoyed that he was being lectured, but also
he was glad that he was confirmed in his opinion that it was
impossible to take out the ruling Hokage of Konoha without getting
punished for it. Only that this was a slightly different concern than
taking over the government of Konoha.

“I
got that you plan to take over as Hokage”, the man continued.
“But this is not enough. You need a plan to gain control over
all the relevant sections of the administration of Konoha. And you
need allies. You remember the movie? There was a whole conspiracy,
not just the man who carried out the assault. The two of you is not
enough.”

“There's
not much government in Konoha”, Sasuke answered. “Just
the Hokage and his councillors.”

“So
you plan to be a councillor?”

Sasuke
felt confused – he had never thought of it, but he was certain
that he did not want to be a councillor. Also, he had no idea how
councillors were chosen or what their competences were.

“You
see: You need more people. Also, you need a plan to convince the
population of Konoha to follow you, once you've got rid of Danzou.
Get in possession of the radio station and tell people that
everything is under your control now and that they shall remain quiet
and go on with their ordinary lives, until you will announce the
changes in the way Konoha is governed. Just like in the movie.”

“We
don't have a radio station in Konoha”, Naruto said. “We
receive our program from the capital of Fire Country.”

“A
balcony will do too. There must be some important public building
with a balcony in Konoha.”

“The
Hokage tower has one”, Naruto said.

“That's
the best option. You defeat Danzou, you go to the Hokage tower and
proclaim to the people that Danzou's regime has ended and that you
have taken over. You'll celebrate this appropriately, and else life
shall go on as usual, but without Danzou's cruel and irresponsible
orders. Would this work?”

“Probably
not”, Naruto admitted. When he had thought about what would
happen after their assault on Danzou he had thought of convincing
people not to kill them, but not of announcing himself Hokage.

“You
have to think of taking control of the military, so that they won't
attack you immediately. Which sections of the military are there?”

“Konoha
is military”, Naruto replied.

“You
need allies who are able to convince them to take your side, or at
least to remain neutral. What about the secret service?”

“ANBU?”

“You'd
have to take control of that too. Police?”

“It
was never reinstated after my family's murder”, Sasuke said.

“One
thing less to worry about. But these are the points you have to
consider if you want to remove Danzou from office and take over in
Konoha.

“But
I don't want to take over”, Naruto said. “I want people
to support me. I want to be appointed Hokage in the regular way.”

He
remembered Tsunade's inauguration: She had been appointed by the two
councillors. And Danzou had been chosen by the Daimyou. Naruto
definitely wanted neither of this.

“That's
what I say: You need the support of people. First the support of the
armed forces, then the support of the civilian population.”

“You
have to gain the support of people before you attack Danzou”,
the local-born of the two men added. “Or at least some
influential figures of the population. Otherwise you won't be able to
take over. I already told Sasuke when we spoke about the alleged
conspiracy of his clan: Such a conspiracy was impossible, as his clan
lacked support among the rest of the population.”

Naruto
considered the men's words. They made sense, all in all.

“It
won't work”, he finally said. “Nobody will support us if
we kill Danzou.”

“People
in the movie thought they could kill their country's leader and then
take over”, Sasuke remarked.

Both
men thought about it for a while.

“The
system was extremely personalized”, the local-born of the two
men said. “Also they were used to obeying to whatever authority
there was. They would have been confused to find their government
dead, and then obeyed to whoever claimed to be in charge.”

“The
same goes for Konoha”, Sasuke said. “People are taught to
obey and to follow orders. The people in the movie failed because
they assault failed, and the assault failed because the assassin was
a coward. He should have stayed to make sure that everything went
according to plan, instead of running away, making his own safety his
first priority.”

To
Sasuke's astonishment Naruto came to his aid.

“Yes,
he should have stayed”, he said. “He failed to sacrifice
himself for his country.”

Both
men were shocked. “You don't sacrifice yourselves!” the
local-born of the two said. “You apply for status as political
refugees and then stay here and learn some decent profession!”

A/N:
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