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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
Seventy-Three: Little Ninja

The
child's parents arrived but they did not reclaim him, seeing that he
was happy on Sasuke's knees. (They were actually glad that they could
have a cup of coffee without having to look after their baby.)

“He's
really a bright guy”, Sasuke said, feeling obliged to give some
compliments to the parents. “All attentive and registering
everything. When he grows up you'll be proud of him.”

“Thanks”,
the child's mother answered.

“Your
brother showed me a picture of the child taken right after his
birth”, Sasuke continued. “He's grown a lot since then.”

“Well,
that's normal for children during the first months of their life”,
the mother answered, sounding a bit irritated.

“And
he's grown strong.”

The
child was again holding some spoon. When Sasuke tried to take it out
of his hands the child did not let go, and Sasuke pretended that he
was not able to take it from him.

“And
he's very cute. On the picture he looked just crumpled and tiny.”

“You
think so?” the child's father asked.

“Yes.”

“Just
wait till you have kids of your own. Then you'll change your mind.”

“My
kids will be cute and strong and intelligent from the beginning”,
Sasuke replied.

Naruto
wondered. Sasuke was gay, wasn't he? He was with him. Did he plan to
leave him for this or that woman? Not now, it seemed: Sasuke took his
hand and laid it on his thigh, making clear who he belonged to, then
he caressed the child again.

The
child's parents took each other's hands too.

“They
will be very cute. I promise you”, the child's father said.

Naruto
understood that he was making fun of Sasuke. Sasuke felt it too, he
was irritated, and the child stopped smiling and got restless.

“You'll
understand when you have kids of your own”, the child's mother
said. “When the child is laid into your arms and is all tiny
and helpless and needs your care and protection your heart will just
open and realize he or she is extremely cute.”

Sasuke
did not look as if he was convinced, but he caressed the little boy
again and slung his free arm around Naruto. He had felt that Naruto
had stiffened, that the woman's words had hurt him, reminding him of
how he had been deserted after his birth and after his parents'
death, and how no one's heart had opened to him even though he must
have been a cute and helpless child too. Naruto leant against him and
slowly he relaxed, and the little boy on Sasuke's knees relaxed too.
It would all be fine, Sasuke thought, caressing Naruto.

The
guy from Earth Country and his husband got up to buy something to
eat, not only for themselves but also for Sasuke and Naruto. “As
you can't get up at the moment”, they said and put a bowl of
French Fries in front of them. The little boy managed to grab one of
the Fries and nibble off a tiny bit, even though he had only one
tooth. His mother was not amused.

“It's
not healthy”, she told Sasuke off. “Try to be more
careful next time!”

Sasuke
tried to take the French Fry out of the boy's hands, but the boy held
it fast and Sasuke did not dare to force his hand open in fear of
hurting him.

“No
wonder he likes you”, the child's father said. “His
mother would not allow this.”

Sasuke
pulled the boy back so that he was now sitting on his lap, leaning
against his belly, licking the salt off the French Fry he had secured
for himself. One arm Sasuke laid around the child, preventing him
from taking another French Fry, with the other hand he caressed
Naruto's back. Naruto saw that like this the French Fries were not
only out of the baby's but also out of Sasuke's reach and began to
feed him. The child watched him curiously and Sasuke turned him
around so that he might have a better look. A few times he tried to
get one of the Fries Sasuke was being fed, but thinking of the
child's mother's admonitions Naruto refused to give him anything. He
discovered however that it was very easy to trick the child: Take the
French Fry he already had out of his hand and then give it back,
pretending it was a new one.

When
they had finished eating (and the boy had eaten half of his French
Fry too and dropped the other half to the ground) Sasuke began to
play some games with him, saying nursery rhymes complete with the
movements that went with the words – touching the child's
fingers or toes one by one, or walking up the boy's arms with his
fingers and then tickling his ears, or rocking him on his knees.

The
grown-ups were busy talking, exchanging news and gossip, content that
they could do this without having to worry about the child. After
some time they got aware of what Sasuke was doing.

“You
still know all the traditional stuff!” the child's mother
exclaimed. “I have to buy books to learn the old rhymes, and I
always feel insecure about the movements. It's just not the same as
learning them as a little child from your own mother.”

Sasuke
got serious again. It showed more in the baby's face than his own.

“I
don't remember my mother telling these verses to me”, he said.
“But I had a little cousin, and when her family visited us I
listened to my aunt and my mother tell her all these verses, and I
was allowed to hold her too and play these games with her too.”

He
paused before he went on: the memory was painful and he had to search
for words. “She was just as cute as your child”, he said.
“She had just learnt to walk when she got killed.”

The
baby's parents looked shocked.

“It
must have been horrible for the family”, the mother said. “You
do everything to protect her, and still there's some accidents you
cannot prevent.”

Sasuke
realized his mistake: not all of his listeners already knew of his
story.

“It
wasn't an accident”, he explained. “The government of
Konoha had ordered the murder of my whole clan.” He did not
want to tell that it had been his brother who had carried out the
order.

“The
whole clan?” the woman exclaimed. “But not the children,
did they?”

By
now Sasuke had grown used to the shocked silence that followed when
he told his story. He had come to enjoy it actually: It made clear to
him that people here thought such an event abhorrent and quite out of
the ordinary.

“But
you managed to escape”, the child's mother finally said.

“I
was spared, yes.”

“It
must have been horrible.”

“It
was.”

There
was another silence, then Sasuke went on: “People tell me that
I might be happy again as I have found new people” he said.
“But they cannot replace the people who got murdered.”

“Of
course no one can be replaced”, the baby's uncle said. “You
misunderstand us if you think we ask you to forget about your own
family because you have found new people.”

Sasuke
felt irritated. He had thought of Kakashi, and forgotten that people
here had actually never suggested that he should stop mourning for
his family. Just that they did not actually approve of his plan for
revenge either.

“Your
child is cute, and I like him, but my cousin was cute too, and she
was also enjoying life. I can find new people and try to be happy
with them, but this won't undo what happened, and it won't bring back
my clan to life.”

“No,
it won't”, the child's uncle said.

This
time the silence lasted for longer than a minute, then the baby began
to cry. Sasuke tried to comfort him by caressing him and rocking him
on his knee, but in the end his father took the boy and cradled him
in his arms.

“I'm
sorry”, Sasuke said. “It was not my intention to make him
cry.”

“It's
okay”, the child's mother said. “He'll get over it.”

For
half a second she laid her free hand on Sasuke's. He leant against
Naruto, feeling exhausted and a bit annoyed with himself. He had not
planned to tell his story, or talk about his cousin. He had wanted to
enjoy the afternoon with Naruto, with his friends and with the little
boy. But then the abyss had opened again.

They
saw it too, he thought. They were silent because no words could
bridge it, or make it disappear. Now they were making a fuzz about
the baby, talking to him and caressing him, but also playing with him
in order to distract him. The child's father lifted him high over his
head and then smiled at him from below, then he lowered him again,
threw him into the air and caught him. The child laughed.

The
child's uncle and his husband, the guy from Earth Country, joined
him, and they took turns in throwing the baby into the air and
catching him. Sasuke got up.

“The
men of my family did this too”, he said. “But I was
considered too young and too weak.”

The
other men passed him the baby. “Now you're a big boy”,
they said, and Sasuke swung the child up and down, saying “Little
ninja fly – fly – fly” and with the last “fly”
he tossed the child high up into the air and caught it again.

Both
Naruto and the child's mother watched anxiously while the rest of the
men began a contest about who'd throw the child highest up into the
air. The child seemed to have a great time, squeeing with joy, still
after some time the mother decided to break off the game.

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