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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-Four: Different values

As
Naruto did not show any intention of answering Sakura's letter Sasuke
finally took the initiative himself. He sat down at the table, took
up a sheet of paper and a pencil, wrote “dear Sakura” and
then, in order not to chew on the pencil (he hated it when Naruto did
this) he began to draw a row of Uchiha symbols on the margin of the
paper, wondering how to begin. Finally he found an opening sentence:

Please
don't worry about Naruto or myself: I am certain that I was gay
before I came to Music Town. It's only that in Music Town I found a
name for it, and a way to be gay in a respectable manner. Also please
stop harassing Naruto. It's definitely not his fault that I turned
gay...

He
hesitated as this was not the whole truth.

...safe
that he can't help being Naruto with his warm smile and his eyes full
of love.

Sexual
mores are indeed more relaxed in Music Town. People here have sex
just for fun, sometimes even without being in love. It's considered
completely normal here. You don't have to be concerned about Naruto
or myself, however: we only have sex with each other.

He
had met some people who sought themselves a new partner every
Saturday. They were quite nice actually, once he had made clear to
them that he was taken. He had asked them why they did not try to
find someone to fall in love with for longer, and they had told him
that they loved change and enjoyed having fun without fetters. Bonds,
he had thought, and for some seconds he had considered their way of
life, but when he had asked them who they slept with on Tuesdays they
had been silent, and he had been glad again that he was with Naruto.
He continued his letter:

I
don't see their point, however: Naruto and I have some sex every
morning, and some kissing and cuddling every evening, not on on
Saturday nights.

Otherwise
it's quite fascinating to explore the different values of people in
Music Town. The differences don't only concern sex, but war too. For
example, people here believe that the worst thing that can happen to
a boy or young man is that he dies in war before he has ever had sex,
and they make songs that deplore the fate of such unhappy young men.

He
remembered how his own thoughts had run along similar lines once he
had discovered that in Music Town homosexuality was considered just
as respectable as heterosexuality: Dance with Naruto and then die
after avenging his clan. Make out with Naruto and then die after
avenging his clan. Have sex with Naruto and then die after avenging
his clan. Now they were practising forms of sex he had never dared to
dream of, and it was more real and more wonderful than any of his
dreams. He still needed to learn how it was to be the active partner
before he died, he thought, but somehow he suspected that even then
he would not be ready to accept death easily.

He
thought of Itachi who had been turned into the instrument of Konoha's
hatred against his clan when he had still been too young even to
consider having sex and who had then been forced to spend the rest of
his life as a spy against Aktasuki. He had known so little about
life.

Yet
even though people's values here differ from those in Konoha they are
still friendly and helpful and ready to stand up for their friends.
They only do it in different ways, that is not through fighting,
which is against their rules. They have a lot of rules and it's not
easy to get used to them, or even to make sense of them. For example
there's houses full of books that give free information to everyone,
on the condition that you disclose your identity. Yet they fail
completely when it comes to enforcing this rule: it's quite simple to
by-pass it by reading the books at their place instead of taking them
home, and also, Naruto and I have convinced a friend of us to borrow
the books for us in her name.

I
wonder how they may be so generous as the information they provide is
amazing. One example: Did you know that the Second Ninja World War
was begun by Danzou? Amegakure is small but of high strategic value,
and he considered it necessary to conquer it in order to prevent
other countries from beating him to it. He did it without the consent
of the Sandaime, who approved of the attack only after it had turned
out successful. The book said that he had little choice as the
population of Konoha was cheering for Danzou at the time. Only that
the war as a whole was not a success but ended in some kind of draw
with all participating countries being laid waste.

Naruto
keeps telling me that my ignorance is a consequence of leaving Konoha
when I was still too young to understand about history, but when I
ask him he doesn't know anything either. He's now doing research on
the origins of ninjutsu.

He
thought again: Naruto had been travelling with Jiraiya, who had
trained him as a ninja and inspired his dreams of peace, but who had
obviously not taught him much about the history of the ninja
countries. He had not even known about Nagato before he had met him.

Maybe
you know more as you stayed in Konoha and had the opportunity to gain
more of a formal education. But I guess that even you would be
overwhelmed by the hoard of knowledge that's available in Music Town,
not only on Konoha and the other ninja countries but also on the
outside world beyond them. They have newspapers from these places,
books on their history and about their political ideas. Naruto is
looking for a book on comparative religious studies he is able to
understand. A lot of stuff is difficult for me to understand too,
sometimes for the simple reason that it's in a foreign
language. People here are able to read foreign languages. They make
me and Naruto feel that we are very ignorant, having learnt nothing
but fighting. They don't blame us, however: it's rather the system of
Konoha that's responsible. We are literally cut off from the world
there. People make us also feel that our ignorance make us easy
victims of manipulation who may be turned into tools by anyone. We
tell them of course that we are no one's tool and that we left Konoha
in order not to become tools.

He
had to admit however that people had a point. Itachi had been turned
into a tool because he had been too young and ignorant to understand
that Danzou and the Elders were betraying him. Itachi had also tried
to manipulate him, Sasuke, into killing Naruto, using his pain about
the family's massacre as Itachi's pain about war had been used by
Danzou. He had understood in time that what he had been about to do
was not right – Itachi had not.

Maybe
it was not a matter of youth or ignorance at all, he thought.

People
here think that you should be off age before you become a fighter.
Having sex when you are still underage is considered okay here,
however. As I said, values are different in Music Town.

The
weird thing is that actually the grown-ups here don't fight either,
except about football. That's a game Music Town has imported from the
outside world, and people are very passionate about it. Naruto is
passionate about it, too. He'll explain it to you.

The
most astonishing thing is that actually fighting is considered a
childish activity here. The difference to Konoha is that the
grown-ups don't employ children as fighters. Instead of teaching them
to fight, as people in Konoha do, they rather teach them not to
fight. Naruto and myself are expected not to fight either, which is
something we have to get used to.

You
see: We're doing fine and we learn a lot of things. I include a few
photos that were taken of us on one of the festivals in this town.
The child is not ours, however, but belongs to some friends.

Warm
regards, Sasuke.

He
and Naruto had not realized at the time that they were being
photographed, but they had both liked the pictures when they were
presented to them. One picture showed them kissing with the child
watching them, the other showed them both playing with the kid while
it was sitting on Sasuke's lap. Sasuke had asked for some extra
copies to send them to Sakura. She should understand now that he and
Naruto were really together...

Naruto
also wrote some lines, seeing that Sasuke had already written a long
letter. He added them at the bottom of what Sasuke had written:

Dear
Sakura!

I
have definitely not turned Sasuke gay. He behaved strangely from the
moment he arrived in Music Town. If he had not fallen in love with me
he'd now be having sex with some local guy and would never return to
Konoha. So I am actually doing you a favour.

I
include two copies of the Gutsy Ninja, one for you and one for
Kakashi. I fear he will be disappointed as it contains hardly any
porn, but for me it's the most important book Jiraiya has ever
written. He wrote it from his heart, and he also wrote it in memory
of Nagato, who first inspired his dream of peace, which has now
become my greatest dream too.

Love,
Naruto.

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