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The Canalized River	By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 944 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Spoon:
Thanks again for your
encouragement! Be patient – they will meet! :-)Concerning the perverted Sannin
you will have to read the original. :-( (I wrote the story while the
Pein-versus-Jiraya-arc was going on, so I was not sure what to make
of this fight in my own story.)

Lexjamandme:
Thanks for your comments! Actually I fear that I overdid when I wrote
the senseis as men who follow orders without thinking. (I hope that
Yamato will forgive me...) In the original they are much more
understanding.

About
Sasuke's moral compass – I think you are right that he and
Naruto share the same compass... I must now restrain myself or my
comments on his morality will get longer than the chapter itself, and
I would rather answer these questions by my story than with some dry
essay. (Also, AFF is not really a place for discussion. Maybe you can come over to my LJ, or we find another place to discuss.)

Chapter
Eight: Dreams of True Love

Finally
Naruto made up his mind to go to Kakashi and talk to him. He found
him in his room, lying on his bed, reading one of Jiraya's erotic
romances.

„What's
the matter?“ he asked when Naruto entered.

Naruto
stared at Kakashi and his book and forgot his original purpose.
„Would you lend me one of your Icha-Icha-books?“ he asked
instead.

„I
thought you did not like them.“

„I
have tried the third volume when I was thirteen. I did not like it
then, but maybe I was indeed a bit too young. I would like to give it
another try.“

„Ah,
the third volume. That would be the one where in the second chapter
the hero's love interest gets licked off by the villain and enjoys it
immensely. It was quite graphic, as I remember.“

Naruto
remembered himself: the scene had made him put down the book in
horror and disgust.

„I
think I have the first volume with me somewhere.“

Kakashi
stood up to rummage in his backpack for it. Naruto watched him.

„Why
do you love these books so much?“ he asked. „Is it only
for the sex?“

Kakashi
stopped in his search. He was struggling for words, and Naruto
realized that he had managed to embarrass his sensei. He wondered why
– after all, Kakashi had never had any issues about reading
this book in public, shocking both his students and his fellow
teachers. Actually talking about his fascination seemed more
difficult.

„Well,
I admit that I enjoy the graphic scenes“, he finally said. „But
that's not the main point. There are other writers who get them
better than Jiraya does.“

„I
can imagine“, Naruto replied. „The way he is sneaking on
naked women, and how he gets upset every time I use my sexy no
jutsu... One should not expect that from a grown-up, experienced man
of fifty years.“

„Strange
as it may seem to you now, Naruto, we remain men even when we grow
up.“

„Yeah,
of course, but – you know, Kiba and Shino and Choji and me: we
always think about sex, and we keep talking about it and sharing
pictures of naked women. But I would have imagined that this stops
when we actually had found girlfriends for ourselves and got some
first-hand experiences...“

Kakashi
thought a bit before he answered. „Partly it does.“

„Well,
but what I want to say, Jiraya – I mean, I have been training
with him for three years, and he never had a girlfriend – only
every now and then he picked up a woman at a bar to have sex with
her: One night, or maybe two or three, but never more. And always he
paid her: Normally not with money, but with a candlelight dinner at
some expensive restaurant, or some glasses of champagne, and
sometimes with a copy of his newest novel with an autograph. How can
he write about sex, or about love?“

„Now,
these are two questions, so they need two answers. The first is that
he does know about sex, perhaps more than a man who got married at
the age of eighteen and had no sex with any other woman than his wife
and knows nothing but their own marital routine. The answer to the
second question is that he has been in love with Tsunade for all his
life, while she has only seen him as a good friend. When he writes,
he writes about his longing for her, and about his dreams of
fulfillment. He does not write about being too tired for sex after a
day full of work, or sex that gets boring when the first enchantment
has worn off. In his novels, sex is the happy ending to a wonderful
love story, not something that happens in a long-term relationship.
His books are not realistic.“

„And
still you read them.“

„Yes.
One needs to dream.“

„You
do? I thought you were an elite ninja?“

„Do
you think that elite ninjas have no right to dream about meeting the
right person and finally finding true love and happiness? - But if
you want my advice: Don't make the same mistake as Jiraya. Don't wait
for Sakura to stop dreaming of Sasuke. Stop dreaming yourself. You'll
never be able to compete with him, not because you are the lesser
man, but because no one can compete with a dream. Take Hinata
instead.“

„I
won't. I am not in love with her.“ Naruto flatly replied.

He
took the book Kakashi held out for him. The mentioning of Sasuke had
brought the original purpose of this late-night visit to his sensei
back to his mind.

„I
had thought that we were going to retrieve Sasuke so that he won't
remain a dream.“

„And
so that Sakura may see that you are far better than the real Sasuke.
Forget it, he will remain a dream as long as he does not return her
love.“

Naruto
did not go along with Kakashi's jesting tone. „It's not about
Sakura. It's about me wanting to save my best friend.“

„He
does not need to be saved at the moment. Jiraya does.“

„That's
not the point. I had believed that our mission was to save Sasuke, or
to capture Itachi so that he might make Sasuke return to us. Why has
it changed now?“

„You
heard it: Jiraya is in danger.“

„That's
not the point. We haven't been too eager to find him from the
beginning. First we searched for him in a systematic but stupid
manner, and then, when he is near and when it would be time to act
quickly, I get told off for using my kagebunshin.“

„It
really was too dangerous.“

„That's
not the point.“

„So
what, in your opinion, is the point?“

„What
was the real purpose of this mission? It was not finding Sasuke, I
assume.“

Kakashi
straightened up. „Maybe I should be honest with you.“

„Indeed
you should.“

„Okay,
if you truly want to know: Our real mission was to keep you occupied
and content and far from Konoha in case the kyuubi got out of
control.“

„Even
though I am targeted by Akatsuki?“

„Because
you are targeted by Akastuki. We don't want them to attack you in
Konoha.“

„And
two teams, among them two of the strongest jounin of Konoha, have
been sent on a mission with no other purpose than to keep an eye on
me.“

„And
on what is inside you. The council wanted you to be far away from
Konoha, but they do care about you. They wanted to give you the best
protection from Akatsuki and the kyuubi you could get.“

„I
should feel honored, I suppose.“

„If
you wish. Though it is not only about you, but also about the kyuubi.
Nobody wants it to fall into the hands of Akatsuki.“

„And
now there is something more important, and we will go and save
Jiraya.“

„Exactly.
We think we can protect you on that mission. - Naruto, listen, I feel
sorry, I wish that I had not had to tell you that.“

„Never
mind. I am glad that I finally know the truth.“

On
his way to the room he shared with Shino and Kiba he was tempted to
visit the kyuubi again. Of all those he had talked to that evening,
the nine-tail had been the most understanding. And still he did not
trust it enough to confide in it again.

Opening
the door he felt his knees tremble: His world, the world of
relationships and friendships he had built during the recent years
was falling apart. He got a grip on himself, managed to go the three
steps to his bed, crawl into it and fall asleep.
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