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The Blessed Realm	By : susanna Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1746 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: Naruto, his friends and the world he lives in don't belong to me but to Masashi Kishimoto. I write this story only for my pleasure and I don't make any money with it.

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Chapter
Eighty-Five: Fanmail

Naruto
also asked his friends in Music Town what they thought of the Gutsy
Ninja, but like the critics in the newspapers they were rather
reserved. “I don't read straight porn” was the most
common reply Naruto got from his gay friends, and urged to say
something about Jiraiya's dream of peace they simply answered: “Well,
everyone loves peace, don't they?”

With
Juugo's fostermothers it was the same. One of them had actually begun
to read the book but had stopped after one third of it because
another book had caught her attention. The other had only read the
first pages.

“I
am not really fond of adventure stories”, she said.

However
both of them praised Naruto for publishing a book that their older
sons read. One of them had never before finished a book, and now he
read the Gutsy Ninja over and over again, being a greater fan than
his brother who was normally a more avid reader. “He absolutely
loves it.”

“I've
read that people here consider the Gutsy Ninja a book for children”,
Naruto said. “It's different for us, of course. We are ninja,
and we really go on missions. Jiraiya wrote the book for grown-ups.”

“Does
it matter? If children like the book, why should they not read it?”

Naruto
had no issues with children reading the Gutsy Ninja: what worried him
was that grown-ups did not take Jiraiya's dream of peace seriously.

“The
book contains a rather realistic sex scene”, he said. “I
don't think it's suitable reading matter for children.”

The
woman who had read the first third of the book went upstairs to fetch
it from her sons' bedroom. She gave it to Naruto to let him find the
sex scene, who found it quickly. He passed the book back to the woman
so that she could read it, and while he watched her he could feel her
embarrassment.

“I
would not call that realistic”, she said and gave the book to
her partner, whose reaction was a bit more relaxed: she began to
giggle. “It's not realistic”, she said. “It's
hilarious. But I don't think our boys are interested in that yet.
They'll probably skip the scene and read the book for the adventure
story.”

Later
in the afternoon Naruto learnt that the women were mistaken on at
least one of their sons' attitude towards sex scenes. When the boys
got home from playing outside with their friends the one who had
become the more devoted fan of the book immediately went upstairs to
his room, and after a few minutes he came back downstairs again.
“Where's my book?” he asked.

His
mother returned it to him.

“Have
you read the book?” he asked. “It's my book, you don't
read it!”

His
mother pointed out to him that Naruto had actually given the book to
her and her partner.

“But
now it's mine. You are not allowed to read it.”

Both
women shrugged. Naruto wondered about their behaviour, but not for
long, as the boy asked him to go upstairs with him.

“Have
you read the book too?” the boy asked when they were in his
room.

“Certainly”,
Naruto answered.

“All
of it? This too?”

The
boy opened the book at the sex scene – it practically opened
there by itself. “Here: his cock exploded in her mouth.”

Naruto
felt embarrassed. He had no intention of explaining to the boy how it
really felt like when Sasuke gave him a blow-job. People should be
more careful about giving adult literature to children, he decided.

“I've
read the scene, but this is not what's really important about the
Gutsy Ninja”, he said. “What's really important is how he
forgives his enemies and establishes lasting peace. Have you read his
speech to his people?”

“I
skipped it. The fights are cooler.”

And
the sex scene is coolest, Naruto thought while he went downstairs to
join the grown-ups. That's how people here react to the Gutsy Ninja.

The
children from his and Sasuke's taijutsu class also read the Gutsy
Ninja. By now Naruto had accepted that Sasuke was better at
explaining the different techniques, so he confined himself to doing
the meditation sessions (Sasuke was really bad at those) and helping
the kids while they practised. They all liked him, but sometimes they
made fun of him. Now a couple of them had also read the Gutsy Ninja,
and at least these kids, who were only six or seven, did not try to
discuss the sex scene with him.

“The
Gutsy Ninja is cool”, was their most frequent comment.

The
parents praised the Gutsy for teaching their children to read –
for most of them it had been their first chapter book, and they at
last mentioned that it was about peace: “You see, it's possible
to teach kids that peace is desirable without indoctrinating them
with any religious messages”, they said, making Naruto wonder:
Did they not see that the Gutsy Ninja breathed the spirit of the
Rikudou Sennin?

He
also considered it his duty to warn the parents that the book
contained a quite explicit sex scene, however he failed to take care
not to do this while the kids were listening.

“It
wasn't a big deal”, one of the little boys said. “I know
about sex. I'm not in kindergarten.”

Naruto
also tried to discuss the Gutsy Ninja with his friends from the
riverside. They loved to discuss politics, so they must be interested
in Jiraiya's dream of peace, he thought. To his shock, when they
heard that he was Jiraiya's heir, they suggested to him to withdraw
the whole series of Icha-Icha.

“Why?” Naruto
asked.

“The
series is ultraconservative rubbish, written to hold women captive in
some beautiful dream of love, married to a man who's wealthy and
handsome and ready to fulfill all their wishes. They waste their time
reading and dreaming instead of thinking how they can actually change
their lives.”

“That's
not true”, Naruto answered. “The heroes are far from
perfect. The handsome, wealthy guys are the villains.”

“You
actually read that rubbish?”

“I
had to. Jiraiya made me proofread the books. In Icha-Icha the
ordinary guys always prevail and it's them who marry the girl in the
end.”

For
some seconds the young people were silent.

“Still
it's problematic that falling in love is presented as the solution of
all your problems”, one of the young women finally said.

“There's
nothing wrong with being in love, is there?” Naruto replied,
taking Sasuke's hands and leaning against him. Sasuke felt relieved –
he had felt worried when Naruto had talked about the handsome wealthy
guys being the villains. But Naruto was handsome and wealthy now
himself, wasn't he?

“Also,
I actually don't care much about Icha-Icha”, Naruto continued.
“The book I care about is the Gutsy Ninja, which is not about
love, but about forgiving your enemy and coming to an understanding
with him and thus implementing a lasting peace.”

He
was disappointed again by the young people's reaction.

“You
don't forgive an oppressor”, they said. “Oppressors
always speak in favour of forgivance and also against violence, but
they always only mean other people's violence. They like peace
because peace means that they stay in power. They ask you to follow
the rules and work for peaceful change, but they have set up the
rules in a way that prevents any peaceful change. You should know
this yourself: You won't get rid of Danzou by following the rules.”

Naruto
did not have an answer to this. He was very silent and thoughtful
when they went home.

Luckily
at home a letter was waiting for him. The patron's daughter told them
that it had been sent by the publishing-house, but obviously it was
from one of the smaller ninja countries, one Naruto had never heard
of. Sasuke guessed that it was from a reader of the Gutsy Ninja, and
he opened it and read it in order to warn and comfort Naruto if
necessary. It was not necessary: the letter contained nothing but
praise:

Dear
Uzumaki Naruto!

I
have been a fan of Icha-Icha for a long time, and you can't imagine
my pain at the news of Jiraiya's death, meaning that the last trilogy
of the series will remain uncompleted forever. Is there a chance that
Jiraiya has left some drafts or manuscripts to you that might give a
hint whom the heroine will choose? Is there any possibility that
these manuscripts will be published?

I
understand of course that publishing Jiraiya's manuscripts will be a
huge project that involves a lot of work, so it made sense that you
first released a new edition of the Gutsy Ninja, as this already
existed as a book and only needed a new preface. I love you so much
for the preface, I can't tell you. I'm so glad everybody will know
now that Jiraiya was not just an author of erotic romances but also
had some serious ideas about politics. I love him so much for his
dream of peace. It's wonderful to know that he hoped that one day
peace will be possible.

Sasuke
watched Naruto's face brighten as he read the letter as if it was
illuminated from inside. He laid his arm around him: “You see:
people from the ninja countries appreciate Jiraiya's dream.”

Indeed
they did: more letters followed the first one, and they came from all
the ninja countries, including the ninja villages themselves, and
these were the letters Naruto cherished most.

“Even
ninja who are trained to be fighters still hope that one day there
will be peace.”

“Why
shouldn't they?” Sasuke asked back. “After all, it's them
who have to do the actual killing and dying. You're a ninja too, and
you also long for peace.”

He
thought of Itachi, who had dreamt of peace and who had been betrayed.
He realized that he himself did not care too much about peace, mostly
because that betrayal of Itachi. The people from the riverside were
probably correct: You did not get rid of someone as Danzou just by
being nice and following the rules.

He
looked again at Naruto and knew that for all his happiness about the
fanmail he received there was still one thing he missed: a letter
from Konoha.

“They
have difficulties to get mail out of the village”, Sasuke said
to comfort him, but he knew that this was not enough. Naruto waited
and hoped, but no letter arrived. There was, however, a letter from
Konan, and this was almost as good as a letter from Konoha.

Dear
Naruto,

the
people of Amegakure want to thank you for releasing a new edition of
the Gutsy Ninja. It makes us remember fondly Nagato, on whom Jiraiya
based his hero, and me, personally, the book also reminds of our time
with Jiraiya, which was the second happiest in my life. We all
remember now Nagato's and also Yahiko's strife for peace and how they
were ready to give their life for their dream. The book is extremely
popular here, and people read it to their children to teach them what
is most important in life. Amegakure has never been a powerful
country, rather a prey to the big countries than able to prey on
other countries itself, but we will now use whatever power and
influence we have to further peace in the ninja countries. The Gutsy
Ninja will remain our role model for that.

Konan.

Naruto
beamed after reading the letter, and Sasuke did not say anything, he
just leant against him.

A/N:
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