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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 Eighty-Nine: Manliness
Naruto had not clearly said “I am gay”, but he was fully integrated into the gay community by now, and he behaved like it, embracing the other men and kissing them on their cheeks when he met them and sometimes standing next to them with his arms around their shoulders. Sasuke was more reserved: he embraced the men he considered his friends, but kissing them was not his cup of tea. Neither would he put another man's strand of hair back to where it belonged, nor wipe some beer foam off another man's nose or corner of his mouth. Naruto would do both, and then he would lick the foam off his finger. Sasuke wondered whether Naruto was aware that this was a highly erotic gesture: Probably not, as Naruto was far too innocent to tease people like that. On the other hand Naruto had invented his erotic no jutsu when he had been only twelve, so maybe Sasuke was mistaken about Naruto's innocence.
Sasuke could see what other men saw in Naruto: his strong, confident manliness, and a promise of easy, straightforward sex, not too subtle perhaps, but also without any complications. They'd all bottom for him, Sasuke thought, just as he did, and unlike himself they would not desire that one day Naruto would also bottom for them. They'd be content to be touched by the light Naruto was radiating, even when he discussed football, as he did now.
They would not see what he, Sasuke, regularly saw during their love-making: Naruto's vulnerability, how he looked like a child who was given a birthday present without having expected one, just as he had when Sasuke had offered to share his food with him during Kakashi's bell test. Sasuke loved this look in Naruto's eyes when he initiated anal sex (Naruto never initiated it by himself), and this alone was enough to make it worthwhile. He saw it less and less frequently now, however – maybe this was an effect of Naruto gaining confidence as a lover, but maybe it meant that Naruto no longer valued Sasuke's offer of love as he used to.
Sasuke was afraid of losing Naruto. There were days when he feared losing him to some woman, and there were days when he was afraid of losing him to another man. He considered it well possible that one day Naruto would discover that other men were attractive too, and then again he expected Naruto to declare that he was not gay and that it had all been a mistake. Sasuke was nervous and restless.
Naruto had not said explicitly that he was gay, but he had consented to do drag. He and Sasuke had discovered the phenomenon of drag in a show in one of the cellar clubs of Music Town, a show aimed at gay people they had visited with their friends, where a man in drag had done the moderation. It had taken Naruto some time to work out that this was actually a man, and he had let everyone participate in the process of discovering the truth, not only their friends but also the people in the rows before and behind them. He had even managed to attract the attention of the guy in drag himself and had been invited on stage and made a complete fool of hismelf, at least in Sasuke's opinion. (The other men just made some friendly, teasing remarks, and then returned to their normal behaviour.)
Sasuke had not been any faster in discovering that this was a guy than Naruto, but he had been better at hiding his confusion (at least in his own eyes). He had felt disgusted by the show as a whole, and by the guy in drag in particular. This was not why he had left Orochimaru!
Naruto was not reminded of Orochimaru, but of Haku, and to him the show had been fascinating and he kept talking about it, yet neither to Sasuke nor when he was present, as he had well understood that Sasuke had not liked it.
“Why did the guy dress up as a woman?” he asked the guy from Earth Country. “You like men, don't you? People tell me they like it when I show off my chest.”
“You are definitely liked for your manliness”, the man replied. “You look manly and you move like a real man, particularly when you discuss football and want to convince others of your expertise.”
“And else?”
“Else you are just cute.”
Naruto thought about it – he was not sure whether he should regard this as a compliment. “Sasuke looks cute”, he said. “He might dress up as a woman.”
They both looked at Sasuke who was busy dancing with another man, leading him into a complicated figure.
"Don't tell him – he won't like it”, the guy from Earth Country said.
For some seconds they stood in silence, watching Sasuke. He was a pleasure to watch, actually, when he was not outshone by Naruto: His movements soft and elegant and flowing like a middle-sized river, and you could see how he was gentle and considerate of his partner.
“Would you prefer Sasuke as a woman?” the guy from Earth Country asked.
Naruto considered it. “He's Sasuke, and he's a man. He would not be Sasuke if he were a woman. Also, he's extremely strong, even though he does not look like it.”
“Women can be strong too.”
Naruto remembered Sakura, and Tsunade. “Yes, but their strength consists of shouting at people and punching those who won't strike back anyway.”
“I did not speak of physical strength”, the guy from Earth Country replied.
They were silent again for a while, watching Sasuke dancing.
“Do you sometimes regret that you are not with a woman?” the guy from Earth Country continued.
Naruto shook his head. “As I said, Sasuke's cute. He's prettier than most women. You know, when we were children and on our first mission as young ninja I met a boy who was just like that – pretty as a girl, even behaving like a girl, which is not the case with Sasuke, and he was extremely strong too. He taught me about the importance of love, and of having a precious person to live for. Soon after this I fought side by side with Sasuke and realized that he might become such a precious person to me. There's days when I catch myself staring at women's breasts, but when I think of losing Sasuke it feels as if my heart was being cut out from my ribcage while I am still alive. It broke apart once when he left me as a child, and only now I feel whole again.”
He thought that the news of Sasuke's attack against Killerbee had felt as if his heart had been cut out again. The Sasuke he loved and whom he had come to accept as a lover had vanished and made place for some unknown person who attacked other people unprovoked. He knew far too little of that other person.
The music stopped and Sasuke's partner apparently needed a break. Naruto left the the guy from Earth Country and went to Sasuke to ask him for the next dance. The Sasuke he had fallen in love with was still there...
It was a few days later that Naruto was asked to do the moderation on some private birthday party. A man of the gay community, a loose acquaintance of himself and Sasuke, was turning sixty and his partner was organizing a huge party for him, inviting friends from all phases of his life, including his ex-wife and his children and grand-children. They'd all contribute something to the party: a poem, a short dramatical performance, or some music, and Naruto was expected to announce the different groups and also the breaks for eating and drinking and talking. He was asked to do this exactly because he was not a close friend and would not contribute anything himself, but also because the man and his boyfriend expected him to be good at it. Naruto hesitated, but the men standing around him when he received the request encouraged him: “You have to learn to speak in public!” they said. “You plan to be Hokage one day, don't you?”
Naruto accepted, but he regretted his decision when the next day his friends told him that he was expected to do the moderation in drag.
"We'll all go in drag”, his acquaintances told him (not the man who was organizing the party). “The man's family is fairly conservative and still holds some weird ideas about gay people, so we won't disappoint them. We'll also do a small performance, and you have to participate.”
Naruto was taken by surprise and didn't say anything.
“You cannot chicken out”, another man added. “You'll be on stage. We need you.”
“I don't look like a woman”, Naruto said.
“You will. You'll be the best-looking man and the best-looking woman at the same time.”
“Like this?” Naruto asked, turning into his erotic no jutsu form.
The men covered their eyes and turned away. None of them stood staring in fascination as men normally did. They were gay, Naruto remembered, and women didn't do anything to them. (They sometimes stared at him however in the changing-room – both he and Sasuke had adopted the top couples' habit of changing clothes after dancing, just to make clear that dancing was a real sport that caused them to sweat.)
He changed into his natural form, and the men turned back to him. He had to explain his jutsu and its purpose: distracting his enemies during combat, and they laughed and called it the best ninja technique they had ever heard of, yet when they had stopped laughing they explained to him that this was not what they meant.
“You remain a man, just in women's clothes. Some people may have to look twice, but then they will realize that you're a good-looking young man, not a pretty girl.”
Naruto still hesitated.
“Come on”, the guy from Earth Country said. “It's fun! For some hours you let go off the strain of having to prove that you're tough and strong and manly and discover your soft, feminine side, and when the party is over you change back and are a man again. You'll enjoy it!”
Naruto gave in, swept away by the general excitement and anticipation, and as the men had told him, he soon enjoyed going shopping with them and choosing a dress – a long, extravagant gown with a slit up to the belt that allowed him to show off his legs. They also bought high-heels for him, and a wig of long yellow hair. Together they decided about a suitable bra size and taught him how to stuff it, and also he in his turn gave advice to his companions when they chose dresses, shoes and accessories for themselves and discussed the correct bra size for a man who needed a new one to suit his newly acquired belly, and some cushions to stuff his hips.
Sasuke did not participate. He had gone so far as to tell the boyfriend of the man who turned sixty that he had to renounce the invitation, and when the man asked for the reason, he told him that he would not go in drag: in his understanding being gay did not mean that he had to dress in a particular way, and least of all as a woman.
The boyfriend had not even known of the group's plan to dress up as women, so he told Sasuke that he was not under any obligation to wear anything special. “Just consider that this is a sixtieth birthday and don't wear your oldest jeans”, he said.
Sasuke did not own any old jeans, as he had not even known about jeans before his arrival in Music Town, meaning that his oldest jeans were a few months old. He considered telling Naruto that he could also opt out and do the moderation in men's clothes, but he decided against it: it had not escaped him that Naruto was having a lot of fun with the project. Sasuke confined himself to having an eye on him, accompanying the group on their shopping trips and commenting on their costumes. He still felt irritated by the sight of his friends in drag, and most of all by Naruto himself: he looked good, but Sasuke definitely preferred him as a man.
So his comments oscillated between sincere compliments and snarky remarks, and sometimes even advice to buy the most ridiculous piece of clothing, saying openly that he considered it stupid. (Often the men would even follow this kind of advice.) He felt that the rest of the group rather tolerated than welcomed him; often they shut him up when his remarks got too nasty, and once or twice they were on the point of telling him to stay home if he did not like their activities. They did not do it as they were used to him and Naruto staying within eyesight of each other, so that they could not imagine him to leave while Naruto was with them. After some time Sasuke understood that it was better to shut up and behaved accordingly.
The worst shock however was when the men of the gay community who were not dressing up as women and not taking part in the performance told Sasuke that they were going to participate in some way too: they'd wear something fanciful (but still men's clothes) and he should do the same: choose a shirt with frills, for example, or some bright colours, or an extra deep neckline. Even if they were not dressing as women they still wanted to show clearly that they were gay, confirming the other guests' clichés.
Sasuke tried to refuse: “I don't have to wear anything special to mark myself as gay”, he said.
“Not when you and Naruto are holding hands all the time”, the husband of the guy from Earth Country replied. “But he won't have time to do this as he'll be busy on stage, so you'll have to show what you are in other ways. - Come on, how do you ever want to change the political situation in Konoha if you don't have the courage to stand by yourself and your friends?”
Sasuke did not see any connection, but he lacked the words to reply in any meaningful way. Soon people began to notice what he was wearing and to point out to him when they thought that he was wearing something fanciful that might be suitable for the birthday party. Sasuke felt annoyed: He chose his clothes because he considered them beautiful and suiting him, not because he wanted to look particularly gay. He hated it when his favorite shirt was called fit for the birthday party, which in his ears meant that it was considered typically gay. He had to force himself not to abandon the shirt after hearing such a verdict.
In the end a couple of their friends were invited by Naruto to come to their place and have a look at Sasuke's wardrobe and decide what he should wear, and Sasuke did not have the heart to disinvite them. They checked the clothes he owned and found a lot of them suitable for the occasion, but it were the pants he had worn at Orochimaru's place, complete with rope and piece of cloth around his hips, that gained general appraisal: the men found them hilarious and weird and could not believe their ears when they learnt that he had worn them for years as ordinary clothes, not as part of a costume.
“That's what you have to wear!” they said. “There's no excuse! If you could wear them as a shinobi you can wear them on a completely peaceful birthday party too!”
Sasuke considered faking an illness at the day of the party.
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