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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 Ninety-Four: Letters to the Kages
The money the patroness had given Sasuke as compensation for not paying minimum wages for several months would last for several weeks, enough to bridge the gap until (hopefully) he could start his training as a policeman, but not enough to pay his share for the furniture he and Naruto needed to buy. Naruto told him that he was rich enough to pay for both of them, but Sasuke did not like the idea: he didn't want to depend on Naruto. His grown-up friends confirmed him in this position, saying that financial dependency was a strain on every relationship, and they offered to lend him some money, but he didn't want to depend on them either. Instead he went to the bank where he had opened an account and asked them for help with gaining access to the money his family had deposited in various ninja countries.
It turned out to be a difficult affair – first because Sasuke did not have any valid documents (he didn't even know the names of the various banks where his family had their money) and second because the clan's bank accounts had been frozen after his defection from Konoha.
“I am no longer a rogue nin”, he said, “and I want to get them unfrozen again.”
The woman at the bank had a look at the documents he provided, most of all his preliminary acceptance as a citizen of Music Town.
“I'm afraid there's not much I can do for you”, she said. “We can help you ask the banks of Music Town whether your family had an account there, but with unfreezing the accounts in other places you have to apply to the administrations of the respective countries.”
She did what she could: She fetched some forms that were needed to apply for unfreezing the accounts in Music Town, helped him fill them in and made copies of his personal documents.
“We'll contact the other banks here”, she said. “It will take a while, but I don't see any problems, as you've already been accepted as a future citizen. But with foreign countries you will have to write to them yourself.”
She still did what she could to help him, bringing him lists of international banks and lists of addresses of the ministries that were in charge of granting or denying him his wish to get his accounts unfrozen. Sasuke looked at the lists in sheer horror – a lot of work was waiting for him. He had a closer look and then returned the list of banks of Fire Country and the address of the ministry back to the woman.
“I don't think it makes sense to apply to Fire Country”, he said. “They won't lift my status as a rogue nin, or unfreeze my family's bank account.”
“Don't be so sure”, the woman answered. “I've heard of disagreements between Danzou and the Daimyou.”
Sasuke hadn't.
“Well, I guess it's easier to start with the other countries. Write to the governments and get their consent, then we'll help you transfer the money to your account here.”
Sasuke left, his heart heavy. He had got used to dealing with officials in Music Town, but writing to the governments of other countries was another level. He decided to start with Wind Country, as he knew that Naruto was friends with Gaara, the Kazekage.
“You can do me a favour and write to him and ask him for his support at getting my money unfrozen”, he said.
Naruto agreed. He was glad that Sasuke, even though he did not accept his money, still accepted his help. He sat down to write his letter:

Dear Gaara!

I want to thank you for sending my letters to Sakura and for making sure that her letters reach me in Music Town. I'm doing well: Music Town is a good place to live at, but I still miss Konoha. What's best, however, is the fact that Sasuke is here too. We're friends now, and we're lovers.
Naruto had hesitated for a few seconds before he had written the last sentence: He still felt embarrassed about the nature of his relationship to Sasuke, not in Music Town, but when it came to people in the ninja countries.

He has asked me to ask you to ask the daimyou to unfreeze his bank accounts. We need the money to buy some furniture. Sasuke is no longer a rogue-nin, so his accounts can be unfrozen without risk. He has applied for citizenship of Music Town, but I don't think he'll ever achieve it. For citizenship in Music Town he needs to learn a musical instrument, and when it comes to music he's a hopeless case who can't tell country from folk or ordinary pop. He's not even interested in the differences. As long as the music is not too noisy he's content.

Even though he'll probably never be accepted as a citizen he has already been recognzied as a fugitive, and he's determined to stay in Music Town and not become a rogue nin again. Maybe it's a trick, but I don't think so, and anyway I have an eye on him and see that he doesn't run away again. I'll make sure that he doesn't do anything stupid, so I don't see any problems in unfreezing his bank accounts.

I hope that you and your family are doing well., most of all Temari of course. How long will it take now till the little kid is born?

Always your friend, Naruto.
He gave the letter to Sasuke, who felt hurt, but tried not to show it. At least Naruto had stood by him and called him his lover, he thought. He wrote some lines of his own, however, asking Gaara for his support and telling him that he really had ended his relationship with Orochimaru (by killing him) and that he intended to live as a honourable citizen of Music Town, and he also wrote to the Daimyou of Wind Country.
Sasuke also met Suigetsu to ask him for advice about the political situation in Water Country and about whom to ask for support, and about who was in charge of deciding about his bank accounts. He hoped that Suigetsu himself might be the one who spoke on his behalf.
Suigetsu thought long before he answered.
“I'm a citizen of Music Town now. I've cut my ties with Water Country and Mist Village. I don't even carry my sword with me any more. When I write in your behalf I'll be told to return.”
“They can't force you.”
“They can't. But if I try to make use of my old connections in order to help you they will try to use them to make me return.”
“Isn't there anyone who's not a connection but simply a friend, someone who might be glad to hear that you are still alive?”
Suigetsu shook his head. “Mist Village is different from Konoha. In Konoha kids grow up in their families, and when they become genin they are put into teams. Konoha makes use of their feelings of comradeship to make them fight more bravely. Mist Village however purposely destroys bonds of friendship, setting up the students to fight each other. They make use of people's loneliness to make them fight more bravely for Mist Village, as they have nothing else to fight for.”
Sasuke listened and thought of Itachi.
“I don't know whether this is true for all their fighters, but it's how they raise their elite ninja. They are taken from their families when they are very small and sent back only if they fail, provided they are still alive. The family won't welcome them, however, but regard them as failures, according to what I've heard.”
Sasuke had his doubts.
“I wasn't sent back, and my brother wasn't either. He died as a hero of the Mist. He was ten years older than me, and I hardly knew him, as he had left the family when I was very small. At parades my parents pointed him out to me.”
“I knew my brother”, Sasuke said. “He carried me around when I was little.
“You were lucky then.”
Sasuke had never considered it. Maybe he was lucky indeed compared to Suigetsu.
“I liked being with you. Karin was annoying, but she was also funny, and Juugo was far less crazy than people said he was. He's doing well now, isn't he?”
Sasuke confirmed it.
“And people here – I have a band now, and there's no question of killing each other, or of killing anyone else. We make music, after all, and you don't kill other musicians, even if their music is really bad.”
“You still may write to your parents. At the gay community center there's people who support gay boys who've run away from home and who want to re-establish contact with their parents. Maybe they can help you too.”
“I don't need the support of any gay people”, Suigetsu replied.
So Sasuke wrote to the Mizukage and the daimyou of Water Country all by himself without any support from anyone. Maybe this was preferable to a letter from Suigetsu.
Writing to the Raikage without a letter from Killerbee was impossible, however. Sasuke felt uncomfortable seeking him out and asking him to do him a favour after what he had done to him, but there was no other way. Killerbee's reception of his request was friendly, but he had difficulties to understand it.
“Why can't you write to my brother just by yourself?” he asked. “I've already told him that your attack was just a fake, and he has withdrawn the international arrest warrant. Just tell him that you need some money. You can tell him in person, by the way: in a few weeks he'll visit Music Town to listen to my first concert in Old Town's Club.”
Even Sasuke had heard of the place: It was the second biggest and second most famous concert hall of Music Town. Only Central Club was bigger, but that was for tourists.
“I need access to my family's money now”, Sasuke replied, “and I can't write to your brother when you don't speak for me.”
“You can”, Killerbee said. “My brother is just like me, very relaxed. But if it makes you feel more at ease, I will help you.”
He sat down to write a few lines and gave them to Sasuke.

My dear brother,

The young man to whom I owe my present happiness, Uchiha Sasuke, is in need of money as he has lost his job. I'd be glad if you could help him out.

With love,

your brother who's the happiest man of the world now, save that he misses you.
He'd have to write a letter of his own, and to do a lot of explaining, Sasuke thought.
“How's your lover, the jinchuuriki?” Killerbee asked. “Does he still want to learn to control his bijuu, or is he no longer interested in having sex with you without fear of the kyuubi taking over?”
The question was painful to Sasuke, as it reminded him that while he and Naruto still had sex Naruto didn't let go as he used to, and the kyuubi didn't have a chance of taking over.
“I'll talk to him”, he said. “Not having to be afraid of the kyuubi is one of the greatest desires of his heart.”
Killerbee grinned widely. “I hope to see you soon”, he said. “I expected you much earlier, actually. I thought you wanted to have sex without worrying about the kyuubi as soon as possible.”
Sasuke thanked him, both for his letter to his brother and for his renewed offer of help to Naruto. He then went home to write to the Raikage and the daimyou of Lightning Country, and also to the Tsuchikage and the daimyou of Earth Country, then he took everything to his new guardian so that he might sign the official forms. The man added a lot of corrections to the letters, so that Sasuke had to rewrite them. He didn't touch Naruto's letter to Gaara, or Killerbee's letter to the Raikage, however.
“It's not my job to tell people what they should write to their brothers and friends”, he said. “But you should have come earlier, so that I could have given you some advice. That's my job, after all. It would have saved you a lot of work.”
Sasuke didn't answer. He felt the loss of his independence.
“Also I wonder whether this is a wise move. Everyone will take notice of you now. But I guess that you don't have much choice: you need your money now.”
He signed the forms.
“Good luck – I hope that your requests will be granted and that your name will be cleared.”
Naruto listened when Sasuke told him about his efforts for getting access to his family's bank accounts, but he didn't accompany him to the bank or to his various meetings with other people, most of all because Sasuke hadn't invited him to join him. It was Sasuke's money, and Sasuke's wish for financial independence.
He felt bored these days. Losing his job meant that suddenly he had a lot of time at his disposal, and unpacking the cardboard boxes and buying furniture was not enough to fill it. Sasuke prolonged absences when he pursued his aim of unfreezing his bank accounts were not helpful either, and even when Sasuke was at home he wasn't good company: Most of the time he sat at their new table and studied for the entrance exam at the training center of the police. Naruto sensed how the strain on Sasuke was increasing as the date drew closer: The problems in Sasuke's book were much more difficult than he had expected, and contrary to the chuunin exam you were expected not to cheat but to solve them by yourself. Often Sasuke was on the point of despairing: then he shut the book with a loud noise.
“Who needs all this stuff? Worded Problems! When does a policeman need to solve worded problems?” he would then exclaim.
Then Naruto would come and lay his arms around Sasuke's shoulders and lead him to the sofa. (They had bought one by now.) They cuddled and made out for some time, or Naruto massaged Sasuke's shoulders, and then he offered to make him some cocoa (never coffee, as this just increased the stress) and led him back to the desk. Just like Naruto Sasuke was not the type to give up easily, even though sometimes he wanted to throw the book against the wall. Juugos fostermothers advised him to take a break when he got stuck, a piece of advice that was new to Sasuke, but he followed the advice, or rather Naruto saw that he followed it.
Still watching Sasuke study for his exam was not fulfilling to Naruto, even though he enjoyed the responsibility of taking care that Sasuke neither overdid nor gave up. It involved long times of doing nothing, and so Naruto returned to his former project: learning about the religion of the Rikudo. He had learnt enough about foreign religions by now, and he wanted to know more about the religion he should have been raised in, if he had been raised properly. He got some books from the library (Sasuke registered them for him), and he no longer chose those for children, or books that consisted mainly of pictures. Learning about foreign religions had improved his understanding of religious concepts, and he felt ready for the Rikudo's more complicated ideas. Most of all he longed to learn about the Rikudo's ideas about how to create peace, and he hoped that these ideas were of a kind that would be taken seriously by the sceptical people of Music Town.
So while Sasuke was facing the challenges of worded problems and logic puzzles Naruto was reading, and with time his efforts were rewarded: he found ideas that went beyond “peace is better than war” and “cooperation is better than fighting.”

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