But -- the fic! It starts out hurting so much, and all the legal-ness and the coldness and Sasuke forcing himself to stay still and take it even though he's trying so hard to pretend it doesn't matter, and then Naruto goes and throws it all in disarray and makes it better. ♥
(Also, Namikaze. I love that name.)
As for the thing about adopting into the family... I've read it in actual books too, but I've also seen it in luriko_ysabeth's posts. Wait, I'll go find it.
One of the several books on historical Japanese homosexuality (I forget exactly which, offhand; it might have been Male Colors or Comrade Loves of the Samurai) mentioned that now and then, a man would adopt his wakashu (young man) into his own family, to be enrolled as his own younger brother.
Other research I was doing on pre-Meiji weddings turned up the fact that the real proof of a wedding would be when the bride was enrolled on the groom's family register (or the other way around, if they were adopting him in). The family unit was the important thing, the enrollment in some cases did not take place until after the first child was born, and divorce consisted of removing the wife (and children) from the register, making them no longer part of the family (although the father could then adopt them back in.)
The family register thing is still the essential element of a marriage in modern Japan, and that is all that needs to be done to be married (sort of the equivalent of going down to the registry office). As an example, in Gakuen Tokkei Duklyon, the Chief comments on the loving-wifely-bentou Kentarou has made for Takeshi, and Kentarou replies that he hasn't had the pleasure of adding Takepon to the family register yet.
In other words, the adopting of one's lover into one's family, squicky as this may seem at first glance, is in effect a legal method of more-or-less marrying said lover (while leaving both parties free to make a traditional alliance marriage as well).
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But -- the fic! It starts out hurting so much, and all the legal-ness and the coldness and Sasuke forcing himself to stay still and take it even though he's trying so hard to pretend it doesn't matter, and then Naruto goes and throws it all in disarray and makes it better. ♥
(Also, Namikaze. I love that name.)
As for the thing about adopting into the family... I've read it in actual books too, but I've also seen it in
Here. (http://luriko-ysabeth.livejournal.com/7864.html?thread=4792#t4792)
One of the several books on historical Japanese homosexuality (I forget exactly which, offhand; it might have been Male Colors or Comrade Loves of the Samurai) mentioned that now and then, a man would adopt his wakashu (young man) into his own family, to be enrolled as his own younger brother.
Other research I was doing on pre-Meiji weddings turned up the fact that the real proof of a wedding would be when the bride was enrolled on the groom's family register (or the other way around, if they were adopting him in). The family unit was the important thing, the enrollment in some cases did not take place until after the first child was born, and divorce consisted of removing the wife (and children) from the register, making them no longer part of the family (although the father could then adopt them back in.)
The family register thing is still the essential element of a marriage in modern Japan, and that is all that needs to be done to be married (sort of the equivalent of going down to the registry office). As an example, in Gakuen Tokkei Duklyon, the Chief comments on the loving-wifely-bentou Kentarou has made for Takeshi, and Kentarou replies that he hasn't had the pleasure of adding Takepon to the family register yet.
In other words, the adopting of one's lover into one's family, squicky as this may seem at first glance, is in effect a legal method of more-or-less marrying said lover (while leaving both parties free to make a traditional alliance marriage as well).