Lily: i'm writing two stories, one will be a Sasu/Naru, the other, a Kaka/Sasu. I'll put up the first chapter for each and whichever one gets the most amount of votes in one week is the one i'll continue. The Sasu/Naru one is called Beast: Ki-Tsu-Ne'. And the Kaka/Sasu one, this one, is called Unfinished Solo Duet'.
Phantom: ok something weird happened with ff.net and this story got taken down. we're putting it back up with this note: IN THIS STORY, SASUKE IS 18. happy, stupid shota flamers?


Unfinished Solo Duet
Chapter One
Where Were You When I Was Lonesome?

Sasuke held his flute up to his soft lips. He positioned his long fingers. He blew softly. A sigh of sound came out. The start of a sad song. The start of a duet with only one voice. A song where two people are meant to play, but one is gone. The moon glowed a thick orange, tinting the silver purity of the flute and the obsidian loneliness of Sasuke's concentrated gaze.

Sasuke had played this way for many a night. Sitting on the roof, with only the stars and moon as his silent audience, showing no sign of appreciation for his music, although they surely did appreciate it. Every song that Sasuke played was sad, desperate and somehow unfinished. Every song was a plea.

Where were you? Where were you when I needed you the most? Mother, Father? Who will take away the pain now that you're gone? Who? Tell me, in the name of God, tell me. It's getting so hard... so hard alone. Alone. Alone.

Those were the unspoken lyrics that wove their way into Sasuke's music.

But Sasuke's music didn't go as unheard and unappreciated as he thought. A tall man sat in the shadows, his hair as silvery as the flute. The music reverberated and wheeled around in the confines of Kakashi's mind. It sounded so familiar to him, so intimate. And it should feel that way, for that lonely song was the same one that played in Kakashi's heart. His own solo duet, played out by the rhythm of his heart beat.

Kakashi stood there every night, listening to Sasuke play and every night he told himself that he wouldn't come back and every night he returned. He knew he shouldn't do this, obsessing over a student. Was he obsessing? It seemed so much more. Was Sasuke a student? He seemed so much more.

Inwardly, Kakashi marveled at how everyday Sasuke would come to class, icy, cold, and emotionless and yet he could come sit on this roof every night and pour his heart out to the unlistening world. Kakashi wished he could do more than just be his sensei, hiding behind a book and instructing him what to do. It wasn't even to be the one training Sasuke to kill Itachi, the act they may completely melt the ice around his heart. Kakashi wanted to be more. He wanted to make Sasuke melt.

Kakashi couldn't stand feeling like this, he didn't know how to handle it, it was new emotion to him.

Lily: this story's a whole lot more fast moving and imagery based than the other.
Phantom: i'm quite proud of myself for thinking up this one.