Author Note: I'm so happy that so many sent me feedbacks for chapter 1. I didn't expect it to be so popular so fast. This chapter isn't so long but the story is building up now. I'm really bad at answering your reviews but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy them. I got a few great questions and suggestions. It makes me think more about the plot and think ahead of what will come in the fiction. Well, I have nothing else to say so I won't try, not at the moment at least but enjoy the story.

Ranting: K+ just for bad language at the moment.

Pairings: Shounen-ai. SasuNaru, not much in this chapter but there will be more in the coming chapters. If I create another couple I'll let you know.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and I never will because I don't want to steal from Kishimoto Masashi-sensei.

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Music In My Heart
Written by Monkan and Beta Read by Asaroth

Chapter 2

Sasuke glared at his aniki. It was his fault if he was here. Right now he could have been home, sleeping in his bed. His long awaited day off from school and he had to lose a bet. To his brother of all people.

"I wouldn't be so sure about this nii-san." Sasuke said coldly.

Itachi just ignored the cold tone. He was used to it because he had never been very popular with his younger brother when it came to certain things. This was an opportunity that didn't come by very often. It wasn't the fact that he had won the bet but what Sasuke had to do now that was interesting.

"Don't look so bitter, Sasuke. You'll scare everyone away."

Sasuke's eyebrow twitched. 'That's the point!'

He couldn't believe his bad luck. The bet had been that if Sasuke got into the school he wanted for high-school then Itachi had to pay for his food for the first half year and leave his private life alone. However if he failed, then Itachi could drag him along and look for a girlfriend for him.

He had failed and Itachi was enjoying it too much for Sasuke's liking.

"You can sit over there and watch, Sasuke." Itachi pointed over to some chairs on the other side. It would give him a full view of everyone in the room. His worst nightmare was about to come true.

When Sasuke walked over there he could see from the corner of his eye that the girls were already looking at him with dreamy looks. He mentally groaned. His nightmare had just begun. It wasn't that he disliked them, they were just annoying. All they ever saw in him at first was his appearance.

Just then Kurenai, the teacher, walked in and everyone sat down on their assigned chairs.

"Good morning, everyone." She greeted them. "Today it's very important that we get this piece we've been practising right so we can move on to the next." She continued to explain the day's scheme and everyone nodded in agreement, everyone except Naruto.

He had a hard time staying awake so he didn't really hear what she was saying. It felt like someone had drugged him, he just didn't understand why he felt so tired.

Kurenai got angry because of his lack of response. Iruka had told her so much about him that it had made her expect more of him. "Just because you are here on a tryout doesn't mean that you will have privileges, Uzumaki." She snapped at him.

Everyone looked at him and he could feel a blush creep on his face. "Sorry." He kept his eyes down on the desk in front of him.

"Who's that?" Someone whispered.

"Don't know. I haven't seen him before." Another replied. "He's not from our school."

"Look at him. Can he really play well enough to be here?" A third voice joined in.

Naruto felt his heart speed up. This was what he had wanted to avoid. Voices echoed in his head. All the words that he had heard people call him. All those words that blamed him for things he didn't know. The source of all his nightmares.

"That's the boy."

"If it weren't for you..."

"Cursed boy, go away."

"It's his entire fault."

"Mommy, who's that?"

"Nobody."

"Thief."

"Monster."

"He's weird."

Why does everyone avoid me?

"Stay away from that swing. It's cursed because of him."

"Hey, nii-chan. Who's that?"

"Nobody."

"It's his fault."

What have I done? It's so dark here!

"Don't come here again."

In the end, I'm alone...

"Go away."

Mom, dad? Where did you go?

The whispers grew louder. It felt like everything was closing in on him, making it harder to breath. He squeezed his eyes shut before opening them. Everything started to spin around him. He stood up abruptly. The chair fell over as he quickly grabbed his violin and ran toward the door, out of the school. He had to get out of here. He couldn't stay. If he did, he was sure he would suffocate.

He felt his shoulder connect with something solid but didn't stop. He could hear Iruka shouting after him to stop but he didn't. He kept on running, out of the school, away from everyone. He just needed to get away. He tried to avoid all the shadows he saw, but sometimes he failed and collided with either a person or a piece of furniture. He didn't know how long he ran but when he stopped he didn't know where he was. His vision started to blur and get darker. Naruto let his violin land on the ground before following it down. He felt soft grass under his body. He tried to catch his breath but it turned into weak sobs. He felt so weak. He couldn't fight the memories anymore.

How he longed for everything to go back to the way it was before he was blind, when he had had a family, when he needn't have to worry about anything. When he had felt safe, wanted and... loved.

He curled up like a kitten and cried silently with only a small stream of tears running down his face.

o-o-o-o-o-o-

Naruto woke up when someone shook him. He opened his eyes but all he saw was darkness. It felt like he couldn't wake up, the darkness was swallowing him. Who was there?

"Naruto!"

Iruka!

"Naruto, I'm sorry. If I had known this would happen... I'm so sorry." Iruka couldn't do anything else but ask for forgiveness. He had hoped that today would help Naruto, but somehow it only had hurt him. When Naruto didn't answer him in anyway and just laid there Iruka felt a tingle of worry. He had gone after Naruto as soon as he could but it had been difficult to find him. The sun would soon be setting.

Naruto looked up at Iruka without seeing anything but black once again. "It's not your fault." He said in an empty but firm voice. Iruka sighed sadly. No matter what happened, Naruto would never blame anyone else but himself. That was a destructive path. He could hear it behind that simple sentence. A small voice that said, 'It's my fault.'

Iruka sighed. "You must be hungry." He said, helping Naruto up and grabbed the violin. "Let's go home."

With those words the two of them walked home. Naruto didn't say anything on the way back; it made it harder for Iruka to start a conversation so he just stayed quiet. He felt the other one needed it much more than talking about unimportant things.

When they got inside their home, Iruka started to make dinner. It was almost dusk now making the sky change from yellow and orange to blue and purple. After they had eaten Naruto simply said 'Good night' and he walked cautiously to his room.

Well inside his room he breathed out slowly. The day had exhausted him more than he had realized. He walked across the room to the window and opened it, letting the cool air in. He turned around almost completely and made his way over to his bed. He stood still for a while, not really thinking about anything. He leaned forward and touched the sheet. His right hand touched something and he smiled slightly as he felt the familiar smooth wooden surface of his violin.

He gently held it, just letting the feeling of it in his palm comfort him.

Naruto raised it and put it under his chin, holding it steadily with his left hand, his right hand at his side with the violin bow.

'Even if others, except Iruka, won't hear me play...' He brought his right hand up and placed the strings against each other. 'I'll play for as long as it takes for someone to hear me.' He played a gentle rhythm.

Unaware when someone walked by their house and stopped when the wind carried the music to him.

Dark eyes looked up at the house. The moon that had appeared in the sky reflected its pale rays in Sasuke's hair, bringing out the blue colour in it. He stood there listening to the music.

He didn't realize how much time had passed until the music ended, the sky was almost completely dark blue now.

'Shit.' He started to run along the street until he reached his own house. The notes followed him in his sleep.

Tbc...

Author Note: So what do you think of this? Do you enjoy this even more, even though this chapter was so short? Chapter 3 will be up soon and hopefully, it will be even better.