Author Note: I have a few chapters ready to post but I just can't find the time for it right now. I have a dozen different things that I need to do but either I don't have the energy or something else comes in between. I just want to take it up here because the fiction that this happened in is just finished and I just want to get it out of my system. A few days ago I got a feedback that was a flamer and was against Sasuke x Naruto in a romantic relationship. Now, I don't know how many times I have said this but if anyone don't like or can even stand the thought of this pairing, DON'T READ MY FICTIONS WITH SHOUNEN-AI WARNINGS! I was pretty angry with it and erased it but I don't want to get reviews like that because they only take unnecessary room and time for me to read. This and all my fictions are for pure fan service, nothing else. I write all kind of stories as long as I have the inspiration to it. There are stories like Return of a Stranger, Upon a Bloody Dream and a new epilogue to it in my archive so there should be no point in complaining what else I write.

Now that I have gotten that out of my system I have one thing less that's bothering me. I want to thank everyone that has followed this story so far even if the chapters aren't as many as I would like them to be at the moment but that will change. Thank you for your support and I will do my best in getting the rest of the chapters up that I have in my computer. That's a promise! When I started to write this story I thought it was pretty sweet and I want to keep it that way. Well, at least it's a goal I have for this fiction. As you probably know by now, I don't have a beta reader so you have to put up with my mistakes in grammar I do use Word but it can't find all mistakes.

Pairings: SasuNaruto, future shounen-ai. It will appear but not yet.

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

Please Read, Enjoy and Review. All reviews of encouragement, joy, happiness and constructive criticism are welcome. Flamers, be ready to be erased from the review list.

Music In My Heart
Written by Monkan

Chapter 3

A teenager with black hair and a hint of blue in it walked out through the gate of Konoha Junior High. His school bag casually thrown over his shoulder. The trees around him had already started to change colour, the sign that the autumn was on the way. Leaves in different colours of red, yellow and green danced in the air. Brown eyes that almost looked like black watched the leaves that slowly floated down to the ground.

"Wait, Sasuke-kun." A class mate shouted behind him. Sasuke turned around and saw some guys and girls from his class coming closer. "Want to come with us today? We are going to..."

"No thanks." He interrupts them. "Not interested."

"You can at least let us finish?" A girl said.

"What are you doing anyway? You don't hang out with us anymore." An ash brown haired guy said.

"It's none of your business." Sasuke said coldly and walked away from them. "I promised I would be home early today."

The group watched him walk away. When Sasuke normally would turn right he kept on walking down the street.

"Hey, Sasuke-kun. Isn't that the long way to your house?" A pink haired girl yelled after him.

Sasuke ignored them and pretended not to hear them.

-o-o-o-o-

He walked down the street, feeling the wind blow through his hair and across his clothes. He could feel it through his uniform the coldness of the breeze. As he walked something suddenly landed on his cheek. He whipped it off and noticed it was water. He hadn't thought about it when he left this morning and didn't bring any umbrella with him, he silently wished it wouldn't start raining.

He took a left turn and after he had walked for a few more minutes he looked up at his right and saw the same house he had come to for the last few weeks. Without hesitating he walked over the lawn and over to one of the large trees. He dropped his bag on the ground beside him and sat down, resting his back against the trunk. He had barely sat down when the first tones reached his ears.

This was the reason he took the long way home. From that day he first heard this violin play he found that he was spellbound by it. It was really rare, he himself had played a several instruments but it had been for the wish of his parents rather than his own. He quit when he entered Junior High, breaking his parents heart in the process but deep inside, it had been the best thing he had ever done. Before he quit he had felt so shallow while playing that he could probably compare it to dying. They called him genius but there was nothing special about him playing. He just followed the notes flawlessly, that was it, no special feeling or desire to accomplish anything. It was just playing to satisfying others. He had hated it more than anything. But this violin was different. It seemed to pull his soul with it and he could feel the motion of the tones as they were played. This violin could sound relaxed, confused, sad, playful and so much more but never happy. Never once had it sounded truly happy. Was this the mirror of the violinist soul? He had never ever heard someone that could play anything that could affect him like this. Come to think about it, he hadn't really seen the one playing. Just that he or she was shorter than him and had blond hair.

As he listened to the music as the songs changed from one and other he failed to notice the dark clouds that had started appear in the sky until a thunder bolt cracked through the sky.

Sasuke's head snapped up and he saw the dark, almost black clouds. The first few rain drops that fell were really heavy and he didn't need to guess that in a few minutes it would only get worse. He grabbed his bag and ran from the tree down to the side walk, intending to run home in hope to get there before the worst rain began to fall.

But lady luck wasn't on his side today, only a few seconds later and the rain came crashing down on him. Soaking him from head to toe in a few seconds. It was even hard to see anything very far ahead.

Sasuke ran around a corner and collided with someone. Both ran into each other and that made the impact even bigger. Sasuke landed in the new formed puddle on the ground and his school bag flew a few feet away and landed in another puddle. Anyone would have cursed over this but it wasn't in Sasuke's personality to do that even if it was tempting.

"I'm sorry. Are you ok?" The other man asked, reaching out a hand to help Sasuke up.

Sasuke just swapped it away and stood up on his own but as soon as he put weight on his foot, pain throbbed through his nerves. He ignored it and picked up his soaked school bag and as if it was possible the rain came down even harder. Both of them shielded their heads with whatever they held. Sasuke made to keep going his way but he failed to notice the edge of the sidewalk and his ankle twisted even more when his balance was thrown off. This time he couldn't help the small groan of pain that escaped.

"Are you really ok?" The brown haired man asked again with concern.

"I'm fine." Sasuke bit out, straighten his back and tried to lighten the weight on his foot. The man caught Sasuke's arm as he stumbled over his own feet.

"I can't let you go home in this condition. My house is close by, I'm sure my little brother won't have anything against it." The man let go of Sasuke's arm as he walked in the direction Sasuke just had come from. It didn't take long for the man to notice that Sasuke didn't follow him. He turned back around and he saw the expression and he realized just how the situation must look from this youth's perspective. "I'm not some perverted old man that will do anything to you, Uchiha Sasuke."

This time, Sasuke actually showed his surprise. "You know my name."

"I'm your older brother's teacher. I met you when you came to our school about two to three weeks ago." The man presented himself.

Somewhere in Sasuke's mind did something of mild recognition clicked, Iruka something was this mans name if he remembered correctly. Reluctantly and still not completely convinced, Sasuke followed the man named Iruka. Before he knew it he was once again standing in front of the house he had "visited" earlier. Was this a joke?

Iruka opened the front door and saw Sasuke hesitated slightly. "Hurry inside before you catch a cold." Even if the statement was a little late Sasuke walked inside.

Sasuke was surprised when he stood in the hall and saw how simple the house was decorated, but nice. It had the feeling of a loving home to it.

"Naruto!" Iruka shouted into the house. "I'm home. I have a guest with me. Bring a change of clothes."

Sasuke could hear some rustling coming from the next floor as he stood in the hall dripping water onto the floor. Why was he here? This was the house he stopped by to listen to some one play the violin.

"I'll go get some towels. You better go sit in the kitchen so you don't sprain your foot more." Iruka said before disappearing into the house. Slowly did Sasuke as he was told and not long afterward was he sitting in the kitchen with a towel and wiped his face and hair.

"Iruka-nii-san!" A voice called.

Sasuke peeked up from under the towel and saw that in the stairs leading up to the second floor stood a boy with a set of clothes in his hands. 'Around my age, obviously shorter than me, blond hair, slim body... wait, isn't he the boy that ran out of the music room that day?'

Iruka walk over to the teenager and took the change of clothes from him. "Thank you, Naruto."

"I'm going to bed, Iruka-nii-san." Naruto said quietly. "Good night."

Sasuke watched as the so called Naruto put his hand on the railing and turned around to walk up the stairs again when for a fleeting moment blue eyes stared into his. It only lasted for about two seconds but somehow it felt like minutes.

Sasuke stared at the spot where Naruto had stood moments ago; somehow his eyes couldn't leave that spot so easily. It wasn't until Iruka dumped the clothes on the table as well as a first-aid-kit that he snapped out of it. He didn't see Naruto for the rest of the night.

-o-o-o-o-

The next day Sasuke was awakened from his sleep by a hand shaking his shoulder. He opened his eyes and groggily tried to see anything on the other side of his drowsy eyes. Slowly his sight came into focus and he stared into a pair of blue eyes.

"Your breakfast." Naruto said as he pointed to the plate of food on the table beside the sofa. Sasuke sat up on the couch in his borrowed clothes, his right foot wrapped in bandage. The blanket he had slept under was still warm and the slightly chilly air made it more appealing to cover himself up with the blanket than face the world without it. His hair fell messily around his face.

'Where am I?' Sasuke looked around and his memories from yesterday came back to him. 'That's right, I'm...'

"You are Naruto, right?" He asked the blond.

Naruto nodded while he sat down on the other end of the sofa eating his own breakfast.

"Sorry for troubling you." He apologized.

"It's all right." Naruto said quietly.

"I heard you two are brothers." Sasuke said casually.

"Not blood related though."

"I see." He really wanted to hit himself in the head for just coming up with 'I see', even with his high IQ he couldn't come up with a better response. Why was it so hard to keep up one conversation?

They sat in silence while they ate their breakfast. None of them knew what to say to break the awkward silence between them so neither said anything.

"Iruka-nii-san had leave for work. If you have someone that can come and get you then you can use the phone in the hall to call them if you want."

"There's no one at home right now to pick me up."

"Oh, ok."

While Naruto took their trays to the kitchen Sasuke sat with his hands folded together in his lap. The sound of plates against plates was probably the only sound in the house, if you didn't count the clock.

Suddenly the sound of a plate breaking against the floor echoed in his ears.

Sasuke attention snapped up. "Are you all right?" he asked, standing up. His foot hurt a little when he hurried to the kitchen.

In the kitchen Naruto stared at his hand as it faded in and out of view. 'No.' He begged. 'Not now.' But it was of no use. His prayers didn't reach any God and what little sight he had from this morning faded away into darkness. He closed his eyes and pressed his hand against his face.

"Are you all right?" He could hear the other boy ask him as the sound of someone entering the kitchen reached his ears.

Naruto opened his eyes, everything was black. He started to panic inside. 'What am I going to do? I can't let him know I'm blind. I can't, he will tell everyone. I'm sure of it. If everyone knows then... I rather die.'

"Hey? What's wrong?" The voice was now behind him and on his left side.

Naruto put his hand against his face, over his right eye. "I'm... not feeling well..." He lied.

"You should go back to bed if you are sick." Sasuke said in a voice that sounded matter-of-fact.

Naruto nodded in agreement. He backed away from the counter and the shards on the floor but because he didn't want to come to close to the other boy he moved a little more to the right. Getting out of the kitchen was no problem it was when he had to cross the living room that he felt his conscious began to slip away. Naruto began to wobble on his feet's.

"Hey, watch out." Sasuke said as he captured Naruto's arm.

"Sorry."

Naruto was sure that the other boy was staring at him, he could feel it. Did he know? Despite the fact that Naruto had his eyes more than half closed? He heard a sigh.

"Guess it can't be helped. Where is your room?" Sasuke asked as he grabbed Naruto's arm and laid it over his shoulders.

Naruto was shocked by his actions. "Eh, ah, up stairs. First room to the left." Naruto said a little louder and faster than normal.

Without a word Sasuke helped Naruto up the stairs and to his bedroom. He helped Naruto inside and helped the blond down on the bed.

Naruto didn't look at him when he thanked him and Sasuke found that a little strange. Was he embarrassed? Or was it because of something else? Either way it was very rude!

Naruto laid down on the bed, not even pulling up the cover. He just lay with his eyes closed as he breathed in and out slowly. What were he supposed to do now? There was no plan except to hide the facts about his eyes.

There was a rustling sound and Naruto could hear the other boy walk over to the window. What was he doing? Wasn't he supposed to leave? Why didn't he leave?

Sasuke stood by the window, balancing on one foot to take of pressure of his injured wrist. It didn't hurt so much but it still felt when he stood on it. He looked around the room. There wasn't much in it that decorated only a desk with few books and papers, a photo in a frame on it. A bed and a drawer were the other things in the room. He could hardly believe that there was anyone beside him that had so little things in his room; in fact even he himself had more personal stuff in his room than this. He looked at the drawer and to his surprise he saw something leaning against it in the shadows.

He went over to it and saw it was a violin bag. If he opened it he was opened it he was sure he would find a violin in it. It hadn't really occurred to him that this boy was the one he came to listen to.

"You're the one playing the violin?" He asked quietly. In the silence it was more than enough to be heard.

There was a pause.

"Yeah." Naruto's voice wasn't louder than Sasuke's.

"Would you have anything against it if I came by again to listen to you playing?" Sasuke asked, feeling slightly nervous.

"Why?"

Sasuke hesitated briefly. "I've... heard you play when I walk by for a few days now and I... like your music." Sasuke finished awkwardly, with a few streak of pink on his cheeks.

"There's nothing special about my violin. I'm not that good anyway so..."

"I disagree." Sasuke interrupted. "I don't know why but... will you please play for me sometime?"

Naruto didn't know what to do. He felt desperate to disappear. Why did this have to happen, he didn't need anyone to complicate his life more than it already was. He felt so sleepy.

Before he knew it Naruto felt how the bed moved as the other boy sat down on it. "Please." Sasuke half whispered, facing the blond.

Naruto opened his eyes slightly but he still saw nothing. He didn't say anything but his mind was in turbulence over what to say.

Sasuke wasn't sure what he would get for answer when he heard, "Sure."

Sasuke couldn't help it when his lips twisted into a smile but he didn't know his smile went by unseen for the other boy. "Feeling better?" He asked with the ghost of a smile on his lips.

"Somewhat." Naruto said. "I'm... Uzumaki Naruto."

It took Sasuke only a second to realize that they hadn't introduced themselves even if he knew the others name. "Uchiha Sasuke."

They talked a little longer before it was obvious that Naruto had fallen asleep. Sasuke stood up and took a step away from the bed when he stopped. He turned back and pulled the cover over Naruto's form. After he had done that he walked over to the door, threw a last look at the violin where it stood Sasuke stepped outside the room. When he closed the door he stood still for a long moment before walking down the stairs and borrowed the phone there to call his family for them to pick him up.

The call was like always short and cold, like it they always were after he stayed out without calling home. They would pick him up in an hour. Sasuke though it would be best to gather his things. He even took the time to pick up the shards of the plate in the kitchen and write a good bye note.

When his father finally came to pick him up in their expensive car he looked up at the window he now knew belonged to Naruto's bedroom. With his cold expression once again pasted onto his face Sasuke went home but during the ride he found himself thinking, 'Why am I so happy?'

To be continued!

Author Note: As I promised I will do my best and post soon again. If this was to your liking it would be nice to get a feedback from you. Another update on this story is on the way!