Author Note: Hi everyone. Thank you all for your support on this story. It's really heart warming to know how many out there that likes this story so much. If I'm not mistaken this is the most popular fiction that I have right now, at least in my opinion since I get most feedbacks on this story than on any other. I want to give special thanks to everyone that have pointed out things that I need to think about when I write. I will try my best to remember them. I'm also looking for anyone that wants to be my beta reader starting from next year and forward for a while. I don't know if this will be my last update before Christmas, I want to take the time and wish everyone A Merry Xmas. I want to say that I have had a wonderful year writing for you all. I will keep trying my best!

Ranting: K/T. Somewhere in between. This with rating is really hard.

Pairings: Future shounen-ai, boy x boy if you want it more clearly. If you for some reason don't like love between two guys then don't read this fiction, if you still do and don't like it, I won't hear you screaming because I will drown it with music.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the original characters in Naruto.

Please Read, Enjoy and Review. All reviews of encouragement, joy, happiness and constructive criticism are welcome.

Music In My Heart
Written by Monkan

Chapter 8

The next day came with a surprise. Tiny white snow flakes floated down from the sky. They landed on the ground and created a small layer of snow on everything outside. One of the clearest signs that Christmas was approaching had finally arrived. From inside Naruto watched what looked like shadows fall on the other side of the window. Everything he knew what snow looked like was a distant memory but still very dear to him. Even if he hadn't seen the snow for many years now he could still remember that day, just like it happened yesterday.

It was a memory from when his parents were still with him. The snow had fallen the night before and pilled up to what he had thought was amazing heights. That day they had played in the snow all day, laughed and had fun together. Back then the snow had looked really white and when he threw himself into it; it had felt really soft and cold on his face. When he ran back to his mother and father they had laughed because the warmth from his face was slowly melting the snow that had stuck on him. He had been really happy that day.

If someday he would be able to see again, he wondered if the snow would live up to his memory.

He was looking forward to it.

When he turned away from the window and the shadows outside he was greeted by the shadows inside the house. He was in a good mode today because it seemed like today was one of his better days. He was looking forward to see Sasuke today. Lately he hadn't been feeling so tired anymore, which made him happy.

He couldn't deny that he had changed; it was a thought that had appeared to him many times. A few months ago he would had been scared to death of changes but now he was different. He had something to look forward everyday. Now, he didn't want to give up this life he had now.

He had never had a friend like Sasuke.

-o-o-o-o-

"Sasuke, a letter arrived for you!" said Itachi as he knocked on his little brothers door.

"In a second!"

He put away his book in his school bag and stood up. He stretched out his stiff muscles. His room was sparely furniture but there were still personal objects around it. The light green paint on the walls had been palling from years before his parents bought this house but he still didn't think that the colour was ugly, but rather gave a soft touch to the room. There was a big wall scroll on one of the otherwise empty walls. The first time he had seen it, Sasuke had thought that it was one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen on a paper.

On the wall scroll was painted an ocean with twin moons in the sky, other space phenomenon's decorated the sky and reflected on the sea. Dolphins and mermaids played in the water. Faintly behind everything there were the upper body of a extremely beautiful creature, who looked very much like a man, his clothes was of pale silk that was loosely wrapped around his arms and shoulders. It also looked like he was embracing the whole world.

The only thing that stood out was the signature of the artist. "Umiko" it said.

The art was very beautiful and Sasuke had never seen it before, it appealed to him in everyway he could think of. He had wanted to know who draw it but he soon found out later that the artist had died along with her husband in an accident. He had used up his entire private savings to buy this picture but even now it was still worth every cent he had paid. The artist had only managed to make five works and all of the other four had already been sold long ago.

At the opposite wall from the wall scroll was his bed, not much to brag about. It was soft and cosy to sleep in and that was all he wanted from it. On a shelf above his bed were a few books, photos and a small decoration from his grandmother. His closet was behind his door and was stuffed with different clothes his parents had bought him over the last year. It would had been to rude even by his standards to threw them away.

The curtains were in three parts and also in a plain but darker colour than the walls so they didn't clash. Outside the glass was a cascade of colours changing the sky, it was short from an amazing view. The sky that was filled with clouds was changing shades depending on how far away from the sun they were. The top side of the clouds that was closest to the sun was pale purple and the further away they got the colour turned darker. The side that was closest to the earth and furthest away was pink and closer to the sun it turned to bright orange. Even the sky was changing as it made itself ready for the night, at the horizon was a mix of very pale blue and white, it was a strange colour but from there the sky changed into darker shades of blue.

But it was a view that Sasuke didn't look at right now. A few strands of his dark hair fell over one of his eyes as he walked over to the door and opened it.

Outside stood Itachi and held up a white letter between two of his fingers. Sasuke held out his hand in a gesture that he wanted it but his older brother didn't move a finger to give it to him. Irritation started to grow inside of him as he snatched the letter from his annoying elder brother.

Without hesitating, Sasuke turned around and slammed the door shut behind him when he entered his room again. He plopped down on the soft cover on his bed as he looked at the white letter. He didn't recognize the handwriting and also that it didn't have any post mark on it. Who ever wrote it had delivered it directly. He made a quick decision, if it was from a girl who wanted to ask him out he would threw it in the trash bin after he read it.

He opened it carefully and he read it slowly. It wasn't much written on it but what was there caught his attention. He didn't even notice Itachi entering his room until he lay down on Sasuke bed so his head was supported by his arms and he was watching Sasuke's reaction.

"Quite unannounced letter!" he said casually.

Sasuke glared at Itachi. "You've read it?"

"No, but I was on my way out when the owner of this letter left it on our doorstep." The older brother changed his position so he was sitting crossed legged on the bed. "She's changed a lot. I hardly recognized her. What does she want?"

"She wants to meet." Sasuke said a bit softer than normal.

Itachi's voice was a playful one but his face wasn't showing the same thing. "How romantic! Are you going too met up with her?"

Sasuke shock his head. "I don't know." he turned his eyes to the letter. "I don't want to remember her but at the same time she was important to me." Sasuke put his hand over his forehead and sighed miserable. "I don't know what to do."

At that moment, Itachi's facial expression changed to a completely serious one. "You have all right to not see her." his voice spoke nothing but how serious he was. "What she did to you was horrible. It even gives me the chills when I think back on it."

Itachi rose from the bed and stood before Sasuke with his arms hanging at his side. "If you want, I can tell her to stay away from you."

Neither of them said a single word for several minutes. When Itachi was on his way to leave the room, it wasn't until then that Sasuke opened his mouth.

"I want to forgive her but I can't. I don't want her to mess up my life like she did all those years ago. I really don't want to see her."

Sasuke felt seriously sick from his memories that assaulted him. He thought that he had forgotten all about it, so why did she have to return now? Was she going to mess with him once again, make his life a living hell? It had been his fault they had happened, he had been the reason everything happened.

He was mentally thrown into a vortex of his memories from six years ago. He could vaguely hear his brother yelling at him to get himself together but it was drowned out by other voices. Was this how it felt like when old wounds were reopened? Was he alone again?

"I feel like I know you a bit better now." Naruto's voice echoed in his mind.

Sasuke's eyes snapped open. 'Naruto.'

He came back to his senses and realized that he was holding his head and Itachi was trying to comfort him at the same he was trying to calm him.

"If she finds out about Naruto... she will go after him!"

"I don't know, maybe but--"

"If she goes after Naruto he will be completely defenceless against her."

"Calm down, as long as she doesn't know about--"

"Maybe she is already at his house."

"SASUKE!"

Sasuke was no longer listening. He was in a desperate state now and his worry for Naruto grew with each second. He disentangled himself from Itachi's grip and ran out the door so fast it slammed against the wall so hard it shock in its socks.

In a matter of minutes Sasuke was outside their house and ran like crazy toward Naruto's house.

-o-o-o-o-o-

At the same time on the other side of town a girl with braided chestnut hair walked home with her bag in front of her. The sky was now more orange than the show of different colours that had decorated the heavens just a few minutes earlier. She stopped when a shadow fell in front of her and the surprise on her face was evident.

A woman with long beautiful chestnut hair that fell in waves around her face, it reflected the fading sunlight. Her green eyes stood out from her pale face and she was thin.

"Long time no seen, huh!" she said in a soft tone.

"When did you return?" the teenager girl asked with hidden venom in her voice.

"Yesterday! I came back because I miss everything and everyone. I missed you too Yuiko."

The younger girl who was named Yuiko walked past the woman as if she wasn't there.

"Is that a way of treating someone you haven't seen for six years." she asked curiously.

"I want nothing to do with you; my life was a nightmare for months after you left."

The woman ran after her and stopped her. "I'm sorry about that but don't worry. I will make it better now that I've grown up. I will make it up to you."

"I'm happy that he even talks now and then with me. He doesn't blame me for what happened and that I'm happy with!" Yuiko said bravely but her resolve was beginning to shake in the presence of the other girl.

The long haired woman laid her hand on Yuiko's shoulder. "I won't do anything to hurt you. I promise. If you can't trust your own big sister who can you trust?"

With that said Yuiko was hugged by her sister. To her it felt like the coldest and most lonely hug she had ever received.

-o-o-o-o-o-

The night had almost completely arrived when Sasuke arrived at Naruto's home. He rushed inside, not caring to even take of his shoes. He made a fast note that Naruto wasn't on the bottom plane so he ran up the stairs, taking two steps at the time. He flung Naruto's bedroom door open and rushed inside. He saw Naruto sitting at his desk and at the next moment he hugged the other boy. Sasuke buried his face in the blond hair as wave after wave of relief washed over him.

"Thank God you are safe! Thank God you are safe!" was the only thing he mumbled over and over again.

Naruto, who had been too chocked to even move at all, he was confused when he heard Sasuke's words. He tried to ask what was wrong but he got no decent answer. Iruka who had come after Sasuke stood now in the doorway and felt that he could do nothing but watch right now.

All of a sudden Naruto felt how he was pulled from his chair and down on the floor. Sasuke even hugged him closer now as they sat on the floor. With Naruto in front of him, Sasuke clanged onto the other boy for dear life. He was even beginning to shake as he didn't know what to do next except to keep on making sure Naruto was ok. Tears pricked his eyes but none of them fell as the whole chock of the situation with the letter settled in. Was he never going to escape from his nightmares?

To be continued!

Authors Note: Dramatic enough for you? I took time and wrote more details as I was asked to do so but I don't know if it was enough, probably not but I will try to make it up in the next chapter. I want to point out that the sunset in all the different colours is real. I saw it two days ago from my room. It was really hard to describe but I think I did a good job on it. Until next time!