Author Note: I know you all had to wait for this chapter but I it's finally here. I realized that the last chapter was rather short but there is no turning around now. Today I won't have my computer anymore with me, so I don't know how it will go with the next chapter. I will have to leech onto mom's computer to write and I don't really like it, for various reasons. But I will try not to let you down. There will probably be one and a half week before the next update but then again it might come earlier, it depends. But right now I can give you a new chapter to bite your teeth in. This story remains as the one I enjoy the most to write since you all let me know how much you love it. Many more chapters to come and so many ideas… I won't spoil any of them, you just have to wait and see what happens.

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

Pairings: SasuNaru. Shounen-ai. If you for some reason don't like love between two guys then don't read this fiction. For the rest of you, it's time for some action in the romance section.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

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

Music in My Heart
By Monkan

Part 11

The frozen lake was filled with laughing and skiing students. Those that had come there early were already on the ice and those that just arrived were busy tying their gears on. It was nice weather but still a little chilly. In one of the snow heaps at the edge of the ice sat Sasuke, ready to get out on the ice like the rest.

His friends was already out there and having fun and he knew he couldn't get away. The teachers were watching to make sure no one from the school sneaked away without permission. How he disliked days like these. He didn't hate them but he didn't like them either. If they had time for something like this then there were other things he would rather have done. As he thought about all the things he rather do an image of Naruto entered his head and he blushed when he realized just what he was imagine and crushed all thoughts before they had a chance.

More and more lately he had found himself thinking about Naruto but not as a friend normally did. He didn't know why he was being affected like this. He wasn't used to thoughts like this but he felt like he was betraying his friendship with the blond boy and therefore tried not to think about it. Something that proved difficult the more time he spent with his friend.

To get rid of his thoughts before they started to get the better of him he stood up and walked out on the ice, balancing on the blade under his feet. He took a small step before pushing away with his left foot and glided over the ice. His classmates soon surrounded him as he tried not to think about anything.

-o-o-o-o-

Some distance away from the ice stopped a cab and with help from the driver Naruto stepped outside. He thanked the man before paying the sum and waiting until the car was gone. During the journey his sight had darkened a little more compared to when he woke up but he had gotten this far and he wasn't about to turn around.

He could see blurry colourful figures in the distance and decided it was best to go there and see where he ended up at. He started to walk toward them but after a few steps he felt his foot slip and he fell. He landed with a thump on the hard walk path and let out a startled and pained yelp.

'I better be careful.' he thought, 'I have to look out so I don't get on the ice.'

Some people passed him by as he struggled to stand up, which was easier said than done considering his sense of balance was slightly off for some reason and he had limited eyesight.

-o-o-o-o-

"Sasuke-kun is your friend here?" a girl asked him as she came up beside him.

"Yeah, I want to meet him!" said another girl that was behind them. "Where is he?"

"He's not here." Sasuke said bluntly.

"Eeeeh?" they let out in disappointment. "Why?"

"A cold." which wasn't true but that didn't matter.

"Can you bring him to school sometime?" a guy asked as he came up to Sasuke's other side.

"Maybe."

"C'mon. Don't be so stingy. We just want to meet him." said a fourth party.

"I wonder how he's like?" the first girl asked.

"Maybe there's some reason why you don't introduce him to us!" said the first boy with fake suspicion.

It felt like he had been pierced through the heart with an arrow. 'Good he's too stupid to realize he's right.' Sasuke thought as he looked untouched by the remark. "There's no reason."

"Heeeh. So you say!" the boy said.

'Just drop it already!' Sasuke made a sharp turn to lose them but he got caught by others. 'Just leave me alone!'

-o-o-o-o-

What Sasuke still didn't know was that Naruto was coming closer. He had twice bumped into others and he wasn't feeling well at now. The air was cold and made him feel dizzy. Everyone was blurring in and out of sight and it made him feel nauseous from time to time. He started to really regret for actually coming. The noise around him didn't help either. He wasn't used to being around so many people and it felt strange. He was nervous and looked around in hope to find Sasuke soon.

When he took a particular step he felt how his foot slipped once again and he fell but this time he landed in the snow wall. It took him a moment to realize what happened and get a grip of his surrounding. He was just a few steps away from the ice ring and he didn't want to get closer than that.

"Hey. Are you looking for someone?" asked a voice beside him. Naruto looked up and could barely make out a girl with long black hair tied in two tails. She mistook Naruto's bewildered face for something else. "I saw you looking around as if you were looking for someone." she said with a smile.

Naruto didn't know what to say at first but he knew it was better than for him to look on his own. "Um... Sasuke is--"

"What! You are a friend of Sasuke-kun's?" she asked delighted and efficiently cutting him of. "Are you the new friend Sasuke-kun's been hanging out with recently?" she asked curiously.

"Who's this?" some one asked as a group of people came closer to the girl.

"This is a friend of Sasuke-kun." she told them.

"Then he is..." one said."We finally met!"

There were a storm of words around him and Naruto didn't know where all the voices came from or how many were around him. He could feel panic rise in the pit of his stomach.

-o-o-o-o-

"What's going on?" asked someone as they noticed the increasing chatter at one end of the ice.

"Don't know." said Sasuke as he took of in the opposite direction. 'Thank God I didn't bring Naruto.'

After a few minutes and the chatter still not dying down Sasuke had to stop and get a better look. The group of students was moving toward the ice. 'Great.' was his sarcastic thought. He could hear hand clapping and got slightly curious what was happening so he skied closer until he had crossed half the distance. When he got closer a bad feeling was starting to grow inside. It was then that he saw Naruto and he froze where he was.

-o-o-o-o-

Naruto let out a tiny protest as he felt hands push him in the back. The people around him had somehow got it out of him that he had never been on the ice for years now and they wanted him to get on it now. They had taken his hands and lead him out on the ice despite his protests. He was now being pushed around between them on his shoes. He didn't dare move or lose his balance because he could still feel how blank the ice was. His breathing was being hitched up and he found his surrounding blurring even more. They did it with good intension but it didn't feel like it for him. They didn't know he was blind or more precisely had problem with his vision. He was beginning to freak out quite badly. When he was caught by one he was pushed to another and more people were getting closer to him as they heard he was a friend of Sasuke's.

What was so special about Sasuke? He didn't want this. He just wanted to surprise Sasuke, make a decision on his own and this is what happened. He was scared. He wanted to scream but he didn't dare. His shyness was to severe right now and he didn't dare make a sound anymore. But the truth was that he couldn't get a single word out of his throat. All the sounds and blurry images were getting too much.

He wanted to leave. He wanted to run away and back to his sanctuary. He wanted to be safe back home... with Sasuke there.

He let out a startled gasp as the thought hit him. He wanted Sasuke to be there with him? Not Iruka but Sasuke? No. Iruka was most important to him. He liked Sasuke but Iruka was his family. Iruka was supposed to be most important, then why was he desperately thinking about Sasuke?

Everything was chaos now. He began to lose his grip on reality. Sasuke. Sasuke. Sasuke. SASUKE!

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" screamed Sasuke's voice and shocked everyone into silence.

It was then that Naruto felt his feet slip and somehow he knew it would hurt soon.

Compared to how everything had blurred together into chaos just a few seconds earlier it felt like everything was moving in slow motion now. It was strange really. It felt like everything was slowly coming to a stop. Then it hit him, he landed on the ice with a loud echoing sound. After the first hit he lifted a few centimetres into the air and turned to his side before landing again.

"NARUTO!" screamed Sasuke as he rushed as fast as he could to Naruto's side. He came to a sudden stop and went down on his knees so he slipped the last two meters next to Naruto. Sasuke placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder and called him again. He got a whimper out of the blond and it was then that he realized that Naruto was actually wearing a helmet. He felt himself breath a sigh of relief, at least there weren't any head injury.

"Sa..su..ke..." whispered Naruto as he slowly opened his eyes.

"I'm here." he said to comfort his friend.

"Where? I can't... see you." Naruto hadn't moved his hands, maybe because he couldn't or didn't dare. Sasuke didn't know but he was beginning to get scared all over again. Who knew what kind of injuries he got from that fall. If he fractured his arms it could cost him the violin. He didn't want Naruto to suffer that.

"I'm right here." he said in a soothing voice as he took Naruto's hand in his. "I'm here with you."

Naruto closed his eyes in relief and gave him a small smile. "I'm glad."

-o-o-o-o-

The next time Naruto woke up was in his own bed. He didn't remember how he got there and he couldn't remember anything from that moment until now.

"You're awake?" asked that sweet voice.

"Sasuke?" asked he as he reached out his hand and he realized it was wrapped in bandage.

"It's alright. The doctor said you only sprained your hand when you landed and your back will be a little sore for a few days but you are alright." told Sasuke Naruto as he took the blonds hand. The touch if could made his stomach flutter. There was so much he wanted to ask but... "You should get some more sleep."

When Naruto woke up next time he felt something touch his lips. He didn't dislike the touch but he wasn't completely fine with it. First he didn't know who it was that was touching him because he hadn't opened his eyes yet. Second was that his heart was feeling strange. He didn't know who would touch him but he decided to continue to pretend to sleep. Fingertips lingered on his lower lip for a few seconds before running over them both. This action made him unconsciously open his lips slightly to the light pressure, his heart was beating faster. The fingers ceased what they were doing and for a long moment they didn't move. Naruto felt tempted to open his eyes to see who it was when the fingers left his mouth but when he felt another pair of lips kiss his own he couldn't stop his eyes from flying open and what he could see made his heart skip a beat.

Sasuke was the one kissing him.

To be continued.