Author Note: Thank you everyone, you really know how to make a girl happy. The encouragement you give me gives me the wish and desire to write more and more for you. Now I think you all agree with me for some more sweet scenes with out darling couple. I was a little late with this update but I had a little bad luck since my last update. I hurt my hand among other things but it wasn't serious, thank god. Oh, well. I don't have any work until the weekend so I decided to go into battle with mom's computer once again. The spelling program still doesn't work, I will try to correct most of the words as best as I can but I can't get all of them. I have to go get some more sleep, I had trouble sleeping two nights ago and ended up being awake for nearly 40 hours, no recomendations in doing that, sleep at night so you don't screw up the next day. I'm still kind of tired so therefore I will add a few more hours to my 24 hours sleep. I will take my leave and I hope you will enjoy this chapter just as much as I did writting it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Pairing: Sasuke x Naruto.
Warning: This is a shounen-ai story. If you don't like to read stories about homosexual couples then be so nice and spend your time looking for other great, none shounen-ai, stories instead of flaming this one.
Read, Enjoy and Review. Any words of happiness, encouragement, constructive criticism and everything in between are welcomed.
Music In My Heart
By Monkan
Part 13
A week had gone by since their "confession" to each other. One week... and nothing seemed to have changed. Sasuke sat in Naruto's room, waiting for the blue eyed teen to come back. His thoughts had taken the time to roam around in his head. Nothing had seem to have changed in their relationship and that was his problem. He had thought of making Naruto fall in love with him but so far his mission hadn't gone anywhere. No matter what he did it all seemed normal. When he held Naruto's hand as they walked through his house. When Naruto played the violin for him. How much time they spent together. What they talked about. Nothing had changed. He tried to touch Naruto more, he tried to kiss him now and then, he tried to be more intimate with his actions but nothing he wanted didn't became reality. But he also knew what the true problem was. The REAL problem was that he had no idea how to act in a romantic relationship.
He really wanted to kiss Naruto but even when they said good bye or hello there was no kiss. It was normal for couples to share kisses when they saw or parted with each other. So why couldn't he do it? If he wanted to make Naruto fall in love with him he had to act and not only wait. Why had he fallen in love with Naruto at all?
The door opened and he looked up and smiled when he saw Naruto enter. Naruto smiled back even if he wasn't sure if Sasuke was smilling at him. He walked over to his desk and his hands travelled over the surface until they came in contact with a book but the impact send the book to the floor.
Naruto let out a sigh as he knelt down to pick it up. Sasuke watched for a moment before he rose from the bed. He knelt down beside Naruto whose hands was searching everything within their reach for the book. Sasuke grabbed the book and laid it back on the desk.
"Here, grasp onto my hand." said the dark haired youth as he took Naruto's hands into his and guided him up to his feet. Naruto looked a little uncertain but his expression only made Sasuke smile.
'He's really cute.'
Naruto's cheeks was colours with a light blush that made Sasuke smile even more. Until he realized that he was still holding Naruto's hands and just standing there, making the other teen nervous.
"Sorry." he said as he let go. He looked at Naruto's face as the other boy turned to the desk once again to search for something. Sasuke stood there smilling with a tiny bit of red on his cheeks too.
He really knew why he had fallen for Naruto. Mostly everything about him was appealing. He was innocent and naïve but not so much so he didn't know what the world outside these walls was like. He wasn't precisly smart but he wasn't stupid either, even if some of his questions was strange. He was honest and forward when he had the courage to be. His actions was from time to time clumpsy and he hesitated when his surrounding was unfamiliar but he tried to handle it on his own. Something Sasuke thought was really cute. His emotions showed easily on his face and Sasuke loved how he could make the blond boy either falter or make him smile. He wasn't selfish like most people, he tried his hardest to live as best as he could by himself. He knew how to keep a conversation even if he wasn't used to the subject. He also didn't talk or complain about his eyesight, it was something he accepted and didn't point out all the time. Because of that he didn't go by looks like most people did when they met Sasuke. His family didn't matter either to Naruto. The fact that Sasuke was rich didn't seem to bother or matter to Naruto.
Sweet, honest and still sensetive. That's how he could describe him. But he knew Naruto was more complex than that. But that didn't make them less trustable or loveable than others. Even more so... it was exactly that that attracted Sasuke to him.
Even with his faltering motions or when he crashed into things in Sasuke's house. Despite how nervous or uncomfortable he was around new people, this applying to Itachi. And even if he wasn't sure what he should do all the time in the company of others there was still something about him that made him special.
He held Naruto's hand when he lead him around in his own home but... the few times he had actually been hugged or embraced the the other boy in a moment of distress or other there had always been this... warmth.
It always felt warm in Naruto's arm. He even felt protected from the world outside. It was a warmth he wasn't used to but it wasn't strange either. In fact he loved the warmth and would do anything to feel it again.
Sasuke's breath caught in his throat as improper images poped up in his mind. Things he didn't even know how he had been able to come up with. He turned so, if possible today, Naruto wouldn't see the blush on his face and start asking questions.
It was then he realized something and before he changed his mind he turned around, "Naruto, do you want to stay over tonight at my house?"
Naruto's hands halted in their motion. "What?"
"To night. Stay over at my home. Sleep over. You know... spend the night over at my place!"
"Why... all of a sudden?"
Sasuke voice was calm but warm. "I want to spend the night with you. I want us to spend at least one night together that doesn't involve one of us in some sort of distress. Besides... no one is home tonight."
Naruto felt his chest tighten slightly when Sasuke's voice sounded lonely at the end. He took a moment to think about it before nodding his agrement.
"Great." said Sasuke with a loop-side smile as he watched the blush on Naruto's face remain.
-o-o-o-o-
"Please stop this!" pleaded Yuiko as her sister sat in front of her. "I can't take anymore of this."
"What are you talking about? I haven't done anything!" defended Nuriko herself with a confused expression.
"But you will. I know you are going to do something but please don't. Whatever you are planing don't do it."
"Thanks for the food." Nuriko said before she stood up and went to the front door and slipped on her shoes. All hooks was empty except one where a dark blue jaket hanged. "Don't tell mom and dad I was here. I don't want you to get scolled for it."
"Sis!" Yukio exclaimed but all she got was a soft 'Good Bye' and the door in her face.
Outside Nuriko walked away from the pretty boring looking house that she once had lived in. A few lonely snowflackes drifted down from the otherwise empty sky. Her eyes was hidden behind her hair and no one of those she walked by paid no attention.
'Soon my plan will be ready. Everything will be perfect. No one except I will be special to him.'
-o-o-o-o-
Naruto stood nervously in the door frame holding a pillow against his chest. He looked at the empty bed in front of him through his hazy eyes. He knew that Sasuke wouldn't do anything to him but it still made him a little uncomfortable. He knew what this situation meant. They would share bed together, probably sleep under the same cover too.
He couldn't do it. No matter how much he liked Sasuke he couldn't do it. This was beginning to feel like a big mistake. But if he turned around and left now he knew it would hurt Sasuke very much. Even if he tried to hide it Naruto knew how happy he was for tonight.
Naruto couldn't help it that he wasn't used to sleep in the same bed as someone else. He had no memories of his parents ever doing that with him and Hinata never stayed over. Iruka had his own bed when he moved in and by then he had been used to sleep alone that he never even thought about sharing the same bed with his foster father.
He heard Sasuke enter the room and stood beside him for a moment before walking over to the bed and drooped something of. Naruto couldn't see what it was from this distance but he wasn't sure if he wanted to know.
"Are you coming?" Sasuke asked as he looked up at Naruto who was still standing where he was even after ten minutes.
The dark haired boy noticed how nervous Naruto was and felt bad for putting him in this situation. The last thing he wanted was to scare the one he loved. It was even enough for him to suggest, "Maybe you want to sleep alone?"
Naruto was startled out of his thoughts at the sound of Sasuke's voice.
"I can take the floor." he said as he pushed down a pillow and a blanket from a near standing chair.
"W-wait! What are you doing?" asked Naruto.
Sasuke paused in his actions. "It bothers you to sleep in the same bed as me, I won't force you into something you don't want to do." he resumed with what he was doing and didn't see Naruto hesitatly walk over to the bed until he noticed how the bed shifted beside him and he felt a pair of hands grabbing one of the short arms of the t-shirt he was wearing.
He froze where he was and didn't dare say anything.
Nothing was said but Sasuke could feel the hands urging him to get on the bed. He didn't refuse the silent request and within a few seconds he sat down next to Naruto. The blue eyed boy looked at him like he was sorry before he, to Sasuke's bewilderment and delight, hugged him tight around the neck.
"Sorry." whispered Naruto, "let's sleep together."
Sasuke slowly placed his arms around Naruto's waist and nodded. "Sure."
Sasuke lifted the cover for Naruto to sneak under before he left the bed long enough to turn of the light. He then came back and it was then Naruto saw that it was another cover Sasuke had been carrying to the bed earlier. He pulled the second cover up to his chest and snatched up the pillow from the floor before he laid his head down on it.
Sasuke wasn't sure how far he could go in holding Naruto tonight but even if he didn't get to hold him tonight there would be other nights and somewhere in the future he would get his wish granted. For now he was just happy with sleeping in the same bed as Naruto. Maybe it wasn't such a big step right now but it was at least a start for him.
Somewhere in the middle of the night Sasuke woke by the bed shifting and it was then he became aware of that Naruto was laying on the same pillow as him. Their faces was really close and Sasuke could had kissed those lips if he just leaned forward a little more. A soft smile graced his face and his arms came around Naruto to hold him close. The feeling of the other boy in his arms was enough for him to last for days. He would never regret this moment even if his love was never returned or if others scorned him for it. The smell of Naruto's hair reached his nose and he instinctly held Naruto closer but still gently so not to wake him. The comforting warmth from Naruto's body made him silently thank God for giving him the courage to ask for this night.
The minutes ticked by and Sasuke found himself slowly falling back into the dreaming world. Before he became completely unaware of the real world he could hear a soft mummer coming from the boy in his arms.
"Feels nice."
Tbc...
