Author Note: When I think about it its sometime hard to believe how popular this story have become. What was a crazy little thought have turned into my longest lived story so far. It's a good thing, a very good thing and it only makes me more happy every time I post a new chapter now. Even Yue have become a character that's loved and that is something that makes me really, really happy. Thank you very much for your support over the years. I hope that we have a long time ahead of us. YOU are among the best support I've ever had in my life. Oh, the drama is turned up a step. Nuriko's revenge is closing in. You have to read it to believe it. Short chapter but efficient.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Pairings: Sasuke x Naruto. Itachi x Yue.

Warning: This is a shounen-ai story. Boy loves boy. So I don't want those that hate this genre reading this story and then flaming it. Please leave quietly, there are lots and lots of hetero stories out there that you can read instead.

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Music In My Heart
By Monkan

Part 16

The curtains were pushed aside so the light fell into the room. A woman with dusty blond hair stood there and smiled at the beautiful day. She turned around and walked over to the crib where an infant laid and slept soundly. She reached down and picked him up gently as she coed to him to wake up. Big blue eyes opened and stared up at her. A man with striking blond hair, much like the sun walked into the big room. He walked over to the woman and gave her a kiss on the cheek before taking the baby and gave him a kiss to on the cheek before lifting him high up into the air, earning a happy giggle.

-.-.-.-.-

"Can you hear me?"

Naruto opened his eyes and stared blindly into a maze of blurry colours. A blur he was used to seeing now. He looked around and saw the form of some one he didn't know. At his other side stood Iruka, worried and concern coming from him.

"Yes." Naruto weakly said in a hoarse voice.

"Good." the person said. "You gave your protector a scare there for a moment. Do you know what happened?"

Naruto could only shake his head.

"You fainted. That's my guess since I can't find anything wrong with you but since children your age shouldn't faint I want you to contact the hospital again if anything like this happens again." he was now speaking more to Iruka than Naruto but the boy didn't think about it and after a few minutes the doctor left.

He pushed himself up in the bed and just then realized that he was still fully clothed.

"Naruto, it's time you stop." Iruka said, "This isn't the first time this have happened, right? You try to hide it but I can see that you are tired more often. You even have headaches from time to time. This isn't normal."

"I'm fine, Iruka. I just fainted that's all."

"Don't lie to me." Iruka snapped but regretted it immediately when he saw Naruto retreat into his shell once again. "I'm sorry." the man said in a tired voice. "You really scared me, I thought for sure something serious had happened."

"I'm sorry." Naruto said gently as if he was scared of another snapping.

The long silence that followed was only broken by the sound of the front door being opened and shut. They could both hear Sasuke's voice as he announced he was there.

"You have to tell him."

Naruto's head snapped back. "No. Don't tell him." he almost pleaded.

Iruka shook his head. "You have to tell him, you can't keep a secret like this from him. It will damage your friendship."

"Please don't tell him. I beg you don't tell him." Naruto pleaded.

Iruka was about to keep protest but he heard Sasuke's footsteps coming up the stairs. It was then that he felt Naruto grab a hold of his arms and it was only then that he realized Naruto seriously didn't want to tell him.

"Please, Iruka. Don't tell him. I will, I promise. But not now, please." the begging look in Naruto's eyes was almost to much for him to handle.

"All right." Iruka said just as the door handle was opened and Sasuke's head popped in.

The dark haired boy looked at them both questionably before stepping inside. "Hi. The door was unlocked so I came in without warning. Am I interrupting something?"

Iruka stood up as he let Naruto sit back on his knees on the bed. "No." he said with a smile on his lips. "Do you want some hot chocolate, Sasuke? It must be freezing outside."

"Thank you very much." Sasuke said as he nodded his head.

Iruka patted Sasuke on the shoulder as he walked past him. Sasuke had no idea what it was for and he didn't have time to ask before the man was outside the room and the door shut.

Iruka walked down the stairs and into the kitchen where he slumped down in one of the chairs there. How could it had turned out like this? He rubbed his face to get of some sleepiness. "Since when did he stop calling me Iruka-nii?"

-o-o-o-o-

As the door closed behind Iruka Sasuke walked over to the bed and leaned forward. He planted a kiss on Naruto's cheek before sitting down next to him. Nearly three weeks since his confession and he was finally getting the hang of everything, he could say that.

He only had a few more days until school started again. He had never been one to complain about school since he went there, did what he should do and went home. Now school seemed so much more... boring. He wanted to spend all waking moments with Naruto but knew that was impossible. He wanted to skip school more often to be with Naruto but he couldn't, his brother would kill him if he found out and his "friends" at school would bug him to no end.

"Are you feeling ok?" Sasuke asked as he saw how pale Naruto seemed to appear.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Naruto said tiredly.

Sasuke stared at Naruto's face for a moment as if he was deciding something. "Sleepy?"

He was about to deny it when he yawned big and rubbed his eyes from the tears that appeared. "A little..."

Naruto was startled when Sasuke took him into his arms and leaned back against the headboard. Naruto rested against his head against Sasuke's chest and it felt really nice. It was a strange feeling, lately his heart felt warm every time Sasuke was close by. It was like before but something was different now.

"Get some sleep, I will be here when you wake up and then we can have fun."

He closed his blue eyes slowly as he relaxed into the dark haired boys arms that were wrapped around him lose. "Yeah."

"Sleep tight." Sasuke whispered into Naruto's hair.

It took a few seconds but finally there were a faint, "mm."

Sasuke breathed in the scent of Naruto's hair, it was strange really. How much these little things mattered now. There was something special even with him asleep in his arms. He wasn't disappointed or angry that their time together may end up like this, he was just happy.

-o-.-o-.-o-.-o-

Itachi walked from his room on his way down to the kitchen to get something to eat. He wasn't meeting up with Yue until later when he finished his final report. It was an easy essay he had to write about a free topic in history, he just needed to sit down and write it, the will was there but not inspiration so he thought he needed a short break. If he finished this then the last five days of his winter vacation would be spend together with Yue and that was something he was looking forward to.

He walked past the windows and just happened to cast a look outside and he thought he saw a coat disappear around the corner. He stopped and looked to see if he could spot the person again. Call him paranoid but with some familiar crazy people around you couldn't be to careful.

As he walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge he took out some left-overs since yesterday. He heated them in the micro and walked back up to his room. When he walked down the hall he noticed that the door to Sasuke's room was opened. He guessed that Sasuke had come home without him noticing it from the kitchen, after all... his little brother wasn't really fond of him.

A wicked smile crept onto his face as he thought about scaring him a little so he sneaked over to the door and was ready to open it when suddenly his guts started to go of. Every nerve in his body was telling him something wasn't right so he steeled himself and slammed open so hard the crash echoed in his ears. He stared into the room and could only do so in horror.

"What the hell...?" he exclaimed in a strangled whisper.

The whole room was turned in-side-out and in the middle of the room in a pool of it's own blood laid a dead rabbit.

To be Continued.