Just a little something. Maybe a present because I won't be updating for a while…:) And maybe it won't stay with just a one chapter….

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The sensei looked at the young Sasuke who stood in the middle of a field. His eyes were closed and he seems strangely calm. The man decided to ask what was wrong and walked up to the boy. Immediately Sasuke turned around, his senses sharpened. Sensei smiled, even this 10 year old boy had the senses of a perfect ninja. This boy had great things ahead for him in the future.

"Sasuke, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be going home?"

The boy relaxed at the sight of his sensei and turned around again, his eyes closing in process. The older man blinked. Normally little Sasuke wouldn't even dare to close his eyes in somebody's presence. He almost trusted nobody. "what are you doing here alone?" the man asked again.

"listening." The boy answered. The man looked around, he didn't hear anything special. Just the normal wind and the sounds of Konoha. "what do you hear, sensei?"

The man raised his eyebrows at the question. "I can hear the wind blowing, the birds and the sounds of Konoha."

The boy frowned at the answer, opening his eyes. The man, who the frown was aimed at, looked puzzled. "then, what do you hear, Sasuke?"

"nothing." And with that said, the boy turned around, leaving for the Uchiha compound.

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Sasuke took a sip of his bottle of water. He looked at his sensei. Maybe he could hear it. the raven hesitated when the said man turned to him. "something wrong, Sasuke?"

Sasuke sighed and sat down next to the men on the porch of the Uchiha mansion. "can you close your eyes sensei?" Kakashi cocked his head, but when he looked at the serious expression of his student he closed his eyes. There fell a silence.

"…what can you hear?" Sasuke asked, his own ears almost longing o hear the right answer. Kakashi, frowned a little but concentrated. "I can hear the water, I can hear you breath, my own heartbeat and a great silence."

Close, but not close enough. Sasuke's expression turned sad, glad that Kakashi couldn't see his face. "Okay, thanks. Open your eyes."

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Sasuke sat down at the porch, handing the bottle with water to the tan hand that the blond stretched out at him. "thanks."

Sasuke looked around, giving his neighbor a glance before he closed his eyes. There fell a silence. "Sasuke?" Naruto asked. Sasuke opened his eyes, looking into the wondering, almost expecting blue eyes. Maybe …just maybe…Naruto would have the right answer. "can…" the raven started, the rest

of his sentence fading away with the wind. Sasuke looked down. What if Naruto failed, like many had before him? What if only Sasuke could hear it? Sasuke pondered for another moment. "can…?" Naruto asked, hoping that Sasuke would continue. The raven sighed. He prepared himself with another disappointment. "can you close your eyes?"

Naruto raised an eyebrow, but closed his eyes. He made himself comfortable on the wood of the porch and placed his bottle beside him. Sasuke opened his mouth with a small intake of air. But somehow, the words wouldn't leave his mouth. What if Naruto would disappoint him? Would he really be able to survive that? Would his soul and heart be ready? "what…w-what can you …hear?"

The raven looked at the blond. Naruto concentrated. After few seconds, that felt like ages to Sasuke, were filled with silence Naruto opened his mouth. Sasuke's body tensed up and he unconsciously leaned in towards Naruto, almost afraid that he would miss the answer.

"nothing." The blond answered.

Sasuke blinked. His body suddenly felt very heavy when the words stung at his heart. His eyes looked down at the wood. He should've known. Of course. A dobe like Naruto wouldn't know. But still, he could've hoped for something. Sasuke hated himself for clinging onto such a tiny bit of hope. For letting himself fall into his seas of emotions.

"I hear loneliness…"

Sasuke looked up at Naruto's hesitated whisper. The blond frowned slightly, his eyes still closed in concentration.

"I hear pain, slowly creeping through the other sounds like oil. Somehow, it seems …like the sounds are water…and the pain, loneliness and silence just can't mingle themselves with the other sounds just to vanish in the air."

Sasuke swallowed, his heart beating faster. Naruto smiled suddenly. "I can hear the warmth, Sasuke. I can hear everything. It feels like the silence is so loud that my head will explode if I listen to long. The silence that reaches my heart. The sounds adapting to the rhythm of my heart so my whole body feels like it's a sound itself."

Sasuke didn't even attempt to stop the tears from flowing. He could only look, with a surprised, relieved and happy look to the boy in front of him. His hands turned into fists that grabbed his pants. Finally…finally someone was hearing the same things as he was.

"I hear tears falling into a sea, mangling itself with the other, who've been waiting. I can hope starting as a small flame, but slowly consuming everything surrounding it. …I can even hear your heartbeat if I listen very carefully, Sasuke."

The blond opened his eyes, a calm smile appearing as he saw the sobbing raven. He crept closer to the broken boy and surrounded him in his arms. "Maybe if we listen together, Sasuke. Just maybe…we can hear the most beautiful sounds." Sasuke closed his eyes. He could hear everything.

But everything just slowly faded away as a clear strong heartbeat made its way through the sounds. Dominating, yet calming, soothing. "we can learn, Sasuke. We can learn how to create the most

beautiful sounds so we can mangle them with the oil, slowly turning it into water and let it reunite with the endless sea of tears."

Sasuke smiled, as the words wrapped themselves like a silk blanket around his heart. "…I can hear your love, Naruto."

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So, hoped you liked it, please let me know. This is the first time I wrote something like this…x Thanks in advance for reviewing, and maybe I will continue this if people think it's good!