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Oh, and thanks for jrs-anime (even though you didn't review…Hmph…) who gave me ideas! Haha, miss you na! And online ka naman!

-ehem- anyway, sorry for the delay… blame my teachers… and I'm not gonna delay this any longer; here's another chapter!

Title: FireLight Horrors

Chapter Title: The red eye

Author: crazedAKI66

Whispers and murmurs were heard all around their campsite. But they weren't complete though; Ino and Hinata weren't there yet. Right now, Naruto, Shikamaru and Neji were arguing; Sasuke was holding a camera- wonder what's that's for…hm; along with Sakura holding a pen and her handy-dandy-notebook. And for Ten-Ten, well, she was just sitting there, waiting for the two girls to come back from their extra school curriculums.

"So, whenever she comes ok?" repeated the blonde boy to Shikamaru who groaned.

"How many times do you have to say that?" he complained.

"Only about a hundred…" Naruto grinned.

"Remind why I'm doing this again?" Shikamaru asked, irritated.

"Cuz you lost a bet, now you do dare… clear enough?" Neji stated and asked.

"No… I still don't get why I have to wear a goofy frog costume…"

"What, do you wanna go shirtless?" Naruto joked, earning a glare from Shikamaru.

"I don't mean that…" the pineapple head replied. Then he sighed as he added on, "I look like an ass…"

Naruto faked a gasp, "Gee… you just noticed?" then added a goofy smile which made Shikamaru glare at him for a hundred time this night.

"Hah, funny…NOT; Now tell me the reason why?"

"Because… just because, you'll find out soon…" and Naruto grinned evilly.

"You're helpful…"

There was an awkward silence after that, but was soon broke by a rustle from the bushes around them. Having to do this every week and staying out all night, a sound of rustling from the bushes was only a sign of someone coming or simply a squirrel.

"Bet you guys' five dollars, that's a squirrel" Naruto told with a grin to the three other guys; Shikamaru, Neji and Sasuke just shrugged.

But in this case, it wasn't a squirrel but a certain blond they've been waiting for, emerged from the darkness through the greens of the bushes. "Well, a human-looking squirrel, close enough…" Naruto stated which caused everyone to sweat-drop except for Ino who didn't know what he was talking about. But if she did, she would've probably smacked him in the head.

"Huh…" and she gave a confused look.

Then, she noticed that everyone there was staring at her as if she was a freak. But they stared in different ways: Naruto stared with a grin, Neji and Sasuke with a blank face, Sakura with a small sly smile, and Shikamaru was looking amazed- which annoyed her the most. She turned to him and narrowed her eyes; which only caused her to notice the green frog suit he's on.

"What. The. Heck. Are you wearing?" Ino asked, and raised an eyebrow.

"Um… a frog suit…" Shikamaru stated as he gulp. He continued staring at her, and Ino soon became irritated.

"What are you staring at…" she eyed him suspiciously.

"Uh, nothing it just… I've never noticed before: your eyes…" Shikamaru said as he stared in awe but Ino only raised an eyebrow and looked at the geek as if he were a lunatic.

"Thanks… they came with my face…" and everyone sweat dropped; Shikamaru on the other hand, went out of his so-called-daze -of course, it was all only a dare- and he shrugged.

Ino shook it off and headed to take a seat. Then by that time, Hinata appeared panting from all the running and took a seat like Ino.

"So whose turn is it?" Ten-Ten asked, sitting up from her lying position.

"Ino's" Sakura stated while putting aside her notebook and pen. Sasuke also had set aside his camera somewhere where not much people would see.

"Do you actually have a story?" asked the lazy-ass Shikamaru.

"Yup! I was searching the internet for hours last night just for a story…"

"What website?" Sakura asked, curiously.

"Google, keyword: scary stories."

"And that would take you long…why?"

"Their stories were lame!"

Then a snicker from Ten-Ten was heard. Ino turned to her as the bun-headed girl spoke. "You are wasting your time with that… try it's good, it works…"

"Depends how scary it is… I'm not accepting to see pictures…" Ino stated and eyed Ten-Ten.

"Well… you know what, just don't go after all… but don't feel like a scaredy-cat; other children also don't wanna see pictures" and Ten-Ten said.

"Haha… not funny…" Ino said sarcastically, "Anyway, is everyone here?"

Everyone looked around to see if they were complete. They were, so Ino went on with whatever she was about to say.

"Okay… so my story for tonight it titled 'The red eye'"

In the story

A man around in his late 40s was struggling to sleep. He currently moved houses; you know that feeling when you just moved and in the first few nights it's a bit hard to sleep since you're not used to it? That's was how he was feeling. But he loved his new house though; it was big and pretty huge for just one man living in it.

He was living there for about a week now, but he still had a hard time sleeping. Actually, he had a hard time sleeping straight, where he won't wake up in the middle of the night. Odd thing was, he kept waking up around 1am early in the morning, every time. At exactly 1am in the morning. He somehow felt a presence somewhere near him.

"I'm not paranoid, just cautious…" He would remind himself over and over again. But, he, though, did not feel a presence of a spirit, but instead, felt eyes that always lay upon him.

Every night, when he wakes up and couldn't go back to sleep, he would stand by his window and examine the things around his neighbourhood. Of course, by 1am, everyone was inside their homes fast asleep. But his eyes would always get a glimpse of a girl standing just outside her front gate. She just stands there, doing nothing but observing his house. He couldn't quite make-out who it was since her hair had always covered half of her face and she was always looking down.

One night, he even woke up and noticed something was different, once again. He took a look around the dark room he was one and caught a glimpse of a pair of red eyes! Well… just a pair of red dots which to him looked like eyes. But then again, he was in his late 40s; his eyes obviously had serious damage.

After a few more nights of waking up early in the morning and seeing the girl, he decided to go out and talk to her; since he has nothing to do and can't sleep anyway.

He headed towards her and tapped her shoulder while greeting a simple 'hello there'. The girl on the other hand, didn't move. This caused the man to give a questioning look; but he tried again.

"Hi, may I ask what you're doing here?" he kindly asked.

Then the girl slowly turned, revealing her eyes red! The rest of her facial features were like one of a dead person's. This freaked the man out and started running. The girl, to his dismay, followed him. The man continued running and headed towards his car at the back yard. He went towards it and opened it. After starting it, he panicked as he drove out of the garage. He continued to drive; looking out at his rear mirror, he still saw the girl following him. But something was different; she wasn't walking anymore, more or less, on the ground. Then, a thought came to him; the girl was floating, duh? This sent shivers up and down his spine and he drove faster in horror.

Days past as he tried to forgot that horrible happening. He drove and drove and luckily, he soon lost the girl. He never saw her after that; he told his friends, family and even the police but no one believed him.

So he decided to do a little research about the past owners of his house. He went to his compound's supervisor.

"Oh hello there, what may I help you?" the supervisor asked, nicely.

"I just wanted to know about the past owners of my new house now…" and the supervisor took out a folder and started flipping through pages.

"What would you like to know about" he asked looking up.

"About someone… I've been seeing a girl in front of my house…" and this made the supervisor to look at him in curiosity.

"A girl?" He asked, "How does she look like?"

"Well, she always wore dirty white clothing which in my opinion looked my night wears. Then her hair was down messily and I always see her for some reason at 1am in the morning. After the encounter I had, I never saw her again. Her face looked like dead one and had red eyes!"

"I don't know a girl with red eyes, that's a fact…"the supervisor told. "But I do know something, something 'bout a girl that once live there… uh, her parents lived there too. Then they were murdered, as I've been told. Don't know what happened to the parents but they were killed right in front their daughter." The supervisor stated, in a kind-of cow-boy western tone or accent.

"How about the girl?" the man asked curiously.

"She's dead, boy… dead. Now I don't know what you seeing but you ain't seen nothin' yet. She's died at 'bout 1am in the mornin'"

end of story

"The End!" Ino exclaimed.

"Uh… talk about predictive?" Neji stated.

"So… how did she have red eyes?" Hinata asked, out of curiosity.

"Um… I honestly don't know… it never said." Ino admitted.

"I heard this story before and it said she had red eyes because she saw her parents die." Ten-Ten said, out-of-nowhere.

"So… she has red-eyes because she saw like… tons of blood?" Shikamaru asked with a tint of boredom in his tone.

"Guess you can say it that way…" Ino answered.

"Man, that's retarded…" Shikamaru stated as Ino glared at him.

"Excuse me?"

"Sure, you're excused; now go away…"

"Uh what?" Ino asked trying to catch up with what he was saying.

Shikamaru grunted. "Never mind…"

"Why do people always do that?" Ino asked as she sighed.

"What do you mean? What?"

"I just ask a question about what they were saying then they'll be like 'oh, never mind'. Argh… talk about annoying…"

"Annoying yourself, it's cuz you keep asking questions. What's the point of repeating it over and over again if you still won't understand?"

"Correction, it's how you learn, you ask questions…"

"I don't have to learn…" Shikamaru boasted.

"Yeah, considering the fact that you're a geek…" and the pine-apple head faced and then glared at Ino.

"Talk about mean…" He stated.

"Talk about sarcasm…" she returned.

"Talk about love's quarrel…" Sakura whispered as she leaned over to Sasuke that was beside her; Sasuke, on the other hand, only smirked but evilly. But what Sakura stated was accidentally heard by the two arguing love birds.

"What was that!" Ino and Shikamaru asked-slash-yelled in unison.

"I said we'll get going now…" Sakura stated and motioned her hand for the others to follow her and they did.

They all stood up got their bags and walked away silently while the two were still busy arguing. The others, more specifically Ten-Ten and Hinata, headed straight home since they still got projects or homework or whatever you call that thing teachers give students to make their lives harder.

But the others like Neji, Naruto Sasuke and Sakura stayed and only hid behind the bushes where darkness took over so that Ino and Shikamaru –who were still fighting, by the way- would not see them.

"ARGH! God woman, you're annoying!" yelled a frustrated Shikamaru.

Ino stood up and sat beside Shikamaru and then eyed him rudely. "You shush, okay? We're both annoying for each other but judging from the fact that our so-called friends left us here; we're both gonna have to clean this place up"

"No, you do it… I'm made no part of this mess…"

"Yeah, well, you're still here and you're gonna help me…" and Ino leaned closer to Shikamaru, glaring at him.

"Who says so?" and Shikamaru leaned even closer.

"I do…" leaned closer…

"Not enough reason for me…" leaned even more closely…

"Nope, but you're still gonna do it… we're gonna do it…" and Ino leaned once again as they were both glaring badly at each other.

"Oh my god, you're troublesome…" he stated leaning closer, eyeing her.

"Oh my god, you're impossible…" she returned leaning closer.

"Oh my god, just shut up and kiss!" Naruto hissed and his mouth was soon covered by a hand from Sakura.

"Shut up, you bum!" she complained, "Besides, that'll take it way offline; our plan was to only take a picture of them together, kissing would definitely kill you by the end of the year when Shikamaru finds out…"

"Yeah, by seeing their picture in the yearbook…" Sasuke smirked.

"Well, what do we do? This is taking too long!" Naruto whined, and Sakura sighed.

So somewhere back at their site…

"We're still gonna clean that up…" Ino stated.

"No, you're gonna clean it up, Ms. Bossy"

"Frog-boy…"

"That is just way rude…" Shikamaru glared, though it was true since he was still wearing the frog costume.

"Oh I'm sorry… screw you"

"Screw you more…"

"Screw you more, more"

"Screw you most…"

"Yeah well… screw you more, more… more; A hundred times more… a billion times more!" Ino returned.

"Screw you infinity…"

"Screw you two times infinity…"

"Screw you the most, so no matter how many times you say it, it's still the most…"

"Yeah, then screw you more, then most…"

"Screw everything you say…"

"Everything you say is crap…" Ino said as she smirked.

"Well, everything you say is already screwed; including the last one" and by this, it was Shikamaru's turn to smirk.

Then an idea popped to Neji. "Naruto, I got a plan, so stop you're complains" he ordered.

Naruto immediately kept quiet and looked at Neji. "What plan?"

Neji motioned his hand for the other three to come follow him as he sneaked forward, closer to Ino and Shikamaru who by the way still hasn't leaned back. "Push them." Neji ordered simply, eyeing both.

Naruto looked at him and rose one of his eye-brow "That's your plan?"

And Neji looked at him in boredom, "Yes"

Naruto only grinned "I like it…" then paused for a while, "But why me?"

"Cuz I'm not the one who's gonna be killed by Frog-boy over there…"

"Why not these two?" Naruto suggested referring to Sakura and Sasuke.

"Sasuke's got the camera; she's got the notes…" Neji stated.

Naruto sighed; "Fine" he stated and sneaked behind Shikamaru.

"Y-yeah… w-well…" Ino stuttered while thinking of what to say but then Shikamaru placed a finger up to her lips.

"Admit it…" he ordered gently.

And a sigh escaped Ino's lips. "Nice diss…" and Shikamaru smirked.

"Thanks…"

Then, out-of-nowhere, Naruto appeared behind Shikamaru and all he felt was a force that pushed him towards Ino. It all happened so fast; and the next thing everyone knew –or saw- was Shikamaru and Ino: his hands held her arms for support of not… you know, going all the way to her lips; and her hands on his chest so she won't be squished. Both of their foreheads were touching and both were looking deep into each other's eyes when all of a sudden Sasuke came out of the bushes and…

!FLASH!

"CRAP, I'M BLIND! What the hell happened!" screamed Shikamaru, who unfortunately, was near Ino's ears.

"OW! OW! I'M DEAF!" screamed Ino, too, while holding up her hands to her ears.

Sasuke, on the other hand, smirked while holding a camera, Naruto and Neji were grinning and Sakura writing in her notebook.

"Oh, I could just see the headlines of that yearbook…" she exclaimed to Neji, Naruto and Sasuke while the three turned to her, "The Frog Prince: finally finds his own princess"

"Tsk, you're both very evil for an editor-in-chief and a head of yearbook photography" Neji commented referring to Sakura then Sasuke. "Especially for people who have special pages of them in it… man, I'm glad I don't have any stupid picture…"

Both Sakura and Sasuke looked at each other and sweat-dropped, and then said in unison.

"You have no idea…"

Meanwhile, Shikamaru was starting to regain his sight back and Ino her hearing.

"Uchiha!" He yelled.

"Haruno!" she yelled.

"What yearbook are you talking about?" Shikamaru yelled as he stood up and headed towards Sasuke.

"The one that's coming out this year?" Sasuke asked like nothing happened. Then suddenly, Shikamaru reached for the camera; luckily for Sasuke, who had good reflexes, he was able to move it away from Shikamaru.

"Sakura, heads up!" and passed it to Sakura behind his back so that Shikamaru won't be able to reach.

Sakura caught it but then Ino, who popped out of nowhere, reached for the camera. Sakura quickly turn around, her back facing Ino so that she won't see what she was doing.

"Sakura, give me back that camera! I swear I'm gonna crush that thing!" Ino commanded.

"Give you back? It isn't even yours in the first place!" Sakura replied, trying to avoid Ino's reaches.

"That's not the point, forehead!" and at last, Ino was able to snatch the camera away from Sakura.

"Hey!" Sakura yelled. "Give it!"

"Oh as if… how about not?" Ino argued. "Camera, be gone!" she yelled dramatically and smashed the thing on the ground.

"No! No! No! That had-!" Sasuke yelled in shock. He was about to go on when Sakura stopped him.

"Sasuke…" she called out calmly, "it's okay… it's fine…"

"How is that fine to you!" Sasuke complained to Sakura who was slowly shaking her head and mouthing 'no'; but Sasuke went on, "That had Neji and Ten-Ten's picture in it!"

And that had caught Neji's attention.

Neji glared…

Scary glares…

Deadly glares…

"Me and Ten-Ten's what?" Neji asked obviously trying to keep his cool but inside, burning up in anger. He eyed both Sakura and Sasuke.

Sasuke closed his eyes and thought, 'me and my big mouth, we're dead…'

"Uh… picture…?"

"For…?" Neji asked as his eyes narrowed even more.

"Well, duh… yearbook…" Sasuke stated, and Neji's eyes grew wide.

"YOU WHAT? When! Where! How!" He screamed.

"We –me and Pinky- took a picture, last week after everyone went home, right here, we hid behind the bushes, and simple: we used a camera."

"You were… watching. Holy- you are DEAD, Uchiha!"

"Neji, what are they talking about?" the boy in the frog suit asked.

"Nothing…" Neji snapped.

"Of course… nothing they wanna let you guys know…" Sakura grinned evilly.

"Shut it Sakura" Neji ordered while glaring at her.

"Ok, slowly backing away from the really angry Hyuuga." Sakura murmured.

"Oh c'mon, how bad could it be?" Shikamaru asked.

Then Sasuke snickered, "Bad enough to use for blackmail" and Neji glared at Sasuke.

"Whoa, did they make-out!" Ino suddenly exclaimed.

"Close… unless they didn't do anything after Sasuke and I left…" Sakura stated with a sly grin.

"Eeewww… NO! We didn't-"

"Whoa…chill, Neji. You're being like, totally defensive, man. The camera's smashed to pieces; problem solved." Shikamaru stated and Sasuke glared at him.

Surprisingly, Neji did calm down and there was silence after that. Until Naruto broke it saying…

"I've had enough for the night…" He stated and everyone sweat-dropped; not long after he took his leave and so did everyone else as they said their good-byes. Sakura and Sasuke, however, stayed behind for a bit.

"Sakura, the camera's broken! How about the pictures!" Sasuke yelled angrily when the rest had already gone.

"Relax…we have no problem with the pictures…" Sakura told calmly.

Sasuke only gaped at her calmness, "But… that was Canon…"

Sakura just stares…

"That was new release…"

Stares…

"With eight mega pixels…"

Stares…

"Jeez! That was a more-than seven-hundred-dollar digital camera!"

Stares…

"Plus tax…"

Sakura then whacked the side of his head by her hand. "Ow, that hurts!"

"Is that really why you're blowing up?"

Sasuke sighed, "Ok, I give up; try helping me catch up to your actions, would you? Why in the world are you so calm?"

Sakura only grinned which caused Sasuke to give out a questioning look. Then, she reached for her pocket attached on her jeans and took out a memory card of the digital camera which she shoved in front of Sasuke's face. He soon got the idea and stared at her in amazement.

Sakura only grinned, "Now…tell me who's awesome?"

"My evil cherry blossom genius…"

Sakura stared at Sasuke weirdly and raised an eye-brow, "Yours?"

Sasuke only shook his head, "Uh… nothing… let's go home…" and he headed for the trail.

THE END!

Whoa… 16 pages… hehe, anyway, for people who wanted sasuXsaku more, it's coming up next chapter! I just had to make it fair so I did nejiXten and ShikaXino first. So if you have ideas for their 'moment' together… tell me please! I'm thinking of revenge from Ino, Shikamaru, Neji and Ten-Ten to Sakura and Sasuke since they took a picture. I just don't know what they're gonna do… so please suggest!

Anyway, R&R!

crazed Aki