Sorry for not updating last Friday… stupid fanfic didn't let me to friggin' log in. anyway!

This chapter is dedicated to Princessfluffy3! Thanks so much for your idea! All CREDIT GOES TO Princessfluffy3 for her awesome story! I LOVED it! So here it is! Hope you enjoy it!

FireLight Horrors

By: lainey-bo-bainey

Chapter Title: Step Mommy

"Where are we?"

Once again, only silence had replied her. He was giving her the silent treatment and he was freakin' good at it.

"I'm hungry…" the bun-girl told him again, trying to catch up towards the Hyuuga's fast walk; moving some stems of trees along the way. "Aren't you supposed to be walking with Hinata?"

Again, silence breezed through the air.

"I think Miss Kurenai saw us…or Sir Kakashi…"

This seemed to have caught the boy's attention. "You sure?" he asked, tilting his head towards her without moving his other body parts.

Ten-Ten nodded, "She was there…"

Neji swiveled through 180 degrees to face Ten-Ten fully; he raised an eyebrow, "And you didn't tell me?"

"You were running faster than a rabbit!"

"You could've told me… if I get in trouble, I'll blame you…"

"Fine then, blame me… I'll tell sir Kakashi you and the boys ditched Wild Life class yesterday…" she stated, smirking mischievously.

He cocked another eyebrow at her; he was doing that a lot tonight, and it seemed to annoy her. "How d'ya know?" he asked.

"I have eyes you know… a pair that actually has pupils…not like yours. I also have a mouth and a voice that I could use to tell sir Kaka-"

"Shut up" he ordered, not giving her the chance to finish up as he continued, "Just shut up… okay?"

"If I do…" Ten-Ten started while placing her thumb and index finger on her chin and faking to massage it. "What's in it for me?"

A glare.

That's what he gave her and that was what she was going to get if ever she did told their teacher.

An evil deadly glare.

Neji simply turned around once more and started walking towards the trail, leaving Ten-Ten behind.

Going back to reality, she shook her head and ran to catch up to Neji.

"So… where did you guys go yesterday?" Ten-Ten asked slyly; which caused Neji to stop, once again, on his tracks and faced her with a weird and quizzical expression.

"It is just me, or are you completely nosey tonight?" he asked, although it was more of a statement; even a kid could figure that out.

"I'm just bored…" she reasoned out.

"We just explored…" Neji explained; and much to the girl's surprise, he actually responded. "We saw this place where we could do our stories, so that's where we're going now."

Ten-Ten, on the other hand, gave out a small 'oh' as they both continued to walk in silence.

It was exhausting, as she was breathing hard. They were both walking uphill, which really bothered her. It was like going up and down the stairs a million times; only now it's always going up.

Ten-Ten looked around and observed her surroundings. She had been here yesterday, but it was still on the morning and the daylights shone upon everything. But now, it was dark; it was like a day… without light. After all, a day without light is like… night; that's exactly what it is right there and then. Shadows of the pines and other trees were everywhere made by their on and only light, the moon. Neji had a flashlight in hand but it didn't seem to brighten up anything but the pathway before them.

It wasn't that she was scared, neither paranoid, but for a second there, she thought she saw another source of light. Like a flashlight. Maybe it was just another person walking around; or Neji's flashlight, reflected; or maybe… it was a teacher!

Stupid, she thought, a stupid thought. Why would a teacher be hanging around the woods anyway? Unless they finally realized that the no-sneaking-out rule was completely dumb, and they decided to sneak out too! She snickered at the thought, as she raised her speed of walking to catch up on Neji.

A few minutes passed and they reached their destination at around pass 11:30pm. Reaching closer into their little 'campsite', they still needed to scrunch through a bunch of trees clutched up together. Ten-Ten groaned.

"So this is what you call a nice place to tell stories. Some nice place you found."

"Shut up, bun girl."

"Make me, white-eyes."

"You think you're better than me?" Neji asked, turning to her though still walking "Cuz you're not…and-"

"At least I'm not a stuck-up…like you!" she returned.

"Whatever happened to 'we make a great team' according to you last time…"

"I didn't say that! So what now, you're criticizing me!" she said, sounding offended, yet not bothered; angry, yet joking.

"No! I'm not… it's just… God! You're such a spaz…"

"Oh great… I'm the spaz? You're the one- ouch! You stepped on my foot, you dumb-ass!"

"I stepped on it? You're the one who placed you're stupid foot there!"

"You're blaming me? Just great. How about you move… and… get out of the way!" she yelled as she scrunched up more through the bundle of trees.

"You get out of the way!"

"Ugh, shut up!"

At last, they emerged through the dark trees, Ten-Ten, to be specific. Where Neji is, he was probably somewhere still going through the woods. He couldn't be that far, after all, she was just talking to him.

I looked up from the book she was reading as she gave out a smile, "Hey…" she greeted Ten-Ten. "Where's Neji?"

"That jerk? Who knows… I ditched him in the woods… I think- whoa!" she said as she felt weight and pressure upon her back as she stumbled forward with the figure stumbling with her. She felt pain in her head feeling all dizzy. She slowly looked up met a pair of freakishly white eyes, according to her.

"What the heck? Get off!" she ordered quickly as she tried to knee him in the stomach, causing him to grunt.

"I'm tying…" he murmured, followed by another groan. "…the hell, STOP kicking me!"

"Well, YOU get off first!"

"Every time I try to get up, you kick me and I fall back down!"

"Eeeww… Ten-Ten, you got laid on…" Ino suddenly commented, looking at them weirdly.

Ten-Ten suddenly stopped kicking Neji as he was, at last, able to at least push himself up but didn't go all the way as he and Ten-Ten looked up to see Ino.

"No…" Ten-Ten corrected. "I got squished!" she yelled as she kicked Neji in the stomach once again; then violently pushing him off. "Get off! Jeez, you need a diet…"

Neji scowled, "I need one? Maybe you need to eat more! You look like a stick!"

"At least I'm not a big fat kid!"

"Shut up, both of you…" Ino ordered.

There were a few scuffles and shuffles as Neji got off of Ten-Ten. They took their seats.

"Ever wondered what will happen if we get caught?" Naruto asked, out-of-curiosity.

"Get a grip, idiot." Sasuke commented. "This is the last Friday we'll do it here."

"Yeah, we survived last week; we can do it now…" Shikamaru agreed.

"Actually…" Ino started, "Naruto has a point. What if we get caught?"

"Then we…" Sakura thought for a moment, "Don't get to go to The Blue Castle villa houses with them…"

Sasuke cocked an eyebrow at her, "We're going to see a castle?"

"No… we're going to Blue Castle villa houses…" she explained.

"And the difference?"

"A castle and a villa house are different…"

"Villa house where? When? As what?" Hinata asked; which, suddenly, caused Naruto to lighten up.

"Hey, what do you know! It's the first time Sir Kakashi told us something in advance!" he told, or more like yelled.

"Sure…whatever…" Sakura said, ignoring what he had just said, "We're going to splashdown… remember? It's too far from here so they'll let us sleep there for about… 3 days? I think so…"

"This is awesome…" Shikamaru said which soon followed by a yawn. "We get all the fun field trips…"

"Could we cut this out? Everyone shut up and listen." The Hyuuga ordered.

"Drum roll, everyone! Here's another stupid story from the stupid Hyuuga…" Sasuke introduced, earning a glare from Neji.

"Watch your words, Uchiha."

"Yes, mommy…"

Neji twitched, "Do I really look like a woman to you people!"

"Yes…" he heard someone murmured and looked around; his eyes landing upon the person who said it. "Shut up, bun-girl…"

"Actually, she's right!" Ino agreed, "I mean, you have long hair, an earring in one, and you're oh-so-high-pitched voice yesterday when you almost fell off the cliff…" she grinned.

"That was more than a thousand feet high! It was his fault!" he pointed towards the smirking Sasuke, "He freakin' pushed me off!"

"It was accidentally on-purpose!" Sasuke said.

"It's the same thing!"

"Guys… shut up…" Shikamaru murmured as eh sat up and faced them.

"Who goes tonight?" he asked.

Neji sighed, giving up at another attempt to 'bicker' with the Uchiha and went out with his story.

"My story tonight it titled 'Step mommy'"

In the story

There was once a family of three: a mother, and father and their daughter which was around ten years of age. She had a pair of crystal blue eyes like her mother's, and a nice nose that's like her father's. She was a happy young child throughout her first ten years; but that didn't last very long, when her mother and father got divorced. Her mother was planning on moving to another house while her dad was also going to move out of the house with the other woman he married.

They were out, going back and forth from one house to another, because her dad was getting his things to his new house with his new wife. It was a typical city night and they were all in a car; the dad was the one who's driving, the young girl sat on the passenger seat, while the mom sat at the back seats. They weren't in a very good mood that night since both of the parents were still fighting.

Back in to the city's mood, it was actually a Friday night. Many people were in the streets, staying up all night and some even getting drunk. So that was mostly the big problem.

They were driving up on a highway and the father going a little too fast. Then just ahead, a four-way stop intersection emerged from the night's darkness. Then all-suddenly, a car also appeared driving up ahead. The father stepped on the breaks as fast as he could but unfortunately, his fastest wasn't fast enough.

That night, they all ended up in a tragic accident. Both the mother and the father had died. The young girl, on the other hand, had remarkably survived but lost her right arm. Her left arm was severely injured from the accident and the doctors had no choice but to cut it off.

As her arm's replacement, she ended up having a solid golden arm instead. Her arm replacement worked out perfectly and she was able to do the things she had always done even before the accident had occurred.

The young girl went to live with her stepmother since she had nowhere else to go. She had barely known her step-mom but she was her only closest relative. Her other relatives all lived out-of-town, which was too far for her and it will be too expensive to move.

Getting to know her step mother, she was a cruel know-at-all so-called human. She drowned in greed and wanted everything for herself; everything she earned is for herself and herself only. Much to her enjoyment, right after the father the father had died, ever single penny that he owned and earn went straight to her. The young girl didn't even had any share and the step mom told that since there wasn't any contract saying the young girl gets a share, she never gave her any. She couldn't care less about the young girl who was supposedly her responsibility, much less step-daughter.

Due to her selfishness, the step-mother started wanting the golden arm of her step-daughter. It was a solid hard gold and would make fortune if it was sold. If it equaled money, she would do anything for it. Days past and she thought out of a plan to be able to get the golden arm.

One night, she and her step-daughter had gone to a restaurant for dinner. But on the way home, the step-mom had purposely crashed the car into a bus. Due to the so-called accident that happened, the young girl had died or specifically murdered by her step-mom. Though no one knew that, they all had found the step-mom innocent and would not do anything to harm her step-daughter. They were all wrong. Even after the big impact of the bus crashing into the small car they were both riding on, the step mom had managed to survive and got out of the accident with only a scar found right across her throat.

Proceeding in the next step of her plan, she was able to take access of the golden arm, allowing her to take it from the girl's body since she was her closest relative.

She took it and sold it for more than a thousand dollars. Being the selfish and greedy person she is, she didn't even felt guilt by what she had done. The step-mom had gladly taken the money and quickly spent it off somewhere else.

Just that night, she laid down her comfy bed, falling fast asleep. But a soft singing sound had waked her up completely, causing her spine to shiver up and down.

"Step-mommy, step-mommy I'm on the first step." Said the voice.

The step mom whipped around, only to see nothing else but her old room. The window was opened, as it always was, causing cold wind to breeze through it, with the curtains flowing freely. The moon's light shined through the open window, giving some light to the dim room; but yet, mostly all of the room was still covered by the shadows.

The step mom shook it off, thinking it was only her imagination. No one else was in the room except her, so that meant no could've possibly said that; even though the voice didn't really seem to come from inside the room, but outside it… downstairs. Deciding at the fact that she was only tired, she laid back and started to fall back asleep.

Minutes later, the voice once again called out in a singing tone, "Step-mommy, step-mommy I'm on the third step."

She ignored it and tried to act as if she didn't hear anything, although inside, she was getting scared but dared not to show it. It was only non-sense, no one else was there and she was only hearing things. She decided to go back to sleep but yet again, to her dismay, she heard,

"Step-mommy, step-mommy, I'm on the fifth step." The step-mom was starting to develop an eerie feeling about this. She quickly stood up, frightened to see anyone.

"Who's there!" she called out with her harsh rusty voice, but then was answered by dead silence. Staring at the blank dull space before her, she felt her heart beating faster than its usual beat. She started feeling warm liquid slowly flowing down from the side of her forehead down to her cheeks. She shook her head, "I'm getting paranoid!" she thought to herself.

She could get even more the five minutes of sleep when she heard, "Step-mommy, step-mommy I'm on the eight step."

Due to fear, she kept her head under the bed sheets, afraid to see who ever was making the sound. Then, not for long, she heard it again,

"Step-mommy, step-mommy I'm on the eleventh step."

She was about to settle with the thought that it was all just a dream when she heard, "Step-mommy, step-mommy I'm on the thirteenthstep."

Suddenly, the thought came to her that it was her stairs the voice was talking about. And the voice was pretty familiar, she had heard it before. As another thought came to her, her heart started beating even faster and her eyes gone wide as she started breathing heavily: it was her step-daughter that had been calling out all the while, the young girl that had died in the car accident. She got startled at the thought, and was terrified to know what happens next.

As if that wasn't enough, she heard the young girl call out once more,

"Step-mommy, step-mommy I'm in the kitchen… getting a sharp knife…"

She froze and panicked at the same time. Her eyes got wider and like hell this made her heart beat like a running horse in a race. Everything was quiet, and she couldn't hear anything else except her hard and heavy breathing. There weren't any creaks from the floor which made her even more frightened since she didn't know where the young girl was now. She dared not to peak out the bed sheets that were covered over her head. Hearing the part about getting a sharp knife she was officially scared half to death.

She then started to realize that the small voice started to grow louder and louder as it sang its way back up the stairs. With the voice growing louder it only meant that its source was getting nearer…

And nearer…

Until it came to the point where…

"Step-mommy, step-mommy, I'm in the doorway."

The step-mom was too afraid to look, much less to actually stand up and run for her life. She was already traumatize and probably wouldn't be able to move if she stood up due to horror.

But then, after the voice told it was in the doorway, nothing else followed. The only sound that was heard was the heavy breathing of the step mom.

It took moments and it was still silent… dead silent. So the step-mom decided to wait. But all along only one thing was responding to her:

Silence…

Silence…

And more silence…

Until…

"Step-mommy, step-mommy, I'm at your bed."

The step-mom looked up from the bed sheets just to come face-to-face with a girl; she was pale, but you can barely tell due to the dried blood that flowed from the hole in her forehead. It was dark and black, and blood flowed down from the hole at the corner of her forehead, down at the sides of her nose and down to the rest of her cheeks. She had a gash almost all over her face but the one that she noticed the most was that the girl's left arm was cut off.

Before she could even scream for her life, everything went black.

The next day, when the authorities came, they found the woman's body with a blood-stained knife laid down on the bed, beside her. She had a perfectly cut line, tracing her scar and slicing it open once again…

Right across her bloody throat…

End of story

"That's stupid…" Sasuke murmured, as Neji just glared at him.

"It's awesome…" Ten-Ten commented.

'I love it… freaky…" Sakura said.

"You, never give me compliments after my stories… what, you like Hyuuga or something?" Sasuke asked in curiosity.

"No… it's cuz I just don't like you."

"Shut up, pinky…"

"After you…"

"This is pointless…" Ten-Ten said, "I'm feeling guilty…Let's go back… what if Sir Kakashi came here?" the light she saw earlier was bothering her. Someone else in the woods was there with them.

"You're just paranoid…" Neji said. "My story rocked didn't it?"

"Haha… funny. Whatever, let's go!"

"'What's with the rush, Ten-Ten?" Ino asked.

"I don't know… I mean… what if Sir Kakashi just suddenly comes here!"

"Don't say it…" Naruto warned. "It always happens when you say it…"

"Oh c'mon, I…" Neji said, not amused. "Those are all just stupid coincidences."

"WHAT ARE YOU KIDS DOING HERE!"

A voice said, booming just behind them. They all quickly turned around, seeing their very own mask man.

"SIR KAKASHI?" they all exclaimed, though Neji just stared.

"Okay, I spoke too soon…"

The End

Since I'm so stupid I wanna change my username again. But I dunno if it's a good or bad idea. So here! Help me guys! Please answer both questions in your reviews, I'm just taking a survey…hihi:

So here's about my pen name: what's better between these two:
1. "lainey-bo-bainey" which sounds happy. (from Michelle)
2. "cra-Z-laynez" which kinda sounds cool. (from Chris)

2nd question: if you guys read stories, either fan fictions or just a pocket book, what seems easier and better to read? The ones written in…

1. FIRST person point of view
(ex. I gulped slowly letting his words sink into my mind. I felt afraid. I wanted to cry. I needs someone to turn to… sometimes, some things are not meant to be told; for it is too much to handle. I finally understood what that meant)

2. THIRD person point of view
(ex. She gulped slowly, letting his words sink in to her mind. She felt afraid, She wanted to cry, She needs someone to turn to…sometimes, some things are not meant to be told, for it is too much to handle. She finally understood what that meant)

Ok, that's about it, please take this survey with your review! Thanks so much!