A/N: Hey guys. I'm just letting you know that I'm not going to update my stories for a while. It's not your fault. It's mine. I've been planning my future right now and I can't handle all the stress of it all, so I am not going to update every week, but more like every month or so. I am so sorry. I want to thank GreyBlueEyedBelle who so generously reviewed to all the chapters and got me back into writing by writing so many empowering reviews. Thank you for all the follows and favorites. I love you guys and I feel so bad that I have to disappoint you so badly. To make up for it, I'm going to bring you guys a really long chapter today! I just have a lot on my plate right now. Hope you guys like this chapter! I know it's going to cause a lot of emotional damage. I'm sure. It did to my editor, Tressa.

Chapter 6

July 7, X784

"Gray!"

"Shit! Hide me." Gray ran to the bar where Mirajane, Natsu, and Lisanna sat.

"Why should I do that droopy eyes?" Natsu leaned forewords, placing his hands on his knees, and interlocking his fingers together.

"If you don't, I'll blame whatever Light is mad at me about on you. Got it?" Gray jumped over the counter of the bar to hide behind the protective wood and booze.

Natsu shivered at the mention of the petite girl's wrath. He still had a burn on his back from her magic. When he saw the girl storm to him he instantly paled.

"Where is he?" She pointed a gloved finger at the pinkette.

"W-Who?" his voice cracked when he asked the question. Damn puberty.

Her eyes narrowed. "You know who Natsu Dragneel. Where. Is. He." She enunciated her words with precision and malice.

"I don't know who you're talking about." She grabbed a fist full of his scarf and brought him close to her face.

"You better tell me where he is Ash-for-Brains." With this Natsu cracked like an egg.

"He's behind the bar, hiding behind the booze." Natsu closed his eyes and pointed to his half-naked friend hiding behind the rows of bottles.

"Gray… What the hell were you thinking?!" Throwing Natsu down, and jumping over the bar, Light grabbed a fist full of Gray's sloe black hair. "You idiot! Did you really think I wouldn't have found out?!"

"Now, Light what exactly did I do?" Light had released her grip on the poor, clueless, boy's head.

"Baka, you spent 500 jewl on a new pair of gloves, when I told you I didn't want anything for my birthday! You are going to return them right now, and get what money you can back." She wacked Gray upside the head at the beginning and end of her sentence.

No one in the guild had seen Light this made since she found out Natsu had forced Rakki to fight him. Even at that she didn't yell this much.

"Dude, you screwed up big this time." Erza whispered with a mouth full of Strawberry cake.

"I was just trying to be a good friend. No one should get nothing on their birthday." Gray was still rubbing the sore spot on his head.

"I don't." Light got a dark look in her eye. Ever since she turned 10, every year on her birthday, and her birthday only, she would close herself off from the rest of the group. Completely disappearing from everyone else.

"Light, don't say that about yourself." Lisanna had come to help Gray with his growing red spot on his head.

"But, It's true!" she crossed her arms and slumped down into a seat at a nearby table. She wanted to yell 'I'm a Murderer! I don't deserve anything anytime. I don't deserve a family like you guys.' She wanted to scream at them that she had killed her family, that she was the reason that she was an orphan, but something stopped her. Maybe it was fear, maybe it was pure hatred for herself, Light would never know.

Before any more questions were asked she rubbed a hand down her face and heaved a big sigh. Gray opened his mouth to ask her what she meant by her actions, but before he could force himself to say anything Light stood up and stormed out of the guild hall.

"What's with her?" Natsu had repositioned himself on the bar top. Gray knew exactly what what's wrong, but the trick was to get Light to tell the others.

"-ay. Gray!" Someone snapped in front of his face.

"What?" He turned to the snapper. Cana looked at him expectantly. "You seem to know what's going on. Care to tell us?"

"It's not my story to tell." Even though all his friends protested that he stay and spill all the juicy details, Gray got up and followed his best friend out of the guild.

.:+:.

Light stared out over the lake. Rakki was curled up by her side snoozing, like she seemed to do a lot now days. It's been four year since they met and they were inseparable, when Rakki was awake. Light pulled her knees up to her chin in order to try to gain some warmth to put out this cold feeling Light had in her stomach. Yet, whatever Light did to get rid of the feeling never helped. Now she was just sitting on her bum letting the cold overcome her.

"I thought I'd find you here." Someone came up behind her and sat down next to her.

"I thought I made it clear that I want to be alone right now." Light turned her head to face the ice mage next to her.

"I couldn't let you deal with this guilt alone. Just know I'm here for you." Gray tried to give Light a side hug.

"No!" She waved her arms, breaking the embrace. "No. Thanks for the support group, but no thanks. This is something I need to do by myself." She got up and started to walk back to the forest.

"There you go again." Light stopped right in her tracks. "You shut everyone who cares about you out."

Hikari Light was done with these antics. "You wanna know why I shut you out so much?!" She was yelling.

Gray was on his feet in moments and fuming. "Yes! I would, because I just want to help you! Please Hikari, let someone help you!"

Shutting her eyes tightly and cringing at those words, Light looked up at gray with tears in her eyes. "I shut you out, because I don't want to hurt you! You and the rest of the guild is the closest thing I have to family! I am a Murderer! I can't hurt you or anyone else. Please, Gray… just leave me alone. " Hikari turned to walk away, but Gray grabbed her wrist.

"Don't walk away from this, You are not a Murderer! You understand me? You did not kill those people 6 years ago. It was their fault. They were the idiots who brought their own doom. Hikari, you can't keep blaming yourself. Forgive and forget, right?"

"how 'bout you just leave me be and I won't walk away again, okay?" The cold feeling in the pit of Hikari's stomach was growing too intense for her pleasure. The cold spread through her veins and throughout her body.

"No, I won't let you be alone in this. The guild wants to know why you act so weird on, what's supposed to be, the happiest day of the year for you. I can't keep them from following you forever."

"And I never asked you to!" She turned around and faced the male, who was surprisingly surpassing her in height. "let them know that Hikari Light is a murderer. Someone who slaughtered her own family! Someone who doesn't care about anyone but herself. Let them get to know who I really am!" she tried to wrench her arm out of Gray's relentless grip, but it didn't work.

"Light, who did this to you. You have never acted like this before. Why all of a sudden now?" the cold feeling was intensifying. Hikari now couldn't feel anymore of her limbs. The cold was making its way to her head.

"Gray, Let me go. NOW!" she started pulling at her arm.

"no, I won't let you walk away again." His grip held.

"Please, let me go."

"NO!"

The cold feeling made its way into Hikari's head and that's when she blacked out.

.:+:.

When Hikari came to, Gray was at the far side of the lake bank (I don't know what it's called, so sorry), and was covered in burns and blisters. Rakki was at Hikari's feet, and looked up at the girl expectantly as if to say, 'You did this. Not what will you do.'

"Rakki, what did I do?" Hikari started at her battered friend in complete shock. Light suddenly heard footsteps behind her, they sounded like they were running to them. Turning to face the sound she saw a terrified Levy, Jet, Droy, and Cana.

"You…" Levy started, but didn't finish.

"Light, what happened?" Cana started at Gray's burns.

"I-I…" Light's voice faltered.

"I saw everything. They were fighting and then Light cast a spell on Gray and he exploded and ended up like that.' Jet pointed at the beaten up 14 year-old.

Cana looked at Light, a new horror in her yes. "Light, is this true?"

"I-I-I don't know one moment we were fighting, and yelling, but the next moment I was standing here, and he was there… all beaten up…" Light stared at the group of guild mates and wondered if they believed her story. By the look in Cana's eye, they didn't.

"I'm going to go get master Makrov!" Levy quickly turned around and ran to the brightly lit guild hall.

No one said a word while Levy was gone. When she came back, with half the guild, Jet started pointing fingers at Light telling everyone what he saw. Many adults looked at her in disappointment or disgust. Natsu looked at her with complete and utter disbelief.

"Light, Is this true… did you use your magic on Gray knowingly?" makrov looked at Light sternly.

"I-I don't know. I can't remember. I didn't mean to hurt him. We were fighting, arguing over some things, and I told him to let me leave and cool off, but he wouldn't let me. That's when I blanked out. I can't remember a thing." Makrov didn't look like he believe her. No one did.

Gray started to moan across from the crowd. Multiple adults threw glares at Light and ran to help the fallen boy. Light started traumatized by the sight of her best friend in pain because of her. Not knowing what to do she turned and bolted into the forest, Rakki flying close behind.

"Light!" Natsu yelled after her. She was too far gone to hear his calls or his pleads for her to come back. Light was off running again, but when you run away you can never find the right place.

A/N: Hey, I am so sorry for being idle for almost a year. So many thing have been happening here where I am. I've been taking multi credit classes. I have absolutely no time n the computer now, because My dad now works from home on the computer, and I'm just too much of a bum to actually figure out the new password to the computer.

You all are probably wondering, "Why don't you just get your own laptop?" It's not that simple, see right now… every penny that I earn goes into my Nam, National American Miss, fund to pay for the $480 entry fee, plus costumes for my talent competition (for those of you who don't know, National American Miss is a beauty pageant), and my junior prom coming up and my life just seems so hectic right now and I feel really bad for not updating. I also lost the hard copy I had of this story, I may change a lot of things in the future.

Once again I am so sorry. Plus, I've been applying to preforming arts collages and trying so hard to get where I want to be with my life, and it's just so hard to keep my hobbies balanced with my school life and so forth, but I can never apologize enough for making you all wait thing long. I probably lost so many followers form this story, but I really do feel bad.

I also may be writing a Newsies (Broadway) fanfiction soon, so if you like Broadway check it out soon. Once again, So very very sorry for not updating and I hope you all will forgive me. Please favorite and review, KEEP READING!

By the way, I am not going to write anymore combat scenes because the last one was complete and utter shit, so yeah. I will try to update when I can, and I am so sorry for any mistakes here, this has not been revised by my editor, that was the hard copy that I lost.