Ashen Leaves (a Silent Hill/Naruto Crossover fic)

Disc.: I own neither this amazing anime/manga or this wonderfully creepy videogame series and the movie(s) made from them, I'm just borrowing for the sake of entertaining all those out there looking for something to read.

A/N: Ok, so if ya'll read the last chapter then you know what all went down…it's now time to pick up on that and carry on from here with most of the game but I'll try to mix in some of the movie too, if I added too much of one or the other then please let me know in a message or review and I'll try to fix any imbalances. For now, time to get started!

Ch.4- Chasing Ashes

The light finally came and settled on Itachi, who woke up with a start when he realized that it was morning. He then looked at himself and saw that he had a rather nasty bump on his forehead from slamming into the steering wheel. He rubbed the lump and felt a little pain from touching it, but none of that compared to the pain he felt from waking up alone. His obsidian eyes widened in fear when he saw that Naruto wasn't in the passenger seat with him, the raven getting out of the car and running down the road while calling out his lover's name worriedly.

"Naruto…where are you?"

Itachi then felt something fall onto his face around his eyes, a finger reaching up and feeling the soft snow-like flake that'd come to rest there on the edge of his vision. He then rubbed it and realized that it wasn't cold but instead felt slightly warm as he rubbed it in between his thumb and index finger, only to see it turn from gray to black.

"Ashes…"

His eyes then drifted up to the large sign that looked like it'd been burned to cinders then somehow glued back together and written on, the pale yellow letters barely visible but still managing to spell out a dreary welcoming message that said 'Welcome to Silent Hill'.

Itachi knew that he wouldn't find his lover standing around in the middle of the road so he started running into the town, his eyes never once noticing that the road out beyond his car had disappeared as if it were never there.

(Texaco Gas Station)

Sasuke had pulled his 2014 Camry into the gas station lot and parked nearby, his eyes drifting towards the open mechanic's garage as he heard the sounds of drills unscrewing bolts. He saw a man with dirty blonde hair wearing a blue-grey mechanic's uniform that was covered in grease and oil, a blue ball cap sitting on his head as he leaned over a car's open front hood. The younger raven then pulled out a picture of his brother and walked up to the mechanic, whose name was Inoichi, hoping to get some answers out of him as to where Itachi could've possibly gone.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for my brother…he may have come through here last night with a young blonde man, did you happen to see where they went?"

Inoichi looked up at the young man talking to him and replied to his question while wiping his hands on a grey towel that had grease all over it.

"Daughter worked night shift, I got here about 5 this morning and she's sleeping."

Sasuke kept standing next to the car while Inoichi grabbed a wrench and pack of cigarettes.

"Actually, he mentioned that he was going to this place called Silent Hill…know how I can get there?"

Inoichi scoffed at Sasuke, not many people asked how to get to that long forgotten ghost town, and even if they wanted to go there they couldn't.

"You don't; town's closed off because of the coal fires still burning underground, breathe in enough of those fumes…they'll kill ya." The blonde man said as he put a cigarette in his mouth. But Sasuke wasn't gonna give up until his two most precious people were back safe with him, and if there was one thing he had learned from his father that he could count on as being true, it was that money always talks as he pulled out a mid-sized wad of 20 dollar bills held together by a metal clip. He then clicked it loudly on the side of the hood, the sound getting the man's attention as Sasuke interrogated him further.

"Ok, Inoichi…where's the turnoff?"

(In Silent Hill)

Itachi had finally made it into the town, the sky being nothing but pure grey and white ashes were falling all over the roads and grass covered sidewalks. He idly wondered how anyone could stand to live here, but then again he hadn't actually expected people to be living here anymore because of the coal fires under the roads he saw paved throughout the town.

'Naruto…where could you be?' Itachi thought as he looked all around the area he was currently standing in, his mind supplying that there was no sound at all other than the ashes falling and his light breathing.

'Now this is strange…it's quiet…too quiet…this place is almost like a ghost town. I need to find Naruto, and soon.'

The raven decided that he could worry about the lack of sound later as he started lightly jogging forward until he heard footsteps and saw a person through the thick fog. His eyes widened as he realized that it was his dearest one, but the blonde was just standing there as if he were lost.

"Naruto? Is that Naruto?"

He didn't have much of a chance to ask the blonde before he started walking away from Itachi's sight, panic settling in immediately as he shouted at the blonde to stop and wait.

"Hey wait, come back! Where are you going?!"

Itachi then began chasing the blonde until he heard him open and close a metal gate at the end of a residential storage lot. The gate was on the left side of the wall, and the raven cautiously opened it in case there were vicious dogs on the other side; just because he hadn't seen any didn't mean that they weren't around somewhere.

He ignored the bloody, half torn apart corpse nearby as well as the blood on the wall and smeared on the ground, but he couldn't ignore the siren that grew louder until it was all he could hear echoing around him. His eyes then drifted up towards the sky and he saw that it was growing dark incredibly fast.

"Whoa…why is it getting dark out already? It can't have been more than an hour since the sun came up…maybe I spent more time chasing after Naruto than I thought, either way he came down this alley and I have to find him before it gets too late out."

As the darkness fell, Itachi pulled out a lighter he kept on him and flicked it on, the light shining brightly amidst the darkened shroud that was enveloping him as he walked down the alleyway slowly. He strained his ears and caught the sound of what he thought was his beloved's voice calling out to him, panic coming full swing into his mind.

"Itachi…"

The raven gulped loudly and steeled himself against the fear that was threatening to take hold of him entirely.

"For Naruto."

Itachi then began walking down the alleyway until he came to a dead end, a bloody Hospital gurney in front of him as his gaze drifted up towards something that made him want to puke. Instead, he screamed in fear at the sight in front of him…chained up on the gate was a body, the stomach slashed open and all their entrails hanging low as the raven backed up in pure fright. He never did have that strong of a stomach and cadavers had always creeped him out but what disturbed him most was that the body was still somehow alive, the man's eyes moving around and widening as he tried to gesture to the raven that there was something behind him.

Said raven looked behind him to see what looked like a child but they had no clothes on. Itachi then saw bright orange eyes that looked like they were made of brimstone, the light catching the raven off guard for a moment before he felt the child stab him in the leg with a knife. He then regained his mind long enough to run out of the alleyway only to find that the gate was locked and that more of the brimstone eyed children had shown up with knives meant to stab him.

Itachi kept running until he came across an abandoned building, a pick axe nearby as he saw the children come into the building with their knives. He then grabbed the somewhat heavy instrument and swung at the children until they all became piles of blood and ashes, none of them alive after Itachi was finished with them. Upon realizing what he'd done, the raven dropped the weapon he was holding and threw up until he passed out, the last things he saw were the sky getting lighter and a pair of black boots approaching him.

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T.B.C.- So, Itachi is kind of OOC in this but trust me when I say that there's a reason for all that I do in stories like this one…for now, read and review please!