Fighting evil by moonlight...

Winning love by daylight...

Sorry, wrong series. XD

So here we go guys, the first parts of the conflicting obstacles plot begins. Lead on by SASUKE...the one character in the series that needs to have his ass handed to him, seriously.

I mean, uh, his BUTT handed to him! Sorry to the kids present in this story. XD

Moooooooovvviiiinnngggg along...

And now our brave heroes...or two heroes and two ambiguous villains venture into the mysterious, Hellbent, creepy, chilling, skin-crawling, horrifying, and above all horrible place...that is Silent Hill.

XD Just kidding. Although I'd love to get my hands on the Silent Hill games. They sound awesome. I'm especially curious about Silent Hill 4: The Room. What could possibly be creepier than being locked in your own apartment, with no ways of communication? That, is just epic creepy awesome right there.

And now I'm completely deterring from the story! Helga, slap me.

Helga: With pleasure! *Slaps me*

Ow! Thanks.

XD

One last thing...please forgive me for the horrible action fight scene. I will tell you right now, I am the Queen of Fluff...and I suck with fighting scenes. So please forgive me for the suckage.

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It was in the outskirts of the village, far off from the main areas, and out into a grassy field surrounded by the dense forests, leading to who-knows-where.

"I can sense her approach." Karin said, turning to Sasuke from their hiding location about three hundred yards off. "That's her all right, with that chakra. Of course it's incomparable to yours, but she's something."

"Please, this is gonna be easy." Suigetsu rolled his eyes. "He's gonna take her down in half a second flat!"

Sasuke stepped forward, his back to his team. "You're both forgetting...though she could never surpass that of an Uchiha, she is indeed a formidable opponent. I won't underestimate her, I will give her credit, but either way, I will not lose to her."

"You still going through with this? Come on Sasuke, we can clearly get along just fine without that environmentalist."

Sasuke didn't answer him, but instead motioned for them to stay put, and then exited the forest and went for the clearing as the approach of questionable chakra approached. He knew she was coming. It surprised him, and yet, it didn't. Some targets would run away at the first sign of danger, being him in this case, or the specified target would face the perpetrator first hand. At least it saved him the trouble of tracking her down further than he already had.

I feel it...she's close. I have a feeling she'll resist...

Dropping down to the ground from atop a tree he had leaped onto, he stepped out of the trees, and within moments, came to see a splash of dark pink up ahead. He stepped a few yards closer, and sure enough, she stood there a few yards away, and despite the distance, could feel the penetrating stare of her azure eyes.

His own ebony orbs observed her as she stood, facing him with a cold, venomous glare, like that of a jungle predator stalking its prey. Sasuke regarded her coolly, with the breeze fluttering their hair and clothes.

Not a word was spoken between them, until she broke the silence.

"Sasuke Uchiha...after all this time, I never would have imagined that I'd run into you. I'm not going to beat around the bush, because I want to know here and now, just what is it that you want with me?"

An amused gleam came to his eyes as he pondered his answer for a moment. "Then I guess I should come out with it. Your power is admittedly very useful, and I see that the Akatsuki has indeed faced a few casualties. I want you to join me, to put your power to its proper use. You're indeed an undeniably talented kunoichi, and I can always use a new recruit."

A stricken look came to her eyes for a fleeting moment, before she narrowed them a bit. "And just what makes you think that I'm going to acquiesce? You're failing to remember that I nor a lot of people outside of your world back in the Village of Sound trust you. While I don't know all of your motives, aside from the death of your older brother, how do I know you're not trying to create some kind of a clever ruse to rat me out, or hell, even to kill me? You ought to know there is quite a bounty on my head, don't you? So really, what makes you think I would even consider joining you, Sasuke?" She spoke his name as if he were a vile parasite. "When I don't even come close to knowing you, your motives, or trusting you?"

Sasuke didn't even flinch, seemingly unaffected by her refusal. "A smart ninja does indeed question these things. Even I would do the same. You and I, more than you might think, are quite alike... You of all people would understand, the loss of your entire clan... the need to grow stronger."

"Don't speak to me as if you know me." Casana spat. "You may be right, I did lose my clan to a bloody massacre I don't wish to think about, but don't you dare. Don't you fucking dare. You don't understand what it was like to be like me."

His eyes narrowed at her accusation.

But she went on, and her eyes then shifted to bright pink with the Nentougan, as his mind was then open book to her.

Now she's using her own bloodline limit to see into my mind...she feels that I don't understand her. How pathetic. He was thinking. No one could ever understand me, and if she thinks she could possibly have a less than understanding life, she is sadly mistaken.

"That's what you think, isn't it? You think that only you can understand how it feels to live a life yours. Go ahead and try to deny it, your mind is an open book to me now. Maybe I don't understand the feeling of a loved one killing my own family, but I can tell you this. You don't understand what it means to be hated. I grew up back in my village hated. No family, no one to look my way, no one to care. But you Sasuke...don't even get me started. You were admired, loved, pitied even. But you just pushed it all away, completely unaffected by it. You didn't see how well you had it, despite the loss of your family. You didn't have the villagers hating you for reasons that weren't your fault. You didn't have the children laugh and make fun of you. No. All you seemed to care about was getting power to kill your brother. Yes...how does it feel, Sasuke? Hearing this kind of talk when you're on the receiving end? I see you once berated the Nine-Tails...Naruto Uzumaki, of the same thing, didn't you? Well Sasuke, let me ask you something. Did you even consider that maybe you are the one who doesn't understand him? He also...faced the hatred of the villagers, being shunned in his own homeland. You seem to put everyone below you for every reason, don't you? Well...know this. Aside from what you have done in leaving the village, you don't understand what it means to be HATED."

In an instant, though she saw it coming, Sasuke was now in front of her, his sword drawn and held to her throat.

"Don't talk as if you think you knew what I went through, because even if my mind, my past, everything within my thoughts is an open book to you now, you will never understand."

A smirk crossed her features. "Act high and mighty all you want, there is no escaping reading your mind. I know exactly what you'll do, what you'll say, before you can even do it. I understand more than you can imagine, and you don't like that, do you? You don't like it when someone else is right and you're wrong, and you know very well that you're wrong."

Nothing was was said as her throat was then severely slit by his sword.

...XXXX...XXXX...XXX...

"Eri? When did you get here, and-wait, where's Casana?"

"She went after him." Eri stated. "I don't know how or why, but apparently Sasuke is in the area, and she went after him, and told us to come back here. I wasn't sure what else to do, but I know that the kids' safety is important. We have to-"

"Okay, okay, just stop it right there." Helga suddenly interrupted. "Who the heck is this Sasuke person and why did she go after him?" She wasn't quite ready to admit that she'd overheard the conversation from the night before.

"Sasuke Uchiha is a missing nin from Konoha, the Village Hidden in the Leaves." Eri explained. "He had left the village to follow the Sannin Orochimaru in order to get power from him to kill his older brother, Itachi, who had killed the Uchiha clan. Now he's traveling around to try to find Itachi. He travels with a Team of people who were also recruited by Orochimaru. They're known as either Team Hebi, or Snake of you will, or Team Hawk. Not that it makes any relevance. Why Casana's going after him, I have no idea."

(Take note: Remember, Eri is from our world. She's read the Naruto Manga and knows all about it, at least, up to the point she goes into the world. And now she's pretty sure that the series either doesn't exist in the Hey Arnold universe, considering it DID come out in the late nineties, long before Naruto's release, let alone its release in America. That, or it didn't come out yet.)

"I know why." Said Deidara, now clenching a fist at his side. "He's after her. Why he is, it's anyone's guess, I'll bet he wants to try to harness her power. That or he has some kind of grudge against her for a reason even I wouldn't know. So wait, you just let her go?"

"She was gone before I could even think about it." Eri said apologetically. "She told me to bring Arnold back here, to keep the kids safe. I don't disagree with that, I don't know what Sasuke would do if he found us but-"

"Never mind. I'm going after her. You stay here and keep an eye on these two, Casana's gonna throw a fit if anything happens to them. That Uchiha brat, he can mess with me all he wants, maybe not my artwork, but mess with Casana and he gets it." Deidara said, and then was gone once more before anyone could say or do anything.

For what seemed like hours, no one spoke a word. All that was heard was the wind flowing through the trees, and the sounds of their own breathing. Even Helga wasn't sure what to think about all of this, it was all so very new to her. Then again, everything was new to her. In fact, a look of fear was coming over her then as reality was slowly setting in. They could really die out here. This was nothing like dealing with problems at home, like schoolyard bullies (real ones), or losing a quarter...this was huge.

What had happened yesterday, nearly getting killed by that crocodile, with a cut leg to remember it, likely to scar her leg and her mind, was a sure reminder that this was a big, dangerous, scary world. When Arnold had been kidnapped, aside from trying to calm herself by talking of better days, she was scared to death. She was afraid he wouldn't survive. And now this, having nearly been eaten alive, and then now, a dangerous ninja possibly out to kill them all.

Helga was scared. Very scared.

Sensing her discomfort and fright, Arnold reached over and held her hand in comfort. She relaxed a bit and squeezed his hand back, having no strength to refuse him right now.

"What do we do?" Arnold finally questioned.

"...I'm not sure, Arnold." Eri replied, biting her lip. "I don't know if there's even anything we can do."

XXXXXXX

Bits of logs and leaves fell to the ground, Sasuke cursing lightly to himself for having not seen how easy that had been to slit her throat. Now the question of where she was and what her sneak attack would be remained.

Left? Right? Behind? Above? Below? He thought.

Sensing something from behind, he whirled around and slashed his sword through a horde of vines coming his way. The blade sliced through them, faltering their movement for a moment, but then to his surprise, the vines reformed, and then retracted from him and then rose upward from the ground, when they suddenly materialized into a human form.

Smirking lightly, his eyes reverted to the Sharingan. "Not bad. You had managed to escape me without much to my knowledge. Don't think you will be able to trick me twice."

"You know, I don't appreciate arrogant pricks out for power." Casana spat, one hand behind her back, slowly drawing her machete. "People like you make me sick."

"I will get what I'm after." He told her. "Don't think that I won't."

"Overconfidence is your greatest enemy."

Sasuke didn't say anything to that, only thought to himself just how annoying she was with her silly accusations toward him. He would have preferred to do away with her at this point, but that wouldn't solve anything. No. He knew what he wanted, and what he had to do to get it. She would bend to his will, and he would be damned if she didn't.

Kicking in speed, he hurried toward her, deciding to have to give it his all. Gaining the upper hand would be easy, he knew, but she was stronger than he was in some aspects, that much he hated to admit, so it would prove to be a challenge.

But that was fine. He did like a challenge from time to time. Maybe today was just one of those days. She wanted to play? Fine by him. They could play all day.

Before he could strike her with his sword, she had swiftly drew a machete and blocked the blow of his blade, horizontally. For a few moments their blades clashed, his scarlet Sharingan eyes met with her pink Nentougan eyes, neither of them making a move, it was as if time itself was frozen.

Uchiha versus Kusabana. Sharingan versus Nentougan.

"You can't win Sasuke, I won't let you!" Casana ground out, inching her machete closer against his blade, pushing them toward him.

"Will alone won't get you anywhere." Sasuke applied strength and pushed their clashed blades toward her. "True power brings strength, the strength to bring down all that stands in the way of your goal."

"That's ridiculous!" She jumped backward, now standing a few feet away. "Enhanced jutsu and chakra strengthening your body and ninjutsu don't make for a strong shinobi! True strength comes from your heart! The power to do your best and work hard no matter what happens, all from the power of your heart, is what true strength and power is. But you alleged power-hungry bigots are too blind to see it!"

"Don't be an idiot. A strong shinobi of a prestigious clan such as your own should know of the true meaning of having power." The ebony-haired former Konoha ninja said condescendingly. "A survivor like you should be an avenger, one who seeks the power to achieve revenge."

"It's not just about what you're fighting for." She stepped closer, vines rising up from the ground behind her. "It's who you're fighting for. I fight for others...to help them...and most of all, love." Placing her free hand on her heart, she looked at him, her eyes returning to their normal blue. "I fight for love."

"Love... What a weakness, I never thought someone like you could stoop to such a idiocy."

"If being an avenger like you makes me stronger, hell, if it makes me smarter, then I would rather be an idiot."

He'd heard enough. Once more he ran for her, creating hand seals in a swift motion, and blowing fire from his mouth. In retaliation, she did the same, blowing fire from her mouth, both sets of flames clashing together. At the same moment, her vines lunged toward him, as did an army of snakes he shot out from what looked as if they were coming from his sleeves.

Extinguishing her blow, she immediately leaped out of range of his flames and landed back on the branch of a tree. Sasuke looked to see where she'd gone, and paused a moment, wondering what she was about to do.

She leaped off the branch and landed back in front of him, she made a few hand seals, to which Sasuke caught on to in thanks to the Sharingan, and imitated her.

"Wind Release: Petal Dust Dance!"

They each released the jutsu, two cyclones of petals appeared, sending the entire area into a windblown state, and just as the two shinobi were, the flower petal cyclones battled it out against each other.

Sasuke braced himself against the winds, and took the opportunity to leap out of sight of her, as did she, each landing on the branches of opposite trees on either side of the clearing. He controlled his own cyclone toward her, as did she with her own, going toward him.

I'll have to add to the technique, this won't... Wait, unless maybe... Casana thought, tense. I haven't tried it like this before! Should I do it?

Sheathing her machete for the moment, she made the ram hand seal, and exhaled as she prepared herself for her next tactic.

"Wind Release: Great Task of the Dragon!"

From where he was at, Sasuke watched in utter awe as storm clouds loomed in the sky overhead, and almost immediately a tornado unleashed, seeming to then collide and reform along with her own cyclone of petals combine.

I see her game, she's using the power of both wind jutsus combined, to be able to add more power with a tornado, and yet control it along with her petal cyclone. Impressive...but that's just kids stuff. Sasuke thought.

He smirked, knowing then just how to bring her down.

XXXXxxxxXXXX

Damn, the wind is getting stronger, and then...wait, did it just dissipate?

Deidara came to a stop on a rooftop of a hut, and paused, looking out to the horizon, to where he was following the trail of chakra. Something didn't feel right, and it wasn't just the sudden dissipation of the strong winds he'd felt. He just couldn't quite place his finger on it.

"Unless she found him...or he found her."

Biting his lip, he immediately kept going, determined to get to the bottom of all of this, and stop it. If Sasuke did indeed find her, or if she found him...

Though he had confidence in her strength and power, he knew full well that Sasuke was tricky, and could just as easily turn things around.

If I find her dead, HEADS will explode...