Disclaimer: I own neither Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho nor Harry Potter.

This story takes place somewhere during the time Naruto goes off with Jiraiya to train. For the purposes of my story, Naruto and Gaara got kidnapped and managed to escape. The rescue team arrived towars the end of the fight.

The 'Fuzzy Maraca' thing was from the Lion King 2 (which i also don't own.).

And to Curry, how much of Naruto have you actually seen, that you don't know who Mr Red Eyes is?

There was a beeping sound near his head, and a flexing of his arm confirmed a needle of some sort. Whisper blinked his eyes open and looked around the bright room. He turned his head lightly and saw an open door that led to a hall.

He stared blankly at the door for several minutes as a few people he identified as humans passed by, trying to figure out what was wrong with the picture.

One of the boys from before, the one with chaotic blond hair, crystalline blue eyes and looked to be around fourteen-ish, appeared in the doorway. His entire face lit up when he saw that Whisper was awake, making him appear rather cute in an adorably dopey puppy-ish way.

"You're awake."

Whisper blinked, still trying to figure out what was wrong with this picture. Suichi chuckled in his head. 'He's wearing the most offensive outfit I have ever seen.'

Whisper's eyes flickered and blinked rapidly for a second as his mind tried to come to terms with the offensively bright orange, not to mention ugly, jumpsuit the kid was wearing. Whisper's eyebrow shot up and it came out before he could stop it.

"Where the hell am I?"

The boy snickered ungracefully, before sobering. "You're in Konoha, in the Hidden Village of Leaf. We brought you here after you collapsed." The grin returned, but this time it was tinged with admiration. "The way you went head to head with Itachi was just soo cool! Can you teach me to fight like that?"

Whisper put up a hand to stop the advance of the starry-eyed boy as he edged closer. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Backtrack. My memory's kinda blank after we stopped by the river and got surrounded, so could you give me a minute or so to sort out my head?"

The blonde rolled his eyes and did the lip-blowy thing particular to kids, horses and llamas. He threw himself onto the chair beside the hospital bed, while Whisper started staring at the ceiling in an attempt to collect his thoughts.

'Alright, what happened?'

Youko shifted to the surface. Whisper got the distinct impression that he and Suichi were exchanging almost guilty glances.

'Your youkai side woke up because the threat was greater than any you've ever faced in this life. The guy with red eyes was at least upper Class A, possibly Class S, and you're only lower Class A at the moment. With you're demon-side's survival instincts, enhanced reflexes and sheer ferocity, you were able to beat Mr Red Eyes. However, from what I can gather from the various conversations held around you while you were unconscious, the humans that attacked you were from an organisation called Akatsuki. Akatsuki attacks, captures, then draws out the demons of those who have a demon sealed within them…"

'…What aren't you telling me?' Whisper inquired sceptically, noticing how Suichi trailed off.

Youko sighed. 'The youkai side was subtle, no physical changes but for your eyes, which were spinning the green and gold into a continuous spiral, and the slightly lengthened nails, nothing that couldn't be passed off as a particularly vicious and aggressive human…right up until another guy put a sword through you chest via your back.' Whisper winced. 'You were just too busy going 'head to head', as the brat said, with the guy with red eyes to notice yourself being manoeuvred away from the river at your back. And it's not like you couldn't heal it fast and sufficiently enough to fight back after you pulled it out.'

Whisper knew Youko meant it as a complement, but the details were making him queasy once it clicked that he had effectively pulled a sword out of his chest. That and said wound had managed to fight its way past the painkillers.

'Look on the bright side, at least neither of the kids noticed.' Whisper was grateful that Suichi was trying to make him feel better, not that it was working. And Youko just had to throw in his two cents.

'And on the down side, this 'Akatsuki' now thinks you are either a demon or you have one sealed inside you.'

'Yeah. And isn't it ironic that I'm a bit of both.' Whisper 'watched' a scary Chibi-Suichi chase a Chibi-Youko around his head with a frying pan, going on about how he shouldn't have brought that up yet. Once Youko was in a 'battered heap' with stars circling his head, Whisper asked Suichi something he'd been pondering since it came up. 'I thought you said my youkai side wouldn't become active until puberty, regardless of situation.'

'Well, you're not exactly a kid at the moment, now are you?'

Whisper blinked, Youko snickered. 'Point.'

Whisper blinked his way out of his reverie when the blonde beside the bed made a bored and irritable sound. When Whisper turned to regard the blond, he perked up and smiled a little sheepishly, a small amount of what might have been hope behind it. Whisper gave a slightly confused but nevertheless amiable smile in return.

"What's you're name, kid."

The kid popped. That was the only word Whisper could think of to describe it and still find it amusing. Heh, 'popped'.

"HEY! I'm not a kid, dammit! I am Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage, and don't forget it!"

Whisper blinked at him, then smiled. "And you need to learn subtlety, 'cause you just gave me enough information for someone to manipulate you for their own purposes."

The kid obviously didn't know what he was getting at. "Huh?"

The dark haired boy sighed. "What I'm trying to say is, don't give so much information away when being introduced to someone for the first time. It allows them to form an opinion of you, which can, in turn, be used against you."

Naruto blinked. "Oh." Naruto frowned, 'trying' to think of something. He brightened. "Oh yeah! What's your name? Tsunade-baachan wants to know."

"Excuse me?"

Naruto rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "Oh! Sorry. Um…The Hokage wishes to know the name of the nin who saved one of her genin from the missing-nin, nearly at to cost of his own life."

Whisper stared at him, honestly surprised. Suichi and Youko also stared for a moment as well. Then Youko spoke. 'He pick up on your meaning abnormally quick. He's not as dumb as he appears.'

'Indeed.'

Whisper decided to bring it up later, but for the time being, he settled on answering Naruto's question.

"You may call me Whisper."

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Quote: "He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good..." Is Santa a stalker or something?