Disclaimer:I dun own Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter.
Note:Due to popular consensis, it will be yaoi from here on out.
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"Alright, Youko, Suichi. How do I do this?"
The fog parted and Whisper-As-A-Fox-Child, Suichi and Youko Kurama stood in a small clearing filled with glowing multi-coloured foxlights and various luminescent transparent flowers that grew exclusively in the Farplane of the Reikai. The 'Three-Fold Lament' played on a piano sung in the air and you could just make out the roar of waterfalls in the background.
Youko raised an immaculately white eyebrow. "How do you do what?"
Whisper rolled his eyes. "And to think, you live in my mind."
Suichi laughed at the face Youko pulled at the boy.
"I want to know how to Dreamwalk." Whisper clarified, trying not to smile.
Suichi shrugged, a smile still hovering over his lips. "Don't look at me. I never learnt since I had no need for it."
"It's not that hard. This way." Whisper and Suichi shared a look before following Youko to the edge of the mind and down to the subconscious.
Whisper's mind was oddly laid out. The normal mind was usually an orb of some kind and the deeper you went into the orb, the deeper into the mind and subconscious you went.
Now Whisper's mind was very different. Organized. Subtle. Difficult. Since Whisper had an active imagination to begin with, it wasn't all that hard to organise his mind into a distinct way that only he and his tenants knew how to navigate it. Each flower was a memory, an experience or a random piece of information while the foxlights were skills he learnt, ready to be used at any moment. Everything else was a distracter; the fog, the music, the waterfalls; distracters.
This, however, was only the conscious mind. The conscious half was on a floating island and, to reach the subconscious, one had to go to the west end and walk down the stairs of transparent glowing energy quite some way. On the way down, one could see five separate but interconnected Ki Cores. Both Suichi's and Youko's Cores were large and green, shot through with gold: The other three, Suichi had explained, were Whisper's own Cores. The one used most often, and therefore the largest, was a marble of water blue and gold-shot green; this was his youki. The next was a rather plain and un-notable white of slightly above average size; this was his reiki, the white signifying his foresight abilities which he never learnt to use (Suichi made a mental note on the way past to send Whisper to Genkai when (if) they got home). The last Core was mostly separate from the others, only connected by a thread. This Core, the 'Magic' Core, was bigger than the reiki one, but only marginally so because it was never used and mostly ignored. It was like a black opal in colouration.
High overhead was a cube connected to Whisper's Cores by ugly reddish strands but created and maintained by Suichi and Youko's Cores. This was where the connection with the evil wizard was.
Finally, the three foxes reached the subconscious. The subconscious was so far away from the consciousness because, Youko said, they would be able to come up with a way to get any intruders out before they used it. All secrets were sent immediately to the subconscious for safekeeping.
The subconscious itself was a flooded rainforest. Three to seven feet of crystal clear water gave glimpses of the pretty but unrealistic white sand, river pebbles and cute little fishies in the water. Trees of all kinds stood in the water, their roots plain to see, as their leaves formed a dense canopy above, letting only singular shafts of light pierce the water. Makain bellbirds sang in the background. Allowing access to the forest were interconnected walkway bridges suspended above the water by poles and ropes tied to the thick trees. Foxlights again flitted through the trees, only these foxlights were secrets and would flee from everyone but Whisper and his tenants.
Youko led them deep into the forest until they reached a massive old weeping willow. In the willow was a hollow large enough to fit a fox through.
"There you go," Youko gestured to the hollow. "Go through there and you will leave the body. Since it only works in fox-form, you'll have to wait until you reach the person's dreams before assuming whatever form you want. Just look for the person you want, and if they're sleeping, jump into their chest to enter their dreams, just be out before they wake up or you're trapped there until they go back to sleep."
Whisper gave him a look. "And how am I supposed to get out, exactly?"
The silver fox shrugged. "Just will yourself out."
The black fox gave him a look before willing himself into his fox form.
The eight-tailed blue-tipped black fox shook itself and bound into the hollow, disappearing.
Suichi looked at Youko. Youko looked back.
Suichi shifted. "You up for a game of Shogi?"
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The black fox landed outside the body and shook itself again, not really used to this form. It bounced around the room a bit to get used to the form and trotted into the main room.
Whisper paused on his way to the kitchen window, blatantly ignoring the curious blue gaze of the blonde in the corner. Hadn't the hallway wall been knocked down by the Hokage in her hurry to save Naruto?
Pondering this a moment, the fox resolved to ask tomorrow and moved on.
Ten minutes later saw the furry little creature trotting into a room in the hospital which housed the snoring blond demon vessel.
Whisper jumped up onto the bed and placed his forepaw onto the visible Seal on the boy's stomach.
The black-and-blue fox was sucked into the abdomen of the jailor.
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Upon entry, Whisper changed into his adult kitsune form; tail, pointy ears and all. His outfit in this form was similar to Youko's except it was a very a dark blue, almost black.
Assuming that Naruto was a cute, innocent, naïve boy was a serious mistake on Whisper's part. A Point Of View which was automatically changed to 'Closet Nympho' upon arrival into the boy's Dreamscape.
Whisper left Naruto to his Sasuke Fantasy and made for the subconscious via the heavy dungeon door hovering a foot over the ground. If the fox had been in his physical form, he would have gotten a nosebleed from that position the blonde had his friend in.
There was a strangled sound from behind him.
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Whisper was quietly snickering to himself as he dragged the insensible blonde shade through the door.
His ears pricked forward and his nose wrinkled in distaste at the sewer. The fox enforced his will on the subconscious and anchored the image over the sewer one. Green-and-gold eyes opened and hummed in pleasure.
The fox started forward into the candle-lit cave, still dragging the shade to give Naru-chan some privacy.
After poking through several doors, the shade came out of his comatosed state (which in itself was impressive since he was, well, dead).
"What are you doing here!"
Whisper carefully closed the door to the room he had looked into(A Childhood Memory Room…Ano…It wasn't pretty.) and turned to answer the angry shade's pissy-hissed question.
The fox answered in his usual flippant fashion. "Looking for Kyuubi-sama. I have an appointment to get to, so if you would excuse me?" The kitsune sauntered past the momentarily speechless shade and went back to the main shaft.
There was some spluttering going on behind him (which was ignored in favour of another door). "Wait a kami-damned minute! Who the hell to you think you are!"
Whisper wiggled his nose at the 'Fantasy' section and closed the door gingerly. "Whisper, Youko Kurama, Minamino Suichi, Potsuteru Hatori Sora, Haruri, Hari, cousin darling dear, Son of Potsuteru Riri and Jamesu, Pain-In-The-Butt, King of Thieves, Plant Master, The Seller and Procurer Of Lost Information and Artifacts, Tsunade's Bane, Aniki, Chain-Yanker, He-of-the-Cute-and-Furry-Ears-and-Tail, etc. The list goes on. And…are you?"
"Kazama Arashi, the Fourth Hokage."
Whisper paused as he opened another door (People Naruto Hates: Numbering 571.) and tapped his chin thoughtfully, muttering to himself. "Yondaime…Yondaime… Yondaime the Blondaime who believed in the goodness of humanity and was unable to move on to eternal rest because his final wish was not carried out by the people who professed to love him." Whisper closed the door and moved off down the shaft where he opened another one, still speaking. "Humans are almost unique in Ningenkai in that they are one of the few species to learn from other's mistakes. They are also wholly unique in their blanant refusal to do so. Such is the folly of humanity. It's a wonder they aren't extinct yet."
It wasn't that Whisper was unaware of the hurt anger radiating from Arashi, it's just that he knew he would be lashed out at the moment he acknowledged it.
Whisper turned an abrupt corner and exclaimed happily. "And here it is!"
Arashi came around the corner and sweatdropped at the big, ominous blacked metal double doors illuminated by a pair of blue-flame torches. "Cheerful, innit?"
Whisper laughed and trotted forward.
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Kyuubi was nervous.
He couldn't remember ever having met one of his own kind in all of his long, long life. Even he admitted that he had probably not fought against the snake-man's genjustu as well as he could have, but he was tired and lonely and he wanted to die.
And then, after he had been Sealed into the human kit and was almost at peace with himself, BAM! Out of the blue he hears a song from the deepest recesses of his mind and hadn't seen the light for many thousands of years. He had risen to the surface of the kit's mind and there was a scent almost, but not quite, like his own. The owner of the scent was holding the kit in an almost parental manner…
Then it was gone and he was back in the cage, the song floating back into memory. Kyuubi almost cried.
And then the song was back again and the Seal was weaker! He rushed to the surface and the scent filled his nostrils, bringing with it forest scents he had almost forgotten in his prison.
He clung to the person and long dark hair brushed his face as he felt the other look around, still humming. Kyuubi started humming too.
There was someone speaking and the other stopped humming. The arms around him tightened and loosened. Kyuubi was pushed back and the other said something…and Kyuubi saw the other…
For a moment, just a moment, he was crushed because he thought the other was human and his mind was playing tricks…and then he saw the spirit outline overlaying the human form. It was most defiantly not human.
The other had large, tilted and heavy-lidded two-toned gold-and-green eyes that dominated the pale triangle of his face. A very kissable pale pink mouth was tilted into a nothing smile. Two blue-tipped black ears were pricked forward while a blue-tipped black foxtail swished down a perfect backside like a cat's just before pouncing. He was very tall and slender, though well-built.
Kyuubi couldn't remember ever seeing anything more beautiful.
Disgust flickered over the beautiful and the red eyes caught the leer of the snake-man directed at the other. HIS other.
You know that possessive kitsune thing I mentioned earlier? Yeah. That. It's a genetic trait apparent in any and all kitsune.
He was moving before he knew it, circling his prey while the other distracted it. Once behind, he waited for the opportune moment when the prey hesitated. He jumped and rode the snake-man to the ground.
The human stopped moving so Kyuubi looked up at the other. There was an almost smile on his face. There was a slight movement to the right and Kyuubi glanced between the other and a human boy he vaguely recognized from watching through the kit's eyes.
The other looked at the human and pulled a face. The gag was ripped from the human's face and the human regurgitated his breakfast onto himself.
A rapidly approaching aura caught his attention.
"Nin are coming. Go."
Kyuubi turned back at the smooth voice. He almost frowned when he realized the other was talking to another human he hadn't noticed before.
Kyuubi stood, calling the other's attention back to him.
"You should go back to sleep." He told the Kyuubi softly. "If you stay in control too long, the body deteriorates and puts a strain on the host's mind."
Kyuubi was slightly irritated but realized the truth in what he said. He nodded. "As you wish. We will speak later." They would talk next time he was called out.
Which left him back in the kit's mind and in the cell.
Imagine his surprise when the dungeon door opened and the other pooped his head in.
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Quote: The Good Guy
If I Am Ever the Hero...
3. When the Evil Overlord takes hostages, I will presume the hostages dead and hold a memorial service. Any promises made by the Evil Overlord regarding their safe return shall be summarily ignored. My loved ones will be warned to expect this.
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