"Is he dead? No, probably just unconscious. " Kisame was shocked as he saw Itachi lying still in a pool of blood. He didn't witness what had happened; he had just come to meet Itachi but instead he had found him lying there on the ground. He felt his pulse. "Just unconscious"

It was dark in the woods and all Kisame could see were Itachi, a few trees and trail of blood leading to the shadow of a figure far off in the distance. "Who is that?" he thought and followed the trail and saw Orochimaru. "You did that to Itachi?" Orochimaru smiled as he saw Kisame getting angrier over what had happened. "I hoped it wouldn't come to this." Orochimaru said. "I underestimated Itachi and my body isn't in the best shape." Kisame looked Orochimaru in his eyes. "Why? Were you planning on taking him with you to take over his body?" Orochimaru nodded. "I barely had the strength to carry him any further. I thought I would succeed with it this time." Kisame pulled out his sword, the Samehada. "Well you didn't. Now prepare to be eliminated once and for all!" Kisame charged against Orochimaru but was dodged as he jumped up in a tree "The Akatsuki uses teams of two. One is down, one is left. I can maybe win this round if another team doesn't show up." he thought. Still wounded and somewhat weak he used his Senei Jashuu but the snakes were easily smashed away by Kisames still covered-up sword.

Orochimaru jumped down from the tree. "Let's do something fun." He said and smiled. Kisame said nothing and just looked at Orochimaru who now threw up a snake with the Kusanagi. "Kusanagi against the Samehada. How exciting" He moved quickly, so quickly that Kisame didn't see when he suddenly appeared at his back but just before the blade hit him he jumped away. "It's not that easy to kill me!" He took away the covering of Samehada and made a second attempt to strike his enemy. As he saw Orochimaru, tired yet happy dodging to the right he swung his sword towards him at the same time and slightly hit his shoulders. "You can't have much chakra left. You should put more effort into dodging my attacks." He said as he then used his Shunshin no jutsu to teleport himself to the back of Orochimaru. "You're not the only fast one here" he whispered as he then hit Orochimaru in the head with his fist and witnessed how he fell to the ground.

Orochimaru woke up. He stared at Kisame who stared back at him. "What are you doing? Why am I still here?" Kisame smiled and replied "I hate it when you're puking up snakes and swords, it disgusts me. I'm thinking of maybe shoving Samehada down your throat, ruining it." Orochimaru smiled and noticed that the Kusanagi wasn't very far away from him on the ground. But would he go for it? No, not yet. "I'm too weak right now. I need a perfect opportunity" he thought. "What are you waiting for?" Kisame started to get annoyed. "Go for it. Go for your precious sword or do you want me to fuck up your throat?" Orochimaru started to get worried. "He has planned something. What is he going to do with me?" He slowly got up from the ground. "What are you doing?" he said. "Have you checked on Itachi? Maybe he's dead by now." Both of their facial expressions changed as Kisame turned worried Orochimaru put on an evil smile of victory.

They both stood still, Orochimaru looked deep into the eyes of Kisame. "Can't move?" He went to get his sword, but as he was about to grab it, he felt something on his face. He felt an extreme pain as Samehada ripped of the skin on his chin and he fell on the ground, again. "I can!" Kisame shouted, putting his sword placed on the right shoulder of Orochimaru and grabbing his right hand. "How're you feelin'?" He ripped of his right arm and threw it away. "I'll go check on Itachi. Don't go anywhere." He looked at the legs of his brutally beat up enemy. "I don't trust you." He bashed in both knees of Orochimaru and ripped of his right leg. "As I was saying, don't go anywhere."

Orochimaru lied there; still smiling and started to laugh as he saw Kisame disappear in the shadows of the woods.