My first attempt at 'Dark Rasengan' was powerful but as I realised, it was highly unstable. The more dark energy I exerted, the more chakra I needed to control it. A while after I left the leaf village, I felt the full effects of exerting too much dark energy. My left arm was numb, and I could hardly move it. However, once I crossed the border from the Land of fire to the Land of water, my arm could move again. My aim was to go to the Hidden mist village, in order to meet their Shinobi, explore their way of life and possibly improve my skills. I heard that I could improve my chakra control, and my chakra reserves if I went there for a while and trained.
Most of my journey through the Shinobi world was done by brisk walking, and this time, it was no different. However, as I was walking through the hilly woods that connected the Land of Water and Land of Fire, I noticed two strange men from a distance, approaching the top of a hill from the other side. I decided to jump and hide in the trees, wait until they were gone a safe distance and continue walking. They were several feet away but I could hear their conversation quite well, and that's when I noticed it - The Akatsuki cloaks! I was shaking... but I had to stay still, and make sure that I didn't make a sound.
'I told you Kisame, we have to keep moving like this. Otherwise if we do stay stationary, the other shinobi nations will eventually find our many hideouts and capture us. That's what Pain said', he spoke in a calm and emotionless voice. 'I've had enough of this walking! This straw hat is also quite troublesome!' The one known as Kisame threw off his hat in a rage. I was still shaking, my face was sweating because of my nervousness and the sweltering heat. Some must have dripped off my face. He was right under my nose, still complaining. 'Very well then! But I must fight soon, Samehada is quite hungry for Leaf shinobi, Sand shinobi... and idiot spies who like to hide in trees!', he noticed me. And shredded the bottom of the tree I was in.
I jumped from tree to tree, the moment he used his 'sword' Samehada to cut many trees down. Such power from a single sword was almost impossible. I had to keep running in order to avoid trouble. I zig-zagged from one side to the other, but it was no use. I was surprised to see that Kisame's partner did nothing but follow Kisame, like a parent following their newly mobile toddler all the time to make sure the toddler didn't cause trouble.
'You know, Itachi. I'm surprised you didn't see his sweat drop. I mean you have the Sharingan!'
'There's no reason to fight.' Itachi replied.
'Itachi, you contradict yourself. Didn't you say something about the shinobi nations tracking us down?', Itachi kept silent.
I had respect for these areas, so I didn't want too many trees being cut down. I had to get out of there and face them. I was at the top of the hill when I stopped, and below me were many severed trees resting across each other, as though they were weaved together. The peak of the hill was flat, and was actually not far up from the trees knocked down. Kisame faced me, ready to fight. Itachi didn't seem all that bothered and stood there like a statue, observing us the whole time. Kisame made the first move, with his sword. Samehada was a vile thing. It was held like a sword, but looked like a shark, and had a hungry mouth at the end. I reached for my sword, but then I realised that I didn't have one after Jiraiya-sama destroyed it. I avoided his first attack, and the subsequent attacks after, thinking of my strategy. He then summoned a water clone.
'If you can barely cope with one of me, how can you cope with two?'. I summoned 2 Shadow clones. One of my clones would keep the real Kisame busy with some paperbombs and kunai, and the other to help me get rid of the clone. Kisame aimed for the real me with a waterdragon jutsu. It was vast, and I had to get in the trees again. But my clone exterminated the water clone.
'Kuchiyose-no-jutsu!', my clone summoned two of my angels with his palms against the water clone's back. Strife and Destiny, appeared out as Kisame's water clone disintegrated into water. I told them my impending plan telepathically. They wasted no time attacking Kisame with their swords. The two of them cancelled out Kisame's attacks for a couple of seconds, and moved out of the way so that I could have a bite.
'Rasengan!', I rammed it into his stomach. He fell to the ground, but he was far from defeated.
'My chakra, and my stamina are almost unmatched. You have to do better than that!' It appeared that Kisame was in another class of his own. How was I going to defeat him?
'Water Style: A Thousand feeding sharks!' Kisame formed a thousand sharks from water. I countered quickly. 'Dark arrow: Shadow clone jutsu!', my multiple arrows proved sufficient. I summoned 3 more angels to assist me and after some time, both of us were nearing our limits. He used his water style jutsu, to wipe out Destiny and Strife, and his Samehada to wipe out Filigree, the third angel I summoned. She protected me after Kisame found an opening. I was incredibly grateful for my angels, and I had to win this battle for them. Aegis and Sunblast, fought a brief battle with their weapons before creating an opening for me strike. 'Giant Rasengan!' Kisame's sword protected him, and it was as though his sword was... yes, it was eating away at Giant Rasengan, reducing it down to an ordinary Rasengan. I had to think quick. 'You didn't think I would fall for that again did you? My sword will consume what chakra is left, and I will defeat you!'.
I promised myself I wouldn't use Dark Rasengan until I had better control, but in this case I had no choice. Samehada was indeed hungry, and went for my whole left arm. It didn't really swallow Rasengan properly, so I decided to pour as much Dark energy into Rasengan as possible. Samehada stopped biting, and I pulled out my now bloody, half-injured left arm. I could still move it, but only just. Samehada reacted badly to my Dark energy and started puking a nasty dark purple gunge as a result. It wasn't hungry anymore.
'What have you done? You've ruined my swoor...!' I wasted no time when Kisame was distracted. I lowered my stance and kicked him in the face as hard as I could down the hill, where the trees lying. They were surprisingly, still dry! My angels lifted me and flew me down the hill. Sunblast did a fire style jutsu to distract a recovering Kisame, She aimed for the fallen trees, which Kisame was surrounded by. Kisame quickly reacted with a vast water style jutsu. Almost at the same time, Aegis did a dustcloud jutsu, so that Kisame could still see nothing. I poured a lot of Dark energy into this last arrow and fired.
'Dark Arrow : Shadow clone jutsu!' . Almost all the arrows hit Kisame. The dark energy had a damaging and paralysing effect on him. Kisame was defeated, not knowing what hit him, but it took almost all my effort.
I gathered my breath, knowing that both of my arms were shattered. Both of my angels disappeared having fulfilled their purpose. And then Itachi appeared.
'I must say, you defeated Kisame quite well'.He maintained a lack of emotion. I was too exhausted to speak. He got out a kunai and took off his cloak. I thought he was going to kill me. But instead, he cut a piece of his shirt, which exposed his impressive midriff and used it as a bandage for my wounds.
Why did Itachi spare my life? He was an Akatsuki wasn't he? I never quite knew, until a later date. But I hobbled on , to my next destination...