After narrowly defeating Kisame and receiving emergency treatment from Itachi, I eventually stopped by a small non-ninja village in the Land of Water to get treated properly. Both of my arms were back to normal and local doctor said that I should 'If stay out of trouble, for some time, you'll be fine!' . My reply to that being, 'Sorry Doctor, being me I suppose it can't be helped!' we laughed about it for a while, but I had to take his words seriously. After a couple of days, 'some time', as the doctor said, had passed. I was back to my old self, only this time, I would promise myself that I would only use dark energy when I had more control over it.
So far, the Land of water was a beautiful picturesque area, with many waterfalls flowing side by side with the greenery. That was until I reached the port. It was a place stinking of fish, and other things I didn't want to know about! It was clear that some parts of the port needed refurbishing. I planned to take a ship from the port, directly to the Islandwhere the Hidden mist village was. However, there were no passenger ships available, so I had to take a cargo ship with many suspicious-looking crew members. Their clothes were tattered and smelly, and their teeth were an unhealthy shade of gold. But I suppose that was the lifestyle of a crew-member.
During the long journey, I tried to stay out of their way, but occasionally they would look at me funny, but initially they didn't mean any harm. I was scared because I was paranoid about strangers and my worst fear was realised halfway through the journey, we were due south east when the captain assembled his ten-man crew and said, 'Crew, our messenger bird has sent us an urgent message, from brother Hidan, of the Akatsuki. Although we generally do not support such acts of terrorism, we must be supportive of our Jashin brethren'. Immediately, I feared the worst. I defeated Hidan before coming to the Leaf village, and now that he was 'dead', they were most probably going to take revenge for my part in the plan. I listened in from the nearby cabin where I slept, learning more and more about them. If there was anything I admired about Jashins, it was the fact that they stood up for one another, even if they came from different areas.
'…If any of you see a man with long brown hair, green eyes and wears a battle coat, show no mercy.' After he uttered those words, I knew I was doomed.
'Come to think of it, our passenger looks like that', a crew member said.
'Yeah, there's no mistake about it', another added.
'Find him! Nobody attacks one of our own and gets away with it!' the captain barked. So, after all that it appeared that the ones looking after me were Jashin sailors. I had to take them head on. Initially I thought about abandoning ship and walking on water for the rest of my journey, but I would most probably use too much chakra, get exhausted, drown and then die. But that was a problem for later. How was I supposed to defeat 11 bloodthirsty Jashins, without using dark energy? I left my dormitory, and ran to the deck to find my first enemy.
In a matter of seconds, I found the captain accompanied by a crew member. He was the taller and the more muscular of the two. It was like there were buffalos on each arm of the captain. His crew member carried a one-handed sword and he attacked me first without much thought. I spotted an opening immediately, so I kicked the sword out of his hand, retrieved it and went for his head. One down – ten to go. Now for the captain, he was much harder. He carried an axe and swung it wildly, but it was only a matter of time until he slowed down. I severed his hand with my sword, leaving him unarmed. I then finished him off with my speed and sword skills, chopping him in various areas and then stabbing him until he died. By the time I finished with the captain, I was surrounded by the remaining nine crew members, eager to get revenge. They came at me with their swords. With my chakra, I climbed like a spider at the top of the mast, then jumped downwards off it. While Airborne, I got out an arrow and fired with my bow. 'Arrow: Shadow Clone jutsu!' I didn't put any dark energy on my arrows, just enough chakra to create a multitude of arrows that attacked all the sailors. It wasn't too difficult, as they were standing close to one another.
As I reached the ground, the arrows did enough damage to kill or severely injure the entire crew. I used my sword to make sure they were all dead. My bigger problem now faced me. I wasn't trained to steer a ship but I tried my best. Since we were due south east, all I had to do was make sure the ship travelled in a straight line. This was actually more difficult than I thought because of all the winds and storms coming. I felt a 'sinking' sensation. It was slow but the ship was going down. I looked behind me and realised that some of my arrows did miss and went right through the ship and into the water. I panicked, but as I saw Land, I knew that all I had to do was the 'Walking on water jutsu', and run as fast as I could.
I reached the shore. I was exhausted and I actually released the jutsu by accident, due to my physical and mental tiredness. I swam as much as I could before I was washed onto the shore. Despite that, I was successful, and I didn't need much effort to defeat the Jashin sailors. I stank of the dirty ocean, but I didn't care. I rested before my final leg of the route to the Mist village.