The Mist village had an excellent veteran shinobi who was talented in chakra control. His students in the so-called 'Secrets of chakra control' included the fifth Mizukage, Kisame Hoshigaki and now me. I trained under him for a few days, doing some crazy things that supposedly increased my chakra reserves (or made my jutsu require less chakra) and he also helped me control my dark energy, so that it wasn't just a double edged sword during or after battle. 'Chakra-sama', as he was nicknamed said these words and I had never forgotten them since: 'The key to controlling Dark energy is with your chakra. They must work together as one. The more dark energy you exert, the more chakra is needed to control it. If you have any doubts, then please… Pretty please control those emotions of yours!' I still had doubts over my ability, but maybe that was just the way I was. During my days as a slave, I had to make things 'perfect' for the masters.
Chakra-sama went for lunch, while I was still in the training ground, focusing on controlling dark energy. I did an exercise where I would 'meditate'; gathering dark energy slowly, whilst a shadow clone would create a Rasengan in my hand and it would slowly become a Dark Rasengan. I was then suddenly distracted, because in the distance, Setsuka was watching me. To be fair, I needed a break anyway, so talking to her wouldn't hurt.
'So…. Masakhi-kun how's your training going?' Setsuka asked.
'It's alright… I think', I was pretty unsure of myself, and I didn't want to sounded too arrogant in front of her.
'Alright? Come on Masakhi-kun, you can do better than that!' That was her reaction. I didn't quite expect it.
'It's chakra control you're working on right? Here, get out your hand and start doing that little chakra ball thingy you were doing earlier on! I have a plan', she then smiled as though she had a plan. I was doing the Dark Rasengan exercise as I previously did, and then her hand was placed under mine. It was a great feeling; her hand was warm and soft. Setsuka was also exerting some chakra too. I maintained my concentration whilst doing Dark Rasengan. I then eased off, and there appeared to be no side effects from doing Dark Rasengan later on. But how did it happen?
'My mother says that sometimes, you need to work together to achieve something. Honestly Masakhi, I admire your spirit but at the end of the day you shouldn't do many things alone', She smiled again. I said nothing. I was then going to ask her out for lunch, but then the Mizukage came storming into the training ground. I knew she was flirtatious and all, I didn't think she liked me in that way! But it wasn't the case, I sensed a disturbing presence. She wasn't the real Mizukage.
It looked as though she was aiming to attack me, so I quickly dodged, and told Setsuka to run away fast.
'Foreigners like you shouldn't be meddling in my village. Be gone… before I decide to kill you!', my fears were confirmed. The Mizukage didn't talk like that at all. Despite that she was going to attack like her. She used a lava style jutsu aimed directly towards me, but had plenty of range. I avoided it, but only just. I didn't have much time to think as she summoned an earth clone, and then her earth clone trapped us in an earth prison. Her real self did a boil release jutsu, a corrosive mist which meant I couldn't see well, and it felt as though my skin was being burned against. I had to do something, and quick. I created shadow clones, and they did Rasengan against the earth prison's walls, eventually breaking it. Now that there was fresh air, I ran away from the corrosive mist and tried a long range attack.
'Arrow: Shadow Clone jutsu!' She defended herself with her lava jutsu, the arrows simply melted into the wall of lava, but with the lava wall blocking her sight, now was my chance to attack!
'Rasengan!' I forgot about her earth clone, which kicked me away from her real self. I was so close.
'Kuchiyose no jutsu!' I decided to summon all the angels I had at my disposal.
The best way to defeat her was by short range attack. My angels all went for her real self, surrounding her and keeping her busy. I then aimed for the clone. The clone then did the hidden mist jutsu. I couldn't see anything, but hopefully neither could she. Just for good measure, I dropped a smoke bomb and after a few seconds I fired an arrow.
'Arrow: Shadow clone jutsu!' My arrow multiplied, and as expected she would use some kind of defence. It was an earth wall, soon to be broken as my arrows were actually my shadow clone, transformed and then multiplied by my jutsu. The clones broke the wall down with Rasengan and defeated the Mizukage's Earth clone with Giant Rasengan. She didn't expect anything at all. Meanwhile, my angels were having troubles keeping the real Mizukage's kekkei-genkai abilities at bay. Two of them remained however, and they held her in place ready for me to attack her. I ran quickly towards her with a shadow clone.
'Dark Rasengan!' This time I was certain, certain that I would get her, and I did. The Dark Rasengan was enough to defeat her, and left no side effects afterwards. Somehow this 'victory' felt a little weird. The Mizukage could have easily fought back. Why did the Mizukage attack me in the first place? And then, in the distant mist I saw a silhouette of a man with spiky hair. He wore a cloak
As I ran closer, I saw it. It was another Akatsuki! For some reason he wore a spiral pattern mask which covered his face except for his right eye. I fired an arrow towards the man, but he mysteriously disappeared, spiralling away into thin air. By the time the fight finished, many mist villagers flocked to see what was going on. Setsuka told them what was going on, and the villagers believed her. Apparently this wasn't the first time a Mizukage had acted a little wayward. Many years ago the fourth Mizukage was controlled by the sharingan, and led the village into an era known as the 'Bloody Mist'. I devised a theory that, since the Mist village had no close relations with other villages, the person who controlled the fourth Mizukage, was probably after the fifth too. It was just a theory nonetheless, and I didn't want to worry the other villagers with it. The Mizukage then regained sense, after which I tended to her. I was distraught, after defeating the Mizukage, even though she was under the influence of another entity. But then I was cheered up by Setsuka.
'So… Masakhi-kun. Before Mizukage attacked us, what was it you were going to ask me?'