It was no wonder I took so long, as the destination I reached was actually the Land of Lightning as opposed to the Land of fire, though I would have had no idea of this regardless of whether my memory was lost or not. I came to realise this whilst some cloud shinobi were doing a routine check around the borders and the shores, to check for any infiltrators. The shinobi took me to their village, and immediately to their intelligence division. They were not as good as the Leaf's intelligence division, but they believed that I indeed had amnesia. They kindly offered to let me stay in the village until I got my memory back. They realised I was armed with a sword, so they even trained me in ninjutsu to help me get that memory back.

During my time there, I was known as 'Kazuya', as suggested by the eight-tails jinchuuriki Killer Bee, who was also my mentor. Lightning style was the primary jutsu style and chakra affinity of the cloud shinobi, so it was only natural that I ended up learning Lightning style techniques. It was difficult at first, but I eventually picked up. Secretly, I then learnt the Raikage's signature ability to transport myself quickly from one place to another. However this was quite imperfect and I was very clumsy whilst doing it in training. In addition to lightning style training, Killer Bee taught me his aggressive sword style. He knew I had a sword, so he figured that I could learn quickly. I learnt the style using just two swords in each hand – a far cry from Bee's eight 'handed' styles. It was different to my initial style, which was an elegant, passive art that waited for an opponent to open up. Things were going great for me in the cloud village as I made lots of friends, but I still didn't get my memory back. This included me remembering how to do my original jutsu and of course remembering who my loved ones were.

As suggested by the Cloud's top sensory ninja, C, I did Zen meditation in Killer Bee's secret training area, focusing on my own mind. It was a very difficult thing to do, channelling through my mind, seeing if I could remember anything. Nobody other cloud shinobi were supposed to be in the area. It was as though I learnt some basic sensory ninjutsu by accident. As a result, I noticed four bodies of chakra heading towards me. I came out to see who it was. There were indeed four of them, wearing Akatsuki cloaks (though still having Amnesia, I wasn't aware of what the Akatsuki were, as the Cloud somewhat didn't trust me enough yet).

The one with the navy hair spoke first. He must have been their leader.

'Tell me where the eight tails is, and I may think twice about killing you', his expression was cold, like the lake of water nearby. Killer Bee wasn't in the area. He went to some 'Secret Island' to which I wasn't given the exact whereabouts of, but despite this, I acted as though I wasn't going to say anything.

'I'll never sell out a comrade', I replied to him.

'Very well then, prepared to die', His accomplices: A red haired girl with glasses, a burly orange haired boy and a blue haired swordsman watched on as their leader attacked me with his sword, but from a long range. Lighting came out and headed straight for me. I dodged with my own lightning jutsu, but only just. I headed straight for him with the new swords that Killer Bee gave me. I charged them with lightning too, and we had a sword rally going. It was very difficult to find an opening, even with the aggressive style as his sharingan was able to read all of my moves. He found an opening, and was going to kill me had it not been for my dodging to a safe distance. I then decided a different approach.

'Lightning Style: Wave of inspiration!' A wave of lighting headed towards him, but he counted with his own move.

'Chidori Nagashi!' he used this jutsu to deflect my own, in a lightning style struggle. With the water around us, the lighting conducted and electrocuted me. He defeated me and had me on my knees, but he wasn't going to kill me outright. He would use genjutsu with his sharingan, to force me to say the whereabouts of Bee.

'Now, where is the eight tails jinchuuriki?' In his genjutsu, I was forced to say the answer, however, I tried to resist. I looked at him, and then I saw Itachi. Was this part of the genjutsu? No, Of course it wasn't. Then I remembered chakra-sama dying, Setsuka and I kissing… My memory had come back, and better still, I got out of the genjutsu! And now to answer his question…

'Up your ass!' I uppercut him quickly, by channelling lightning chakra into my body for speed, and for extra damage, I added some dark energy into my fist. He was knocked into the air, I swiftly jumped and kicked him downwards and outwards deep into the water.

'Sasuke!' his accomplices yelled. The Blue haired guy and the orange haired guy both came towards me. With my memory back, I used some 'new' jutsu on them as the orange guy transformed into a grotesque creature with what appeared to be exhaust pipes emitting chakra from his back. The blue haired guy appeared to be liquefying and his arms extended themselves for his sword to take a swing at me.

'Shadow clone jutsu.' I created two shadow clones, and they were ready to attack.

'Water style: Water cyclone!' my clones simultaneously said, as two water cyclones headed for my new enemies, at least drenching them and momentarily stopping them. Then my clones used 'Wave of inspiration' again to electrocute them whilst they were wet. To finish them off, I charged Dark rasengan for both of my clones and the enemies were finished off.

'Dark Rasengan!', They were sent flying, and were pretty much defeated. I was now going to aim another Rasengan towards the read haired girl. However, out of the water came something strange. It was a purple thing, and it had arms. The arms caught the ones who I would eventually know as 'Suigetsu' and 'Jugo'. It was Sasuke. He was surrounded by the jutsu known as 'Susanoo'. It was a gigantic humanoid being surrounding Sasuke, and he now had potential to wreak havoc. The real battle would now begin.

'It appears your powers have doubled. But then, so have mine! Never underestimate the Uchiha. Karin, heal those two'. With Susanoo, he passed Suigetsu and Jugo to the red haired girl, where she would heal them, but to heal those affected by dark jutsu was slow, so I was lucky. The Susanoo's sword aimed right for me and I had to dodge the attack immediately.

'Giant Rasengan!' Despite the range and potential damage of it, Giant Rasengan simply didn't work. This was the mangekyou sharingan, almost at its best. I had to be careful, and I had to be clever. For now, all I did was dodge and stall him as much as possible, but then I observed something. It was though Sasuke was experiencing pain from doing the jutsu. Despite this, he attacked with aggression, hoping that attacking would help him alleviate the pain. The magnitude of Susanoo's attack destroyed the nearby area, Killer Bee's hut was pretty much destroyed and a nearby cliff was reduced to rubble, though nobody was killed or injured.

I now wanted to try something.

'Shadow Clone jutsu!' I summoned several Shadow clones. We aimed right for his Susanoo.

'Dark Rasengan!' we simultaneously yelled as the Dark rasengan had some effect on the Susanoo as it 'dented' the Susanoo. Now, at this point it was tempting to go full power, and use 'Rasen Go-hadou', but I wasn't going to risk it.

'Summoning jutsu!'After a very long time, I summoned my angels

'Ahh.. Masakhi-kun, I was beginning to wonder whether you actually forgot us. Though it's not like we didn't enjoy our break from helping you fight', Destiny, the most overbearing of the five angels said that very suggestively.

'Yeah, you could say I forgot you, I actually had amnesia, but now that you're back, please help me out. It's the Mangekyou sharingan this time'

'The Mangekyou… I see. This one appears to have a great amount of power and hatred in him.' Sunblast said.

During our quick reunion, Sasuke recovered, and aimed for us. My shadow clones were destroyed

'Run for it!', whilst doing so I laid my plan to the angel telepathically, and created five shadow clones. My clones were assigned to an angel each. The angels flew their respective clones to strategic areas surrounding the Susanoo.

'Fire!' I yelled. In an instant, my angels threw their clones, they then multiplied.

'Multiple Dark Rasengan!' We penetrated the Susanoo! Some clones may have gotten destroyed along the way and my angels were eventually defeated by Susanoo, but the ultimate goal was achieved, Sasuke was no longer surrounded by the shroud. I had wasted no time for the next move, I created a shadow clone, and gathered chakra. Sasuke did the same. We came at each other with great speed.

'Chidori!'

'Rasengan!'

We engaged in a struggle, but eventually wore one another out and our jutsu repelled us from one another. We were both exhausted, but seemingly ready for another round.

'Well well well, things don't appear to change these days. Sasuke, you simply aren't as good as your brother, and you!...', the man looked towards me,

'You simply don't know how to be defeated by an Akatsuki, do you?' It was Kisame. He appeared out of nowhere, almost waiting for this opportunity.

'You're still alive?'

'Indeed, your dark energy, or whatever it is didn't kill me. Sasuke, you and your friends best run away… whilst I kill him… right now!'

Kisame quickly ran towards me with his Samehada. I was about to counter, but then another man came out of the shadows to protect me. It was Darui! His sword clashed against Kisame's sword. Another battle was about to ensue.

'Kazuya, I hope you're Okay. You seem to have roughed up this Uchiha boy, meaning you must have your memory back. In any case, we should have come sooner.' C, was also here about to tend to my wounds.

'Yeah, I'll be fine thanks Darui-san. Oh, and the names Masakhi, Masakhi Mishima!' I replied, with great relief.