I was unconscious for the whole time that Dark energy was flowing through my body, taking over my cells, but as I was slowly regained consciousness, I realised that the Dark energy in my body was being destroyed at an exponential rate!
'Rise, Masakhi Mishima!' I recognised her voice instantly, and being the powerful 'woman' that she was, she sensed my regaining consciousness. I recognised my surroundings. It was the Angelic Dominion the place where Hiroshi-Sama trained me and other children similar to me after he found me outside Markovia.
I opened my eyes, and the 'woman' who woke me up was none other than Avacyn, the 'Angel of hope'. She was similar in status to the great toad sage of Mount Myoboku and was to be greatly respected. Despite being over ten thousand years old, her appearance resembled that of a thirty year old woman, something that didn't change since I left the Angelic Dominion. I wanted to speak to her, but my speech was faint for the moment. Then, as I stood up from where I was lying down, Misa appeared.
'Masakhi-kun, you're finally awake! Hey I'm so sorry to have beaten you up so badly. I had to reverse summon you back here to get you healed!' She said in apologetic relief. Initially, unbeknownst to Misa, I had intentions to head for the leaf village after our sparring match, but that had to wait. Then, Avacyn spoke.
'Masakhi, Your body is going through the process of healing. The Dark energy is being neutralised by my light energy.'
'Light energy?' I finally got my voice back, as I was surprised that a concept of Light energy existed.
'Yes, Light energy is the secret power that we angels have to power our own jutsu and neutralise the Dark jutsu. The only other way you could be healed from Dark jutsu was if you had an immense chakra reserve comparable to a tailed beast's'. It probably explained why Kisame survived after the first time we battled because he indeed had a great amount of chakra.
After a day or so, I finally recovered. I was going to announce my intentions of setting back off to the leaf village. Did it ever occur to them what became of me? I would only know for sure if I went back there, so that they knew that I was alive and safe. But I was going to come across yet another detour.
'Masakhi, How would you like to learn Sage Jutsu?' Avacyn asked, as I was having my breakfast. I was rather surprised by her question. I didn't quite know how to answer. Whilst I was tempted to learn the same jutsu that Misa used to defeat me, I also needed to get back to the Leaf Village. However, due to the fact that I was probably 'late' arriving to the village since leaving the Mist Village, it didn't matter how much time I spent here, as long as I still reached the leaf village. I knew my answer.
'Yes! I'd love to learn the sage jutsu!' We started right away, I learnt the same technique to enter sage mode as Misa used. The technique was known as 'Angelic Fusion', A jutsu where I merged with one of my summoning angels, who all resided here if they were not called into action. To speed up the learning process, I used shadow clones, so that there were five of me to practise, with each of the five angels that I had. Initially, it was difficult to synchronise hand signs with the angels and hold still but eventually got the hang of it, and I finally became an Angel Sage, like Misa and Hiroshi-Sama before me. In Angelic sage mode I indeed had the properties of an angel, I had four wings so I could fly and all of my other jutsu were augmented. In addition, being fused to another angel meant that I assimilated her jutsu too. However, there were some notable drawbacks to this Angelic Sage mode. The first weakness is that the jutsu has both the user and the angel doing several hand signs simultaneously. Though to avoid this, the jutsu was either done in a place where no fighting was going on, or if a strong barrier jutsu was up for protection, like the time when I fought Misa. Another was the time span for this jutsu was roughly thirty minutes, and after that I would separate from the angel I was fused with, and to re-fuse with the angel I would have to wait for an hour. I then discovered another drawback whilst quickly practising with Misa. During the spar (or even any other fight, since I would need to make Rasengan and its variants) I would use shadow clones to aid me. But when I had shadow clones active, the amount of time I remained in sage mode was inversely proportional to the amount of shadow clones I had. In other words, the more of me there were, the less time each of me had in sage mode. Even creating a simple Rasengan seemed difficult. The training felt a little redundant. I then went a little out of character and was a little angered.
'Sis, I'm a little frustrated with the fact that I can't use shadow clones in Sage mode. If anything this training makes me weaker, not stronger! And how the hell can you fly so fast? I don't understand it! Every time I fly, I'm pretty slow'. I was relieved to get it all out of me, but immediately afterwards I felt a little ashamed to be raising my voice towards my 'sister'. Avacyn then interrupted.
'Your powers as an angel are on another level to humans. You simply have to adjust your fighting style a little'. At that point, I wanted to make my point to Avacyn, about 'adjusting my fighting style', because I simply couldn't afford to waste more time doing that. But, I didn't want to argue with Avacyn either.
'If you want to fly, Masakhi-kun, all you have to do is exert chakra from your wings. They are extra limbs of your body in Sage mode, so it's easy to exert chakra. And voila, you can super fly!' She said with such joy, as though I didn't shout at her at all previously. I then gave it a go, whilst entering sage mode by fusion. I tried 'super flying' with chakra and it worked! I was going faster simply because I could transfer chakra into my four wings. I then had an idea for something else!
As I returned to the ground, I put my next idea into practise. I concentrated chakra from two of my wings, let out my left hand and poured chakra into the left hand whilst using my right to create the rotation. The angels and Misa watched as I succeeded.
'Ladies, I bring you… The Rasengan', It was the first time I could use Rasengan without shadow clones. I then tried focusing my emotions into the chakra. Yes, the Rasengan, slowly but surely was going Dark.
'This is the Rasengan with dark energy, but I like to call this Dark Rasengan'. With my spare pair of wings, I flew to a high place to complete the imminent jutsu in sage mode.
'And, to go even further…', with all four of my wings plus my hands, all six of these limbs focused on the enlargement and sheer monstrosity of Rasen Go-hadou. The Jutsu was complete. I flapped my wings to 'throw' Rasen Go-hadou at a mountain range not too far from here. The damage… was immense. To say that I destroyed the mountain range was an understatement. It was practically gone! It seemed that my best jutsu could be performed without shadow clones, and it could do some more damage in Sage mode. However, it still exhausted my sage mode as I defused with Destiny, my fusion partner and I fell in exhaustion.
The following morning, I regained my chakra and I was feeling refreshed. I was looking forward to returning to the leaf village, but I was unsure as to whether my Sage mode training was over or not, so I asked Avacyn.
'Lady Avacyn, is there anything more that I have to learn about sage mode?'
'Well, essentially you have mastered sage mode. There's no need for you to learn any extra techniques unless you really wanted to, since your jutsu is very powerful already. However, because your jutsu, the 'Rasen Go-hadou' is so uniquely powerful, it would be better if you mastered Angelic Metamorphosis.'
'Angelic Metamorphosis? What's that?' The name sounded cool and powerful, and it was.
'Angelic Metamorphosis is simply… well not simply but all the user does is go into Angelic Sage mode by gathering enough light energy themselves. It's a very difficult process for a human, and the only one to have mastered it was Hiroshi himself! The benefits are a longer period in Angelic Sage mode and of course, the jutsu you already have are greatly augmented. The secrets of Light and Dark energy were so feared and desired that the Uchiha clan were after Hiroshi, for their own need to better themselves above the Senju clan. After that, Hiroshi abandoned his homeland and took refuge here. Anyways, I'm going a little off topic, Shall we get to it then?' I nodded, as I was amazed by her words.
Gathering light energy was a lot of toil and trouble, but the fire within me burned as I wanted to master the same technique as Hiroshi-Sama. Where Dark energy was focused on negative emotions, Light energy was focused on positive emotions. I suppose thinking of Setsuka, and the friends I made on my journey helped as I got the hang of gathering light energy. But it was a little harder than that, since I had to remain completely still during the process, and becoming one with nature. Slowly, however, I began to get the hang of metamorphosis. My appearance changed to that of an angel, my attire would look more 'celestial' too. I believed that I was finally ready to leave the dominion with these new powers…