Clones 2

The job itself had gone smoothly enough. The spy was caught so easily by
the trap Itachi set outside the village that it was almost comical; the man
made his own position blindingly clear. With Itachi in the lead, Team Two
spread out around the man and closed in on him.
But Tenma was in too much of a hurry.
The mission would have been nice and easy if they had simply taken the
time to track the man—but, eager for recognition, Tenma had charged out
ahead of the others. And just as a cornered mouse will lash out at the cat, the
desperate spy launched an attack at Tenma’s throat. Itachi swept in to save
him in the nick of time.
The spy’s kunai dug into Itachi. But he had used a substitution technique,
transforming into an enormous murder of crows, and then counterattacked.
The rest of it went as noted already.

Itachi Shinden: Book of Bright Light Chapter 2 Part 2