Osamu POV
Yago Residence
Evening, Dinner
Mom came back, and now we are all eating dinner together.
"Son, what's this I hear from your father that you've been visiting the library?"
"Oh, nothing, it's just me trying to find information about shinobi, but I found no information about that."
"Until Father gave me directions to the academy-level basics, which I decided to study, and it took me a while to finish."
"It seems you're really serious about learning how to be a shinobi. " To this, I nodded in confirmation.
"Mom, do you know medical ninjutsu?" I asked, thinking maybe I could learn from her.
"No, dear, I am just an assistant nurse at the hospital."
"I see. Too bad, I thought I could learn from you."
That seemed to be a good time for my father to say something, as I heard him talk.
"I already told you before, our family is just of civilian roots. Shinobi life is not the path for you, son. I've been telling you that. Not just because it's dangerous, but because I worry about you, we worry about you."
"I understand your worries, father. However, it is precisely because we're civilians that I want to be a shinobi."
"Why?" Mother asked.
"So that I can protect you both," I replied with the obvious answer.
Anyway, not just them but also myself. I don't want to be a helpless ant in front of this world's giants.
My parents suddenly hugged me after hearing my answer for no reason at all. Well, I don't understand them, but I do love them, so I hugged them back.
After dinner, Mom told me she would ask some of her co-workers if they had books or scrolls for chakra refining or anything that could guide me to be a shinobi.
Yes, they finally agreed. The normal age to start at the academy is 8 years old since the curriculum lasts for at least 4 or 5 years. That would mean I have 2 years to do nothing or do something before enrolling. Most shinobi clans definitely train their secret arts before enrolling, so it is only reasonable that I need to do something before I also enroll.
Anyway, only geniuses could enroll early, like Itachi and Kakashi, who both graduated in just a year. Itachi enrolled at age 6 and graduated at 7, while Kakashi enrolled when he was still a 4-year-old kid and graduated in one year. From there, both of them basically raced from Genin to Jonin rank in the shortest possible time in Konoha history.
That night, Mom and Dad immediately went to bed early, but that didn't mean they slept. Only when the sounds stopped did I go to my room, which is precisely next to theirs.
During their fight, I was reviewing my notes in the living room. Our house is a simple one. It is a 2-storey house, the living room and kitchen below, while the bedrooms are on the second floor.
We have an extra room which is not used, probably for my next kin when my mother becomes pregnant again.
I won't be surprised if she does after tonight. Anyway, it was quiet now, so I sat on my bed and studied the 12 hand seals so I can prepare myself in the future..
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Yago Residence
Osamu Room
Morning, Breakfast
"Osamu, are you still going back to the public library today?" Mother asked as soon as she saw me.
"Nope, I already transcribed all the information I found important to me. I could continue studying them using my notes."
Early this morning, I already started with light exercises to condition myself. I am definitely getting rid of my baby fat before going to the academy next year!
"Okay, just wait for me; I will definitely get you those scrolls." Mother declared with a nod, definitely serious in supporting me in my endeavor.
"Thanks, Mom; let's just eat first," I replied.
A few moments later, both my parents left, and I decided to be left in the house instead of going with Father to his shop. I just continued studying my notes.
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A whole day passed
Mom came back with a scroll!
I was so excited that I even washed the dishes so they could go to bed early.
Once I was done with the dishes, I went to the living room and started reading the scroll.
Luckily, it's not sealed.
There's a lot of information about chakra, some of which I can definitely not find in the library or specifically in all the books I recently finished.
It mentioned a very simple way of awakening or sensing the chakra safely.
And at the end was how to refine the chakra.
Thank you, mother!
Father, you'd better reward my mother a lot because this is for our family's protection.
Anyway, I asked Mom earlier during dinner how he got it, and she told me it was from the Nara Clan. One of her colleagues was married to the Nara Clan and was in debt to her when she helped save her colleague's husband.
So from there, the request was easy and generous enough to give my mother such important information.
The Nara Clan is really good!
Surprisingly, I finished reading it at midnight.
Some of the details I didn't read or study; instead, I went to sleep early, which is one of the requisites when doing an early morning exercise.
And my morning exercise is a home exercise that can be performed in one's room, which I've adopted from my last life. Perks of learning a lot of exercises when you're fat and hate your figure whenever it spikes.
Yes, I am one of those examples who grinds himself to get into shape, but all that effort amounts to nothing because it was easy for my body to return to being stout.
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Morning
Mom and Dad are at work, and I am now alone. Time to awaken my chakra!
From what I recall, this world has two kinds of chakra. The chakra inside every living thing and the natural chakra of the world itself, before Kaguya Otsutsuki.
The way to awaken or sense the chakra inside one's body, which was mentioned in the scroll, is described in a very simple way.
I simply need to follow a breathing pattern while concentrating, in a meditative position, otherwise known as the lotus position.
It does not say how long it takes to feel the chakra, but mentioned that it is located below one's abdomen, which is called the Dantian in wuxia novels, but simply called the chakra pool or reserves in the scroll. As mentioned before, chakra exists even in civilians. It's just that the chakra inside a civilian resident is so minuscule that they are unable to feel its existence.
Once you've felt the chakra, you must guide it carefully to flow in your specific chakra pathway system in circulation, which, by the way, is composed of 361 pressure points as stated in the books. This was how you mold chakra when performing a Jutsu, but for early awakening or sensing, simply guide it to prepare yourself in the future when you finally mold your chakra to perform a Jutsu.
The chakra pathway system was easily explained in the scroll along the 8 specific tenketsu or 8 special gates, which limit the amount of chakra an individual can release. Take note that these 8 gates are still part of the 361 pressure points.
These 8 gates are also the same limiters opened when you practice the Taijutsu taught by Gai, which is called the 8 inner gates Taijutsu.
Now on to the sensing of chakra. Like everyone else, I have a dormant chakra, but it is probably too small for me to feel or even control it through my chakra pathway system.
As mentioned in the Chakra theory book, a civilian's chakra is only the size of a single drop of water. It is barely enough to sustain basic physical life functions and daily stamina.
An academy student already undergoing training at the ninja academy has a chakra pool the size of a small glass of water. They have unlocked the ability to mold energy but cannot sustain complex techniques.
A Genin has a standard water bucket size of reserves. They can cast basic Jutsu and fight for short durations.
The book does not include details about Chunin, Jonin, or even Kage-level reserves.
Anyhow, show time!
I followed the breathing pattern and meditative pose.
I also tried to empty my mind to improve concentration and practiced the breathing pattern, as I have already familiarized myself with it.
From midnight, it took me 3 hours to feel that single water droplet-sized chakra as my reserve.
Instead of celebrating feeling my chakra, I feel quite disappointed at the amount I have.
This is pitiful, truly a civilian lineage.
But there's nothing I can do about that, so I just focused on what I can control. As master Oogway would phrase:
"Yesterday is history (It already passed; nothing we can do about it.), tomorrow is a mystery (No one knows what will happen in the future), but today is a gift (We can control what we do today and shape our future). That is why it is called the present."
The scroll mentioned that one's chakra reserves gradually increase as one grows. It does not say if it increases by constantly being replenished regularly through training and battles. But that is common knowledge for any reincarnator or transmigrator.
Yeah, I feel sagely already.
But back to the issue at hand, the only way I know how to increase my chakra for now is not by using any ninjutsu, not that I know any, but it is by following the chakra control I knew from the anime/manga itself.
From basic to advanced, as I remember, they were;
Leaf Concentration: Hold a leaf on your forehead using only chakra.
Tree Climbing: Channel chakra to your soles to walk up vertical trunks
Water Walking: Emit a continuous, precise stream of chakra to float on water.
Form and Shape Training: Condense chakra into sharp blades on your fingertips, or do the Rasengan training where you spin, compress, and stabilize chakra into a dense, roaring sphere. This training is already considered the highest level of form and shape training.
Nature Transformation Training: Channel specific elemental chakra (like wind) into metal blades or into a leaf to split it in two. This training was shown in the anime, but I don't know of any other nature transformation training besides this. And this is only for wind nature transformation.
These are all exercises stated in the anime in detail, following Naruto's training from the Land of Waves, his clash with Kabuto, up to his training in creating the Rasen-shuriken.
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And so each day, I focused on increasing my chakra pool by practicing my chakra control, starting with sticking leaves on my forehead.
My schedule for the next 3 months was like this.
Modern workout early in the morning, something light for a 6-year-old body, then Breakfast.
Chakra control with sticking leaves until I exhaust my reserves, wait for it to recover, then try again, then lunch.
Then another chakra control training after lunch until dinner, with breaks in between, then check my progress and rest early.
Refining one's chakra means balancing and combining two energies in the human body properly. Specifically, the spiritual and physical energy. The scroll does not contain such a method; therefore, I had no choice but to use the same method in sensing chakra to also sense my physical and spiritual energy every night before sleeping.
This was how 3 months of my life passed in a blink of an eye.
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