[AN: I changed the gift here. Instead of the 3 basic ninjutsu taught in the academy, the gift will only be how to refine chakra and how to awaken or sense it.]
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 shinobis, but I found no information about that."
"Instead, I found a book for learning medical ninjutsu for beginners, which I decided to study and took me a while to finish."
"Oh, that's lovely! My Osamu-chan seems to follow his mothers footsteps."
"Mom, do you know medical ninjutsu?"
"No dear, I am just an assistant nurse at the hospital." That seems to be a good time for my father to say something as I heard him talk.
"Shinobi life is not the path for you son, I've been telling you that. Not just because its dangerous, or that our family root is civilians but because I worry about you, we worry about you."
"I understand your worries father. However, it is precisely because were civilians that I want to be a shinobi."
"Why?" Mother asked.
"So that I can protect you both from other shinobi." I replied with the obvious answer.
Anyway, not just them but also myself. I don't want to be a speck of dust in the grand scheme of things.
My parents hugged me and started crying 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 workers if they had books or scrolls for chakra refining or anything that could guide me to be a shinobi.
Yes, they finally agree. I would then attend the academy next school year once I turn 7 years old, as stated by my father.
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 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 now quiet, so I sat on my bed and followed the steps for the practice of chakra control stated in the book.
Since I can't refine it yet, might as well get on with the exercise of controlling it first.
30 minutes later
1 hour later
3 hours
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Yago Residence
Osamu Room
4 am, early morning
Those damn authors!!!
Liars!
They are all liars, I tell you!!!
I stayed up all night but had no results.
Didn't they say it only took them a few hours to feel the chakra? Some even took only minutes!
Damn fanfictions! They are all scams!
Tsk...
Morning, Breakfast
"Osamu? What's wrong with you? Why do you have black circles?" Mother asked as soon as she saw me.
"Besides the fact that both of you did it until midnight, I was too excited to become a shinobi that I couldn't fall asleep until 5 in the morning." I have even skipped my morning exercise routine. Yep!
I am definitely getting rid of my baby fat before going to the academy next year!
"Oh, sorry about that." Mother apologized, but I don't think that was a sincere one; the way she said that while chuckling and covering her mouth with both her hands says otherwise.
"Yeah, let's just eat first," I replied.
A few moments later, both my parents left, and I decided to be left in the house with the excuse of going back to sleep.
I did it only for 3 hours and went back to the chakra control exercise of sticking leaves, but utterly failed.
A whole day passed later
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 the book 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 so I won't skip my morning exercise again.
And my morning exercise is a home exercise that can be performed in one's room, which I've adopted from my last life.
All that just to get rid of all my baby fat.
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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.
Once you've felt the chakra, you must guide it carefully to flow in your chakra pathway system in circulation. This was how you mold chakra when performing a Jutsu, but for early awakening, 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 gates, which limit the amount of chakra an individual can release.
These 8 gates are the same limiters opened when you practice the Taijutsu taught by Gai, which is called the 8 inner gates Taijutsu.
The reason my chakra control exercise was not working before is that I have not awakened my chakra yet.
I have a dormant chakra, like everyone else, but it is probably too small for me to feel or even control it through my chakra pathway system.
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 the single nut-sized chakra as my reserve.
Instead of celebrating for 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 just focus on what I can control.
The scroll mentioned that one's chakra reserves gradually increase as one grows, or if it's simply, constantly being used and replenished regularly through training and battles.
But the only way I know how to do that is by following the chakra control I learned from the medical book I've read and from the anime/manga itself.
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, then lunch.
Another chakra control training until dinner, then rest for a while before starting to refine my chakra exactly as it was described in the scroll.
Refining one's chakra means balancing and combining two energies in the human body properly.
Specifically, the spiritual and physical energy.
This was how 3 months of my life recycled for me.
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