*Ha* *Ha* "I can't even breathe." Sakura said, taking deep breaths.
"Why did you make me run longer than usual?" She asked angrily at Guy, who had returned from his mission.
"Ha, ha, I was testing how much you have grown," Guy said with a smile.
"What growth? It has only been a month." Sakura's mouth twitched. She has become stronger, but she was still miles away from Sasuke, kilometers away from Hinata and Naruto, and hundreds of meters away from Kiba.
"Ha, ha, you have indeed grown, Sakura. How could someone as youthful as you not grow after the hard training you have done?"
Looking at the Guy, who was giving her thumbs up, she wanted to beat him like the last time, but sadly, she wasn't angry enough.
"At first, you couldn't even do a single lap around this training ground at full speed, but now you can do two."
"I must say, this is very fast for a civilian without any ninja roots. You have also mastered the Taijutusu and could even make it a muscle memory within a month or two at this pace, which is also very fast." Observing Sakura's growth in just a month. Guy felt he had found an unpolished gem.
"Do you know Sakura? At first, I wanted to take you as my student because I saw a kind of determination in you. It was very different from the determination Kakashi or I had."
"I didn't know your talent, but I am someone who always believed that hard work beats talent in the end. That's why I never considered your talent even for a second, but now that I know you are talented,"
"I have to change the training plan. Otherwise, I will not be a qualified sensei if my training plan doesn't match the determination of my student." Guy got emotional all of a sudden.
"What? You want to change the training plan." Sakura shouted. She knew what changing meant. If Guy said a change in training, then it only meant an increase in training.
"And why don't I see that determination you are talking about? All the determination I had was to keep up with your current training." Sakura complained. She wasn't going to follow his new training plan if it was going to be harder.
"That's why I have decided to add Chakra and ninjutsu training." Guy didn't seem to have heard her objection and told Sakura.
"Chakra training?" Sakura asked and also breathed a sigh of relief. She had wanted to use chakra and ninjutsu from the moment she got her memories. But, it was neither taught by Guy till now nor by Iruka sensei.
When she had asked him why he hadn't taught her how to use Chakra yet. He always answered that even an old man could train the chakra, but one can only make a good foundation of Taijutsu in childhood. After hearing this, she knew he didn't want to teach her how to use Chakra because even an idiot who has watched the series knows that Chakra is used in Taijutsu.
Guy nodded, hearing her question, "Yes, as I have said previously, Taijutsu also uses Chakra. So, Chakra manipulation is essential if you want to be more powerful than average Jonin in Taijutsu. Just look at Tsunade-sama and the Raikages. How powerful have they become by using Chakra-enhanced Taijutsu? especially Third Raikage."
"He fought against 10,000 hidden rock-ninja for three days and three nights until he got exhausted and died. After hearing his extraordinary feat, not only Taiustu and the hidden cloud ninjas but all the ninjas want to become like him, a strong man capable of fighting 10,000."
"The Third Raikage was indeed impressive. He was also a capable Kage for his village, but their tendency to kidnap children from other villages was problematic." Sakura also thought so.
"There are also some basic ninjutsu that you have to master to pass the ninja academy, which are important for survival and on the mission," Guy told her why he wanted to add chakra training.
"Then why didn't you start the Chakra training from the start?" Sakura asked curiously.
"You have very low chakra because of your reserve itself being small and due to your age. So, chakra training wasn't the priority in my training plan. I planned to teach you about it after your teacher in the academy had taught you some basics. Since you are progressing fast, I thought of training you now."
"Ohh," Sakura finally understood. He must have thought that, since she had a low chakra reserve, teaching Chakra manipulation was useless for now. But since she was progressing fast, he wanted her to do chakra training too, since training the Chakra is also a way of increasing the reserve.
"Then what are you going to teach me today?" Sakura asked excitedly. After all, her childhood dream was going to be fulfilled. Furthermore, Chakra control was her strength that was going to help her tremendously in the future.
"You shouldn't have felt or learn to control chakra, right?" Guy asked, even though by sensing her Chakra, he could say with certainty that she hadn't.
"Yes, I have tried to feel Chakra. I think I feel something inside my body, but I don't know if it is the Chakra or my imagination." Sakura has tried to use Chakra by trying to find it or by trying various hand signs, but she couldn't feel anything.
"Ok, then I'll teach you." Guy nodded at her response. He had expected that she wouldn't be able to sense her own chakra. After all, unless you were from a clan or had ninja parents, the Academy was the only place to learn about chakra.
Many civilians think of Chakra as the mythical energy that only the clans and a few lucky civilians possess. In reality, it is present in every living thing, and anyone can use it if they know about its existence and can feel the Chakra within their body. So, the teacher at the academy just has to make the students aware of the Chakra within their body, but it can be difficult sometimes when you are teaching the 6-year-olds.
"First, sit cross-legged like you do in a meditation." Guy started to guide her.
Sakura did as Guy said.
"Then, now imagine you have a warm energy running on your body from head to toe, and then from toe to your head. This is the physical energy. Some people refer to it as Yang or Yang energy."
"Did you feel it?" Guy asked Sakura.
Sakura nodded. She hadn't actually felt the real "physical energy," but she imagined it that way, flowing through her body, returning to her heart, and spreading out again. In truth, she was doing more than Guy had instructed. This wasn't new to her; even back on Earth, she used to imagine some kind of energy moving through her body. It gave her a sense of peace and helped her control her anger.
"Now, imagine you have mental energy in your mind. Imagine it like a sphere of water that is moving within your brain. This energy is called Yin or Yin energy by some."
"Did you get it?" Guy asked again.
Sakura nodded again. She was good at imagining, so it was very easy for her to do this.
"Then, imagine that the mental energy is travelling from your mind towards your navel, and physical energy is also doing the same."
"Did you do that?"
Sakura nodded again.
"Finally, mix them like you would mix two glasses of water by pouring into the bigger basin. In case of Chakra, think of your stomach as the bigger basin."
Sakura followed Guy's instructions and joined the imaginary energy into a new energy. She imagined two liquids(mental and physical energy) mixing and becoming the new energy, which was blue in color.
"Wait, what is this?" Sakura suddenly felt a weird sensation.
"I feel like that imaginary energy is real." Sakura opened her eyes and said in bewilderment.
"Is it my imagination?" Sakura asked herself.
"No, you aren't imagining Sakura. That is Chakra." Guy said to her.
"What? This is Chakra. But, but -" Sakura couldn't speak in confusion. She had imagined all sorts of things related to Chakra, its existence, and how she could sense it, but all it needed was for her to mix the two imaginary energies.
"Try mixing more of your imaginary mental and physical energy; it will increase your Chakra. This way, you can confirm it is Chakra." Guy suggested seeing her confusion.
"Ok, ok, I will try doing it." Sakura quickly got a grip on her confused mind and did as Guy said. Instead of the deep concentration, like previously. She simply thought of an energy coming from the brain and another from the heart, and they mixed just above her navel.
"I can feel the energy rising. The sensation felt more real than the previous time." Sakura still felt confused.
"Then, this is really the Chakra."