Chapter 2.
'Now that I'm calmer, I have to decide what I should do.'
'I can't just leave this place, I have nowhere to go, and that would simply be stupid. Why would I abandon a place that I have at least a little knowledge about?!'
'Okay, now, going to the Ninja Academy is a must, I need to learn how to defend myself. So what if I might end up killing someone in the future?'
'That's my future self's problem!!'
"Good luck, man, I'm with you!"
I said while wiping an imaginary tear from my eye.
"Now that I've decided I need to become strong to survive here, I have to think about how to make it through the many disasters to come—mainly Pain destroying the entire village and the Infinite Tsukuyomi."
"Bunch of lunatics!! All of them!"
After making my long-term goals clear, I turned to my short-term ones, like, for example, understanding my power.
Since I was going to do this, I might as well do it properly. I got up from bed and sat cross-legged on the carpet beside it, placing my hands in an inverted heart shape over my stomach. I took a deep breath and sank into my soul…
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Even with deep concentration, I couldn't feel anything. Wasn't I supposed to be a genius in chakra control??
'Could it be that I don't have that talent?'
'Or am I just not doing this the right way??'
'Am I really that useless—'
While I was losing myself in my inner monologue, I felt a faint tingling under my skin, and it intensified the more I focused on it.
When I tried to go deeper, I felt as if I had broken through a wall that had been blocking my own perception.
Then I 'saw'—countless lines running through every inch of my body, all coming from an intangible organ in the center of my being.
"It's simply…"
"… Beautiful."
It felt like love at first sight, because even though I was weak at the moment, this energy that permeated my being was so mysterious. I knew so little about it, and from what I remembered, it was an energy with almost infinite possibilities—ranging from shooting a fireball to reviving the dead. It could do anything!
This energy, Chakra, looked like rivers flowing through my body, rivers that I instinctively felt I could control at will.
And that's exactly what I did.
I focused on one of the thinner 'threads' of Chakra and tried to move it outside my body.
'That's it, slowly—ARGHHH!!!!"
A crushing pain shot through my hand as I tried to force the chakra out.
"Damn it, you idiot, if it were that easy people wouldn't need hand seals!!!"
As the pain started to subside, I thought about why it had happened and came to a temporary conclusion.
'Chakra is like rivers flowing throughout my body, and instead of guiding it through those paths I just tore a piece of it out of myself. Of course it hurt.'
After coming to that conclusion, I sat cross-legged again and began moving my Chakra more slowly this time, following the pathways in my body. I made a slight detour near my index finger and gently pushed it outward.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a thin cluster of chakra.
"HAHAHAHAHA"
"I did it!!! I have powers now!!"
"What else can I do? Let's start with something simple."
I began increasing the flow of chakra to my finger, molding it into various shapes above it.
At last, I tried forming a sharp tip and attempted to solidify it. Once I felt ready, I dragged my finger across the floor.
A faint scratch mark appeared!!
"I finally have a way to defend myself! Even if I'm weak right now, one day not even Madara will be able to compare to me!!!"
As I was getting lost in my daydreams, a wave of weakness washed over me, and I realized my chakra was quickly running low.
'So I really have that little chakra??'
'Forget fighting Madara, if I beat a genin I should already be proud.'
I thought, as a self-deprecating laugh escaped my lips.
'From what I remember, chakra is the union of physical and spiritual energy. As a 23-year-old soul, I should have a decent amount of spiritual energy, so the problem must be the physical energy.'
I got up and went to the bathroom, and as soon as I looked in the mirror I realized where the problem was.
"I'm malnourished. Besides being just a child, I don't have a shred of physical endurance."
I went to the dresser and checked my wallet. There was a small handful of money inside. Apparently the village wasn't very generous with its monthly pension.
"Another problem for the list: earning money."
"But that's for tomorrow. Right now, I really need to sleep."
As I lay down on the bed, I started thinking about how my first day at school would be tomorrow, and about the many things I still had to do. 'Problems for my future self to solve! Sorry, man, but right now I'm going to sleep!'
Then I drifted into dreams where I hurled giant fireballs while controlling all the tailed beasts with my Supreme Rinnegan…
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End of the chapter.
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Thank you to everyone who read this chapter, and I apologize for any mistakes I may have made.
Please help me with ideas on what I can do with his powers. I already have some of my own, but it's always good to hear other opinions.
In the next chapter he'll finally start interacting with the main cast, and I hope those interactions won't be too bad haha…
And sorry for the short chapters, I'm writing this just for fun, and these first ones were written late at night, in a moment of inspiration, so please forgive me for any mistakes I might have made.
See you in the next chapter~