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, its 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, thats 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 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 will ask some of her workers if they have books or scrolls for chakra refining or anything that can 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. Only when the sounds stopped did I went 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 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.
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
4am, 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? Whats 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 fats before going to the academy next year!
"Oh, sorry about that." Mother apologised but I don't think that was a sincere one the way she said that while chuckling and covering her mouth with her hands.
"Yeah, lets 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.
Which I did 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 I even washed the dishes so they can early go to bed.
Once I was done with the dishes I went to the living room and started reading the scroll.
Luckily, its not sealed.
There's a lot of information about chakra, some of which I can definitely not find the library or specifically in the book I recently finished.
It mentioned about a very simple way of how to refine chakra safely.
It even has all the basic hand seals and, the seal of confrontation and reconcillation before and after a spar in the academy.
I kept browsing and it also presents the 3 basic ninjutsu taught in the academy and how to do it!
Thank you mother!
Father, you 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 her colleagues was married to the Nara Clan and was in depted to her when she saved her colleague's husband.
So from there, the request was easy and generous enough to give my mother such important information which is what's required in the academy to graduate!
The Nara Clan is a really good clan!
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 fats.
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Morning
Mom and Dad are at work and I am now alone. Time to refine my chakra!
From what I recall, this world has two kinds of chakra. The chakra inside every living things and the nature chakra of the world itself before Kaguya Otsutsuki.
The way to awaken chakra mentioned in the scoll was described in a very simple way.
I simply need to follow a breathing pattern while concentraiting while in a meditative position otherwise known as 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 chakra pool or reserves in the scroll.
Once you've felt the chakra, one must guide it carefully to flow in your chakra pathway system in circulation.
The chakra pathway system was easily explained in the scroll along the 8 specific tenketsu or 8 gates which limits the amount of chakra an individual can release.
These 8 gates are the limiters opened when you practice the taijutsu taught by Gai which is called the 8 inner gates taijutsu, I think?
The reason my chakra control exercise was not working is because I have not awaken my chakra yet.
I have dormant chakra like everyone else but is probably too small for me to even feel or I simply lack the ability to feel it yet?
Anyhow, show time!
I followed the breathing pattern and meditative pose.
I also tried to empty my mind for a better concentration and performed the breathing pattern as I have familiarized it already.
From midnight, it took me 3 hours to feel the single peanut size of 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 increases as one grows or if it is constantly used a d replenished.
But the only way I know how to do that is by following the chakra control I knew from the medical book I've read.
And so each day, I focused on increasing my chakra pool by practicing my chakra control.
In the evening before bed, I would study the hand seals and how to perform the 3 basic ninjutsu.
However, I have not attempted to perform it yet.
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