Naruto : Domination: Chapter 3

The Wood Release was also equally famous for its power to manipulate, suppress, and/or absorb a target's chakra. Hashirama's mastery of this ability earning him recognition as one of the few people able to fully control a tailed beast. 

This would be done by ensnaring a target with the Wood Release and upon such physical contact would then control the chakra until they were finally too weak to escape.

Only those with Hashirama cells could use it.

...

The last period gave me pause. That meant something that nobody else ever noticed. It wasn't a Senju bloodline. It was a skill of Hashirama, which had been stolen by Obito, Madara, and Danzo copied through the cloning of Yamato. Or possessed through natural means by White Zetsu. 

All of those used Hashirama' cells. Given my scientific knowledge, the thought of implanting the cells of another on oneself was mind-boggling. The fact that it could gift a grant superpowers that was simply absurd. 

So I thought that Hashirama discovered something that he either didn't understand or simply had deemed too dangerous to share. Mokuton was more about manipulating life force than it was about chakra. 

This was Probably probably that was why the tailed beasts were so affected by it. Certainly worth investigating.

Well, Sharingan and rinnegan are the top two, being a jinchuriki closely follows. I thought, skimming over the notes. Then I thought about the Kages, who stood at the peak of the food chain. 

Those without bloodlines, that I clearly could not copy, were Tsunade Senju, Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Raikages, and the Yondaime Hokage.

Sarutobi used at least four chakra natures, which meant that every nature could be learnt. And the Hiraishin was the most OP jutsu in the whole series, or close to the top. And there was some kind of fuinjutsu involved. 

The Rasengan helped, and it was versatile, I was confident that I knew enough about it to reverse engineer it, one day at least.

Tsunade was some kind of juggernaut. Besides her immortality trick, being able to heal your injuries looked like a must.

What did I know about fuinjutsu? It could seal away things. Every kind of thing. Souls and Tailed beasts included.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot that souls actually exist here." I said.

Becoming a sage was something that could likely help, and I knew that Hashirama was one without a Summoning Contract. So summoning animals was not necessary, even if it could grant me access to very nice skillset, after all, Jiraya had learned the Toad taijutsu from them. 

Yeah, summoning was a must. Instead, from what I remembered, to become a sage one needed vast reserves of chakra. So I couldn't bet on it. Though, generally speaking, more chakra alongside better chakra control one had, the longer he could last, and that meant a vastly increased chance of survival.

I took out a blank paper, listing down what I believed I needed to learn. In a spark of twisted humor, I choose a title that made me laugh a little. Seriously, the Narutoverse needed a cultural revolution. I missed my first life's music.

Stayin' Alive

Stuff I can start working on

1) chakra control

-Medical Ninjutsu

(along with its lethal applications)

-Tsunade's strength (trying without killing myself)

-Genjutsu ( maybe? )

2)fuinjutsu (how?)

(endless applications, one day hiraishin)

3)taijutsu

(top can be reached with sheer hard work)

-Exercise

"Ninshū does sound like some kind of hippy religion," I reasoned "But understanding chakra, nature, and stuff is likely the best long term game I could play."

My objectives were clear, and the possible things I gad had to learn to achieve those seemed clear enough. My natural inquisitiveness would probably push me toward ninshū anyway. Sure, I would need to adapt along the way, but it was something that resembled a plan. 

Now, I knew enough to get started on my chakra control and exercising my body, fuinjutsu... I would figure something out.

I slid down from the edge of the bed and sat cross-legged on the floor. The first thing, however, was feeling my chakra. From what I had understood, everyone could become a shinobi, and it made sense, since chakra is basically life force, and everything alive has it. 

It was interesting considering the influence it had on the evolution of the species different from other than humans, which I believe ended up as the Summon Tribes.

I breathed slowly. I knew that chakra was produced at the pit of the stomach, flowed through coils, and could be expelled through tenketsu. 

They all were kind of symmetrical, all but one over the heart. I hoped the academy explained that. I lit a candle and placed it in front of me.

I started regulating my breath as to not disrupt the candle flame that shone brightly in the otherwise dark room. 

The night outside of the orphanage was pitch black, dark clouds hiding moon and stars from view. The silence in my room was heavy and thick, from time to time disrupted by a sound coming from downstairs. Along with the vague chill of the room, it made for a slightly uncomfortable environment.

I breathed slowly, erasing the presence of the occasional goosebumps on my skin, ignoring the light rustling of my clothes against my chest moving, perceiving and discarding the almost inaudible breeze outside.

The only sounds that registered on in my perception were then only the occasional flickers of candlelight and the sound of my blood rushing through my body. Soon, even those ceased to exist.

I felt cold in the beginning, but slowly, my bodily sense stopped perceiving, there was only the silence and the flame that sat sitting atop the candle. I close closed my eyes, letting the surrounding darkness swallow me.

Even more slowly, my thoughts about my day faded into the background of my mind, my general worry about my situation no longer existed. Along with those thoughts, time stopped having any significance.

When With my entire being was floating in nothing, my senses slowly falling asleep, I turned my attention inwards, looking for something. At first, I couldn't feel it. The simple act of looking for something disrupting disrupted my meditative state.

It can't be that hard, Naruto was an idiot and he managed it without difficulty.

As quickly as it had appeared, even that thought disappeared into nothingness.

I reached inward, not with my will, mind, or intent, since none of the parts that made me existed on their own. I simply was, and with my whole being, I delved until I arrived upon a warm center of something. 

Heat like warm water started flowing through those that I supposed were my coils. It didn't hurt, it wasn't searing hot, it was just there. Like finding again a friend I had long since forgotten.

I opened my eyes to see the candle that had burned through half of its length: that meant I had kept I'd been meditating for almost an hour. But it didn't matter! I had found my chakra!

I let out a delighted delightful laugh! "I did it!"

I was overjoyed. In that this world of death and surprisingly deep characters, I too had superpowers! I lost my focus and the glorious warmth faded from my limbs. But I could still feel it, like an ember at the pitch of my stomach, ready to ignite at my command.

I rose from my seated position and placed the candle on my desk, before blowing on it out. The room was completely enveloped in darkness.

No longer able to ignore my tiredness, I climbed into the bed, a smile on my face. And like that I fell into the dark embraces of slumber, happy at the prospect of being able, one day, to spit fire.

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