11 Manifestation..

Chapter 11

Alternative Title: "Fourth Birthday! | Second Half"

Words: 2329

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'<>' perks & skills, '——' long time skip, '….' short time skip, '~ ~' POV switch, "grr" speech, 'wow' thoughts, 'Training |' section of what is being displayed, 'W.W.L:' what we learned by the ending of chapter.

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Tugging and pulling my chakra in different directions I got the hang of the acquisition part. With my chakra awakened I felt not only the chakra in my body but the chakra in other living things as well.

I felt the chakra and I also saw a vivid description of the amount possessed while also feeling familiarities in the chakra signatures in which I sensed. Just so happens that I first felt both Itachi and Fugaku, I didn't know the set distance but I'm sure there was a limit.

This 'sense' or form of sensory had great clarity and was very detailed. It was like I had another way to see outside of just my eyes, Itachi and Fugaku had their own personalized silhouette outline of their body with their pathways shown and a flame at the center identifying the chakra source, but they were the only people I could see since they were the only people next to me.

I could still further sense chakra just not as detailed so it must've been a close range feedback only thing.

I didn't know all the intricacies so this was something I'll have to further learn about myself on my own.

My chakra was now in full effect and started seeping into my organs, cells and other internal body related things. I felt stronger, more 'nourished' and compacted.

My body felt full and bloated with the amount of chakra I possessed. I recently just ate a ton where I would normally feel full but now it seems that the nutrients placed into my body was used during the process of my "chakra awakening" so I was suddenly hungry.

Realizing I've officially 'awakened' my chakra I relayed this information to everyone else.

"Otou-sama, Nii-San I did it." I slowly got up from my meditation position and wiped the excess dirt off of me.

"That's my boy." Father had a proud look on his face, with his arms behind his back. Itachi walked over and scruffed my hair and gave me an eye smile.

Fugaku then pulled a small piece of paper out of his hands and gave it to me. "Since you're four years old we'll officially start your shinobi training, take this paper and inject your chakra into it."

I looked at him then back at Itachi after I was given a small nod of approval I grabbed the paper and sent chakra to my fingertips, as the paper reacted to my chakra it expanded and went back to its original size.

The paper wrinkled, caught on fire then turned to ash.

I heard gasps then seriousness plastered on both of their faces. "A strong D-Dual primary affinity? That's amazing!" Their serious faces then turned to delight.

"Do you know what this means Sasuke?" Fugaku asked.

"It means I have a strong primary affinity of both Lightning and Fire." I answered.

"Correct! Your studies are showing, keep it up!" Father praised.

"I'll teach you some chakra control exercises today and we'll head home after you've got those down, I'll give you some fire elemental chakra manipulation exercises as well, since you're an Uchiha we'll start on that element first and whenever I have time I'll teach you other shinobi related material hands on."

I nodded my head in clear understanding, Itachi went off to grab some leaves from a branch then body flickered, immediately returning.

"This is often used to help academy students gain better chakra control skills, you're supposed to use your chakra to hold them in place on your body like this." He placed a leaf on himself and showed me how it's done.

He passed me a handful of leaves, I grabbed one and placed the rest in my pocket.

I gathered and built up enough chakra to hold the leaf on my forehead, ordinarily it is said you spin your chakra left to right or vice versa depending on the direction your hair grows but it was different for me since I could spin it both ways I just counted it on the fact that I'm ambidextrous, so I spinned it both directions simultaneously to gain better and more efficient results.

Sending my sent chakra to the center of my forehead, I then applied the leaf to where I sent my chakra and slowly let go of it. Surprisingly it stayed there for as long as I could keep my focus on where I wanted to send constant wavelengths of my chakra.

I grabbed two more sending chakra to my palms placing one in each hand simultaneously keeping focus on all three places where I kept the leaf sticking.

"Great job Sasuke. Three already on your first try is amazing, a lot of beginners even struggle with this, well done." Itachi commended me.

"Alright that's enough." Father said. I dropped my focus as my chakra receded into my pathways and the leaves fell.

"It's pretty clear that you have a fundamental understanding of basic or beginner chakra control, there are higher levels you could practice but I'll be teaching you something that trains your chakra control and fire elemental manipulation at the same time."

He pulled out the metal bowl he brought with him, held at arm's length forward with one hand and made some hand signs with the other filling the bowl up with water release.

'He could do one handed signs? That was pretty cool, I'll have to start learning hand seals early on too if I want to get to his and Haku's level someday.'

"Pay attention closely." He said as he started to boil the water with his fire release chakra.

Relying on my senses I was able to see in great detail as to what he was doing with his chakra to get the water to its boiling point.

Steam then erupted from the surface of the water and bubbles formed vigorously, constantly reconstructing and popping, eventually it got too hot to just carry so Fugaku gently placed it on the ground.

His attention then landed back onto me. "After the heat subsides and the water cools I want you to perform the same feat, it doesn't matter how long you take but just remember to train diligently."

I nodded. Allowing him to continue his speech.

"The metal bowl is made out of chakra conductive metal and I've had it made specifically for you since you've shown diligence and constant interest in the arts of shinobi all around."

"I've recognized your effort and I've decided as a father to honor your wishes and completely support you on your journey, the obstacles may be hard but you'll always have backing not just from me, your mother and big brother but from the whole clan."

My eyes then expanded expeditiously.

"Whatever is needed on your road to become a true shinobi will be provided all you have to do is say the word."

At this point my shock turned into awe. The words I've been longing to hear all this time I guess my efforts have spoken enormously.

"With that being said your lessons with your sensei will be cut short for more practical use."

But of course there was a catch, I knew it couldn't be true. I thought as my expectations suddenly went downhill.

"Instead you'll have an elite prior anbu operative come and teach you important techniques needed for an aspiring shinobi such as, tracking techniques, stealth techniques, torture and information gathering techniques, personally dealing with in-depth torture techniques that may be done to you and how to deal with them for future purposes and whatever else that entails, don't worry you're brother Itachi will embark on this endeavor with you as well so freight not."

With that me and Itachi was ensued with a very visible and audible shock.

"As the elder brother I expect you to be a leading example and further emotional support for you little brother, Itachi, because this will not be easy."

Itachi grimaced at the thought of me going through this seemingly rough training period with the anbu operative. It just sounded like hell.

He composed himself after seeing Father's face, it was a "not up for debate" kinda thing so he acted accordingly otherwise things could've gotten bad.

"This is information every shinobi should know sooner or later in their career whenever that might be, this experience is useful to any sort of shinobi or an aspiring one especially so to these pair of kids, one being a prodigious Genin, and one being a naturally talented kid not too far away from being enrolled into the academy."

He had a point, the endeavor had merit, a very good one at that, the whole point of shinobi was stealth and the art of discretion so this venture would be very practical as he said.

"Sasuke, you're education will now be in my hands, I won't let or expect the academy to teach you some subpar basics and hold you to subpar expectations, no no no my boy you'll be held to the highest standard their might be, after all it was your words and actions that displayed such."

"Ultimately weren't you the one who said "you'll surpass Madara" the traitor himself so I expect it to be done."

'Again he was right this was a sort of wake up call to me, the efforts and everything I've been through till now won't be anything compared to the things my father has lined up for me. Hard work is inevitable. I set myself and my mindset up to encourage this lifestyle, I can't back out now, not when I've decided to make such lengths in this world, so of course my path will be arduous. The harder the road the sweeter the fruit at the end.'

I balled my hands into a fist and made my face into a serious one.

"Madara as well as a traitor was taking out Jōnin level Senju opponents by the time he was ten to twelve years in age and when he reached his teenage years the monster had the nerve to delve deeper into monstrous levels of power never before seen by the world and Uchiha clan! if it wasn't documented people couldn't and would refuse to fathom the amount of power a human could have and especially a Uchiha which further ensues our fate in this day and age."

"Now our own nations leaders detest us because of that latent potential we all bear, the potential to become the next Madara, a name that brings about an extraordinary dosage of fear around this very continent!!"

'Hearing this segment of his speech was very revealing it was also like he was unleashing something that was eating inside him for a while, while speaking he spoke with such passion and such vivid hand elaboration.

't-this is his leader's side.' I thought.

I was in awe because my father on average is a very bland person. For him to show such emotion gave me goosebumps and a surge of willpower to go ahead and do the things I inspired in this life, Itachi looked moved as well.

"As fellow Uchiha we have no choice but to commend him for the power and change he was able to create, in his lifetime even though he was insane and became a traitor, and if anyone could unleash about those sets of monstrous amounts of potential from inside themselves it's you Sasuke. And if you go insane and commit unforgivable acts the person to annihilate you and bring about order will be Itachi."

With that final word of his statement resounded and reverberated through our very essence like two cymbals colliding together.

Two colossal weights of pressure then fell upon us, one by one, one so large it could create a crater beneath as we breathed.

We both looked in our father's eyes and nod without a word but this "small" act of a "simple nod" behind it packed massive amounts of faith, dedication and determination. Then me and Itachi turned, both looking deep into the eyes of each other.

I could see the fear of the cause of our father's words and the other (itachi-seeing-me) could see the inspiration and glory.

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{A/N: This Anbu Training Segment will cover around 2 years. The next segment of events leads to early academy-early signs of uchiha massacre. After finishing the anbu training Itachi will be around 11-12 during which he joins the anbu underneath Kakashi's team then becomes captain of his own squadron picking up his story and our MC turns 6 and joins the academy, so currently which rn he's 4 and the transition period will end when's he's 6.

Before that happens though we'll get a look at the mind space & perspective of each family member and dedicate a chapter to them.

I know it seems like this is taking forever to reach its climax but I personally think it's better this way instead of creating a large time skip where there's no emotion and depth involved. Hope you understand. ;-)

W.W.L.: MC has some sort of sensory skill with the awakening of his chakra now.

He's very talented and happens to be a natural already when it comes to the very fundamentals of chakra, control, usage. Especially with his vast in-depth knowledge of its practicality it wasn't really hard.

Fugaku is really fond of his youngest child and dots on him when he's alone with Mikoto after seeing his son put forth the effort everyday for a year to start early on his career blows him away and to respect that he wants to personally overseer his growth and make sure he reaches his goal no matter the consequences.