Chapter 6: Academy Days 2

"Close your eyes and focus on the warm sensation in your stomach. This is the tenketsu where most of your chakra gathers when your body creates it from your spiritual and physical energies. It spreads from there all over your body, supplementing it to be able to survive. Right now, you can't control your chakra yet," explained Funeno sensei from the front of the class, guiding the focusing students to feel their chakra.

"So far, so good. I am already able to do that. But I can't move it out from my stomach no matter how much I try. I can move it slightly in there, but it won't get out," thought Tekku as he repeated what he had been doing for months.

"There are two ways to gain control over your chakra. Surrounding the tenketsu inside your stomach, there are two more tenketsu. They are special gate tenketsu, keeping most of your chakra in that spot, only allowing the amount your body needs to sustain itself to pass through. One is responsible for your upper body, the other for your lower body," said their teacher. "The first method is through focused meditation to slowly widen the gate so it opens up enough to let you use chakra. But this takes months to years to accomplish. Our method that we will be using today is me guiding a small burst of my chakra into your system while you are trying to open the gates. My burst will open them up so you will gain access to your chakra."

"That's how it is. Are these gates related to the Eight Inner Gates technique? Sooner or later, I would have gained access to my chakra, since I could move it slowly further and further," realized Tekku after listening to his teacher.

Next, Funeno Sensei moved from student to student, sending a burst of chakra through their system, awakening the ability to control their chakra, until he also arrived at the last row beside Tekku. "You are next, Tekku-kun. Close your eyes and focus on the chakra concentrated in your stomach. When I give you the command, try to access your chakra. I will help you break through the gate," instructed the teacher as he put his hand on Tekku's back at the height of his chakra.

"Focus and do it now!" Tekku tried to move his chakra when a hot burst of chakra entered his body, making his chakra flow in a massive burst towards the gates. For a moment, it stopped, but then it burst through the gate, spreading through his body. "Well done, Tekku! It's complete. You are now able to use your chakra," announced his teacher before he headed towards the next student.

Feeling how his chakra was able to move throughout his whole body at his will, Tekku became excited. "Finally. Now I can train my chakra control and soon learn the first techniques."

Once their teacher finished helping all the students in their class unlock their chakra, he headed back to the front of the class. "Now we will determine the amount of chakra you have. Every human has a maximum amount of chakra that they can use. By training your body and mind, enhancing the physical and spiritual energies that make up your chakra, you can expand the maximum amount of chakra you have. Unfortunately, there is a limit to how far you can expand that limit, determined by your genetics. At some point, you will have reached the maximum amount of chakra inside your body," explained their teacher seriously.

"Hmm, yeah, checks out. As far as I remember, Kakashi has an average amount of chakra, while Naruto has an absolute monstrous amount of chakra. Although I haven't even reached my limit yet, I already can think of multiple ways to go beyond it. Like becoming a Jinchuriki, fuinjutsu like that seal on Tsunade's forehead, or genetic modification. And these are only the methods I know from Naruto Canon. With the memories of Dr. Gero, I have multiple starting points for more, like that Ki absorption technique or the Infinite Ki generator," smirked Tekku to himself.

"For now, we will determine the current amount of chakra inside of you. Although having more is better, it doesn't automatically mean that you have a low maximum limit if you are below average right now. It's just a general indicator. Even that isn't the end of the world. With a low chakra level, you can instead focus on taijutsu or genjutsu and become experts in these fields. Low chakra doesn't mean you will end up weak," encouraged their teacher, while Neji snorted at that with contempt, muttering something about fate. "To get an exact grasp on your level, we would need a Sensor-nin. Unfortunately, Iruka, the only teacher who is a Sensor-nin, is busy right now. So we will only use the inaccurate method, which is called the palm test. It will give you an idea of how much chakra you possess. If you want to know more, you are free to approach Iruka-sensei yourself. He will be happy to help you out."

Tekku followed the instructor's steps, putting his palm on his belly while focusing on the chakra inside, moving it in circles. If the chakra is around the size of his palm, he has an average amount of chakra. Bigger chakra reserves mean above average, smaller means lower.

"Huh, barely average. Well, it's okay. I will handle it and overcome it. Kakashi, with his average reserves, became the Hokage. And I have more ways than him to become stronger," thought Tekku after determining his current chakra reserves.

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On his way home, he picked up some leaves from the tree in front of the Academy and carried them with him to his apartment. Even though they hadn't learned the Leaf Concentration exercise in the academy yet, he already knew the concept behind it and would simply get a head start on it. He had no time to lose, after all. The first six months in the Academy were already over, and he had only one and a half years left until he needed to graduate, so he wouldn't waste time until he turned 11 or 12. With his solid foundation in taijutsu and shurikenjutsu, on average, he managed to hit 7 out of 10 targets, like Tenten, who was on the same level in shurikenjutsu as him. Neji was ahead of them, averaging 9 to 10 targets.

In the next six months, his goal was to master the three basic academy jutsu that he would learn in class. They would repeat them every year until graduation, until everyone in the class is able to use them. He also wanted to maintain good mastery over chakra control, starting with the leaf exercise and then moving towards more advanced techniques. Additionally, he aimed to master the basic shinobi skills so he could focus on the electives next year and devour the knowledge on the second floor of the academy.

After arriving at his small apartment, he couldn't wait anymore. He instantly stood in the middle of the room, putting one of the leaves on his forehead and focused his chakra on it to keep it in place. After a few seconds, he thought, 'Hey, that's pretty easy. Maybe I...'

It fell down. He remembered that it was a concentration exercise requiring him to focus on the leaf on his forehead. The moment he thought about adding some more, like he read in some fanfictions, he lost focus and couldn't even manage to keep the leaf in place for 30 seconds.

'Well, I can think later about adding more leaves. Maybe it will work and even train my ability to focus on multiple things at the same time. Right now, I should concentrate on the first step.' Once again, he placed the leaf on his forehead and focused his chakra there to keep it in place, trying to hold it longer than before.

And he managed to keep it in place longer before losing focus again. For generations, Konoha ninja have practiced using this method to better their mental focus, so he would keep doing it. The leaf emblem on the Konoha forehead protector is said to originate from this training.

From now on, he added chakra control to his schedule. He would keep a leaf on his forehead between the different training exercises in his schedule. He even dedicated half an hour of his forest training to chakra control in order to get a hang of it as fast as possible.

Good chakra control would also help him master new jutsus faster. Investing as much time as possible now into chakra control would make the future road as a shinobi much easier. Not like he could do much else right now without any proper jutsu and low-level familiarity with chakra.

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