10 Сhapter 10

As a result, personal acquaintance with the third Hokage brought me a lot of benefits. So, I got a full-fledged set of throwing iron, which I had only dreamed of before. Moreover, the kunai and shurikens themselves were made of not the worst iron, and in general turned out to be a very, very high-quality product. This could be seen with the naked eye even to a person as far from blacksmithing as me.

Although, my main acquisition was still not kunai and shurikens, but several dozen scrolls handed over to me the very next day by Iruka-sensei. And no, the scrolls themselves were not something valuable, they could well be found in the academy library ... Another thing is that these scrolls were competently combined into one training program for chakra control - from the simplest to more complex techniques. But this was really valuable, especially since Iruka-sensei did not skimp on additional explanations for each of the scrolls handed over.

And in general, my homeroom teacher expressed readiness to help me with incomprehensible moments if they arise. True, I will be able to approach the teacher with my questions only after all the lessons, but this is really a small inconvenience for the opportunity to consult a specialist… Well, or just a more experienced person. Still, I wouldn't call Iruka-sensei some particularly outstanding shinobi. Such things are usually not taught at the academy.

But even so, his help may really be useful to me. My past experience with the chakra literally screamed that independent training is, if not hopeless, then very, very difficult. Without outside help, it was really difficult for me to take my first step towards mastering the local magic. And this despite the fact that I have not been a child in my mind for a long time. I didn't have any special problems with the perception of information from the same scrolls, despite some problems with knowledge of the local script. And the level of concentration, anyway, was higher than that of the absolute majority of kids…

However, unlike the rest of the kids, I was a complete orphan. And there were no friends who would be willing to help me feel my chakra somehow. Therefore, I had to follow a much more difficult path... because the chakra itself, even during meditation, still felt like an integral part of me. And the fact that I definitely did not have this chakra before did not affect this feeling in any way. The whole problem is not in the mind of the Shinobi, but in his body, which is too used to its own energy.

So my attempts to feel the chakra could be safely compared with the attempts of an ordinary person to feel his own liver… That is, it was possible, but only if something is already very wrong with the liver. That's the same with the chakra, if everything is normal with it, the body simply refuses to feel it, without proper skill and habit. And only if something happened to this chakra, for example, someone else's chakra got into the body, the body begins to feel something, informing its owner about the problem…

Well, fortunately, my further path of development in this field was already much easier. With each new week of training and meditation, I felt my own chakra more and more clearly. So, at some point I was able to fully feel my own chakrosystem… Hundreds and hundreds of channels, from real "highways" to barely perceptible threads, entwined my entire body, eventually going either to the organs or outside… To the ones already known to me, the tankets, through which, in theory, it was necessary to bring the chakra out.

However, yes, this stage has been far away for me so far. To begin with, I had to learn how to manipulate the chakra inside the body. Every beginner Shinobi went through this stage and nothing else. After all, while the movement of the chakra in the body is quite a natural process, which is why these manipulations are given quite easily. I appreciated this almost immediately, as soon as I more or less got the hang of feeling my own chakra in everyday life.

It took almost two months, during which I managed to turn seven years old, and my reputation at the academy leveled off a little. Even some children stopped considering communication with me as something shameful… Still, the last Naruto had the reputation of notorious hooligans for a reason. He really liked to hooligan and have fun, and his jokes sometimes went beyond harmless practical jokes. The painted walls of retail shops in which Naruto did not sell something there – it's still too much.

I, on the contrary, behaved quite calmly… I even started learning little by little, correcting my predecessor's frankly zero grades. And, oddly enough, such changes were enough to turn me from a notorious hooligan into just a hooligan. And this is progress, I will tell you, especially since sometimes I myself could not keep my own impulses. The awl in one place and the force raging in my body pushed me to feats, which is why most of my most obvious detractors very often became the objects of jokes… Sometimes not always kind, because I still lacked restraint at such moments.

Well, it's not the point, all these are simple little things that allow me to relax a little on the way to my own goal. And my current goal is to fully learn how to use my own chakra. And so far I have had good success in this field. Nevertheless, my past experience in awakening the chakra has served me well in mastering the control of the chakra. Yes, in my normal state, my progress was still quite modest… I felt my chakra too badly to force it to follow my will exactly.

Of course, there were some progress in this endeavor, but these successes were simply ridiculous when compared with the moments when I used my chakra during meditation. Oh, yes, I really did not regret that I mastered such an important and useful skill at the very beginning of my journey. The ability to immerse myself in myself, rejecting all external stimuli aside, had a very positive effect on the level of my concentration and ability to influence the chakra.

So, during my meditations, I very quickly mastered the simplest ways of manipulating the chakra. I learned to change the direction of movement of the chakra, learned to accumulate the chakra in one place, learned to accelerate and slow down the movements of the chakra… Which, although it sounded quite harmless, but in practice, even such skills have already been given to me by quite a few. So, by directing the chakra to the place of injury, which I still had plenty of because of my daily runs with elements of extreme parkour, I could somewhat dull the pain I felt.

Or the same acceleration of the chakra allowed me to cheer up a little in the morning. After I drove the chakra through my body during morning meditation, the body itself literally burned with cheerfulness, and drowsiness went away. With the slowing of the chakra, the effect was the opposite, but I often used it, suppressing especially strong impulses of my own hyperactivity… Needless to say, such abilities were already worth the effort I put in?

But this is just the beginning, especially since gradually I learned to use all these abilities without meditation. It was much easier to move along the beaten path… And I already knew how to perform basic manipulations with the chakra during meditation, which is why I just had to learn how to use my own skills in my normal state. And even if not without problems, but it was going on, and my enthusiasm did not even think to subside.

It's nice to work when you can almost instantly feel the result of the work done. And the feeling of touching a miracle, something truly magical and impossible for the past me, still stirred my blood too much for me to seriously think about fatigue from such chakra control training… I was too inspired and motivated, which I didn't even expect from myself. It seems to be an adult man, even in the body of a child, but for the opportunity to touch real "magic", the opportunity to experience a miracle for myself, I was still ready to work up a sweat and the strongest migraines.

In addition, by this time I had already managed to learn a lot about the chakra and understand how this energy behaves in general, which is why there were much fewer fears in me. I was no longer so afraid of hurting myself, knowing what I was doing and understanding what I should do ... A wonderful feeling, especially against the background of my recent illiteracy and blindness in everything that is somehow connected with the chakra.