Chapter 6

The training and teaching went on till 5 pm , after Arata caught some fish for dinner and then piggy backed Guren to the village due to her being very tired and a little sleepy.

Dropping the sleeping Guren on the bed, Arata gave the villagers the remaining birds in exchange for some pepper, ground spices, rice enough for two kids and two glasses worth of milk. He knew the exchange wasn't equal, but couldn't care less until he got what he wanted.

Three hours later when Guren woke up, the dinner was almost ready. She straightened up and looked at Arata who was offing the fire with some water. " For dinner we have some rice and fish, afterwards we can drink milk before sleeping."

After the filling dinner which mostly contained fish, Guren curiously asked " Why do we train ?" .

" By training we can become stronger and if we are strong enough, we can do whatever we want and no one can stop us. Do you understand ? " he answered.

Guren bobbed her head and asked another question " After training will you go away?".

" Of course not, I will be with you forever whether you like it or not." He couldn't stand losing a very powerful ally whom he was going to train and basically raise like a parent raising a child.

" Let's drink milk and hit the hay, shall we?. I will tell you some bedtime stories" to which she nodded happily. Couple stories later both of them fell asleep.

Next day the same process like the previous day repeated , except when Guren was piggybacked the whole way to the forest to not waste time. Today they had young fawn for both lunch and dinner. Even after that they had some meat left, it couldn't be preserved due to lack of cooling.

This prompted Arata to try and make cooling seals, which he was doing based on his Uzumaki instincts. They were known as the best seal masters after all and the reason for them been destroyed too. The concept behind it is not that difficult, to cool , you essentially need to remove the heat present either by evaporating a cooling agent or decrease vibration of atoms, which leads to cooling due to lack of heat from vibration. The first method is not possible due to lack of materials, so the second method it is.

The process of same type training and teaching went on for 2 months, upon which Guren had mastered all the basics of chakra to a really high level and completed learning alphabets for both the languages. He made her learn the letters fast by involving letter formation in bedtime stories and giving rewards for each task completed, like something particular to eat, play some board games in which he was teaching her addition and subtraction with dice rolling or just a long hug, not like he did not hug her whenever she asked for it, which was pretty common while sleeping together too.

Her body's condition had improved a lot compared to the first time he met her. Using chakra in general helped in this process. Now she looked cuter with pinchable cheeks.

From now her curriculum will change into ninjutsu and basic taijutsu training, while aiming to teach advanced concepts in her theoretical studies, such as multiplication and history in forms of stories.

For his chakra control training he was practicing medical ninjutsu on animals he injured, while hunting.

(A/N: Imma beat you up, heal you and beat you up again. )

By the third month Arata was finally able to grasp Nature energy, upon which he promptly canceled his clones to gain their experience. The original Arata immediately stopped his taijutsu spar with his clone and released all clones so that he could have much more chakra to work with if something goes wrong when trying to absorb Nature energy.

Five minutes later he could feel the abundant nature energy around him from all lifeforms. Manipulating it was easy once he had grasp of it, because at the end of the day it was just another form of energy . And any energy present in his body was easy to manipulate with the help of his dojutsus.

Instead of forming senjutsu chakra by combining it with his chakra pool, he manipulated it to go to his body and brain, upon which he felt his exhaustion vanishing and his body energizing. If sage mode was an active short term boost which gave immense power, then what Arata did was a passive long term boost which slowly made your body stronger on a daily basis. He was very delighted with the result.

With this a lot of his future plans become another level easier. He suddenly felt someone pulling on his sleeve, he turned around to find Guren looking at him worriedly "Are you not feeling well, why are you just giggling while doing nothing ?". Emotional damage.

Waving his hands " No, no, I am fine. I just found a method to make us a lot stronger , so I was thinking of ways to use it. Look, I will show it to you." He then injected some nature energy into her body, adjusting the amount and direction it flowed in. She became visibly relaxed and said " This feels really nice, I feel less tired now. My chakra is coming back faster too."

Hearing this Arata checked his own reserves and found out it was a little more full than normally would be after using it to practice ninjutsu. He didn't observe it's increase due to it not being much compared to his normal chakra recovery rate and his concentration on applications of nature energy.

He decided, from now on he will always have a clone injecting nature energy into Guren when he is not able to do it, like training his body and sleeping, till she learns to do it herself.

The training continued till evening after which they left back to the village.