9. Training and skill evolution

"First you gather your chakra, concentrate it on your legs and Jump" said Ichiro jumping high in the air and did a somersault and landed gracefully.

"You again gather a bit of chakra while landing to prevent yourself from getting hurt" she added walking towards him.

"Ok" said Aiko eager to try, moulded his chakra and felt it in his body and controlled it towards his legs, due to his high chakra perception ability he realised that almost half of it escaped from his body, but he still continued and once chakra reached his legs he stamped his feet on the ground.

"BOOM" a noise was heard as dust scattered around and he was propelled upward like a rocket.

'How much chakra did he use?' thought Ichiro looking at his figure mid air as she ran towards it to catch him if he fell down.

"Guy, get ready" Kakashi said looking at the figure mid air.

"I was born ready,Kakashi," said guy , giving a thumbs up pose.

Aiko feeling the wind whipping his face, realised that he had overdone it and increased calm mind to 99% to control the panic he was feeling and used instinct manipulation to force down the ill feeling in his body and regain his balance mid air, it was when he noticed that he had used all his moulded chakra to jump, so made a hand seal to gather chakra again disrupting his balance causing him to spin.

Feeling that gathering chakra had become a problem, he used his instinct manipulation on maintaining his chakra moulding skill causing a system prompt to ring in his mind.

'Ding! Skill instinct manipulation has leveled up.'

As the prompt rang the chakra moulding speed increased and he quickly gathered chakra and had 'feeling' about what to do and he followed it.

He quickly bent his knees, hugging them to his stomach and gathered chakra around his whole body and relaxed his muscles waiting for impact.

Just as he was about to hit the ground he saw two shadows moving towards him one dark blue and one green, but the green one was faster as he was scooped up before he hit the ground.

"Who" said Ichiro taking out a kunai from her bag as she came to a stop.

"Don't worry, we are shinobis of the leaf" she heard a voice behind her causing her to turn around and there she saw a boy wearing a leaf forehead protector which covered his left eye.

"Kakashi of the sharingan" muttered, Ichiro looked at the shinobi infront of her as he was quite infamous in her clan.

"That was dangerous, kid" said guy looking at the boy. "But, that is what youth is all about" he added smiling with his shining white teeth almost blinding Aiko's eyes.

He was impressed by the boy as the posture he was in would have reduced the damage he got from the fall.

As soon as Aiko turned off his skills exhaustion hit him and he felt body shaking a little.

'I want to do it again' he thought

"You should look at your leg, before you try that again," said Kakashi, as if noticing his thoughts.

That was when Aiko noticed that the foot he had stepped on for the jump was swollen and red and the pain hit him, but it was quite manageable due to his calm mind skill.

"Uh" he muttered looking at his shoes which were damaged.

"Ok, let's get you fixed up, guy help me carry him" said Kakashi and started walking out of the woods.

"Are you ok, Aiko" Ichiro asked, feeling concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine" he said, nodding his head and then thanked Guy for saving him.

Once they returned to the tea house, Aiko got a bump on his head from Kushina who scolded him for being reckless, which actually hurt more than his leg, but his intuition told him to stay silent about it, and Mikoto placed her palms on his leg which emitted green light and his injury healed visibly surprising him.

Soon Kushina and Aiko were heading back home, with Kakashi following them some distance behind. Guy was not present and Ichiro promised that she would teach him tree climbing next time they meet and she along with her mother went separate ways.

While walking home Aiko decided to check his status

Status:

Name: Aiko

Level: 0->1

Strength: 2->3

Agility: 7->8

Stamina: 4->5

Vitality: 8->9

Intelligence: 5->6

Charm: 4->5

Skills: calm mind [innate], mapping [lvl 3], Instinct manipulation [lvl 2], chakra molding[lvl 3], Seal creation [lvl 1]

Skill: instinct manipulation[lvl 2]

Allows the host to heighten or dampen selected instincts, and manipulate instincts, consuming stamina when active based on degree of usage.'

Looking at his skills he fell deep in thought, thinking about the ways to use them effectively.

...............…..

Another month passed by , it was mid april, and Aiko had levelled up again, he noticed that his level increased quickly when he practised seals and exhausted his chakra.

So he, continued his daily routine of learning seals, practicing them and he had managed to level up his seal creation skill to level 4 and now he could create basic seals without failures and mid level seals three out of seven times but the problem was those seals exhaust his chakra for single try, drastically hindering his practice speed. But, the silver lining was that he had managed to level up his chakra moulding skill to level 5 and learnt a new skill called chakra control.

Skill: Chakra control [lvl 2]

Allows host to efficiently control his chakra

Control+20%

"How to increase my chakra?" he asked one day during breakfast to the Namikaze couple.

"Hmm, you don't need to rush, ya know, why don't you go play with Ichiro-chan or go to the park and make some new friends?" said Kushina, she noticed that the only thing he had done lately was train and train, which got her worried.

Aiko frowned, it was not that he wanted to train, in fact he had been using his instinct manipulation skill sometimes to go through with it, when he had felt like giving up. But, the problem was since the day he levelled up in the forest he had been feeling restless, it was a feeling that if he did not increase his power as soon as possible something bad was going to happen.

" Yes, Aiko-kun that is a good idea" Minato also chimed in.

Aiko nodded his head not knowing what to tell them and left the house after finishing his breakfast.

Aiko walked around the streets of Konoha aimlessly looking around the people who were going on with their daily life as he still had many places to explore inside the village.

"Kyaa.. Pervert" he heard a scream and saw the roof of a bathing house used by citizens blast open and a white haired man came flying from it and landed in front of him.