Chapter 12 : First train with Dai

Miyagawa hesitated for a brief moment before jumping from the tree on which he was perched landing a few meters away from Dai who was slightly surprised at the sight.

"Kid, what are you doing here?"

Dai said curiously looking at Miyagawa who was smiling as usual and replied with a slight annoyance in his voice.

"This is where I train every day."

"Ah."

Dai froze at this reply before smiling in embarrassment.

"I'm sorry if I disturbed your training, usually I train on a vacant lot not far from my house but it was recently bought and it's forbidden to enter."

"Can I use your training ground?"

"This place is not mine, you can use it as you wish."

Miyagawa accepted without any problems as Dai walked up to him and held out his hand.

"My name is Maito Dai."

"My name is Takahashi Miyagawa."

Miyagawa said as he shook his hand while Dai held up his thumb in the air with a bright smile.

"Let's burn our youth in this place Miyagawa!!!"

"Huh? Okay."

After the presentation, he asked Dai if he could train with him, which he gladly accepted with tears in his eyes.

Miyagawa was immediately delighted, the man in front of him had reached such a high taijutsu realm that it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was the strongest taijutsu user.

Having the advice of such a person could only be beneficial to his training.

He accompanied Dai whose eyes burned with passion in more infernal physical exercises such as two thousand push-ups, followed by two thousand sit-ups, two thousand crunches followed by squats and one thousand rounds.

Miyagawa finally had to give up training after six hundred laps of the field, his body having reached its limits.

Miyagawa lay on the ground panting with his body covered with sweat as he watched the sun set in the distance.

"Kid can you still walk?"

Dai who had just finished his training came to a stop in front of him blocking the glow of the setting sun.

"Sure."

Miyagawa struggled to get up from the ground feeling aches and pains in every muscle of his body, he walked with difficulty following Dai who wanted to accompany him to the shopping street near his home from where he had to run errands for his three year old son.

"You are really amazing Miyagawa, to have such physical strength for a genin of your age you must be a little genius."

"I'm not a genin yet."

"Oh you failed the ninjutsu exam?"

"No I only turned seven in April, I'm still in the academy."

"Huh?"

Dai stopped in his steps his smile froze as he slowly turned his head towards Miyagawa.

"You're only seven years old?"

"Yes."

Dai froze again at this answer, although Miyagawa's appearance was at most that of a nine year old he thought that he just looked younger than his peers, he thought that he must be a genin who obtained the rank of genin at ten or eleven.

Dai's appearance may have left him doubtful as to his abilities, but he was a ninja of a strength rarely equaled in this world despite his status as a genin.

He could judge the strength of his opponent or an ally simply by details imperceptible to the common ninja.

And from his first meeting with Miyagawa he was astonished, his posture, his gait and his muscular lines suggested that he had mastered at a high level the taijutsu of the konoha academy, then during their trainings his breathing rhythm was of a perfect control and cadence adapted in an optimal way to every physical effort.

This fact may seem insignificant at first but in reality it was terrifying, because this ability could only be mastered after tens of years of intensive physical training, it was not an ability that a simple genin could reach with ease, added to that his running rhythm and the perfect control of each of his movements during training he was sure of one thing.

This child is a taijutsu genius.

However learning the age of this one, he had just realized to have still underestimated Miyagawa.

"Miyagawa tell me, when did you start your training?"

Dai asked as he swallowed while looking at Miyagawa with a few drops of sweat on his forehead.

"Since I was three years old."

"I see, from such a young age I can't imagine what training you had to go through to get to this level."

Miyagawa looked strangely at Dai whose eyes were like fountains of tears not knowing what to say.

"Mr. Dai I think it will be dark soon, your son will be worried."

"Ah?"

Dai came to his senses, wiped away his tears and nodded, continuing to walk with Miyagawa as he asked him many questions about his training, which he happily answered before Dai gave him some useful advice about weight training or how to recover quickly after training and before he knew it they arrived at the shopping street.

"See you tomorrow Miayagawa."

"See you tomorrow Mr. Dai."