Awakening

Next day Otsuka told Teruya about the development. He told him that for now his invention is classified as a secret and that he cannot share or talk about it with anyone, even with Sasori, Pakura, or her parents. When he told him that he cannot do anything with his invention yet, Teruya was a bit miffed about that, that was until Otsuka told him that they will be getting some subsidies until his idea is no longer a secret.

That calmed him down pretty quickly, but was left wondering in confusion why would invention of clocks be such a big deal. His dad decided not to tell him full ramifications behind his idea for now, to not put pressure on him about the tensions between the nations, nor impact of his innovation.

Should he explain the ramifications of his creation he would need a bit older than a two year old that his creation is gonna be used in a way where lives will be lost, and further explain how puppets work.

He didn't want that, as the tensions are rising, so is the quantity of missions to be taken - resulting in their parents leaving them alone for longer periods of time. Should he tinker with puppets without knowledge and supervision he could put himself in danger, and knowing his curiosity and passion he would do just that.

Few days later after my repeated insistence for Sasori to join us for a dinner (totally not under duress), I finally managed to convince him, where within first minute of him meeting my mum she managed to embarrass me by saying that she is 'very' proud of me making a friend 'other than my dolls', at which my face turned shade of Sasori's hair with embarrassment.

My 'friend' did not help by saying that our first talk was about 'making dolls together'. Not necessarily wrong, but he knowingly threw me under the bus, if his smirk was any indication.

'Just you wait, my vengeance will be served cold~'

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ Timeskip whoosh~~~

Quite a few months have passed, but not much have changed. Me and my parents have been using the subsidy to mainly buy books for me. The reasons for that were that I'm still to small to actually do anything meaningful with proper resources, and they would simply lay in the corner, being wasted.

Because a lot of interesting for me knowledge is locked behind a gate known as Academy where they tech potential shinobi, I decided to pour my efforts with on branch that is readily accessible – biology, or to be more precise it would be anything associated with human body.

Within those books I compared my brief knowledge about anatomy from my previous world, with the knowledge written down within books in the world that I currently am. The biggest difference that I found was an existence of chakra pathway system, which could be compared to blood veins or arteries that carry blood, but for chakra. Within chakra system there are 361 nodes that are called tenketsu – they control flow of chakra just like a dam controls flow of a river.

Among those 361 tenketsu points, 8 of them have bigger roles. They can directly influence human body and it's organs. Two of these gates are located in brain, two in spinal cord, one in abdomen, one in stomach, one below stomach and the last one in heart.

Other than chakra pathways there are no other major differences in human physiology.

Today is a big day for me, because of it even my and Pakura's parents took a break from missions, despite their increased frequency (Pakura's parents only for a day though). Today are my third birthdays, meaning that today is the day I get to awaken chakra.

'It is good that the day finally arrived as I was running out of books to read.' I mused happily.

Month ago it was Sasori that had his third birthday, where Pakura, me and our parents were invited for a party. Unfortunately our parents couldn't be present because of their duties, so it was only me and Paku. We met his parents and immediately saw the resemblance. Sasori had his fathers awesome red hair – which I definitely wasn't jealous of, anyone telling you that is a liar – and he his mother's eyes and smooth skin. Later I heard that his grandmother and granduncle unfortunately could not come, due to their duties. 'Shinobi life is a busy life.'

Paku's present for him was a shampoo with a black and red shirt that fit his hair, while I gave him a chibi carvings of him, coincidentally showing it of to his mother while passing it to him. When she saw it, she instantly snatched it out of my hand with stars in her eyes, thanking me and saying that Sasori loves it. His face that looked as if he ate a few lemons disagreed with her assessment, at which I snickered.

Unfortunately victory was short lived, as he decided that flaunting him having access to chakra, while 'us babies' are still to young to dabble in the matters of grownups.

'Stupid redhead.'

When you first meet him Sasori does give an impression of a quiet kid, but in his head there are mischiefs and puppets. It will be scary once he knows how to mix the two. He's only missing two horns on top of his red hair.

(AN: Now that I think about it, he gives me a Karma vibe, from Assassination Classroom, anyone else?)

But today is finally the day I get chakra and get redhead to stop annoying me. On my birthday me, Pakura, our parents and Sasori were present. From our parents I got more in depth books about chakra, and from Sasori I got…

'This guy, he just copied me, but made my figurine have an embarrassing wide smile on his face.' As my mum gushed over the figurine, I just wanted to get up close to Sasori and wipe that smirk of his face.

'This isn't over.' My eyes conveyed at which his eyes said 'Bring it on, number two.' at which I could have felt my eyebrow twitch.

From Paku I received a beautiful chisel, with a wooden handle coloured in a dull blonde, finished with a small green crystal at the end. "It's perfect." I muttered in a small daze.

In a rush of emotions I hugged Paku, squishing her against me and started spinning her, while thanking for the gift. When I took hold of the emotions I realized what I was doing, and quickly stopped with a heat in my face when I realized my mother was holding a camera, saving my dark history for the future.

Flustered and with realization I quickly rushed at my mother in an attempt to recover incriminating material, yet it was futile, the giggling taijutsu specialized jonin did not hold back with protecting the camera, as if it was a S-rank secret.

Overall it was a great day.

(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ fuwa~fuwa~desu~~~

After the party ended in the evening my parents took me to an an open area, which when I asked them they told me that this was a training ground.

"Okay" My father took the lead. "to awaken your chakra I will need to pour mine into your chakra pathway system, in order to awaken it. I need you to sit down and relax. Do not oppose what you will feel, but just let it flow through you." At that I sat down, relaxed and nodded, indicating that I'm ready.

He placed his hand on my back and after a moment I sensed a warmth that headed towards my heart, and took a different, cool energy out of it. It felt as if the warm energy took a hand of the cool one and guided it throughout my entire body. Whenever they reached a gate the warm one guided cool one to knock onto a gate, opening it and repeating the process, until all 361 tenketsu nodes were opened. When they did, the warm chakra retreated from my body, allowing the cool one to flow freely everywhere.

It felt liberating. My chakra felt like a cool water, flowing to all nooks and crannies of my body, making it an addicting feeling. As I started playing with this feeling it felt as if the world was brimming more with colours, warmth, sensations, life. Along the world around me I could feel my parents, my father as he was taking his hand away, my mother as she was shifting her body posture, while I was still turned away with my eyes closed.

Despite no longer being in my body, I still felt the warm chakra that was in me, but now it was in my father.

"Whoa, mother, your chakra is warmer than dad's chakra, despite being smaller." I exclaimed absent-mindedly.

At that my parents looked at each other with a surprise before my dad asked "Can you say in detail what you mean?"

"I recognize chakra that was flowing inside of me, to the one I can see inside of you dad. It feels warm, shimmering and a bit bigger than that of mum's. I have this weird feeling that I 'see' everything in around 5 meter long diameter." Then I furrowed my brows before continuing "The sand around was feels like it's filled with something, but it doesn't look like chakra within you or me, what is that?"

With a sharp intake of air my dad answered me "It's a natural energy, present everywhere, in earth and air alike. It seems like you are a sensor Teruya."

"Sensor?" I asked with a confusion. That term never crossed me in the books.

"Among those that use chakra, there are a few of those that can sense it outside of them. Those people are called sensors." He told me with happiness in his voice, while I fell silent, feeling all of the new sensations.

"Now" my mother spoke, waking me up from my reverie "let's check what nature's you have affinity with." She said while handing me a piece of paper which I took with a confusion. "Affinity?"

"Yes, first try to guide your chakra into the paper and then I will explain. With you being a sensor it shouldn't be too difficult to do that, take however many tries you need."

I closed my eyes and for a minute I tried guiding my cool energy towards the paper, which I held in both of my hands, after which I succeeded.

"This is…" When I opened my eyes, I heard my father mutter under his nose, seeing a change in the paper.

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So, what do you guys think about my dao of cliffhanger. Am I on a good path to become one with it? I'm trying to learn this sacred path of all the authors, but I'm still a junior, so I seek your guidance to walk further upon my path. *bows, dodging a book that's flying high towards him*

Also I got recommended <Fresh Stories> and <Latest Updates> with this novel, so that's neat. Thank you guys for that and take care. *Scampers away*