I quickly found out that as an infant making plans to change the future was a useless endeavour. Not only was my tiny brain not equipped to deal with complex thought processes and immediately shutdown to sleep whenever I tried to push it, I also required more knowledge of this world (on what was described in Manga and anime).

So, I postponed the plan making to my toddler years and decided to enjoy being a baby, which was more difficult and it sounded. I didn't care for breastfeeding and relieving myself in diapers, but suffered them with waste because of necessity. Furthermore, there were only so many times you could enjoy playing the Japanese version of peekaboo with your parents without getting bored.

Along with that, my brother, who could not be more than a year to older than me, had decided to experiment on me, trying to find out how I would react if he poked me in different parts of my body with different amount of force. I had decided to just grumble a bit rather than to cry, which made me tired in a short while. It wasn't like I could escape, I was barely able to roll over. Shikaku would be surprised to find out later in life that normal babies don't just grumble when you poke them with your finger in the tummy.

My physical, mental and social limitations forced me to focus on the previously absent aspect of my life- chakra. For someone who had lived for more than 30 years without a lick of chakra, it was pretty obvious to me when I knew what I had to look for. It was like liquid energy present beneath my skin. once I was aware of it I found it impossible to ignore. With the knowledge that chakra was going to be an essential asset to my future, I decided to start early which chakra manipulation.

I knew about the leaf sticking exercise and therefore spent a week trying to make my baby blanket stick to my hand. It turned out that the trick was to basically gather all the chakra I had in my body and expell it from my palm. Following my success I fell asleep and didn't see anything wrong with that, since randomly falling asleep was what I did now. But waking up to see the worried faces of my parents in what could only be a hospital room, I decided to be a bit more conservative with my chakra training.

Obviously, being baby I had very small amount of chakra, which led to the previous episode of chakra exhaustion. Now, constantly using up my chakra was one way to gain reserves but I didn't want to trouble my parents with any more out of the blue comas. Therefore, using my innovative mind, I came up with a plan to use chakra without exhausting it.

It basically consisted of using my anatomy knowledge to imagine all arteries and veins in my body filled with chakra and then I willed my chakra to travel along this pathways like blood did. After a few days I got the hang of it. This way the energy for just circulating inside my body and was not wasted, thus conserved. I was learning to control chakra and was increasing my reserves (and as I noticed a few days later, also my muscle strength) without side effect of chakra exhaustion.

I wanted to declare myself a genius for this innovation but decided to consider this boon for what it was and not get cocky. This was probably the first hurdle I had crossed in a very long obstacle race.