flowing down her face.
"Hey stop making that face, or others might get the wrong idea. Anyways here is your figure so don't cry."
Even though she stopped crying she is glaring at me while she takes the figure:
"I won't forgive you, you evil..."
I shrug my shoulders while thinking: wellit's only Tenten so who cares.
Anyway, I now have enough money to buy a Chakra Induction Paper.
The boy who wished for love and peace not long ago just shamelessly scammed alittle girl...
I have finally a Chakra Induction Paper!
So now I can finally know my chakra affinity!
...
Wait...
I forgot that I don't even know basic chakra manipulation, so I can't send my chakra to the paper...
...
Let's ask my parents.
They should be at least be able to use basic chakra manipulation since they can use beginner ninjutsu.
While Eiji was outside shopping; at the Nakamura house, which was an inauspicious two-floor building you could find everywhere in Konoha, Kimiko and Satoshi had currently a discussion:
"Don't you think its unhealthy for a child his age to not have any friends?" -Kimiko
"I mean he is kinda mature for his age, so won't it be hard for him to get along with children of his age group?" -Satoshi
"Huh, even you can say something smart sometimes..."
"Come one, why do you have to be so mean...anyway isn't it fine since he will have enough time in the future to assemble his hare - er I mean friends?"
"I will just ignore what you tried to say. Anyway even if he is more mature than other children, it will be psychologically detrimental in the future if he can't have decent childhood experiences. A friend of mine has a daughter only 1 year older than Eiji, so how about this: I and Eiji will visit them tomorrow?"
"WAIT! If it's a girl I need to make sure his first harem member is...hey darling why did you suddenly pick up the chair?"
When I returned home, before I could ask for any training, my mother suddenly proclaimed that we will be visiting tomorrow a friend of heirs.
Why is my dad lying on the floor unmovingly?
And why do I have a bad feeling about tomorrow?
I'm currently on my way with my mum to her friend's house.
"Why the hell do you even need to drag me along with you..."
"Stop cursing. And I already said it yesterday, my friend has a daughter around your age. Since you don't really interact with children your age that much, I decided it would be best to take you along with me."
"I already know that, but what I don't understand is, why do I need to play with some stinky brats when I could do something more productive"?
"Do you mean by productive, lying in bed all day with dead fish eyes and complaining that survival is hard?"
"Hey survivalIShard, and conserving energy is healthy..."
"Well I won't teach you about chakra if you don't play with this "stinky brat" today, do you understand?"
"Yeah yeah sure whatever, boss."
"I really wonder where you learned such foul language...anyway we are almost there."
While two parents greeted each other, someone shouted suddenly.
"Ahh, it's the evil boy from yesterday!"
...
Shit, now I know why I had a bad feeling about this.
A woman who wore a Chinese-style dress asked: "Oh, you already know each other, Tenten"?
"Hmph, I only know that he is a shameless scoundrel."
"Hey, it was an honest deal. Didn't I give you the figure you wanted?"
"Taking advantage of a maiden's heart makes you evil!!"
"Well well, that's enough for now you two. Why don't we all go inside first? I have some new tea you haven't tried, Kimiko."
"Oh, I'm looking forward to it."
...
Hey hey, I know Tenten had less screentime than Sakuras forehead but still...isn't it too much to have her family be friends with a total mob family?
Somehow I feel a bit bad for her...
"Hey, if you apologize now I will forgive you."
We are currently outside at a park not far from their home, since our mothers had the glorious idea to let us play outside while they enjoy some nice green tea.
Hmmm, I also like tea...I was never a coffee person - the only coffee I drank occasionally was Irish-coffee...
"STOP IGNORING ME!"
Especially when it's spring and it isn't too hot for tea...green tea was my second favorite, while my first -
"AHHHHH NOW I WON'T FORGIVE YOU!!!"
She suddenly charged at me so I moved my body a bit.
Well, that was a rather pitiful attempt.
She fell with her face straight into the ground.
Even totally wasted drunkards in my former life could fight better...
"WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH..."
And now she is crying...
...
And it's too loud to just ignore her.
"Come one stop crying, my eardrums will explode."
"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH..."
"Hey okay, okay, I am sorry. How about this, I will let you eat as much Dango as you want as an apology."
"sniff...really?"
"Yeah"
At the Dango shop.
"You know, I said I will let you eat as much as you want but I don't have a huge amount of money with me right now..."
"Humph...well it's enough so I forgive you. Be glad that a future great kunoichi like me isn't your enemy anymore."
"A great kunoichi?" -I raise an eyebrow while future scenes of her flash in my mind.
"Stop making a face like you aren't convinced. I swear, I will become a legendary kunoichi like Tsunade!"
Wow, I didn't know that small Tenten would be saying so cheesy lines like a certain orange boy.
"Tsunade? Was that the reason why you absolutely wanted that figure?"
"Yes, she is proof that girls can be as strong as boys!"
Isn't the reason why there are so few legendary kunoichi not because of gender differences but rather because there was no female cheater with Uchiha or Senju blood?
No way I will say it out loud - my mum sometimes doubts my sanity already.
"Well considering your attack from earlier you still have a long way to go..."
"...and here I thought for a moment that you are actually not evil."
"It's the truth though. If you charge at someone you should at least make sure that you can change the direction..."
"Then teach me!"
"Huh? Why should I?"
"Because I will tell your mum that you bullied me if you don't!"
This little bitch...
"Then I won't pay for the Dango."
"WHAT? YOU SAID YOU WILL PAY FOR ME!!!!"
Fuck.
Because she shouted, the shop owner is now looking.
Now it will be hard to say that I need to use the bathroom and quietly disappear.
Looks like it's checkmate for me.
"You know that I don't know much about fighting either? So me teaching you, will be a waste of time..."
"I don't care. After making a maiden cry, you should do your utmost to make her happy."
"Haaaahhh whatever arguing with you is pointless. So okay when do you want to start our training session?"
"Tomorrow at 9 o clock."
"Well, I don't think I can decline so let's go with that."
Well looks like I got myself into a troublesome situation.
Hmmm now that I think about it, not much is known about Tenten like for example her family name...
"Hey by the way what's your family name?"
"Well...I won't tell you"
Why are you blushing?
And why is it such a big secret?
Damn, now I really want to find out!
On the way home.
"Jo mum, what's their family name by the way?"
"Don't jo me. And if you won't know why don't you just ask Tenten? Since tomorrow you two will play together again, right? Oh, wait does it mean that you finally have your first friend?"
"It's training. And I don't consider this stupid lass my friend."
"Ohh you don't have to be shy..."
"Well anyway I asked her family name and she didn't tell me."
"If she didn't tell you then I won't tell you either, hehehe" - she said that with a mischievous smile.
WHAT THE FUCK?
WHY IS IT SUCH A HUGE SECRET???
After the visit, I pestered my mum to give me a crash-course on basic chakra-control like we agreed on.
I thought it would take me longer, but the basic principles are pretty easy so I can now feel my chakra and concentrate it on specific locations albeit slowly and clunky.
So now I'm at a park looking at the Chakra Induction Paper while a certain girl with two Chinese-style buns was running in circles.
This is the moment that decides my future path.
I grin while I'm imagining myself using water-guns, breathing out fireballs, or go ultra speed with thunder around my body.
Honestly, I'm fine with every chakra affinity as long as it isn't earth or wind.
Wind is only useful If you have something like a Rasengan, and even though I know the basic principles of it, developing a budget Rasengan would be hard.
Just look at Naruto.
He used for a long time shadow clones to help him form those.
So I don't know how I can get strong fast with a wind affinity.
And earth...yeah let's not even mention it.
So this is the moment.
I slowly concentrate chakra into my left hand and then move it towards the paper on my hand.
Please no wind or earth, please no wind or earth...
The paper split in two...
AHHHHHHHH
Everything went black in front of my eyes.
While Tenten ran laps, she recalled the conversation she had with Eiji when she stopped running a while ago.
"Huff, huff...I ran now four laps, now teach me techniques or something!"
"I already told you that I don't know much about fighting either and that I cant teach you much. But if you want to get stronger the easiest and most straightforward way is to just get physically fit."
"But I don't feel like running will make mestronger..."
"Well that's because it doesn't and I just wantedto see you suffer."
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH YOU EVIL!!!.."
"Jo calm down it was just a joke. Anyway let me explain how it will make you stronger: First of all no matter how powerful your techniques areif you run out of steam then you are basically useless. Secondly, it enhances your brainpower. With constant stamina training, your body will be able to distribute oxygen more efficiently which is especially useful for the brain. When the brain has a larger amount of oxygen the benefits will be - well there are way too many to list them all."
"You know what? Sometimes you don't talk like a child..."
"Well...anyway did my explanation convince you"?
"I guess..."
"Good then keep running"
So she started running again.
After a few more laps she felt like she was dying and stopped.
"Huff, huff, Eiji huff, I'm done huff, I cant continue huff...Eiji?"
After catching some breath she looked at Eiji.
He looked like he was in a semi-unconscious state and kept repeating the same line "Existence is pain...everything is pain..." over and over again.
Sometimes he is really odd - she thought.
"Hey Eiji, wake up!"
"Waking up is pain...existence is pain..."
"Please stop, you are scaring me...if you don't stop I will rub my snot on you!"
"WHAT THE FU...hey what happened. Why did you threaten me with your snot?"
He somehow managed to get up.
"What happened? I should be the one asking you the question. I'm done with running and wanted to ask you what I should do next, butyou were laying on the grass and murmured some creepy stuff."
After hearing that, he looked at his left hand, and then his expression turned expressionless like some who had given up on life.
"Oh right, it is wind...wind...I hope the wind will take me somewhere far off...wind..."
"NO, GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF! DON'T FALL BACK INTO THIS CREEPY STATE!"
"...yeah you are right. I must accept the reality that I'm a mob without cheats and have theworst kind of luck possible..."
"What weird things are you saying again? Anyway, what should I do now after running?"
"Hmm? Running? Oh, right let's call it for today. Overexercising isn't helpful. And I need to look for a rope anyway..."
"A rope?"
"Nothing... let's meet here tomorrow at thesame time?"
"Alright..."
After coming home I calmed down a bit and decided not to buy a rope.
I have to get stronger to survive until Boruto era where the internet is developed!
Then I can hide somewhere and enjoy the infinite possibilities of the internet, while I will let others deal with those damn aliens!
Anyway, let's think about wind chakra.
The characteristics of it is to increase the sharpness of things like kunais for example.
...
No, I won't be a useless kunai-only-nin!
What can I do other with it instead of buffing kunais...hmm...
...
I have no idea.
With the other chakra natures I wanted to use scientific principles from my last life to get instantly strong: like with lightning I could fire coins like a railgun, or with water, I could maximize the pressure for water guns or bombs...but for wind, I really don't have anything I can think of...
So then let's try a different approach.
Let's think of ways without a chakra nature.
So chakra in general basically just another form of energy.
Even without ninjutsu just a huge amount of chakra alone can be devastating, just look at Lee and Guy when they open their gates, or Nature when he was buffed with Kurama's chakra - he smashed Hakus's ice mirrors just with his fists.
I can't get my hands on a tailed beast and even if I could I would be hunted by Akatsuki so it wouldn't be worth it.
So I need to think more into the direction of the eight gates.
If I remember correctly the principle behind it is that normally you can only use a portion of your chakra to protect the body from overexertion.
So If you open the gates you have more chakra but your body might not be able to handle that.
But why can Naruto's body handle so much extra chakra from Kurama?
Hmm, maybe it's because the eight gates also use the organs like letting the heart-rate go berserk so that your blood flow is extremely high?
So the eight gates not only enables you to use the stored chakra but squeezes every drop of your body's survival mode out?
Does it mean if you could just use the stored chakra, your body would be uninjured?
No, probably it's rather the opposite: it's because you let your body go into survival-mode that you can use the stored chakra.
So that means I have to find ways to increase my chakra without something like the eight gates?
But...do shinobis not have a natural chakra potential limit?
And the limit normal shinobis have is not high enough to really enhance someone physically to be able to smash unmeltable ice mirrors with your fist.
Hmm...
...
WAIT!!
If chakra is just another form of energy then the amount isn't necessarily important but the quality of it!
This means I could just accelerate the chakra through my body and then release it suddenly with a bang.
"YES I'M A FUCKING GENIUS!!!"
The door in my room slammed open.
"Eiji, I don't know what you are doing but be less loud. I could hear your yell in the whole house..."
"...I'm sorry mum..."
Anyway, I now know how to get stronger.
Starting tomorrow I will train my chakra control and slowly start to accelerate it.
Hey, what are you doing?"
"I'm training my chakra control."
"Oh let me do it too, I already ran enough for today."
"You know I'm pretty much a beginner when it comes to those things so I can't really help you..."
Tenten made a smug face: "Hehehe, then I will teach you, the great me can already use chakra."
"Huh? Are you serious?"
"Hehehe, let me show you..."
She made a few hand seals and directed chakra into her palms.
"This...is this supposed to be the healing technique of the medic-nins?"
"Hehehe, yes. Did I surprise you?"
Eiji looked at her palms: the chakra was completely chaotic, it was like disconnected blob pieces.
Eiji murmured to himself: "Was there a thing where she tried to become a medic-nin before scrapping the idea and doing her weapon thing? Well to be honest I didn't really pay attention to minor characters like her so I don't know..."
"Listen Tenten, this was a complete insult towards all medic-nins."
"Wha..." - her eyes showed complete shock.
"Why do you even try to become a medic-nin?"
"B-Because I wanted to be like Tsunade..."
"Just trying to copy others will most of the time backfire...borrow some kunais from your parents for tomorrow, you will scrap the idea of becoming a medic-nin, okay?"
"NOOOOOO. AND I WON'T BE TRAINING ANYMORE WITH YOU!!!"
She suddenly ran away.
"Hmmm, maybe I was a bit too hard to her..."
The next day.
"Why are you here? Didn't you say that you wouldn't be training with me anymore?"
"Humph, I just wanted to show you that you are wrong!"
"Yes, yes, anyway did you bring some kunais?"
"Yes I did, but why do you need them?"
"Well, you will start to practice throwing kunais."
"But I have never used them before..."
"I also don't know anything about throwing kunais, but we will figure things out somehow."
"But I want to practice other things...why should I practice with kunais?"
"Because every shinobi uses them and when we attend the academy we will have to learn it anyway, so why don't just practice now so we don't have to do it later?"
"But what about you..."
"I will practice later but I will show you how you should practice."
"..."
"Anyway, let's start. As I said I don't know much, but I guess the secret behind throwing things, in general, should be your posture. You see the tree over there? I will now try to hit it, so step aside so I don't accidentally hit you."
"But it's pretty far...I think hitting it will be too hard..."
Eiji ignored her and throw his kunai - it wasn't even close.
"Well as expected. Anyway now it's your turn. After each failure, you try to change the posture to-" "Yay, I hit it."
"..."
A few months passed.
Even though I told her that there is nothing more I can do to help her train, for some reason she still comes to the usual place where I train.
It seems like she got the idea of becoming a medic-nin out of her head, sp she kept training with kunais and she even uses now shuriken as well.
I have to admit that she really has a talent when it comes to weapons...she can even do now the Itachi-thing where she hits a kunai with another one to change the direction mid-air; she got on my nerves so I said told her that she shouldn't be conceited if she can't even to that...and then she succeeded.
It's only throwing weapons so who cares! And I'm not saying that because I'm envious - definitely not!
Anyway, when it comes to my training, I observed a few things when it comes to chakra.
First: it's fairly easy to concentrate chakra on a few specific locations like the feet without hand seals. Concentrating chakra on other spots without is pretty tough.
I asked my parents to teach me some easy hand seals, but I try to train without using them since I need to be able to direct chakra through my whole chakra system and not just to certain spots to be able to accelerate it.
Secondly: I observed that chakra hasn't a fixed speed. If you are angry or something your chakra flow is faster - but the speed difference isn't really that huge.
Thirdly: I mean I already knew this but experiencing the difference is still really cool. You can not only concentrate chakra on the feet or hands to enhance psychical prowess, you can also do it with your head to improve your mental prowess.
Anyway, after the last few months, I made a breakthrough and now I can accelerate my chakra a bit in fixed spots like my hand.
Controlling the acceleration is really hard, so I can't really use it in a fight right now since I'm basically standing still to concentrate.
But that's not important.
What's important is that I feel a difference in the physical enhancement which proves my theory!
Anyway now I want to test something else.
I want to release the accelerated chakra with a bang.
If I'm able to do that I could become a walking nuke muhahaha.
I start to slowly concentrate my chakra into my fist, then move it in circles while slowly accelerating.
After it is at a satisfying speed I release it...
BOOM!!
"AHHHHHHHHH SHIT MY HAND!!!"
"EIJI!!!!"