Naruto's Strongest Shinobi

Chapter 3 - Tree Climbing and Gentle Fist

The day after my first taijutsu practice I decided to rest. It seems that once I finished a heavy workout and meditate, my body constitution becomes better. Yesterday I was able to hold the squat position for 10 minutes, but now I can hold it for 13 minutes.

Chakra might help your body be stronger than it was after a workout, that might explain how Might Guy and Rock Lee can work out every single day and still become stronger. Working out non-stop can damage your body if you do not give it proper rest, but in this world, it's the opposite.

Still, I'm bȧrėly 3 years old, I don't want to do heavy exercises yet. Once I'm in the academy I can start to push my body by adding some weights, for now, I'll just focus on yoga and add calisthenics to the mix.

The day went on and I started to also include calisthenics into the mix, I did all types of workouts such as squats, push-ups, planks and all different types of exercises. 'I need to meditate now, doing calisthenics is different than doing yoga... still having my flexibility and strength increase is a good advantage.'

After a morning of exercises, I went outside in the afternoon to run. I run for an hour, at that hour I was thinking about what I should do now to improve myself. While running I saw the big tree in the middle of the yard. 'I guess it's time to start on the tree-climbing exercise, that should help me in my chakra control now.' before I felt exhausted from running, I decided to stop and recuperate some chakra to do the tree climbing exercise.

10 minutes later, I was ready to start the tree-climbing exercise. 'If I'm not wrong, I need to focus the perfect amount of chakra in the bottom of my feet, too little chakra and I'll slip off, too much and the tree will break.' I was thinking for a while and decided that instead of running up the tree, I'll just lay down and try a different combination of chakra to see which one sticks.'

3 minutes later I was able to take a few steps into the tree before I was feeling tired. 'I guess that's my limit, for now, I did wast some time trying to get the amount of chakra right, but I finally got it down. Next time I do it, it should be better, my chakra reserve is small though.'

I went to my room and took a shower, it was time to go and eat. I was surprised once I reach the kitchen, it seemed elegant. My mom came in with a feast, just smelling it made me hungry, that I could bȧrėly contain myself.

"Mom! Are we having important guests over?" I asked curiously. "No Kira, this is for us only. I heard a rumor that my baby is a sort of genius when it came down to the fundamentals yesterday," my mom said proudly looking at me. "Mom!!! I'm not a baby anymore! Besides, that stuff was pretty easy, it just took me a while to get used to it," I replied shyly.

My mom just laughed at my antics and said, "Okay stop showing off or the demon fox is coming for you!" My mom approached me getting ready to tickle me, but at that moment Jin walked in. Hana noticing Jin already here decided to just pet my hair and sat down.

"It smells delicious honey, and it's all thanks to my little boy that we get to eat something good today!" Jin said excitedly. "But dad, we always eat delicious food!" I yelled at Jin. Hana just looked happy at me and stared at Jin for a while. Jin seemed like he was sweating buckets and just said, "itadakimasu" and started to eat. Hana and I followed through.

After we finished eating Hana made Jin clean the table and the dishes off. I rushed to my room and did some meditation before going to sleep. I felt my chakra increase a bit, 'Probably doing the tree climbing exercise helped increase my chakra' I said before going to sleep.

The following day, I did my morning exercise and saw an improvement on my body again, around midday, Jin came for me. "Get ready son, today we are going to begin in the movements of the gentle fist," he said while we were walking to the training room.

"Now, here this book will show you how to move your legs and body while performing the gentle fist," Jin said while giving me the same book he gave me yesterday. "Okay, now look over the second half of the book and study the book, after 15 minutes you're going to show me what you've learned."

Grabbing the book, I quickly opened it to where the instructions on body position are. It just told you how far apart your feet have to be, how your shoulders should be according to your feet etc, etc.

"It's been 15 minutes now Kira... Show me what you've learned," said Jin. I got in the ready position of the gentle fist, at first it was awkward since I've never been in this position. It didn't take long enough for me to get used to the form of the gentle fist. "Good, now do the second part of the training," Jin said.

At first, I was having trouble moving and throwing the punches while keeping the form until I started to merge what I learned in the first half of the book with the body movement. I was moving forward while concentrating on merging both halves of the books, before approaching the dummy, I was doing the gentle fist perfectly.

"Good! Excellent! It seems that you got the gentle fist down, I haven't heard of anyone using the gentle fist so soon after their 3rd birthday, of course besides the heir of the clan," my father seemed ecstatic about my results.

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