Chapter 2 - Progress

My mom gives me another pleasant surprise telling me her main talent is actually in genjutsu so she has plenty of books and can give me notes on her perspective of it and how they work.When I think about it that makes sense cause there's no way my idiot dad would be good at genjutsu and It makes sense to get my talents from somewhere this gets my hopes up hoping my dad is a sensor then before my mom bursts my bubble telling me sensors are rare and there's not much books she can get that would be helpful on it but she'll do her best but I'm still happy hearing I could still manage to get everything I had hoped for.My dad chimes in telling me he's going get me some adjustable weights and wooden kunai for me to practice with.Hearing him a smile is brought to my face knowing I didn't even need to ask for it he knew just what to get me plus it was probably free considering he could probably just hand me down an old set of his if they are adjustable means I could just take off most of them to be able to use them.Normally parents wouldn't let their kids have weights for training unless your like Guy but I am a training maniac like Guy so in my case it's really everything I could've asked for.Looking back I see my mom smiling too which is a good thing obviously but I can't understand why unless it's just because I'm happy so I ask her and honestly her response is hilarious she tells me she's happy I want to learn and isn't like my dad and can use my brain which I feel sorry for my dad but I can't help but laugh at him when I hear my mom's words.She tells me she's mostly happy about me wanting to know about genjutsu though because it's her specialty and she's glad to see I'm interested in it because most ninja just ignore it completely with Uchihas being unfairly masters at it without having to train because the sharingan and she's going give me all her personal thoughts on the different illusion jutsu she knows and how they work and do her best to explain every single aspect on it including how it works so I can build my understanding on it as much as possible.Before I can thank her for just simply giving me everything I could've hoped for she grabs ahold of me and looks at me seriously telling me to pay serious attention when it comes to genjutsu it's important to be able to know when your in one so I can cancel it out and to know because ninjas often suffer from phycological trauma from there many traumatic experiences and genjutsu can be a huge factor in increasing that so I have to take it seriously.After hearing this I realize she's not just going above and beyond for me because I asked for but my own future safety too which really warms my heart.Eventually that day comes October 21st and I get my gifts and man am I surprised to find a huge stack of genjutsu books and notes only 5 medical books and just one sensory ninja book but I wasn't expecting much on those heck I got more medical books then I hoped for actually and the sheer size of the stack of genjutsu books and notes is enough to force me to smile uncontrollably.I quickly run over to my mom hugging her in happiness at the sight but as I try to pull away after some time to begin reading them I find I can't move before I feel a lot of extra weight added onto my arms and I look down to see weights on my ankles and wrists now as my smile grows brighter before I ask how much I'm wearing."Each weight is 200 pounds so your wearing 1000 pounds in total" my dad tells me with a smile holding the wooden kunai out to me.I struggle to lift my hand to grab it but I do even if it's slower then I would've liked as I look down at the weights thinking I'm one and can manage 1000 pounds right now Rock Lee was able to do about 10000 on each weight meaning he carried about 40000 in the chunin exams in total after having about 8 years of training but of course he was training intensely on his own before that too for who knows how long and he only started training with Guy when he was about 6 so I wonder how much I'll be able to carry in 8 years since it should be less then that since I've had significantly less training then him.I out the wooden kunai down in my crib to try out later as I grab a medical ninja book and start reading it while doing push ups.Seeing this my dad frowns wanting me to have tried out the wooden kunai but Ultimately says nothing seeing me happy as I could to read the same book all day again and again to memorize it which I can't in a day but that's ok it's gonna take time but I have time for now what's important is that I make progress in that time.I alternate between reading it while doing push ups and squatting for the next 3 days all day til I have it fully memorized and a good picture in my mind of where the vitals are before I grab another medical book and start doing the same with it til I do it with all the medical books eventually in a about a month with some of the books being much larger then others.When I finish that though I have a hard choice between starting to read the sensory ninja book of the genjutsu manual books and notes before thinking that both might give me an idea of how to manipulate and use my chakra but the genjutsu ones are just notes and knowledge on illusions and how they work and how the chakra is moved in your body to use them and increase the effects while I might actually be able to make my own sensory technique after reading both or try to make my own genjutsu or something before I think of Tsunade's strength technique and eventually decided I need to mimic that eventually because if I get my taijustu to Might Guys level and use that it'll be insanely broken before I start on my sensory book.Which takes me roughly 4 days of constantly reading while I'm exercising to memorize and understand.During this time I begin to wonder if maybe I should've asked for so taijustu manuals just so I can have a better technique but I don't really think it's worth it unless it's like a top tier taijustu technique and no I don't mean a taijustu that's basically a jutsu I mean like a taijustu technique in the sense of it being a form of self defense.So basically I'm not just a street brawler in a taijustu battle and can actually effectively fight against someone at a similar level in strength as me but knows how to fight better but ultimately I decide I'll ask next year for my birthday for a few so I can pick the best one for me besides in my previous life I learn jujutsu cause obviously that sounded awesome to someone who loves anime so I think I just need to up my speed honestly at least til I get in the academy because I'm sure the ninja world has better self defense techniques considering all they do is fight pretty much their whole lives.My first thought is maybe I'll ask to train with Might Guy when I get in the academy sense his is surely top tier the only taijustu self defense techniques I can think of that would be better are the gentle fist and I can't learn that even if I tried without a Byakugan with it targeting chakra points to immobilize their opponents with just a few hits it sounded awesome to me but maybe one day I could develop something close to it since I already memorized roughly where those are in the body along with the vitals.I also remember Kabuto being able to essentially do that as well but he only showed in once for some reason in his fight against Naruto and Tsunade so I know there's potential for it as long as I seriously study medical books and gain some experience and experiment of course.I noticed I was learning and memorizing every I read at a much faster pace and concluded that it was probably because babies absorb knowledge easier then they do any other time in their lives when just made me want to take advantage of this and read as much as I could right now but it was also probably because I wasn't like some child and who systematically teach myself to memorize things I read by asking my questions that those things would be the answer to then checking to confirm I was right it's not like I memorize the books word by word and could recite them all perfectly or something that would be ridiculous and take way longer if I even could manage to do that at all.That being said I'm gonna continue rereading everything I got after I finish memorizing all the key points in them to review it and make it more simple for me to understand them and actually learn them better like how you gotta repeatedly repeat the alphabet as a kid to actually learn it and I wasn't likely to get more til my next birthday so I had a full year to fully take in all these books.I hoped my mom knowing what I wanted would keep an eye out for me so I could get more medical and sensory books next year even if she buys them before hand for me knowing that I know she will just keep them til my birthday which I'm totally happy with because I want to take advantage and fully learn what I have before adding more to it because that could just complicate it.I move on to the genjutsu manuals and notes taking me a little over 2 months to fully finish with them being much more complex involving a lot more phycological understanding and theories then the others and having the full detailed notes of a chunin like my mom who specializes in it I know I'm gonna have to heavily review it and question everything I could but thankfully with genjutsu I know my mom will be as supportive as she can and teach me anything I don't understand by simply rephrasing it to be more simple otherwise it would've taken me a little longer.I continued to train everyday while revisiting all the books and notes I had even trying to test some of what I learned at least what I could with the sensory and genjutsu manuals telling me how chakra often moves in yourself and is manipulated in specific areas to work so when I was dead tired and falling asleep I would try to feel my chakra and manipulate it to spread out as far around me as I could.It was insanely difficult with sensory techniques requiring good chakra control and I didn't have any practice with my chakra control so I couldn't even tell if I was doing it right but I didn't expect immediate results I would just do that everytime I was trying to fall asleep taking in all the practice I could.While it wasn't working I could tell I was at least using my chakra and I hoped using my chakra and manipulating it would basically act as a chakra exercise not only for chakra control cause obviously I'd get use to it and it would slightly improve my chakra control but hopefully encourage my chakra reserves to grow too.If chakra reserves grew by using chakra though every ninja would have the chakra of a tailed beast so I didn't have high hopes for it I just hoped that because my body was still heavily developing and my chakra was growing anyway that it would tell my body it needs more from the constant loss in chakra forcing it to make more.I always made sure to eat as much as I could too because I'd burn it all off in training so intensely and because I needed all the nutrients I could get to grow my strength faster and any leftover nutrition my body didn't use would hopefully help build my chakra too.The thought process in this was that if the Akimichi clan had a vast amount of chakra from the food they ate other people should be able to as well but you never really see anyone eat as much as them so the only way to know was to try it and I was pretty confident in that theory so there wasn't any harm in it but if it's like any other source of energy in the energy pyramid I'd only convert 10 percent of the energy I got from food into chakra which wasn't very much it would be better if I could absorb something higher in energy for it like if I just constantly ate soldier pills maybe but that would suck and was way to expensive if I was going eat enough to actually increase my chakra I'd need at least a bowl full daily.That would probably cost thousands of ryo for a single bowl but if I ever become a trillionaire it would definitely be worth trying but unfortunately I don't see that happening.I also had to decide if I'd join the ninja academy at 5 or 6 maybe even 7 if I wanted to be in the same year as Kakashi because I knew either I was his age or a year older and he joined when he was around 5 or 6.I decide when I was 5 and the ninja academy opened for enrollment I'd just tell my parents I wanted to take a look at it and might enroll that year and if I didn't see Kakashi I wouldn't that year and would just enroll the next year or the year after depending on whenever he did.I continue my training the same way everyday til October 21st my birthday again and let me tell you I look way different from the other 2 year olds now with my body being toned and muscular as a 2 year old it was definitely weird and I was a head taller then others at my age and my weights I wore weighed a total of 2 thousand pounds all together.This year my mom came into the house with a smile with a much larger stack of medical and sensory books this year with the medicine books having detailed notes this time too even if they weren't as detailed as the ones I got for the genjutsu manuals I was happily surprised to see there was any that when I asked my mom she told me the hospital had seen her frequently come by asking where she could get more books and manuals and seen her buying them frequently at shops when they were there and seeing that she was serious about it the staff met up and gave her so detailed notes and tips earlier this year.My dad came in smiling too not really sure what he could get me this year but knowing I liked books seeing how I disregarded the wooden kunai last year he gave me a few books on how shruiken techniques worked which could save me time from having to practice to figure them out and some kenjutsu basics and entry level manuals along with a wooden sword not just any wooden sword though a weighted one.