Chapter 7: More Training

  "Well, I was also thinking of doing the same. But since I will not get any priva my room to meditate, I will also e to your room to do my meditation practice."

  "Okay," Kaida replied, uanding the need for it, as this was one of the reasons he asked for a separate room for himself.

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  Both Kaida and Yomi went to Kaida's room after eating and, without discussing anything, sat ius position to begin their respective training.

  Yomi just had to meditate since she had not unlocked her chakra, but it was by no means easy since her full tration had to be on her breathing all the time. Maintaining a stant rate of breathing in a fixed sequence was not easy. Even a little distra would interrupt a the whole progress.

  At first, Yomi could only maintain her tration for 5 mi max, and that was when she was in a quiet enviro where there was no oo disturb her, but the duration steadily increased as time passed. Oher hand, Kaida was having much more difficulty doing his training.

  The exercise he was doing was known as leaf tration, the all-time famous exercise which everyoh a little knowledge of Naruto knew about, in which you have to stick a leaf on your forehead with the help of chakra while sitting in a lotus position.

  When Kaida started to practice the exercise, he thought, 'Hmm, Uncle said that chakra has both physical and spiritual nature. So, if I want to move my chakra, I just have to will it to move in that dire with full tratio's try doing that.' And the process really worked, though he had to try it for half an hour, but it still worked.

  'Wow, my whole chakra started to move in the dire I wa to move, and as Uncle said, I have to get a stream-like flow from my sor plexus to my forehead for the leaf to stiy forehead. Okay, let's try to imagi as a river or a stream and see if it helps,' he thought.

  Whearted imagining it as a river, the chakra did start to move in the form of a stream, but it was by no means a small amount. If we calcute the rate at which his chakra was flowing out of his chakra reserve, it would be around 20% of his whole chakra reserve per minute. So, at most, he could maintain this for 4 to 4 and a half minutes since he couldn't fully exhaust his chakra, as it is harmful for ao empty their chakra.

  Kaida still decided to tih the exercise while trying to limit the amount ing out of his chakra reserve. It was by no means an easy task as whenever he tried to slow down or reduce the amount, the chakra flow stopped immediately.

  He tio try, and after 5 minutes, his chakra became dangerously low. That's when he decided to meditate, as the old man had advised. Si would take nearly 7-8 hours to pletely refill his chakra, he decided to tinue meditating as well.

  They both kept practig and only came out of their room to eat, but for different reasons. Kaida wao bee strong aoo old to py with some 5 to 8-year-old children. Though the age gap wasn't that big - he was nearly 13 in his previous life - but that doesn't mean he would py with them, especially sinow he could train and bee strong. It was an exhirating feeling which kept him focused on training.

  As for Yomi, she wao catch up with Kaida's progress as soon as she could. With Kaida practig for all the time, she thought if she took more breaks, the gap would only increase, so she also stuck with her training.

  In the evening, when his chakra reserve was full, Kaida once again started leaf tration with nearly the same result. Though there was a little improvement - the leaf fell a lot less from his forehead as he was able to maintain a steady flow of chakra for a little longer, only by 10 seds, but it was still some improvement.

  After that, he again started meditating until it was time for dinner. After that, both of them went to their respective rooms to sleep as they had to go for training tomorrow at 5:00 A.M.

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  Kaida and Yomi met at the orphanage door ao their training area 15 minutes early. The old man was already there and said, "Great to know that my lesson did not fall on deaf ears. Now I hope both of you have dohe exercise I suggested. e forward one by one so I examine if there were any problems."

  Even though the ces of anything going wrong were low in these beginner exercises, Hiroshi still decided to take no risks with the children at all.

  First, Yomi went forward. The old man again covered his hand with chakra and pced it at her baear the sor plexus. After 2 minutes, he removed his hand, stood back, and said, "Yomi, I easily see that you have been diligent in your exercise, so if you keep doing it like this, I am sure you will unlock your chakra in a week or less." With a full day of exercise, the rewards were great. Normally it would have taken months with the training time a child would i in such exercise, but since she had do for so long, her improvements were faster.

  After hearing that, Yomi's face bloomed like a flower. She thanked Hiroshi a back to her position, knowing that she was close ting the gap. Obviously, she was happy. Then Kaida came forward.

  Hiroshi once again followed the same procedure. And he was surprised by the result - there was little, very little, but increase in Kaida's chakra reserve and that was in just one day. He asked Kaida what he had doerday. A look of uanding came over his face when Kaida told him about his plete routine of yesterday, which was mostly training. Hiroshi nodded and said, "Kaida, it is already great that you were able to stick the leaf on your head on your first try. Don't worry, you will get better at it as you keep practig the same exercise. So keep up the hard work."

  Kaida also thanked Hiroshi a back to his position.

  Hiroshi nodded his head after gihings in his pns he had made for his two udents and said, "I see both of you are serious about your training, so I am just going to give both of you your training pns. You e to me if you fay problems during your exercise. This damn office work doesn't give me much free time."

  After that, he passed both of them a paper with full instrus about which exercises to do, specified for each day of the week, with running, stretg, aation being on for all days and one day of rest per week. Reading his training pn, Kaida asked, "Uncle, why is there one day empty, without any training to do?"

  "Kaida, givio your body is as important as doing exercise. In fact, it is even more important to do so if you are exerg daily, so don't do any exercise on that day. Just enjoy and py, you guys are still young," Hiroshi said with a smile.

  Seeing that her of them had any more doubts, the old ma back to his office, and Kaida and Yomi started their exercises.

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