Chapter 8: Lakeside
Chapter 8
Title: Lakeside
Words: 1337
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'<>' perks & skills, '——' long time skip, '….' short time skip, '~ ~' POV switch, "grr" speech, 'wow' thoughts, 'Training |' section of what is being displayed, 'W.W.L:' what we learned by the ending of chapter.
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I woke up an hour before the crack of dawn. I felt reborn after I finished sleeping.
I grabbed a fresh pair of clothes and headed to the bathroom excited for the day that awaits me. I brushed my teeth twice then rinsed them off. I looked into the mirror and I couldn't help but admire my glistening white teeth.
The more I looked at myself the more I appreciated my looks, I really looked like Izuna, I guessed Madara was right.
I stripped naked and entered the nice bath. The warm water that soothed my skin as I lathered it up with soap washing every crevice of my body, rinsing and repeating.
Shower Thoughts |
'I couldn't help but reflect on my thoughts. Yesterday I really pushed my body to its limits, my body being adaptable as it was synchronized with my efforts and I made efficient progress. I was looking to do the same with my sensei today.'
'Wondering what exercises he'll have me perform I then thought about another subject.'
'I really didn't understand how someone with as much potential as shino became so underplayed in the series in fact they were multiple people like him who were even more downplayed had twice the potential and talent along with some form of hax abilities.'
'The sound four, Haku there was even Ranmaru with his Dojutsū which was stronger than the three tomoe sharingan of course the other variants of the sharingan abilities overwhelmed his but the techniques his eye possessed was truly monstrous but what he lacked was a suitable vessel. His body was extraordinary weak and malnourished it didn't get a chance to develop to its full potential.'
'Thinking about more 'underplayed and stronger' characters I had the great idea of forming a super team full of these strong and talented shinobi who didn't get utilized correctly and give them a purpose, and who would be a better guy to do this than me.'
'I wondered besides a goal and purpose what could I truly have to give these people without a clear answer. I pushed these thoughts to the side.'
I got out the shower and dried off. I then applied my fresh set of clothes as I exited the bathroom following the marvelous scent, then in the hallway I was stopped by Itachi.
"Elder brother.."
"Sasuke-kun I see that you've awoken quite early for your training." He then snickered. "I heard about your sensei.. he's quite strict and demanding isn't he?"
"Yup and he sure is but I know that's just how he deals with most of his pupils. Why would I be any different besides it's not like we have a true bond. We're both using each other for gains, I want to develop in strength and he wants ryo."
He walked up to me and patted my head. "You're quite a bright little brother, to have that much of an understanding of the world at such a young age. You'll even surpass me."
"No way! You're a genius everyone talks about there's no way I could match up to you." 'There's no way I thought that but I wanted to create wholesome moments like these while I can.'
"That's because you'll surpass me. I'm sure of it. Anyway let's go to the kitchen Kaa-San has just finished making breakfast." He grabbed my hand and walked me to the kitchen.
"Good morning kaa-sama." I greet my mother with a hug.
"You both are so cute!! Getting ready together to do your daily duties like little adults." She embraced us both tighter. "Kawaii, kaa-san loves you both." She then gave us both a huge kiss on the forehead.
"Kaa-san." Itachi mumbled under his breath from the sign of affection. I just grinned heavily like an idiot.
After we separated we ate together and talked for a bit before splitting up. Itachi had a mission to do, mom was a housewife. Father didn't awake yet but had work later on.
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I eventually made it to the lakeside where the old bastard I have for a sensei awaited.
"Hmph, you're early? And why do you smell like a girl? Don't you know you'll be stinking and dirty later?" He assaulted me with questions.
'Damn geezer! He always finds something to complain about. I swear I'm beginning to hate the elderly.'
I awkwardly laugh. "Ahaaa." Gulp. "No… sirr."
"Stop acting like a fangirl with your awkwardness. It's about time you manned up, boy. Just for that I'll have you run this lake." He thought he won as the lake was too large for a child to run around.
"Yessir." I unhesitantly agreed.
Seeing how unaffected I was to the threat and the fact I began to run his face scrounge up like he ate a lime. "Yeah get to running I know you won't be able to make it back anytime today so keep running you little bastard." He tried to antagonize me.
'Sadly it didn't work. I was much more mature then he's capable of being aware of I've done this multiple times over and it's something I'm fairly good at so he'll see me in thirty minutes to an hour.'
I ran with all my might, being a little more powerful than I was yesterday. I had a small increase in speed but it was recognizable since I have eidetic memory.
After thirty short minutes I finished and then the sun rose. He told me he wanted me to run until he told me to stop. I did as he said, I ran for two hours and once I completed the lap around he told me to stop.
The exercises listed that day were complete hell he had me hanging onto a branch until I fell. He had me do extremely tiring exercises that felt like I was slowly popping tendons, I did the exercises listed the day before as well. Some new ones or things I haven't simply heard or seen before he was an odd geezer. I even lifted branches and pushed and ran with hollow logs far distances.
I couldn't lie and say some of his unorthodox exercises wasn't useful because they were but really who comes up with these ideas. You would have to have little to no resources to come up with ideas like these and considering how much of a geezer he is, he probably trained like this himself back in his hay day.
Time synched and the days blurred before I knew it everyday would be either me working out my body from sun up to sun down and working on more exercises my body wasn't used to, and the either was the rare chance that I got to go to the library and expand my repertoire of knowledge. If it wasn't that I got a chance to hang out with my friend Kazuto.
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{A/N: Sorry for the short chapter but there isn't much this chapter entails besides the premise of MC's studying and training which I felt as I've elaborated on enough. Plus a timeskip is needed. It's only a four month timeskip and the next chapter will be more of a progression and show him finally learning martial arts and later that day will be Hinata's birthday which is somewhere in December. Then we'll commence a second time skip but this time it'll be a seven month timeskip and it'll be Sasuke's fourth birthday.}
W.W.L.: We learned the ways the MC's sensei gets him to train his body and how they perceive each other.
We see the dynamic between the relationship of Mother and son. Both children, Itachi and Sasuke's relationship with their mother, and Mikoto's with her own children.
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