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  Daichi tilted his head and dodged the fist that was aimed at his face. He then raised his left hand and blocked the punches and kicks Sasuke sent his way. Daichi had a bored nont expression on his face as he parried the strikes of the Uchiha. Sasuke jumped back after a few seds and gred at his oppo.

  "Don't just stand there. Fight back.!"

  Daichi let out a sigh whifuriated the Uchiha child. He raised his vigind senses and prepared for Daichi's attack. But those precautions didn't ge anything. One sed Sasuke was looking at Daichi, the he felt a punch ram into mid se and then all he felt was the bess surrounding his eyes.

  Daichi looked at the unscious Sasuke in his arms aly id him down on the ground.

  "You didn't have to knock him out Daichi!" Iruka came and checked Sasuke's dition.

  "If I had held bay more, then Sasuke would have only gotten angrier. And I'm in no mood to deal with his bitess today."

  Iruka sensei let out a tired breath hearing Daichi's reply. 'Daikoku was right. Lord Hokage should have let Daichi skip a grade. There is no ohat give him a challenge.'

  "Now that the fight is over you still o make the seal of reciliation when he wakes up."

  "Sensei he's not gonna do it and frankly I'm not going to either."

  "But… "

  "I'm going to meditate. So… If that's all sensei…"

  "All right! Just… go to your spot." Iruka was fused a out a tired sigh.

  Daichi turned around ahe ring. Iruka looked at Daichi and was ed. 'Unusual. He's irritated. Strange… I wonder what happened?'

  Daichi went to the nearby tree oraining ground and sat down. He begaating while the sparriween his cssmates tinued.

  Shikamaru and the others noticed his behavior. Shikamaru slightly narrowed his eyes as he looked at his cssmate. 'Is it just me or is something b him?'

  "Have you noticed that he's been doing nothing but meditate these st few weeks." Ino quietly asked Sakura and Hinata.

  "Yeah. He doesn't even go to the library anymore. And even in css he's meditating… I wonder what kind of training would need him to meditate so much?" Sakura wondered.

  Sasuke woke up a few mier and looked around. He seethed in anger as he looked at Daichi who was meditating uhe tree. He ched his fist ao another er of the academy ground.

  As Sasuke kept looking at Daichi his anger slowly vanished. He too had seen Daichi's odd loation sessions. And he was more than curious as well. 'He's not someoo sit around and waste time. So this must be some kind of training! Question is what? Chakra trol? I read that meditation helps the Yin aspect of the chakra. Is that it? Is he trying to increase the strength of his Yin chakra?... If he's so ied in it then it must be important… Should I start meditating?'

  Naruto gazed at Daichi as well… 'My goal is to be the stro.' Those words rang in Naruto's head like a bell. He then thought about his own goal. The dream to bee Hokage one day.

  'He reads all kinds of books at the library and trains so mud so hard every ce he gets… But I'm here pying pranks and goofing off! I said I want to bee Hokage but have I really worked for it?' Naruto ched his fists and made a decisiouro Sakura who was near him.

  "Hey Sakura… you… you help me out with my homework?... Please…" Naruto sheepishly smiled as he made the request.

  Sakura, Kiba, Ino and the others were shocked hearing that but they quickly figured out the reason. They realized that Daichi's fight motivated Naruto to try harder.

  Sakura looked at Naruto and narrowed her eyes. She the out a sigh and agreed. "Fi only for an hour or two. And no funny business."

  "Yes! Thank you Sakura! You're the best." Naruto was excited and had a wide grin.

  Hinata had her head down as she heard this. Ino noticed this and then looked at Naruto and then back to Hinata. After a couple seds her eyes widened in realization.

  "OH MY GOD! Hinata you like-" Before Ino could plete that sentence Hinata cmped her hand on Ino's mouth, sileng her.

  "Quiet! I… I don't want him to know yet." Hinata mumbled to Ino. Ino quietly nodded her head.

  "What is it, Hinata? What do you like?" Naruto and Kiba asked with a grin.

  The shy Hyuga girl took her hand off Ino's mouth. "nabuns. Ino found o-out I just really nabuns." Hinata stuttered and replied looking down while having a small blush.

  "Oh! I like abuns too!" Choji replied.

  "You like everything that ts as food." Kiba retorted.

  "HEY! QUIET YOU ALL AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE SPARS!"

  Iruka shouted at the group and he had his signature big head jutsu to back him up.

  Naruto and the group stayed silent and focused on the fights. Meanwhile Daichi was still in deep meditation. One of his es dispelled and he was feeling the fatigue of the e. But due to the passive skills he received after his vitality and stamina stats reached 100 his recovery rate had increased expoially.

  It had been a week since Kensei had fronted him on his powers. Daichi was bothered by the fact that he couldn't bring himself to truly trust the old man. But thanks to the Gamer's Mind he was able to keep a calm and cool facade he old man but it still weighed on his mind. And this distracted him from his training.

  Luckily Daichi found the solution iation. His meditation helped him front his deep ihoughts and fears and Daichi was now being much more ih his emotions.

  He realized that his trust issues were born from his fear of an untimely death at the hands of a powerful enemy or even an unknown stranger. Daichi realized that the knowledge of being reborn into a world that was onown to be fial and where killers rule with an iron fist, has had an impa his psyche on a far deeper level than he ever thought.

  For the past several days Daichi entered deep meditation and frohe fear in his mind and he slowly and steadily began to trol it. The fear in Daichi's mind wasn't like another self with a ive persona or sciousness or anything of the sort. It was just a culmination of ive thoughts aions.

  Hours passed by and the spar and css came to an end.

  Naruto and the others came near Daichi to wake him up but it was unnecessary. The moment they neared him, Daichi opened his eyes.

  He was much calmer and his heart felt much lighter. He had finally fronted and overost of his fears. Several notifications popped up.

  You have fronted and won against the fears that have been deeply rooted in your mind sihe day you were awakened.

  Your mental fortitude has bee stronger.

  You have achieved a brief enlighte.

  +10 WISDOM.

  Daichi looked at the message boxes and then dismissed them. He smiled at his friends as they reached him.

  Naruto, Ino and Shikamaru noticed that Daichi was a lot calmer now and he had a genuine happy expression. Ino had seen people e to her father for help with their mental troubles and she had seen the faces of people who got a lot better. It was how she realized the ge in Daichi's Aura so quickly.

  "You're secretly training aren't you? All this meditating… It's training right?" Kiba asked at that moment.

  Daichi chuckled. "Yes. Something like that. I'm doing a chakra strengthening exercise and this is part of it."

  Naruto and Kiba got excited hearing that. "Hey you teach me?" "Me too?"

  Daichi got up and stretched his arms and legs. "Meditation isn't all that difficult. Well… once you get used to it anyway. But I'd doubt either of you has the patience for that."

  Kiba and Naruto pouted hearing that. At that moment Ino stepped forward with a smile.

  "Csses are over. Would you like to walk home with me?"

  Daichi smiled at her childish crush. He didn't want to break her little heart by refusing so he indulged her.

  "Sure, Ino!"

  The group then split up. Naruto and Sakura, staying back at the academy so she could help with Naruto's homework. Hinata, Kiba and Shino heading to their pound together and Ino, Choji, Shikamaru and Daichi heading the opposite way.

  Ino talked about several topics to Daichi and paid little attention to the other two following behind them. Daichi smiled and nodded and gave his input whe was needed. Soon they reached Ino's flower shop and Daichi bid farewell to his friends.

  As he walked home he thought about telling the real truth about his powers to his grandfather but decided against it. 'The old man is satisfied with the answers he has now. And we're in a really good pce. I don't want to jeopardize that. If the need arises I'll tell him.'

  His mind then wao his training. He thought about the sed stage of the 'Earth' ge in chakra nature teique. He thought about the skill he got after the first day of training.

  Earth - Waterfall Cutting teique - (Active/Passive)(LV. 1):Ah chakra affinity training skill obtaihrough tinuously fog the chakra to cut off the flow of water. An advaeique to help the user increase the trol and strength of their earth nature chakra.

  [Note: Increasing the level of this skill will increase the level of the skill 'Earth Affinity.']

  Effects:

  2% Increase ih Chakra trol.

  3% Increase in power of Earth Chakra nature.

  CP cost : 99/sec.

  'Till now I haven't been able to focus but now I'm ready. Based on my memories, it took Naruto over 8 days of training and with hundreds of es to master the sed stage. So for me it should take several months. My chakra has increased due to the interaining and now I create 5 es. Instead of adding the 5th e to training I'll have him meditate and improve other skills. That way I'll recover much faster and keep training for a lot longer in a day.'

  Daichi got home and saw Kensei watering the garden.

  "Hey Gramps!"

  Keurned and saw Daichi with a wide smile. He was relieved. Even though Daichi tried to hide it, Kensei saw that Daichi was unfortable after sharing his secret. He felt bad that he put Daichi in such a position and didn't want to upset the boy any further but now after seeing Daichi's genuine smile he felt a weight off his shoulders.

  'It seems he's accepted what happened and came to terms with it. I'm happy for him.'

  "Anything iing happen while I was gone?" Daichi asked while he pced his school bag on the porch.

  Kensei smirked. "Nothing much. Who has time nowadays to see a weak old crippled man." He made a sad face so fake that Daichi deadpanned.

  "Yeah right. An old cripple that I'm pretty sure kick a Jonin's ass." The boy retorted.

  Kensei ughed, hearing him. He ehe banter with his grandsohen turo a more serious topic.

  "How goes the sed step?"

  "It's a lot harder than I thought. But I suppose I should have expected that." Daichi replied admiring the beautiful flowers of his garden.

  Kensei nodded. "Earth nature is strong against water nature. So pared to the sed step of the other natures this is the easiest. And you don't have to rush. This is a step that would take years to master… But you're a talented freak of nature."

  "Thank you for that pliment, you old geezer." Daichi replied in a dry tone.

  Kensei cheekily smiled. "You're wele… Now I'd estimate that you'd be able to plete it in maybe 7 to 9 months."

  Daichi had thought about that time frame. 'It won't take that long if I really push it. I o master the fire chakra nature too this year… Then there is the dungeon run… Ghaa…! I've got a lot on my pte but I'm really excited for it. But for now I'm gonna take a rest.'

  Both of them stood there and ehe rexing atmosphere of their garden.

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