"Alright, come over here, Itachi!"
Looking at the wooden post as thick as two people embracing, Chiba turned and called to the young Uchiha Itachi, who was sitting by the corridor behind the back door of the Japanese-style wooden house, swinging his little feet as he munched on some fruit Chiba had never seen before—something Kushina had found somewhere, apparently unique to the Naruto World.
Since there had been no preparation for basic training yesterday, Chiba had only gone out to get the wooden post just now. It was also then that Kushina seemed to have found an opportunity to stuff the previously idle Itachi with fruit... Ah, no, to stuff the fruit into Itachi's hands. By the time Chiba returned, the little boy was sitting in the corridor, eating fruit while eagerly awaiting him.
"Yes, Teacher Chiba!"
Hearing his master call him, the little boy casually set the half-eaten fruit into a nearby bowl, hopped down, and pattered toward his teacher.
"Today, we'll begin basic training. First comes taijutsu training. Itachi, you know the definition of taijutsu, right?"
Looking at the three-year-old child standing before him, Chiba got straight to the point.
This...
Were children in the Naruto World really all this precocious? From the looks of Itachi, he was already quite well put together. Not only was he mentally mature, but his body was developing faster than children in his previous life as well. Though Itachi was only three, his build was already comparable to that of a thinner five-year-old boy from Chiba's previous life.
Was it because of the mysterious power known as Chakra?
After all, Chakra was the union of spiritual energy and physical energy. Because this world had Chakra and everyone possessed the ability to cultivate it, perhaps people here had a certain degree of