"What's wrong, Teacher Chiba?"
He looked at the hand gripping his left fist just as he was about to throw it, then turned toward where the hand had come from. His large dark eyes blinked as he asked.
"Don't use Chakra."
At that moment, Chiba's shocked expression slowly faded, replaced by a grave look.
He hadn't expected Itachi to already be able to refine Chakra, or even attach it to his fists and feet.
Is it because he's from a clan?
Has his early education already begun at home? As he spoke, the thought flashed through Chiba's mind.
"Can't I use Chakra?"
Hearing Chiba's words, Itachi remained expressionless, but there was a trace of surprise in his voice.
Amazing! Teacher Chiba must be incredibly skilled at taijutsu. He could tell I used Chakra just from that one punch.
He felt both admiration and surprise.
"It's not that you can't use it. You just shouldn't. During training, avoid using Chakra. It lowers the efficiency of your training and reduces its intensity."
Chiba shook his head and corrected Itachi's misunderstanding.
Chakra could be used during taijutsu training, but in Chiba's experience, wrapping the body in Chakra while training not only made it less effective, but also needlessly increased the burden on the body and shortened the duration one could train.
It wasn't a good habit.
In truth, whether Chakra was used or not wasn't as crucial as Chiba had made it sound.
He had simply been startled by Itachi just now. Although he himself had mastered Chakra at a very young age, that was because he was a transmigrator who understood the principles of Chakra and had, in effect, come with a method for cultivating it.
But Itachi had been born and raised here. Chiba hadn't known that education in the Naruto