Chakra and Attributes

Under the guidance of his mother Yamanaka Seiko, Yamanaka Tohru began to refine chakra.

Chakra is the physical energy extracted from each of the 130 trillion cells in the human body, while the strength of one's spiritual energy helps one perceive and refine chakra more quickly. The amount of chakra determines a ninja's path of growth.

With the help of a clan member, refining chakra for the first time is easier to succeed. The world of Naruto is, after all, a world that relies on bloodline, and in the later stages, all the life-and-death battles are internal struggles among the Six Paths family. Yamanaka Tohru did not know who his father was, nor did he ever think of relying on a Sage Body or Sharingan. Yamanaka Tohru was determined to carve out his own path.

Having lived two lives and possessing the secret techniques of the Yamanaka Clan, his spiritual energy was extremely strong, making it easy to sense his physical energy. Before long, Yamanaka Tohru had refined his own chakra. "So this is chakra?" Feeling the chakra flowing through his body, Yamanaka Tohru, at the age of four, finally took his first step toward becoming a strong ninja.

After refining chakra, Yamanaka Tohru couldn't wait to find out his affinities. Having watched the complete Naruto series, he knew the training methods for some techniques. Although he couldn't use these techniques openly, training was still no problem—an extra technique always meant an extra way to survive.

Yamanaka Tohru was well aware that, whether he wanted to participate or not, the Third Shinobi War was unavoidable. Looking at the course of history, Konoha was already struggling in the later stages of the Third War, and even students who had just graduated from the Ninja Academy were thrown into battle. Knowing his affinities would be very beneficial for future development. The most important thing now was to become stronger before the Third War and survive!

"Mother, I succeeded! Can I learn ninjutsu now?"

"Tohru, how many times has Mother told you? Don't aim too high; take it step by step. Learning ninjutsu is not something that happens overnight." Yamanaka Seiko shook her head helplessly. She knew her son was a genius, but she hadn't expected him to be this talented—refining chakra was no challenge for him at all.

"No! No! I want to learn ninjutsu!" Yamanaka Tohru fully exploited his advantage. Faced with a four-year-old child acting cute, which parent could bear to refuse? Sure enough, Yamanaka Seiko had no choice but to compromise.

"Tohru, to learn ninjutsu, you first need to know your affinities. Our Yamanaka Clan mainly focuses on training spiritual secret techniques, supplemented by clan-inherited ninjutsu. Our talent for ninjutsu itself is average. But your mother is a little different. Come, son, first inject your chakra into this paper." Saying this, Yamanaka Seiko took out a piece of chakra paper.

In the world of Naruto, chakra paper wasn't easy to obtain. Only Special Jonin or ninja with special contributions were allowed to purchase it. Yamanaka Tohru had originally thought his mother would get it from the Yamanaka clan's storage, but he didn't expect her to have one herself. It seemed his mother wasn't an ordinary ninja either. Thinking this, Yamanaka Tohru took the paper and, pretending he had never seen it before, asked, "Mother, what is this?"

"This is chakra paper. Tohru, gather your chakra on your fingertip and then channel it into the paper. If it's fire affinity, the paper will burn; water affinity will make it wet; wind affinity will cut it; earth affinity will crumble it; lightning affinity will wrinkle it! Come on, Tohru, try it!"

Yamanaka Tohru nodded and channeled his chakra into the paper. As the chakra was injected, half of the paper became wet, and the other half wrinkled.

Yamanaka Tohru breathed a sigh of relief. Lightning and water dual affinities. For him, he really hoped for lightning affinity, because in his previous life, he had been a surgeon and knew the human body very well. He believed that as long as he had lightning affinity, he could definitely develop the Lightning Release Chakra Mode. And there was also Kakashi's Chidori—sorry, but in this life, the original creator of Chidori would be him, Yamanaka Tohru.

As for water affinity, he didn't pay much attention to it. After all, in the original story, water release techniques weren't shown to be particularly powerful.

"Lightning and water dual affinities? The same lightning as his..."

"Mother, what did you say?" Yamanaka Seiko's voice was not loud, and Yamanaka Tohru didn't catch what she said.

"Mother said my son has lightning and water dual affinities—a real genius." Yamanaka Seiko snapped back to reality and explained.

Yamanaka Tohru nodded and didn't press further. Yamanaka Seiko thought she had brushed it off and breathed a sigh of relief. "Son, Mother has a scroll for the [Three Body Technique] here. You have lightning and water dual affinities, so these two techniques should suit you." Saying this, she handed Yamanaka Tohru two more scrolls.

Yamanaka Tohru took the three scrolls. Besides the [Three Body Technique], the other two were [Lightning Release: Ground Lightning] and [Water Release: Water Ripple]. He was already very satisfied to get these three techniques, and he understood the principle of biting off more than one could chew. Not to mention whether his mother had any high-level techniques—even if she did, whether he could train and release them with his current chakra was unknown. Getting these three C-rank techniques was already quite good.

"Tohru, don't rush to train ninjutsu. First, refine chakra until you reach the limit your body can hold." Yamanaka Seiko looked at her son's excited expression, afraid that he would focus only on training ninjutsu and neglect refining chakra, wasting all his effort.

"Alright, Mother. I understand! I'll go train now."

"Good! Go ahead."

Yamanaka Tohru returned to his room and sat down cross-legged. Following his mother's guidance, he continued refining chakra. For the next week, Yamanaka Tohru focused solely on refining chakra until the chakra in his body stopped increasing.

At this point, Yamanaka Tohru checked the chakra inside him. He had never seen anyone else's chakra amount, so he had no standard to judge whether his was large or small. Logically, with his strong spiritual energy combined with physical energy, the chakra he refined should be considerable.

Yamanaka Tohru didn't know that his chakra amount was not only considerable but actually very large—it was close to that of an average Chunin. Right now, he couldn't wait to open the ninjutsu scrolls and learn the techniques he had dreamed of.

"[Lightning Release: Ground Lightning]!" Watching a few small sparks jump in the courtyard, Yamanaka Tohru felt terrible. Where was the protagonist mode he'd been promised? Where was the "learn a technique just by looking at it"? Sure enough, he wasn't cut out to be the protagonist—he couldn't even learn a small technique with a single glance.

After lamenting the heavens' unfairness for a while, Yamanaka Tohru opened another ninjutsu scroll: [Water Release: Water Ripple].