Unlocking Chakra

'Step - mom... Hehe'

Even though he acted indifferent as much as he could, a little of the awe in seeing another beauty escaped from his control. He felt like he was caught when he woke up from his very brief stupor by the cold gaze, that threatened to pierce his eyes.

Rayzen: " *cough* A very warm morning, Lady Arisu, I hope you are well... Where is little Sora and Toshiko?"

Arisu although comfortable and used to the formal speech between them, caught on to the fact that his speech pattern was atleast a year ahead of his actual age. She was not that invested in finding the reason and supposed it to his growing intellect. Her attitude towards Rayzen was a bit cold to say the least, but never had she tried to make trouble for the innocent kid.

She believed that the boy will be invested in being a shinobi and since he cared for his siblings without any hidden intentions, she was sure that he wouldn't worsen the cracks in their family. He might be able to even mend a bit of the cracks. Hence, she put up a cold front before him, and often berated him if he were not upto the standards of a son, a mother pictured in her mind. But now she felt he was thinking something indecent about her, and just threatened him with a glare.

'The boy is growing fast!'

Sighing in her thoughts she didn't keep the kid at the door any longer.

"The brats are sleeping, meet your father first. He is waiting for you in the backyard."

Rayzen nodded his head with an innocent look and went inside.

His father was sitting by a tree in the backyard that was bigger than his by an area of 500 sq.metre ( a bit more than a basketball court). And near the tree there was a big pond.

Uchiha Takeshi opened his eyes to see his son stand before him. He stood up and spoke in a strict voice:

"Rayzen, it's time to take a major decision in your life, us Uchiha take pride in being the strongest shinobi clan, so we yearn to make the strongest shinobi in each generation. There are many things unknown to you, but you should understand that our clan has very high expectations of its members and we get stronger with our Sharingan above everything else. And the level of Sharingan determines your strength and position in our clan. As you might have heard, the strongest sharingan is the 3 - tomoe sharingan. So the faster you get there, the more potential you have and clan provides you more of its resources and connections.

Now, decide! Do you want to be a shinobi or not?"

' Some Uchiha brainwashing and in the end asking a 2 year old to take a profession of murder where retirement in most cases is due to death. Poor children, fooled by the ninja sprint and flashy jutsus...' Rayzen snickered in his mind.

" Yes! I want it! I'll be a shinobi!!!" said Rayzen excitedly, like one of his dreams were about to be fulfilled, not realising he was now one of those children, that he despised.

" Oh! Are you sure? You have to prepare to take other's lives and lose yours! It's not just ninja sprint and flashy jutsus, blood and gore are commonplace." Takeshi warned his son, to see if he had the resolve or if he was just being ignorant and courting death.

" Yes! Absolutely! I am ready! I want to be a shinobi!" Rayzen didn't even lose an ounce of his previous excitement as he did a power pose.

'I hope he doesn't die early!'

Takeshi sighed a bit depressed and and went back to strict mode instructing Rayzen to sit in a meditating posture and the latter closed his eyes and relaxed.

Takeshi placed his palm on the back of Rayzen's torso as he stood behind him. Then he sent a pulse of chakra through Rayzen's chakra network, as he said to Rayzen in a calm voice.

" Rayzen try to feel the chakra... the soothing energy coursing through the insides of your body. And draw out the chakra from your own dantian, the energy centre in the lower abdomen portion, to follow the path of the chakra pulse I sent into the chakra network in your body and complete a circulation, from the dantian to back into it..."

Rayzen felt a foreign energy enter his body, unlike getting an electric shock, it was soothing his body wherever it passed, going to his dantian in a specific pathway and then completing a circulation. He followed the network and wrestled a bit of chakra from his dantian by extremely focusing on the singular task. In essence, he was using spiritual energy to control and direct the chakra from his dantian.

Rayzen could have done the circulation in the first try, but he didn't want to be burdened with more expectations without getting a clear idea of the gains and loses involved. Hence he deliberately lose control in the second half- cycle, with visible progress in each try.

In about 5 minutes, Rayzen displayed his first complete circulation to Takeshi. And the mental fatigue in acting for 5 minutes was relieved immediately as he completed the cycle, and he felt his mind refreshed and at its peak condition. The same could be said for his body too, he was full of vigour.

Meanwhile, Takeshi was suprised that his 2-year old son finished it in 5 minutes, whereas he did the same in 2 hours and that too when he was a 4-year old and was already considered a genius.

'Damn! The injustice!... Well, I was correct in assuming Rayzen was ready for this.'

This was so since Takeshi banked on Rayzen's intellect which proved enough for the job.

Rayzen saw Takeshi smile genuinely for the first time and felt a little pride in an achievement that he never valued, but still Rayzen unknowingly reflected the smile as it appeared on his face too.

"Continue circulating the chakra, till you feel you reached a saturation point."

Rayzen went back to meditation and did the same for two hours, with his circulation speed increasing each time. As he felt he neared his saturation point, suddenly the pace started increasing exponentially as the chakra from his dantian converged into his eyes along the chakra network. The chakra converging into the eyes circulated along the brain and again cycled backed to the eyes where it got absorbed. The majority of the chakra got absorbed into his left eye first.

Rayzen felt a painful irritation in his eyes , especially the left one. As he felt his eyes getting hot, something changed in his left eye as the chakra getting absorbed by the left eye diminished, and he felt a cool soothing sensation in his left eye. But before he could bask in the feeling, the chakra circulation didn't stop yet and the chakra getting absorbed into the right increased in quantity. He felt the the same irritation and the soothing sensation after it, but with a warmer tone.

Rayzen suspected that he was unlocking his bloodline power, the Sharingan.

As the chakra circulation slowed down, Rayzen slowly opened his eyes as he thought ecstatically:

' Hahaha... I can't believe I done it, I wonder...ugh!!?'

"Ugh!!?"

As he opened his eyes, contrary to his expectations, everything was blurry. His visual senses went haywire. He felt his chakra being drained. And between the blurry visions, he vaguely saw the shocked face of Takeshi, after which he fainted.