Rasengan Training Begins

After deciding to buy body weights that day, Kaiji freshened up.

He went out of his house. As usual, Ren was awake early, same as Kaiji.

However, Hiroshi was still proving to be a lazy bum. They woke him up and began their morning training routine.

Not only Kaiji but Ren and Hiroshi had also mastered Tree Walking over the past two months.

They had also improved overall. After running, they moved on to push-ups, sit-ups, squats, and pull-ups.

Ren spoke between sets, "Kaiji" he asked, 'Isn't there any other exercise for chakra control? We've already mastered Tree Walking."

"Yeah" Kaiji replied. "I think of what kind of exercise for chakra control we can do, but I didn't find any."

Kaiji shook his head, even though he knew about water walking but there's no point of telling him about that one.

And he knew he couldn't just tell the truth about how he knew all this from the anime.

"Hmm" Ren hummed. "It's a good thing that Takeshi Sensei didn't tell anyone about us practicing Tree Walking."

"But I think improving my physical strength is more important right now" Kaiji stated.

He turned to Ren, "I'm even thinking about buying body weights to toughen up my morning training," he said.

"Would you like to use them?"

Ren waved his hand, "No" he declined. "I'm good. You should ask Hiroshi."

They both looked towards Hiroshi, who was currently doing squats.

"With us, Hiroshi also improved quite a bit, but..." Kaiji commented.

Ren looked at Kaiji as he stopped.

Kaiji had a slightly annoyed look on his face as he continued. "But why is it that Hiroshi didn't lose even a single inch of fat?"

Ren chuckled lightly, "Well" he explained, "he eats more than he burns, so it's not easy for him."

Kaiji nodded, agreeing with Ren's assessment.

After Hiroshi completed his set, Ren said, "Hiroshi, quickly complete your remaining sets, we need to get ready for Academy now."

After training, they went to the Academy. They took their usual seats at the last benches.

Over the last two months, Kaiji's standing in the class had also improved as he has improved.

Even though not much but he is no longer ranked among the dead last students.

Despite all that training, he still wasn't significantly stronger overall.

At most, he was now below average within the class rankings.

In usual spars, his rank had improved from being in the last 5 to at least the last 20.

In Shuriken competitions, he could now hit the center at least 4 or 5 out of 10 throws, with almost all hitting the board, with both hands.

This was a definite improvement thanks to continuous Shuriken throwing practice after the Academy.

He also felt his Chakra Reserves increasing, though still not much but improve quite a lot.

He could now use Dust Cloud at its full power, even without environmental advantage.

Additionally, he had been able to learn two other D-rank Jutsus of Academy.

After the Academy day over, Kaiji didn't join Ren and Hiroshi for Shuriken throwing practice today.

He told them he was going to buy weights. He went to the weapon shop he had visited before.

He directly went to that shop and after entering shop, he greeted the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper remembered him, "So, kid" he asked, smiling "have you decided to buy something today?"

"I want two set of body weights," Kaiji nodded and replied with a small smile.

"And I hope you remember, you promised me to give a 30% discount, right?"

The shopkeeper chuckled, "Yeah" he said. "I remember."

Kaiji took out his purse. Out of the 550 Ryo he had, he gave 470 Ryo for the two set of weights.

This 550 Ryo represented his extra savings from his allowance over the last two months.

After taking the weights, he thought, 'Now it's time I start training for Rasengan as well.'

The creation of the Rasengan was broken down into three steps.

The first step was to learn rotating chakra at high speed in a single point.

Typically trained by attempting to pop a water balloon using only their rotating chakra.

The second step increased the difficulty by requiring increased power and volume of rotating chakra.

This step needed a rubber ball, which was more resistant and required more chakra output and more vigorous rotation to burst than a water balloon.

The final step was the most difficult, as it required creating a spherical ball of chakra without popping it, before able to perform Rasengan.

Kaiji hadn't started Rasengan training before because of his abysmal chakra control.

But now, his chakra control had improved a lot.

It was good enough for him to begin the training for the Rasengan.

He purchased 10 balloons. He directly went back to his house.

"Alright, let's start learning Rasengan."

He filled one of the balloons with water and began the first step of learning the Rasengan.