After dinner, I went inside my room and looked at my status.

Name

Arata

Age

6

Level

1

Experience

0/200

HP

50

CP

60

Control

4.5%

CHA

13

CC.

4.5

Strength

8

Endurance

5

Dexterity

3

Speed

2

Intelligence

10

Wisdom

10

Stat Points

5

AFFINITY

Lightning

50%

‘My stats are coming along nicely. I already decided where to spend points but it’s better if I don’t do it in the case that’s not absolutely necessary. I need 200 experience for the next level so I have some time to reach 20 CHA without the use of SP. I will still use them if I have to in order to reach the next ten though. When I level up, I will have enough CP regeneration to offset the cost of Leaf Sticking Exercise. So maybe I should stop doing it until then.’ I sighed. “I have nothing else to do. I will just continue what I am doing.” With that, I started my cycles.

When it was dawn I was already finished my 55th cycle and looking at a sizeable improvement.

You gained 3 Strength.

You gained 5 Endurance.

You gained 5 CHA.

Leaf Sticking Exercise is Leveled by 10.

My improved CP pool did wonders for my control exercise and my CHA gain. My physical exercise increased my Strength and Endurance wonderfully though I could already see that I started to get stat gains slower.

After watching dawn for a while I took my towel and made my way to the bathroom. On my way, I saw Rena walking towards Hana’s room. She turned to me and raised a brow questioningly. I raised my towel and said, “I am going to take a shower.” To that, she nodded and continued towards her destination.

Having eaten my meal early, I made my way to the academy. When I reached there, there was still some time but no other students, so I went to the backyard and started going through katas for Academy Style Taijutsu. Before I finished the first set, a screen popped up.

Academy Style Taijutsu is Leveled by 1.

Level meant more katas to practice. So it set the end of my first cycle further forward in time. While I was going through the katas I saw a duo coming towards me. Tall one of the duo looked and after saying something to the other, started coming towards me.

When they were closer I recognized one of them to be Sasuke and the other was Itachi. ‘This is my chance. I must impress him if I am going to have any chance of preventing the massacre.’

Itachi stood in front of my still moving form and looked at me critically. I raised an eyebrow to him but he didn’t take notice of it. Instead, his eyes turned red and he started watching me intently. Noticing what he is trying to do, I intentionally, but very slightly, let my form slip. He hummed thoughtfully when he saw that and talked for the first time. “Your form is great, I see you’re working on it diligently.”

I nodded. “There isn’t really anything else to do if you know what I mean.” He nodded back. I turned to Sasuke and said, “I know Sasuke.” I turned back to Itachi. “But I don’t know you. Why don’t you tell me your name?”

Itachi smiled softly probably finding the serious six-year-old somewhat cute and said, “My name is Itachi, what is yours?”

I stopped the kata I was doing and replied, “I am Arata, orphan. Your clan is very famous Itachi-san, especially your red eyes. It must be hard to keep greedy people away from them.”

Itachi looked at me seriously for a moment which made me sweat and regret what I said but in the end, I quenched the regret. ‘I have to make myself memorable. Their eyes are really famous anyway.’

Surprisingly, Sasuke cleared her throat and with a smirk started boasting, “Our clan is the strongest clan in elemental nations. No one has the courage to try and steal our powerful doujutsu,” he turned to look at his brother with pride and asked, “Isn’t that right brother?”

Itachi nodded, still serious. “We have many enemies which are no doubt wants our eyes for themselves and some of them tried too but they have never achieved their object and never will.”

I nodded. “I doubt that.” Itachi frowned. I raised my hands for a wait gesture and continued. “If one has a dream, and they are stubborn enough, they will always have a chance, provided, you don’t make it impossible.”

Itachi tilted his head, “And how should we make it impossible?”

I pointed to my forehead, “I heard Hyuuga has a seal doing just that. Why don’t you do something similar?”

Itachi shook his head, “If you know about the seal, then you know what it does too.” I nodded, he continued, “Uchiha will never enslave their own.”

I nodded. “You don’t have to. As I know the seal Hyuuga wears has a kill switch controlled by others in the clan. What if your seal doesn’t have that feature? Would that be still enslavement?”

Itachi smiled sadly, “You mean to say you can do it.” I nodded, dead serious. He continued, “Fuinjutsu is a really hard branch of ninja technique to learn. What makes you think you could do it?”

I smiled. “I don’t know if you notice my katas but I have a knack for precision. And I know I am smarter than most kids my age. This much should be enough for a start.”

“So you want Uchiha to sponsor your fuinjutsu lessons in exchange for the seal.” He said while shaking his head, clearly amused. He looked at me sharply for a second. “Your initiative is good, but you are about to bite something you can’t chew. Are you sure of your offer?”

I nodded. “I am.”

“Brother, who does he think he is? Not even Uchiha could do something like that, how can a random kid do it?” Sasuke said helpfully.

Itachi took a deep breath and motioned towards the taijutsu ring. He pushed Sasuke towards there and said “I will think about it. For now, you two should spar a bit, I will referee.”

In seconds, Sasuke and I were face to face on two sides of the taijutsu ring. Itachi moved just outside the ring and declared, “Start.”