Taro POV
"How did you do that?" my dad asked.
He was in utter shock as I stood on the wall. Because of the silver card I got last night, my chakra control felt near perfect, and such a task was easy for me. I knew my father would be shocked, as just yesterday I still didn't know how to use chakra.
Some transmigrators from novels in my past life chose to hide their skills, but I couldn't do that. I needed the strength to fabricate lies about where I got the items from Minecraft. What's more, this was the Warring States Era, where power was everything.
I quickly climbed down and said to my father, "I just did what you told me. Anyway, what's next, Dad?"
Mashiro was about to answer when Nao yelled from the back, "No way! How'd you do that?!"
He stood up from his lying position and rushed toward me. "It took me two days and Big Bro one day to master wall walking, and you're telling me you did it in just seconds?!"
From his tone, I could tell he wasn't angry, just shocked that I did better than him.
"I'm just built differently, I guess." I shrugged.
Mashiro cleared his throat to get my attention. "Since you mastered wall walking, we'll start your physical training." He glanced at Nao. "Would you like to join, Nao?"
Nao's whole body trembled. "Uh… I just remembered I have something to do today, Dad!"
He dashed out of the backyard, his entire body shaking in fear.
"What did you do to him?" I asked.
Mashiro grinned. "You'll know soon."
Time passed as we trained. The sun began to set, causing the training to pause.
"We'll continue tomorrow," Mashiro said as he started walking away.
I lay on the ground, huffing and soaked in sweat. The training was brutal. The first thing he made me do was cardio—ten laps around the clan. Although the clan wasn't large, it still housed over three hundred people.
After the cardio came strength training. He made me do push-ups, pull-ups, carry boulders while duck-walking, and many other forms of torture. For a child my age, it should have been impossible, but thanks to chakra, I managed to complete everything.
Finally, we ended with a spar. It didn't last long, as we only fought for five minutes before I collapsed. The old man barely held back, striking me with a stick and kicking me around. After a minute of the torture, my mother couldn't take it and left. She tried to talk to my father, but it led nowhere. By the end of the day, my chakra was completely depleted, but because of the silver card from last night, it was recovering rapidly.
Overall, I wasn't angry. I knew how hard it was to stay alive in this world, especially in this era.
As I was about to get up and go home, I heard a voice behind me. "Did you finish the training?"
The familiar voice made it obvious who it was—Nao.
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah. I'm not you."
Nao laughed. "Look at you. I remember the first time that bastard trained me. He beat the shit out of me until Big Bro had to stop it."
I raised an eyebrow. "He went that hard on you?"
Nao giggled. "Yeah. I didn't want to work and just wanted to laze around all day, so I tried every trick in the book to get out of it, but that old geezer had enough."
He helped me up and escorted me to my room.
"Get some sleep and don't worry too much about tomorrow. That old geezer won't go as hard tomorrow—he calls it a rest day. But the day after that, it'll be more intense."
I nodded and made my way to my room. When Nao finally left, I didn't go to sleep. Instead, I opened a portal to the Minecraft world.
Once inside Minecraft, the fatigue was still there, but luckily it was nighttime. I went into my small base and slept on the bed. After a few seconds, I woke up, and it was already morning.
The fatigue from training was gone, and I felt better than ever. However, I needed to test something before I started grinding Minecraft.
I went back to the Naruto world. Sure enough, my body felt refreshed and stronger. I opened my stats to see if anything had improved from my training.
[Name: Taro Hosai
Title: None
Rank: Genin
Chakra Affinity: Wind
Potential: Elite Jonin
IQ: 114
Battle IQ: 101
Strength: 13 (+1)
Speed: 15 (+1)
Durability: 22 (+3)
Chakra: 86 (+2)]
I smiled and pondered, "I wonder—can I train my strength in Minecraft? Since I know I can use chakra, I wonder if I can improve my stats there since time flows slower."
To my disappointment, after a few hours of testing, I couldn't train my body in Minecraft. However, I could train chakra control and possibly ninjutsu, since I, weirdly enough, still had fingers in Minecraft.
The experiment wasn't entirely useless. I figured out a way to become stronger: train in the ninja world, go to Minecraft and sleep, then return after my muscles had recovered and repeat the process.
I went back to the Minecraft world and told myself, "But before that… I need to farm food!"