After Shigeo befriended both Shikamaru and Chouji, he brought them to meet the matron to ease her worry. He also gotten bits of memories regarding the anime and manga back and found out his two new friends were actually from powerful clans.
He had also decided to finally train Soru and observation haki. For Soru Shigeo had to focus on his legs so he does extra sets of running and squats. When practicing he has to focus on his feet and do bursts of sprints to try to get to point a to point b.
So far he was still visible to the naked eye but was considered 'fast' when doing the technique. What was good about the technique was that unlike the body flicker jutsu, it doesn't give him tunnel vision. This alone makes it leagues above the body flicker.
But even so he wasn't actually doing Soru. After training doing short bursts he tried to kick the ground a 10 times but failed to do so and only ended up doing 3 or 4 kicks. Soru's principle was kicking the ground in a blink of an eye to move faster but he was still lacking.
As for his observation haki training, Shigeo bought some rope from the market district and tried to make his own training course. For now he just tied bags of dirt from the branches of tree's and he has to try and dodge them blindfolded as they swing back and forth trying to hit him.
Unconventional but it was all he could do at the moment. He couldn't buy anything else like trapped wires or dispensers to throw rocks at him since he didn't have the money to do so.
This kind of training continued for another few months.
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"Hah Hah"
On the outskirts of Konoha, in a forest Shigeo could be seen breathing hard as sweat covered his whole body. He was currently shirtless as he didn't want to dirty his shirt. Every time the bags of dirt hit him or his body some dirt would escape the bag and get on him, so he just opted to take his shirt off when training his observation Haki.
"Appraisal!" He said out with a tone filled with exhaustion.
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[ Shigeo Murakami ]
[Age: 6]
[Status: Exhausted]
[Chakra : 145/305]
[Will: 250/250]
[Chakra Control : 35%]
[Strength: 16]
[Defense: 18]
[Speed: 22]
Kekkei Genkai(Bloodline Limit):
[Goro Goro No Mi](basic 46%)
-Skills-
[Conqueror's Haki](Un-awakened), [Observation Haki](basic 8%), [Armament Haki](Not Learned), [Soru](basic 38%), [Rankyaku](Not learned),[Tekkai](Not learned), [Geppo](Not learned), [Kami-E](Not learned), [Shigan](Not learned), [Rokugan](Not learned)
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"It's so hard to get my control over my abilities" Shigeo muttered.
So far from his understanding, 'basic' should mean the earliest stages of his abilities. Like his soru, 'basic' soru is only when his soru is still visible to the eye. He reckoned that maybe it would no longer be classified as 'basic' he could make it look like he could disappear and reappear out of thin air by the naked eye.
He also remembered that 'basic' Armament Haki should be when you still can't turn whatever he was coating into the color black. Shigeo also remembered that there were other ways of classifying it like the shade of black your Armament Haki shows.
"What ever, I'll just get back to practicing Soru" Shigeo said as he thought he already had a long enough break.
He then crouched a little before he focused on his legs before he sped out in a burst of speed appearing a few meters from his position. Though he could still be seen but he wanted to at least master it to the point of being seen as a blur to people.
He then practiced another few hours or so until the sky began to turn orange signifying that it was already noon. He didn't need to meet Shikamaru or Chouji in the afternoons because they said they have things to do to which he later found out was clan training.
He only met them at the mornings after he finishes his daily run around the village.
Seeing the time Shigeo stopped and practicing before he went to sit down under at tree to cool down. After that he went to the river to wash his himself since he was sweaty before he changed and headed back to the orphanage.
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Shigeo was seen walking out of the forest before he headed out to the direction of the orphanage. But as he made his way over he was lost in thought.
'I should be above average in my age group' Shigeo thought. He looked at the stats of both Shikamaru and Chouji and found out that they were only slightly below him regarding physical statuses like strength, speed, and defense.
It seemed that stats the average civilian child his age without any training should be 5, while those that are more active are a 6 or 7. Normal clan kids have base stats of about 10 to 15. Those that are good or above average have stats slightly above 15 while the best of his age group have stats that are on average 20.
So far after checking most of the children he had come across, Shigeo found himself being one of the best even among clan children. The only person Shigeo found that was better than him was Sasuke Uchiha who was only slightly better than himself.
Considering that he only began to train recently compared to the clan kids that began even earlier than him, he thought that his progress was pretty good.
'If I continue to progress with my speed, I should be the best among my peers by the time I enter the academy' Shigeo thought as he reached the orphanage.
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After having dinner it was already late at night but Shigeo was still awake. He looked to see his other roommates were asleep if he couldn't already tell by their snoring.
'I really hate sharing a room with other people' Shigeo thought. He was currently saving money to be able to afford an apartment by the time he graduates. He had already used some of his saved up money to buy storage scrolls to which he would just store his normal things like clothes or money onto.
He sighed before he shook his head and took out his storage scroll. Injecting a bit of chakra onto it a small puff of smoke came out before it revealed a small stack of leaves.
'I'll just practice the leaf sticking exercise for now since my chakra pool increased' Shigeo thought. The only bad thing with getting an increase of chakra was that his chakra control would be lowered a little.
Hence why he carries leaves in his storage scroll. He uses them to practice the leaf sticking exercise when everyone is asleep.
Taking out the leaves, he put some in his forehead before he used his chakra to make them stick to him before he distributed the other leaves on the other parts of his face like his cheeks and even his neck.
He did so to make it harder and faster to get the hang of things. When he first started he could barely stick a single leaf in his forehead for even a few seconds but now he could do multiple for minutes.