Training

The first thing I did was do some stretches to check out how flexible I am at the moment. I had some poses in mind and after testing, I realised that while I am not overly flexible I am not stiff either. A good base to go off of.

Next up was some regular workouts for my muscles. I obviously didn't have any weights so I simply did the regular push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, squats plus some extras exercises for my abs. I did them in a circle so after I got done with one I went straight to the next until I finished one round.

I was surprised that I had some good strength and had little difficulty doing the exercises, still I did them until my muscles tensed up and I couldn't do anymore. After a few minutes of rest in between rounds I realised that my stamina is off the charts and that I seem to be recovering unnaturally quick.

So I either have a pretty good constitution already or something else is going on. And then it hit me:

"Ahh I seem to have forgotten that I am not a normal human anymore. I live off of chakra now and there is no need for anything else, so as long as I have chakra left in my body I recover almost instantly."

That was certainly a welcome surprise and since I have had that realisation another question popped up in my mind:

'Do I also have a ridiculous naturally occurring healing factor or what's the deal?'

I had to test it out right away and simply bit my finger really hard until I drew some blood, and lo and behold I felt a small amount of chakra heading that way instantaneously and heal my little wound within seconds. A certainly welcome surprise.

With that I went back to training. Since I have almost unlimited stamina I can truly let loose and build up my strength without worrying about rest and nutrition for my body.

I started running as well, and since the clearing was fairly big, I ran for at least an hour or two without feeling too exhausted. After some rest for a couple of minutes any lingering exhaustion was completely gone.

I did this for a while longer until I kind of got bored and had enough. I wanted to play around with my devouring power some more. So I went a bit deeper into the forest, a few minutes of running away from my training spot, and sat on the ground and concentrated on my devouring power.

I felt it in my body, the excitement and anticipation to let loose the monster within waiting to be unleashed. And that's just what I did. I let it flow freely all around me, covering tens of trees in my vicinity and everything around.

It must've looked really creepy from the outside, a patch of forest during the day covered in complete and utter darkness.

I let it flow for a good 10 minutes I estimated and the sucked it all back in.

BLISS

That's the only word I could describe this feeling with.

As I felt the energy flowing in my body, strengthening my muscles and the few organs I had, I just revelled in this fleeting feeling while it lasted.

My chakra reserves had certainly grown a bit, I could feel that much. I looked around and in a radius of at least 30-50 meter every living thing was just gone. Erased from existence.

"HAHAHAHAH"

I laughed wildly like a second rate villain and kept looking around with a creepy smile.

I stood up and walked until I was next to another tree and broke off a small branch, sat down and put it on my lap and concentrated deeply to achieve more control. I let the mist out of my body and tried to only devour the bark and the energy within it.

Well it didn't really work that way and within a few seconds the little branch was nothing but black mist.

I tried again and again but it didn't seem to work so I decided to leave it for later thinking: 'Perhaps its not meant to be used this way, it feels like it want's to be free, with no restrictions so going against its nature isn't what I'm supposed to be doing.'

I told myself that I am going to try it again once I go hunting for animals and see if there is a difference from little critters and trees compared to bigger animals.

Next thing on the agenda was my chakra control, and so I started with the basics again, sticking leaves onto my skin and circulating my chakra in these spots to make them stick.

It was truly like second nature and I had no problem doing this whatsoever.

After realising this was too easy I walked up to a tree, coated my feet with a layer of chakra and tried walking up the tree. After my third step however I fell back down.

Realising my mistake I coated my feet in chakra again, but this time concentrated on my steps and each time the bark was uneven I took that into consideration. And with that, on my second try I ran up the tree, back down and so forth until it felt no different from walking on the ground without chakra covered feet.

I wanted to keep training my chakra control a while longer but it started getting dark so I flew back up in the air, and looked for a good tree to settle on for the night.

I quickly found one to my liking and just closed my eyes, circulated my chakra and focused on my surroundings.

I wanted to find out what that fleeting feeling I sensed in the air and all around me was, even though I couldn't grasp it all. So instead of trying to push my senses to be longer and wider, I tried to go deeper. I didn't make much progress at all but time flew by quickly and so came the next morning.

The days after I've pretty much kept the same routine, getting stronger, devouring more of the forest and improving my chakra control with things such as water walking, which proved to be no problem, as well as balancing little sticks on my fingertips.

Until one day I felt I was ready for my first hunt.