Baby steps into the world of ninjas.

Felling a cool chilling foreign blot of something travelling through my body woke me up with a start as I flashed my eyes open startled and observing what was going on, trying to comprehend what was happening to me.

A soft pressure held me down by pushing me down on my chest and head as I recognized I was in a hospital ward with a nurse holding out her palm over my forehead with a green light covering it at the edge of my vision and my mum holding my head softly with a smile to relax me seeing that I was awake and confused as to what was going on.

"Hoold onn!!" Mum exclaimed in a soft voice to attract my attention and keep me still.

My head and body both hurt as if I had been hit by a truck.

I kept trying to catch the nurse's hands to see if I could understand what something about the medical jutsu she was using but my hands were too tiny to go over my head so all I could do was scratch the nurse's wrist, so I instead just focused on the feeling of the cold blot that moved through my body along what felt like a wire wrapped around my circulatory system and organs. Could this be the chakra pathways that are in my body? I wanted to interact with the cool blot inside my chakra circulatory system but refrained from doing so in order not to alert the nurse of anything suspicious.

As I followed the cool blot around I slowly figured out that it was just a homogenous mixture of spiritual energy that was chaotic, physical energy which was orderly and circulatory with an additional type of energy that was gentle and clam but it was present in the tiniest quantities with its quantity fluctuating I guessed this was natural energy but I couldn't understand what it exactly was.

I could only watch as I observed tiny amounts of this energy mixing into my chakra pathway and strengthening my body, removing my fatigue.

As the natural energy in the bead was used up, more natural energy emerged out of no where in the bead.

'So is chakra just a mix of all the three types of energies? But didn't the anime say that carelessly absorbing natural energy was dangerous? And how does a random shinobi nurse know how to use natural energy, wasn't that something only the Toad Sage Sannin Jiraya currently knows how to use properly?'

'Aghhhh… this is confusing I don't know if I can depend on my knowledge from the anime or not if its going to be like this.'

'I couldn't understand why I fainted after pushing the physical energy outside my body. Was it because I pulled the physical energy out of my body? But then how do jutsu's and the like work at all?'

Slowly, much to my regret, the nurse pulled her hands away from my head after circulating the blot everywhere through my body through pathways that I was memorizing, cutting my time to study the jutsu short, and looked at me curiously and then stared at my mother and then back at me once again and then just sighed.

I then heard the confused voices of both my mother and the nurse talking about something.

"!$#! physical #$!%"

"Physical #&^!?"

"Yes."

"$#!$ disease?"

"No." *Sigh* "I don't know what $&!* &#*! please observe."

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I was back in my house and it has been a few days since I had an idea about how to create chakra by studying the nurse's jutsu or at least it's effect in my body but I was a little hesitant to experiment within my body one again since I now knew that it could potentially be harmful but I had nothing else to do as a baby in this non-technologically advanced civilization!

'Well I could visit my mindscape?'

I'd been putting off revisiting my mind scape, partially because I did not want to review my memories since they'd only make me miss my old world and technology even more than I already do, while the other reason was I was afraid. Afraid that I'd look under the table and there'd be a baby Sakura looking back at me, blaming me for taking over her body.

The worst part is the longer I delayed it the longer I felt I was keeping her trapped in her own body without consent.

*sigh*

With a sigh I closed my eyes and focused on my mindscape and found myself back in it.

I was still short and still a girl but at least I could stand and look around.

I reluctantly checked under the table but did not find any baby waiting for me there to look at so I sighed in relief.

Looking around the small mindscape I felt I ought to change it to be something large so that I could build something in here to have fun if I ever missed my old world.

Maybe I could build an amusement park? That'll take a while to do, time to pull out the big guns.

I focused on my mind and split it into two, the most I could in all my previous life, to visualize the new area of my mind from two different angles to build a mental projection of it inside my head.

I started to imagine the change in my mindscape but much to my heavenly surprise I found something drain from my head as a door appeared on the wall in front of me which I had just imagined as my entrance to the amusement park.

Pushing through I entered what looked like a busy amusement park with roller coasters, merry go rounds, stalls, a Ferris wheel in the distance, a few drop towers filled with people, screaming and shouting.

'What the hell? Is this real? Did I get transported to a new world all of a sudden?'

Walking over to the nearest person I jabbed my fingers into the person's eyes which caused them to dissolve away, just like I'd imagined.

'Huh. My mindscape is on steroids? Not that I don't want it, it's just confusing?'

'Ah! I remember Naruto had the concept of a mindscape, wasn't Naruto's the one that looked like a sewage system with piss everywhere and the Kyuubi trapped in a cage? So my mind palace is something tangible here? Something I can change and move around? Or is this something only I can do?'

I came out of my mindscape and checked to see if the changes had any effect on my body and to my surprise it did! My spiritual energy had a considerable and noticeable strain on it, it was constantly being drained and refilled.

I went back into my mindscape and made the necessary changes but stopped when I was about to leave.

I stared at the spot in front of me wondering whether I should try something out and I chose to do so, I focused all my attention on imagining a child Sakura that was exactly like me. Opening my eyes I saw a Sakura that was an exact copy of how I looked, but looked angry at me.

"Hey! How dare you take over my body!! Get out!!!!!!" she shouted in her childish voice and then punched me in my face as I gave no response.

Much to my relief the punch passed and phased through me without hurting me as my imaginary Sakura vanished and so I exited my mindscape for now.

Sitting once again with my back against the frame of the crib I focused on feeling the vitality of my body and the cloud of energy in my mind.

'Since I fainted only after trying to push my physical energy outside my body let's not do that this time.'

I observed both the energies inside my body for a while before deciding what I was going to do.

I pulled the tiniest amount of spiritual ener- scratch that there is nothing spiritual about it, let's call it mental energy.

The amount of mental energy I had controlled was about the size of the tip of the point of a needle.

I first tried moving it around my head from where I first separated it from and as it became easier to control it I slowly moved it lower on my body, out of the brain, while scooting on the edges of the skin where the vitality was present in cells so that if anything happened it'd be on the surface of my body and not something internal.

Seeing that nothing was happening I moved it a little more thinking I had to follow the chakra pathways I had discovered and memorized but to my surprise it floated around my body anywhere I willed it to.

I controlled the minute amount of mental energy and pulled it to the tip of my little finger on the left hand

I slowly willed some of the vitality underneath my nails to try and mix it with the spiritual energy I had separated and was about to, but hastily stopped as a thought crossed my mind.

'Wouldn't it be a bad idea if chakra is only meant to exist in the circulator system? And it damages the body if it exists outside it? Aghh… soo many questions so little answers. I guess I'll try to mix them in the nearest chakra circulatory system pathway.'

I first moved the mental energy into the nearest chakra circulatory pathway I remember from the nurse's jutsu I did not receive any feedback that I was in the correct place so I could only guess based on my memories.

I once again separated the tiniest amounts of physical energy from the cells beneath my nail and brought it near the mental energy in the chakra circulatory pathway.

Before mixing it I could feel my heartbeat rate skyrocket due to tension and fear as I had never done such a thing before and I felt my body rapidly cool down as I questioned my decision again and again.

The only compensation was that the 'Draw Sasuke' voice in me wasn't interfering this time.

I heard an abrupt noise in the depth of the night, startling me, as I hurriedly opened my eyes and turned towards it, only to find that it was my dad who shifted around while sleeping causing the bed to creak a little from his weight.

*Sigh*

I went back to closing my eyes and focusing on the spot I had left the mental and physical energy, only to find that it was not where I had left it and was now circulating along the chakra pathways in my body.

I was stunned for a second before I hurriedly checked to see if it had caused any harm to my body but was relieved when I felt no damage done to it.

I then proceeded to experiment with controlling the homogenous mixture of physical and mental energies which I for now labeled 'chakra'. It was rather easy to control the direction of movement of chakra in the circulatory pathway, but if left to it's own devices it just floated in it and moved all through out the body on its own at the speed it last settled at.

There were two things that were hard to do with it one was to stop it completely, it could only be slowed, and the other was to separate the mental and physical energies once again to regain the components that constitute it.

For some reason something kept disturbing my control of this energy, it felt like a muscle spasm you can't do anything about I didn't know if this was common and couldn't find out the cause so I left it as is and move on with it for now.

I calmed down and decided to create a little more 'chakra' in my body.

As I repeated the process again and failed for a few more times I noticed that it was luck the first time when I succeeded in creating 'chakra'.

I realized that 'chakra' can only be created from specific points in the circulatory pathway. If I remember correctly there were points called Tenketsu in the anime, which I named these points that were allowing the creation of chakra, they might not be the same thing but I couldn't find anything else in my chakra circulatory system that might have something to do with tenketsu so I went with it for now.

The first time I created a homogeneous mixture of mental energy and physical energy it was in one of the Tenketsu that was luckily in the spot where I carried out the experiment, right at the first ridge of my little finger on the left hand that was closest to the nail.

When I tried to create the homogenous mixture the second time I did it in a slightly different spot, a little closer to the nail, which resulted in the homogenous mixture just floating about and not really acting as one. I could still separately control the mental and physical energies in it and couldn't control it as a whole like I could do with the chakra flowing in my circulatory system.

Going through all the steps and doing it once again but this time in the same spot I did last time and having it work I concluded it was a special spot in the chakra pathway system which allowed insertion of chakra. 

Curiously the newly created chakra did not mix with the old one or become attracted or repelled to or by it in any way it just kept circulating around the pathways once it was created and inserted into them just like the first one was.

I then got ready to test if I can pull chakra out from the pathway and see if it has any effects.

I waited as one of the chakra dots got closer to the tenketsu point I had found and then brought its speed down slowly and I tried pulling the chakra out of the pathway and into my body.

But as soon as the chakra exited the tenketsu it just vanished?

Vanished into thin air?

Having lost one of the beads of chakra that I had just created, I tried doing the experiment again but this time while keeping my eyes open and trained at the Tenketsu point that was on my little finger but when I felt the chakra vanish from my body I saw nothing outside, not even a flicker of light or a flash of colour.

I was immediately confused.

'Huh? Shouldn't I be able to see chakra?'

'Can you not bring chakra out of the body? But then how do jutsu's work? Or does it have to be in large quantities and this is too small?'

I then created a little more chakra and tried to move it around within the body without bringing it to the tenketsu point but kept failing to do so as it seemed that the chakra in my body strictly followed the chakra pathway system and couldn't be brought out of it.

To summarize my first experiment, as soon as a harmony was achieved in between the mental and physical energies when they were mixed homogeneously chakra was created and it seemed to want to strictly remain within the chakra pathway system not flowing out of it and into my body no matter what I tried to do to it or how I pulled and pushed it.

'It's almost as if, the chakra circulation system is not really a part of the human body, or if it is then it is not a part of the conscious body.'

'Either it is controlled unconsciously like breathing, where as long as you try to control it you can do a few things with it but once you forget about it, it just goes back to happening in the background.'

'Or it is something external imposed on the human body. Or maybe some variation of both?'

'I don't really know enough to even make a guess right now.'

'Should my next step be to understand how to perform jutsus? Do you just make hand signs?'

Seeing the first rays of sunlight pouring in through the window in the slightly open window in the room I slowly gave up on thinking and worrying about things to do in the future and fell down into the tiny pillow in my crib along with which I fell asleep.

Not before having a last thought.

'Damn, a baby's head is heavy or is it just Sakura's head that's too big for me?'

'Big brain Sakura?'

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