After their evening Shuriken throwing practice, they walked towards Tsumuji Snacks.
They had dinner there. After eating, they went back to their houses. Kaiji sat down on his mat in his room.
'My Chakra Control will slowly increase with Tree Walking' he thought.
But he still felt a need for something to increase his Chakra Reserves.
After some more thought, he made a decision. 'I will ask about it to the Instructors tomorrow.'
The next day, after morning training with Ren and Hiroshi, they had breakfast and went to the Academy.
After the first lecture, Kaiji approached Kazeo Sensei.
"Sensei" he said. "I have something to ask you."
"What is it, Kaiji?" Kazeo asked.
"I think my Chakra Reserves are too low" Kaiji replied. "Isn't there anything that can help me with that?"
Kazeo listened to his request. He shook his head, "Kaiji" he said, "to improve or increase the capacity of chakra can be done through continuous training. There is no shortcut."
Kaiji nodded, not entirely satisfied with the response, he sighed heavily.
Kazeo Sensei looked at him sighing. "Kaiji," he prompted, "tell me what kind of training do you do aside from the Academy one?"
"I have started doing morning training with Ren and Hiroshi," Kaiji answered. "Usually physical training."
"You should try meditation then," Kazeo suggested.
Kaiji was confused, 'Does meditation increase my Chakra Reserves?' he thought inwardly.
'I never knew that Naruto anime was about Cultivation and stuff.'
Kazeo explained, "Chakra is comprised of two energies" he said.
"One is physical, and the second is spiritual. While physical training enhances physical energy..."
Kazeo continued his explanation. "...meditation helps in increases spiritual energy."
He added, "As both your physical and spiritual energy increase, your chakra capacity also increases. Of course, not at a surprisingly fast rate, but more than what you currently can improve."
Kaiji nodded thoughtfully. He starting to understand what Kazeo Sensei was implying.
Kazeo added another benefit. "And meditation can also help with improving Chakra Control."
Kaiji was surprised, "Sensei" he asked, "does meditation really have these benefits?"
Kazeo Sensei smiled, "Not only this" he said.
"Spiritual energy also contacts with your chakra flow in the brain. Which means the higher spiritual energy you have, the higher mental resilience you have."
Kazeo continued, "Understanding Genjutsu and disrupting them will be easy for you." he explained.
"And of course, this allows you to create your Genjutsu more potent and powerful. In simple terms, your Genjutsu performance and Defense also improve a lot as well."
Kaiji was totally surprised by this newfound knowledge about meditation's effects in this Shinobi world.
He knew about meditation from his past life. He knew how it helped calm the mind, reduce stress, and provided other health benefits.
But he never knew it played such a significant role, if not very big, in the Naruto series power system.
'I never saw anyone doing meditation in anime,' he thought inwardly.
'Only except when someone is learning Senjutsu.' his internal thought continued.
'I never saw or heard anyone in Naruto anime doing meditation otherwise.'
Then he bowed respectfully to Kazeo Sensei and said goodbye.
Kazeo Sensei also nodded,"Go to your class" he said. "Today might be your training of Kunai Techniques."
While going to his class, Kaiji thought inwardly, 'I've never meditated before. And even in manga's, I thought meditation was only for those cultivator-type characters.'
The Academy day ended.
At night, Kaiji lay on his mat in his house. 'I should try practicing meditation from now on' he thought.
With this thought, he got up. He sat in the Lotus position and began meditating.
With this new addition to his training, he continued his daily regimen.
Two months passed in this manner.
During this time, the Academy continued its efforts to improve the students abilities as graduation neared.
Kaiji, Ren, and Hiroshi had trained diligently for these two months.
They saw significant improvement.
This was especially true for Kaiji's Chakra Control.
During this period, after hard practice, he became proficient in Tree Walking, although he can not start Water Walking, as there are no source for that.
'Even tree are very few in numbers currently, I won't surprise if even in future there is no tree remains.' he thought.
Currently Sunagakure possess few trees in villages and put of them half didn't even have leaves.
It won't be surprising if leaf balancing exercise for chakra control no longer exists here.
Then Kaiji focus on his other improvements.
With his improved chakra control, he tried applying it to Body Flicker.
Practicing the Body Flicker Technique for the last two weeks, he was able to perfect it to the point where it was more usable in battles.
Not only that, but his physical strength also improved. He could now perform around 100 repetitions for each set of his morning training exercises.
To further improve, he decided to add body weights.
He counted the Ryo in his purse. He had 550 Ryo and a fifty-pound body weight cost 300 Ryo.
He needed two for each wrist and two for each leg, totaling four weights.
The total cost would be 1200 Ryo. He remembered the shopkeeper's offer.
'And the Shopkeeper said he will give me a 30% discount,' he recalled. 'That would make all this cost 840 Ryo.'
He made a decision. "Alright," he resolved, "from tomorrow, I will start training with weights."