Bab 8: Plans
Indra had shifted his training location to avoid running into Naruto or Asura. He didn't like meeting them because everything always seemed to go wrong.
Indra was doing something a little different today than usual. He used to read Ninja books when he had free time, but lately, he was borrowing Sakura's medical books. He had an excellent understanding of human anatomy and was revising all of these.
Indra intended to amass as much medical information as he could. He required this in order to carry out his future plans. He was a quick learner, so he decided to suck all of Sakura's medical books.
'Things are essentially identical to the real world, with the exception of chakra and chakra network.'
Indra was going through pages one by one while simultaneously grabbing chips. As he tried to learn more about chakra, he kept discovering new insights.
*Munch*
*Munch*
"How long do you plan on reading all of those books, Indra?" Sakura exclaimed to Indra, who was still studying in his room. "You want to be a medic like me, son!"
Sakura took a step forward at the door, her gaze fixed on Indra, who was reading a book.
"Are you even able to fully understand at this age?" Sakura was doubtful that a four-year-old could even read the words, let alone understand the harder parts when she observed Indra looking at the books.
Sakura took a glance at the books on the shelf and found that they were all about a similar subject.
"You're really interested in all of these," Sakura remarked as she noticed him engrossed in his books, while Indra was oblivious to her existence as a whole. "If you wish, I can teach you."
Indra's face lit up as those words landed in his ears, knowing that he would need practical experience and this was the perfect opportunity to clear up any doubts he had.
"Are you serious about something like this?" Indra made a cute face towards Sakura, attempting to get her eye with his sweetness. "Are you willing?"
*Glitter*
*Glitter*
"It's really adorable!" "However, you'll need mastery of chakra control for that, so it'll have to wait," Sakura replied, her gaze drawn to his.
Indra, who was well aware of this, attempted to just gain knowledge, knowing that he would have a long time before attempting medical ninjutsu.
'If I am not wrong, then Asura would have some serious regenerative ability. '
"Will you allow me to just observe if that's possible?" Indra asked Sakura, "Pretty please!"
Sakura was still unable to allow a kid to observe her as she treated patients. She began to concoct excuses to keep him waiting for the appropriate time in the future.
"I'll let you observe, but only under certain conditions," Sakura responded, pondering an appropriate method to buy time.
"What is the condition that I must meet?" Indra questioned as he began to listen to the condition sakura about to speak up.
Sakura took a deep breather as she was about to tell him about the condition she chose.
"I'll begin teaching you after you awaken your Sharingan," Sakura promised as he lifted her pinky finger, "It's our promise!"
"Then it's a promise!" Indra connected his pinky to her, creating a sign of promise.
"It is, and I never fail to keep my promises." As he gazed at Indra, Sakura had a smirk on her face.
"Then let's start from today," Indra revealed his Sharingan to Sakura as he slowly closed his eyes before opening them up. She stared at his red eyes with a tomoe, as she scowled.
"What?" Sakura yelled loudly, and the sound reverberated throughout the room, even traveling to the next room.
As she glanced at her four-year-old child, it was as if time had stopped as she saw the already awakened Sharingan. She couldn't come up with a decent response to give to him now.
"Mama!" Sarada rushed into the room, only to find Sakura frozen in place, staring intently into Indra's eyes.
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At the breakfast table, Asura had both hands on his chin, lost in thought. He appeared to be out of it, he had been like this since the day in the training area.
Hinata put her hand on his forehead to see if if he was feeling well or if he was sick, she was a mother after all, and worried for her child.
"You appear to be deep in thought, Asura. Is anything wrong?" Hinata asked, looking at her kid, who was unusually timid these days. "You're free to tell us."
Naruto and Boruto exchanged glances as Hinata stated those words. Naruto was usually busy and Boruto was still a child, so they didn't notice, but Hinata, as his mother, did.
Asura let out a long and resonant sigh. In his mind, he was only thinking about one thing.
'What does big brother intend to do?' Asura had thoughts and possible things Indra would do coming up in his mind and even haunting in his dreams these days.
"I'm fine, Mom," I say. I'm just trying to come up with a way to get stronger."
Asura was not one to think too much, therefore the solution to all of the difficulties was to simply blow them away with sheer power, which was a possibility here in this world.
Hinata was troubled since it was time for children to enjoy their lives rather than focus on becoming stronger. After all, this was the era of peace.
"It's important for you to have fun with your pals." Hinata had a smile on her face, "You will get stronger eventually," Hinata slowly patted his head, "and rushing things wouldn't help."
"Your mother is right, you know!" Naruto nodded in accord with Hinata's comments.
Boruto drank a bottle of water and exclaimed loudly, "You must practice so It's boring, and who wants to be bored?"
Asura remained unconvinced of these words since his situation was different from others. He needed to master chakra and be one step ahead of Indra in terms of power if he wanted to be ready for an uncertain future.
'Naruto and Sasuke are still here, and he'll never be able to reach their level, so it'll be alright.' -Asura reasoned because they could blast away any obstacle put at them if they weren't Otsusuki, and Otsusuki would never listen to him.
Asura had considered numerous methods of gaining power, but he didn't have many options to do so. He considered what he might be able to perfect in order to combat his brother's abilities since he knew what were Asura's advantages against Indra's.
'Not a single Indra reincarnation has ever beaten Asura. If there'd been, then the world would have ended.'
"I'd like to exercise. It's fun," Asura declared as he took another bite of his food, "Since, I will become the next Hokage."
'Like Naruto, this will be a good reason for me to train.' Asura considered his quick comment with a proud expression on his face.
As they stared at him, Naruto, Hinata, and Boruto froze. After all, he was Naruto's son, and Naruto and Hinata couldn't help but notice the resemblance.
"Because I'll be the next Hokage, you'll be next in line after me." With a smile on his face as he looked at Asura, Naruto was overjoyed that his son shared his ambition.
"You are just like your father," Hinata added as he glanced at Asura.
He was relieved that he had elicited a positive response from them.
"You want to be Hokage like our dad, bro?" When Boruto saw Asura's unexpected proclamation of his future option, he was taken aback.
"I'll be the Hokage, Believe it!" Asura used Naruto's line from the series since it was rather common.
The room turned quiet for a second with Asura having a sweat.
'Did I overdo it?'
"You are, without a doubt, my son." Naruto chuckled as he heard his older son's statements.
"Will you train me? Dad/" Asura glanced at Naruto expecting a positive response but his expectations were betrayed.
"I am too busy for that." Naruto looked at Asura's disappointed expression and added, "I will assign a private instructor, how about it?"
"That would be nice."
Asura cheered up, with this he had secured a step ahead of Indra in gaining power.
'I don't have talent lacking that Indra, I need to learn the jutsu that is Asura's forte rather than Indra and I can make friends match Indra, like for intelligence Shikidai, this is how I will counter him.'
'I will get stronger with friends in Asura's way, and I know he would try to solve everything himself as he always did before.'
As such, Both of them had plans to get stronger in different ways.
Indra had designed a plan and was learning medicine for some reason and as for Indra, he planned to blast Indra with power and comrades.
Status Power Mingguan
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Power 
-- Power
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