You're glad the caregivers allow as much free reign as they do to those in their care. Likely because it was a small village in a calm part of the country but all the same it made things rather a lot easier. You ran wherever you could through the whole village and the surroundings. The multi-level nature of the village and fields make training your agility considerably easier as you could run along walls and jump small gaps. Perhaps not the most illustrious training method, but hey, it seems to be working alright. Training this young probably helps, you'd never been particularly physically adept in your last life, but if you ingrain the love of movement early it should make things easier. You're the youngest at the orphanage and the older ones had largely already gotten used to each other and playing games amongst themselves. If you were actually as young as your appearance indicated you'd probably feel left out, but since you aren't you're fine with the measure of leniency it buys you. As best you can figure they're just glad you're in good spirits.
Chakra manipulation is going well, to the best of your judgement. You certainly have a lot more facility in controlling exactly where you release your chakra, and in the control of how you used it. You still didn't have any jutsu you could actually use with it, but you were hardly bereft of other things to try. Case in point, Wall walking. Logically the inverse of the leaf training exercise, instead of sticking something to yourself, you stuck yourself to something. Except it wasn't that at all. If all wall walking was sticking yourself to a surface you'd rather suffer a few problems when it came to your joints and gravity. Anyone walking straight up a tree would find themselves hanging vertically downwards from their feet, ankles screaming at them. It didn't really make much sense if you thought about it for more than a few seconds but it certainly works. You sort of...permeated a narrow layer of the surface you were trying to cling to with your chakra, and then
twisted it, just so, and there you were. Except, from another viewpoint it was more like reorienting yourself like one bar magnet to another, but if you pushed in too much power your pole would flip and you'd be propelled away. It was rather an intensive use of chakra, at least by your standards, and the increase in your reserves from your new habits were helping marvellously. Water-walking was more difficult, naturally, having to alter your pressure constantly and you didn't have much opportunity to practice. You'd managed quite well trying to stand on the surface of shallow puddles but anything more was difficult when you were being circumspect. Basic muscle enhancement was, rather thankfully, considerably easier by far, requiring little more than focus and experience.
Looking around the village you could see more of what a weird mix the place really was. There were more than a dozen professions represented, and what looked to be not a small number of well-off people who had retired here. Looks like maybe a third of the population where people here seeking respite from the world, or otherwise people who'd moved here to be somewhere more out of the way. Heck, even the orphanage caretakers had certainly been born elsewhere. Inoue for all that she was a endlessly cheerful and good-natured woman had rather a lot of scars for a caretaker, to say nothing of the crude wooden peg that went almost from her left knee down. Kagome had certainly been of a spiritual bent, he still seemed to habitually pray every daybreak, working through sutra after sutra as the prayer beads passed between his fingers. You managed to glean that they'd had rather eventful pasts. When one of the other kids had asked for stories about ninja you'd seen them the closest you'd ever seen them come to an argument. Inoue described ninja as great heros who smote down evil, where Kagome described them as callous mercenaries who would do anything for money.
EDIT: Knew I forgot something
Skills unlocked: Wall-walking, Water-Walking.
Chakra muscle enhancement - Prevents growth stunting from strength training
Chakra boost - Cold Burn - Costs ? Chakra points per hour, bonus to physical challenges
Chakra boost - Hot Burn - Costs ? Chakra points per minute, bonus to physical challenges
Turn 3, 15 BN - 14 BN
Self-Development Actions - Choose four.
[] Chakra Development - Control
[] Chakra Development - Nature training
[] Clamber - Improves Agility
[] Run - Improves Stamina
[] Explore - Improves Perception
[] Read/Write - Develop written language skills
[] Write-in
Alter behaviour?
Goals
[] Write-in
Projects
[] LOCKED
Aspiration
[] Defer for now
[] Write-in