Chapter 247 How Ninja Doctors Handle Medical Disputes (Part 2)
However, the green light split in two the moment it approached the Heavenly Palace, flying past Neji's defenses. Its gaze was very clear: it was aimed at Shion, who was being protected by everyone.
Seeing this, Sasuke immediately looked at one of the green lights with his left eye. The patterns of his Mangekyou Sharingan spun, and tears of blood flowed from the corner of his eye.
Suddenly, a jet of black lightning appeared on the light that Sasuke was staring at, completely annihilating it in an instant.
Then, Sasuke looked to the other side, intending to try again. However, this time, Sasuke felt a sharp pain in his left eye socket, and his vision blurred. The meridians in his body were
also warning him with pain. Sasuke's reaction was slightly slowed by the sudden pain. In that short time, the green light had already reached Shion.
Just then, Azusa pushed Shion aside and took the green light upon herself.
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When Neji helped Sasuke back to the others, this was the scene they saw: Shion sat listlessly to one side, muttering to herself, while the others surrounded Azusa, who had taken the fatal sneak attack for Shion. Azusa
's entire right side was now covered in a ghostly green, and his face was contorted in pain.
"How is he?" Sasuke, supported by Neji, asked hurriedly.
"He still has a breath of life, but it's very weak. I've kept him alive with chakra," Sakura said. "It's urgent, let's operate here." "
It's useless..." Shion's mutterings reached everyone's ears, "Those whose death is foreseen cannot escape their predetermined fate."
Everyone frowned slightly upon hearing this, but saving Azusa, who still had a sliver of life, was the top priority, so they simply ignored him.
After examining Ashiho's condition with her chakra, Sakura's mind raced, and she quickly devised a treatment plan.
"His symptoms are very similar to the chakra-targeting toxins I've read about in medical books. Those toxins only affect ninjas with chakra; the more chakra a poisoned person has, the more severe the symptoms. Conversely, they're ineffective against civilians without chakra. The energy of the toxin currently affecting him is unusual; its target isn't chakra, but some other energy within his body," Sakura calmly analyzed. "
So, Karin, I'll force out some of this toxin in a bit. Try to create a seal that targets this toxin and its energy. Then, I'll cut open the blood vessels on his right side, and you try to use sealing techniques to help me extract and seal the toxin."
"Okay, I'll try," Karin nodded.
"Why, why do they all have to die for me? This ability…" Shion's mutterings reached everyone's ears.
Sakura, who had just anesthetized Azusa and was conjuring a chakra scalpel in her hand, showed a hint of displeasure upon hearing the commotion.
"It's useless. The only way to break the prophecy is for me to die..." Shion muttered to herself, her eyes vacant, as she leaned against a tree.
Sakura's chakra scalpel trembled slightly before dissipating. It's common knowledge that when someone is concentrating on something, it's difficult to maintain focus if someone nearby is constantly releasing negative energy.
Usually, people become irritable at such times.
"Someone, go and shut that guy up!" Sakura turned around, veins bulging on her forehead, and yelled at Shion.
Doctors in the ninja world don't tolerate such disruptive behavior. If this were a hospital in Konoha, Shion would have been kicked out the moment she opened her mouth.
Neji, his face dark, also approached Shion.
Although Neji really wanted to punch this guy a couple of times right now—after all, if the information this guy had provided were even a little more useful, they wouldn't have been facing such a difficult situation with the attacking enemy, and Sasuke wouldn't have been so exhausted—Neji knew the cost of using the Mangekyou Sharingan's eye techniques. However, out of basic ninja courtesy to their clients, he maintained the most basic etiquette and whispered a reminder: "Miss Shrine Maiden, could you please be quiet and not disturb your guard's surgery?"
"My ability… I think it's more like a curse than a prophecy…" Shion, facing Neji who was already in front of her, still didn't react and continued talking to herself.
Seeing this, Neji didn't hold back and directly knocked Shion down with a chop to the neck.
"Finally, some peace and quiet." Sakura took a deep breath, re-condensed her chakra scalpel, and after a simple disinfection, began the surgery right there in the wilderness.
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The Land of Wind.
Naruto found a place to set up camp with the unconscious Gaara. After saying goodbye to Temari and the others, Gaara slept for a whole day.
It wasn't until Naruto lit a fire in the evening that Gaara slowly woke up.
Perhaps because he had slept enough, Gaara didn't show much aggression this time. Instead, he sat up somewhat dazedly and looked at Naruto, who was busy around the campfire.
"You're awake?" Naruto turned to look at Gaara after hearing the commotion and tossed him his water pouch.
"Who are you? And where is this?" Gaara took the water pouch, took a big gulp, and slowly his brain started working.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto. Your sister asked me to take care of you for a while. As for where this is, I don't really know, but we should be close to the western border of the Land of Wind." Naruto laughed heartily.
"Kid, kill him!" Shukaku roared again from within Gaara's sealed space.
Influenced by Shukaku, Gaara's killing intent slowly gathered again.
"You'd better calm down, or I'll have to reason with you with my fists. My Kurama brother inside me has been wanting me to beat you up," Naruto said, his brow furrowed as he sensed Gaara's killing intent.
However, Gaara's killing intent only grew stronger.
"Kurama brother, can you take me to see this guy's sealing space?" Naruto asked, frowning.
The next moment, Naruto's consciousness shifted, and he found himself in a dark space. Kurama and Shukaku were staring at each other through the seal, and Naruto saw Gaara's figure not far in front of him, beneath a giant, fat tanuki.
"You stinky fox! Who let you in!" The moment Hachiman saw Kurama's figure, its sand-like fur stood on end, baring its teeth at Kurama.
"Hmph, do I need your permission to go wherever I want? You weakling with only one tail." Kurama sneered.
"You wretched fox! Kid, kill the person in front of you! From now on, you can use my power as you please! I won't disturb your rest!" Shukaku shouted at Gaara.
However, after entering this space, Gaara stared intently at Naruto.
"Are you and I the same kind of being?" Gaara looked at Kurama behind Naruto, then at Naruto, his killing intent receding like a tide.
"Yes, I am also a Jinchuriki." Naruto said with a smile.
"Are you also... a weapon?" Gaara asked.
"A weapon? Why do you say that?" Naruto was stunned after hearing Gaara's words.
"Someone once told me that my purpose in life is to be a weapon to eliminate the village's enemies. Is that what you are too?" Gaara murmured to himself.
"Which bastard told you that?" Naruto frowned upon hearing this. He now understood why, of all the Jinchuriki he knew, this guy was the least normal. The education he received was anything but normal. What kind of kind person would tell a child that his purpose was simply to be the village's weapon?
"My father," Gaara said.
"Huh?" Naruto's mouth dropped open. Although Naruto had only seen his father once, about half a year ago, in the Nine-Tails' sealing space, that brief half-hour had left a deep impression on him. Even though the time was short, Naruto deeply felt that although his parents hadn't been by his side since childhood, they absolutely loved him.
But unexpectedly, this father of a boy about his age, a fellow Jinchuriki, was instilling such ideas in him.
"He's there. I have to teach him a lesson," Naruto said.
"I'll kill him," Gaara said coldly.
"Oh, then it's alright," Naruto nodded.
"You...aren't you a weapon?" Gaara asked, somewhat dazed. Although their contact had been brief, Naruto's chakra felt incredibly warm to him. He found it hard to believe that Naruto was a Jinchūriki like himself.
"How could I be a weapon?" Naruto chuckled, scratching his head before realizing what he meant and pressing for an answer. "By the way, where's your mother? Doesn't she have any complaints about your father treating you like this?"
"My mother died when I was born," Gaara said, lowering his head.
"Uh...sorry," Naruto replied.
"Why are you wasting your breath talking to him! Just kill him!" Shukaku shouted at Gaara, seeing the two chatting.
"Kurama-nii, can you please quiet this stinky tanuki? He's so noisy!" Naruto turned to Kurama and said. Kurama
slowly rose, rubbed his fist, and grinned at Shukaku with a slightly cruel smile.
Upon seeing that smile, Shukaku immediately arched his back and entered his Spinosaurus form. He'd seen that smile of Kurama countless times since childhood, and every time he saw it, it meant he was about to get a beating.
"You stinking fox! Have you submitted to humans?" Shukaku roared.
"Submit? Didn't you hear what this brat called me?" Kurama sneered as it walked towards Shukaku. "Dare to bare your teeth at my little brother? You haven't had enough of a beating yet."
"Don't come any closer!" Shukaku's fur stood on end. Outside, Kurama's power was severely limited due to the seal, but even so, Kurama using a Jinchūriki's body could still give him a good beating. Now, in this space, Kurama's full power was far beyond his current capabilities. Unless his Jinchūriki killed Kurama's Jinchūriki, he had no chance of winning.
But now, his Jinchūriki and that stinking fox's Jinchūriki were actually chatting!
Kurama, carrying its personal sandbag, moved to the side. Screams echoed through the space, causing a strange expression to rise on Gaara's face. After all, the monster within his body had always been a terrifying presence, yet now, as its jinchūriki, he sensed fear in Shukaku.
["Do tailed beasts also have things they fear?"] Gaara thought to himself, watching Shukaku spinning like a top in the distance.
"It's alright, no one's bothering us now. Let's have a good chat," Naruto said.
"What do you want to talk to me about?" Gaara asked.
"Tell me about your experiences. I promised your sister I'd teach you how to control your emotions, so I need to know what you've been through," Naruto shrugged. "
My experiences?" Gaara took a deep breath and began to recount his life from childhood, from being hated by the villagers to his father, the Fourth Kazekage, constantly assassinating him to test his worth as a weapon.
Gaara only stopped after recounting his experiences over nearly 13 years of life. He himself hadn't expected to be able to talk so quietly for so long.
"Your dad was a real bastard," Naruto couldn't help but say again after hearing Gaara's story. "And the people in your village... it turns out all the scoundrels in any ninja village are the same."
"Have you experienced these things too?" Gaara asked.
"Uh, my parents died when I was born," Naruto scratched his head. "But I grew up under the strange looks of the villagers. Later, I met many companions, so I didn't care much about it anymore. Besides, I'm the young master of the village's security chief's family, the head of the Uzumaki clan. Even if they don't like me, they can only keep quiet."
"Is that so? That's wonderful." Gaara's face immediately showed a hint of envy after hearing Naruto's words.
"Why are you looking at me like that? You have people who care about you a lot too," Naruto said.
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