A Medical Nin In the House?

Koaru's eye lids blinked sensitively as he came to. At first, the afternoon sun's light was overbearing, but after a few moments, Koaru's eyes adjusted. 'What? Where am I?' Koaru could not, for the life of him, remember where he was or how he got there for that matter. The tall, slender teenager struggled to sit up. It was then that he realized he was lying down...in a hospital bed. Koaru stared at his surroundings, expressing his state of confusion on his face. On his right side there was a window right by his bedside. Koaru looked through it, and saw academy students playing and the villagers going about their usual business. Koaru knew where he was by the positioning of the rest of the village buildings that he saw through the window. He was in the Konohagakure central hospital. 

The boy looked to his left, and saw a wide curtain that blocked his view from the rest of the room. The floral pattern on the curtains intrigued Koaru for longer than he would like to admit. Koaru stared at his arm when he realized that he was currently feeling a strange feeling from it. Embedded in his right forearm was a tube like device pumping an unknown fluid into his arm. Koaru followed the tubed trail starting from his arm and ending at a sac filled with the same fluid. On the sac was a  paper seal tag that Koaru did not recognize. He did however, recognize one of the kanji written on the tag from medical chapters in the novels he enjoyed reading. Koaru let out a sigh and closed his eyes for a minute. He felt dizzy and disoriented. 'What on earth happened last night?' The question lingered in his brain for a while before Koaru gave up all hope in finding the answer. 

With his eyes still closed, Koaru heard the sound of voices beyond the curtain that restricted his vision. Koaru listened more carefully, and could make out a familiar voice. A woman. A woman whom Koaru was somewhat acquainted with was nearby. This however, was not saying much, as Koaru has made it a point to acquaint himself with every single female in the village. Koaru wanted to know just who it was on the other side of the curtain. Was she in the hospital as a patient as well? Perhaps the two of them were in the hospital as a result of the same event. If that was the case, Koaru had a pretty good idea about what that event was that put the two of them in hospital beds. Koaru slithered into a smitten state and called out beyond the curtain.

"Umm...excuse me, mademoiselle"


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Midori walked into the hospital on the warm but rainy Sunday morning as she did every week. Once inside, she entered the employees only room and changed clothes out of her typical white and purple romper outfit. She rolled her hair up tightly into two twin buns on the side of her head, and then wore a medical ninja uniform. Midori, at the age of 17, was already the head nurse of Konohagakure’s central hospital. She greeted her coworkers, whom all respected her as a medical genius, even those who have practiced here in the hospital for decades. Once in uniform, the young medical ninja took to her office to collect the reports of all the new patients that were to come in. The head doctor of the facility was away at a medical seminar in Funkagakure, under the heavy security of Konoha’s anbu black ops, of course. Even with such protection, however, no one was really sure if the head doctor would be returning alive. The land of Volcanoes is rumored to be, in addition to a land of advanced medical practices, a complete hell on earth. Whichever the case was, Midori was told to be prepared to assume the role of head doctor should her predecessor be unable to return. Midori took a closer look at the clip board that laid menacingly on her desk. On it was a long list of patients that still needed attention. Included on this list, was a patient who Midori was quite familiar with, a fellow genin shinobi of the village. However, before Midori could reach his name on the list to review his condition, she heard a knock on the door. When she granted entry, she was surprised to learn that one of the patients in room 22B had entered a critical condition.

“Midori senpai. The condition of a patient has worsened in the last 24 hours. The way things are going, he may enter a state of anaphylactic shock. We have to act fast!”

Midori’s eyes tensed. She shot up out of her chair and slid into her practicing scrubs as if by routine. As she stormed through the halls to the room 22B, she recounted in her mind what she would do when she got there. Since her last practice at open heart surgery, she found that the metallic nature of the hospitals standard equipment often got in the way of the precision of her incisions. When dealing with something as serious as a patient going into shock and at risk of undergoing a complete body shut down, Midori would need her precision to be at one hundred percent. Midori decided that now would be the time to implement her new medical technique. A technique in which she could maximize the precision of her incisions so that she would not have to waste time picking up the slack after the patient was rescued. It would also dramatically reduce the patients recovery time, assuming that Midori used her Mystical Palm technique, which she had to admit, was somewhat more effective than all the others that use it in the hospital. Midori raced up the stairs to the second floor with her aids at her side, and was now on the same floor as the patient. Midori clenched her eyes and activated her clan exclusive visual technique. The veins that travelled through her head and across her temple pulsated and could be seen through the skin of her face. She used her visual prowess to get a head start on the situation in the emergency room before actually entering the room. The aids behind her simply stared in awe as Midori began listing things she would need before actually reaching the room.

“Byakugan!…..Okay, we don’t have much time. I’m going to need a pan of boiled water, a pressure respirator, the 5CC stat injector, and someone please get the fuuinjutsu specialist on call, we will need a technique to seal and maintain the patient’s blood pressure. We’re losing him!

With that, all of the aids dispersed in a blur of speed, in every direction. The speedy exits made her long, draping scrubs flicker in the wind as if in the middle of a whirlwind. Still, Midori marched on directly into the room without having to pause to observe her surroundings. The patient was to her left, and there were curtains closed to separate him from the other patients in the room. For a state of emergency, the room was surprisingly quite, other than the consistent beeping sound of the heart rate monitor. Once she was standing over the patient, she wove a string of hand seals, which she recited out loud. The other medical nin looked on, bewildered by the occurrence. Usually, Midori started off by using the surgical scalpel utensil to cut through the patients close so that she could continue and make the first incision. “Tiger. Horse. Rabbit. Rat. Dog” Once the exceptional medical ninja was finished with her hand seals, her hands swelled up with chakra. Midori was using the chakra scalpel technique. She went on to perform the surgery, making incisions with improved and almost flawless accuracy. Within a matter off 5 minutes, the patient had stabilized. It was then that all of the aids had returned with the objects they had been sent out to retrieve. They were surprised to see that the patient had already been stabilized. They thought the things they were sent to retrieve were needed to save the patient. In actuality however, the genius medical ninja had thought through this medical procedure about 20 steps ahead, and was procuring the tools she would need to make sure the patient had a speedy recovery. Midori sighed, and wiped her forehead with her forearm, careful not use her bloodied hands. She moved away from the area to allow the aids to finish the post-surgery stuff. Midori washed her hands, when she heard a voice call out to her from beyond another nearby curtain. Midori raised an eye brow, as she could see exactly who was behind the curtain thanks to her byakugan.

“And what, pray tell, are you doing here……Koaru Garinado?”




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