Alone with a Doctor (P, Stein, Salzem

Salzem looked slightly disappointed when Stein said he had not seen him. He looked back over the village before answering his question.

"He killed my friend in front of me." Salzem said, voice clearly filled with restrained emotion, however which emotion was unclear. "I plan to kill him." Salzem's fist slowly clenched as he recounted the event that set him on this path of vengeance. Only when his palm started to scream in pain did he notice that his hand was now a fist. He released his grip and tried to calm down. He seemed to speak absently, unable to keep the words inside anymore.

"We were just training... Not even doing harm to anything or anyone..." Salzem mumbled. "He never stood a chance... and it was my stupid mistake he's dead..." Salzem's eyes showed nothing but pain for but a moment before he took a deep breath, straightened up and swallowed his more intense emotions. "But that doesn't matter. I'm going to hunt him down."

Stein gave it some thought as he listened to the kid , he figured that it was something like that, and he thought about it and he asked " Can you tell me the exact detail's maybe its not exactly what you make it out to be" Stein turned to look at the kid as he spoke, every detail of the kid making a fist and letting it go was not missed on him, he just thinks that maybe the kid missed a detail or did not think of a possible outcome

"I was about to have a spar with one of the other two genin, not including my friend, I was with at the time when he came out of the trees." Salzem began. Speaking it was much harder than remembering. To speak was to acknowledge that it happened and it hurt all the more to do so.

"He struck at my friend, but he managed to evade. Considering that he was coming from nowhere and attacking us, we considered him a threat. My friend and I advanced, attempting to stop him. One of the other genin must have panicked or something and tossed a kunai. However, the aim was faulty and went into my back instead. Isshin was struck hard in the chest as I fell, and I saw his lifeless face fall in front of mine." Salzem shivered as a wave of sadness swept over him. He kept himself from shedding more tears for his friend but just barely. He paused, composing himself before continuing. He took the body and left the way he came, through the trees." Salzem looked at Stein, face torn between anguish and rage.
"Killing someone and then stealing the body doesn't lead to a guilty man, what does?"

Stein who was looking at Salzem, and he Said to him "There might have been something more medical that happened you might not had understood, but that is not my place at this moment, a well put rage could make you want to live and get stronger, so use that as fuel during the impending surgery to get you through it and to train till you collapse, you will thank him in the end, cause with out him killing your friend, you would have never gotten that far" and with that Stein would lean back against the railing and light a cig and began to smoke it, his glasses gleaming in the light that was going down in the horizen

Salzem was about to fire back with his own justifications before what Stein said had registered. He looked down, almost ashamed at his one tracked mind.
"I have considered that, however, a life is not worth any amount of training. Even if it would ascend me to the level of a god." Salzem calmed slightly as this logic spread through consciousness. Salzem looked back over the town, feeling more attached to the friends he had now then he had before.
"Stein, I still plan to seek him out." Salzem said, voice and face smoothing over to a calmer, smoother version. "However, I want to know why he did it. I will not settle for assumptions." He felt as though he needed to protect his friends more than ever making the prospect of staying all the more seductive, however, he needed to find that man. "Thank you for talking with me Stein." Salzem said, tapping his finger on the railing to a song he knew not the name of.

Stein looked to the man as he blow the smoke out of his mouth and held the cig in his hand "so what do you plan to do now if you do find him?" stein would give it some time, then not caring what his answer would he looked at him and said "well it is time for me to go, unless you would like to learn something I might know, I need to prepare for your surgery" and then with that Stein would begin to walk off with the cig in his mouth.

(Attempted Exit)

Salzem nodded at Stein's offer to teach him something.

"Actually, if you don't mind, there was a jutsu I was looking into. Could you something? I wish to learn more Medical techniques."

This request was probably imposing on the man even after he offered to help him with his lungs, however, he has delayed his training long enough. If Stein denied his request, Salzem would thank Stein again for the talk and walk back down to the village. However, If he agreed to teach, Salzem would stand eager to learn

Stein gave it some thought and then nodded "I know one that might be of some use to you, its just the basics, but there are two sets of it I can teach you, here follow me" this was after stein had listened to what the boy had to say and ask of stein, and then he would lead the way into the forest, and into one of his favorite clearing's that had animals of all kinds in it and he would walk to the far end and turned around telling Salzem "these are your Test subject, please do not release any of them or I will have to force you to collect them for me" Stein gave it a moment for everything to sink into the kids head.

Then he would point to a fox next to Salzem with lacerations all over its body and stein told the kid " the hand signs are Boar, rat Snake" he even gave visual examples as he spoke, and even the color the hands will turn and everything when the jutsu was done properly "This will heal those wounds on that fox rather well" Stein would shake his hands free of the chakra and then took out his cigarette and put it out as it was at the butt of it.

Salzem followed Stein into the forest where a group of animals were present. Stein pointed to a fox, cut lighter than the others but still squirming in pain with light cuts slashed across its body. Stein demonstrated the hand-signs, being Boar Rat Snake, the signs of the basic medical ninjutsu. Salzem was briefed on the basics of this technique, as most medics must, but was never really taught, until now that is. Salzem followed Stein's example, copying his hand signs, Boar, Rat, Snake, channeling his chakra into his hands. For a moment, nothing happened. But as one, then two seconds passed, Salzem's hands began to glow with a faint bluish light. Another second passed and the light grew in intensity but still remained gentle. Salzem then turned to the fox, snarling protectively as any cornered animal would do. Salzem would approach it slowly, raising his hands as not to show any harm to the animal. Salzem lowered his hands slowly atop one of the animal's cut across it's stomach. The Fox growled as Salzem approached but was in no position to defend itself. As Salzem laid his hands upon the wound, the gentle blue light increased in intensity and Salzem could feel the chakra being drained into the wound. As he watched, Salzem saw that blood was no longer flowing, but clotting and blocking the wound. About a minute later and the wound healed completely. Salzem would move onto the other wounds, healing them in a similar amount of time. When he was complete, Salzem picked up the fox, as it was no longer struggling, And held it up to Stein. The Fox seemed to recognize that Salzem was no longer a threat and kept relaxed in his grip.

Stein looked it over and nodded, he would then take the fox from Salzem and tied it back to its normal spot, and then Stein pointed over to a doe with a broken leg and told Salzem "same thing, more chakra, it will go deeper and heal broken bones too" Stein would stand up and turned around to watch Salzem at work, and to make sure he did not let any of his animals go, they take to long to try and catch again, just to teidious for him, but he would make sure Salzem would get him a new whatever if he let anything go, and it must be alive, living creatures make better test subjects in Stein's Opinion