Naruto: Senmei Asahi

Asahi was standing in front of the hospital bed and looking at Shinohara, who was lying on the hospital bed quietly. He didn't know how to feel like in his heart at the moment.

At present, more than 60% of Shinohara's whole body was bandaged. Any movement from him was like a puppet's movement, which should be due to the multiple fractures on his body.

Having been at the Konoha Hospital for a long time, Asahi knew that people with this kind of injuries would suffer a lot of pain. But after he appeared, Shinohara didn't seem to feel pain anymore. He was both crying and laughing, like a child. 

"You're still alive, that's good!" Shinohara said excited.

"...How are you?" Asahi solemnly asked. 

"Asahi-kun, come over here." Minato said from a side.

The people of Minato's team were standing in the ward. Kakashi and Obito were also injured in different degrees, but their injuries weren't very serious, and they would be fully cured after a short period of time. 

Stepping out of the ward with Minato, his previous mission captain patted Asahi's shoulder and whispered, "Sorry, I couldn't rush to rescue Keita in time, and Shinohara also suffered such heavy injuries..." 

"How grave is Shinohara's injury?" Asahi asked. 

He could feel that Minato was feeling guilty. As the captain of that operation, he caused his team members to suffer heavy losses and going by Minato's thought process, Asahi blaming Minato for it would be unavoidable. In fact, he could have avoided all of this, but for the secret mission given to him by Konoha, he also had to break his principle and be cold-hearted.

"He has multiple fractures throughout his whole body. With the current level of our medic team, even if he can heal, I'm afraid he won't be able to be remain a ninja in the future." Rin stood aside and said in a low voice, she didn't know what to do or how to comfort someone while conveying these type of news.

"How could this be..." Asahi finally showed his grief. 

He has known Shinohara for more than two years and they know each other very well. 

Although Shinohara had no particular talent, but like many ninjas who loved their homeland, he could die at any time for his beloved village, he just needed an order from those so-called higher-ups. 

Becoming a ninja and working for Konoha was always Shinohara's dream. 

It must be said that Konoha's cohesion among ordinary ninja was really terrifying. History had proven that they could willingly sacrifice themselves for even an empty reason as long as it promises the good of the village. It was with their sacrifices that Konoha was able to prosper to this day.

It's ironic that after all this, in addition to giving a pension to the family of those who died in their ninja duties, all that remained was endless sadness and hatred. 

During war, the village would lead the ninjas to hate other ninja villages, but once they start the signing of the peace agreement, they would also be the ones to guide the ninjas to "maintain peace for the overall situation". For peace, the hatred for other villages must be dropped. 

This was the nature of Konoha's higher-ups. 

Hearing that Shinohara could no longer fight like a ninja, Asahi had a hard time accepting such a result.

Although he had made a firm resolution in his heart that he must cut off his bond with them and concentrate on his pursuit of strength. But for more than two years of mutual support, Asahi, Shinohara and Keita already had an inseparable bond. 

For him, Shinohara could be that comrade in arms who was behind him. 

Asahi could resolutely stay away from Shinohara, but he couldn't accept that his comrade's dream had been destroyed just like that.

"Is there really no alternative?" Asahi asked. 

Slowly shaking her head, Rin whispered, "I checked his injuries, unless... unless Tsunade-sama is willing to take action herself..." 

'Ask Tsunade for help now? Stop dreaming!' 

Not to mention the fact that Shinohara was just an ordinary chunin, even if Orochimaru or Jiraiya were dying from a serious injury, she might not be able to break through the obstacles in her heart. The death of her lover and her younger brother had hit Tsunade too much. 

The more carefree a woman looked, the more delicate her state of mind is. 

Unless someone could be like Naruto, who using the heat of his goals managed to melt Tsunade's heart. 

But this someone was definitely not him, because Asahi was cold-hearted and calculative. 

But Rin's words gave him a hint of hope. Shinohara wasn't dead, it's just that the current medical-level was not enough. 

"I'll treat him." Asahi said firmly. 

"You?" Rin was surprised while glancing at him. Although she had seen Asahi help at Konoha Hospital several times, she still couldn't believe that Asahi had such level of medical skills. 

Ignoring her, Asahi went straight into the camp and walked to Shinohara's bed. He said in a tranquil voice, "Shinohara, you're seriously injured, and I'm going to perform an operation on you right away." 

"Okay!" Shinohara looked at Asahi and said firmly, without the slightest doubt in his tone. 

After taking Shinohara's case, Asahi went through his records and determined the state of his injuries. 

Although the injuries in several places were serious, the medical-nin could handle it, but Shinohara's right leg was comminuted. This kind of injury was difficult to handle. Even if they could save his life, it's estimated that he would not even be able to walk normal in the future.

Pushing Shinohara into the operating room, Rin voluntarily requested to be his assistant. For this kind-hearted, but somewhat able medical-nin, Asahi would certainly not refuse, and he also needed someone to assist him. 

A comminuted fracture meant that the bones have become fragmented, and these fragments must be repaired by surgery and then treated for a complete recovery. 

To be honest, the medical level of the shinobi world was not well-developed, because there were so many heaven-defying things like medical-ninjutsu, many injuries could be treated with regular medical-ninjutsu, but medical-nin with insufficient level of medical-ninjutsu could not do anything about these types of injuries. 

Asahi was also dealing with this kind of injury for the first time. Generally speaking, a ninja injured like this could only say goodbye to his job as a shinobi, but in life there were no absolutes. In the future, Lee would be beaten by Gaara with similar gravity of injuries and get treated by Tsunade, then he would be as good as ever, with no repercussions visible. 

He didn't dare to mention his medical-ninjutsu and Tsunade's on equal terms, but he was still confident to be able to deal with this injury. 

Five hours later, Asahi and Rin came out of the operating room, and found that Minato, Kakashi, and Obito were standing outside. After seeing him coming out, Minato asked with concern, "What happened? How did the operation go?" 

Rin glanced at him with an admiration and said excitedly, "Asahi is really amazing. The injury has been treated, and the rest will be restorative treatment." 

"That's good news!" Minato said happily.

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