Naruto: Uchiha Youngjo's Konoha Spring

Chapter 247 How Ninja Doctors Handle Medical Disputes (Part 2)
However, the green light split in two the moment it approached the Heavenly Gate, flying past Neji's defenses. Its gaze was very clear: it was aimed at Shion, who was being protected by everyone.

Seeing this, Sasuke looked at one of the green lights with his left eye. The patterns of his Mangekyou Sharingan turned, and tears of blood flowed from the corner of his eye.

Suddenly, a bolt of dark lightning shot out from the stream of light that Sasuke was staring at, and in an instant, it completely annihilated it.

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 became blurred. The meridians in his body were also sending a warning to Sasuke through pain.

Sasuke's reaction was slightly slowed by the sudden pain, and in that short time, the green light had already reached Shion.

At that moment, Azusa pushed Shion aside and faced the green light with her own body.

……

When Neji helped Sasuke back to the group, this was the scene that greeted them: Shion was sitting blankly to one side, muttering to herself, while the others were gathered around Ashiho, who had taken the fatal sneak attack for Shion.

At this moment, the entire right half of Zui's body was covered with a faint green color, and his face was contorted with pain.

"How is he?" Sasuke, who was being supported by Neji, asked hurriedly.

“He still has a breath of life, but it’s quite weak. I’ve kept him alive with my chakra,” Sakura said. “It’s an emergency, let’s operate right here.”

“It’s no use…” Ziyuan’s mutterings reached everyone’s ears, “Those who are foreseen to die cannot escape their predetermined fate.”

Everyone frowned slightly upon hearing this, but rescuing Zu Sui, who still had a sliver of life left, was the top priority, so they simply ignored him.

After using her chakra to examine Ashiho's physical condition, Sakura's brain worked at lightning speed, and she quickly devised a treatment plan.

“His symptoms are very similar to the chakra-targeting toxins I’ve read about in medical books. The toxins in those books only target ninjas with chakra. The more chakra a poisoned person has, the more severe the symptoms will be. On the contrary, these toxins are not very effective against civilians without chakra. The energy of the toxin that is currently acting on him is a bit special. Its target is not chakra, but some kind of energy within his body,” Sakura analyzed calmly.

"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. Then, try to use sealing techniques to help me extract and seal the toxin."

"Okay, I'll give it a try." Karin nodded.

"Why, why do they all have to die for me? This ability..." Ziyuan's mutterings reached everyone's ears.

Sakura, who had just finished anesthetizing Azusa and was conjuring a chakra scalpel in her hand, showed a hint of displeasure upon hearing this noise.

"It's no use. The only way to break the prophecy is to let myself die..." Ziyuan muttered to herself, her eyes vacant, as she leaned against a tree.

Sakura's chakra scalpel trembled slightly before dissipating. As everyone knows, when someone is concentrating on doing something, it's difficult to concentrate if someone around them is constantly releasing negative energy.

At this time of year, people usually become more irritable.

"Someone, go and shut that guy up!" Sakura turned around, a vein bulging on her forehead, and then yelled at Shion.

Doctors in the ninja world wouldn't tolerate such troublemakers. If this were a hospital in Konoha, Shion would have been kicked out the moment she opened her mouth.

Neji, with a dark expression, approached Shion.

Although Neji really wanted to punch this guy a couple of times right now—after all, if only the information he provided had been more useful, they wouldn't have had such a difficult time facing 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 remained unresponsive to Neji, who was already standing in front of her, and continued to mutter to herself.

Seeing this, Neji didn't hold back and knocked Shion down with a single chop.

"Finally, it's quiet." Sakura took a deep breath, reconstituted her chakra scalpel, and after a simple disinfection, began the surgery right there in the wild.

……

The land of wind.

Naruto took the unconscious Gaara to a place to set up camp. After saying goodbye to Temari and the others, Gaara slept for a whole day.

Gaara didn't wake up until Naruto lit a fire in the evening.

Perhaps because he had slept well, Gaara did not show much aggression when he woke up this time. Instead, he sat up somewhat blankly and looked at Naruto, who was busy by the campfire.

"You're awake?" Naruto turned around and looked at Gaara after hearing the commotion, then threw the water pouch he was carrying over.

"Who are you? And where is this?" Gaara took the water pouch, took a big gulp, and his brain slowly started working.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki. Your sister asked me to take care of you for a while. As for where this is, I don't really know either, but we should be almost at the western border of the Land of Wind by now," Naruto said with a hearty laugh.

"Kid, kill him!" Shukaku roared again from within Gaara's sealed space.

Influenced by Shukaku, Gaara's killing intent slowly began to gather again.

"You'd better calm down, or I'll have to reason with you using my fists. My Kurama brother inside me has been wanting me to beat you up." Naruto said with a furrowed brow after sensing Gaara's killing intent.

However, Gaara's murderous aura grew even stronger at this moment.

"Brother Kurama, can you take me to see this guy's sealed space?" Naruto asked, frowning.

The next instant, 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 also saw Gaara's figure not far in front of him, beneath a giant, fat tanuki. "You stinky fox! Who let you in!" The moment the tanuki saw Kurama's figure, its sand-like fur stood on end, and it bared its teeth at Kurama.

"Hmph, do I need your permission to go wherever I want? You weakling with only one tail." Nine-Tailed Fox sneered.

"You wretched fox! You brat, kill this 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 Gaara entered this space, he stared intently at Naruto.

"Are you and I the same kind of beings?" Gaara looked at the Nine-Tails behind Naruto, then at Naruto, and his killing intent receded like a tide.

“Yes, I am also a Jinchūriki,” Naruto said with a smile.

"Are you also... a weapon?" Gaara asked.

"Weapons? Why do you say that?" Naruto asked, stunned, after hearing Gaara's words.

"Someone once told me that my purpose in life is to serve as a weapon to eliminate the village's enemies. Is that what you feel too?" Gaara murmured to himself.

"Which bastard told you that?" Naruto frowned immediately upon hearing this. He now understood why this guy was the least normal of all the Jinchuriki he knew. The education he received was not that of a normal person. What kind of good person would tell a child that his purpose in life was to be the village's weapon?

“My father,” Gaara said.

"Huh?" Naruto's mouth dropped open upon hearing this. Although Naruto had only seen his father once before, about half a year ago, in the Nine-Tails' sealing space, the Fourth Hokage left a deep impression on him even in that short half hour. Despite the short time they spent together, Naruto could deeply feel that although his parents had not been by his side since he was a child, they absolutely loved him.

Unexpectedly, the father of the boy in front of him, who was about the same age as him and also a Jinchūriki, was instilling such ideas in him.

“He’s right there, I need to teach him a lesson,” Naruto said.

“I killed him,” Gaara said coldly.

"Oh, that's all right then," Naruto nodded.

"You...aren't you a weapon?" Gaara asked, somewhat stunned. Although it was only a short contact, Naruto's chakra felt incredibly warm to him. He found it hard to believe that the other person was a Jinchūriki like himself.

"How could I possibly be a weapon?" Naruto chuckled, scratching his head before realizing what he'd said 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 lowered his head.

"Uh... I'm sorry," Naruto said.

"Why are you wasting your breath talking to him! Just kill him!" Shukaku shouted at Gaara when he saw the two of them talking.

"Brother Kurama, can you please quiet this stinky tanuki? He's so noisy!" Naruto said to Kurama when he saw this.

At this moment, Kurama slowly stood up, rubbed his fist, and bared his teeth at Shukaku, revealing a slightly cruel smile.

Upon seeing this smile, Shukaku immediately arched its back and entered its Spinosaurus form. From childhood to adulthood, Shukaku had seen Kurama's smile countless times, and every time Shukaku saw this smile, it meant that it was about to get beaten up.

"You filthy fox! Have you submitted to humans?" Shukaku roared.

"Submit? Didn't you hear what this brat called me?" Kurama said with a sneer as he walked towards Shukaku. "You dare to bare your teeth at my little brother? You probably haven't had enough of a beating yet."

"Don't come any closer!" Shukaku's fur stood on end at the sight. Before, outside, the Nine-Tails' power couldn't be fully unleashed due to the seal, but even so, the Nine-Tails using the Jinchūriki's body could still catch him and beat him mercilessly. Now, in this space, the Nine-Tails' full power was far beyond what he could handle. Unless his Jinchūriki kid killed the opponent's Jinchūriki, he had no chance of winning.

But at this moment, his own jinchūriki and the stinky fox's jinchūriki actually started chatting!
Kurama, carrying its own personal sandbag, went to the side. Screams could be heard from time to time in this space, which made Gaara's face show a strange expression. After all, the monster in his body had always been a terrifying existence. However, now, as the Jinchūriki, he was sensing fear in Shukaku.

"Do tailed beasts also have things they're afraid of?" Gaara couldn't help but wonder as he looked at Shukaku, who was being whipped around like a top not far away.

"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 would teach you how to control your emotions, so I need to know what you’ve been through,” Naruto said with a shrug.

"My experiences?" Gaara took a deep breath and began to recount his life from childhood to adulthood, from being hated by the villagers to his father, the Fourth Kazekage, constantly trying to assassinate him to test his qualifications as a weapon.

Gaara stopped talking after recounting his experiences over the past 13 years. Gaara himself never imagined that he would be able to talk to someone so quietly for so long.

"Your dad is a real bastard," Naruto couldn't help but say again after hearing Gaara's story. "And the people in your village, it turns out that all the scoundrels in any ninja village are the same."

"Have you experienced these things too?" Gaara asked.

“Well, my parents died when I was born,” Naruto said, scratching his head. “But I grew up under the strange looks of the villagers. However, I met a lot of companions later, so I don’t care about such things anymore. Besides, I am the young master of the head of the village’s security department and the head of the Uzumaki clan. Even if those people don’t like me, they can only keep quiet about it.”

"Really? That's great." 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.

(End of this chapter)