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[unit_202]

[202 doesn't waste any time on pleasantries when her video feed clicks on, and with as liberally-coated as she is with what is obviously blood it's not hard to guess why. Her tone is measured, tight with control without which she'd clearly be on the verge of hysterics.]

I... I need a healer. Please. Anybody who can help. I've found Va...

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[avarice_pays]

[Kakuzu will show up and just kinda stand there. If she needs his help, all she needs to do is instruct him.]

[Action]

[unit_202]

[202 looks up at Kakuzu's arrival, her expression instantly grateful for the solidity of his presence. She's almost as bloody as the battered Nation under her busily-working hands, but the sight of her friend there obviously calms her immediately.]

Kakuzu-- You have some healing talent, don't you?

[Action]

[avarice_pays]

...

[He sighs, and nods, and walks over to kneel by the injured nation. He looks over the man before threads slither out of his arms and begin moving things aside, feeling around delicately, sewing things up as he finds them. He could use healing jutsu on the injured organs, and when he did his hand was incased in a soft green glow and the flesh healed up. The threads did their work as well.

He's a bit bitter about this, but it's for 202, he reminded himself. For someone he could trust, this was nothing.]

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[unit_202]

[202 steps back to let Kakuzu work, her brow creased with concern as she watches. After a long moment of tense silence, she speaks very softly--whether it's out of concern for the comatose Vash or otherwise is hard to tell.]

I'm glad I have you to depend upon, Kakuzu. Thank you.

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[avarice_pays]

[He finished sewing up the nation silently, before glancing over at 202. He pauses for a minute...and then nods, once.

Let's get him back to the house. His organ wounds will still be easy to re-open.

[So, apparently the threads aren't finished, and they lift Vash up so Kakuzu doesn't have to actually touch the body, and so no wounds will be jostled open as he walks.

At some point, Kakuzu might have made a great medical ninja.

'Murderer' and 'rogue' just seemed more appropriate at the time.]

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[unit_202]

[202 nods once and moves to follow, helping herself to an armload of supplies--gauze, alcohol, medical tape... the basics--before they leave. While they walk her gaze is divided equally between Vash and Kakuzu, and she can't help but view the ninja in a whole new light-- He's still the powerhouse she's come to know so well, ominous and deadly as any force of nature, and yet here there's a degree of delicate finesse she never would have guessed he had within him. Following close behind him, 202 doesn't bother to hide the small smile her thoughts have given way to. Still fascinating as ever, old man.]

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[neutralbyforce]

[Some shattered part of his psyche registers that he's being moved, causing the nation to murmur and shift against the threads. Despite what Kakuzu's done, he's still in tremendous pain-- and the healing has done just enough to make it so he doesn't black out with every jolt.]

[Action]

[avarice_pays]

[The threads hold the nation steadily as Kakuzu walks, suspending him in air. And he doesn't drop him this time.

He sets Vash down gently on the couch when they return, threads sliding back into his body.

Ignoring your smile, 202, kthx.]

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[unit_202]

[Good luck ignoring 300-odd pounds of tiny blonde creature leaning against your side, then. 202 doesn't maintain the contact for long, just enough to make the intent plain, before moving to deposit the supplies on the adjacent coffee table and kneel on the floor beside the couch. She couldn't be there when Vash needed her help before, and she'll have a hard time not blaming herself for that, but for now at least this much she can do--Anything else that wants to get to him is going to have to go through her.]

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[neutralbyforce]

[Vash shifts a bit on the couch, unable to find any position that doesn't hurt worse than the one before. In particular his right hand, wedged between his body and the back of the couch, is causing him issue, as is the necklace gripped tightly in it.]