In Need of Medical Attention
Who: Uchiha Itachi, Ishida Ryuuken, open to Uchiha Sasuke and Hatake Kakashi
When: March 24, evening, roughly contemporaneous to this scene
Where: The Uchiha House
Summary: They've patched themselves up as best they can, but really a doctor should look them over. Itachi called Ryuuken for a housecall, just in case.
Warnings: Probable blood, ( Read more... )
When: March 24, evening, roughly contemporaneous to this scene
Where: The Uchiha House
Summary: They've patched themselves up as best they can, but really a doctor should look them over. Itachi called Ryuuken for a housecall, just in case.
Warnings: Probable blood, ( Read more... )
He found his way to Itachi's home soon afterward, and knocked on the door. He was in his usual immaculate suit and carrying a large bag full of the medical supplies he had acquired.
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He was pale, wan, showing obvious signs of blood loss. A cut on his cheek had been clumsily bandaged, and he was swaying slightly on his feet.
He smiled, nevertheless, and stepped back to let the doctor in. "Ryuuken-san, thank you for coming."
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Ryuuken cocked his head to the side, getting a feel for both Itachi's and his companions’ reiatsu. He could not say this about the others, but Itachi's was down a considerable amount from what Ryuuken remembered of him. Ryuuken would treat him first, and then worry about the others.
"Itachi-san, you have lost a lot of blood and your spiritual pressure is low. Where is your most severe wound? I will treat this first."
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"There were people there who could drain away my chakra - my spiritual energy. I'm still recovering from that," he explained, shrugging out of his black and red cloak. He lifted off his shirt with a grimace of pain. Low on his right side was a bandage, soaked through with blood.
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Ryuuken sat on the sofa beside Itachi and opened his bag. He sterilized his hands and slipped on a pair of gloves before getting a bottle of antiseptic and some cotton swabs. Ryuuken held the swabs in one hand and gently peeled back the bandage with the other.
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The wound underneath had obviously been cleaned, but more blood had come through the crude bandages. Itachi had been shot with a medium calibre bullet, which had punched through his torso at an angle and come out his side. The wound smelled clean, and he was quite sure it hadn't perforated anything vital. But there was still a lot of blood and it needed stitches.
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"You were lucky," he said, after a few minutes. "The bullet did not do any significant or lasting damage."
Ryuuken reached into his bag for a syringe and then filled it with an effective analgesic.
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He nodded, curling his fingers in the cushion to try to keep himself from asking what was in the syringe. He'd chosen to trust the doctor, and he could only hope that he'd read Ryuuken right from the beginning. Itachi had good reason to mistrust scientists, and he was also very bad at giving up control.
"I was pretty sure it didn't hit anything vital, since I'm still alive now," he said wryly.
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Ryuuken attributed the motion to anxiety, but he remembered the fact the man had seemed a little unfamiliar with his profession. "This will dull the pain while I stitch up your wound," he said, as he made sure there was no air in the syringe or needle.
Ryuuken swabbed around the entry and exit wounds a second time. He chose three places around each to inject the analgesic. Once this was done, Ryuuken disposed of the used syringe and sat back to wait.
"Tell me when the areas become numb."
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But Ryuuken was the best he had.
"Thank you for the explanation, and the sympathy," he said quietly. "Back home a healer would likely have made a power circle and used chakra to close the wound."
The pain was already dulling and he could feel a strange tingling sensation. Curious.
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He nodded his acknowledgment. "Medical technology is advanced in my world. We can cure many things, even on the genetic level, but we possess no such ability as that. It is unfortunate, but even my unique heritage does not afford me that kind of power." Ryuuken might have hated it less had this been the case.
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He touched a finger to the skin near the wound and frowned. "I think it's numb enough now, Ryuuken-san." Not completely devoid of feeling, but he was sure even if there was lingering pain, it was nothing he couldn't handle.
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He did not like to speak of his heritage, but he would for this occasion. "A member of a race that can absorb and manipulate spirit particles. We are able to fight the dead, and ended up displeasing the Shinigami enough for them to exterminate us because of this. My son and I are the last, although this does not bother me."
Ryuuken began stitching the first wound up, his movements precise as he guided the sutures through Itachi's flesh.
"Please tell me if you feel any pain."
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To distract himself from the bizarre sight, he turned what Ryuuken had said over in his mind. "You can absorb spirit particles. Is that your name for chakra?" he asked. "And how does one fight the dead?"
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He slid to the floor to get closer to the exit wound, and began the process all over again.
"I am sure you have much more impressive tactics." Ryuuken had no doubt that in a world where ninja were commonplace, there would be even more elaborate techniques.
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The exit wound was, of course, significantly bigger than the entrance wound. Itachi shifted gingerly onto his knees, half-turned away from the doctor, to give him full access to the wound.
"I've rarely seen a dead man worth fighting," he said philosophically. "In my world, the dead usually don't move very much." He had to say 'usually', because there were a few rare and forbidden techniques that could animate the dead in different ways.
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