"Kurenai, what happened to you?"
"I'm injured!" Kurenai Yuhi replied.
Only then did Hyuga Aokawa notice that Kurenai Yuhi's eyes were red, as if she had been crying.
He took Kurenai's other hand: "Sit down first."
As he spoke, he and Kurenai Yuhi helped Yūhi Shinku to a nearby chair.
"Hiss!"
The movement seemed to pull at Yūhi Shinku's wound, and she gasped in pain.
"How did you get hurt like this?" Hyuga Aokawa asked.
Kurenai Yuhi took over the conversation:
"I took Kurenai on a mission. She accidentally stepped into an enemy trap, and her calf got caught."
"It wasn't that I was careless; it's that those bandits were too cunning."
Yūhi Shinku pouted as she defended herself.
Hyuga Aokawa looked at the gauze wrapped around Kurenai Yuhi's calf; he really couldn't tell the extent of the injury.
So he said to the two of them, "The Hospital doesn't have any spare equipment for an examination right now."
"I'll activate my Byakugan first to help Kurenai see if any bones are damaged."
"No way!"
Kurenai Yuhi hurriedly and fearfully held him down.
"I-I'm a girl, you know. How can you just say you're going to activate the Byakugan?"
"I just want to look at your leg."
"That won't do either. Everyone knows your Byakugan has a 360-degree field of vision."
"The Byakugan's vision is black and white. It can only see meridians, bones, and internal organs; it can't see anything else."
"Still no!"
Kurenai Yuhi, her face flushing red, held Hyuga Aokawa down to prevent him from forming hand signs.
Hyuga Aokawa was helpless and could only look to Yūhi Shinku for help.
Seeing his daughter like this, Yūhi Shinku didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Kurenai, don't worry. The Byakugan is indeed as Aokawa says."
After much persuasion, they finally managed to convince Kurenai Yuhi.
Kurenai Yuhi was about to let go of Hyuga Aokawa's hand.
But she noticed his face was dark and his eyes were listless; he looked extremely haggard.
Subconsciously, she asked, "Why do you look so haggard?"
Then she thought of those health books she had read in the library.
Suddenly realizing something.
She pointed at Hyuga Aokawa and said in disbelief:
"You, you, you... have you been going out to play with women lately?"
Holy crap!
Hyuga Aokawa almost jumped up when he heard that.
The Chakra he was halfway through refining also dissipated from the shock.
You're so young, how can you say such scandalous things the moment you open your mouth?
Where did you learn these things?
Hearing this, Yūhi Shinku also looked at Hyuga Aokawa and frowned.
Seeing the expressions on their faces, Hyuga Aokawa hurriedly defended himself:
"No, it's not like that, don't misunderstand. I'm haggard because..."
"What do you mean 'not like that'!"
Before he could finish, Kurenai Yuhi interrupted him.
Her eyes were moist, and her voice choked up as she said:
"The books say that when a boy often goes out to play with girls, he loses his energy."
"There are so many girls around you, and looking at you now, you must have been out playing with them recently."
Thinking about how she had been waiting for Hyuga Aokawa to take the initiative to find her lately.
But she had waited and waited without any result.
Fine, so he was out playing with other girls.
And he even played until he was this haggard.
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt.
Hyuga Aokawa rubbed his forehead, looking completely helpless.
Going out to play with women and playing with girls were two different things.
At least at his age, they could only be two different things.
You little girl, you don't understand anything yet you're just talking nonsense.
Beside them, Yūhi Shinku finally understood what his daughter meant.
He pursed his lips, looking like he was trying not to laugh.
Hyuga Aokawa saw Yūhi Shinku looking like he was enjoying the show.
He sighed and explained helplessly:
"I'm a Medical Ninja now, and I've been working at the Hospital lately. I'm haggard because I'm exhausted from working here."
Unexpectedly, Kurenai Yuhi became even more agitated upon hearing this, and tears even began to flow.
"You can make up any story now just to lie to me."
"You haven't even graduated yet, how could you suddenly become a Medical Ninja?"
"And saying you're haggard from working at the Hospital—why don't you just say the Hospital can't function without you?"
She stared intently at Hyuga Aokawa with her large eyes, which were filled with tears, and little pearls kept falling.
It was a heartbreaking sight.
Hyuga Aokawa didn't dare to dwell on the topic anymore.
"I can't explain this in a few words. I'll tell you slowly when I have the chance."
"Now, let me check your wound first."
"No, you big liar. I won't let you check it."
Kurenai Yuhi gritted her teeth, pouted, her nose twitched, and her eyes were red.
She suddenly struggled to stand up on one leg:
"We'll go and wait in line for the Hospital's equipment ourselves."
Saying that, she pulled Yūhi Shinku: "Dad, let's go."
Seeing this, Yūhi Shinku smiled and nodded at Hyuga Aokawa.
Then he supported his limping daughter and walked towards the Examination Department.
"Even if you go over there, they'll just send you back here."
Hyuga Aokawa couldn't help but remind them.
"Even if they send us back, we won't look for you, big liar!"
Kurenai Yuhi didn't look back.
Hyuga Aokawa sat down helplessly and closed his eyes to rest.
30 minutes later.
A medical staff member came running over at a quick pace.
Pushing Kurenai Yuhi in a wheelchair in front of them.
Beside them followed a very nervous Yūhi Shinku.
"Lord Aokawa, there's an injured patient here. Could you please use your Byakugan to check the injury?"
Hyuga Aokawa opened his eyes upon hearing this.
He looked at Kurenai Yuhi in the wheelchair, her face red and her head lowered in silence.
He nodded and replied, "This is my friend. I'll handle the follow-up, you can go back to your work."
"Yes, thank you for your hard work, Lord Aokawa."
Beside him, Yūhi Shinku also spoke: "Thank you for your trouble, young friend."
"It's nothing. Last time was thanks to Lord Shinku Yuhi."
Yūhi Shinku waved his hand: "It was just a small favor."
Hyuga Aokawa pulled the wheelchair a bit closer to himself.
This time, Kurenai Yuhi in the wheelchair didn't resist and allowed Hyuga Aokawa to proceed, her face flushing red.
He carefully lifted Kurenai Yuhi's fair calf with both hands.
He placed it on a chair and unwrapped the gauze.
Revealing the gruesome wound inside.
Then he formed hand signs to activate his Byakugan, carefully observing the condition of the bone beneath the wound.
A moment later.
His expression turned solemn as he spoke: "The bone only has a very slight fracture, so that's not a big problem."
"But the trap might have been coated with toxin. The area around the wound is full of toxin, and it has already begun to invade the bone."
The father and daughter immediately became nervous upon hearing this.
"No wonder Kurenai kept saying she felt dizzy along the way. I thought it was due to blood loss."
"What should we do then? There's no spare staff in the Hospital right now."
"No need, I can treat it directly here."
"You?" Yūhi Shinku was a bit skeptical.
He had just asked the medical staff about Hyuga Aokawa's situation.
Recently, Hyuga Aokawa had shown shocking talent in Medical Ninjutsu.
Like a Genius, he had skipped several stages of medical training and gone straight to interning at the Hospital.
During his internship, he had even learned the Healing Technique of Medical Ninjas.
With him in the Emergency Department, the workload for many people had been lightened.
This was why he dared to entrust his daughter to Hyuga Aokawa for treatment.
But the technique of extracting toxin was something only Advanced Medical Ninjas could do.
In his memory, not many people knew how to do it.
Hyuga Aokawa nodded, and then he quickly formed hand signs.
"Fine Thread Extraction Technique!"
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