i am kimimaro

A shrill scream echoed through the operating room.

Kimimaro's body showed a severe adverse reaction, his flesh and blood being eroded by the energy.

The pain, even Kimimaro, who had trained his body to an astonishing level of strength over the past two years, couldn't bear it.

"It failed! Tsunade-sama!"

Shizune exclaimed.

"Quick! Quickly follow the method I taught you before and remove his corrupted flesh and blood immediately!"

Tsunade was anxious.

"Yes!"

Shizune immediately started the follow-up work, but Kimimaro's violent struggle made her movements very slow.

If she made a wrong cut, not only would she not be able to save him, but she might even directly end his life.

Tsunade watched from the side, her face full of worry.

She wanted to step forward, but out of fear of blood, she stopped, only able to anxiously watch.

"Kimimaro, hold on!"

Tsunade clenched her fists, making a creaking sound, showing how tightly she was gripping them.

Although Shizune's movements were slow, the corroded flesh was gradually being removed.

Just then, Kimimaro suddenly burst out, kicking her in the abdomen with his legs.

The astonishing force sent Shizune flying, crashing into the wall of the operating room.

Bang!

The wall cracked.

Shizune fainted!

"Shizune!"

Tsunade immediately went to help Shizune up, but found that she couldn't wake her up no matter what.

At this moment, Kimimaro was still screaming in pain, as if he had lost consciousness.

"Damn it... At this time, such an accident happened."

Tsunade gritted her teeth, put Shizune on the ground, and ran towards Kimimaro.

The surgery was not yet complete, and he was still bleeding.

Tsunade pressed the struggling Kimimaro onto the operating table, completely ignoring the splattering blood.

"Kimimaro! I won't let anything happen to you!"

Blue chakra emerged from her trembling hands, and Tsunade endured the pain to stop the bleeding for Kimimaro.

But how could trembling hands achieve precise chakra control and activate medical ninjutsu?

The blue light had no effect, and the blood continued to flow.

"Stop! Stop!"

Seeing the continuous flow of blood, Tsunade seemed to be back to that night.

That body whose blood couldn't be stopped, the person she loved the most.

"Tsunade..."

Kimimaro called her name in a low voice, and Tsunade looked at his young face.

In her mind, Kimimaro's image overlapped with Dan's!

"No! You can't die! Absolutely not! I won't allow you to die!"

Tsunade roared, and her trembling hands miraculously stopped at this moment.

Chakra output normally, and the hemostatic technique took effect instantly.

Kimimaro's bleeding stopped!

Tsunade struck while the iron was hot, mobilizing her chakra, and performing the Mystical Palm Technique!

Dozens of invisible chakra threads appeared on her hands, each with a chakra needle attached.

With her hands flying, she sutured all the wounds.

This was the first time she had used the Mystical Palm Technique on a human body, and she didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

With a swipe of her right hand, all the wounds disappeared.

Kimimaro's body was as if it had never undergone surgery.

Tsunade breathed a sigh of relief.

The treatment failed, but the aftereffects of the surgery were eliminated.

It was a blessing in disguise.

"Tsunade-sama... You... You overcame your fear of blood?"

The unconscious Shizune woke up at some point and saw Tsunade skillfully complete the surgery, her face full of surprise.

Tsunade heard this and only then reacted.

Looking at the still warm blood on her hands, Tsunade no longer felt any fear or pain in her heart.

She had succeeded.

"It seems I have."

"That's great!"

Shizune was overjoyed.

"Congratulations, Tsunade-senpai."

At this time, Kimimaro, who was pale on the operating table, also offered his congratulations.

The Mystical Palm Technique could allow patients to recover immediately after treatment. In theory, he wouldn't even need to stay in bed.

But he had just lost a lot of blood, so his pale face was normal.

In addition, his body also felt a sense of weakness.

"You still have the mood to congratulate me? The treatment failed, and our two years of effort were wasted."

Tsunade complained.

Seeing that Kimimaro was in good condition, she was relieved.

Kimimaro smiled helplessly.

"There's nothing we can do about it, we can only keep trying."

As he said that, he got off the operating table by himself.

Shizune quickly ran over to support him.

"Kimimaro, you should still rest a bit. I'll help you down."

"Okay."

Just as the two were about to leave, Tsunade suddenly said, "Shizune, after you take Kimimaro back to rest, come find me immediately."

"Ah? Okay."

Shizune was a bit confused, but she still responded.

After the two left, Tsunade looked around, feeling more and more that something was wrong.

In the room.

Tsunade sat on the tatami, her face livid.

"Tsunade-sama, I'm back."

Shizune pushed the door open and saw Tsunade's unsightly expression, her heart tightened.

Did something happen?

"Shizune, you should explain this to me."

"Explain what?"

"You still don't want to say it? Playing tricks in front of me, you think I didn't notice? That kick from Kimimaro couldn't possibly knock you unconscious directly. Even if it did, you couldn't have woken up so quickly.

You were pretending to faint! What were you trying to do? Kill Kimimaro? I really misjudged you!"

Tsunade was furious, and her right fist slammed onto the table, shattering it instantly.

Shizune quickly knelt in front of Tsunade.

"Tsunade-sama, actually... Actually, it wasn't me who wanted to pretend to faint, it was Kimimaro who asked me to."

"What?"

Tsunade was shocked, and her anger instantly extinguished, but her brows were still furrowed.

"What's going on?"

Shizune lowered her head, not daring to look at Tsunade, but still told her the cause and course of the incident.

"Last night, Kimimaro suddenly came to me..."

The memory flashed back to last night.

"What? You want me to pretend to faint during the last step of the surgery tomorrow? Are you crazy? You could die!"

Hearing Kimimaro's request, Shizune was completely stunned.

What kind of bizarre request was this?

"Don't worry, Shizune-nee. I know what I'm doing. Whether the surgery succeeds or fails, the last step isn't that dangerous. If you stop the treatment, I'll only be in a state of blood loss.

In that situation, I can control my chakra and stop the bleeding myself. I'll be fine."

"Then what are you trying to do? Why go through all this trouble with a perfectly good surgery? Even if you can control it, it's not as good as me treating you in time. If there's any accident, it could still be life-threatening."

Shizune didn't understand.

"I want to help Tsunade-senpai overcome her fear of blood. In a desperate situation, when she's the only medical ninja, I believe she can overcome her fear of blood, because she's Tsunade, the legendary medical ninja of the ninja world."

Shizune was stunned.

She didn't expect Kimimaro to be willing to take such a risk to help Tsunade.

"Shizune-nee, I hope you can help me this time, okay?"

"I..."

Looking at Kimimaro's sincere eyes, Shizune couldn't bring herself to refuse.

"Okay."

(End of Chapter)