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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 16, 2023 5:08:59 GMT -5
Gima Taro
I'll never go down easy
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age 18 years old birthday September 6th rank Genin occupation Genin
There was a humbling reality one had to come upon when they got into constant fights- There were going to be more losses than wins. It was the nature of it, really. Taro was no stranger to defeat, and today wasn't an exception, as the wounded warrior stumbled his way through the streets of Amegakure.


Another brawl in the alleyways. Another unsanctioned fight. Another bout of getting jumped by three guys at once. Sure, he was a Shinobi, a tough one at that, but he wasn't exactly using his Ninja Tricks against thugs in the street. He was a bit more... Hands on, then that. Which left him on the downward slope. He fought dirty, sure, but he never fought in way that might kill some civilian. It wasn't really the way he worked. 

Which, in the case of a three on one, left him beaten, bruised, and quite a bit broken. Taro was walking on a damaged leg- A broken nose- And several fractures. Not to mention scrapes, bruises, and bleeding cuts that he'd basically packed with cloth and called it a day. At least he was only down some ryo at best, rather than anything actually important. 

Of course, when the Watch Corps caught him, they tossed him half-assedly right into the hospital waiting room. Against his will, of course. If it were up to Taro, he'd just lick his wounds, rest for a while, and stubbornly try to fix things himself. Why rely on others on something he'd healed naturally from before? 

Whatever. It was out of his hands now. Despite his protests, he was stuck here in this crappy waiting room, having been sitting here for what felt like hours. Drenched in rain, sweat, blood, and bruised skin, to anyone untrained, he looked half-dead already. But anyone with even a miniscule amount of medical training could tell it was all surface deep. Bruises, cuts, a few fractures, maybe one true broken bone- It'd take some time to clean up and fix, perhaps, but it wasn't exactly going to put the shinobi into the ground.

That said, it also wasn't something anyone would want to leave untreated. Regardless, he had no idea how long he was going to be waiting here, in the middle of the night. A hospital as nice and large as Amegakure, it'd be hard pressed to not be filled with people looking for fixes for their endless amounts of nonsensical flaws and faults. Not to mention the likely bureaucracy that came with all that advancement. 

Taro could only imagine, because truth be told, even as his family had 'blended in' with society at large, and even as Taro had spent his time in the academy... He was still getting very used to all of this. Guess it was harder to take the wild out of the child, rather than the other way around.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 18, 2023 19:51:42 GMT -5
Hyūga Shodaime
I will protect everyone, no matter the cost!
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age 38 years old birthday 09/22 rank Jōnin occupation Head Medic
It was another slow night again in Amegakure at the hospital. Shodaime of course, was doing her rounds as a medic in the hospital having worked here since being allowed into Amegakure after escaping from Konoha. She was still getting used to the newly attached prosthetic arm she was given. Though it felt different than the normal weight of her original arm, Shodaime was growing used to it over time, learning it's capabilities and how best to utilize it. It was interesting to say the least. An artificial arm that allowed for chakra to flow throw it like a normal arm and allow for all techniques to used with it. The technology in Ame sure outpaced everywhere else in the world.

With not much to do, Shodaime decided to check the waiting room to see if there was anyone she would be able to take care of and help out. When she arrived there, she would find a young shinobi who was clearly beat up from what seems like a fight. A few cuts, bruises, scrapes and a twisted foot. She didn't need to use her byakugan to see that the kid was beaten pretty good. She would read on the waiting room list that the shinobi's name is Taro Gima.

"Taro Gima, I'll see you now." She would say to the young shinobi. "I'll have one of the nurses push you in a wheelchair, can't have you messing up that foot anymore."
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 18, 2023 20:02:55 GMT -5
Gima Taro
I'll never go down easy
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age 18 years old birthday September 6th rank Genin occupation Genin
Ugh... Getting called out by his full name. That was honestly more painful then the damn attack he got hit with in the first place. Still, his eyes couldn't help but turn to his doctor as he was carted through the halls via wheelchair. She seemed... Different.

... Hyuuga? The hell was a Hyuuga doing in Amegakure? ... Not that he really knew much about them in the first place- The only reason he was even able to discern them is because of those pale, milky eyes. Dojutsu clans weren't exactly the most subtle in the Ninja world, so she stood out like a sore thumb in that regard. He couldn't be too sure though.

Still. Knowing nothing of this woman or her past, it seemed she was working for the village. As he was carted down towards a medical room, he couldn't help but let out some quips.

"It's... Not as bad as it looks. And... Just Taro. Please." He muttered. He clearly didn't like his last name. Gima was... Blegh. It hardly even constituted as a name. His first name, at least, had meaning to it.

"... Are you..." His curiosity spoke up as well. "Are you a Hyuuga?" Okay, it was a less then subtle way to ask, but he had to know at this point.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 18, 2023 21:59:31 GMT -5
Hyūga Shodaime
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age 38 years old birthday 09/22 rank Jōnin occupation Head Medic
"I am..." Shodaime says to Taro before bringing him into an examination room. "The nurse is going to lift you up on this table and I'm going to check you over and make sure you don't have anything life threatening I need to worry about." Shodaime would say as she activated her Byakugan to check over Taro. Damaged leg, broken nose, minor fractures, this kid was pretty beat up.

"You seem pretty beat up, Taro, got into any fights lately?" Shodaime would ask him as she continued to look him over. She knew that she would probably have to get his leg in a cast and then set his nose back into place. It would be simple work for her, due to her 20 years of medical experience.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 18, 2023 22:12:25 GMT -5
Gima Taro
I'll never go down easy
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age 18 years old birthday September 6th rank Genin occupation Genin
Well. She did say she was a Hyuuga, but didn't really add on to anything after that. Not really... What he wanted to hear, he kind of wanted a comforting 'I am, but I'm still your buddy' here, but... Whatever. He'd work with what he got. In this case, what he got was... Well. This.

As he was lifted up and onto the table, a hiss of pain reared its ugly head from his mouth. He laid back, deciding to suck it up for now, as she scanned him over. Yeah, nothing life threatening. Just a lot of pain in his near future. Then again, from the way his bones looked, the scars over his system- He was no stranger to injuries like these. It likely wasn't the first, or last time, he'd end up busted like this.

She asked him a question, which went right over his head for a moment, before he gave her a smug look.

"Nah, I just... Fell down some stairs..." He muttered in a pained breath, as he looked up at the ceiling.

"Just a bit of a scrap... Y-You should see the other guy..." The other guy was just fine, actually. Probably drinking or something with the Ryo he stole from Taro. A grumble came from his lips at the thought of that, before he glanced off towards the side.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 18, 2023 23:41:18 GMT -5
Hyūga Shodaime
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age 38 years old birthday 09/22 rank Jōnin occupation Head Medic
"Fell down the stairs or got in a scrap, which is it?" Shodaime would ask as she would begin to bandage up some of the wounds. She would note the scars that were there before, this was not the first time he had been in scraps before. He was in a lot of pain, but was really good at not showing it.

"This may hurt a bit." Shodaime would say as she gripped onto Taro's nose and twisting a bit to set it back into place. She would then go to wrap his leg to prepare for a cast.

"You should learn to be a bit more careful, Ame isn't going to pay for these hospital visits forever." Shodaime would say as she finished wrapping his leg.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 19, 2023 6:17:37 GMT -5
Gima Taro
I'll never go down easy
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age 18 years old birthday September 6th rank Genin occupation Genin
"I think we both know which one it was, boss." He coughed, watching her bandage the wounds. He didn't need to tell her at this point- It was obvious that falling down the stairs didn't typically end in with you looking like a limp body. Well, not often, anyways. Still, his quirps stopped as he considered it for a moment. He had no reason to be disrespectful to this woman. Anyone who was helping him was obviously on his side, so they deserved a lot more respect then he was giving out.

"...Yeah. I got in a fight. Pretty bad one." He muttered, before he was suddenly grabbed by the nose. Ow, ow, ow, ow- OW. Holy molly, he could have his bones relocated a hundred times and getting anything done on the face would still easily crown it as 'Most painful Injuries'. What a miserable experience. He didn't yell, at least. He wasn't that much of a pansy.

"I didn't ask for- Mrph- The treatment. They dragged me here when they saw me. I'm sure... It'd have healed, eventually." In the wrong place, maybe. It was a risk to try and have it heal on its own, that was for certain. Didn't take a medical professional to know that. But Taro was hardly even a medical aspirant, so...

"...Sorry for wasting your supplies." He added that on at the end there. It was a rather humbling truth- He didn't like the idea that he was wasting Amegakure's medical supplies on his stupid fights and scraps. It didn't really sit well with him.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 19, 2023 20:43:47 GMT -5
Hyūga Shodaime
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age 38 years old birthday 09/22 rank Jōnin occupation Head Medic
"Don't worry, I was joking. As long as you're a shinobi, Ame is going to keep paying for you to recover here in the hospital." Shodaime would say as she continued to wrap his leg. She knew it needed to be wrapped up pretty good in order for it to heal properly.

"You shouldn't get into fights you know, it's only going to get you into more trouble with the Ame lord and the shinobi who protect this village." Shodaime would say as she stops wrapping his leg. "The last time I was in a major fight, it really didn't end as well as I had hoped it." She would say as she referred to her now prosthetic left arm, having lost it during her escape from Konoha. "I lost my arm and I paid the price for that fight." Like all people in Amegakure, Shodaime cared for the people who came into the hospital and all those who lived in the village, it was almost a sort of penance for having escaped from Konoha. She gave back to the village who took her in.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 19, 2023 21:13:00 GMT -5
Gima Taro
I'll never go down easy
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age 18 years old birthday September 6th rank Genin occupation Genin
A sigh, as Taro looked down, watching his leg get wrapped nice and tight. He expected her to use some sort of Jutsu on it, but that might have just made things worse, in retrospect. He didn't know how Medic-nin worked. He barely knew how to wrap his own wounds, jeeze.

"Trouble, huh?" He glanced down at her left arm as she spoke, not speaking, but simply listening as the woman explained her failed fight. Instinctually, Taro flexed his own left hand, almost as if trying to imagine, in his head, what it'd be like to lose an arm.

It'd probably hurt a lot.

"Yeah. I get into fights... Trouble a lot. It's just... Who I am. I can't help that people don't like me." He frowned. There was a bit of truth to that. After all, as much as he hated to admit it, he was a bit of a bumpkin from the rural distances of Amegakure. Not exactly smart city-folk. He was street wise, sure, but he would always wear the cape of responsibility when it came down to not understanding certain mannerisms.

"Not that I'm much help. I can't stand people who mock others- Pick on the weak, steal from folks, bully civilians. I'd fight those kinds of goons any day of the week. And if I lost my arm because of it...?" He looked down at his hand again, flexing it as he pulled it into a fist.

"I can't imagine a better way to lose your limb then doing it for something you truly believe in." He glanced up at Shodaime, though, realizing he was ranting at this point as he thought on his own words for a moment, then back to glancing at her arm.

"What about you? Do you still believe the choices that lead to... That, were the right ones? Do you ever regret past events?" He didn't. Or maybe he did. In truth, that really wasn't something he'd dwelled on in quite some time.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 20, 2023 0:22:13 GMT -5
Hyūga Shodaime
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age 38 years old birthday 09/22 rank Jōnin occupation Head Medic
"I live with the choices I made everyday and not once do I regret making them." Shodaime says looking down at her prosthetic arm. She flexes her hand a bit, still not used to it's movement and how it operates. "I regret leaving the ones I love behind, but I've made peace with that already." Konoha was her birthplace, the place she was raised, where she rose through the ranks, but it would've been her grave if she had stayed. So many hurtful memories of the Hyuuga clan's main branch treating her like a second class citizen. Always looking down on her like she was nothing to them. Even when she rose the ranks and became Head Medic, it meant nothing to them. And then she found her love, a missing-nin, she left the village for him and then just like in an instant he was already out of her life, after she had sacrificed so much to be in Amegakure. She didn't need him anymore, she made her own decisions and didn't need someone,
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 20, 2023 8:00:43 GMT -5
Gima Taro
I'll never go down easy
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age 18 years old birthday September 6th rank Genin occupation Genin
She regretted leaving people behind, but made peace with it. An interesting way to look at it. Taro glanced down at his injuries, adjusting his seating a bit, as he rubbed under his bloody nose.

"I guess I can't judge. I'm just a teenager, after all. Still. I'm glad you're enjoying where you live now. I wonder where I'll be, when I'm as old as you..." He glanced down, looking at his own hand.

"Probably in the grave, with the way I act. Hah." He didn't seem bothered at his own self made revelation, as he glanced up towards the distance.

"At least, that's how I'll end up if I don't train properly. Hard to find someone good at just... Punching things around here though. At least, old enough to help me learn." He didn't like the idea of being bent on others to learn, but it was a sad requirement, in truth.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 20, 2023 22:27:35 GMT -5
Hyūga Shodaime
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age 38 years old birthday 09/22 rank Jōnin occupation Head Medic
"You don't have to fight every fight, sometimes it's fine to avoid it all together." Shodaime would say to him as she stood up from wrapping his leg. "Though if you are attacked, then sometimes a fight can't be helped."

Shodaime would check him over again, making sure she didn't miss any of the scrapes and cuts. She was very thorough in her examination of him, making sure she got every cut and scrape. She then would pull a pen out of her prosthetic arm and write down what she had done with him on a piece of paper.

"You're a genin and you don't have anyone to train you properly?" Shodaime would ask him. It was rare that genin didn't have teams or teachers they could go to, to learn and fight properly.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 21, 2023 2:17:29 GMT -5
Gima Taro
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age 18 years old birthday September 6th rank Genin occupation Genin
A simple shrug, as Taro glanced off into the distance for a moment.

"...Most teachers would rather pass on me. I'm a bit of trouble, I guess." That was an understatement. He was a huge trouble. He was constantly causing it, and when she had brought up not fighting every fight, he sort of scoffed. Not in a way that was angry at her, but in an offended way.

"And it's really not part of my Nindo to just let something go like that. I'm a fighter at heart- It's who I am. If that means I have to take a fight or... Five that I can't win, then so what. As long as my opponent isn't some sort of god or something, I don't see why I shouldn't give it all a try." And... There was the explanation as to why he was constantly looking like he came out of the wrong end of a meat grinder.

"Those who don't pass on me though, don't really have the skills to teach me. It's no big deal though. I'll find someone. Or I'll learn on my own. Just because I got a hard knock life doesn't exactly mean I'm down to my last leg." A pun, of all things, as he rubbed his cast.

"So this will hold up? Can I still fight in this thing?" He asked. He had a feeling he knew the answer, but well... That stubborn look on his face told Shodaime everything she needed to know. He was probably going to fight with it on.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 23, 2023 21:00:36 GMT -5
Hyūga Shodaime
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"You're kidding right?" Shodaime would ask him but the look on his face told her he was indeed not kidding. "No you're not kidding, If you fight on this broken leg, you will never be able to walk again. I wouldn't want that to happen to you and ruin your chance at greatness in the village." Shodaime would tell him, coming from her own experiences and knowledge in the medical field.

"I know how much you want to fight, I get that, but you need to pick your battles and know when you can and can't fight. If you do then you won't get hurt as much as you do." She would say reading his file on record. The kid was a little bit like her when she was younger, stubborn and always wanting to prove themselves. It took a life threatening explosion at the chunin exams for Shodaime to realize what she wanted to do with her shinobi career. Maybe this moment was Taro's.
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Surface Deep [Shodaime]Jun 24, 2023 0:06:19 GMT -5
Gima Taro
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age 18 years old birthday September 6th rank Genin occupation Genin
A glance off to the side, as Taro sighed. She was giving him that look. That look that he was kind of weak too, mostly due to this... Odd sense to want to do right by others. At least the people that mattered to him. In this case, she'd done right by him, and she was a proud member of his village. She'd been through thick and thin, and in that regard, he couldn't help but run a hand through his hair as he stared away.

"I get it, yeah. I can't guarantee any of that crap about being able to pick my battles, though." He teased gently, glancing over at her with a sly smirk running along his face. "If you haven't noticed from the scars, I'm a pretty bad judge of difficulty. Long as I can get a solid punch in, I figure why not try." He was going on again, as he sighed.

"I won't walk on it though. Is there any way for this to heal any faster? How long before I'm back on my feet swinging?" He'd ask, looking down at the busted up leg. What a depressing state for an otherwise ''strong'' shinobi...
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