[Yamamoto Shosuke]

Sometimes, Sho envied other people who were more ignorant of their limitations. Sho knew more than any other just how much he was and wasn't able to actually do, and though he was always trying to improve how much he could do and how well he could do it, he also knew just where his limitations lay.

Ren, on the other hand, seemed 100% confident that everything would go well. He was optimistic, in the same sort of way that a blind man might see the world as far more beautiful than it actually was. Still, technically Sho had already given him the warning and there was nothing more that he actually had to say on the matter. If the boy got himself injured by ignoring doctor's orders, well then that was what would happen.

You couldn't blame a doctor for a patient refusing to take their medicine after all.

Without listening to a single word Sho had said, Ren ran off, putting all that pressure and chakra through his injured leg. Still, despite all of Shosuke's worries, the boy seemed to be fine. At least for now, he was showing no symptoms of any further complications and he was putting weight on his leg without issue. Or, at least, so it seemed for the first few seconds before the boy's body caught up with him.

In a single moment, the boy's leg slipped out from under him and he went flying, tumbling over and over and over until he came to a final stop in the middle of a dust cloud. Yet, rather than tearing up or letting out a wail of agony, the boy simply sat up and began massaging his leg. From where Sho was standing, it was becoming harder and harder to work out just how serious this boy's injuries actually were.

"Fine my ass." Sho said, his tone becoming increasingly annoyed as the boy continued to try and deflect from the seriousness of the situation. "Look, stay there, alright? I'm going to call over one of the doctors from the local clinic, see if they can give you a full examination of your limb. Trust me, you'll thank me later when you don't crap out in the middle of the Exams...."

It seemed the more stressed Shosuke became, the more that vulgar tongue of his came into play, swearing like a sailor. But, if nothing else, at least it showed that he actually cared.

409 words | Ishikawa Ren

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Iryō Suiton: Suika [Medical Water Release: Water Mosquito]: 8/9
Jutsus Used: None

[Ishikawa Ren]

     "Really, I'm fine." he said with a smile. "But you're the doctor, if you think that's necessary then alright." Ren sighed. Perhaps the stress was getting to him a little. Coping, some might call it. He lightly rested his eyes.

     Falling behind might be unacceptable, but perhaps Shosuke was right - now might be the best time to stop. He didn't want to break his leg before the exams had even started. Best to just head back now and rest this whole thing off. There'd be other days for training. He opened his eyes again.

     He was leaned up against a tree's trunk, next to the same bushes where'd he been bitten in the first place. Ren saw movement from the side of his eye. A snake, with the same exact appearance as what'd he'd described earlier was slithering towards him. Ren rolled off to the side and hobbled to his knees despite the exhaustion he felt.

     "Hey, Doc! Think we've got out culprit right here!" he fished some shuriken from his bag and held them at the ready. "You need this thing alive or not?" Ren didn't really want to kill it, but he wasn't in much of a position to run away right now. Perhaps Shosuke had a safer way of grabbing the thing.

Yamamoto Shosuke | 215 words

[Yamamoto Shosuke]

Fear of falling behind was indeed something that Shosuke could empathize with, although not usually from this end of the issue. Either way, it was a pretty simple matter of calculus - trading a minor chance of falling behind by continuing to train whilst injured in exchange for a far higher chance of remaining behind permanently by breaking something.

In a world where medical ninjutsu existed, it was oh-so-easy for the common man to disregard threats to bodily security like breaks, sprains and bruises, but Sho knew more than anyone just how easy it was for something that should be minor to end up a complete change to one's entire life. Even if Atagi had recovered from having his arms ripped off, the man would never forget how it felt, the pain that his body went through.

He had turned on his heel and was mostly out of the training yard by the time that Ren shouted back to him. He immediately turned around, looking at the kid who had apparently found the damned thing whilst he was lying there on the ground. He hoped, really hoped, that it was the same snake and not just another one that he had coincidentally found. Because if it was the latter, then they were going to have to relocate the entire training and put this place off limit until they could get a pest exterminator in.

"Be careful with it!" Sho yelled, his tone clearly one of concern. "It doesn't matter if its alive or dead, we just need a larger sample of its venom and to be able to recognise what the actual breed is. If you wanna keep it alive, fine, but make sure you do so in a way that doesn't get you bit again. We don't want to have to do this all over again when I get back."

A minor bolt of relief shot through Sho's body as the other chuunin wove a handsign, causing a minor tunnel of earth to form around the thing, keeping it sealed within safely as sure as if it were in a metal trap. With that, Sho finally left the training yard, certain to return with someone from Azakaya's medical staff. After all, if the boy was going to participate in the exams, they couldn't be too careful with his health.

He just hoped this little incident wasn't foreshadowing something else.

[END THREAD]

400 words | Ishikawa Ren

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Iryō Suiton: Suika [Medical Water Release: Water Mosquito]: 9/9
Jutsus Used: None