I'm Really Doing This For His Own Good

He sliced open the wound, extracted the remaining kunai fragments, and pressed his hands together. As the Healing Technique activated, a flash of green light flickered, and the palm-sized wound vanished instantly!

The young boy wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the patient he had just treated, a surge of excitement rising within him:

"Success, I finally succeeded. After so much effort and so much sweat, I finally earned the chance to complete a patient's treatment independently..."

Outside the room, five medical ninja stood with clipboards, observing the boy's treatment process, their voices filled with endless praise:

"This kid is truly impressive. In just half a year, he's already reached the level of a Lower-rank Medical Ninja!"

"Indeed, and he's still so young. He only just turned eight this year, right?"

"Such a young age combined with such a rapid learning speed—he's already set two records for our hospital!"

Inside, the boy treated his patient; outside, the examiners marveled. It was a perfectly normal scene, but then...

Looking at the patient who was still unconscious, the boy took out a vial of reagent and poured it into the patient's mouth, his excitement no longer containable:

"Damn it, there's finally no one around. I can finally complete my experiment. Moshang Shizhen, is it? Remember today, you bastard, you are going to become the miracle of Konoha!"

"Where's Jiraiya? Where's Orochimaru? Where's the Third Hokage? Where the hell did they all die? Come out and fight me one-on-one! I feel unprecedented power surging within me. I'm actually just a Genin? What a joke! Even if a Jonin came, I could take on ten at once! Isn't it just nepotism? Call them all out and watch me beat them to a pulp!"

On the roof of the Konoha Hospital, a ninja in a hospital gown roared crazily. Through his open gown, one could faintly see the pale pink marks left by his recently healed chest wound. Yet, this high-spirited ninja ignored his newly recovered body, cast a contemptuous glance at the medical ninja surrounding him, and lunged forward. Sounds of "punching Orochimaru the sissy" and "kicking the Third Hokage's bitter face" could be faintly heard in the air!

"Bang!"

The sound of a palm slamming onto a wooden desk echoed. Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage, in his prime, had blue veins bulging on his forehead as he roared at the boy before him:

"Hatake Shudan, what on earth are you doing?"

"Eh?"

The boy called Shudan looked at the Hokage with a blank expression, asking in utter confusion:

"Did I do something?"

"Heh, keep pretending! Keep pretending for me!"

The Third Hokage gave Shudan a cold look, then picked up the file on his desk with a pained expression:

"Moshang Shizhen, member of Asuka Squad, Genin. He has accepted 11 Genin-level missions, completed 10, and failed 1. It was during this failure that an enemy stabbed a kunai into his chest. He blocked it quickly, but it still caused fragments to lodge deep in his chest. Considering his injuries were frightening but not life-threatening, we used him as the subject for your Lower-rank Medical Ninja exam. To avoid dependency during the procedure, we left you to operate alone with no one else in the room. And it was precisely because there was no one else..."

The Third Hokage stared at Shudan through gritted teeth:

"I don't know what you fed this idiot, but he's been running around the village as a Genin, frantically provoking every famous and powerful ninja. If his combat power had suddenly increased, that would be one thing, but when Danzo released a D-rank ninjutsu as a test, he was beaten into critical condition with eighty percent of his bones fractured. He's currently on life support in the ICU. This guy didn't gain a shred of combat power! Do you have anything to say about this?"

"Eh? Is that so?"

Shudan widened his eyes innocently:

"I really didn't do anything! You have to realize there was no one in the operating room. Who saw anything? I must have been framed!"

"Do you take me for a senile old man?"

The Third Hokage slammed the table hard:

"There was no one in the operating room, but there were five examiners watching you from outside! Are they really so shameless as to use a child like you as a scapegoat?"

Shudan scratched his head, suddenly clapped his hands together, and gave the Third Hokage a thumbs-up:

"As expected of the Hokage, your foresight is divine! You immediately discovered the intent of those five guys to frame me!"

"Frame my ass!"

Even someone as composed as the Third Hokage couldn't help but curse. He yanked open his desk drawer, pulled out a notebook, and read through it with a pained expression:

"Three days ago, it was discovered that Hatake Shudan poured an unknown red potion into the mouth of a cat from a bounty mission, causing its agility to increase while also significantly boosting its hunger and digestive capacity. The result was that the nose of the Second Hokage on the Hokage Rock was covered in a thick layer of excrement, and the cleaning crew had to work overtime for two days to get it clean!

Ten days ago, it was discovered that Hatake Shudan poured an unknown blue potion into the mouth of Inuzuka Mei's ninja dog, causing it to urinate on the face of the First Hokage on the Hokage Rock for a full half-hour, continuing even while dodging other ninja. Afterward, the dog suffered from extreme dehydration and only fully recovered two days ago!

A month ago, it was discovered that Hatake Shudan poured an unknown yellow potion into the mouth of a male patient who had just finished surgery. Because he was too fast, other medical staff couldn't stop him. According to Hatake Shudan, this potion was merely meant to increase physical vitality, but after the patient woke up, he displayed a great interest in the same sex. Before he was knocked unconscious, this man had already stripped the pants off three medical staff members. Even more absurdly, he held one of the staff hostage on the Hokage Rock, and their underwear had already been removed. If the Anbu hadn't knocked him out in time, the first case of public same-sex indecency in Konoha's history would have occurred on the Hokage Rock!"

The Third Hokage frantically threw the unfinished file at Shudan's feet and roared with fire in his eyes:

"I just don't understand, why do these things you mess with love to wreak havoc on the Hokage Rock? Destroying the Hokage Rock is something other villages have dreamed of doing for generations, yet you've accomplished it countless times! Are you playing with them or harming Konoha? Don't think because you're young I won't throw you into Konoha Prison!"

As the Third Hokage's roar ended, the room fell into silence. Shudan stared blankly at the Hokage, momentarily stunned by his aura. After two seconds of standing still...

"Waaaah..."

A loud, wailing cry echoed throughout the entire Hokage Building!

"..."

The Hokage's expression immediately looked as if he had swallowed a fly, and when he heard a voice from outside the door say, "Lord Hokage, Shudan's guardian, Hatake Sakumo, has arrived," it made the Third Hokage's mouth twitch uncontrollably.

In the end, the Hokage looked at the bewildered Hatake Sakumo who had just entered, and at Shudan, who was rolling on the floor, smearing snot and tears everywhere, and chased them both out with a headache!