Medical Ninja System

Konoha.

Konoha Hospital.

Qingshui arrived early that morning.

He wasn't there to see a doctor, but to report for work.

He had passed his internship the day before, and starting today, he was a qualified Medical Ninja.

"Good morning, Hirakawa-sama!"

As soon as he entered Konoha Hospital, several nurses greeted him.

Looking at the blue-haired, golden-eyed Qingshui, their faces were filled with respect and admiration.

"Good morning!"

Rather than putting on airs, Qingshui smiled warmly and returned their greetings before heading to his office.

"Just as you'd expect from Hirakawa-sama. He's absolutely my ideal man!"

"Stop dreaming. With your skills, how could you ever be worthy of a genius like Hirakawa-sama?"

The Second Shinobi World War had ended just a year ago, and Konoha still didn't have many outstanding Medical Ninjas.

So it was only natural that Qingshui, with his exceptional medical skills and good looks, would be so admired.

What did it mean to be exceptionally gifted and accomplished at a young age?

As Qingshui sat at his desk, a thought crossed his mind, and a panel appeared before him that only he could see.

[Name: Hirakawa Qingshui]

[Chakra: D-Rank (500/10000)]

[Skills: Shurikenjutsu (Proficient), Clone Technique (Proficient), Transformation Technique (Proficient), Substitution Technique (Proficient), Body Flicker Technique (Proficient), Konoha Style Swordsmanship (Proficient), Healing Technique (Expert), Hemostasis Technique (Expert), Bone Setting Technique (Expert), Delicate Illness Extraction Technique (Expert)]

There was no doubt about it: Hirakawa Qingshui was a transmigrator who had been reborn in Konoha eighteen years ago.

The good news was that he had gotten a second life.

The bad news was that this was the Ninja World, where people killed without blinking and bloodlines mattered greatly.

Being a shinobi without a bloodline was hard in this world.

Qingshui was the perfect example.

At the Ninja Academy, his grades had always been average. The only reason he'd managed that much was because his top-ranked theoretical scores had helped pull up his overall performance.

Then the Second Shinobi World War broke out, and at fourteen, he went to the battlefield.

Although he managed to survive the war, his Jonin instructor and one of his teammates were killed, and his Ninja Squad was disbanded as a result.

Afterward, he had planned to return to the Ninja Academy as a teacher.

But then he bound himself to the Medical Ninja System, gained top-tier talent in medical ninjutsu, and became an Innate Medical Saint Body.

In just one year, he had gone from knowing nothing about medicine to becoming a respected Medical Ninja.

That was an astonishing rate of progress.

After all, that year had also included the time he spent studying medical theory.

Strictly speaking, he'd learned several medical ninjutsu in just one week, including the B-Rank Delicate Illness Extraction Technique.

Based on the difficulty of learning them, the Ninja World divided ninjutsu into six ranks: E, D, C, B, A, and S.

B-Rank Ninjutsu were already the kind of techniques used by Jonin.

And because medical ninjutsu demanded exceptionally precise Chakra control, they were much harder to learn than Ninjutsu of the same rank.

Of course, that wasn't the system's only function.

Every time he completed a medical treatment, he received a Golden Orb as a reward—but he had to be the attending physician.

Assisting with a treatment, treating someone with a clone, or treating himself didn't count.

Starting today, Qingshui was qualified to handle medical cases on his own.

"Hirakawa-sama, there's a patient who needs immediate treatment!"

A nurse knocked hurriedly on the door.

"Understood. Prepare the operating room immediately!"

Pushing aside his other thoughts, Qingshui hurried to the operating room.

Once inside, he looked at the injured patient and realized he knew her.

"Mikoto!"

Uchiha Mikoto had been his classmate at the Ninja Academy and later became his teammate after they graduated.

A year had passed, and Mikoto was now a Jonin who served as the instructor for a squad of Genin.

But now she lay unconscious on the hospital bed, covered in blood. The wound on her abdomen had been treated hastily, but it was still bleeding, soaking the white cloth completely red.

She had lost so much blood that even unconscious, her face looked deathly pale.

If she weren't still breathing, anyone would have thought she was already a corpse.

Daring not waste any time, Qingshui immediately began the operation.

First, he cut away the white cloth covering Mikoto's abdomen, exposing the bloody wound. Blood immediately poured out, staining her pale skin red.

Having assisted in many operations during his internship, he quickly identified the injury as one caused by a Kunai thrust.

The wound was deep.

Luckily, Mikoto had avoided any vital organs. Otherwise, she might have died on the spot.

There were no signs of darkening around the wound, so she hadn't been poisoned.

"Wipe away the blood."

After assessing the situation, Qingshui quickly gave the order, and the nurse beside him immediately cleaned the blood from around the wound with a white cloth.

At the same time, he gently placed both hands over the injury. Without making any Hand Seals, he concentrated Chakra in his palms, where it glowed faintly.

Hemostasis Technique!

This was the C-Rank Medical Ninjutsu he had mastered, capable of quickly stopping a wound from bleeding.

Thanks to the talent granted by the system, even though he had only learned the Hemostasis Technique recently, he had already brought it to expert level, surpassing the Three Basic Techniques.

He kept up the flow of Chakra until, five minutes later, Mikoto's wound finally stopped bleeding.

But Qingshui didn't stop the treatment. Instead, he continued.

"Apply the medicine."

The nurse beside him worked swiftly and skillfully, soon covering Mikoto's wound with medicine.

Meanwhile, Qingshui used the Healing Technique to speed up the wound's recovery.

This was a D-Rank Medical Ninjutsu and one of the basic techniques every Medical Ninja had to learn.

If he knew the A-Rank Mystical Palm Technique, he could heal a wound in five minutes without using any medicine.

In fact, the Healing Technique was simply a weaker version of the Mystical Palm Technique, created to make medical ninjutsu more accessible.

After all, the A-Rank Mystical Palm Technique was so difficult to learn that even Tsunade, the greatest Medical Ninja in the Ninja World, considered it challenging.

Of course, with his system-enhanced talent, there was no way Qingshui couldn't learn the Mystical Palm Technique.

It was just that, at his current level, he couldn't yet access A-Rank Medical Ninjutsu.

In Konoha, B-Rank Ninjutsu and above were restricted.

There were three ways to learn them.

The first was to learn a secret technique passed down by one's clan. Any shinobi from a clan was eligible.

The second was to become someone's student. In the Original Work, Naruto learned the Rasengan, which he used for the rest of his life, after becoming Jiraiya's apprentice.

The third was to receive one as a reward.

Qingshui had learned the B-Rank Delicate Illness Extraction Technique as a reward after demonstrating exceptional talent in Medical Ninjutsu.

More than ten minutes later, by the time Qingshui had used up his Chakra, Mikoto's wound had nearly healed.

The treatment was complete.

Just then, the system's voice sounded in Qingshui's mind.

[You have completed the treatment of Uchiha Mikoto. Reward: one Golden Orb.]

[Congratulations! You have obtained Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death.]