Flesh Substitution Technique

"Senior Watanabe, I haven't joined the hospital yet, right?"

"That's right. Which is why I said you have no authority to treat the injured here!"

"Oh, then why don't you get out of my way? Since I haven't joined the hospital yet, what gives you the right to order me around? I'm a proper Genin graduate of the Ninja Academy, and I'm not part of the same system as you Medical Ninjas. No matter how high your rank is, you can't boss me around."

"Idiot! Kimura Takuya, is that how you talk to your senior?"

Watanabe Masa was furious. He pointed at Kimura Takuya and yelled, but the latter paid him no mind.

He went over to help the injured man anyway.

"No! This is my territory. You can't treat anyone here!"

"Damn it, you old bastard! Are you really going to stop him from saving my captain?"

The one-armed ninja saw Kimura Takuya as his last hope.

After seeing Watanabe Masa obstruct him again and again, he roared and pulled out a Kunai, stabbing at him.

Smack!

Kimura Takuya reached out and grabbed his wrist.

"Carry your captain outside. We don't have time to waste arguing with him."

Attacking a Medical Ninja was a serious crime. Even an Anbu Ninja with merits wouldn't get away with it.

Hearing this, the one-armed ninja immediately stopped. The others helped him carry the injured man outside.

The emergency building stood right beside the road.

They set the man down on the roadside.

"I need chakra. I'll stop the bleeding first, then you can give me your chakra."

Kimura Takuya didn't waste time talking. He formed a high-temperature Chakra Scalpel and cut into the wound on the one-armed ninja's stump.

"Ah!"

The wound sizzled, sending up a wisp of smoke as the smell of roasted meat filled the air.

Kimura Takuya saw him trembling in pain, but gritting his teeth and enduring it.

What a tough guy!

Then he raised a hand and pressed it to the man's abdomen. Using the Reverse Rasengan's method of release, he drew chakra into his palm and absorbed it from the one-armed ninja.

The one-armed ninja didn't resist. He let Kimura Takuya do as he pleased, then passed out.

"We'll need a basin of hot water later. Go prepare one."

The female Medical Ninja nodded and ran to the hospital's hot-water room.

They had sent the two of them away, but plenty of onlookers remained.

Among the crowd, a black-haired, dark-eyed figure holding a little pig looked on curiously.

The nurses working in the emergency department had wanted to help, but Watanabe Masa had sent them away. They could only leave reluctantly.

"Little Tuoye, I don't know what you're planning, but if you need help, your big sisters will be there for you."

Tomiko, who had just gotten off work and changed into her casual clothes, had come over with the night-shift nurses.

"That's right, Little Tuoye. If you need chakra or anything else, just say the word."

"Thanks, ladies. I have enough chakra already. Please look after this one-armed ninja for me. I'm about to start the operation, and I need a sterile environment, so please keep your distance."

The others made no objection and took the one-armed ninja aside to care for him.

They wanted to see how Tuoye would treat him, but when they turned around, all they could see was a giant hemispherical chakra barrier.

It was, of course, Kimura Takuya's protective sphere—the Spiral Protection Shield.

Well, he'd just seen Rotation yesterday, and today he'd developed a knockoff defensive technique. That seemed reasonable enough, right?

Inside the Spiral Protection Shield, Kimura Takuya was considering a problem.

It wasn't how to save her.

That wasn't the problem. The medical ninjutsu he'd use to save her was called the Flesh Substitution Technique.

It was a technique that applied the True Transformation Technique to another person, allowing it to heal them from any injury or illness.

This technique could cure any illness or injury, making it a universal Medical Ninjutsu.

But it had to be an SSS-rank forbidden technique.

Even Kakashi had to keep adjusting his vocal cords after using the Transformation Technique to match his target's voice.

Most people could only alter their outward appearance to a limited extent with the Transformation Technique.

Or they could turn into something like a Shuriken, made entirely of metal and relatively easy to imitate.

As for the Akimichi Clan, they could only transform into things they knew well.

Their Multi-Size Technique could enlarge themselves, but it couldn't enlarge them after they transformed into someone else.

Otherwise, why not just turn into a Tailed Beast and spit out a Tailed Beast Bomb? Wouldn't that be great?

They couldn't transform into anything they weren't familiar with.

And the Flesh Substitution Technique wasn't just a Transformation Technique—it was a True Transformation Technique.

The transformed body parts became real. They wouldn't revert if struck.

That was what made the technique so difficult. It wasn't about making superficial changes to fool someone. It required a genuine, deep transformation to repair injuries and illness.

Even harder, the technique had to be used on someone else. He had to control their body and make it use the True Transformation Technique according to his wishes.

For the vast majority of Medical Ninjas, that was pure fantasy.

But to Kimura Takuya, none of those difficulties mattered. No one understood the human body better than he did.

Using the Transformation Technique on someone else was no problem either. The real issue was turning the transformation into reality.

If he needed to fill in a hole, he could just scrape some dirt from nearby.

But the problem was, this female ninja had no "dirt" to spare.

Her body fat percentage might have been lower than Bruce Lee's. She had no extra fat to use to fill the hole.

And the hole was a little too big, too.

Suddenly, Kimura Takuya looked at the area below her collarbones and measured it with his hands.

There was no other choice. Those two were just enough.

Better to lose them than lose her life.

"Ninja Art: Flesh Substitution Technique!"

For once, Kimura Takuya formed a hand seal—one-handed.

His other hand stayed pressed against the wound.

As he released chakra, the female ninja's breasts grew smaller, and the wound shrank along with them.

Her organs slowly healed, and the blood pooled in her abdominal cavity was transformed into blood vessels.

Like 3D printing, the wound—once the size of a volleyball—healed perfectly, without even leaving a scar.

He released the Spiral Protection Shield.

Kimura Takuya covered the female ninja with her clothes, stood up, and stretched.

The whole process had been very fast.

So fast that the female Medical Ninja who'd gone to fetch hot water had returned, panting, with a basin in her hands, without ever seeing the Spiral Protection Shield.

"U-Um, Doctor, may I begin?"

"Oh, it's over. Clean her up."

"It's over? Clean her up!"

The female Medical Ninja burst into tears. She went to her captain and began tidying up her appearance.

She looked as if she were preparing her for burial.

Kimura Takuya was speechless.

How could she not see that the huge bulge was gone?

"Hey, just tidy her up a little. She needs a blood transfusion right away. Could you take a look at the wound before you start crying?"

The female Medical Ninja paused, then incredulously lifted the clothes over the wound.

"It's h-healed! It's really healed!"

"Unbelievable! Little Takuya, you've truly lived up to our expectations!"

"Little Takuya, you're amazing!"

"I knew it! Whatever Little Takuya takes on, he always does perfectly. He's been like that since he was a child!"

"Haha, thanks for the praise, ladies, and thanks for your help. But the two of them still need blood transfusions."

Kimura Takuya gestured for the others to take the one-armed ninja and the female ninja into the hospital for blood transfusions.

The black-haired girl in the crowd stared in shock, squeezing the pig in her hands until it was misshapen.

No one understood better than she did how difficult it was to treat injuries like that.

Even she, Kato Shizune, the direct disciple of Senju Tsunade, the strongest Medical Ninja in the Ninja World, was stunned by the young man's medical ninjutsu.

"A miracle!"

The black-haired girl used that word to describe the black-haired boy's medical ninjutsu.