Pain is Temporary, Taunts are Forever!

Half an hour later.

Konoha Medical Hospital.

Inside a private single-patient room.

A curtain separated the hospital bed from the outer area.

Tsunade, Guy, and Shizune stood beside the bed.

As for Obito, Rin, and Anko, who had come to watch the excitement, they had all been left outside the curtain.

Kakashi lay on the bed completely naked, save for a pair of small white briefs.

His expression was thoroughly unnatural.

Embarrassment showed on his face.

If it had only been Tsunade—an elder and a top-tier medical ninja—and Guy—a close friend and another man—

He would not have minded.

But there was suddenly an extra girl his own age.

And she was staring directly at his body.

What was this supposed to be?!

Still, none of the three people by the bed actually cared about Kakashi's delicate sense of shame.

Even Shizune wore the professional expression of a medical practitioner.

Her gaze was calm and focused as she examined the burns on Kakashi's body.

She had absolutely no "thoughts" about Kakashi himself.

After all, who would develop that kind of "interest" at first sight in a patient whose skin was extensively ulcerated and fused together—

A sight too horrible to bear?

Shizune was not some love-struck fool.

At this moment, Kakashi was nothing more than an injured patient in need of assessment and treatment in her eyes.

Shizune stepped forward and instructed him in a flat tone:

"Don't tense your body. Relax a little."

She reached out and gently turned Kakashi over.

She inspected the condition of the skin on his back, sides, and other areas.

Her brows furrowed slightly as she assessed the extent and depth of the damage.

Kakashi felt like crying, howling inwardly.

I want to relax too!

*But I've never been... touched like this by a