Medical Ninja System

"Yakushi Nonō is not a sinner of the Medical Department; she is our spiritual pillar..."

The nurse standing to the side trembled, then, as if summoning her courage, she stood up and shouted aloud.

"A spiritual pillar, ha! Sending the doctors of the Konoha Medical Department to the front lines, only for them to be ambushed by enemy ninjas and suffer over sixty percent casualties—the greatest loss in the department's history!" The middle-aged man sneered. "Is this what you call a spiritual pillar? Even if she resigned as the head of the Medical Department, she cannot hide her mistakes and crimes..."

The nurse's fair face flushed red as she retorted loudly, "That's not how it was at all! The massive death toll in that battle was mostly because the time taken to transport the wounded from the front to the rear was too long, leading to failed rescues. Yakushi Nonō and many other Konoha doctors couldn't bear to see front-line ninjas suffer and die, which is why they went to the front. They are all heroes of Konoha..."

"Do you have any idea how many doctors that kind of thinking could kill? Every elite doctor takes a massive amount of time to cultivate. What happens when a doctor who cannot fight faces an enemy combatant? What kind of losses will that cause? What would a mere nurse like you know??" The middle-aged man's eyes were bloodshot, and he glared at the nurse as if he wanted to devour her. "You never went to the battlefield. Who told you this kind of thinking... tell me!!"

Such matters were only known to the old physicians who had followed Yakushi Nonō. It was unexpected that there were still worshippers and supporters of hers within the Medical Department. If such people were to rise to power, it would be a disaster for the department; they absolutely could not be allowed to remain.

The middle-aged man's philosophy was at odds with Yakushi Nonō's. Perhaps in her heart, it was purely a benevolent desire to save lives, while he acted for the sake of the Medical Department as a whole, for its growth and future.

Faced with the interrogation from the upper echelons of the Medical Department, the nurse trembled in fear. Just then, a childish yet scornful voice suddenly came from the hospital bed: "Front-line ninjas are born to face the threat of death. Is the fact that the lives of Medical Department members are more precious than those of ninjas the reason you people are so cowardly?"

Everyone followed the sound to see the child who had just been treated by Tsunade Senju leaning against the hospital bed, soaking wet and looking exhausted, a mocking expression on his cute, delicate face!

"You brat, what do you know??"

The middle-aged man was furious and about to lash out, but he suddenly realized that the person in front of him was just a five-year-old child, so he stopped in his tracks, feeling disgruntled.

"Compared to your closed-minded and stubborn thinking, Yakushi Nonō is not only beautiful and kind-hearted, but her insight is also far superior to yours. The idea that medical personnel cannot go to the front lines is simply absurd. Yakushi Nonō had already thought of a way to deal with it!"

"With this method, even medical personnel can go to the front lines!"

Sato Hideaka lay on the hospital bed, clenching his fists and speaking with firm, childish conviction.

"Nonō? You actually know Nonō? What nonsense are you spouting? How can medical personnel go to the front lines..." The middle-aged man stepped forward indignantly, preparing to grab Sato Hideaka to stop his speech; this was simply poisoning minds with incorrect concepts.

Tsunade Senju waved her hand, stopping the middle-aged man's movement, and looked at Sato Hideaka with a beaming smile. "Little brother, you just said that Nonō thought of a way for medical personnel to go to the front lines. Can you tell sister what this method is?"

"Why should I tell you? You just hurt me so much!" Sato Hideaka looked at Tsunade Senju with wary eyes, feeling that her current expression was like a creepy uncle from his past life trying to trick a child.

"Damn it...!"

Tsunade Senju punched Sato Hideaka on the head. She had finally managed to show a smile, only to be treated with such disdain by this brat, which made the competitive Tsunade Senju very unhappy.

Sato Hideaka let out a cry of pain, clutching his head as he looked at Tsunade Senju, who was posturing to hit him again. He quickly said, "Alright, alright. I'll tell you, I'll tell you... consider it a thank you for healing my wounds. Hmph!"

"Yakushi Nonō told me this is called the Medical Ninja System!"

"Medical Ninja? Do you think we haven't tried that? Even a medical ninja with a bit of self-defense capability would still be easily killed when facing a professional combat ninja!" The middle-aged man snorted, his words filled with contempt.

"Old man with the outdated mindset, can you wait for me to finish? Has no one told you that interrupting others is very rude? I'm only five and I know that's rude..."

Under the strange expressions of Tsunade Senju and the nurse, who were struggling to hold back their laughter, the middle-aged man was even more incensed. If not for the presence of Princess Tsunade, he would have surely stepped forward to teach Sato Hideaka a lesson about the importance of respecting his elders.

Sato Hideaka ignored the middle-aged man entirely, simply extending three fingers as he spoke slowly:

"First, establish a professional training program for medical ninjas, teaching them to possess stronger battlefield survival skills, and divide them into 'Frontline Battlefield Medical Ninja' and 'Logistics Battlefield Medical Ninja'. Their training methods will differ based on their respective environments...!"

"The so-called 'Frontline Battlefield Medical Ninja' involves gathering sensory-type ninjas and training them as auxiliary medical ninjas. They can sense danger to avoid it, perform emergency wound treatment, and then hand the stabilized wounded over to professional 'Logistics Battlefield Medical Ninja' for treatment, preventing cases of death due to delayed rescue."

"Second, we can create specialized 'Ninjutsu Scroll' to give to 'Frontline Battlefield Medical Ninja' as secret weapons for survival. For example, sealing 'Defensive Ninjutsu' or 'Control Ninjutsu' into scrolls, and then injecting chakra when needed to release them."

"Imagine, when an enemy combat ninja targets our medical ninja, even if our medical ninja doesn't know offensive ninjutsu, they can inject chakra into the scroll to release a Water Style: Great Waterfall Technique to wash the enemy away, buying time for our own ninjas to protect the medical personnel, right?"

Tsunade Senju's eyes lit up. She listened carefully to the methods Sato Hideaka proposed and found that they were indeed highly feasible. Moreover, these methods broke away from the old-fashioned thinking of traditional medical personnel and were highly forward-looking.

In truth, this was also due to Sato Hideaka having a broader perspective from the information explosion era, and both of these methods had appeared in the Naruto anime, where they seemed to be quite effective.

The first method: The sensory-type ninja Hyuga Hinata had learned simple medical ninjutsu, which could handle simple wounds and suppress the worsening of injuries. With her Byakugan, she could observe enemy movements to avoid danger and also act as a medical ninja to help treat the wounded.

The second method: Jiraiya had once used the Fire Sealing Method to seal the Amaterasu of Uchiha Itachi. If one were to seal techniques like the Great Waterfall Technique or Earth Style: Earth Wall and release them in the opposite manner, it could be used to attack enemies and buy time.

"The third is... a mindset that maximizes the benefits of team combat!" Sato Hideaka gave Tsunade Senju a strange look before finally saying it: "These are the Three Principles of Medical Ninjas. First: A medical ninja must never give up on treatment until the team member's life is exhausted; second: A medical ninja must never be on the front line of the battlefield; third: A medical ninja must never die before any other member of the team."

The Three Principles of Medical Ninjas were a doctrine proposed by Tsunade Senju herself. The thinking behind them reflected her own competitive nature; aside from ensuring the safety of medical ninjas, everything else was for the sake of victory in team combat!

These three principles were later revered as a creed by all medical ninjas and greatly improved their status on the battlefield!

Upon hearing this, Tsunade Senju was stunned. These three principles coincided perfectly with her own thoughts. More importantly, the addition of the first two methods compensated for the flaw in her own ideas regarding the inability to guarantee the safety of medical ninjas.

Was this really a method that Yakushi Nonō had painstakingly devised?

It was an advanced way of thinking that was truly ahead of its time!