Kurenai: Have You Been Fooling Around with Women?

"Kurenai, what happened to you?"

"I'm hurt!" Yuhi Kurenai replied.

Only then did Hyuga Qingchuan notice that Kurenai's eyes were red, as if she had been crying.

He took her other hand. "Sit down first."

As he spoke, he and Yuhi Shinku helped Kurenai over to a chair nearby.

"Gasp!"

Walking seemed to pull at Kurenai's wound, and she sucked in a sharp breath.

"How did you get hurt this badly?" Hyuga Qingchuan asked.

Yuhi Shinku took over.

"I took Kurenai on a mission, and she accidentally stepped into an enemy trap. Her lower leg got caught."

"It wasn't because I was careless! Those bandits were just too cunning."

Kurenai pouted as she defended herself.

Hyuga Qingchuan looked at the bandages wrapped around Kurenai's lower leg, but he could not tell how serious the injury was.

He said to the two of them, "The hospital doesn't have any spare equipment for examinations right now."

"I'll activate my Byakugan first and check whether Kurenai's bones are injured."

"How can you do that?!"

Kurenai hurriedly grabbed him in alarm.

"I-I'm a girl! How can you just activate your Byakugan whenever you want?"

"I only want to look at your leg."

"That's still not allowed. Everyone knows your Byakugan has three-hundred-and-sixty-degree vision."

"The Byakugan's vision is black and white. It can only see chakra pathways, bones, and internal organs. It can't see anything else."

"That's still not allowed!"

Kurenai blushed as she held Hyuga Qingchuan down, refusing to let him form hand seals.

Helpless, Hyuga Qingchuan could only look to Yuhi Shinku for help.

Seeing her daughter like this, Yuhi Shinku did not know whether to laugh or cry.

"Kurenai, don't worry. The Byakugan really is just as Qingchuan described."

It took both of them a great deal of coaxing before they finally talked Kurenai around.

Kurenai had just been about to let go of Hyuga Qingchuan's hand.

But then she noticed that his face was dark and haggard, his eyes dull and lifeless.

She instinctively asked, "Why do you look so worn out?"

Then she remembered the health books she had read in the library before.

All at once, she realized something.

She pointed at Hyuga Qingchuan in disbelief.

"Y-you-you... Have you been going out and fooling around with women lately...?"

Fuck!

Hyuga Qingchuan nearly sprang into the air when he heard that.

The chakra he had been refining halfway through was so startled that it dispersed.

You're so young, yet the first thing out of your mouth is something so outrageous.

Where had she learned that kind of thing?

Yuhi Shinku also looked at Hyuga Qingchuan and frowned.

Seeing their expressions, Hyuga Qingchuan hurriedly explained.

"No, that's not it. Don't misunderstand. I look worn out because..."

"What do you mean, that's not it?!"

Before he could finish, Kurenai interrupted him.

Her eyes were wet, and her voice was slightly choked.

"That's what the books said. If boys often go out with girls, they'll lose their energy."

"There are so many girls around you, and look at you now. You must have gone out with them recently."

Thinking about how she had always waited for Hyuga Qingchuan to come find her these past days.

Yet no matter how long she waited, he never came.

So that was it. He had been going out with other girls.

And he had worn himself out doing it.

The more she thought about it, the more wronged she looked.

Hyuga Qingchuan rubbed his forehead helplessly.

Fooling around with women and going out with girls were two completely different things.

At least, at his age, they could only be two different things.

You little girl, you didn't understand anything, yet you were copying people and talking nonsense.

At last, Yuhi Shinku understood what his daughter meant.

He pressed his lips together, looking as though he wanted to laugh but could not.

Hyuga Qingchuan saw Yuhi Shinku watching the show.

He sighed and explained helplessly.

"I'm a medical ninja now. I've been working at the hospital lately, so I'm worn out from working here."

Unexpectedly, Kurenai became even more agitated upon hearing that. Tears even began to fall.

"You'll make up anything now just to fool me."

"You haven't even graduated yet. How did you suddenly become a medical ninja?"

"You say you're worn out from working at the hospital. Why not say the hospital can't function without you?"

Her large eyes stared fixedly at Hyuga Qingchuan, tears streaming down her face like tiny pearls.

It was heartbreaking to watch.

Hyuga Qingchuan did not dare dwell on the subject any longer.

"This can't be explained in just a few words. I'll tell you properly when I have the chance."

"For now, let me examine your wound first."

"No! You big liar, I won't let you examine me."

Kurenai clenched her teeth and pursed her lips, her nose twitching and her eyes red.

She suddenly struggled to her feet on one leg.

"We'll go line up for the hospital equipment examination ourselves."

As she spoke, she grabbed Yuhi Shinku. "Dad, let's go."

Yuhi Shinku smiled and nodded at Hyuga Qingchuan.

Then he supported his limping daughter as they headed toward the examination department.

"Even if you go over there, they'll send you right back."

Hyuga Qingchuan could not help reminding them.

"Even if they do, I still won't come to you, you big liar!"

Kurenai did not even turn her head.

Helpless, Hyuga Qingchuan sat down and closed his eyes to rest.

Thirty minutes later.

A medical worker came jogging over in quick, small steps.

Kurenai was seated in a wheelchair being pushed in front of them.

Yuhi Shinku followed beside her, looking extremely nervous.

"Lord Qingchuan, there's an injured patient here. Please use your Byakugan to check the injury."

Hyuga Qingchuan opened his eyes at those words.

He looked at Kurenai in the wheelchair, her little face flushed as she lowered her head without speaking.

He nodded. "She's my friend. I'll handle the rest myself. Go get back to work."

"Yes. Then I'll leave her to you, Lord Qingchuan."

Yuhi Shinku also spoke. "Thank you for the trouble, young friend."

"It's nothing. I owe Lord Shinku for last time."

Yuhi Shinku waved a hand. "It was nothing."

Hyuga Qingchuan pulled the wheelchair closer to himself.

This time, Kurenai did not resist. Her face red, she let Hyuga Qingchuan do as he pleased.

He carefully lifted her fair lower leg with both hands.

He placed it on a chair and unwrapped the bandages around it.

Revealing the horrifying wound beneath.

Then he formed hand seals and activated his Byakugan, carefully observing the condition of the bone beneath the wound.

A moment later.

His expression turned grave as he said, "There's only a slight fracture in the bone. That isn't a major problem."

"But the trap may have been coated with poison. The area around the wound is full of toxins, and they've already begun to invade the bone."

The father and daughter immediately became nervous.

"No wonder Kurenai kept saying she was dizzy along the way. I thought it was because of blood loss."

"What should we do? Where is the hospital supposed to find any spare personnel now?"

"No need. I can treat it directly here."

"You?" Yuhi Shinku was somewhat doubtful.

He had also asked the medical staff about Hyuga Qingchuan earlier.

Recently, Hyuga Qingchuan had displayed astonishing talent in medical ninjutsu.

Like a genius, he had skipped several stages of medical training and gone directly into hospital internship.

He had even learned the medical ninja's Healing Technique during his internship.

With him in the Emergency Department, many people's workloads had been greatly reduced.

That was also why Yuhi Shinku had dared entrust his daughter's treatment to Hyuga Qingchuan.

But extracting toxins was something only advanced medical ninjas could accomplish.

In his memory, very few people could do it.

Hyuga Qingchuan nodded, then rapidly formed hand seals.

"Delicate Illness Extraction Technique!"