Medical Prodigy

The wounded man before him wheezed like a broken bellows, blood froth bubbling from his mouth, with one side of his chest caved in.

Tianyi saw it clearly with his Byakugan: shattered rib fragments had pierced his lung.

There was bleeding in his abdomen too, and air and blood had built up in his left chest, compressing his lung flat.

"We need to release the air, stop the bleeding, and move the bone fragments immediately!" Tianyi rapidly reviewed the First Aid knowledge he had just acquired.

The conditions were far too poor for delicate surgery, but if he did not act now, this man would not last even a few minutes.

He glanced at the First Aid kit he had brought from the modern world. It was well-stocked, with disinfectants and bandages, but no scalpel.

He immediately shouted to a companion beside him whose arm was injured, "Brother! Do me a favor and keep an eye on him! I'm going to get a knife!"

With that, he rushed toward the nearby medical tent and immediately spotted scalpels and medical gloves inside.

That's it! He grabbed a handful, put on the gloves, snatched several rolls of bandages, and ran back.

He unscrewed the alcohol and poured some over his hands and the scalpel.

"You, hold the fire closer and don't shake! You, help hold down his arms and legs. Don't let him move!"

He quickly gave instructions to two lightly wounded men who could still move. They were intimidated by Tianyi's manner and hurriedly complied.

The wounded man had already slipped into a semi-conscious state from blood loss, though his body still twitched occasionally from the terrible pain.

Tianyi said softly, "Bear with it, brother. I'm saving your life!" Then his gaze sharpened.

First, he had to release the trapped air. Based on the position he saw with the Byakugan, it was in the upper part of the wounded man's left chest.

He used the tip of the knife to cut a small opening, then took the largest syringe from the First Aid kit and removed the plunger.

He steadily inserted the hollow barrel into the incision.

"Hiss—"

A stream of dark, bubbling blood immediately surged out from the back of the syringe.

The wounded man's ragged breathing eased at once.

Tianyi then twisted a strip of bandage into a wick and stuffed it into the end of the syringe for drainage, lowering the other end.

Next came the life-threatening bone fragments.

The most troublesome one was in the right side of the chest. Tianyi carefully made an incision along the gap between the ribs.

The flesh peeled back, revealing a bloody mess. Fortunately, the Byakugan was like built-in X-ray vision, allowing him to avoid the major blood vessels.

He reached inside and carefully pulled out the bone fragment lodged in the lung.

Blood immediately gushed more fiercely from the wound.

"Stop the bleeding..." Tianyi desperately recalled when Mitarai Aoi had treated him.

That warm, gentle sensation of chakra that encouraged wounds to heal.

He did his best to shape his own chakra into something similar, gathering it around his fingers and pressing them tightly against the tear in the lung.

It was a crude method and mentally exhausting, but with the pressure, the bleeding finally began to slow.

Then came the bone fragment that had nearly cut through the heart.

Tianyi did not dare pull it out by force. He used the knife handle as a lever and worked slowly with the aid of his Byakugan.

Bit by bit, he moved the dangerous shard away from the organs and pushed it toward a less lethal position.

The membrane around the heart had been cut open slightly. He used the needle and thread from the First Aid kit.

He rapidly stitched it twice, closing the opening for the moment.

The hardest part was finally done!

He then found several relatively flat pieces of wood nearby, along with more bandages.

He wrapped them around the wounded man's chest again and again, making a simple chest binder to stabilize the collapsed area.

To prevent the bone fragments from shifting again, he finally threaded the needle and stitched the severed muscles and skin back together layer by layer.

The stitches were not neat, but they were definitely secure.

After finishing all that, Tianyi felt as though he was about to collapse. He dropped onto the ground, drenched in sweat.

His first emergency surgery had been this difficult. It had drained an enormous amount of his strength.

Looking at the wounded man again, he saw that although the man had not awakened and his face was deathly pale, his chest was now rising and falling.

His breathing was weak, but much steadier. The most deadly bleeding and pneumothorax had been temporarily brought under control.

The two companions holding the torch and restraining the wounded man were both dumbfounded.

They cried out in amazement, and people in the distance who had been watching curiously began to gather around.

Where had they ever seen anyone treat the wounded like this?

Without using advanced Medical Ninjutsu or forming complicated hand seals.

He simply cut the man open with a knife, reached inside with his hands, and finally stitched him up with needle and thread.

And the crucial part was that he had actually pulled the man back from death's door!!!

Hearing the commotion and seeing a crowd gathered around Tianyi.

The deputy captain of the Medical Corps hurried over after finishing up on the other side.

He first crouched down to examine the wounded man's breathing and pulse, then carefully inspected the sutures in his chest and the crude drainage tube.

"..." The deputy captain fell silent for several seconds, then looked up at Tianyi with eyes full of astonishment.

"You treated the hemopneumothorax in time and opened the chest to stop the bleeding. Your technique was a little rough, but under these circumstances, it was decisive and effective!

"Especially stitching the pericardium with needle and thread—and the placement was frighteningly precise...

"What a genius idea!

"I never expected you to be a medical prodigy as well.

"And the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan is simply incredible when used for medical treatment!

"Sending you to the front lines to fight really would be wasting your talent."

He then stood up, looked over the wounded covering the ground, then looked at Hyuga Tianyi and made up his mind.

"Hyuga Tianyi!" the deputy captain said sternly.

"From this moment on, you are an official member of the Medical Corps!

"You may choose severely wounded members you are confident you can save. Do not force yourself!

"There are several more sets of clean knives and thread in that tent. Go get them and use them! Saving lives comes first!"

"Yes!" Tianyi's spirits rose, and he gritted his teeth as he pushed himself to his feet.

He knew that with the combination of modern First Aid and the Byakugan, he could be of great use in this battlefield hospital, where medicine and supplies were scarce.

With this skill, in this place where human lives were treated as worthless as grass, he had temporarily earned himself a little standing and protection.

He did not rest for long. Taking two assistants with him, he grabbed the medical kit the deputy captain pointed out.

Then he walked toward the next ninja lying on the ground and groaning.

For the entire day, Tianyi provided emergency treatment to the severely wounded.

Tianyi felt as though he had been hollowed out. When the last bit of suture thread was used up.

And the final roll of bandages had been wrapped around the last wounded man's chest.

He practically dragged his feet to the base of a large tree at the edge of the camp, leaned against its rough trunk, and slowly slid down to sit.

He was covered in blood and sweat, and could no longer tell whose blood it was.

Not a drop of chakra remained, and his mind buzzed blankly.

He could not even keep his eyelids open. Leaning against the tree trunk, he drifted into a dazed sleep.

The evening breeze carried a chill and the smell of something scorched in the distance, while several leaves rustled down onto him.

After an unknown amount of time, his consciousness gradually returned.

The first thing he felt was warmth, a real body temperature beside him.

Then he caught a faint scent of medicinal herbs mixed with clean soapberry.

He moved his stiff neck and slowly opened his eyes.

His vision was blurry at first, then came into focus. At some point, his head had tilted sideways, and he was leaning against Mitarai Aoi's shoulder.

She sat upright, quietly watching the flickering campfire in the distance. Her profile looked calm and weary in the firelight.

Tianyi jolted awake, his face instantly burning.

He hurriedly sat up straight and put some distance between them.

"Aoi... Sister Aoi? I..."