Capítulo 17: Control Freak
Hidden leaf village is the only village where medics have a separate military branch all to themselves. This is mostly due to the efforts of Tsunade and other medics at the end of the Second Great Ninja war to help increase the survivability of Ninja forces. But more often than not, medics are completely overlooked by ninjas. When Iryo-nin (Medical Ninja) Corps was established, Tsunade established four ironclad rules which all but forbidden Medics from fighting in combat until they are the last ones left standing, with the only exception being medics who had mastered Creation Rebirth which incidentally, no one ever has except Tsunade.
Years passed and combat medics became a relic of the past. People started seeing medic-nin more as doctors rather than assassins they were, forgetting even without much combat experience, medics were extremely skilled ninjas by virtue of their chakra control alone, much less techniques like chakra scalpel that can be used kill as easily as they can save lives.
Most people forgot but Danzo didn't. Iryo-nins being the only branch of Konoha military, other than Root Anbu while they were active, that is not directly answerable to Hokage, he always coveted it. But Iro-nins have always been off-limits to him and still is simply due to the sheer influence of Tsunade and with her being Head of the Senju clan, one of the founding clans, touching anything under her was political suicide.
Tsunade headed the entire department for decades despite not even being present in the village and no one was deemed fit to succeed her until now. It is spoken in hushed whispers among medic corps but no one can deny Itsuki is being nurtured to become the next head of Medic corps. For Danzo, controlling him could mean controlling all Iryo-nins in the future.
"Itsuki, I have a proposal for you," Danzo stated informally, forgoing normal procedure for Itsuki to let his guard down. But Itsuki remained unmoving by his tactics and his body language remained unreadable. Danzo internally frowned, he felt like standing in front of Hiruzen and not able to glean what is he thinking. Such control of body language is what he would expect from an experienced Kage while negotiating a treaty, not from an eleven-year-old.
"Please be seated, no need for formalities. I have been hearing that you are trying to save a girl with a rather difficult disease. If you agree, I can help you with it." Danzo threw the bait, but the fish was already in the net. Hidden from the view, Sharingan spun in his bandage covered eye.
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Itsuki was really not in the mood to play mind games with Danzo although that did not mean Itsuki lowered his guard. The bait in his words was quite clear and he decided to play along.
"You must be joking Danzo-sama, It is not something even Tsunade-sama can treat. Genetic diseases are incurable." Itsuki stated, discretely touching under his table and did something only a sealing master is capable of. Where he touched, black sealing lines appeared, forming a complete seal within a second.
"Tsunade is a very capable medic but even she is not capable of everything. I personally know someone who can help. You just need to agree. Think about a little" Danzo continued.
Itsuki pretended to think over a little. 'Danzo, what are you planning. Luring me with half baked trap, did he intend, wait did he just end chakra to his eye... his offer is good, I probably should take it... no I had to take it, How can I say no to Danzo-sama... I had to...'
"BOOOM"
An explosion rocked the Itsuki's entire office. From the left of where Itsuki was seated, fire and shock wave erupted. Danzo quickly retreated but Itsuki got caught in the explosion. Smoke and debris filled the entire room.
"Tch" 'Kotoamatsukami was almost complete. What happened?' Danzo wondered, but he now had to move to the backup plan. Danzo motioned his hidden guard Anbus to attack.
Itsuki while sitting in the office was completely frozen at his place. The explosion had not done much damage other than burning his left arm slightly.
'That damn old coot tried to mind control me. Kotoamatsukmi, I was just a few moments away from being under his control. If I was late in making the seal, I ... ' He sensed someone outside rapidly molding chakra and approach his location. His office overlooked outside training grounds and multiple chakra signatures were approaching from that side. But on the other hand, medics were also alert and approaching his location but they still needed to pass through the narrow halls of Konoha General. The closest to his location, Kito was being delayed by Danzo.
"Fire Release-Great Fireball Jutsu"
A large ball of fire approached Itsuki's office through his open door, blowing it off hinges and damaging the walls holding it.
Itsuki quickly moves out of the path before fire could hit him and crouch down in the corner, holding his breath and prepare for the explosion. The fireball hits the table and completely blows it up. The resulting fire spreads outwards in the small room, setting everything inflammable near it on fire.
A figure wearing common civilian clothes and a blank white mask entered through the destroyed door just as the initial wave of fire passed. Disguised root ninja was about to throw a few explosive tags when fire burning came alive. A fiery serpent made of blood-red fire rose from the burning remains and jumped at the attacker. Anbu tried to move but his feet appeared stuck to the floor. Looking down, to his horror, his feet were merged with the floor as is sinking through quicksand. Realizing he was in Genjutsu, he tried to break it but the firey serpent swallowed him.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh"
In the real-world, screams and the smell of burning flesh filled the room. The intruder's entire body was burning and charring black but no fire to be seen on his body. Even the clothes and explosion tag in his hand were pristine.
Itsuki while holding the genjutsu, watched the horrific sight apathetically while trying to force down the bile rising to his throat. His left arm was burned from the fireball and he had to use just a one-handed half rat seal with his right hand to maintain genjutsu. Although his mastery of the Kurama bloodline was not enough to externalize cause like fire in this case, the effect is still carried on from genjutsu to reality.
The now-dead intruder fell to the floor with a thud. Itsuki rushed to him while pulling out an incendiary tag hunter-nin use to dispose of bodies. Sticking the tag to the intruder's back, he pushed the dead body into the burning fire, incinerating it completely to ash.
Sensing more chakra signatures approaching to attack, Itsuki's figure walked out of the burning room. One enemy ninja was almost upon him just as he made his way through the destroyed door.
The attacker threw a Kunai at Itsuki, trying to nail him on the head. Kunai swiftly covered the small distance and true to Root Anbu's aim, pierced Itsuki's forehead. However, Kunai passed through the Itsuki's figure before it dissolved in cherry blossoms.
Anbu immediately dispelled the genjutsu just in time to dodge senbons aiming for his neck. Jumping back, Anbu readied for another barrage from Itsuki, unable to sense the senbon coming from above.
Poison tipped senbon found its mark in the attacker's neck, sending him straight into unconsciousness. Mogusa appeared from the floor above Itsuki, senbon between each knuckle, poised to attack. Assessing the situation, Mogusa pulsed his chakra in a specific code. More medics soon followed, not even stopping a second and attacking the Root equivalent of the entire Anbu squad.
Itsuki watched in silent awe as Iro-nins systematically dispatched a force equivalent to an entire Anbu squad. Mogusa, who stood beside him in case of a sneak attack, smiled at his expression and placed his hand on his shoulder.
"Always remember this Itsuki, as Iro-nin our foremost duty is to heal and save lives but we are ninjas never the less," Mogusa advised. He as well as most senior medics hoped that Itsuki could one day lead them. Despite being not even a genin yet, he had accomplished far more as a medic than most of them had in their entire life but he was still naive to ways of the world.
In mere moments, half the squad was incapacitated when Danzo appeared followed by Kito. Discretely signaling his squad to retreat, he addressed Mogusa without as much as a glance towards Itsuki.
"Mogusa, why are your ninja attacking my guards?" Danzo asked with a straight face. Mogusa signaled Itsuki to leave. Even if Danzo was in the wrong, and the main target of his attack Itsuki, it no longer mattered as the assault was carried out on senior medic Itsuki, not genin cadet Itsuki. The problem was bound to blow out of proportion. But currently, for Mogusa, Itsuki safety was the main priority as he was not yet ready to be dragged into the dirty political underbelly of Konoha.
Itsuki too somewhat understood what Mogusa was trying to do. This was not a case of an attack on him by Danzo but an assault on Iryo-nins by the village elder Danzo. It was a moot point who was the victim.
Leaving Danzo and Mogusa, Itsuki walked away. It didn't take long for adrenaline to fade and the enormity of the situation to hit him.
'I was just a few seconds away from becoming a mind-controlled slave to Danzo, a moment away from dying and...'
The scene of the man burning charred black kept replaying in his mind. His dying screams kept echoing in his ears.
Listlessly, Itsuki kept walking until a hand yanked him back. Raising his head, Itsuki found an old lady appearing to be in her 80s holding his collar. She wore a medic's white coat over civilian grabs, long, stark white hair, and a face filled with wrinkles.
"Eh leaving without meeting me even when I dragged my old bones here for you." The old lady pointedly asked. Asa Suzuki, a retired medic who served as a medic for Konoha for decades before retiring, highly decorated and respected, she drops by few times every year to help in matters of the Iryo-nin department even after retiring. Or at least that is the official story.
"Ah, good to see you, Tsunade-sama." Itsuki greeted the disguised sannin.
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Author notes:
The ninja ranks are a measure of the skill and prowess of a ninja. I too am using ninja ranks as a way of indicating the level of characters but in this story, they are not absolute.
For example, Itsuki in this chapter roasted an Anbu level in seconds, which I place at about the level of a Jonin while I compared Itsuki to a chunin. In fight scenes of this novel, more often than not I will try to make the fights a battle of wits, cunning, and ingenuity than just throwing jutsu after jutsu or hacking at enemies until the higher ranking one won will not happen. Itsuki absolutely dominating his opponents will definitely happen, just not now.
The reason behind this is because I did not want to make ninjas single-dimensional where the only measure of strength is who can throw bigger jutsu. Ninjas here are assassins, spies, survival experts, thieves, soldiers, healers and so much more and I will try to depict it best as I can.
But for those who like reading Overpowered characters, do not worry. This volume is named 'The Terrifying Genin' for a reason.
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