After several days of one-on-one ranking battles, Namikaze Minato ultimately maintained his position as the top ranked in class combat ability. Uzumaki Kushina became the second place right behind Minato, followed by Uchiha Ryun and several others tied for third place.
Ryun had no interest in such meaningless rankings. After the ranking battles ended, he sent a shadow clone to attend school in his place. At that quiet riverside training ground, Ryun sat cross-legged on the ground wearing only shorts, bare-chested with his eyes closed. Arcs of electricity burst out from his body before disappearing again.
He was attempting to develop Chidori Stream, or see if he could figure out the Lightning Release Armor used by Kumo-nin. If he stimulated his body with lightning, could he use it to temper his physical strength? What would the specific effects be? He was experimenting step by step to explore this.
But after just one day, he had electrocuted himself until covered in wounds, forcing him to go back to Konoha Hospital again...
"It seems I should learn medical ninjutsu quickly. If I keep training like this, I'll end up killing myself..."
The familiar registration and payment, the familiar lightning burns, and that familiar medical kunoichi.
"Little brother, why are you playing with electricity again? Last time it was your hands, this time your whole body... you're really too mischievous."
The medical kunoichi's hands glowed green as she began healing Ryun's lightning injuries.
"Sorry to trouble you again, big sister... I didn't mean to." Ryun smiled awkwardly.
"Medical personnel are extremely scarce right now. That you could meet me again just means you're lucky..."
While treating Ryun's body, the kunoichi chatted with him.
It was wartime now. The hospital had many wounded brought back from the frontlines. With many medical-nin deployed to the Rain Country front, very few remained at Konoha Hospital. That Ryun could meet the same kunoichi who treated his lightning burns last time showed they had some fate connecting them.
"What luck? They saw my injuries weren't serious and originally weren't going to assign a medical-nin to treat me..."
"Ah? Then how did you get the front desk to change their mind?" The kunoichi asked curiously.
"Simple... I just paid extra..."
"What???"
Faced with Ryun's method of using money to bypass procedures, the kunoichi could only laugh helplessly.
"You little brat, so young yet already so cunning..."
"Big sister..." Ryun called out suddenly while lying on the bed with eyes closed enjoying the treatment.
"What is it?"
"Would you like to earn some extra money?" Ryun asked seriously.
Hearing this, the kunoichi froze momentarily before her entire face turned bright red.
"You... what do you mean by that, you little pervert?"
She had just been treating Ryun's thighs when he suddenly asked such a question. Even if she tried not to think too much about it...
Immediately she stopped using medical ninjutsu, standing up ready to make this little rascal pay a painful price...
"I want to learn medical ninjutsu, and I want to learn it fast. Can you teach me? I can pay 100,000 ryo as tuition... After learning it I can give another 100,000 ryo as additional payment."
Ryun stated his purpose with eyes still closed, completely unaware the kunoichi beside him had already picked up a scalpel...
"Ah? Oh... so that's what you meant!!" The kunoichi's anger instantly dissipated.
"Huh? What do you mean? Big sister why are you holding a knife?"
Ryun opened his eyes to look at her, expression completely confused.
"Ha...haha... nothing nothing, I misunderstood..." The medical kunoichi laughed awkwardly before hurriedly putting down the blade.
"???"
Ryun felt completely baffled but didn't dare close his eyes again. Just now he'd felt a chill in a certain area, and the kunoichi's strange behavior with the knife made him wary.
"At your age you should be in school, right? Didn't the academy add medical courses now? Why not just sign up for those?"
The medical kunoichi continued treating him while forcing an awkward smile.
"The one-hour classes are too short, and most only cover basics. At that pace, to truly learn medical ninjutsu would take at least three to five months even for fast learners..."
"I think I can learn medical ninjutsu very quickly, I just lack a good teacher..."
As he spoke, Ryun sat up and extended his palm.
"Medical ninjutsu requires excellent chakra control. You can gather healing chakra in your palms, and I can do this too."
Saying this, blue lightning appeared in Ryun's palm.
"My chakra nature is different from yours, so I need to know the trick to releasing this green healing chakra..."
The blue lightning in his palm faded, replaced by orange flames rising up.
Seeing this shocking display, the medical kunoichi was completely stunned.
After a long silence, she accepted this fact:
"Your chakra control is outstanding. With that, learning medical ninjutsu quickly shouldn't be hard."
"But I'm curious why you came to me? Why not ask the academy or even Konoha directly to learn medical ninjutsu? With your talent, they'd probably be happy to teach you."
The medical kunoichi voiced her confusion.
"Mainly I want to keep a low profile. Also I don't want to trouble the academy or Konoha. Lastly... I have plenty of money and free time, so I just wanted to find a professional teacher for one-on-one lessons..."
"What???"
The thought process of a rich "second generation" was beyond her, but she wasn't about to pass up this chance to earn a large sum.
After healing his injuries, Ryun and the medical kunoichi set a learning schedule and location.
From 9-11pm after hospital hours, she would teach him 1-2 hours of pure medical ninjutsu knowledge without any fluff. The goal was to have Ryun grasp the basics within ten days.
Returning home, Ryun lounged lazily on the living room sofa. With his injuries, he couldn't train intensely for now...
"Chidori Stream and Lightning Release Armor will have to wait. Theoretically using electricity to temper the body should work, but for safety I should consult Orochimaru first..."
Having decided this, he took out paper and wrote Orochimaru a letter.
He rolled up the letter and had Orochimaru's messenger snake swallow it.
After completing this, Ryun lay back on the comfortable leather sofa.
"I wonder how the Rain Country battlefield is going... I remember in the early war phase, we kept losing battle after battle..."
This was indeed the case. In any major battle involving Hanzō of the Salamander, Konoha would always retreat.
Breaking through Hanzō's poison in a short time wouldn't be easy.
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