57: Chapter 57 The Hand of God: A "Healing" That Overturns Common SenseThe hand remained steady above Kankuro's purplish-black chest without trembling.
It does not have the emerald green chakra characteristic of medical ninjutsu.
Instead, there is a pure, exquisite gold.
The light was not dazzling, but it carried a heart-pounding sense of weight, as if liquid gold was slowly flowing in the air.
"Nonsense!"
The Sunagakure medical chief finally lost his patience; he couldn't stand watching a brat from another village mess around with the dying Kankuro.
He took a sudden step forward, chakra gathering at his fingertips—a scalpel used to sever chakra threads—attempting to forcibly interrupt Naruto's movements.
"stop!"
But before his hand could even touch Naruto's clothes, his wrist was gripped tightly by a withered, wiry hand.
Chiyo.
The Sand Village advisor stared intently at the golden light in Naruto's palm.The contempt and anger that had been on his wrinkled face were rapidly fading, replaced by a look of astonishment as if he had seen something indescribable.
"Don't move."
Chiyo's voice was hoarse, even with a slight, almost imperceptible tremor.
"What is that."
The Minister of Health was stunned.He followed Chiyo's gaze and then saw the scene that would completely destroy his career.
There was no sensation of chakra flowing into the body.
Typical medical ninjutsu uses chakra to stimulate cell activity and accelerate wound healing, or uses chakra to encapsulate and extract toxins.
But what Naruto did completely defied this logic.
The moment the golden light touched Kankuro's skin, it did not "enter" his body, but instead generated a strange suction force.
No.
It's not suction.
It is a law of "reversal".
The purplish-black poisonous spots on Kankuro's chest, which had spread all over his body, began to shrink back towards the center like the receding tide.
The microscopic toxin molecules that were wreaking havoc on Kankuro's body seemed to have had time reversed.
Forced to detach from cells and be extracted from blood, defying common sense, they rushed toward Naruto's palm.
Beep beep beep beep!
The vital signs monitor attached to Kankuro emitted a sharp alarm.
The various values on the screen began to fluctuate wildly, a logical error caused by the instrument's inability to understand the current situation.
"The toxic reaction.is it subsiding?"
A medical ninja in charge of monitoring the data stammered, pounding on the equipment as if it were broken.
"No, it didn't disappear!It's that the structure of the toxin.has been dismantled!"
Another ninja, skilled in pharmacology, stared intently at the blood sample under the microscope.
The originally menacing chains of heavy metal toxins disintegrated into the most basic harmless elements under the golden light.
This is not detoxification at all.
This is conceptually erasing the existence of "poison".
[Ding!You have received 18,000 units of "Cognitive Collapse" from the Sand Village Medical Team!]
[Ding!You have received 15,000 of Chiyo's ultimate [Horrifying] items!]
Naruto stared at the numbers refreshing on the system panel, his heart unmoved.
Reversal technique.
This is not a product of this world, but rather a rule bestowed upon him by the system, a rule that transcends chakra.
It forces negative energy to be reversed into positive energy.
This is a dimensional reduction attack against a toxin based on chakra manipulation.
"How is this possible."
Chiyo's fingers, which were gripping her cane, twitched slightly.
She dedicated her life to the study of puppetry and poison techniques, and in this field, she considered herself second to none in the ninja world.
Even Tsunade, back in the day, had to extract samples, analyze the components, and prepare an antidote when faced with such a complex compound toxin, a process that took a long time to resolve.
But this blond boy in front of me.
He didn't even bother to "look" at the composition of the toxin.
He simply denied the existence of the toxin.
Only fifteen seconds had passed.
The terrifying purplish-black color on Kankuro's body completely faded, and his skin returned to its original pale color.
A faint golden light flashed in Naruto's palm, and the last bit of residual toxin turned into a wisp of black smoke and dissipated into the air.
He withdrew his hand.
The ward was deathly silent.
Everyone held their breath, staring at Kankuro on the hospital bed.
The poison is indeed gone.
But Kankuro did not wake up.
His chest remained flat, and his heartbeat was so weak it seemed it might stop at any moment.
"it's useless..."
After a brief moment of shock, the medical minister quickly regained his composure.Looking at the vital signs that were still alarming on the monitor, he let out a desperate sigh.
Even if the poison is neutralized, his internal organs will have completely failed.
He pointed to the heart rate chart, his voice carrying a hint of powerless revenge, as if to prove Naruto's defeat.
"The toxins had been in his body for too long, causing pulmonary fibrosis, myocardial dissolution, and necrosis of the nervous system.His body was now just an empty shell."
"Even if Tsunade herself came, she couldn't possibly save a pile of rotten flesh."
The glimmer of hope that Temari had just ignited was extinguished once again by these words.
Looking at her brother's face, which had regained its color but was still lifeless, tears welled up in her eyes again.
Or.is it too late?
Chiyo also closed her eyes.
really.
Detoxification is a miraculous skill, but the loss of vitality is irreversible.
Human strength eventually has its limits.
"Is this your conclusion?"
Naruto's voice rang out again, breaking the somber atmosphere that filled the room.
He was not swayed in the slightest by the Minister of Health's diagnosis, and did not even turn his head.
"Because the internal organs are damaged, there's no saving him?"
"Just because the cells are dead, does that mean we should give up?"
He turned around, his azure eyes.The light swept across everyone present.
Wherever his gaze fell, everyone instinctively lowered their heads, not daring to meet his eyes.
That's not the way they look at their own kind.
That's watching a group of ordinary people who only know how to follow established rules, like ants who don't know how to adapt.
"What a barren imagination."
Naruto uttered this comment casually.
Then he reached out his hand again.
This time, it was no longer that sacred gold.
A powerful surge of life force, so immense it shook the entire hospital building, erupted with a deafening roar.
Green light.
The lush greenery, brimming with primal wildness and vitality, instantly filled the entire ward.
Kakashi's one exposed eye widened instantly.
This feeling.
This property of chakra.
That was the power he had seen in Captain Yamato—no, a power a hundred times purer and ten thousand times greater than Captain Yamato's!
Wood Release: Yang Power.
Naruto did not perform any hand seals, nor did he create any trees.
He directly mobilized the chakra within his body that belonged to the reincarnation of Ashura, the most primal power of life.
He poured this immense life force—enough to bring withered trees back to life and turn deserts into oases—into Kankuro's broken body without reservation.
Click click click!
A sickening, bone-grinding sound emanated from Kankuro's body.
The medical ninja's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
What did they see?
Through the translucent skin, they could clearly see that the dissolved and necrotic muscle fibers inside Kankuro's body were regenerating and weaving at an astonishing rate.
The previously shrunken lungs quickly filled up under the nourishment of the green light and turned back to a healthy pink color.
The severed nerves reconnected, and the kidneys, which had stopped working, began filtering blood again.
This is not treatment.
This is a reshaping.
This is the power of God.
[Ding!You have received 28,000 of Chiyo's ultimate [Disruptive] items!]
[Ding!You have received 25,000 of Temari's ultimate [Shocking] items!]
Chiyo's cane fell to the ground with a "thud".
She lived for over seventy years.
She had witnessed the cruelty of the Fourth Shinobi World War, the rampage of the Tailed Beasts, and the rise and fall of countless geniuses.
But she had never seen such a scene before.
This goes beyond the scope of "ninjutsu".
Even the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, was no better than this, right?
No.
This kind of precise manipulation of life force, this kind of operation to reorganize cells at the microscopic level, even the legendary ninja god probably couldn't do it with such ease.
"monster..."
Ebizo stammered out two words, the only adjective he could think of.
In just thirty seconds.
For those present, it felt like an eternity.
The green light in Naruto's palm slowly receded.
He could feel that the life force within Kankuro, which had been depleted, was now burning more intensely than ever before.
Because he absorbed too much Yang Release chakra, this guy's physique will probably be much stronger than that of an ordinary person in the future.
"call--"
A heavy, powerful inhale broke the deathly silence of the ward.
On the hospital bed, the boy, who had been sentenced to death and was considered beyond saving, suddenly felt his chest heave.
Then came the second and the third strike.
The electrocardiogram, which had been flat, suddenly spiked with a high peak.
Beep—Beep—Beep—
The monitor's sound was no longer a piercing alarm, but a steady, powerful rhythm.
Each jump seemed to mock the incompetence of those medical ninjas before them.
Kankuro's eyelids trembled violently.
His consciousness was abruptly pulled back from the endless abyss of darkness by a brute force.
Light.
The light was blinding.
He struggled to open his eyes, but his vision was blurry.
In this blurry light and shadow, he could only see an orange figure standing against the light in front of his bed.
The figure wasn't tall, but in Kankuro's eyes at that moment, it was as majestic as a god supporting the heavens and the earth.
He felt his whole body brimming with power, and the agony of near death seemed like nothing more than a nightmare.
He moved his lips, his throat was dry, and the sound he made was weak but clear.
"god...?"
The word floated lightly into the air.
But it was like a heavy hammer blow to the hearts of everyone present.
No one objected.
No one found it absurd.
Even the medical director, who had been the most vocal before, suddenly collapsed to the ground, his legs giving way, his eyes filled with awe and fear as he looked at Naruto.
Is this paradise?
Naruto slowly withdrew his hand, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, and leisurely wiped his fingers, which were free of any dirt.
His face was expressionless, showing neither the joy of saving his companion nor the smugness of displaying his strength.
There was only the stillness of an ancient well.
It was as if everything that had just happened—the resurrection, the reversal of yin and yang—was nothing more than a trivial matter to him, as insignificant as swatting a fly.
He casually tossed the handkerchief into the trash can, turned around, and looked past the petrified Temari and the trembling Chiyo, towards the endless yellow sand outside the window.
The camera freezes on this moment.
The boy's indifferent profile was framed against a backdrop of faces frozen in shock among the high-ranking officials of Sunagakure.
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