Week 3 - Bedside Manners
- Location
- Massholistan
For those of you just now joining us. It's been two months and one update since we last left Tenten. She has finally decided to get her physical examination that she's been putting off for weeks. Good thing too because she was probably going to get kidnapped and forced to go if this went on for any longer.
...Yeah, I don't really have a lot to say besides working full time is not good for quest writing. Anyway, I'm done with that for now and back in Uni classes, which are significantly less time out of the day. Still not totally happy, but then I wanted to get something out of the way.
Also thank @Lazy Minx, since they commissioned artwork for this quest and got my motivation somewhat back. Sorta. We'll see.
Still haven't finished the mechanical rewrite because math makes me thinker box hurt.
When you awaken the sun is just started to rise above the trees of Konoha, casting the entire city outside your window in a warm orange. Honestly, you can't even begin to fathom how people who don't get up at sunrise even have time to fit everything into their day. Though, when you're feeling a bit self-reflective, maybe that has more to do with your schedule than a "normal" person's work ethic.
Case in point, the fact that you start your day with a light three-mile run around the outskirts of Konoha and a few hundred push-ups, stretches and chakra warm-ups to get your blood pumping has earned you more than a few incredulous looks whenever you mention it. Sometimes you wonder if people realized that you're considered the "lazy one" of your team.
But just because you don't have Lee's maniac energy or Neji's obsessive perfectionism (instead you like to think you've been blessed with the wonderful tools of "sanity" and "moderation"), there was a reason you ended up on Team Gai. You were accustomed to grinding your way to the top with grit and perseverance. You enrolled in the Academy as soon as you could after all, with chakra potential scrapping the minimum and a dream.
The fact you'd graduated as the 1st Kuniochi, and 6th overall, was just icing on the cake. Sometimes you wondered if somewhere, somehow, your parents would have been proud of you.
You can't know of course...but you hoped so.
The workout is nothing like the sheer hell you've endured before whenever Gai-sensei calls for a team-wide morning workout, but it still leaves you with a pleasing ache in your muscles and a light sheen of sweat. A condition that is swiftly rectified by the short five minutes of bliss you manage to wring out of the hot-water knob and the rank incompetent greed of your water company.
Then, once you're clean and presentable you make your way over to the hospital to finally do something you probably should have done a week ago.
The now familiar scent of antiseptic wash hanging in the air as you make your way across the empty lobby to the nurse manning the reception desk. Who looks for all the world like a pleasant looking civilian woman totally engrossed in doing her nails with a file.
It's only the fact that you own that exact type of concealed throwing knife that gives the game away.
She looks up as you reach the desk and gives you a bright smile. "Hello, how may I help you?"
"Yes, I have an appointment." You tell her, "It was supposed to be last week, but I had to push it back...it should be under the name Tenten?"
The nurses face lightens almost immediately with understanding, "Oh yes, we know who you are" She pulls out a clipboard full of paperwork and quickly jots down a room number on a spare sheet of paper. "You should head up immediately, the doctor will help you with everything else once you get up there".
You take the stack and nod once, while trying not to wince at the not-so-subtle reminder of your last minute reschedule, before heading through the various hallways at a rate that would only be called casual in the loosest interpretation of the word. It's really not your fault, you had made it through the standard battery of test and interviews, but when it came to the follow-up examination with a specialist you just kept...finding more important things to do what with the Exams and something way above your paygrade and...Lee.
You stop in your tracks, the sick sense of worry of how Lee is doing hitting you again. For a second you consider going to visit him now, but you quickly shake off that thought. You'll visit it when you're done with this examination.
You're so lost in thought you almost walk past the door you were meant to enter.
"Examination Room #3" was carved into the metal plaque adorning the door, with a small paper insert below with "Dr. Inaro" in a hasty scribble.
Hesitantly you go to knock on the door, but before your hand even makes contact a voice comes in from behind you. "Well well well, look who decided to show up."
You turn and find yourself face to face with a tall woman, white lab coat over a light vest and hitai-ate dangling loosely around her neck, and your eyes are immediately drawn to her face. Three jagged scars run down face, one passing directly through her right eye which is stained a milky white. The other is split down the middle by a bright red pupil.
After a sec you realize you are staring, "Sorry, I'm-"
The woman just brushes past you with a brusque grunt, "I know who you are" Before forcing the door to the room "Come on then, let's get this over so you can stop cluttering up my schedule."
Your eyebrows practically disappear under your headband before you scurry inside, your stomach churning with a mix of confusion and just a touch of anxiety. Inside, there's a large black chair instead of the normal examination bench. The woman, who you're by now fairly sure is Dr. Inaro, grabs a clipboard from a messy stack on the small desk off to the side before practically falling down on a small swivel chair backwards while you take a seat.
"Alright I'm Dr. Inaro if you haven't figured that out by now Shinobi ID #012573, you experienced a likely blood-line catalyzation event during the currently on-going Chunin Examination Event, however preliminary physical examination and testing was inconclusive as to the extent and scale and specialist follow-up was recommended. And also the person who has been playing merry hell with my schedule for the past. Is that correct?"
You nod once, eyes downcast in sudden embarrassment.
She peers closer for a second, her good eye going wide, before she lets out a short sigh and scribbles something down on her clipboard in handwriting that you can't even begin to make sense of. "Well then, unfortunately it looks like we'll be seeing a lot of each other."
"Oh." Well, you can't say you're surprised, but still it seems a bit quick "You know just like that?"
She bites back a short barking laugh, "I have been doing this a long time 573, and this-" she points to her undamaged eye, "-is a dojutsu that can see chakra networks. Which is how I landed this cushy gig after I was rendered combat incapable." She holds up the clipboard for you to see, and it has a crude outline of a human body. "Now, what you have is your body has basically catalyzed an entire secondary chakra network to handle whatever it is it does."
As you process that little bombshell she hands you back the paperwork you had originally carried, with several bright red circles "Now the network appears to be in stable form, which is why the initial examination cleared it for usage, however you will still require regular appointments. My specialty is traditionally high-level dojutsu, but I typically get called to handle more esoteric cases the normal Kekkai Genkai group can't figure out because the overlap between "high-level dojustu" and "esoteric" tends to be fairly extensive. Which is why I've been assigned to handle your case."
"Oh, right of course" You say somewhat hollowly, as you mechanically fill out the information without really looking at it, "So, will you be providing any training or..."
"Oh no" she scoffs, "I am merely here to track your medical progress and I identify any causes for concern before they become a concern. Training is solely at the discretion of your jonin instructor and yourself. Though if I had one word of advice, it would be to make it extensive as quickly as you can."
"Right." Her pen snaps into the the clipboard with a resounding click, "Any questions?"
Vote: Questions?
[ ] Write-in.
OOC Note: You have the opportunity to ask (3) questions to Dr. Inaro. The three questions with the most individual votes will be chosen.
Now onto working on a Tempest update and then a new project you guys can get a sneak preview here.
...Yeah, I don't really have a lot to say besides working full time is not good for quest writing. Anyway, I'm done with that for now and back in Uni classes, which are significantly less time out of the day. Still not totally happy, but then I wanted to get something out of the way.
Also thank @Lazy Minx, since they commissioned artwork for this quest and got my motivation somewhat back. Sorta. We'll see.
Still haven't finished the mechanical rewrite because math makes me thinker box hurt.
When you awaken the sun is just started to rise above the trees of Konoha, casting the entire city outside your window in a warm orange. Honestly, you can't even begin to fathom how people who don't get up at sunrise even have time to fit everything into their day. Though, when you're feeling a bit self-reflective, maybe that has more to do with your schedule than a "normal" person's work ethic.
Case in point, the fact that you start your day with a light three-mile run around the outskirts of Konoha and a few hundred push-ups, stretches and chakra warm-ups to get your blood pumping has earned you more than a few incredulous looks whenever you mention it. Sometimes you wonder if people realized that you're considered the "lazy one" of your team.
But just because you don't have Lee's maniac energy or Neji's obsessive perfectionism (instead you like to think you've been blessed with the wonderful tools of "sanity" and "moderation"), there was a reason you ended up on Team Gai. You were accustomed to grinding your way to the top with grit and perseverance. You enrolled in the Academy as soon as you could after all, with chakra potential scrapping the minimum and a dream.
The fact you'd graduated as the 1st Kuniochi, and 6th overall, was just icing on the cake. Sometimes you wondered if somewhere, somehow, your parents would have been proud of you.
You can't know of course...but you hoped so.
The workout is nothing like the sheer hell you've endured before whenever Gai-sensei calls for a team-wide morning workout, but it still leaves you with a pleasing ache in your muscles and a light sheen of sweat. A condition that is swiftly rectified by the short five minutes of bliss you manage to wring out of the hot-water knob and the rank incompetent greed of your water company.
Then, once you're clean and presentable you make your way over to the hospital to finally do something you probably should have done a week ago.
The now familiar scent of antiseptic wash hanging in the air as you make your way across the empty lobby to the nurse manning the reception desk. Who looks for all the world like a pleasant looking civilian woman totally engrossed in doing her nails with a file.
It's only the fact that you own that exact type of concealed throwing knife that gives the game away.
She looks up as you reach the desk and gives you a bright smile. "Hello, how may I help you?"
"Yes, I have an appointment." You tell her, "It was supposed to be last week, but I had to push it back...it should be under the name Tenten?"
The nurses face lightens almost immediately with understanding, "Oh yes, we know who you are" She pulls out a clipboard full of paperwork and quickly jots down a room number on a spare sheet of paper. "You should head up immediately, the doctor will help you with everything else once you get up there".
You take the stack and nod once, while trying not to wince at the not-so-subtle reminder of your last minute reschedule, before heading through the various hallways at a rate that would only be called casual in the loosest interpretation of the word. It's really not your fault, you had made it through the standard battery of test and interviews, but when it came to the follow-up examination with a specialist you just kept...finding more important things to do what with the Exams and something way above your paygrade and...Lee.
You stop in your tracks, the sick sense of worry of how Lee is doing hitting you again. For a second you consider going to visit him now, but you quickly shake off that thought. You'll visit it when you're done with this examination.
You're so lost in thought you almost walk past the door you were meant to enter.
"Examination Room #3" was carved into the metal plaque adorning the door, with a small paper insert below with "Dr. Inaro" in a hasty scribble.
Hesitantly you go to knock on the door, but before your hand even makes contact a voice comes in from behind you. "Well well well, look who decided to show up."
You turn and find yourself face to face with a tall woman, white lab coat over a light vest and hitai-ate dangling loosely around her neck, and your eyes are immediately drawn to her face. Three jagged scars run down face, one passing directly through her right eye which is stained a milky white. The other is split down the middle by a bright red pupil.
After a sec you realize you are staring, "Sorry, I'm-"
The woman just brushes past you with a brusque grunt, "I know who you are" Before forcing the door to the room "Come on then, let's get this over so you can stop cluttering up my schedule."
Your eyebrows practically disappear under your headband before you scurry inside, your stomach churning with a mix of confusion and just a touch of anxiety. Inside, there's a large black chair instead of the normal examination bench. The woman, who you're by now fairly sure is Dr. Inaro, grabs a clipboard from a messy stack on the small desk off to the side before practically falling down on a small swivel chair backwards while you take a seat.
"Alright I'm Dr. Inaro if you haven't figured that out by now Shinobi ID #012573, you experienced a likely blood-line catalyzation event during the currently on-going Chunin Examination Event, however preliminary physical examination and testing was inconclusive as to the extent and scale and specialist follow-up was recommended. And also the person who has been playing merry hell with my schedule for the past. Is that correct?"
You nod once, eyes downcast in sudden embarrassment.
She peers closer for a second, her good eye going wide, before she lets out a short sigh and scribbles something down on her clipboard in handwriting that you can't even begin to make sense of. "Well then, unfortunately it looks like we'll be seeing a lot of each other."
"Oh." Well, you can't say you're surprised, but still it seems a bit quick "You know just like that?"
She bites back a short barking laugh, "I have been doing this a long time 573, and this-" she points to her undamaged eye, "-is a dojutsu that can see chakra networks. Which is how I landed this cushy gig after I was rendered combat incapable." She holds up the clipboard for you to see, and it has a crude outline of a human body. "Now, what you have is your body has basically catalyzed an entire secondary chakra network to handle whatever it is it does."
As you process that little bombshell she hands you back the paperwork you had originally carried, with several bright red circles "Now the network appears to be in stable form, which is why the initial examination cleared it for usage, however you will still require regular appointments. My specialty is traditionally high-level dojutsu, but I typically get called to handle more esoteric cases the normal Kekkai Genkai group can't figure out because the overlap between "high-level dojustu" and "esoteric" tends to be fairly extensive. Which is why I've been assigned to handle your case."
"Oh, right of course" You say somewhat hollowly, as you mechanically fill out the information without really looking at it, "So, will you be providing any training or..."
"Oh no" she scoffs, "I am merely here to track your medical progress and I identify any causes for concern before they become a concern. Training is solely at the discretion of your jonin instructor and yourself. Though if I had one word of advice, it would be to make it extensive as quickly as you can."
"Right." Her pen snaps into the the clipboard with a resounding click, "Any questions?"
Vote: Questions?
[ ] Write-in.
OOC Note: You have the opportunity to ask (3) questions to Dr. Inaro. The three questions with the most individual votes will be chosen.
Now onto working on a Tempest update and then a new project you guys can get a sneak preview here.
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