Chapter 40 - 40 (1/2)

The next day, Ryo took the mission given to him last night and went to work in Konoha's Hospital.

Over the past two years, there were no major changes to the hospital.

This is year 42, and the relationsh_i_p_s between villages were getting more and more intense. Even Konoha was under strain. So most of the village's money went to fund war supplies; with nothing to spare for repairing the hospital.

Ryo entered the office of the chief of staff. Although the latter hasn't seen him in 2 years, he instantly recognized him. The memory of the little genius was still fresh in his mind.

Ryo was put in the 1st aid department. There was where all the ninja coming back from the borders were delivered.

Every now and then, so injured people were sent to the hospital. Ryo was still on point with his Medical Ninjutsu.

After he saved Sakumo, the news was circulating around the village, that a 5 year old had comparable medical skills to those of Tsunade.

If the only criteria were skill with surgery and injury treatment, that statement wouldn't be too far from the truth.

After all, Ryo has acc_u_mulated 5 years of surgical expertise in his past life, with extensive medical studies along with his innovative addition of Ice transformation to the usual Medical Ninjutsu procedures.

But in other respects, Ryo and Tsunade were heaps and bounds away from each other. The greatest difference maker was her Antidote expertise.

Naruto's world was different from Ryo's original world. Here there is the Sand village, with the Sand ninja being masters of using poison in warfare.

Ryo acceptance of working in here is partially due to his willingness to learn about their poisons.

During the last world war, Ryo's mother Chinse was on the frontlines detoxifying injured Konoha Shinobi. Ryo was planning on learning about detoxification with his mom after learning about the poisons in the hospital.

The 3rd Ninja world war was about to erupt. Ryo need to master all aspects of his medical Ninjutsu before it starts. If possible, Ryo wants to learn even more to be fully prepared to all he might meet.

For the next few days, Ryo didn't get any ninja coming from the Borders of the Sand. After asking one of his seniors, he understood that the poison was so terrible; most of those who do get poisoned never actually make it to the hospital.

On his sixth day in Konoha's hospital, Ryo finally saw the 1st ninja to return from the border of the Sand village.

This one was treated on the spot by accompanying medics, so the toxins didn't spread and they managed to save his life.

In his past life, when he was at collage, Ryo knew little about poisons. He only knew that they were divided into categories. When considering their mode of action, they can be divided into Neurotoxins and Blood toxins. When dividing them by the obviousness of symptoms, they can be divided to explicit and hidden poisons. And if you judge them by the speed of action, they can be divided into acute and chronic toxins.

Most of the poisons used by the puppeteers of the sand were acute explicit ones. If the poisoning is not treated within a certain period, the one poisoned will end up dying.

Ryo and his superior worked together for hours before finally saving the wounded ninja's life. His blood contained blood toxins, so as blood flew through his body, toxins quickly spread to his body.

Later, Ryo leaned from chatting with his seniors that most of the sand poisons had similar effects. So Ryo determined that they were mainly blood toxins.

When he learned that, Ryo was relieved. After all, freezing the body with his Ice affinity will prevent it from flowing through the body will give him time to remove the toxins.

In the next few days, he learned even more about the [Healing] Jutsu. Actually, it can be altered to achieve a detoxification affect.

After being busy for a long period of time, Konoha's hospital was suddenly idle and the atmosphere in the village became more and more imposing. Every day, ninja were rushing in and out of the village.

And Ryo spent half a month practicing medical ninjutsu.  [Healing] was able to handle most of poisons.

After things settled down in the hospital, Ryo received no further tasks. Instead, he was transferred to an outpatient department for treatment of civilians and Ninjas who were in the village.

There weren't many patients coming to Ryo's department, so he had a lot of free time on his hands. So he spent his time reading through Tsunade's notes hoping to find something interesting.