| Meet You on the Other Side [closed to Genma & Raidou] |
[May. 6th, 2009|07:24 pm] |
[Directly follows Follow You Into Dark]
One of the hardest tasks a medic ever faced, according to the wisdom of Konoha's most experienced healers, was keeping alive a patient who believed he had lost any reason to continue the struggle. Only the suicides were worse, and it being a ninja village, there were almost no suicides who survived long enough to receive any medical treatment at all.
No, it was the shinobi who came in a bloodied mess, clutching dogtags torn from the necks of corpses; the men and women who had watched their partners cut down; the jounin-sensei bringing back the lifeless bodies of the genin they had sworn to protect; the survivors of capture and torture who had failed their missions, their teammates, themselves--those were the ones the medics dreaded caring for most. There was no hope you could give a man who'd had all his hopes wrenched away.
Of course, Konoha's medics weren't the types to give up easily. Even in the most dire of cases, there was always a chance. ( As long as the patient made it through the first twenty-four hours, they said, there was hope. ) |
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