| [Oct. 5th, 2010|08:47 pm] |
Managing to hold his tongue (twice in one month, this was becoming a new and disturbing trend) and not pass comment on the guilt in Genma's expression, Haruichi stayed quiet until Ito invited him to inspect the hospital's handiwork. It was not often that the other medics were so willing to let Haruichi pass comment on what went on under their roof. A lot of it was professional pride (he had only just qualified, and was definitively not a specialist in any arenas save the ones the other medics had the good sense to keep the hell away from), but mostly Haruichi was sure that his lunatic high standards and willingness to inflict them on others played a part in his not really being a part of Konoha's medical community.
Still, Ito being the best of the best meant that none of that really applied. Haruichi put on his specs and took a series of quick, careful and considering looks at the work that had been done. Despite the little twist of illness that looking at the remainder of that damage gave him, he kept his expression schooled and focussed on what Ito was really asking him to see.
"It looks like it will heal nicely," Haruichi noted, glancing up at the elder doctor with a sort of respect that might have verged on deference - if he hadn't been Hyuuga Haruichi. "Thank you for doing such an excellent job on him, Ito-sensei," Haruichi said quietly.
And if there was a little gratitude audible in those words, Haruichi would swear up and down that it was in response to Ito's professional courtesy and nothing more.
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