Sickly pets! (M)

[Hirihi]

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name; healing the pets
rank; c
description; After the aggravated war it’s left some of our Kumogakure pets unattended with injuries. Now that things have settled down and the hospital is slowly returning to normal, it’s time the Kumogakure no Sato shinobi lend a hand and help keep things settled down and less chaotic. The first order of business is healing the wounded pets within’ Kumogakure. Our loyal citizens no doubts have loyal pets whom were injured during these troubled times. So help them, whether it be at the hospital, at the side of the road or anywhere within’ Kumogakure no Sato. Heal those pets!
reward; 50 experience, 1,000 ryo
minimum shinobi; one, medic only
mission status; interminable

.:Enter:.

Hirihi had been dispatch by the hospital to help with the local problem of injured pets. Things ranging from broken limbs, poison, and sickness were what she was asked to take care of. For something as basic as this, she had no problem going out to help the civilians. She wasn't a veterinarian, no, but she could surely try. She'd been asked to practice on animals a lot, actually. Reviving fish, things like that. She hadn't ever touched a fish before, until she had worked with the medical staff, that is.

The receptionist had given her a list of peoples' housess to visit to tend to their wounded animals. First on the list, and the closest one, was a Doberman that had been unable to walk for a while. It had a broken leg, and since it hadn't been treated immediately, it was likely she would have to rebreak the bone, set it, and heal it. The idea of hurting something to heal it was not particularly interesting to her. She knew it was the only medically correct thing to do, though. Hopefully the owner would assume she was doing it on purpose for some kind of ill-placed pleasure in causing pain.

Walking up to the door, Hirihi would knock on the door and make sure that her medical badge was clasped in plain view on her chest. If her headband didn't give away that she was a shinobi, the medical ID on her chest would definitely alert them of why she was there. An elderly woman, gray hair wispy in the light wind, would open the door and smile up at the pink haired medic. "Are you hear to help my dear Rex?" The woman would ask, Hirihi nodding and her nose twitching similar to how a bunny's would just out of natural habit. "Where is Rex?" She would ask, the woman turning away and leading Hirihi into the house.

At the back corner of the house, curled up on a pillow and looking about as pitiful as ever, was a four-year old Doberman staring back at the pink haired medic with pleading eyes. Its leg didn't just appear to be broken. The leg itself was actually turned in a rather odd angle, jutting out at a 45 degree angle away from its spine. Hirihi felt her stomach cringe at the thought of what she was going to have to do. The woman would excuse herself, seeming the type to be squeamish in these particular situations. "Alright, let's get this over with, Rex." She said, walking over and kneeling beside the injured animal.

[Hirihi]

Rex was very trusting at the sight of her, as if it just seemed to know she was there to help him get better. With her help, he'd be running about and developing the lost muscles in his leg in no time. Placing her hand on the leg, she felt him try to jerk away, that motion seeming to make the pain that much worse for him. Bringing a hand up to scratch behind his ears, she tried to get him to relax and lay back on the pillow. It would make the healing process that much easier if she weren't having to look into his eyes as she snapped his leg and set it back in place.

There was no way around it. She hadn't learned any kind of techniques that would help in this particular case. The most she could do was numb the leg, snap it back in place, and use Healing Hands as long as it took for the leg to completely heal. First administrating the numbing chakra to the leg, she would satiate his leg with a numbness that would make it likely impossible to feel any kind of pain for what she had in store for the poor beast. Looking beneath the skin with another set of handseals, she would locate where it was growing oddly at and note the area in the back of her mind.

Delaying it no longer, she placed both hands on the part of the bone she would have to inevitably break. Eyes closed, she quickly snapped her right arm forward, and her left arm towards herself. This motion would create a smooth, clean break beneath the skin. With another look with her X-Ray vision, she realigned the bone as best as she could manage and began to use healing chakra to force the muscles to heal and the leg to begin to mend at a much faster rate. Rex, during the entire process, just lay there whimpering as he watched across the room. He knew better than to watch during things like this it seemed.

It took several minutes to get the bone to heal right, Hirihi having to use her chakra scalpel to cut away some of the fragments that had been left behind by the bone. Once she was done, she stood back and looked down at Rex. His leg looked perfectly fine now. It had taken a bit of creativity, and a bit more muscle than she would have liked, but she had managed to get the leg back to how it should be. While she was working, the old woman had occasionally came in to check on her. This time when she came in, she saw her pet, Rex, scampering about like the happiest dog you'd ever find.

[Hirihi]

It had been a few weeks since she had seen her dog up and around, and she was just shocked by the sight of poor Rex walking along. it was still a limping walk, given that his muscles had gotten a bit lazy in their latent stage, but that would be fixed over time. She'd made sure to leave plenty of room for the dog to mend himself after just setting the bone in place. With a hug from the elderly woman and a thankful bark from Rex, Hirihi was off and out the door just as fast as she had arrived. With the woman's signature on the line stating that she had finished the job, leaving a rather nice comment on the margin, Hirihi wandered off down the street towards her next target. She would be working with a cat next, a particularly angry cat from the details.

Walking further down the road, she read the details of the affliction, and thought she might as well just not even try. A cat that is afflicted with what the woman believes to be a poison? How unlikely is that, right? Unless her cat is the epitome of cats, and harbors some special kinjutsu, Hirihi doubted the cat was poisoned. It was likely just something the little beast had eaten. Approaching the door, that was where she would meet the monstrosity. Sitting precariously on the edge of the steps, Hirihi would look to see the black haired woman behind the window pointing to the cat as Hirihi would approach, vanishing into the house to go about her work.

"Well, I see how it is. No time to chat and see if there's anything useful you can tell me." Hirihi said, leaning down and getting close to the black cat. The cat's green eyes would squint at her and would swipe its right paw at her, claws extended as Hirihi leaned near. The little beast was definitely pissed off, but the quesiton was what was the matter. Using a movement faster than the cat could detect, Hirihi had it wrapped in her arms and held it in a restraining grasp as she did her outward examination of the cat.

No signs of broken bones, injury, and not even the slightest sign of disease. This was just a waste of time... She thought to herself, the cat squirming and writhing in her arms as she attempted to look the cat over further. Hanging the cat by its collar, only giving it the ability to use its back paws to stand with, Hirihi would use her x-ray technique to take an inner look towards what the problems were. Oh damn! She thought, the words nearly spilling out of her mouth. No wonder the cat was so angry. It had been stupid enough to eat rocks that were far too big for its digestive tract!

[Hirihi]

Hirihi shook her head as she looked at the cat. "You really ate rocks... How intelligent you must be." She said, turning to glance at the window to make sure the woman wasn't around to hear her talk that way of her supposedly "intelligent" animal. Placing her hand on the cat's belly, not caring if the little spawn of satan scratched her, she began to numb the cat's belly. With a quick motion, she would place the other hand against its stomach and cut into its stomach. Using her chakra, she moved her chakra like it were fingers into the cat's stomach and began to feed the rocks out of its body and through the neat little slice.

From this particular angle, the cat would undoubtedly bleed. That was why Hirihi was working fast to gather up the rocks that had burrowed into its stomach and was preventing food from slipping through. There were a total of four stones in particular, each carrying with it a single decorative kanji on it. She set them aside and began to heal the hole in the cat's stomach as she also used her chakra to replace any blood that the poor thing had lost. With the rocks free of its belly, Hirihi move it from the position it was at and used her x-ray to check one more time to make sure there wa snothing else.

When she was done, satisfied with the results, Hirihi set the now docile animal on the porch. The feline would rub against her leg and cast a glare to the woman as she now stood at the door. Her eyes would look from the cat to the pile of stones that were slightly coated in digestive acid, then back to the cat. "Why'd you remove those stones?" The woman asked, Hirihi confused as she spoke up. "The stones were causing the cat discomfort. I doublt it was able to even eat during the time that the stones were in his system." She said, the woman glaring and attempting to grab the cat, the cat jumping to sit on Hirihi's shoulder.

"Those stones were given to me by a merchant who said they'd give him as long a lifespan as myself. Took me forever to get them in his stomach. This isn't what I asked you to do-" Hirihi couldn't take anymore of this. "Those stones do nothing but cause irritaiton and pain. This was why your cat was so upset and angry at everything that came near. The fact that you bought those stones from someone who just burned kanji onto them tells me that you got played for a con." Hirihi said, grabbing the stones and throwing them into a pile of rocks near the front door. "Glad to see your cat is doing better." Hirihi said, setting the cat down and walking away, the cat attempting to follow Hirihi away from the house. The woman wouldn't let him get far, but she would eventually lose control of him and he'd go darting down an alleyway, possibly never to return.

[Hirihi]

With the two pets down and one more to go, Hirihi decided it was best to pick one that would take up the rest of her time. She was only asked to care for as many as she could, and she skimmed the list for the one that would be needing her help the most. On the end of the list was a horse that was dealing with what appeared to be infection and two broken legs. This one was going to take a lot more of her time, so she decided it best to start with that particular one. The horse was located on a small ranch towards the end of the village, so it would take a bit of time to get there.

As she walked, she read over the details that the rancher had provided for her. It was more lengthy of a list of details provided by the rancher. Swollen joints, fever, broken legs, and not eating. All of this was something that was serious and left her unable to take the horse anywhere. The hospital was dispatching someone for a reason. This one would take a lot longer than she had originally thought. Approaching down the dirt path towards the stables, Hirihi peeked her head in to take a look and see if the rancher was around. Thankfully, she was and was able to lead her to where the black stallion was laying in a pile of hay.

Approaching the stallion, careful to stay away from its hind legs in case it kicked, Hirihi examined it from a few meters away first. Her eyes examined the wounds along the legs, and she could see that there was definitely infection seeping through its body. Puss had built up along the injuries and she could see little bits of bone sticking out of its legs. It was almost as if someone had done this on purpose. Horses were strong, resillient creatures. It was a rare occasion for them to be hurt this badly.

Sighing, Hirihi figured it best to start with cleaning the wounds. She didn't have an idea of what technique would do best in healing out the infection, so she decided it best just to use medicine that the hospital had provided for her in this case. Placing the medical powder on the outside of the wounds along the horse's legs, Hirihi would see it try and move as the powder would begin to burn against the raw flesh, but she did what she could to mend the wounds with a set of handseals and healing green chakra seeping into its legs.

[Hirihi]

Hirihi would be hard at work for a full hour to tend to the needs of the poor horse. They had set the legs of the horse properly, thank god, and had left her less to do. With the legs being properly set, it left only treating the wounds, the infection, and getting the horse stable to eat and heal up. This wouldn't be a quick fix. This would require someone's constant care for at least 24 hours. Hirihi didn't have the time to spare for that, but she hoped that she could set the horse on the road towards recovery. Using cool towels to help bring down what fever she could, she began to heal the wounds with her chakra as best as she could manage. The bones had already been set in the process of mending. All she had to do was wrap them in splints. This would keep the horse from delaying the healing by forcing them to heal straight.

Another twenty minutes would pass between healing what wounds she could and catering to the fever that had built up. She also made sure to keep the blood in the horse's system steady since it had been something she was afraid of. If the horse had lost enough blood, it was possible that the white blood cells in its system weren't able to combat the sickness as well as they should have been able to. Within the twenty minutes, she would begin to see some progress. The heat would slowly be drawn out of the horse's body and begin to cool. With the fever slowly beginning to lessen, she focused her efforts on healing the wounds on its legs where it had been broken.

With the wounds healed up, the fever reduced significantly, and the broken bones set properly and braced, Hirihi sat back and took a look at the horse. It had seemed to have been awake the entire duration of the pain and the illness. It probably wasn't able to sleep from the great discomfort and the heat. This would be encouraging to Hirihi as she would now see the horse sleeping soundly and on the road to recovery much faster than it would have been on its own. The rancher would come in about ten minutes after Hirihi was packing up her things and getting ready to leave. "He's badly hurt, as you know, but he's getting better now. I don't know who set the broken legs straight, but I splinted them to keep them from getting worse in his sleep. The fever is breaking, and it's only a matter of time until he wakes up and begins to eat again." Hirihi said, relief pouring from the rancher.

"I-I don't know how to thank you. We all couldn't do much for him, but, again, thank you for your help today. You've done as all a great kindness." The rancher said, Hirihi nodding and moving past the rancher. She had done a lot so far today. Healed a dog, a cat, and a critically wounded horse. Veterinarian wasn't something she liked to take as a title, but she could surely take the name if the situation needed it. With a strong confidence in her medical abilities, as well as a shinobi, Hirihi walked away and knew in the back of her mind that she really had done the best that she could today. Even for that poor cat, where he had run off to.

.:Exit:.

[DAVID BOWE]

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