Chapter 4: Loss? Uchiha Dan's Scheme
After pressing the patient back onto the bed, Uchiha Dan began to unwrap the bandages on his leg.
The patient felt incredibly fortunate.
How many people could be so lucky as to be treated simultaneously by Konoha's two absolute medical prodigies?
Countless people envied the previous 47 individuals who had become the greatest beneficiaries of Tsunade and Uchiha Dan's medical competitions.
Now that good fortune had fallen upon him, the patient felt a bit unreal.
"Uncle, calm down. I'm about to begin!"
Uchiha Dan took a deep breath, took out his silver needles, and began to apply them to the patient's leg.
Although the patient was not a ninja, Uchiha Dan couldn't manipulate the chakra within his body.
However, his acupuncture technique could still stimulate cell activity and accelerate wound recovery.
Having done all this, Uchiha Dan extended both palms.
As chakra surged, two distinct types of chakra began to condense.
The technique Uchiha Dan used with his right hand was none other than Tsunade's self-created Mystical Palm Technique.
Over the many years of their competitions, Uchiha Dan had long since thoroughly mastered the Mystical Palm Technique.
Later, when he used the Mystical Palm Technique directly in front of Tsunade and defeated her, it almost drove Tsunade to her grave with anger.
He had even shamelessly declared that only by defeating her with the same ninjutsu could he truly claim victory.
As for the chakra in Uchiha Dan's left hand, Tsunade had never seen it before.
But she felt the immense vitality contained within the chakra, as well as... the aura of nerve fibers?
"What kind of jutsu is this? Why does it feel like I'm being healed just by watching?"
Ignoring Tsunade's gaze, Uchiha Dan placed both palms, one on the left and one on the right, on the patient's broken bone in his lower leg.
"Mmm..." As soon as the treatment began, the patient couldn't help but let out a very comfortable groan.
He swore he wasn't being lewd; it was simply too comfortable, making him unable to control himself.
However, his comfort didn't last too long.
After just one minute, Uchiha Dan began to pant heavily, looking completely drained, his entire body soaked in sweat.
Unable to hold on, Uchiha Dan released his hands, and his whole body almost collapsed to the ground as if paralyzed, fortunately caught by a nearby nurse.
"What? You bastard, are you already done?" Tsunade mocked, mimicking Uchiha Dan's past taunts to her. "A man shouldn't admit defeat so easily!"
Ignoring Tsunade's mockery, Uchiha Dan continuously adjusted his breathing, recovering his stamina and chakra as quickly as possible.
Ten minutes later, Uchiha Dan's complexion had only slightly improved.
Chakra surged from his palms again, and he resumed the treatment.
This time, it lasted only thirty seconds before Uchiha Dan's face turned completely pale, with not a trace of chakra left in his body.
But Uchiha Dan still looked unyielding, and began to recover his stamina and chakra once more.
"Doctor Dan, I feel much better!" The patient, seeing Uchiha Dan looking on the verge of death, no longer wished for the treatment to continue.
"My leg only has a slight ache now; it'll be completely healed in a week at most. Thank you, I don't need any more treatment!"
Uchiha Dan, however, stubbornly shook his head, patiently waiting to recover.
Over the course of half an hour, he performed treatment four times, and the patient's leg was completely healed.
However, compared to Tsunade's mere ten-odd minutes, it seemed somewhat underwhelming.
"Hahahaha, how pathetic!" Uchiha Dan stared at his hands, laughing wildly in self-mockery, filled with immense disappointment.
After a long moment, he said to Tsunade, "You win this time. Congratulations. And from now on, I won't be your opponent anymore."
With that, Uchiha Dan painstakingly forced himself to stand, dragging his weary steps out of the patient room, leaving behind only an incredibly desolate figure.
Uchiha Dan conceded defeat, very decisively.
But Tsunade couldn't feel happy at all.
Had she truly won?
No, this time she had lost even more completely.
When her medical skills and talent were utterly crushed, what kind of victory was it to win solely based on having more chakra?
Tsunade would not acknowledge such a victory.
Although the treatment just now lasted for a full half hour, Uchiha Dan had actually performed treatment for less than three minutes.
The reason it took so long was that Uchiha Dan had been forbidden from cultivating since childhood, leaving him with pitifully small chakra reserves, forcing him to stop and rest midway.
If he could truly cultivate, even if Uchiha Dan's chakra reserves were only at the level of a Tokubetsu Jonin, the title of Konoha's top medical ninja would belong to no one else.
At this moment, Tsunade was perplexed.
Why would her great-uncle, even on his deathbed, not forget to issue the command forbidding Uchiha Dan from cultivating?
It directly led to a perfectly good medical genius being forcibly stifled like this.
Tsunade had never deeply investigated this matter in the past; in her eyes, her great-uncle must have had his reasons for everything he did.
To possess unparalleled talent, yet be limited by chakra, unable to perform many medical ninjutsu—it was truly a tragedy.
Back in his office, Uchiha Dan stretched out his senses to feel the changes in Tsunade's emotions, and a smile played on the corners of his lips.
As long as I act well enough, I don't believe you won't feel pity.
This round, Uchiha Dan had planned for three years, gradually guiding Tsunade to feel the emotions she was experiencing now.
It had to be said that after five years of rivalry, Uchiha Dan understood Tsunade's personality very well.
Tsunade was a very loyal and compassionate person.
Although Tsunade at this age was somewhat competitive, she wasn't envious or jealous like Hiruzen Sarutobi.
On the contrary, Tsunade greatly valued talent.
At this time, Tsunade still felt a strong sense of belonging to Konoha and wished there were more medical ninjas with extraordinary talent like Uchiha Dan.
Therefore, she didn't want to see Uchiha Dan's talent go to waste.
After fighting each other for so long, even though they were constantly at odds, it would be a lie to say they didn't care.
Just you wait, pity me without reservation. My hope of escaping now rests on you.
Your great-uncle screwed me over so badly back then; it's perfectly reasonable for me to use you to help myself, isn't it?
If you can really do it, I'll just annoy you a few less times in the future.
Uchiha Dan was in a great mood, but Tsunade was not.
Returning to the Senju clan's compound, Tsunade looked utterly dejected.
Mito Uzumaki, who was elegantly brewing tea on the garden veranda, rarely saw Tsunade like this and asked with a smile, "Little Tsunade, what's wrong? Did you lose to that Uchiha boy again?"
Tsunade shook her head, depressed. "I won!"
"It's okay if you lost... Huh?" Mito Uzumaki was about to comfort her but then reacted. "Then why are you sadder than if you had lost?"
Mito Uzumaki had long grown accustomed to Tsunade losing, so hearing that she had won actually surprised her.
"I'd rather have lost!"
Tsunade became even more depressed, recounting everything that had happened today to her grandmother, Mito Uzumaki.
"You mean that medical ninjutsu the boy created himself is far more advanced than your Mystical Palm Technique?" Mito Uzumaki, who had seen all sorts of major events, straightened up immediately, asking with immense surprise.
"I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be false?" Tsunade said, looking deflated.
"Can someone truly possess such talent?" Mito Uzumaki sat back down, falling into silence.
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