"Kid, don't tell me you think that you will be learning healing jutsu and practicing practical stuffs directly from the start?" The blue-haired Kunoichi said with a smirk on her face.
Kaiji heard her, but his gaze was fixed on the five heavy and large books she had placed on the table.
'Do I really need to study all this even for learning basic healing techniques?' he thought internally, feeling daunted.
Akane then spoke, addressing his unspoken question.
"Basics are important, kid, and these books will give you a better understanding of those basics." She said.
First, she picked up a book which was named 'Understanding Anatomy and Physiology' and showed it to Kaiji.
She explained, "This book contains detailed information about the anatomy of Ninja's body,
It involves organs, meridians, circulatory and nervous system, and chakra pathways of the body.
This will help you to understand how our body works and how it needs to heal during injury when you learn that stuff."
Then she picked up another book and said, "This book has complete knowledge of medical herbs, poultices and antidotes.
Even if you know some healing jutsu you still needs to understand these things, as not everything can be healed through healing techniques only."
Then she pointed at the third book and explained, "This books contains knowledge of common Deadly Herbs and Poison, that are different from other herbs because poisons can take lives.
In this book, even Chiyo-sama has gives her knowledge regarding them as she herself is master at utilising poison.
She, with puppetry and poison, showed her formidable strength at Second Shinobi War."
Akane then clarified the scope of the third book.
"This book only contains information on some common poisons and their antidotes."
For more information, she pointed at the fourth book.
"Well," she said, looking at the third book in her hand, "since you only wants to learn basic healing jutsu, first three books are enough for you.
Take them with you and put every information of these books in your mind.
And once you did, then come to me and I will provide you some healing jutsu you wish to learn."
Kaiji sighed inwardly, the scale of the task setting in.
He knew that to run, one first had to learn how to walk.
Over-ambition could be dangerous.
Though he still wished he could just directly learn any kind of healing jutsu rather than read all these three books that Akane had told him to read.
Just from their size, he could guess each of these three books had more than 2,000 pages.
Even if he was a ninja, none of his ninja skills could help him in reading and memorizing the details in these books within a few weeks.
It might take him months.
Well, it would be easy if he had a Sharingan, though not that he was willing to gouge his eye for them, but they were really quite convenient things for absorbing information.
He had already decided to learn Medical Ninjutsu, so he definitely wouldn't back off from the challenge.
He took those three books and put them in a storage scroll.
He thought, 'Hell, I would definitely not going to carry these books back to his room and getting unwanted attention from passerbys.'
Kaiji then asked Akane a question gesturing to the books, "Akane-san, can I really take them with me until I memories all these books information...?"
"Yes, you can," Akane replied, confirming it.
"And you don't need to worry because these are just copies, and we have some other copies as well. You don't think that village only has one copy of these books, right?" she added with a slight smile.
Kaiji asked another question about the techniques he would learn.
"What kind of techniques I will be learn when I read these books, I mean I—"
Akane answered him before he could complete his question.
"Well, pretty much all," she said, referring to the basic medical principles.
"Even though you only want to learn basic, I would still give you permission only if you able to understand and create basic foundation, as only these also took months to memorise.
And if you able to, you can even be given Mystic Palm Jutsu.
But if you able to learn it, it would be depends on you, so make sure to practice to improve your chakra control, as that is very crucial."
Kaiji first nodded, processing the information.
Suddenly, his eyes slightly widened and asked, a hint of surprise in his voice, "Wait, Mystic Palm Jutsu isn't that supposed to be exclusive to that Konoha's legendary Sannin, Tsunade Senju?!"
'Or am I just confused about it from anime? Maybe I am, as I mostly saw medical ninja of Konoha in anime, and Tsunade being best medical ninja in the shinobi world.'
Akane looked at him with a slight scowl, her mood shifting slightly at the mention of a Konoha ninja.
"Legendary Sannin?" She repeated, acknowledging Tsunade's skill.
"Well, yeah, she is good at medical ninjutsu. But you have a misconception that mystic palm jutsu is exclusive to her."
She explained, "As this is fundamental high level medical ninjutsu, though it can be said that she is one who has hand in creating this technique, but it's not exclusive to her only."
Kaiji nodded, understanding. He bowed to her before quickly going out of the Medical Department.
He felt that Akane's mood was not good after his comment about the Konoha ninja.
'Probably because I has mentioned Konoha ninja,' he thought, discerning the reason.
It was obvious that Sunagakure had a very bad relationship with Konoha, worse than with any other villages.
This was especially true since Chiyo's son and daughter-in-law were killed by Kakashi's father, the White Fang, in the Second Shinobi War, fueling their bad relationship even more.
Kaiji didn't focus on these negative thoughts much. He moved towards his next destination, a weaponry shop.
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