The Nine Tails had left an incredibly large open wound upon the ninja population. The hospital walls were lined with black bags sealed tightly by chakra, beds in the halls right beside them with injured shinobi. No room was left unoccupied and many rooms had people grouped up only the most critical were separated and even than sometimes they shared rooms between suffers of similar conditions. Visits were highly restricted as the medical ninja rushed and stressed trying to prevent the most permeant disability or death they could in the wake of that beasts rampage.
One team of Genin had witnessed how bad the damage could be a little too closely for comfort.
While helping the evacuation of the village outskirts the fight had come upon the area they'd been assigned to work earlier than expected. Both of them had watched as they'd been just barely out of the path of a lashing tail targeting those it was actually actively fighting so close they could see the fur upon it. What they had witnessed was quite a haunting view. Two of them had been absolutely fine in that moment partially shielded from the shrapnel, chakra wave, and other destructive forces by tall plates of bone which quickly dissolved to ash the same second they saw their team-mate of four years sprawled out several feet ahead of them. Half of Nyx's face had been torn up same as the back half of her, bones were clearly broken, and numerous pieces of shrapnel had lodged into her body. The person now sitting in a wheel chair staring out the window could remember the moment they'd caught up to where she went down, still breathing just barely able to speak, but, even the Kaguya had known she wasn't going to survive... that shock would kill her before they could even get her to a medical ninja experience enough to save her.... Than Why?!
The bandages around the stump of their missing leg were covered by a blanket they pulled after a moment of still looking shell shocked and ignoring the man attempting to visit them. "...We were so wrong, Chaoris, we left her for dead, we both saw her! It was hopeless..." And they'd only survived because he hadn't been carrying Nyx thus being able to carry them when they later lost this leg. "but, she's alive, she survived and we just left her. I saw her when they wheeled me here for recovery-" The sight had taken breath away spotting someone they'd been so certain was one of the faceless bags still clinging. "not in one of the bags but strapped down to a bed locked away from everyone else clinging on. I asked but only medical ninja and necessary entities are allowed access to her...." It made sense but they knew it had been Nyx they saw. After uttering it they went silent again, acting as if the man who saved their life wasn't there.
Meanwhile Nyx indeed lay in the hospital, on the other side of the building actually.
Chaoris was not doing as well as he was showing outwardly. The nine tails attack on Leaf Village had been a horrible experience for everyone. There had been plenty of destruction all around, to people and places, and the team he was on had lost quite a bit as well. He could still see Nyx, lying there and bleeding out. Body torn nearly to shreds, spilling blood and bones clearly broken. Shrapnel had even riddled her body, making it impossible to move her without causing even more damage. She had been a goner, or so they had thought.
In the hospital the other member of the team sat in a wheelchair beside him as he stood beside them to try and comfort them. They all had known she was a goner, but now they were saying the two of them had made a mistake and left a surviving teammate for dead. "No, there was no way that we could have saved her. Even the strongest Iryo specialist could not have saved her in time. I don't know what they did to save her, but I will get answers. I refuse to let them stop me from seeing her. I believe it was her too, but all of my medical knowledge tells me she should be dead. I'll come back as soon as I find out. If I'm not back, it's because they had to detain me to get me to stop." The injury had jarred the relationship between the two of them, a somber mood covered the one that had lost a limb that made them push Chaoris away when mere weeks before it had been impossible to separate the two in their free time. It was his hope that some answers would solve some, if not all, of that. It was a pipe dream, but a dream nonetheless.
With that said he would place a hand on their shoulder, squeezing reassuringly even though they would not respond back as they now just looked out the window. After that, the Chinoike would march off to where Nyx was being kept. It would take a while for him to make it outside of her room, but he would not be stopped until he got that far. Three others were guarding her room, making it impossible to sneak in. "That is the third member of my team. I want answers, as I saw her when she took the damage that should have killed her. We left her nearly lifeless body within range of the Bijuu, so I know no one could have saved her in time!" The guards were arguing with her, and after a while medical staff would also start showing up. He was managing to avoid being captured, for now, but if more showed up he would eventually be escorted out and he would not be having that right now.
Everything in the world around her was a slight darkness and it felt like inky water surrounding her but somehow she could still breathe. In the white haired girls ears it sounded like she was underwater everything muffled while distorted but going right through her head instead of her ears. Last thing she could remember before this was observing the violent confrontation of attempting to defeat, subdue, or otherwise handle the nine tails. The Hokage had looked down at her when the beast had been chained to the ground about to break out of whatever jutsu was on it than suddenly everything went black. It had remained a blank space this entire time though frankly it wasn't all that much time one, maybe two days max.
He marched up to the door where the guards prevented him from accessing further. Chaoris would be greeted by two sights he could 'understand' before him. One, as a medical ninja he knew the meaning of symbols alongside various colors taped to the top of files. The thin file tucked in her door told a clear story that they considered Nyx a guaranteed survival but a threatening patient. Each sticker implied that each strap visible holding her down to the bed was not because they feared her dangerous to herself but that they viewed her enough of a risk that the guards were also likely there to down her should something go awry. In fact if he didn't know any better the file and the visible measures more matched those given to a criminal ninja than a simple genin. Secondly everything he'd ever been taught would convey her current state as absolutely impossible. Laying strapped down on that bed while a sheet covered most of her there was no trace of blood on it as if her wounds were stable beneath it, and the half of her face which had been quite gruesome, deep, with dozens of pieces of shrapnel lodged deep within it.... Now carried nothing expect a single long solid black scar over her eye!
It was certainly Nyx laying there seemingly unconscious possibly comatose with triangles of bone sticking out of her hair. Actually, that may be the oddest part as it seemed skin was growing atop them as if her body didn't any longer know they shouldn't be sticking up there. "Look kid, don't be too hard on yourself." One of the guards spoke up while another seemed at a loss for words and the third seemed annoyed as if in some degree of disbelief he was guarding a genin. "It was one of the worst battles even an experienced ninja like me has seen in a while, the eyes can play tricks the shrapnel especially from her blood line ability just made the damage look worse than it was. Yeah she's in critical condition-" it didn't look as if she was in any sort of dire condition more than anything Nyx appeared to simply be asleep. "But if she wakes up she'll probably pull through." probably, obviously they couldn't just let her pull through if the girl was gone leaving only the fox once she awoke! "Run along now and g-" The one speaking cut off a moment later because something changed.
As Chaoris demanded to know things and they tried to brush him off... She could hear his voice clearer than the other muffled noise due to the familiarity. In response to hearing something known her body twitched as her mind began trying to drag itself back to the land it came from. One hand flexing, body shifting, and mouth moving for a moment almost as if to speak. "She moved!" it was a nurse they had been about to let through to do something inside of the room, probably check on the out cold genin. Within a moment one was holding both him and the nurse behind him with one arm while the other two guards drew kunai holding them on either side of the door frame out of sight as their bodies stepped towards the threshold. "You're sure? It doesn't look like she's moving now...maybe it was a muscle spasm and she'll stay asleep." Why would a guard want her to stay asleep when they said her best chance of survival was waking up? It was muffled garble to Nyx at the moment anyway
though something else was quite clear in her ears.
"Such a useless sack of flesh to get so lucky being allowed to survive merely by my impulse and pure dumb chance. I bet that your little team-mates or whoever you came into that fight with is dead already, but you can't join them. Sucks since you're the one who fell first thus failed to protect the rest of them. How they must hate your existence." It continued on and on assailing its own views and despicable bile at her frozen state. She could see it standing in front of her behind bars speaking. the nine tails staring down at her suffocating her with the sheer force of it's emotion.
Many rumors existed for how the fight ended all being circulated equally at the moment. Some claimed the fox had fled after sustaining too much damage. Other's protested that it had been killed at long last. Still more declared some enemy village had stolen it at the last second. Of course the hokage had sent it away with an incredibly powerful jutsu. So many rumors even one entirely 'crazy' based in old legends that before their prisons of the last 1,000 years the bijuu had been sealed into people, that the Hokage had sealed it inside of someone before dying in the hospital that night.
"Bullshit! No medical insurance would heal those wounds that quick! I went through the academy with her and know how Kavura's bones work, and I know that she also didn't use it often because of the clothing she wanted to wear and keep intact! You're treating her like a criminal! Paperwork, straps, and all!" Before he could continue on, the nurse beside him would remark that she was moving. Awake, or at least not comatose?
The guards would draw kunai, as if a monster was rousing, and Chaoris would use the special eyes of his clan to look to focus on her Chakra while they weren't paying attention. What he saw was...blinding. It was the only way to describe it. That and the triangle bones on her ears, made him start thinking in stranger ways. No, would they really do that to her? Weak, dying, mentally unprepared. Would they seal such a powerful beast inside her? The answer, to him at least, was yes.
Sneaking through when they started to turn back around he would yell at them as he started basic medical checks while keeping his eyes on the blinding amount of Chakra. "How could you do this to her! I know I won't get answers, but there is no reason to seal that in her!" He was furious. He thought he had lost a teammate to death, yet here she was in a bed seemingly fully healed and starting to rouse. Would any of them defend themselves? Would he be detained for going near and doing medical checks on her to see what else might be wrong?
"He's right you know, you couldn't survive that. Without me you'd be dead and that makes you more useless than the one's that actually died." Even as her brain worked closer towards the voice of her team-mate she could hear each little drop of insult and put down from the fox she was 'walking away' from. "Unable to save yourself it's only a matter of time before you fail again, you'll need me." It didn't make any sense and she didn't want to think about any of it. Nyx just wanted to see daylight again!
The adults were frozen as Nyx twitched more when he began to preform basic medical checks some of which obviously involved touching the white haired female directly. As her body shifted including her head turning each of the other's present stood perfectly still as if expecting something horrid that they didn't have the time left to prevent. Instead of whatever horror stories they could image would result? 'Nothing' happened! "See, even your own team-mate; Is that what he is? Regardless, he doesn't think you can handle this, you may as well let me out so they can seal me in someone more useful." It felt like running hopelessly without destination just trying to push away his voice and work towards her team-mates, she couldn't take it, she couldn- "Shut Up You Cursed Nine Tailed Monster!" Her voice emerged once more as her vision became overtaken by the normal darkness from her eyes being closed and those grey orbs quickly snapped open. Briefly she looked relieved gasping slightly as the room came into focus.
After a few moments she'd catch sight of her team mate. "Chaoris...." Her voice was weak barely there nearly like the moment they'd left her laying in range of the beast now sealed within her. "You both made it, right?" The white haired boy looked just fine giving her hope that her team-mates had managed to outrun the chaos. As Nyx tried to communicate she began to feel the pain of everything flinching as she whined deeply in pain and trying to curl in but the straps holding her down prevented that. "W-why can't I move?!" She hadn't looked down yet to see any of the straps on her just around than her focus had gone to Chaoris. The guards still remained nearby tense and staring while the nurse had run off presumably to get a more senior medical ninja.
Physically she seemed just fine, some minor lacerations remained and she had light bruising but nothing alarming.. Outside the bone growths on her body which probably in his new strange train of thought seemed like her body adapting to better fit the fox... which was probably the main cause of her pain. She'd been unprepared, untrained, just entirely not ready and now she had an incredibly powerful beast inside of her body.... Honestly some other's may have died from the attempt it was probably only her natural adaptability and that provided by her clan's blood line ability that allowed her to pull through instead of collapsing under the nine tails metaphorical weight.
No one else would come close to them, not while Nyx or the tailed beast was rousing within the body he was checking. After a while the girl would wake up screaming for the nine tailed beast sealed within her to shut up. Good, he wasn't going to immediately be killed now. At least, not by Nyx. What would follow after was some explaining and bad news, he wished it could have been anything else. "Nyx...we both made it. But our other teammate lost their leg in the escape..."
The Kaguya female would also ask why she couldn't move, the worry in her voice told him that straps and bindings weren't the only possible way for her to not be able to move. She had been mortally wounded, so it was a concern that she might actually be paralyzed. "They have you strapped down to the table right now, likely cause of what they sealed into you. I'd remove the straps, but they'll attack me if I do before they say it's allowed." We wanted to cut the straps then and there, but there were still kunai prepped for throwing at the two of them right now.
Chaoris may not be under threat by Nyx but the people outside the room were a completely different story.. Those guards were still technically a threat to both of them but for the present moment her white head didn't know that. Good and bad news could be one in the same thing sometimes and this was a case of exactly that. Her team-mate was alive they didn't have to feel the pain she'd felt waiting to die but, they'd also felt their own unique one in the form of loosing a leg. Both of them knew exactly what loosing a leg meant in the ninja world... After this it'd be them as a pair instead of a trio.... Of course, briefly her mind drifted to the possibility that Chaoris would be put onto an entirely new team without either of them... After-all she didn't know what having this fox inside of her meant.
Did anyone?
"I guess we were wrong about me dying huh?" She tried to let out a chuckle but coughed slightly looking down and to the side away from him. "You live as a prison you're not alive." By the comment of the fox she guessed that whatever seal or such which had been preformed now meant that he was trapped inside of her body and since he'd not acted that he couldn't just take over her. "I don't think it was them. Last I recall anything the Hokage had it chained down with some jutsu I'd never seen before...." She just had to fight so hard to retain awareness long enough to try to fulfill her own wish of seeing her 'killer' downed by the other's; Now it seemed to have backfired. The creature that would have been her murderer was now living inside of her body. "B-but, I think everything is safe now, it's calling me a prison so I don't think it can do anything." She wasn't going to think of the possibility that she could be paralyzed even though both of them knew it was possible.
As they were talking the nurse returned with someone higher on the pecking order. "Who let him into her room?! Alright, boy, time to clear out. She's not cleared for visitors. If and when that happens if you're close enough to have reason to be here you'll be given notice." Grey eyes shifted over to look at the speaker though Chaoris was still most of her vision. "Ha, hope you enjoyed the short extension on your life prison, if any one of them thinks like the Hokage did you'll be dead before long. You were only picked because of how hopeless your survival was." Nyx went from shaken but relatively alright to looking terrified in just a few moments as the doctor and guards slowly entered crossing the room. "Chaoris, don't go!" Her head shook slightly, he was all the way here even though he knew that she shouldn't be alive, he was still a concerned team mate... It was her only hope with what that fox had just put into her head.
Nyx would joke about it, but they both knew better than to really believe her chance of living was more than zero without the creature sealed within her now. She had been imprisoned with that thing, just like it was imprisoned within her. "Then someone else must have done it, but would anyone do it without their permission? That seems to be something our leaders would decide, who to seal a tailed beast into. Right? I think you're just as much a prisoner as it is, you both had no choice in this after all. While one deserves it, you do now." He was calmer, but the anger was still there with every word.
Moments after he finished speaking someone that was trained more for dealing with Nyx would come in and begin barking at everyone, including Chaoris. "I thought she was dead until we found her here. She's a member of the same team as me and I'm staying here while you do whatever tests you plan on doing!" He was going to stand firm in that, unless they forcefully moved him out he would be there watching to make sure they did nothing to harm her.
SHINOBI ODYSSEY is the original work of THE STAFF. Any and all content is copyrighted to SHINOBI ODYSSEY.
Copying, altering, or stealing any of the site's content is prohibited.
All of SHINOBI ODYSSEY characters are the original work of their owners may not be replicated or stolen.
All images and graphics belong to their rightful owners and SHINOBI ODYSSEY does not claim to own any of them.
The skin was created by TIMELAPSE OF WICKED WONDERLAND.