TIA
Not a Very Good Reunion! Witness the Miracle of Life Healing!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Toriko.
"I am aware you like breaking the rules..." Naruto said sternly at the table while coughing the smoke out of his system as well as the others, "But next time, keep the smoke to yourself. I was hoping to introduce my village to you under better circumstances. That is no way to get a life." His audience was feeling like even knowing this guy like close friends wasn't enough to be tolerate of his passion for breaking rules.
"Oh well. That is what life is Naruto." Yosaku yelled despite the staff trying to tell him to stop smoking in a no-smoking area. "Rules are there to be broken. I like breaking rules." Yosaku then started to laugh casually like it was no big deal to break the rules like he does. The other Shinobi were in disbelief until Kiba had to bring this up.
"Are you sure this bozo of a jerk is really the master healer and reliever that you once admitted you can't beat in battle!? Looks more like a disgrace to me." Kiba said out of hand until he felt in an instant, the feeling of something clutching his throat.
"And you are nothing but an inconsiderate brat that needs to keep his mouth shut." Yosaku slammed Kiba into one of the supports for the outdoor huts. One of the staff members told him that there was rule about violence in a public place and like before, Yosaku just told her that he will just break that rule. This went on until a new set of voices arrived on the scene, one of them recognizing a certain blonde.
"Naruto-kun?" The blonde Chunin turned and saw more familiar faces including those he hadn't meet before.
"Toriko-sensei!" Naruto charged until he noticed something out of place, it made his eyes turn black. "Toriko-sensei, who was it that cut off your arm? And given someone like you, how strong is Gourmet Corp. proving to be?"
Toriko, a man of large portions and muscles that wore only a tight suit pant. But his left arm was missing, leaving only the stump to be covered by some kind of plant that showed no blood leaking out. Still he laughed at Naruto's expression, "Like before you figured it all out." Then Toriko turned serious, "Gourmet Corp. is showing off its strength by sending more and more powerful members against us. This one was a bug breeder of various powerful and deadly parasites that dealt me with my very first defeat. The only good thing was that my cells had grown to the point of using my signature techniques, this time with my legs."
"Your legs?" Naruto said and got into a thinking expression, "Good idea because it is true for anyone that walks on two legs. That the muscles in our legs are three greater than any of our muscles in the rest of our bodies. After all, the legs have to carry all that weight every day." Toriko laughed,
"Right again. You really have gotten better than we last saw you. And it looks like you have brought so new faces and Teppei…" Toriko turned to a man of barely equal height and green hair in a pompadour. "Is that really your teacher in the art of Food Reviving?" Toriko pointed to Yosaku and the man named Teppei nodded.
"Yes. He is always like this. Hello Master." Teppei said to get Yosaku's attention and it worked.
"Welcome back Teppei, I heard about the Gourmet Showcase in Ice Hell. So it did retire at last? I knew it! I just knew it will crumble!" Yosaku laughed in a way that no one found funny, not even Teppei.
"Master! I got to tell you that Granny Setsuno was absolutely enraged to hear on how you didn't go to Ice Hell yourself and instead sent me." Teppei went into detail until Yosaku went off that telling him this was breaking the rules and was scolding Teppei on breaking the rules; the pot calling the kettle black much?
"Anyway, we all came here because Tsunade is our best doctor and wants to expand her horizons with the medicine here in Life Yosaku." Naruto said to break up this shout fest. "We need to first see that Toriko's arm is regrown and while you are at it, please help us learn the rest of your medicine."
Yosaku just laughed like a jolly old soul having his usual laugh at a joke. "You know that I am merely a very skilled reviver, I am not a certified doctor. I just now basic first aid. You will need to try out the hospitals or the libraries down below." Yosaku stated and the Shinobi nodded. "Anyway, yeah if it will get Granny Setsuno off my back, I might as well."
Then Yosaku shifted his glaze to the others who are in need of medical aid. "If you want, I can offer some healing to all of you while I am at it." That lifted everyone's spirits and they followed after the reviver as he soon walked into the direction of where it all can happen.
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When the Shinobi and Toriko's group were led into the tree of knowledge or Mother Wood by Yosaku, they were in awe by how hollow it was despite how sturdy and whole it looked from the outside. There were many people down below to be all sorts of strange plants and animals. According Yosaku, they are the rest of the group of Gourmet Revivers who specialize in bringing various ingredients from extinction.
"This way, to my chambers where I do my work." Yosaku pointed to a door to a room that a sign labeled as the Reviving Institute. The Shinobi were wondering why Teppei made a comment about how it was more like a 'Destruction Institute'. They got a good reason to believe him once they saw the inside of the room, to see the walls, flooring and ceiling all had blood splattering in irregular patterns. There were very wide stumps that must be used for the tables inside the Mother Wood.
"Ah!" One of the people from Toriko's group was in complete shock at the sight. "Chako Bird! Morning Roses! You are reviving pretty rare stuff here!" Apparently his name is Sunny, one of the four people who share the same title as Toriko and while the latter represents the human sense of smell, the former represents the human sense of touch. All according to Naruto who was the most familiar with them.
"What is this?" Tsunade saw blood and even developed a fear of it and broke out of it with the thanks of Naruto. But this was nothing like before. No single human can lose this much blood and live to tell how much it hurts.
"Failures. Proof of my failures. MY ways can heal those who are willing to live but even that isn't enough to call my medicine 100% working." Yosaku smirked, ignoring the pale faces of most of the Shinobi and Toriko's group. "Well anyway Yakuza boys, how is Ryuu-chan doing?" One of them that stood out with the various scaring on his face was shocked.
"What?" Kiba asked Naruto while everyone looked at him too.
"I never met him myself but I did hear that Ryuu-san was once the boss of the Yakuza group that Match over there…" Naruto pointed at the scared face man, "Is now the leader of. Ryuu had supposedly retired to join some kind of Biotope that isn't on the maps so I don't know anymore. It will seem that Yosaku had forgotten to mention this to me; that he was good friends with Ryuu-san."
"I sure do and since you all are part of his little group then call this free of charge!" Yosaku got everyone attention by stepping on one of the base roots of the table that three bodies wrapped in the same green bandages as Toriko. This impact and force had caused the table to lift on that same edge and sent the injured people into the air. "Word before action, 'Sorry if I fail'. Kitsuke Shokku!" Yosaku then pressed pressure points on both bodies with rough force that had shed the bandages around the head and the limbs.
While everyone stood and watch with great shock, Teppei was merely displeased. 'Rough as always I see. But his skills cannot be denied.'
"Time to wake up Yakuza boys." Yosaku said and just like that, the bodies who were supposed to be in a coma, had awaken right on the spot!
"You all are alive!" Match yelled in great relief and joy. But Yosaku wasn't done with them.
"Time to get healed!" Yosaku grabbed one of them by the ankle and threw him into one of the nearby plants that resembled tulips. When he got close, one of them had gulped him up!
"That plant ate him!" Toriko, Kiba, Choji and even Ino yelled at once for some reason and were wondering why no one was doing anything about that. Teppei explained that they were Therapy Tulips. They were sought out because instead of flesh or bones, these plants instead consume wounds, leaving behind perfectly well skin. Without any bruise or scrape or cut. Then Yosaku grabbed another but this time by the arm to see that it hadn't been properly attached,
"Pēsuto Supitoru!" Yosaku than spat on the wound, grossing out the Yakuza gang member as well as the entire female Shinobi. Even some of the men were not up for getting someone like Yosaku spitting on them, the least their wounds. "That is that and what about that legs of yours." Yosaku then shifted his attention to Match and his wound leg and the gang boss wasn't the one to avoid getting the same spit on it. "Don't worry. That stuff works for sure." Despite the fact that the spit had a healing factor that indeed helped the wounds, everyone distanced themselves from Yosaku because no one wants someone's spit on themselves.
There was also someone who asked of Yosaku for a medicine that can cure any illness in the world. Yosaku did say there was such a thing but the catch is that it can only cure the illness that originated from within the Human World, not including the Gourmet World. This reviver is of the level to travel to the dangerous Gourmet World safely and saw the 'sickness' that are born there; he described them more like curses that medicine can never cure of. Yosaku even said that the man, who was a good friend of Toriko and was known as a Gourmet Knight under the name of Takimaru, had a curse of the Gourmet World in his eye; he can never be healed.
Still Takimaru never gave up and begged for it. He didn't care about the price of the medicine, he was willing to use what is left of his life to repay Yosaku for it. And just like that, the reviver gave up on the price of one billion yen and hugged the Gourmet Knight like old friends. With all that out of the way, it was time to get to the real healing: re-growing Toriko's arm.
Match took his healed men to await a soup from the man named Komatsu that Naruto had asked of Toriko before. Takimaru took the ultimate medicine to his home with hopes that it will help him complete his goal. The Shinobi had no reason yet to leave Life yet and that was Tsunade sending the girls to do some research on the complete index of medicine in Life Country while she herself overlooked Toriko's healing. She wanted to contribute to it too, she is a doctor after all and this will show her what is going to help this nigh impossible healing that was to be completed in twenty years…the least.
The boys were asked to standby by Yosaku saying that he needed an abundance of certain ingredients in order to complete the healing and he will tell them when he needs those ingredients. "Now Toriko, we will begin and I will have to do this." Yosaku faced the blue haired hunter and relatively speaking, that blue hair was cut down to a crewcut and the stands into a bowl. Toriko was not happy with his haircut in a hurry. "Sorry about that Toriko but your DNA is needed in order to make an arm because if we just grow one and try to reattach it, your body will just reject the new arm. It has be grown from the very stump."
"Okay but I still think that you went overboard with the haircut." Toriko said while Tsunade was in the background, trying to stop her from laughing. The sight of Toriko who was well known for his wild blue hair looked silly now. Yosaku then took out a seed from his pocket,
"A Revival Seed. It will be the key to all this healing Toriko." That got Tsunade's attention and she watched Yosaku place the seed in the bowl filled with Toriko's hair. "Once it had soaked in the soil of your DNA, it will grow into a flower. We will use the fragile bulb in the very center of the flower. That will allow your arm to grow back again." Tsunade watch with Yosaku and Toriko in suspense.
After a few minutes, the seed did indeed grow into a flower with a center that glowed brightly like the sun. "Now that was quick and not a moment too soon. We will now new to be careful about this seed, just one twitch and it will burst and be ruined. If it happens, we will have to shave you bald." Yosaku said and he shaking grasped the glowing seed into his fingers but before he could approach Toriko's arm stump, Tsunade carefully and swiftly grabbed; and before Yosaku will have sneezed and crushed it. "Sorry about that, carry it on." Yosaku muttered under the glare of Tsunade; it was about as scary as facing that of Lady Setsuno to the reviver.
The blonde Hokage and healer carefully placed the seed closer to Toriko's stump and it went into the bandages can caused it to glow the same color. Toriko was glad that he will at least have some of his hair left and Yosaku wiped the sweat from his hair; that had got to be the worst step if you count that it was the least painful one.
"Now we need the nourishment for the seed. It will eat as much as I heard you do Toriko and that is why it will get dangerous from here and onward." Yosaku said and Toriko was asked to take a dip into a pod that a special fluid that was going to sustain and halt any effects of the Revival Seed according to the head reviver. He went out and take the boys to get some food for Toriko eat and supply half the nutrients to the seed in Toriko's stump.
Meanwhile, Tsunade stayed with Toriko to keep him company. She also listened to Toriko's life story, of all the training in his powers to create a solid knife and fork with only his arms in order to defeat any prey he has his sights on all the way to his hunts with his new best friend, Komatsu the cook. From the Galala Gator to the Rainbow Fruit, from the Puffer Whale to the Jewel Meat, and now from BB Corn to the Century Soup. All these ingredients from the Puffer Whale, Tsunade learned that these ingredients had a secondary purpose; they help enhanced the Gourmet Cells that Toriko and the other Heavenly Kings have in their bodies; once they do, their abilities are strengthen and soon they can use new powers stemming from the original ones and that is what happened Toriko ever since he started the special hunting from his adoptive father who trained him from childhood.
Then Teppei came to keep them both company and he shared that despite being the grandson of the famous retired Gourmet Hunter, Knocking Master Jiro, he preferred to be a reviver and was Yosaku's apprentice. He said that at one point in his life, he saw an uncharacteristic sad face on his grandfather who is usually jolly like a fool. But instead, they had to see one of their favorite hunting grounds turned into a barren wasteland with no life left. Form that moment on, Teppei sworn to instead hunt ingredients to extinction, he will protect them and revive them from extinction.
After hearing about both stories, Tsunade had more respect for both of them; Toriko for his rule of only hunting and killing what he is going to eat and not otherwise and Teppei's desire to protect the animal and plant life from all who seek them only for glory, fame and fortune. Then Yosaku returned with a sack while the boys carried food and piled it on a nearby medicine table. The sight of the many food had gotten Toriko excited and he left the pod only to shock everyone when he lost over half his body weight in an instant; he looked like he was nothing but a twig of a man, about to collapse! Then something had grown from the stump, surprising even Yosaku; he expected that to happen over a year at least.
Tsunade hurried and directed Toriko's staving body to the food and allowed the first piece of it to his mouth in his hand. Then Toriko ate like he was going to die if he stopped and it looked it could happen. The Shinobi were directed to keep the supply of food coming or Toriko will die since the seed was sucking away all the nutrients and energy form the rest of the body.
'Toriko, your Gourmet Cells are nothing to be underestimated. I think that you can actually get his job done before this New Year's Eve party.' Yosaku could only stand around while Toriko struggled to survive the seed's attempts to suck him dry like a vampire. 'I can no longer keep making this low assumptions anymore. I am going to break the rules this time and make sure you get your arm back and not die while you are at it!'
End of Chapter 12.
*Thanks for waiting and I did try and try to make this chapter but it seemed that I barely got any real energy into it. Not until this year. I hope it makes up for the time you had to waste waiting for it.
Tsunade is going to have to stay for a little while to digest all the medical knowledge of Life Country. Shizune is the right handed woman and she has the right to be the temporary leader of the village if the current Hokage can't rule for any reason. That was one of the breakthroughs that the blonde Hokage had made since she doesn't trust the council well enough to allow them to run the village. She had heard from everyone and I mean everyone and it seemed that the council had gotten their political power go to their heads and boil into arrogance. That much I can tell you while I try to figure out what the rest of the Shinobi will do until Tsunade is finished with Life Country. Stay around!*
Translations:
Kitsuke Shokku – Resuscitation Shock
Pēsuto Supitoru – Paste Spittle
