29. A Truly Devious Mind.
The scroll folded out into a simplified diagram of the human circulatory system.
Sasuke indicated with a kunai (possibly poisoned but it was hard to be sure these days)
"Cut here and your opponent will bleed to death with five minutes."
Sakura frowned "Isn't that a bit excessive?"
"Not if you're in fear of your life."
"Point."
Naruto frowned deeply before looking up "Hey, hey Sasuke. You said that your medical-jutsu pushes your chakra into a person."
Sasuke nodded, wondering where this was going.
"Well, I was just wondering." Naruto looked across to his team-mates "Couldn't you use that to put something bad into the 'patient'."
"Like a poison?"
"Well yeah, I suppose."
Sasuke shrugged "It'd be easier and more practical to stick with the more traditional methods of applying poisons."
Naruto waved his hands frantically "No, not like that. Eum, you know the way Kakashi-sensei said captured medics get treated well if they do all the doctor stuff for the guys who are holding them prisoner. I was just thinking, if it was me I'd, 'unno, plant an explosive or something in them that you could detonate like one of those tags."
Sakura stared in amazement and a dawning expression lit upon Sasuke.
"Naruto!" she gasped "That's utterly devious and underhanded."
"Brillant, I think you mean." Sasuke interjected "If you succeeded in that you could hold your captors hostage instead."
Kakashi hummed from his perch on a target stand "Well, I rather like it. But what you need to determine is if you're capable of such skilled deception Sasuke-kun."
Sasuke glared at his anatomy map as if it had personally offended him. "If I can't now, I'll figure it out."
Sakura turned to Naruto "I'm so glad that devious brain is on our side."
