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"You were really lucky, you know that? Using your chakra like that, ignoring my suggestion of you quitting being a ninja…" The blond lady, now known as Tsunade said to Nanami with a loud sigh at the end.
"I'm sorry…" Nana said with her head hanging low.
"It's just….my brother….he's a ninja. So I thought if I were to be one he would accept me faster." Nana explained her actions.
"And did he?" Tsunade asked as the tone of her voice became more annoyed.
"No. He…he's got a big heart. He would accept me even if I wouldn't be one." Nanami explained as she kept squeezing the life out of the bed sheets.
As soon as she said that she felt a fist collide with the top of her head. Looking up from under her red bangs she could see Tsunades angry face looking down at her.
"Tsunade-sama! Please don't hit your patient. She's still recovering from the operation." The medic besides her explained a bit scared.
"Right! Down to business." Tsunade said as she took a seat besides Nana's bed. "Good news or bad news first?" She asked leaning a bit forward.
"The bad news first, please." A reply came from Nana that was lying on the bed again due to exhaustion.
"Very well… The bad news is you won't be able to use any chakra related techniques for two years in total." Looking up at Nana she smiled as she added "But the good news is… after those two years… you will be cured. "
Not stopping here she continued. "The medical staff described your Illness wrong to me. First I thought it was just so kind of chakra cold, but in your case it was a little less complicated. Your body kept rejecting your chakra, so we had to seal your chakra paths for two years. In the next two years you will have weekly therapies, which I will personally oversee. " Tsunade finished as she stood up.
"Thank you. I promise I won't use my chakra until you give me permission to do so." Nana replied as she watched the new hokage leave. Just when Tsunade exited the door her head peeked back in.
"Oh and Nanami. Come to my office when you're done." She added before she disappeared who knows where.
Done with check-ups in the hospital Nana was good to go home, but before she would do that she decided to visit Rock Lee who was recovering from a heavy operation. Entering the room he was occupying she saw him on the ground doing push ups.
"Good evening Nanami-chan!" He greated her with a smile.
"Lee-kun… you should take it easy, you just had an operation." Nana voiced her concern as she kneeled down beside him watching him as he kept on counting his push ups.
After he was done he went on to sit ups ignoring Nana's pleads for him to take it easy.
"Lee-kun…" Nanami said trying to scold him.
"I don't know…They dispatched the genin team with a newly assigned Chuunin… but even some of our jonins weren't a match for the enemy." Both Nana and Lee stopped in their tracks as they heard some nurses talking in the hallway outside Lee's room.
Most of the genins were their friends, and that meant Naruto, knowing him, was definitely in the group chasing after them. Lee stood up as soon as the voices faded taking a flask of what seemed to be Sake.
'What is he going to do with Sake? Isn't he a bit young to be drinking?'
Looking at the table she saw another flask this one titled medicine. After a few minutes of pondering what to do, realization hit her. Lee was going after them. Face palming herself for not realizing it sooner she took the flask of medicine and walked calmly out of the hospital.
Just when she was about to make it she was stopped by their new hokage.
"Nanami! Have you seen Lee?" Tsunade asked her.
"No Tsunade-sama." She lied not wanting to get Lee in to trouble. Hearing a sigh coming from Tsunade she looked back at her.
"I wanted to do that official like I did with Shikamaru…" She started to explain as Nana listened carefully.
"Due to Lee's disappearing, I'll do it now. Your performance in the preliminary and final chuunin exam made a lot of people notice you, the Third Hokage highly praised your skills you displayed in the matches. It seems he intended to recommend you for chuunin, the same opinions came from the proctors and the land lords. Upon that I decided to promote you to the rank of Chuunin. From now on strive to perform in a manner that is worthy of that headband. Congratulations!" Tsunade finished as she smiled at her.
It took Nana a few seconds before a large grin spread across her face as she expressed her gratitude to Lady Tsunade.
"Despite of your handicap at the present time, I have no choice but to send you out after Lee. He probably went after the Sasuke retrieval team I dispatched in the mission is simple, do not engage in a fight, and retrieve Lee safely back to the village. Good luck." Tsunade finished as she dismissed Nanami.
Not waiting any second longer Nana sprinted out from the hospital and off to find Lee. Despite not being able to use her chakra for easier tracking, she had no troubles finding marks that Lee and the others left behind them, like freshly broken tree branches and fresh mud tracks from their shoes.
As she jumped out from the forest she hear Lee talking. Stopping in her tracks she looked at the enemy that towered above him. White, pale, he looked sick, and in his hand he held a sword that looked like a bone. Concentrated on the bone sword of the enemy she didn't see Lee taking his "Medicine" until it was too late.
Jumping down towards Lee she yelled at him to spit it out. It was too late… He drank it all.
"Medicine always tastes strange…" Lee said as he started to move like jelly.
"That's because it wasn't medicine. Next time take the right flask Lee." Nana told him as she jumped behind him.
"Ooooh Nanami-chaaaan!" He greeted her spinning around almost slapping her in the process.
"Lee, you have to return to the village. Tsunade-sama has sent me to get you, and to deliver to you the medicine you forgot to take." She told him as she tried to give him the medicine.
Lee turned around again and knocked the medicine out of her hands, making her jump after it to successfully catch it in the last second. Before she could try and get Lee to drink his medicine she was stopped by the white haired guy as he jumped in front of her pointing his sword at her neck.
Before he could threaten her he was kicked in to his ribs by an angry and irritated looking Lee as he kept on mumbling to himself wobbling on the spot more than before. Deciding not to be the best idea to interfere in their fight she jumped to the side lines watching the fight closely. She was ready to jump in if Lee would need her help.
The speed of their fight was unbelievable, she wanted to interfere four times already, but it always turned out that Lee was pretending to be asleep as he mocked the bone user. Relieved to see that Lee can battle him without her help she started to assess their enemy closely now. Noticing that the guy called Kimimaro had impressive speed, agility and dexterity. His taijutsu skills were on a mastery level which was far above her just above average ones.
After Lee kicked Kimimaro a few feet away she noticed something on the enemies body change. The small tattoo that decorated his chest started to expand across it. His bones started to pop in an unhealthy way, and just after she heard a few nerve-racking pops his bones sprouted out of his left forearm.
"My attack ability is bones. You heard that earlier from the Clone brat, right?" Kimimaro explained the first part to her, and then his focus shifted back to Lee.
'Clone brat?' Nana questioned herself as her eyes widened thinking about the only person in the leaf who's known for his use of shadow clones. 'Naruto…'
"I'll sober you up right away." He threatened with a slightly aggravated voice.
"I'm… not drunk….or anything!" Lee countered as he rushed in kicking Kimimaro, who blocked his leg with his boned forearm.
"Then I'll wake you up!" Kimimaro told him in a steady voice, before they broke in to another fight.
Nana processing the new ability knew what the outcome would be after seeing Kimimaro use his ribs to scratch Lee and stop his attack. If Kimimaro could control his bones popping out of his body to defend and potentially hurt any close ranged combatant. Unless they could get a fast counterattack in, but even then if his bones were reacting on their own accord like Gaara's sand in the chuunin exams, then they would have big trouble defeating this enemy.
"Unorthodox, isn't it..? This is my Kekkei Genkai." Kimimaro explained as Lee lied on the grass apparently sober from that one attack.
Looking down at Lee she decided it was time to step in. He was still recovering. It looks like his body was almost at its limit. Drawing out her kunai she charged in to Kimimaro trying to repel all his attacks. Most of them she succeeded to deflect, but some of them hit their mark as she had acquired a lot of scratches, some deep, some shallow in mere minutes of fighting him.
"My head is pounding…And what's with this wound…? It seems I was drunk, eh?" She heard Lee question behind her.
"Finally sober I see." Nana said as she made the mistake of quickly looking at him to see if he was alright.
Using this moment Kimimaro kicked her away from himself making her tumble across the ground as she collided in to Lee.
"Thanks." She said after Lee caught her in his arms steadying her. As she stood up Kimimaro began talking again.
"It seems you've sobered up. This is my Kekkei Genkai. It allows me to freely control osteoblastic and osteoclastic cells."
'Osteo- what now?' Nana wondered to herself.
"It even controls the concentration of calcium. It's an ability to form bones. Basically, there are over two hundred bones in the human body. But for me, that's not a set number." He explained.
'So that's why I couldn't cut him deep… Using the calcium in the bones he can not only form bones but apparently even control their density.'
"But bones are bones, after all!" She heard Lee yell as he went in again to attack Kimimaro.
"No! Lee! Don't!" She shouted and ran behind him trying to stop him.
"If they break, they break!" Lee reasoned as his punch was again blocked easily by Kimimaro.
Lee retreated a few feet back coming to a stop.
"I told you. Any close-range fighting is useless against him. He can block all the attacks provided and attack at the same time using his Kekkei genkai." Nana explained to Lee as she saw him working out Kimimaros abilities.
Not listening to her he went to attack him again, just to be deflected by a series of bones coming from Kimimaros body as he spun around. Running towards what looked to be unconscious Lee she was attacked by Kimimaro.
"Don't interfere." He told her as he used one of his bones as a knife stabbing her through her side. Luckily for her she dodged most of its damage on the last second. Clutching her wound she tried to prevent any mayor blood loss. The wound wasn't as deep to be life threatening thank god.
She heard Lee stand up and say something to Kimimaro but she didn't pay attention to that as she quickly pulled out some bandages.
'Man…I'll need new clothes…' Nana thought to herself as she ripped her bottom half of her torn up shirt away, exposing her belly button.
'Not using ninjutsu sucks…' She thought as she wrapped up her wound.
Looking up she saw Lee unbinding his wraps around his arms. She knew what that meant. She didn't watch the fight between Gaara and Lee but she heard enough about it in the hospital from the others, before their preliminary exam started. If she was not mistaken this was the Primary Lotus move, that put a lot of strain on to the users body…Something Lee should not be doing now.
"Lee-kun, don't do that!" She winced as she stood up.
Before Lee's bandages wrapped around Kimimaro his eyes locked on to Nana's blue ones. A set of bones from his ribcage shot out from his body, darting fast towards Nanami.
Not being able to dodge the fast attack she tried to block her vital organs from the collision, despite knowing that it would be futile as the bones would just pierce through her like nothing. Closing her eyes in fear she took a step back to collide with something.
Her eyes widened as she saw a wall of sand before her stopping the oncoming bones. Looking behind her she saw the redhead she thought she'll never see again in her life.