Chapter 30

— "There's no need to put me to sleep for this," — the former kunoichi said with a mocking tone as she settled onto the couch, — "and unlike the other patients, you don't need to distract me. Although I must admit, the attention from such a handsome young man is quite flattering."

Annoyed, I clicked my tongue and nodded.

— "Then sleep," — I said, placing my hand enveloped in green chakra on Suzuka's forehead, and I sent her into a deep sleep.

Now, by all the rules of the genre, I should take advantage of the helpless woman in my control and satisfy my base instincts… Oh God, what nonsense is running through my head! Sighing, I pulled out a scroll from my pocket and unrolled the container with the eye floating in preserving fluid.

Replacing the damaged eye with a nearly intact one was no trouble and took only half a minute. The main advantage of a planned operation over one performed in the field is the opportunity to prepare.

After placing the defective organ in a jar (a good opportunity to attempt to restore it later), I sealed it back up, checked the general functionality with a few false impulses, and, satisfied with the result, turned to the arm.

As I mentioned, the difference in preparation allows for proper integration — organ rejection in most cases happens due to mismatched blood type and chakra in the new body part, but with the use of just two standard (for an experienced fuin user) seals used in the hospital, you can simply draw them out and connect the resulting piece of flesh to the amputee, allowing chakra and blood of the new body to circulate through it.

Thus, after constricting the blood vessels above the stump, I carefully removed one and a half centimeters of flesh and bone from the healed area, then unwrapped the limb and began working. With my experience in treating various injuries and wounds, merging muscles, bones, and skin was no trouble, as well as the blood vessels.

Restoring blood supply to the arm and watching the thin, almost translucent white hand gradually regain its natural volume and color, I proceeded to the nerves, testing them with very weak lightning pulses and tracking the results by the twitching of the fingers. However, this wasn't the most challenging part, and after half an hour of ensuring the new hand's relative functionality with signals from the new nervous system, I tackled the more complex task — merging the fragments of the keirakukei into a single harmonious structure.

Considering the chakra channels on the verge of destruction on one side and those long unused on the other, I had to be very careful to connect them securely and not tear them apart with one careless move. Anyone who has tried to remove a splinter visible only with a magnifying glass will understand me.

The only relief was that these chakra channels didn't need to be restored from scratch and there weren't as many as in the torso. After spending an hour and a half and achieving an acceptable result, I removed the induced sleep from Suzuka and sat down next to her with relief. I was mentally exhausted rather than physically, fully focused on the delicate task.

I can't imagine what insane chakra control Tsunade must have, being able not only to quickly reconnect torn chakra channels but also to restore them from scratch in a relatively short time. Even though my control is quite good, honed over many years with sweat and blood, it would need to be an order of magnitude better for such ease, which I doubt I can achieve in the coming years, if there is any chance with my vast amount of chakra. Even the Senju, although they excel in this category, don't quite reach the Uzumaki half-bloods.

— "Ryo-san?"

Turning my head, I saw the sleepy Suzuka curiously examining her new hand with both eyes. Of course, the skin pigmentation of the hand was slightly darker than the rest of the limb and the boundary was clearly visible, but that was all.

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