Chapter 11 : Successive meetings

"Isuzu, how are you?"

"Akako, you still look good."

"It's been a long time since you came to the hospital."

"Since Miyuki was born and I'm glad."

In the main hallway of the second floor of konoha hospital, Miyagawa looked curiously at the woman with short black hair and blue eyes with a pretty face wearing a doctor's outfit who was talking with his mother.

The woman named Akako turned her gaze to Miyagawa and smiled.

"So he is my future great doctor."

"I'm Miyagawa Takahashi, nice to meet you."

"He's polite too, come to my office."

Isuzu and Miyagawa walked to Akako's office, she opened the door and sat down behind a wooden desk before inviting the two to sit down.

"Thank you Akako for doing me this favor."

Isuzi thanked Akako who sighed in response before taking a serious expression and saying.

"Isuzu, I will tell you the things directly, the hospital is extremely busy, the war has just ended and we are overwhelmed, I can not afford to teach a disciple, if not for the fact that you are my friend and former teammate, I would not even have time to receive you today."

"We don't even have time to sleep let alone teach someone who isn't even an intern, all I can do for you is let him have access to libraries and help with minor treatment."

Isuzu did not get angry at the raw words of her friend, she simply replied with joy.

"I understand your position, I don't ask you to learn him much just the basics are already enough, I would like him to have at least the ability to administer first aid in the future for his safety."

"Well, if that's all it is he can start coming to the hospital tomorrow but I'm warning you if he causes any trouble or if his abilities are insufficient I'll send him back right away, okay?"

"ok."

Akako and Isuzu started to chat under the gaze of Miyagawa who just sat there with a bored look on his face before they were interrupted a few minutes later by a nurse who called Akako urgently into the operating room.

Isuzu and Miyagawa said goodbye to her before leaving the hospital but as the two were about to leave the hospital Miyagawa suddenly stopped and turned her gaze to a man who passed them and entered the hospital at the same time.

He was a middle-aged man of about forty years with yellow eyes and dark circles, long gray hair that fell back and sideburns that were connected to his beard of the same color.

His eyebrows were thick and darker gray, but neatly trimmed, gave him a serious but friendly look that went perfectly with his soft and pleasant smile.

"Honey, what's wrong?"

Isuzu already out of the hospital stopped and looked at her son standing at the door who looked down the crowded hospital hallway.

"Nothing, I thought I recognized someone."

Miyagawa came to her senses and said with a smile before following his mother who didn't say anything more to their house.

He ate breakfast with his mother and brother without the company of his father on a mission before changing into something more comfortable than the clothes his mother had forced him to wear in the morning before leaving home for training.

But differently from the other days, when he arrived at his usual training ground, he frowned and with a leap disappeared into the foliage of the surrounding trees, erasing his presence while observing a few meters further a tall, well-built man with high cheekbones, a bulbous nose, dark black bowl-cut hair, thick eyebrows and a bristly mustache wearing a green jumpsuit and konoha forehead protection.

At that moment, the man did something that would scare any professional weightlifter.

He lifted a gigantic rock that looked like it weighed at least a ton or two with one leg, while doing push-ups ups upside down, using only his hands as a point of contact with the ground.

"He is..."

Miyagawa immediately recognized the shinobi in the distance as he unconsciously took a deep breath.

The man suddenly stopped his training with a serious face and dropped the rock to the ground before looking in his direction while asking with a slight coldness.

"Who's there?"

Miyagawa was slightly surprised by the man's look in his direction, his mastery of the shadowing stealth technique thanks to his perfect control had already reached a point where even the professors of the academy could not perceive his presence if he wished, the fact that he was spotted so quickly was proof of the skills of the man in front of him, making him be even more sure of the man's identity.

Maito Dai, the eternal genin stronger than kages.