Yugito's injuries were very very severe.
There was basically no difference between her current state and Naruto when he was violently pierced through the chest and left near death by Satori in the original movie.
Tsunade's Medical Ninjutsu was arguably the pinnacle of the ninja world, but she was still inherently limited when facing such instant fatal organ destruction.
Her Creation Rebirth could rapidly force her own cells to divide and repair her own organs, theoretically allowing her to recover even from being cut completely in half.
However, she couldn't simply project that same cellular regeneration onto others.
They say doctors can't heal themselves, but Tsunade was actually the exact opposite.
Before meeting Makoto, she possessed the most powerful medical regeneration jutsu in history, but she could only use it as a selfish combat buff on herself.
For Tsunade to treat Yugito's missing organs now, she must borrow Makoto's sage power and use the ability: Life Bestowal (Like Xerneas's power from pokemon).
Otherwise, with such a massive, gaping hole in the Jinchuriki's chest and abdomen, even if Tsunade could stop the bleeding and save her life, she would have to manually stuff the cavity with something like Hashirama cells, basically turning the girl into a half-zetsu.
Fortunately, they had a cheat code.
Tsunade reached behind her head, removed her hairband and firmly grasped the glowing green stone attached to it.
The Strength of a Hundred Seal release and the Natural Energy transformation were performed simultaneously.
Fwoosh.
Colorful, vibrant, flowing green and gold patterns instantly spread across Tsunade's entire body.
After utilizing multiple transformations over the past few weeks, Tsunade had gradually become much more proficient at handling the raw power, and her activation speed had increased considerably.
In her transformed state, Tsunade knelt down and pressed her hands firmly over Yugito's ruined abdomen.
Almost immediately, the horrific wound began rapidly sealing itself.
Flesh, muscle, and tissue rapidly grew and recovered, weaving together until it was quickly restored to smooth, unblemished skin as if the spike had never hit her.
Suddenly, Tsunade stopped her healing halfway and turned around to tug sharply on Makoto's sleeve.
"I almost forgot! Get over here. You should definitely experience this too."
What Tsunade meant by "experience this" wasn't to have Makoto creepily feel whether Yugito's newly healed skin was smooth, but rather what they had agreed upon before their departure—to let Makoto physically touch her and analyze the raw flow of the 'Life Bestowal' energy in her transformed state.
Why explain this distinction? It seemed like no one had misunderstood, right?
Not exactly.
After the Raikage elbowed Killer B away and dragged him back to the high platform, he had ordered Samui and Karui—who were responsible for guarding the unconscious Warden Mui—to go down to Tsunade's side to offer any necessary assistance.
These two were female ninjas, so naturally, there was no need for them to avoid looking at Yugito's shredded clothes during emergency surgery.
Just as Samui and Karui arrived at the scene, they witnessed the miraculous terrifyingly fast recovery of Yugito's fatal wounds while she lay on the ground.
The two Cloud kunoichi looked at each other, both seeing shock in each other's eyes.
They had been standing far away earlier and didn't know exactly how severe Yugito's injuries were, but everyone could see Satori's thick spike piercing straight through her body—unless they were blind.
Now, when they approached, aside from the massive bloody hole torn in Yugito's tight clothes, there was no sign of physical injury on her abdomen.
Of course, she wasn't completely healed yet.
Tsunade had only rapidly restored the external tissue and stopped the bleeding; the complex internal organs and deeper tissues still needed delicate, sustained repair.
She was calling for Makoto to come over and feel the chakra network.
But to Samui and Karui, who had just arrived and only saw the smooth skin, this sounded incredibly strange and perverted.
Yugito had already recovered her skin, so what exactly was this Leaf boy supposed to 'feel'?
Their eyes instinctively fell on the unconscious Yugito lying on the stone.
Yugito usually wore very tight-fitting clothes, and now her entire top and midriff were violently torn open from the piercing, exposing... well, a lot.
"ABSOLUTELY NOT! If you have some weird medical fetish, why don't you let him feel yours instead?!"
Karui aggressively shoved her way forward, hurriedly blocking Makoto and standing protectively over Yugito's exposed body with her fists raised.
"What's 'yours' or 'mine' got to do with it? I was asking him to feel mine in the first place!" Tsunade snapped back, completely baffled by this sudden, hostile interference from the Cloud ninja.
She genuinely didn't understand what degenerate angle they were coming from!
"HUUHH?"
Both the hot-headed Karui and the cool-headed Samui (who was just about to step forward to calm Karui down) froze stiff.
'Wait... Was the legendary Slug Princess Tsunade really this shamelessly open?'
'Or did she have some peculiar, exhibitionist habit of liking to be intimately touched by teenage boys while healing dying patients?'
While the two Cloud ninja were utterly stunned into silence by the sheer brazenness of the Hokage, Makoto had already calmly stepped forward and placed his hand firmly on Tsunade's glowing shoulder.
Tsunade ignored the gaping Cloud girls and continued the intense treatment, channeling the pure life force chakra to completely heal Yugito's remaining internal injuries.
After a minute, Makoto withdrew his hand, nodding thoughtfully to himself.
He had roughly figured out the metaphysical principles behind this specific 'Life Bestowal' energy transfer.
"Hey, you two. Stop staring like idiots. Take off a piece of clothing," Tsunade called out to Samui and Karui as she finished up.
Her gaze lingered on Samui's chest for an extra second.
'Was this the blonde, 'exceptionally large-tits' Cloud ninja from Ryuzetsu's incredibly mistaken intelligence report yesterday? Hmph.'
"Huh? Oh, I'll do it!"
After violently snapping out of her daze, Karui only hesitated for a moment before stripping off her outer Cloud flak jacket and thick coat, using them to securely cover Yugito's exposed torso.
Though Karui only had a small tight fishnet tank top left on after removing her jacket, it was the best option.
If Samui took her jacket off, considering her absurdly huge tits, there would be practically nothing left underneath to contain it.
After Yugito was modestly covered, Tsunade canceled her glowing transformation and gently tapped Yugito's forehead with two chakra-coated fingers.
"Gasp."
The fully healed Yugito slowly woke up, her feline eyes snapping open as she took a deep breath.
As Yugito tried to sit up, she noticed the heavy coat covering her chest and immediately saw Karui standing there shivering slightly without her outer clothing.
Yugito quickly felt under the covering coat and confirmed that, indeed, her own southern hemisphere currently lacked any clothing protection.
"Thank you, Karui." Yugito thanked her subordinate softly, tightly wrapping the coat around her chest like a makeshift binder as she stood up.
"You shouldn't thank me, Lady Yugito. You should thank the Hokage. It was her miraculous Medical Ninjutsu that saved you," Karui said respectfully, moving aside.
"Right. I'm sorry. Thank you, Lord Hokage, for saving my life, and also..."
Yugito finally realized just how close she had been to death mere moments ago.
The memory of the spike tearing through her spine rushed back.
After bowing deeply in gratitude to Tsunade, she turned her sharp gaze to Uchiha Hikari standing quietly nearby.
She was also her savior.
It was Hikari who had used the terrifying Susanoo armor to physically block Satori's subsequent execution strikes and magically maintained her failing life force until Tsunade arrived.
"Don't thank me," Uchiha Hikari interrupted flatly, raising a hand before Yugito could even speak.
"If you want to thank someone, thank Makoto. We came to this island entirely on his suggestion. We're just following his orders to complete the mission."
The novelty of riding a giant flaming cat like a mecha had completely worn off, and Hikari absolutely did not want to develop any complicated annoying emotional ties or debts of gratitude with this Cloud ninja.
To be honest, Hikari was already somewhat regretting her actions.
She should have aggressively told Yugito right after saving her that Makoto had ordered the rescue, rather than having to awkwardly explain it now.
She had almost accidentally created a troublesome "bond."
"Don't... thank you?" Yugito blinked, somewhat confused by the harsh rejection.
Even if it was the boy who gave the tactical order, shouldn't she have just politely said "You're welcome" instead of aggressively shutting down the gratitude?
This "Don't thank me" made it seem like the Uchiha girl was actively trying to avoid her, or was somehow afraid of getting close to her.
Yugito was deeply puzzled.
This young girl hadn't shown a single trace of fear when facing the horrifying, mind-reading Satori—so why would she be afraid of a simple "thank you" from her?
Yugito remembered something strange.
When the two of them were in the Susanoo and Hikari was talking about what she actually feared... she had suddenly stopped speaking, her face turning slightly pale and soon after, Yugito's consciousness had faded from blood loss.
So what exactly was this terrifyingly strong girl actually afraid of?
It was an unsolved mystery.
Yugito was highly conflicted.
As everyone knows, curiosity killed the cat.
And Yugito was absolutely full of feline traits; her curiosity was currently burning a hole in her brain!
However, basic human courtesy made her temporarily suppress this burning urge to investigate.
They weren't familiar with each other yet, and the other party was her literal savior—how could she possibly interrogate her about her phobias right now?
...
"Muku..."
With Karui and Samui having abandoned their post to help Yugito, no one was watching the hidden Ryuzetsu anymore.
She finally regained her freedom from the shadows and ran over, slowly, mournfully approaching the dried husk of Muku, who seemed to have one last pathetic breath of life left in him.
SPLAT.
Without even turning her head to look, Uchiha Hikari silently activated a skeletal Susanoo arm.
The massive spectral fist slammed down like a meteor, instantly smashing the dying Muku into an unrecognizable pulp of blood and bone against the stone floor.
This brutal, utterly ruthless scene gave Yugito a massive fright.
She jumped back, her tail-hairs standing on end.
She had thought there would be a warm, tearful, classic anime final farewell over there between the tragic childhood friends!
Now Yugito understood even less.
What the hell could this psychopathic cold-blooded Uchiha girl possibly be afraid of?!
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