Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24479578-20170112051937/@comment-24479578-20170112051959

Standing in front of the Medical Clinic, Nali pressed her lips together a bit. It had been three years since last she was in this building and she didn’t exactly tell anyone other than the Hokage that she was going to be leaving. “This is going to go over about as well as me going to the Aburame Compound for dinner.” She said to herself as she pushed a few loose strands behind her ear that had fallen out of her long braid. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, letting it out slowly before she opened her eyes once more. A grin on her face, she looked to the doors and began to walk forward. As her hand was just about to reach for the handle when the door flew open and caught Nali off guard. Standing before her was the normally warm and gentle Head Medical Nin, Miyako Hyūga.

A sweat drop formed at the side of Nali’s face as she looked to the woman who stood there with her hands on her waist. “Um.. Hi Miyako Sensei..” She smiled nervously and rubbed the back of her head. “I.. uh.. Was just coming to see you..” It was in that moment that Nali swore that she could see the veins stick out of the older Hyūga woman’s forehead and pulsate. But it was in the eyes that truly made Nali go weak in the knees. She swore that she saw the flames of Hell itself flicker within them as she glared at the young woman. Never had she seen the Head Med-nin so upset at anyone. Stern, yes. Many times. Authoritative? Constantly. But this. This was just down right scary. “Um.. Miyako Sensei..” She reached up to her own forehead and pointed in the general area of the veins that were popping out and throbbing with each heartbeat of the woman. “...you kinda.. Have some.. Just a bit, mind you..” “NALINI SHINIGAMI!” Nali’s hand went down by her side right quick as she stood straight and looked to the woman. “WHERE WERE YOU?!” Nali looked to Miyako with wide eyes as she heard the question. “Ma’am, I was out learning more about the ways of medicine throughout the land. Not just here… in Konoha. I had gotten permission from Lord Hokage to travel. He knew.” That answer only make the thin black brows of the Hyūga woman twitch. “... I think I will be having a word with Ikeru…”

Straightening out, Miyako looked to Nali, her eyes still immensely terrifying to the young woman. “As for you..” With speed that Nali couldn’t even register, Miyako reached past Nali’s shoulder and grabbed hold of the long pony tail then pulled it causing Nali to spin around as she walked forward into the facility with Nali in tow. “..You are going back into training. That is your punishment. And I am going to be the one teaching you. Understood?” As Miyako was speaking, all that could be heard in the hall was the low rhythmic sound of Nali going “Ow...ow...ow...ow...ow…” while her hands held the back of her head and base of her neck as if Miyako would actually rip her head from her neck.

Miyako just about dragged Nali down the hallway when she turned the corner and just about threw the young woman into the medical training room. A place that Nali had spent a lot of time in. Sliding the door closed, she locked it and stepped into the room as she continued to eye Nali while the young woman was trying to regain her footing once more with her fingers still rubbing the base of her scalp. “Do you have any idea what has happened here since you’ve been gone?!” Miyako said with her arms crossed over her chest and her shoes making hard clacking sounds on the tile of the room. Nali looked up to Miyako and shook her head. “No, Ma’am. The last thing I knew about was the Fuma Clan massacre and was grateful that O wasn’t involved in it.” Nali could see the anger just seethe behind Miyako’s eyes. “More have died… More were sent out from our village and have died. And where were you? Galavanting across the country side when you could have been here saving lives!” Nali looked to the woman as she could feel her own anger starting to build. She turned her silver hues away from Miyako as the woman continued to chastise her.

“Once more we could have saved more lives with more med-nin available and one of My students is out learning to crush leaves and berries together to make new ointments while her peers are being slain! What happened to the girl that wanted to help people? Huh?! To the girl that wanted to keep others from being hurt?!” Nali winced with the questions but stood there and took the chastising from Miyako. But she could feel herself growing more angry with every moment. “Congratulations, Nalini! You officially failed your village when it could have used you!” Miyako glared at Nali while her fingers curled into her forearm in anger. That last statement was the final straw for Nali. Looking up at Miyako with her silver hues taking on a chrome look, she couldn’t stop what came from her lips. “I’M NOT HITOMI! AND SHE’S NOT COMING BACK! GET USED TO IT!” As soon as those words left her lips, she wanted to take them back. But the damage had been done when Nali looked to Miyako and saw the hurt that flashed across the woman’s face. But it had once more quickly turned to anger. Then, Miyako moved. Fast like she had before when she grabbed Nali’s braid but this time, it was simply a two finger hard jab into the center of Nali’s abdomen. Nali’s eyes went wide as she felt the jolt of pain from the stab and waited for the internal pain from an attack from the Hyuga. But instead, Nali dropped to her knees.

“You have no right to speak to me about Hitomi..” Miyako said in a low, almost whispered tone as she walked past Nali’s crumpled form on the floor to go lean against the desk. Her arms still crossed over her chest while she eyed Nali. Nali breathed slowly and evenly through the shock of the jab before trying to stand. She went to place her left hand on the floor and her head went up. Nali’s eyes widened as she tried to move her head back down and her right leg kicked out from under her. *What is going on with my body??* She thought to herself as she once more tried to put her right hand down on the floor and instead, her left foot moved. To anyone that would just be looking to Nali and her movements, she’d look as if she was going into a seizure with the random movements that her body was making. Miyako just watched the woman move randomly on the floor with a slight smirk on her lips. “Confused yet?” The woman’s voice came as it was almost spiteful.

Nali’s body twitched as she tried to look towards Miyako but what ended up happening was nothing like what she wanted. Her arms splayed out in front of her and her foot looked like it went into a spasm. Miyako chuckled to herself. There was no bit of warmth that came from the woman’s laughter nor the look in her eyes. Placing her hands on her desk, she leaned forward a bit as she rather enjoyed seeing Nali on the floor before her like that. “Just can’t seem to get your body to move the way you want it to, Nalini?” Her tone mocking the woman. “Aww. Well that is just too bad. It has to be so frustrating knowing that you can’t get your body to work the way you want to.” She sighed softly but her smirk remained as she looked to the woman on the ground. “Welcome to the way life works. Things don’t always go the way you want them to.” She pushed off the desk and walked around to the front of Nali before squatting down and lifting the girl’s head up by her hair. “I should know. My daughter’s never returning to me as you so bluntly pointed out. Thank you for that little reminder.” Miyako abruptly let go of Nali’s hair as the young woman’s head fell forward into the tile flooring with a loud thud but Nali wouldn’t make a sound. She just took it. Not like there was much she could do right now even if she wanted to.

Standing back up, Miyako walked away from Nali. Though her anger was still seething, this was not the way to handle it and if she hadn’t moved, a lot more harm could have come to the young woman and she didn’t want to be the cause of it. Leaning back against the counter, Miyako closed her eyes as she sighed crossing her arms back over her chest once more. “The issue you are having is there is extra electricity that is going through your nervous system. I placed it there when I threw my fingers into your abdomen. So in turn, it is creating a cross wiring effect within your system. Confusing the signals so you can’t operate appropriately as you’ve noticed by now, I’m sure. It’s called Body Pathway Derangement. You’ll be learning that with me for the next few days.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nali laid there with her mind pushing through the pain in her forehead to slowly think about what she needed to do just to sit up. Never mind stand. “First, you’ll learn how to get out of it. One of the two reasons you’re on the floor right now. The second reason was because I really wanted to hit you for your outburst. So I’m not sorry for it at all. Now get yourself up off the floor. Once you do, you’re free to go.” Miyako started making her way to the door and slid the door open. Looking back over her shoulder, she looked to Nali. “And no one is allowed to help you or I show you what it feels like to be hit with the Eight Trigrams: Sixty-four palms technique. A technique I am not very fond of, but effective.” With that said, she turned her head and walked out the door, sliding it shut behind her.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">When the door closed and Nali was finally alone, she just relaxed her whole body. Frustrated and in pain from Miyako, she just laid there while she thought about what she was going to do. ‘Ok. One thing at a time. Try to move your finger..’ She thought about moving her first finger on the left hand and her knee bent on the right side of her body. ‘Alright. That’s one. Now try to move the hand.’ Slowly, she tried to move her hand and her hip moved instead. Two hours had passed and she was still on the floor but slowly one by one, she figured out which body part moved when she thought about moving something else. Between thinking of moving her fingers and wiggling her nose, she was finally able to sit up and back onto her feet with her hands sitting on her lap. Sweat rolled down her face and she was breathing heavily. Never had she worked so hard just to stand up. This was the worst sort of training that she had ever been through. But Miyako was right. She had to learn to get through this if she was going to learn. If Miyako hit her with it again, she would have a better chance of staying on her feet once she went through the rotation of moving her body parts.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nali didn’t dare try to speak or even move more than she had to. Her movements were awkward and jerky as it was. It was taking all her concentration to make her hands move forward to touch the ground and even that was causing the girl to strain. ‘C’mon. Just a bit more.’ She thought to herself as she pushed herself more. Another thirty minutes had passed and she had just finished getting her feet under her and pushed up into a standing position. By now, she could feel the effects of the jutsu wearing off. ‘About time..’ Slowly, she moved her feet across the floor. She felt like her feet truly weighed more than a hundred pounds each as she nearly dragged them across the floor. “Slowly, Nali. Go slow.” She said to herself as she started moving across the floor a bit more easier. That was all that was needed. She continued to concentrate and move across the floor to the door where she let herself out and walked back down the hall that she had come in earlier. She saw Miyako from the corner of her eye and didn’t say a word to her. At this moment it wouldn’t have been a good idea if she opened her mouth. Nali had her own issues at the moment and Miyako was definitely one of them right now.