Iyaku Fuin, whom the kunoichi had heard about during her first few days of work, was a great help to the novice iryonin, activating right at the moment of injury and pumping the injured area with medical chakra, which was said to be a real breakthrough at the intersection of related shinobi arts.
Such a seal, over the years, had allowed enough fighters to live to receive expert care without dying from truly mortal wounds or to escape from the battlefield on their own, simply by being more survivable than the enemy, to be extremely popular among jonins and chunin, despite the hefty purchase price. And that was just one of Ryo Nara's many accomplishments.
Legends were still circulating around the hospital about the young genius's mad efficiency, sometimes replacing an entire medical team when the hospital was short-staffed after the last war and the rest of the iryonins were just falling over from chakra exhaustion and heavy workloads.
Of course, most of the information had to be literally gleaned from the veritable flood of gossip when it came to the hospital's main handsome man, according to the vast majority of the female staff, but given how much the name Ryo Nara was in the village, and for very different reasons, that was to be expected.
She hadn't seen the subject of the discussion in a long time, but considering his father, Senju recognized that the half-breed was someone to grow into and was a guaranteed object of romantic reverie for naive fools, despite having two wives and one confirmed mistress.
In that way Ryo was eerily reminiscent of Jiraiya, who'd been revitalized by his partner's return to the village and no longer so eager to quench his wanderlust. The fact that Orochimaru was making a big deal out of him, speaking positively of him as a very promising young man, made him feel conflicted, as if Nara was trying to get ahead of her in just about everything.
Mito-ba-chan was also adding fuel to the fire, as she made it a habit to beat the dust out of her degraded granddaughter at her frequent training sessions, constantly discussing the successes of the younger generation and setting the young genius as an example.
Tsunade was especially unpleasant to hear that the latter not only surpassed her in iryojutsu, hurting her professional pride, but also confidently surpassed her in strength despite the solid age difference.
She doubted that the elder Uzumaki had sought to stimulate her granddaughter's desire for development in this way - not that character - and so it must be true. Kushina-chan confirmed that Ryo visited the clan quarter on a fairly regular basis for regular training sessions with both Uzumakis.
The kunoichi had a compulsive urge to catch one of those moments and challenge the young upstart to a fight to prove once and for all who was the stronger and more talented, but she had to admit that her fighting skills had become rusty since the war and the fight had to be postponed. For now.
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