The Chuunin Exams had come to a close for yet another year. The participants had fought hard over the past week or so, each vying for the top spot, to become the newest Chuunin of their respective village. That accolade had been bestowed upon a young girl from Kumo, known as Kaekio. Chisaki had been present at every single one of the battles for the final stage of the exam, for medical purposes and her own enjoyment. The Chuunin Exams, despite their violent nature, had been the source of many festivals over the ages, and they attracted many citizens from the various villages scattered over the world. Chisaki had been invited to witness the exams for a multitude of reasons. Her position as the Medical Corps Leader, Head of the Senju Clan and of course, the most recent female companion of Sousetsu Senju, the Hokage, had granted her VIP status. Coming to the exams had certainly been interesting. She had seen many promising young shinobi and had a lot of interesting experiences around Takigakure itself, making the trip both memorable and worthwhile.

With a small sigh, Chisaki span around in the chair she was sat in. The room around her was averagely sized, with a desk and several filing cabinets, with little in the way of ornaments and decoration. Despite supposedly being on holiday, Chisaki was dressed in the crisp snow white medical coat of a doctor once more, and was sat in an office. Not her usual office bearing in mind. She was in an entirely new hospital, one that she'd spent very little time in. Over the course of the past couple of months, Chisaki had been approaching the various medical institutes of the world, and had been giving them the opportunity to count themselves as a member of the Lotus Collective. A group of hospitals and other medical practices dedicated to quality healing among other things. At the current moment, she had at least one medical institute in every village, sometimes more, both big and small, that counted themselves among the Collective. They ranged from small herbalists to gigantic hospitals and everything in between. This hospital was the most recent one in the Collective, and she was helping to standardize all the goings-on of the hospital personally.

Chisaki stood up then, noticing the time on her watch. A couple of the patients had been placed directly under her care, at her own request. These patients were all the participants of the Chuunin Exams. As a fellow shinobi, Chisaki felt morally obligated to take these patients under her wings. Speaking of wings, her snowy owl companion, Tomomi, flew down from the rafters of the office and landed on her right shoulder. He cleared his throat and spoke to her, in his usual tone, that made him sound wiser than his mere four years of age "My lady, well over two hundred organizations and medical institutes now answer directly to the Lotus Collective. Our aid has allowed the medical care in these places to sky rocket, reducing the amount of injured and the global death rate. This rate will continue to fall as more join us according to my calculations" Chisaki nodded somewhat, and spoke back "Very good, Tomomi" Chisaki began to walk out the room, her heels clicking against the tiled flooring.

Exiting the office, Chisaki was greeted by a corridor bathed in sunlight from various windows. There were doctors, nurses and patients roaming the corridor, either heading down another corridor, down a set of stairs, or into one of the various rooms that branched off the corridor. There weren't many, only ten other people in total, but they were there regardless. Each one of the staff had been here long before Chisaki had ever set foot in the hospital, so some were apprehensive about her, yet others liked her already. Greeting each of them with a smile and a nod, Chisaki walked down the corridor. Tomomi chirped up from her shoulder as she walked "Almost all the patients are recovering, the ones under your care at least. One of them, however, Himitsu Nozomi, needs your attention this morning before the others" Chisaki nodded once more as she arrived outside one of the rooms at the end of the corridor. A name had been scrawled below the room number, "ROOM 101, HIMITSU NOZOMI - RECOVERING" A group of doctors and herself had originally healed most of the young girls substantial wounds, but hospital care had been required for a few days, today would be a check up and light healing if all went well. Knocking on the door, Chisaki entered the room.

Nozomi had been awake and drifting in and out of consciousness for quite some time. It wasn't like her doctors had done a bad job healing her up, she'd just been in critical condition when she'd finally arrived at the hospital. Her injuries had been far more sever than the previous visit. In fact, if she had been a few minutes later in arriving, it was a large possibility that she'd have ended up dying from blood loss or drowning in her own blood as well. Kaekio hadn't exactly held back on the girl after all. It had been an all out assault that could have killed her. Even as it was, Nozomi had various burns all over her body, some of which had left scarring. Due to the fact that she had been born with some illness, Nozomi's body was resistant to healing techniques. In short, her recovery was slower than it should be, and more difficult as well. Her skin was paler than normal as the blood transfusions were still yet to be completely finished, and she was heavily bandaged all over, looking more like a mummy than a normal girl, although her face was still uncovered.

Nozomi's mind drifted back to the fight as she stared out the window. She's heard that Kaekio had ended up winning the Chuunin Exams, which meant that Kusono had lost to Kaekio as well. Sero had apparently walked away from his fight, which was odd to Nozomi, who thought that Sero would have relished any opportunity to fight such a blood thirsty opponent like Kusono Kaguya, who was in a clan known for their blood thirsty tendencies. Indeed, even Kaekio was more fighting oriented than most, going so far as to almost kill the girl she was in love with. Nozomi actually was questioning if Kaekio had seduced her in order to get an advantage over her in the exams, so hurt was she by the underhanded attack, but all Nozomi could think of was Kaekio's last words. She'd reminded her that she loved her, and then the attacks had commenced.

Although, that wasn't the end of the injuries and scars the fight had left. More than just physical pain would be brought about from her loss. Nozomi's father had been one of the few allowed in to see her in the recovery room, but he hadn't even stayed long enough to talk to Nozomi in person. She'd been unconscious when he'd visited, and the man had only seen fit to leave a note for her on the stand next to her bed, which laid open for anyone to read.
It read the following:

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Nozomi had only recently read the letter, but it still hit her. Looking back over to it, Nozomi's eyes filled up with tears, just as a knock came on the door and Chisaki entered the room. There was no hiding it, pretending she wasn't crying, or anything. So Nozomi didn't fight it. Instead, she let the tears flow freely, and proceeded to sob uncontrollably, which upset some of the still not completely healed wounds on her body, and she doubled over in pain, clutching at the most painful of them.