On her free time Sun visited the Suna's hospital quite often. She was allowed to practice her skills there. Of course, no one let her do surgeries, treat broken bones or precribe drugs. But she did help treat some minor wounds, burns and bruises. She didn't get paid, she did it all volunteerely. It only had benefits - she made friends with both professional medical-nins and patients. And she had the rights to brag about her status as a medical-trainee.

However no one ever had begged her to come over and help out. But this morning started with a surprise - outside Sun's house a nurse was knocking on the door and demanding to speak with the Sun. Sun knew her. It was Ieva - a nice young nurse who loved to help people - just like Sun. The nurse didn't look worried or anything, instead she seemed in an eager mood to tell Sun something. Once Sun had dressed and exited the house she was struck with the news - there's been a babyboom in Suna. Over the last night twelve babies have joined the nursery room in hospital.

"Help is needed, the hospital's staff has even considered paying you!" were Ieva's words that made Sun actually go to hospital. It's no that she disliked crying babies, she was more afraid of how fragile they were. It always seemed weird to her - the staff is allowed to treat newborns before their parent's. Of course, the staff are all professionals and parent's are not (neither is Sun).

Upon arriving in hospital, the problem could be heard even before entering the building. You could hear crying standing outside through the open windows. It was already stressing Sun out. During the way to hospital, she agreed with Ieva that she would only feed the babies with bottle, changing their diapers (Ieva tried very long to convince Sun to agree to this), and watch them over as they slept.

After changing into more appropriate clothes (white nurse costume) Sun was ready to earn her first money in the hospital. Ironic how she earned money by tending to the newborns instead of treating life-threatening wounds. Other staff didn't look as optimistic as Ieva did. They probably hadn't had much sleep during the night and they had to keep going all day. No wonder people were ready to pay Sun (and probably other genin as well) to relieve them from their duties a bit.

The first thing Sun was appointed to was feeding the babies. She wasn't allowed to make food - just the feeding. The white stuff for babies was made by experienced doctors that knew the exact amounts of nutrients to put in the food. You had to make sure the babies would stay healthy, fed and eat their portion with ease. Once a bottle was prepared, Sun grabbed it and went to feed the baby. She didn't have to check the temperature of food. Just a dull task that just occupied her both hands.

Most of the babies went to sleep after eating. Those who chose to cry instead were to be isolated (carried to another room) to not disturb the rest for others. It was easy, she just had to work fast because of the risk of a crying baby waking up everyone. If one started to cry, it worked like a domino effect.

Next, the crying ones probably had had an ''accident'' and that was the reason for their crying. Sun had never changed the diaper for a baby but she soon got hang of it.

Not even 2 hours had passed when Sun declared to be exhausted. Caring for a bunch of babies was hard. The staff appreciated her effort nevertheless and expected her to show up another day (or preferably just later today)
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