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Playing games on a radio doesn't sound very appealing either way. [He pauses, thinking about it now, and concedes:] I suppose it could be better than doing nothing in hospital.

That would be an ideal place to keep yourself preoccupied!

[The idea of a ninja injuring themselves and having to stay in hospital for long periods of time does not surprise her enough to pry. Although he could be referring to other things...]

Phones are so much better than radios, though. You don't know what you're missing!

Maybe. [Though if he thinks about it and the medic-nin he knows ...

Darkly:] Medics would probably find a way to use them to keep us stuck there for longer.

[...Now that's an interesting direction to take this.]

Why on earth would they do that? One of my best friends is a doctor; I can't imagine why he'd want to work longer hours than he already does.

I've never met a medic-nin who didn't claim you needed more bed rest than you did. [He might be leaving out information such as shinobi have a habit of trying to sneak out of hospitals.]

[Codi lets out a bark of laughter.]

I also know a few people with the same opinion! I don't argue with them much, though--they went through a lot more training than I could ever do to become a doctor, so I assume they know what's best for my health.

I guess the doctors where you're from could be more malicious than mine? I've never met any like that.

They might have different training, but it's still my body. [His voice is aggravated, though he concedes:] Not all of them are malicious.

They just all have a habit of thinking they know better.

[Some of them are, in fact, malicious -- outright dangerous, even. But for the most part, Sasuke's dealings with medic-nin have revolved around their insistence he stay bored for way too many extra days in hospital.]

[Honestly, if Codi were ever in a situation where she was bedridden for a long period of time, she would feel exactly the same way--the boredom would kill her! As she hasn't, though...]

Unless they're going nuts from sleep deprivation, I usually assume that they do! I mean, my doctor friend is a pretty smart guy--I'd trust his judgement on a lot of things, including my physical well-being.

The one I've been dealing with just went nuts. [Or whatever Kabuto could be called. Itachi had found some kind of pity for him, crawling and clutching at desperate bits of other people in some effort to become them, but Sasuke had neither the patience nor understanding for that kind of life -- lying until his sense of self deteriorated, relying on others until his sense of his own abilities were gone.]

He was a good enough medic-nin, I guess. [It occurs to him late that it's possible --] Was your friend a civilian doctor?

Ah...yeah, you could say that. He mostly works in the ER, but he also does some...more specific patient care when he needs to.

[That's about as general a description as she can come up with for him also working as a vigilante medic, to ensure that their more reckless members didn't get themselves killed while on missions or testing powers or the like. Besides, it's more of a part-time thing.]

Why? What did your doctor friend do?

[Sasuke's experiences with emergency rooms are uniformly unpleasant, much like his time spent in any type of medical facility, though the reasons for that has varied over the years.

That question, though ... the better question is more what Kabuto hadn't done.]

He's not my friend. He was an unavoidable associate. [And more dangerous than anyone had expected, for all his delusions of power.] He kept me in health to specifications.

So he was like...a dedicated ninja medic? I guess that makes sense.

We don't use anything other than medic-nin -- dedicated ninja medics.

Civilian doctors couldn't handle the kind of things medic-nin need to deal with, and they'd never make it on a battlefield.

I'll take your word for it!

[Again, mentioning her own friend's abilities might be best saved for another time.]

I'm sorry you were stuck with that guy, then! He sounds like he really got on your nerves.

He was a unique kind of annoying.

Fortunately he's dead now, or as good as. [Unless he chose to exit the Izanami, or so Itachi had said.]

Well if the whole ghost thing is something that happens on your world, I wouldn't be so sure! But if you say so, I won't argue. At least he can't show up here, right?

His body needs to be dead for that to happen. [It was kind of Kabuto's fault it was happening anyway, actually, but that is probably more complicated than is worth explaining.]

... he could show up here. [That's not a good realization.] Time doesn't make any sense in this place.

It...seems to be going one second per second for me over here.

[What do alternate canon points?]

Are you the only one from your world here?

My brother and I are from different years in our lives.

As far as I know, yes. The others will show up sooner or later--I don't go missing for long before one of them freaks out about where I've been.

[Although...]

You don't...say. Are you sure you're not just pulling my leg right now?

Do I seem like the type to pull your leg? [His voice is solidly deadpan. It's been long enough that he's used to the notion in a weird way.]

If you expect your friends to follow you, though, does that mean they have the ability to follow you across worlds?

Fair enough.

[Yeah, he's not exactly Dave's type. She'll take his word for it.]

They don't yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if they figured something out. I have interesting friends.

Then if your interesting friends arrive, share their knowledge with the rest of us.

You say that like I wouldn't!

I don't know you well enough to assume you would.

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