Nao and another staff member would have a conversation, but nothing was said afterwards. So Shi naturally thought that the scan had gone well, oh how wrong he was...
As promised Master Nao would take Shishiwakamaru out for ice cream. The young nara would pick double fudge chunk, a personally favorite of his. He was so excited he hadn't even noticed the sorrowful look on Sennin Nao's face, at least until they went outside and took a seat there. "Nao-San, what's wrong?" Having been living together for a short while now, Shi was getting used to some of the faces Nao would make, and he had never seen this one before. "
Shi... As Doctor... I do not have good news and as your parent... I feel like you need to know it." A moment of contemplation overtook Nao as he seemed hesitant to say what would come after. "
In your scan... we saw something. It is sitting among the dorsolateral prefrontal right cortex. It... is a tumor. From what we could see and figure... It is ingrained." Pausing mid-lick Shi was shocked to hear this news. Wishing to go into the medical field he had studied up a little about some medical terms.
They, tumors that is, are an abnormal mass of tissue that's created when cells in the body grow and divide more than they ought to or don't die off and become expelled from the body. Tumors can be benign, or malignant. Benign tumors may grow large but do not spread into, or invade, nearby tissues or other parts of the body. Which could only mean, since it was ingrained into the surrounding tissue, that it was malignant, cancerous if you will. He wasn't smart enough to know what that really mean considering it was in his brain. But the only thing he could think of was, well, death...
A fake smile that was obviously trying to hold back tears formed on Shi's young face; "
That's ok, Master Nao, I know how amazing you are. You can just do some surgery and everything will be ok, r-right?" A hopeful look crept across Shishiwakamaru's face as he desperately hoped for some sort of good news, the type of news that wouldn't come. Taking an exaggerated pull from his cigerette, Sennin Nao would break the devastating news to the young Nara. "
Removing an ingrained tumor... is something that is beyond me or the medical world inside Konoha as far as I am aware... Leave alone the fact that.. if operated, it could mean the end of your shinobi career." Tears now began to stream down Shi's face as the sudden realization of his own feeble mortality set in. "
I cannot, not as a doctor or parent figure, help you." A sudden R-R-Rrrrr sound reverberated from Shi's original location. A plume of dust would be seen trailing away from Shi as he ran away, quite literally, from the problem. He couldn't hear this right now, the end of his shinobi career, hell the posibility of dying so young. It pained him in a way many just wouldn't understand. He was alone in this world, no true place to call home. The attack on the village gates saw to that. He didn't know what to do right now, except run...
[OOC - MFT - Leaving Topic]