The Shopkeeper of Konoha

"Doctor, I am not asking you to research this right now. I am asking you when you have time please check it and conduct experiments. It might be helpful for us. It's been a long time since we made any progress in medical procedures and medicines since she left. We need to encourage applications of new things." Asuma played the emotional attack card since he saw that the Director of Konoha Hospital wasn't budging in his spot. He had a very weird assurance that whatever the kid spoke about was the truth. 

He was even ready to bet on it. 

Of course, the Doctor hearing the dipping standards of the Konoha Hospital didn't have words to refute Asuma. He was right. After 'that person' left, there hadn't been much progress. What she had left behind was legendary and there were still aspects of the medical ninjustu and the techniques which they didn't know how to decipher. 

It was very easy to say that Sakura was trash ( well she was trash) but one mustn't forget that Sakura was a better apprentice than Shizune herself who had been staying with Tsunade for a longer period of time. Sakura inherited everything from Tsunade and even the Slug's sage arts. 

But these common medical ninjas weren't even at the level of Shizune, forget about future Sakura. 

"Fine. Give me some time. I will check it." The Doctor just sighed and accepted. Asuma was a good Jonin and was known by everyone for his kindness and his iconic smoking habits. 

"Thanks man. One more thing. Don't use it directly on patients there is a high chance that the person will get addicted and might lead to complications. At least that's what the supplier said." Asuma reminded him. 

"What? You.. You are selling hard drugs?" 

"C'mon Doctor, I have been here for such a long time and you know my father. Do you think I can do that?" Asuma seemed a little angry when he was accused. 

"Then why did you say that drugs can make someone addicted." 

"Doctor, there are some drugs which you use for patients that are itself addictive but you still have no qualms using it." 

Words stopped at the Doctor's mouth as he didn't know how to reply to that. Though the medicine wasn't as modern as Aoto's previous world, it was making strides towards that like morphine and such other drugs. 

"You got me there." The Doctor said while Asuma showed a victory symbol with his fingers. 

"I will be leaving for a mission for sometime. Hope you will keep your promise." Asuma said as he walked off. 

"You have known me from the ninja school Asuma. Am I that kind of person?" 

Asuma just smiled and vanished from the sights of the Doctor. he turned his head and looked at the jar that was sitting at the table. He highly doubted that this kind had any kind of substantial healing factor. There could only be one kind of honey in the world. Why was Asuma claiming to find another one?

The Doctor just sighed and rang the bell that was sitting on the desk. Since he had promised he should stand by his words. 

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Meanwhile Asuma had already started preparing for the mission while Aoto was just happy that he had finally found an outlet for his products and went on with his work. But the day wasn't going to be as boring as he thought. 

In the evening, one hour before the closing time of the shop there were new customers at the shop.  Customers which he never expected and Aoto had the second 'heart attack' of the day.

There were two people who had entered the almost vacant shop. By evening most of the customers had already brought their bread and cigarettes and now since the sun had set people still had a fear that the Nine-tails would come out to decimate their village. 

But today was different. Two people who had arrived were different from all the other customers that Aoto had seen in the past few days. Aoto in these days has seen all types of customers. Common people, the ninjas, ninjas from Hyuga clan, Inazuka clan, Aburame. Akimichi...

But there was always one clan that his eyes hadn't laid on. 

The infamous Uchiha Clan. 

And today was the day that they had decided to show up. One man and one woman. 

"How may I help you?" Aoto was very cautious in asking them. People tend to think that Uchiha were always the good guys but they also forget that there was a rising sentiment of dissent among the members of Uchiha and it was already spiraling towards destruction. Of course, the policy of the Tobirama didn't help at all. 

In other words, neither the main figures sitting at the top were good nor the people from Uchiha were saints. Both were at fault. The man who had come in had visible arrogance written all over his face. The woman who had accompanied the man was more of the shy type. 

"I heard that I can get some magic cigarette from here." The man who went by the name Arisu Uchiha spoke in a very haughty tone. He spoke as if Aoto owed him money. 

"Magic Cigarette? Sorry I don't have that. But I do have one kind of cigarette which I personally named as joint." Aoto replied in the most calm manner possible. Arisu eyebrows creased as he felt that this kid had insulted him of his intelligence but he didn't speak out. His girlfriend was here so he didn't want to show his bad face. 

There was a reason why he was in a bad mood. All these days, everyone from the Uchiha clan was under tight scrutiny by the Anbu and the higher echelons of the village and thus everyone of the Uchiha clan woke up on the wrong side of the bed everyday. They were being accused of using Kyubi in attacking the village and they felt insulted.