🌹TW for semi-graphic description of wound treatment
The moment he arrives home, Kurama rushes for his front porch at the sight of Touya lying there. Panic sets in when his friend doesn't respond to his approach. "Touya!" He calls out as he jumps up the steps. There's a lot of blood and Kurama suddenly fears that he made it too late.
Kneeling down, he gingerly rolls Touya over. The ice master's normally cool skin is warm and slick with sweat, which only causes more concern. Kurama can sense his ki, so why isn't he -
Touya's eyelids flutter and a soft groan escapes his lips, but he doesn't regain consciousness. His heart flips with hope. "I got you, my friend. You're going to be okay." Standing quickly, he unlocks his front door and opens it wide before returning to Touya's side. As gently as he can, he lifts Touya into his arms and carries him inside, using his foot to close the door behind them.
He carries Touya into the kitchen and lays him across his kitchen island. The dark stain on Touya's shirt is a clear indicator of where he's wounded and Kurama grabs his kitchen scissors to make quick work of the shirt, cutting it away. Blood slowly oozes from a laceration an inch below Touya's ribs on his right side. Kurama grimaces, pulling out the gauze that had been used as a way to stem the blood flow so that he can assess the damage. Touya had been smart, but it sadly hadn't been enough.
The stabbing made a clean cut, which was good. It will be easier to close up and has less chance of scarring. However, there is no way for Kurama to tell if any internal organs have been damaged. He has no way to check without cutting him open and Touya has already lost too much blood for him to spend any time poking around. Pursing his lips, he makes a tough decision. Hopefully, Touya doesn't wake up in excruciating pain from what he decides to do, but Kurama is desperate to save his friend's life.
Reaching into his hair, he pulls out a specialized seed that he had cross-bred himself. He likes to be prepared for anything and given the company he keeps, life-threatening injuries were not off the table. Taking a deep breath, he feeds the seed with his energy and carefully guides the growing thread-like vines into Touya's open wound.
With his ki pulsing through the vines, he uses them to "feel" for any damaged organs. Touya's body twitches, but he doesn't awaken. Sweat drips from the ice master's skin, another cause for alarm, but Kurama focuses on one thing at a time. His vines find damage to the liver, which most likely is the reason for why Touya is bleeding so much. Using precise manipulation of the vines, he quickly repairs the damage and uses the plant to sew up the liver. Luckily, this particular plant had been bred to be able to be metabolized by the body. He wouldn't have to remove them later.
Very carefully, and as quickly as he can, he removes the remainder of the plant from Touya's body. With internal damage taken care of, Kurama sets to work on cleaning and closing up the external gash. It barely takes him two minutes to close him up and stop the bleeding, but Touya is still too warm to the touch, leaving Kurama perplexed. Touya needs a transfusion immediately. Perhaps that is attributing to his body temperature.
Without wasting any time, Kurama goes into his basement and opens one of his chest freezers, mentally patting himself on the back for having the foresight of insisting he draw blood from his friends to have on hand for situations exactly like this. Touya's blood holds special properties that require it to be stored at a much cooler temperature. Yukina's is the same way, so he has kept their blood in a sterilized freezer.
He grabs the blood bags labeled with Touya's name, but before he shuts the lid all the way, an idea suddenly comes to him. The cold blood will likely be able to lower Touya's body temperature, but it will not last longer than a few minutes at best. With only a slight moment of hesitation, he quickly empties the contents of the freezer and places them into a different one.
It's a desperate move, but Kurama doesn't know what else to do. His ki isn't able to cool down his friend and it's the middle of summer. Rushing back upstairs, he carefully collected Touya into his arms, doing his best not to tear the stitches, and brings him to the basement. Touya's smaller frame fits surprisingly well inside of the freezer. Pleased with himself, Kurama quickly sets up a blood bag to begin the infusion.
While the infusion process does it's work, Kurama knows that the freezer itself is not enough. He hates to leave him unattended, but he doesn't have much choice. As quickly as he can, he heads out and brings back several bags of ice. By the time he returns, the first blood bag is empty, so he sets up a new one before emptying the ice into the freezer around Touya's body.
Finally, nearly one hour and a third blood bag later, Touya begins to stir and Kurama lets out a shaky, relieved breath. "Welcome back, my friend. Try not to move around too much."
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