The Sharingan Gamer

Kyosuke looked at the three dead men on the ground. After a moment's thought, he moved the body of the strongest Sand ninja out.

He placed his right hand on the Sand ninja's face and, with a few subtle hand seals, cast his jutsu.

"Ninja Art: Face-Stealing Technique."

This was a ninjutsu that dissolved and stole another person's face, allowing the user to wear it as a disguise. In the original story, Orochimaru had used it to infiltrate the Cloud Village and successfully assassinate the previous jinchuriki of the Eight-Tails. He had also used this technique to sneak into the Forest of Death during the Chunin Exams. The power of this jutsu was undeniable.

Kyosuke had successfully mastered this technique in the time after the Chunin Exams, with the intention of using it to earn merit on the battlefield.

After a rather gruesome procedure, Kyosuke's face had successfully transformed into that of the Sand ninja.

He nodded at Saori, who was looking at him with a strange expression, then calmly walked out of the tent.

Perhaps because it was late at night, although people occasionally greeted him, it was only with a glance or a nod. Few spoke aloud. So, Kyosuke spent over twenty minutes wandering around the valley, and surprisingly, no one noticed anything was amiss.

After a detailed reconnaissance, he found that some of the larger tents were heavily guarded. Needless to say, the supplies he needed to destroy were inside those tents.

After memorizing their locations, Kyosuke strolled back to "his" tent.

"How did it go?" Saori asked impatiently as soon as he sat down.

Kyosuke met the gazes of the three of them and nodded faintly, indicating that he had confirmed the exact location of the supplies. All that was left was the problem of how to destroy them.

After a careful discussion, Kyosuke still decided to do it himself. If they were to use force, a single mistake could lead to them being surrounded. At that point, not only would they fail the mission, but whether they could escape with their lives would be another matter.

Having successfully convinced the others, Kyosuke collected his thoughts and left the tent again.

He carefully avoided the patrol teams and stopped in an empty area.

He then crossed his hands to form a seal.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu."

Poof.

Four clones appeared beside Kyosuke. They nodded to each other and then went off in different directions.

Soon, the clones arrived outside the tents where the supplies were stored.

Seeing Kyosuke arrive, the guards questioned him with a puzzled expression, but he was able to brush them off with the excuse that he had left something in the tent. To be honest, his excuse wasn't very convincing, but since they had no reason to doubt his identity, they let him enter the tent with surprising ease.

The rest was simple.

After Kyosuke's clones had planted the explosion tags inside the tents, all that was left was to detonate them at a specific time, and the mission would be a success. As for his real body, he just needed to take advantage of the chaos to return to the tent and regroup with Saori and the others.

Soon, the time agreed upon by the clones arrived.

Sizzle, sizzle.

"Strange, did you hear something?" one of the Sand ninja guards asked his comrade with a puzzled expression.

The others nodded, indicating that they had heard it too.

Just then, Kyosuke's real body slowly walked out of a tent.

Just as the men were about to question him, a bright flash of a blade suddenly slashed across their throats.

Except for one chunin who reacted extremely quickly, the others were all killed by Kyosuke's sword.

"Not bad," Kyosuke said, praising the panicked Sand ninja.

"Damn it, who are you... ugh..." Just as the Sand ninja was about to say something, he found that his "comrade" had vanished from the spot in an instant.

When he reacted again, he felt a sharp pain in his throat.

His body swayed slightly, and then he collapsed, dead.

Kyosuke, who had killed the chunin with the Body Flicker Technique, glanced at the 29 experience points he had just gained, nodded with satisfaction, and then quickly ran in the direction of Saori and the others.

Not long after he had left, a series of dense explosions suddenly broke the peace of the valley.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

"What's going on?!"

"Enemy attack!!!"

"Quick, report to the commander."

"Fire, fire! Where are the Water Release ninja?"

In an instant, the entire valley was thrown into chaos.

"Where did the enemy come from?! Are the sensory unit idiots, letting them sneak in just like that?" the Sand ninja commander roared, looking at the valley, which had now become a sea of fire.

"Someone, go and assess the damage," he said after a moment, having calmed himself down.

Since the incident had already occurred, regret and remorse were useless. The top priority now was to minimize the losses and... hunt down the enemy!!!

However, his composure was completely shattered by his subordinate's report.

"What?! Over eighty percent of the supplies are lost? I..." Hearing this news, the Sand ninja commander swayed, finding it difficult to accept this unfortunate news.

In his mind, the enemy should have used some special method to successfully infiltrate the valley. Then, after confirming the location of the supplies, they would have used ninjutsu or explosion tags to launch a direct assault. In that case, although the losses would still be unavoidable, they should have been within an acceptable range.

But he had never expected the loss to exceed eighty percent. He wanted to find those responsible for guarding the supplies and ask them, "How did you manage that?"

A jumble of thoughts flashed through the Sand ninja commander's mind. Although he still couldn't figure out how the enemy had done it, one thing was very clear.

He was finished. Or rather, his future was finished.

Years of hard work, his great ambitions, all of it had been wiped out by these violent explosions, along with the supplies.

"Notify the sensory unit. Use all your strength to search for the enemy's tracks," the Sand ninja commander said to his trembling subordinate, his eyes bloodshot. "I want to kill those bastards, one by one!"

"Yes, sir!" the subordinate replied loudly, then quickly left.

"Just you wait. You've ruined me. I won't let you get away with this."

"You damn rats!!!"

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