The Sharingan Gamer

Dungeon Introduction: Uchiha Sasuke has been taken by the Sound ninja. Work with your comrades to bring him back to the village.

Completion Condition: Recover Sasuke.

Attempts Remaining: 3/3

Notification: Enter dungeon?

Kyosuke took a deep breath and then clicked confirm.

Notification: Screening list of replaceable personnel... Please wait...

Screening complete. Replaceable personnel: Naruto Uzumaki, Shikamaru Nara, Neji Hyuga, Choji Akimichi, Kiba Inuzuka.

Randomly replacing one person... Please wait...

Notification: The person replaced in this dungeon is... Kiba Inuzuka.

When Kyosuke opened his eyes again, he was outside the familiar main gate of Konoha.

At the same time, he was thinking about the system's notification.

"Replaced Kiba Inuzuka, huh? Not bad luck this time."

As Kyosuke had thought, his luck was quite good. He had replaced the weakest member right from the start.

Among the five who had set out on this mission, Naruto's strength was undeniable. Without him, there was no point in even playing. Shikamaru was the same. His skills as a commander and his tricky "Shadow Possession Jutsu" were both needed by Kyosuke. Neji Hyuga and Choji Akimichi were even more indispensable. Both had defeated their enemies with their own strength and were crucial to the mission.

As for Kiba Inuzuka... his strength was decent, but he was a bad matchup for his opponent, and he was too impulsive. He had gone all out before even figuring out the enemy's abilities, which had led to his defeat. If the Sand Siblings hadn't come to his rescue, he likely would have died there.

Thinking of the Sand Siblings, Kyosuke suddenly realized that Rock Lee, Gaara, and the others were not on the list of replaceable personnel this time. It seemed that this dungeon could only be chosen from the initial members.

Kyosuke thought about it and wasn't surprised. If he had replaced Gaara, he probably wouldn't have been in the mood to save Rock Lee and would have gone straight to the Valley of the End. So, the system had probably set it up this way to prevent him from exploiting that loophole.

As Kyosuke was thinking to himself, the only boy in a green flak jacket stepped forward.

This boy was Shikamaru Nara, the first of the Konoha 12 to be promoted to chunin.

"Is everyone here? Then let's go."

Hearing Shikamaru, who was leading the team this time, the others exchanged a look and then quickly set off.

Along the way, Shikamaru gave a live demonstration of their marching formation, and Kyosuke found that he had a very clear understanding of his own abilities. It was clear that Kyosuke's identity this time had been arranged as a genin of the same generation as the Konoha 12. Otherwise, it was unlikely he would have been sent to rescue Sasuke.

Not long after they had set off, Neji Hyuga suddenly spoke. "There's something ahead."

"An enemy so soon?!" Shikamaru frowned, thinking for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Neji's words again.

"It's... the two jounin who were pursuing them before," Neji said after a careful observation.

"Jounin..." Shikamaru's bad feeling grew stronger. He waved his arm, and the team landed on the ground.

Two Konoha ninja in green flak jackets were lying unconscious under a large tree.

A senbon was still stuck in one of their mouths.

This person was Genma Shiranui, a guard of the Fourth Hokage and the proctor of the Chunin Exams this time.

"Ah, isn't that..." Naruto clearly recognized the man and couldn't help but cry out in surprise.

"Tsk, tsk," Kyosuke thought with a hint of contempt, looking at the two men on the ground. "And they're members of the Hokage's guard. So pathetic."

Just then, Genma Shiranui, on the ground, whether he had sensed Kyosuke's contempt or not, let out a long groan and slowly opened his eyes.

He glanced around and recognized the young ninja who had participated in the Chunin Exams.

"It's too dangerous for you to go like this..." Genma Shiranui said, coughing intermittently.

Kyosuke stood to the side, ignoring their bickering, and silently thought about his battle strategy.

Since he was here, he had to find a way to avoid any unfavorable situations.

If he was not mistaken, the Sound Four should be resting at this time. After all, no matter how pathetic Genma and the others were, they were still jounin. The Sound Four could only defeat them quickly by activating their State Two curse marks at the same time. However, this had also consumed a great deal of their stamina and chakra, which was why they were forced to rest at this critical moment.

As for whether they could find them, Kyosuke glanced at Neji and wasn't worried about that.

What he was really worried about was something else. If he wasn't mistaken, Kimimaro and the Sand Siblings should be on their way to this battlefield. It was just that Kimimaro would arrive a bit sooner.

Kyosuke was now thinking, could he get Sasuke, who was still sleeping in the box, back before Kimimaro arrived?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea. For this, he had no time to waste.

He then walked forward and, in the slightly strange gazes of the others, knocked the chattering Genma Shiranui unconscious with a single chop.

"Kyosuke, you..." Naruto's mouth was wide open, a look of disbelief on his face.

"There's no time to listen to his nonsense," Kyosuke explained, then nodded to Shikamaru.

"Uh." Shikamaru finally managed to recover from his surprise. He gave Kyosuke a deep look, then said nothing and led the others to set off again.

Along the way, the team maintained a strange silence.

Kyosuke knew that this was due to Naruto's unusually serious expression. To be honest, he didn't think that with Sasuke's personality, so many people would be willing to risk their lives to save him. The reason the events of the original story had unfolded as they did, besides the direct orders, was likely because the others were doing it for Naruto's sake. Otherwise... these young ninja, who had almost no interaction with Sasuke, why would they care if he lived or died?

It was just as they had said two years later, after learning that Sasuke's wanted order had been issued.

"He's a rogue ninja."

That one sentence said it all.

If Sakura hadn't been present, more "unpleasant" words would have likely been said.

As Kyosuke's thoughts were wandering, Neji Hyuga's voice came again.

"Found the enemy!"

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