Jungle Battle

"Huff, huff." Only five years old, Kyosuke leaned against a massive rock, breathing heavily.

He took the opportunity to recover his dwindling stamina while cautiously observing his surroundings.

"Whoosh!"

A sharp whistling sound suddenly came from directly in front of him. Startled, Kyosuke threw himself forward with all his might.

The instant he left his spot, a kunai flew past right under his nose, drawing a streak of blood as it slammed into the rock behind him.

"Kids these days are really arrogant." A youth with a gloomy face emerged from behind a tree, sizing up the frantically fleeing Kyosuke as he chuckled to his companion, "Daring to transport goods to Taki Ninja Village at such a young age, he really doesn't know the meaning of death."

The youth's companion slowly emerged from behind the tree as well, though he was much more cautious than the other.

He ignored his companion's mockery and warily scanned the surroundings. After a long moment of finding nothing amiss, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Don't be careless. Let's finish him off quickly, grab the goods, and rendezvous with Third Brother and the others."

The gloomy youth immediately dropped his flippant expression upon hearing this. After nodding, he and his companion followed the tracks left by Kyosuke as he fled.

Kyosuke lay prone in the grass, using his clothes to wrap the wound on his chest as he carefully observed the two approaching figures.

There wasn't much to say about their appearances; they both had generic faces. However, the headbands they wore were a bit strange.

It was an unclosed arrowhead-shaped pattern, somewhat like a road sign, definitely not a common headband from the Five Great Shinobi Countries.

If it were a child of the same age, they might not recognize their identity, but Kyosuke, familiar with the "original work," could immediately recognize the meaning of the pattern: "Taki Ninja."

And two rogue Taki Ninja at that.

Taki Ninja Village differed from the ninja villages belonging to the Five Great Nations. It was a ninja village hidden by a massive waterfall.

Although surrounded by four countries, its unique geographical location had prevented Taki Ninja Village from ever being invaded by other countries. Akatsuki's "Kakuzu" came from this village.

Kyosuke's mission this time was to transport a load of unknown goods to this ninja village.

However, during the transportation process, he was unexpectedly robbed by these rogue ninja. After a brief exchange, Kyosuke was unable to defeat them and fled, leading to the scene just now.

Although the title of rogue ninja sounded impressive, these two were only at most genin in strength. Moreover, due to limited resources, these two genin were far behind the genin who graduated from Konoha's ninja academy.

This could be seen from the fact that they had been using kunai and taijutsu to attack from the beginning of the fight until now.

But these two were already overwhelmingly powerful to Kyosuke, who was only five years old at this time.

Even if they didn't know ninjutsu and their kunai throwing skills were mediocre, Naruto, who hadn't learned the "Shadow Clone Technique," could probably beat them easily.

But the problem was, Kyosuke wasn't good at these things either.

If he had to say, the two of them were about on par with Kyosuke in their use of kunai, both being at a level that couldn't be any worse.

The reason they could beat Kyosuke was simply because they had the advantage of being adults with superior physical abilities.

Since a head-on confrontation wouldn't work, Kyosuke had to think of another way.

"Boss, look." As they walked, the gloomy youth suddenly nudged his companion with his shoulder and nodded towards a patch of grass.

His companion nodded slightly and then moved silently towards the patch of grass.

A few minutes later, the two were openly pretending to search for Kyosuke, but secretly they had already surrounded the patch of grass from the front and back, waiting for the moment to deliver the final blow.

"Heh heh, kid, remember to be a smarter person in your next life." The gloomy youth, who had been facing away from Kyosuke, suddenly turned around. With a sinister laugh, he prepared to throw the kunai in his hand.

His companion made the same move. For a moment, it seemed that Kyosuke had nowhere to escape.

But just then, the sound of a rope snapping suddenly came from the direction of the grass.

Then, the sound of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" began to come continuously from all around the two rogue ninja.

It turned out that when Kyosuke fled to this place, he had quickly set up a simple trap.

Although it was just a simple trigger trap, it was enough to deal with these two.

"Pfft." The sound of a blade slicing through flesh suddenly came from Kyosuke's ear. At the same time, he jumped up from the ground and charged towards the gloomy youth.

"Courting death." The injured rogue ninja youth, seeing that Kyosuke, who was already a dead man in his eyes, actually dared to charge at him, was enraged.

But what happened next made him feel like he had been screwed over.

Because his attack, made in anger, was easily dodged by the kid in front of him.

"5" Kyosuke silently counted down.

"Damn it, you..." Just as the rogue ninja youth was about to say something, the scene before him made him involuntarily freeze in place.

It was a pair of eyes that emitted an ominous light, with a scarlet pupil and a single black tomoe slowly rotating within.

Even in this dimly lit forest, the youth could clearly see these eyes, and... the resolute killing intent that was revealed within, although not strong.

"4" Kyosuke, with a blank expression, activated his Sharingan and stabbed the kunai into the enemy's heart, then continued to silently count down.

"Damn it." The youth's companion, seeing that one of his own had died first, could no longer maintain his composure. In a fit of rage, he fired several kunai and shuriken towards Kyosuke.

But in terms of his throwing skills, it was no longer a threat to Kyosuke at this time.

Although Kyosuke's Sharingan was only in the one-tomoe state, he had initially obtained "dynamic vision," making it easy for him to dodge these attacks.

The trajectory of the kunai and shuriken clearly appeared in his eyes. With a slight smile, he dodged them with a few simple movements and took the opportunity to approach the enemy.

"In front of these eyes of mine, all your techniques are useless." Kyosuke suddenly recalled the famous words of the Sasuke brothers.

Of course, even though his mind was filled with random thoughts, he didn't relax his hands at all.

After approaching the enemy, Kyosuke waved his hand, deflecting the kunai aimed at him. Then, with a slight twist of his body, using the power of his waist to drive the motion, he kicked the enemy, whose chest was wide open from the failed attack.

He then threw the last kunai in his hand with all his might.

Although the enemy tried his best to dodge, Kyosuke had already seen through his movements.

In the end, the enemy did not escape his fate of death.

"1"

Kyosuke saw the enemy fall, smiled slightly, and closed his Sharingan.

At the same time, his body swayed involuntarily, and he slid slowly against the nearby tree trunk, eventually plopping down on the ground.

Although the Sharingan was a powerful weapon, with his meager chakra at this time, he could only maintain it for about 5 seconds. Any longer, and he probably wouldn't just be sitting down from exhaustion.

"Strange..." Kyosuke muttered, supporting his throbbing head as he surveyed his surroundings with a strange look.

Suddenly, the sound of a sharp blade cutting through the air came again from a distance.

And this time, Kyosuke, already in a state of exhaustion, couldn't react at all.

A flash of dazzling blood splattered in the air, eventually scattering all over the tree trunk behind him, as if forming a bloody oil painting.

Kyosuke lay on the ground, convulsing violently, clutching his fatal wound as he tried his best to look up and see who had killed him.

However, such an injury was far too fatal for a 5-year-old.

So, in the end, he didn't achieve his goal before death.

Thus, Kyosuke, after using his Sharingan to forcefully kill two rogue ninja, was killed by an unexpectedly appearing third person.

He died at the age of 5!

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