The Sasuke Recovery Team was an emergency-response team formed with the purpose of stopping Sasuke Uchiha from defecting to Otogakure. Although Konohagakure emerges victorious from the Konoha Crush, the village suffers numerous causalities during the failed invasion. In order to keep up its previous mission-load and thereby avoid appearing weak, most of Konoha's chūnin and jōnin are given increased workloads that take them away from the village, leaving Konoha itself greatly understaffed...
