"Officer! Stop hitting us! Please stop!"
The first few people who were knocked to the ground cowered, shielding their heads from the relentless police batons while wailing.
"We're just civilians who were called here! This has nothing to do with us!"
"Oh? Now you remember you're civilians?"
Inoka Uchiha glared at them with his Sharingan while striking them six times per second. "Too late! You dared to attack the Konoha Military Police Force! What's next? Are you going to storm the Hokage building tomorrow?"
Soon, the rioting villagers scattered, fleeing into Konoha's streets and alleys. Behind them, the Konoha Military Police Force members relentlessly pursued while swinging their batons mercilessly.
Some passing villagers, unaware of what was happening, were harshly ordered back into their homes by the Konoha Military Police Force. "What are you looking at? The village is under lockdown tonight! Stay inside! Anyone found outside will be treated as a rioter!"
After shouting this, one Konoha Military Police Force member leaped onto a nearby wall, accelerated, and then came crashing down, kicking a fleeing protester to the ground. Without hesitation, his baton began to rain down.
This chaotic scene terrified the uninvolved villagers. They quickly shut their doors and windows, hiding inside their homes. Within seconds, the only people left on Konoha's streets were the fleeing rioters and the chasing Konoha Military Police Force.
At that moment, three Anbu on a mission within the village witnessed the scene. One of them asked: "Captain Seiichi, should we stop them?"
"Stop them? Can't you see that the Konoha Military Police Force is enforcing the law?"
Seiichi Nagai glared at his two Special Jonin teammates.
"Let's just report back to the Hokage. No need to get ourselves into trouble."
Although the Konoha Military Police Force was outnumbered by the rioters, their members were highly trained and disciplined. They operated in an orderly fashion, efficiently subduing villagers one by one.
After apprehending a few rioters, they delivered a swift and brutal bone-setting package before dragging the battered individuals back to the Konoha Military Police Force headquarters.
The streets and alleys of Konoha echoed with screams and cries of pain.
Hideaki Sakurai and his teammate, Yoki Fujiwara, chased a fleeing troublemaker through the narrow alleys of Konoha.
This person was clearly not an ordinary villager; if he were, there was no way he could evade two ninjas for this long.
The four fleeing individuals turned a corner, and the two Konoha Military Police Force members instinctively pursued. However, upon entering the alley, they found several more people hidden there.
The one they had been chasing grabbed a wooden chair and smashed it against the wall, breaking it apart and distributing the makeshift weapons to the others.
Feeling emboldened by their numbers and their newfound weapons, one of the men stepped forward and accused Hideaki Sakurai and Yoki Fujiwara: "Ninjas are supposed to protect the village! How can you raise your hands against the villagers?"
"You people, who so blatantly disregard the Will of Fire, dare call yourselves villagers?" Hideaki Sakurai retorted angrily.
"Hideaki, what do we do? They outnumber us."
Yoki Fujiwara hesitated. As a recent graduate from the academy, he had yet to master the jutsu issued by the Konoha Military Police Force. Among the squad, he was one of the weakest in combat. Facing an overwhelming crowd, he was understandably nervous.
"What are you afraid of?"
Hideaki Sakurai snorted and removed his forehead protector.
"Did you forget what vice captain Kuragami just said? Don't disgrace the Konoha Military Police Force!"
After taking a deep breath, Hideaki Sakurai gripped his baton and stepped forward.
Seeing this, Yoki Fujiwara gritted his teeth and followed suit.
The fight broke out instantly.
Hideaki Sakurai fared well. He was a top-performing civilian student in the academy and received training from Saito Uchiha after joining the Konoha Military Police Force.
Having mastered the Konoha Military Police Force's issued Jutsu and even learned Uchiha-style swordsmanship, he held his ground despite being outnumbered by four-to-one.
Yoki Fujiwara, however, struggled. As a bottom-tier graduate with little combat experience, he relied solely on his Chakra-enhanced physical strength to endure the attackers' blows while swinging his baton wildly.
Suddenly, one of the rioters Hideaki Sakurai was suppressing pulled out several shuriken and hurled them at the two of them.
Hideaki Sakurai barely managed to dodge, but Yoki Fujiwara wasn't as lucky. He reacted too late; he could only avoid a fatal hit, making the shuriken slashed open his thigh, and blood immediately gushed out.
"You're a ninja?"
Hideaki Sakurai roared in anger upon seeing the attack. He reached into his tool pouch, ready to retaliate with his own shuriken.
Realizing his cover was blown, the rogue ninja from the Mitokado clan no longer pretended to be a civilian. Without hesitation, he formed hand seals.
"Fire Style: Flame Bombs!"
A fireball shot toward the injured Yoki Fujiwara.
Seeing this, Hideaki Sakurai immediately rushed to help, but they had spread out too much during the fight, and he wouldn't make it in time. In desperation, he could only shout: "Dodge!"
Yoki Fujiwara wanted to move, but his wounded leg slowed him down.
Just as he was about to be engulfed in flames, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him. With a swift slash, the fireball was cleaved apart.
"Leader Saito!"
Both Hideaki Sakurai and Yoki Fujiwara called out in surprise and relief. The newcomer was none other than Saito Uchiha.
"Tch! Useless; once this mission is over and your wounds are healed, prepare for hellish training."
Saito Uchiha coldly remarked while shooting Yoki Fujiwara an icy glare.
"As for you..."
Saito Uchiha turns his head to the rogue ninja. "You dared to try and kill a Konoha Military Police Force officer? You must have a death wish."
Since the enemy had already resorted to shuriken and jutsu, Saito Uchiha no longer held back.
With his ninja sword in hand, he charged forward at lightning speed.
The rogue ninja, only at Chunin level at best, was utterly outclassed. He was subdued in less than three moves. The other villagers who had initially joined the fight had already fled the moment jutsu was involved.
"What are you standing around for? Chase them!"
Saito Uchiha snapped at Hideaki Sakurai, who quickly nodded and resumed pursuit.
Meanwhile, word of the village lockdown spread quickly throughout Konoha. However, as always, there were those who lacked common sense. A few so-called kind-hearted villagers, seeing rioters being chased, opened their homes to shelter them.
Unfortunately for them, the Konoha Military Police Force, now with red eyes, did not care. Without hesitation, they stormed into the homes and ensured that these good samaritans were also given a brutal lesson in loyalty.