My name is Uchiha Touhuan, and I beat the villagers so badly they cried out in pain.

After receiving the mission, the Jonin squad in the village needed to assemble temporarily, and the ANBU messenger waited for a full 20 minutes before seeing that the Jonin squad had less than forty people gathered.

There was no way around it. Although the village's jonin squad always had about 150 jonin, excluding those on missions outside and those from the Ino-Shika-Chou, Aburame, and Inuzuka clans, there were only about 60 people left. Except for Utane, Mitomon, and the Sarutobi clan, most of these 60 people were from small ninja clans in the village, such as the Gekkou clan.

Those who were willing to attend were all ninjas from the Utatane, Mitomon, and Sarutobi clans. The ninjas from smaller clans and commoners, on the other hand, were all dragging their feet and didn't show up, since their reasons were readily available—the village was under martial law and they couldn't leave their homes.

"It's alright if the others aren't here. Let's set off," said a Jonin from the Sarutobi clan.

The others all nodded and walked towards the village together.

However, as soon as they stepped outside, they were stopped by a ninja squad of nearly a hundred people.

The man at the head of the group stood at the very front, his posture looking rather roguish, the senbon he held in his mouth gleaming coldly under the streetlights.

"Genma Shiranui?" Koji Sarutobi, the newly promoted Jonin squad leader after Shikaku Nara's promotion, frowned upon seeing the newcomer, but still patiently spoke up: "You've come at the right time. We're short-handed right now, so hurry up and come with us to suppress the rebellion of the Security Department."

"Is that so?" Genma Shiranui raised an eyebrow, saying somewhat casually, "But I heard that the Security Department is suppressing thugs who spread rumors to slander the village's heroes and are trying to force the Security Department to resign by violence? Are you Jonin gentlemen going to help those thugs?"

"Genma Shiranui! Watch your tone! You're just a special Jonin!" Mitokado Tsuki, a Jonin from the Mitokado clan, shouted angrily from the Jonin squad.

"Heh, Lord Mitomon has quite the air of an official." Genma Shiranui suddenly spat out the senbon he was holding in his mouth. The senbon shot out like a bullet and almost instantly embedded itself at the feet of the group. The senbon was embedded several inches into the ground and was still swaying slightly, causing the faces of the Jonin team members to darken.

At that moment, a man with a face full of scars next to Genma Shiranui smiled disdainfully: "Genma, if we had known that Jonin had such great authority, we would have really missed out on taking the exam all these years."

"Do you want to join the Uchiha in their rebellion?" Utatane Kuwagi, a member of the Jonin class, shouted angrily.

"Don't give me that crap. All I know is that the village is under martial law tonight, and no one is allowed to wander around," Genma Shiranui said expressionlessly.

"This is the Hokage's order!" Sarutobi Koji said angrily in a low voice.

"The Hokage's orders?" Genma Shiranui's eyes turned cold. "If the Fourth Hokage weren't dead, how dare you, a worthless piece of trash who hasn't accomplished anything, use the Hokage's name to pressure us?"

"The Fourth Hokage..." Sarutobi Koji carefully examined the opposing team and found that some of them were former direct subordinates of the Fourth Hokage or people who had received favors from the Fourth Hokage during the Third Shinobi World War.

"Genma, why waste words with them? If you want to fight, then fight. Even if it costs us our lives, we won't let them get past us today. The Fourth Hokage only has this one disciple, and we can't let him continue to be bullied like this." The hot-tempered Raido Namiashi drew his weapon directly.

"You're courting death." Tsurugi Sangmu's face was extremely ugly as he drew his weapon, ready for battle.

Seeing this, Genma Shiranui took a deep breath. He knew that he had to fight desperately next. Although his side had more people, apart from a few of them who were former members of the Fourth Hokage's direct Shadow Guard, none of the others were Jonin. If they wanted to keep the enemy here, they would have to pay a huge price.

The two groups of people were about to fight, but at this moment, a sound like the singing of thousands of birds broke the silence, a dazzling flash of lightning passed by, and a white-haired hand holding lightning instantly appeared in the middle of the two groups, stopping the fighting. Moreover, a melon-headed man in a green tights also arrived soon after.

"Kakashi?" Sarutobi Koji's face instantly turned grim upon seeing the newcomer. If it were just Genma Shiranui and his group, the thirty or so Jonin present would have been confident in taking them down. However, with Kakashi and Might Guy joining the fray, the situation instantly reversed. Kakashi and Might Guy were both considered elite Jonin in the village, and with the assistance of nearly a hundred special Jonin, they were fully capable of wiping them out.

Genma Shiranui smiled when he saw Kakashi, with whom he hadn't had a formal conversation for several years.

"So you've finally decided to show yourself?" Genma Shiranui chuckled. "I thought you were going to be a coward for the rest of your life."

"Thank you." Kakashi turned around and looked at his former teacher's subordinates behind him, his heart filled with emotion.

"How has that child been lately?" Namiashi Raido asked.

"It's fine, it's just that he's getting older, and his mischievousness can be a bit of a headache," Kakashi said with a smile. "You can come and visit sometime when you have time."

Kakashi understood that it was probably his recent act of adopting Naruto that had given them the determination to stand up and support him now.

"Enough talk, Kakashi. Now that you're here, we're all in your hands. Give the orders." Genma Shiranui said with a smile.

Kakashi nodded, then looked at the Jonin team. With his mask removed, Kakashi's face was somewhat androgynous, but at this moment, he already possessed a certain air of authority: "Gentlemen of the Jonin team, let's leave it at that. I will explain to the Third Hokage, how about that?"

"Kakashi, you..." Sarutobi Koji wanted to deny it, but as soon as he opened his mouth, lightning began to flash on Kakashi's hand.

Sarutobi Koji's face instantly turned extremely ugly. Although he and Kakashi were both Jonin in rank, over the years, the number of Jonin-level ninjas who had died from Kakashi's S-rank self-created ninjutsu was probably close to three digits. He didn't want to personally experience the power of the Lightning Blade.

"Then you can go and explain to the Third Hokage yourself." Sarutobi Koji snorted coldly and turned to leave. Seeing this, the other Jonin ninjas could only return the way they came.

"Guy, could you stay here and guard this place for me? I'm going to the Hokage Building." Kakashi said to Might Guy after the other man left, extinguishing the Lightning Blade in his hand.

"Alright, call me that!" Might Guy grinned, giving a thumbs up. Although he was still clueless about what had happened, he knew one thing: someone had stepped in to clear Kakashi's name tonight. As Kakashi's best friend, he naturally had to help.