The Uchiha Police Force in Dire Straits, Doctor Bai?

"Damn Uchiha Hanjō! If he hadn't taken in those ninja who defected from the Military Police Force, it wouldn't have declined to this state!"

Upon hearing the news, Uchiha Fugaku's eyes widened in fury, and he hated Uchiha Hanjō to the bone.

They had been the backbone of the Uchiha Clan, yet Uchiha Hanjō had taken them all away.

Even if he wanted to recruit people into the Military Police Force now, no one dared join after learning of its current situation. Besides... even if they did join, they would only be ordinary people or Genin.

They would be completely useless!

Ding, ding, ding.

Just as Uchiha Heifugaku was cursing furiously, someone else ran in. "Clan Head, someone caused trouble in the North District and was stopped by our men!"

"And then?" Hearing this, Uchiha Fugaku faintly sensed that something was wrong. His eyelid kept twitching.

"That man pretended to be injured and had himself carried to the hospital. He made a scene all the way to the Hokage Office. Our Military Police Force men are still being held by the Hokage, and Hokage-sama told you to bring 100,000 Ryo in medical fees to bail them out!" The man sounded anxious, almost pleading.

"Assault? Violent law enforcement?" Uchiha Fugaku's eyelid twitched at the news. He glared at the man before him and rebuked him, "Didn't I tell you not to use violent law enforcement against civilians?!"

They had just suffered a loss over this matter, yet his clansmen were still so disappointing.

He even felt a little resentment at their failure to live up to expectations.

"Clan Head, we held back. We only wanted to stop the troublemakers, but those thugs tried to attack us!" The man spoke anxiously, but sorrow filled his face. "The moment we moved to stop them, the two of them fell to the ground. Then the civilians actually joined forces with the thugs and sent our men to the Hokage Office!"

His words were filled with desolation and helplessness.

They had already been extremely careful during this patrol. When they saw those thugs causing trouble, they went to stop them, but the thugs were utterly arrogant and ignored the law enforcement squad entirely. They even tried to attack them.

Unable to endure it any longer, they had finally stepped in to stop them!

Yet even then, those thugs refused to let it go. They even joined with the surrounding crowd to send them to the Hokage Office, accusing the Uchiha Police Force of violent law enforcement!

Moreover, Hokage-sama had immediately reached a conclusion, ordering the Uchiha Clan Head to bring 100,000 Ryo and apologize to the injured parties.

The saddest part was that they had wanted to protect those civilians' interests, yet those civilians wanted them dead. It was simply pathetic!

He even regretted not leaving with Uchiha Xia and the others a few days ago. During patrols over the past two days, he had seen how comfortable their lives had been.

He truly regretted it.

"Clan Head, let's take the money and bail our brothers out!" He looked at his Clan Head, his tone urgent and pressing.

"The clan has no money left. Go tell Hokage-sama that this ransom will be deducted from the Military Police Force's wages!" Uchiha Fugaku hesitated for a moment, then wrote out a note. "Take this note to the Third Hokage. He'll release them!"

It was not that he did not want to go personally, but the Military Police Force could not afford to be without anyone right now.

"But that's 100,000 Ryo!" The clansman hesitated. They already owed those thugs hundreds of thousands of Ryo, and now another 100,000 Ryo would be added?

If this continued, they would not only lose their wages, but also end up owing those thugs money!

Didn't Hokage-sama understand by now? Those thugs were deliberately targeting the Uchiha Police Force.

"Listen to me. Go." Uchiha Fugaku frowned at the man trying to argue with him and glared.

In the end, the man could only helplessly take the note Uchiha Fugaku had written and head to the Hokage Office.

Time continued to pass!

Day after day went by, and Xuanyu had already spent seven days in the hospital.

"Young Master, I feel like I can get out of bed and walk!" Senju Hashirama looked at Xuanyu with anticipation in his eyes.

Ever since he had woken up, he had spent four days lying in bed. Even Extracting Chakra had to be done lying down. He was truly fed up with it.

"If you don't want you and your sister to be targeted by people with ill intentions, then stay in bed at home and don't show anything unusual!" Xuanyu reminded the increasingly impatient youth.

Recently, he had noticed quite a few unfamiliar figures around the hospital. He did not know whether they were watching Hashira and his sister or watching him.

Those people were cautious and hid in secluded corners. If Xuanyu had not possessed the Byakugan's abilities, he probably would not have noticed them.

If his guess was correct, they should be Root members, and the ones they were monitoring were Senju Hashirama and his sister.

After all, those people had only appeared after Hashira regained consciousness.

Could Danzo suspect that Senju Hashirama possessed some special bloodline and want to capture him for experiments?

The more Xuanyu thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

After learning that the thug who had captured Hua Yu had gone missing, he became even more certain. It was Danzo's handiwork.

Danzo was most obsessed with two types of experiments: one involved the Uchiha Clan's Sharingan, while the other involved Hashirama Senju's cells. If he encountered a Senju clansman with a special physique, there was no way he would let him go.

Therefore,

Xuanyu wanted Senju Hashirama to keep pretending.

"Young Master, my body—especially around the wound—is terribly itchy. I really can't stand it anymore!" Senju Hashirama scratched his head. As his body recovered, it itched unbearably, and he was struggling to endure it.

Xuanyu looked at Senju Hashirama and saw that his broken bones were recovering rapidly. Perhaps because of his cultivation, they were nearly fully healed.

"Rest for two more days. After two days, I'll take you home. Then you can move around!" Xuanyu told him to settle down for another two days. Once they returned home, no one would be able to monitor him.

He could move around a little then.

"Understood!" Senju Hashirama nodded.

"You two rest here. I'm going to buy some food!" Seeing the time, Xuanyu told the siblings to rest in the room while he went to buy food. Due to their cultivation, both siblings had developed much larger appetites.

"Young Master, I'll go with you!" Little Hua Yu hopped out of bed and followed Xuanyu.

After her brother woke up and acknowledged Xuanyu as Young Master, Hua Yu began calling Xuanyu Young Master as well. Xuanyu had wanted them to simply call him by his name, but the siblings stubbornly refused. In the end, he had no choice but to accept the title.

After going out, Xuanyu took the little girl to eat plenty of delicious food. In the end, they were so stuffed that they could not eat another bite.

Only then did they pack up some food and return to the hospital.

"Move aside! I need to bring these three inside for treatment!" As soon as the two arrived at the hospital entrance, they saw a Security Ninja blocking an elderly man. Behind him were three children who were barely clinging to life.

The three children appeared to be civilians. Their clothes were tattered, and their faces were pale.

"Doctor Bai, it's not that I won't let you bring them in. Over the past month, you've already brought more than a dozen civilians to the hospital for treatment, and you only paid the cost of the medicine!" The Security Guard looked at the elderly man and spoke helplessly. "The Director has already given the order. You can't bring any more patients into the hospital!"

This doctor would be very useful too!

I already owe two chapters... Uh... I'll start writing first thing tomorrow morning and make them up!