The reorganization within the Konoha Ninja Forces had ended, but that did not mean the internal purge was over. There were still people in Konoha Ninja Village who needed to be purged. To avoid tipping them off, very few people in the village had been informed.
However, Kazemori Masaki had already sent word to the leadership through secret channels. Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu immediately took the matter seriously. They knew they had to bring the unsuspecting targets in the village under control before the prisoners arrived, lest the trouble spread.
The main targets were, naturally, the Uchiha with close ties to Uchiha Setsuna. Although Kagami Uchiha had taken some elite combat personnel with him, he had inevitably left others behind. Both the Security Force and the clan itself needed a certain number of elite fighters.
Of course, after Kagami Uchiha's years of effort, even the Security Force's strongest combat unit, the First Squad, had plenty of his supporters. The Setsuna Uchiha faction was ultimately a minority. Had they represented the mainstream within the Uchiha Clan, Kagami Uchiha would long since have faced the same predicament as Uchiha Fugaku in the future.
Uchiha Fugaku had clearly not wanted to rebel, yet the radicals within his clan had forced him down that path. With him acting as Clan Head, Armed Rebellion naturally became the Uchiha Clan's primary objective, which also gave Konoha Ninja Village legal grounds to wipe out the clan. Without their intention to launch an Armed Rebellion, the village leadership would not have chosen to destroy the Uchiha Clan. After all, they were one of the few elite clans remaining after the Third Shinobi World War and the Nine-Tails' Attack. Hiruzen Sarutobi and the others were not so shortsighted as to sever that source of strength while Konoha Ninja