"Remember, this mark is your registration number. Only you may know it. You must never tell anyone else, understand?"
In the clearing, the students stood in winding lines that looped around one another. Chiba sat at the very front, using a massive tree trunk as a table and a slab of bark as a stool. On blank scrolls, he wrote strings of Tadpole Script, forming vertical Sealing Jutsu Formulas that appeared to consist of only a few unfamiliar characters. He had each student press a hand onto the formula, then wrote the youth's name beneath it before allowing them to remove their hand. Once all that was done, he discreetly demonstrated several hand seals to the youth, linking them into a release sequence for the Sealing Jutsu Formula.
"Yes, I understand."
After demonstrating it correctly at Chiba's prompting, the youth gave a slight bow in acknowledgment. Then, frowning faintly with some confusion, he stepped aside to join the dozen or so boys and girls who had completed the registration process. Kakashi and the nine Teachers then divided them into groups.
They would then teach them about coded signals and how to use them.
After all, there were over three hundred people here. Chiba could not possibly handle everything himself.
Using Sealing Jutsu for registration? Every person's identity was a Sealing Jutsu Formula.
Th-this registration was actually a code meant to guard against spies. If the Sealing Jutsu Formula and its release sequence did not match, that person was undoubtedly a spy.
As expected of a genius who had become the Hokage Assistant at eleven. Only he could have come up with such a method.
Moreover, there were probably only two people in the village capable of using this method.
So many Sealing Jutsu Formulas with different structures yet identical outward