Shikaku Nara laid three sets of documents in a row.
Missing pages from the old Kannabi Bridge battlefield records.
The assessment of the spatial intrusion on the Night of the Nine-Tails.
The spatial breach on Konoha's outskirts.
The three sets of documents came from different times, different places, and different witnesses.
Yet they all pointed to the same kind of anomaly.
Space had been distorted for an instant.
It was not Flying Thunder God.
It was not summoning.
Nor was it an ordinary gap in a barrier.
Shikaku did not rush to a conclusion.
He simply began by drawing a timeline.
For the Nara Clan, this was more useful than arguing.
If the three incidents were unrelated, the timeline would naturally diverge.
If someone had been using the same kind of ability over a long period, recurring shadows would emerge along the timeline.
Gen watched Shikaku draw the lines and silently nodded to himself.
This was exactly what he wanted.
If the Uchiha spoke of spatial anomalies themselves, others would suspect ulterior motives.
With the Nara Clan laying out the timeline, it became a different matter.
Shikaku wrote down the first entry.
After Kannabi Bridge, Kakashi acquired a Sharingan.
The second entry.
On the Night of the Nine-Tails, the Fourth Hokage determined that the attacker's method of movement differed from Flying Thunder God.
The third entry.
After the Uchiha recently altered the two dangerous trajectories involving Shisui and Itachi, a spatial breach appeared on Konoha's outskirts.
When he reached the third entry, Shikaku stopped writing.
He looked at Gen.
"The timing of the third incident is quite a coincidence."
Gen did not deny it.
"Because someone is starting to get anxious."
Shikaku asked, "You mean Root?"
Gen shook his head.
"Root will exploit this, but this spatial trail doesn't look