On the fifth day of evidence-witnessing training, Fugaku formally established the Cross-Verification Squad.
For now, the squad had only eight members.
Four Uchiha police shinobi.
Two Anbu observers.
One analysis specialist from the Nara Clan.
And one young jonin from the Hyuga Branch Family.
Such a lineup would have been almost impossible in the past.
The Konoha Military Police Force was accustomed to handling incidents within the village independently, and the Anbu rarely let clan shinobi gain access to their observation methods.
As clans with ocular techniques, the Hyuga and the Uchiha were more often compared than brought together to cooperate.
But once anomalies appeared at multiple locations, the enemy could exploit any single method of observation.
The Sharingan excelled at detecting movements and changes in chakra.
The Byakugan could examine routes over a wider area and see behind obstructions.
The Nara excelled at organizing inconsistencies in timing and behavior.
The Anbu, meanwhile, were familiar with securing scenes and keeping people of different identities separated.
The purpose of bringing these abilities together was not to prove who was stronger.
It was to ensure that no piece of evidence could be interpreted through only one kind of eye.
The Training Ground was divided into three layers.
The outermost layer was responsible for blocking off access points.
The middle layer recorded the movement of people and objects.
The innermost layer admitted only two observers from different affiliations, entering together.
No one was permitted to remove evidence alone.
All preliminary judgments had to be written separately from the original records.
Shisui stood at the edge of the grounds, but did not personally demonstrate the fastest tracking method.
Instead, he first gave everyone a blank form.
"In the first column, write what you saw."
"In the second column, write what you think it means."