Forum:Can Sasuke's Sharingan tell if a body is a shadow clone?

I am wondering this because in Anime episode 130 at around three minutes, Sasuke claims he can tell which Naruto is the real one. This does not really make sense to me because Neji's Byakugan is not even able to tell which Naruto is the real one. I think the Byakugan would be better at that sort of thing. Is this just a mistake in the Anime or am I not understanding something? It seems logical that the Sharingan would be able to tell if a body is a normal clone such as towards the end of Anime episode 36. However, since the Byakugan is not able to tell if a body is a shadow clone I do not think the Sharingan can.
 * The manga doesn't say anything about the Sharingan being able to tell the real person from Shadow clones, so the anime most likely made a mistake. Jacce | Talk 05:30, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I think that the Sharingan can simply keep track of the real body, not that it can distinguish it at any given time. Seeing as the Sharingan gives color to chakra (as stated during Sasuke's battle with Deidara), it shouldn't be really hard.

I didn't see this episode (I don't watch the anime, only read the manga) but it's possible that either Sasuke was able to keep track, like Apex said above. Or, because something about how the Kage Bunshin works ensures that the clones are subordinate to the original, possibly Sasuke can tell who's following who's lead. Naruto can't send his clones orders telepathically or anything like that, so although they're very good at following through with any plans he made before cloning, they probably can't know plans that he'd devised after using the technique. I'm saying this in a really stupid way, but what I mean is that they must look to Naruto for signals. We have every reason to think that THEY at least know who the real Naruto is, after all. --Nordfjord (talk) 07:52, 20 July 2009 (UTC)