Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25124448-20140630200132/@comment-7292165-20140703023538

Cjtrules15 wrote: Forgive me if this has been said in later posts, but I only read a couple from the top of the page.

This is my take: Notable Uchiha from that time period consists of ANBU Itachi, and a high ranked Shisui. We do not know if all of the police force have activated their sharingan. At that time Obito was still rogue with an old Madara so they are out of this fight. All Hyuuga are born with the Byakugan BUT only the main house knows about Gentle Fist. Remember Neji was extremely smart and deciphered the jutsu by watching. How many main house members are proficient with Gentle Fist? Will the main house risk letting the branch house free in using the main house's techniques and risk a rebellion? We don't know. During the time of Hiashi and Hizashi there was a lot of tension between houses.

Now to the actual fighting: True, Uchiha are good with long range but Hyuuga are extremely fast and shorten that gap fast to use close range techniques. If I remember correctly during Neji and Naruto's fight way back in the chunin exams Kakashi counted all of Neji's strikes. (If not then the opposite of this statement is true) If the sharingan can count the strikes that means he can see Neji's hands. Uchiha then can dodge the attack. It will take a trained sharingan user though to see the strikes. I think this battle will come down to old fashioned taijutsu. There are not enough sharingan users and not enough main house Hyuuga clan users to gain an edge against each other. With that said I think Uchiha would win. They are known as the battle clan and have jutsu they use besides their eyes. Hyuuga jutsu relies on their eyes. Seeing chakra points. Only a select few of the Hyuuga can actually do something with this knowledge since they know Gentle Fist. Uchiha clan are more united than Hyuuga clan. Hyuuga clan are hurting themselves by dividing their clan in two.

It really would be an interesting battle and actually as far as I'm concerned all members of the hyuga clan know the gentle fist fighting style. The branch family just wouldn't know the techniques like the 8 trigrams 64 palm.