Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-29908830-20180221011538/@comment-11891028-20180226115124

Speaking of Naruto's chakra control at this point, I seem to believe that Neji was eventually able to identify which of Naruto's shadow clones was the real one as a result of his ongoing use of creating so many shadow clones during their Chunin exams fight. Since the Sharingan has some chakra detecting properties as well, perhaps Sasuke could follow a similar approach to identify Naruto in a crowd of shadow clones, seeing as the Sharingan can detect irregularities within a person's chakra and I recall seeing Rin's chakra pathway system when Obito identified her as being under a genjutsu with his newly developed Sharingan during the Third Great Ninja War. Just speculating here.

Additionally, regarding Naruto summoning during his match with Sasuke. As previously pointed out, at this point in the anime/manga, Naruto's only summoned Gamabunta once and that was because Jiraiya pushed him off a cliff to his death in order to force Naruto to get chakra from Nine Tails. Gamakichi was first summoned during the fight against a One Tails partial transformed Gaara, and Gamatatsu came during fillers in part 2, so Gamabunta is the only toad Naruto knows about at this point. Even so, even if Naruto was able to summon him during this fight then Gamabunta wouldn't be willing to help Naruto just for the sake of fighting Sasuke, he has no reason to. Not to mention, whilst Sasuke was first surprised that Naruto could summon him in the first place (during the Konoha Crush Arc), my best guess is he would have enough time to compose himself and launch an attack on Naruto whilst waiting for them to do something, since I'm guessing that Naruto and Gamabunta would be arguing about why he was summoned, what he's supposed to do, what he's going to do and not do and why he's not going to do it. The crowd may be amazed to begin with, but they'll probably just see it as some sort of joke eventually which may also put them off.

So my best guess is that Naruto would only have the shadow clones to rely upon if he's unable to use the demon fox cloak, and unless he is able to overwhelm Sasuke with strength in numbers or come up with some sort of Strategy like with Neji, then I don't really see the outcome of this fight in his favour. Plus, if my theory about the Sharingan and Byakugan identifying the original amongst shadow clones is correct, then Sasuke's just got to fight enough clones to force Naruto to use up enough of his chakra so that he sticks out like a sore thumb rather than being a needle in a haystack.