
Originally Posted by
GyoMasta
I'm with Jessie on that one. Kishi used Kakashi with suggest that there was a rumor about the Uchiha having its origin in Hyuuga during the Chuunin Exam. But taht was long ago. While we have a whole set of chapters implicitly and explicitly linking UCHiha with Rikudou while (implicitly) taking Hyuuga/Byakugan out of the equation.
You said you found Byakugan superior to the Sharingan and closer to the Rinnigan and that a combiantion of it with Naruto's Uzumaki/Senju blood would give birth to something closer to Rikudou's Kekkei Genkai than anything we've seen so foar from other with Rinnegan/Sharingan powers. The problem is taht Sharingan is coloser in abilities to Rinnegan than the Byakugan is.
Byakugan is just a see/er (a hugely good one though)
while both Sharingan (I'll call Sharingan the conventional up to the EMS) and Rinnegan are see-ers and do-ers.
Harsh simplification but also harsh truth.
-Sharingan seems to get its copying/reproducing abilities from the Rinnegan's ability to generate anykind of ninja jutsu/abilities (in katon, suiton, raiton, doton, fuuton, onmyou(yin+yang))
-Both Sharingan (S) and Rinnegan (R) can see through the principle genrating a jutsu simply by looking at it (the Byakugan (B) can also dothat I think)
-Both S and R can reach within someone's Inner soul realm
-Both S&R can control others
-Both can Uchiha and the Rikudou Elder are renown for the outstanding chakra (just look at 16 y-o Sasuke and the chakra he emits than compare with 17 y-p Neji... says it all. Also look at 13 y-o Itachi who was able to use MS and Tsukuyomi without falling on ground while 29 went to bed for a week when using Kamui)
-Both S&R can "summon" spiritual-linked creatures than can affect spirits/souls and seal them and being (Enma, Susano'o, Gedo Mazo)
-The doujutsu and spiritual energy of the Uchiha, inherited from the Sage, enables them to resiste and repel any unsharingan-based genjutsu and have genjutsu more powerful than others.
-Both S&R can generate Ninjutsu techniques(Amaterasu, Susano'o, Kamui, Shinra Tensei, Gedo Rinne Jutsu, while Byakugan can't any such thing.
-The sipirtual, doujutsu and control abilities of the Uchiha eye is further linked to Rinnegan when we see Sasuke litarally taking control over another dimension that Orochimaru created ("Against these eyes of mine, all of your jutsus... are useless"),
the way Uchiha can enter someone's mind, the way both can Rikudou-able ninja and Uchiha can control bijuu. Sasuke didn't even acquired the Mangekyou that he could alreeady repel Kyuubi's chakra inside Naruto.
Things Byakugan obviously can't do. Since it's just a see-er not a do-er.
-Note the similarities between MS: Susano'o Sacred treasures and Rikudou's 5 treasures.
-The Izanagi ability (although Uchiha's isn't as good as Rikudou's)
-Madara combined Hashirama's DNA with his and what happened? Rinnegan.
-The fact that Orochimaru and Kabuto's genetic research directly linked Sharingan with Rinnegan, not Byakugan. And considerign Orochimaru's knowledge and genetic material ressources, if Hyuuga were as or closer related to Rikudou than are Uchiha, he would have turned his attention towars one of them instead of Sasuke and Itachi. It would have been easier... "and the result would betetr" than with an Uchiha. Wouldn't it?
Tobi used one of teh best way to tell a lie: he included verifiable truth in it. But the manga speaks volume about the genuine blood bond between Uchiha, Rikudou and Senju, while Hyuuga is left aside. Tsunade didn't seem to doubt the story Kakashi told her about the whole Itachi, Uchiha/Senju and 4th World War Affairs and reasons, ans she is a Senju/Uzumaki. She must know her history and thus the likn bewtween her clans and the Uchiha and Rikudou, she must have had clan archives or elders to testify such a thing.
Nothing is said about Hyuuga/Uchiha/Rikudou so far, just a rumour of years ago.
Notice also that Danzo didn't try to combine Hyuuga and Hashirama's DNA but Uchiha and Senju Hashirama'S DNAs. Why not hyuuga, if it better or linked too? Notice that Tobi didn't put Byakugan anywhere in the list of proficiency for reading the Secret Tablet (which Uchiha inherited, a big thing too). Kabuto could have had make of of his Edo Tensei bring that Hyuuga they've captured (Tokuma or something) and use him for his experiment like he could use the Zetsu Tobi promised him to have and like the thing he did with Yamato, to create a Rikudou Kekkei Genkai replica for himself of himself, but didn't. But surely if he could have spot Sasuke with them he would have tried to capture him for his Uchiha body and to achieve Rinnegan or something with the Hashirama DNA sample. If Hyuuga were that close to Rikudou compared to Uchiha, that is.
And Uchiha are more powerful that Hyuuga, this thing is clearly said. They and Senju were, by far, the co-most skilled and powerful shinobi clans of the Endless War Era(because they had Rikudou's superior blood and their ancestors received the ebst teaching/training compared to others) and Uchiha kept being called Konoha's Strongest Clan. The one time Hyuuga was called the strongest was only by Hiashi, AFTER the Uchiha were gone, i.e. 2nd becomes 1st when former-1st leaves.
And Tobi knows and says more about Uchiha/Senju/Rikudou than does Kakashi and his claims about the links between Uchiha and Hyuuga. Both he and Itachi should have mentioned Byakugan/Hyuuga in there story about the secrets of the Mangekyou and Rikudou Sennin.
Kishi might well hav left the Hyuuga thing behind and/or changed thigns. Mokuton was defined as Hijutsu/Hiden in the 1st/2nd databook, but afterward it became Kekkei Genkai in Part 2 (Shippuden). Things such as these change with the rpogression of the story, it would seem.