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Negotiable. As I said previously, any post made by myself, you, or anyone other than luo and hinote would be "he waited to see what would happen." I probably will initiate combat since everyone wants me to post now, but it doesn't make as much sense as waiting for luo and hinote to be done shouting at each other to make posts contributing more than fluff.

Its not about whether they can do significant damage or not, its about whether the post would be a worthwhile post, or just so much filler.

And also, it is a clone guys. A genin definitely has the capability to damage a clone or even Jishaku himself, that is if you work with the people you've got on your side.

@ Luo
I know, but Laxus hasn't been trained yet, so if I tried to do something and it worked I'm liable to get it revoked.

@ Hinote
TT~TT And now it is ruined for me. I was going to have Laxus go travel around to find Jishaku since the clone is playing it defensively, and if it had the ability to blow up an entire thread, it probably would be offensive if it was the real thing. Right now it just strikes as odd that it would be running away and hiding if it had the ability to attack Kumogakure head on, leisurely leave after, and then blow up an entire area of a village. So Laxus would think that there is someone else in the village doing something, and Jishaku is trying to buy them time. ( He's wrong of course. )

But that would get branded as meta-gaming... so I don't think I'll have Laxus do that.

I'm pretty sure only the Byakugan could tell bunshin are bunshin that easilly. Not entirely familiar with the sharingan rules in this guild but as I see it the sharingan could probably track the real and fake bunshin if he/she witnesses the jutsu, or notices significantly odd behavior or something but not just from looking at them with the eyes active.

Already established awhile ago that Sharingan could not tell clones from the original. They can see chakra, yes, but they can't see it in great detail like the Byakugan can. Like Hikaro said, the best you could do would be to see the clone formed and try to track it and keep tabs on which was real that way, but even then it could be hard if the opponent was skilled at deception using clones.

I came here to say this. Think of it this way HadoKennie: The sharingan can only see outer chakra, that is chakra that naturally flows around an individual as well as chakra from pure chakra-based attacks. The Byakugan however, is able to see inner chakra flowing through the chakra circulatory system, as well as the tenketsu, or rather "Chakra/pressure points." These essentially, are the internal highway of "chakra coils" that make up the chakra circulatory system. By being able to see tenketsu and the CCS (Chakra Circulatory System), they can distinguish clone from human. However, there do exist clones that create artificial CCS in order to produce jutsu effects, and the more advanced they are (such as the kage bunshin), the more difficult it becomes to tell them apart from their creator.

I could delve further into chakra 101 and everything about it, but I'll spare you the time 3nodding

I was going to have the ANBU tell Raphael to go to the residential district and tell them to go to somewhere safer.

The only problem is that Raphael can't do much more than put Hiku seals on certain areas and put lightning as what they attract.