Speaking of which, before its massacre, the Uchiha Clan had stood alongside Neji's Hyuga Clan as one of Konoha's two giants. The reason these two clans were so powerful lay in their eyes: the Uchiha had the Sharingan, while the Hyuga had the Byakugan.
The Byakugan lacked the Sharingan's powerful offensive capabilities. Its role was support: all-seeing eyes with a 360-degree field of view, penetrating eyes that could see an opponent's chakra pathways, pressure points, and chakra flow as well as see through objects, telescopic eyes that could survey distant places, and perceptive eyes with exceptional powers of observation.
Its most terrifying ability was seeing chakra flow, pathways, and pressure points, because the Hyuga Clan possessed a matching killer move, Gentle Fist: Pressure Point Strike. Its effect was brutally simple: sealing the opponent's chakra! It forcibly silenced opponents, leaving them no choice but to compete in taijutsu, and as it happened, the Hyuga Clan was damn good at taijutsu.
But although both clans had risen to prominence through their eyes, their relationship was hardly good. Even calling them competitors was putting it mildly. It was perfectly normal, then, for Neji to pay such close attention to Sasuke. More importantly, however, Neji had always been called a genius, and Sasuke, the top student in his year, was one too. Geniuses always repelled one another.
Neji stared at Sasuke, and Sasuke stared right back without the slightest courtesy.
After they played a round of whoever-blinks-first-loses, Neji's raspy voice rang out. "Sasuke Uchiha, I look forward to seeing your performance in this exam!"
Sasuke replied coolly, "I hope you won't disappoint me!"
Neji gave a cold smile and said nothing more. Throughout their exchange, he had ignored Naruto and Sakura, as though Sasuke were the only person he could see. Sakura wasn't particularly