Naruto Discussions (Anime only!)

[Mikey]

Naruto ran out of Chakra/energy.

That's why he lost.

Hm. Pretty odd considering he's the one with the huge chakra supply, both naturally and with
Kyuubi.

Sasuke did manage to pierce Naruto's shirt with his hand at the end, but the wound Naruto suffered there wasn't that bad.
After the fight, you don't even see any blood, just a hole in his shirt.

True. But the Kyuubi can also heal Naruto's wounds. I think whatever damage he took from the Chidori, Kyuubi began the healing process quickly.

Also, keep in mind the whole time that Naruto was chasing after Sasuke, fighting the Sound Four, etc, Sasuke was resting comfortably in a barrel.

Naruto was chasing after Sasuke, but his only fight started against Kimimaro. No one else in the Sound Four, before he caught up to Sasuke. And even then, he's supposed to have the largest stamina/chakra supply in his age group. I don't believe for a second that chasing after Sasuke, and then his brief encounter with Kimimaro tired him out that much. Also, Sasuke went through some sort of dying process in there, and we don't know if it had any toll on him, other than giving him access to CS2.

So, it wasn't exactly a fair fight.

How exactly wasn't it a fair fight? If you wanna talk about fair fighting, then we can also mention how Naruto used Kyuubi's powers to kick Sasuke's butt, while Sasuke wasn't even transformed. I think that's a bit unfair also.

Naruto also lost quite a bit of Chakra to Jirobou too, although since that happened early in the chase, he probably replenished most of that by the time he caught up to Sasuke.

Indeed. But it wasn't just Naruto's chakra that was being drained. And really, Naruto has the same amount of chakra that 30% Kisame had, which was even enough to fight Team Gai, and force Gai to open up 6 gates on Kisame's clone. Naruto had more than enough chakra for that time.

But then he also wasted a lot of Chakra in his fight with Sasuke too, especially during the middle of the fight.

Is that when he goes 1 tail and attacks Sasuke in his normal form? If so, he didn't use up any chakra. Kyuubi provides Naruto with damn near almost infinite chakra.

In other words, since he didn't know about the power of CS2, he underestimated Sasuke.

Very true. I'm sure Naruto wasn't expecting Sasuke to even things out.

I also believe that until Sasuke went CS2, Naruto wasn't being serious (partly because he didn't want to seriously injure or kill Sasuke) or he wouldn't have wasted so much chakra and would have relied more on strategy and not just on sheer power, from the beginning of the fight.

Naruto was prepared to do whatever he needed to to bring Sasuke back to Konoha by force.

IMO, all things being equal, Naruto + 1 tails = Sasuke + CS2 if both are being serious and have full chakra at the beginning of the fight.

I must disagree. So, I guess we both agree to disagree? Unless you'd like discuss it more.