that is foolish thinking if you think naruto was just gona sit there and die... naruto was unwilling to battle at the time, so he was using the same weak fighting techs just like sasuke... neither were fighting for real, but naruto was far from beat, he always takes some blows just cause he thinks he can... sasuke could not solo team 7 w/o sharingan in a fight... in that encounter wen everyone was looking out for sasuke's health for naruto's sake, yes he had the better altercation, hardly something i would call "solo'ing team 7"...