Correct. Sasuke never wanted to kill Deidara anyway. Did anyone notice that Obito had to resort to Intangibility to evade Sasuke, when the guy was keeping up with KCM and BM Naruto? Let the denials come!
Also, the best feat from Minato where he rescued Kushina is beaten by about thrice the distance Sasuke covered when he evaded the mines' blast by exiting right, and we only see about 80% of the explosion on screen:
Deidara is forced to use Shī Tsū because he thinks that 'Sasuke's movements are definitely too fast'.
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Please look at Deidara's size and the Dragon's size.
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Now check out the size of the explosion.
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Sasuke escaped the explosion and Deidara comments on his speed once again, saying 'Damn, he's fast!'.
Best Minato Body-flicker feat:
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- Note the size here. The size of the cliff and Obito's head. Now compare it to Dragon size, along with Deidara's size and the size of explosion:
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Note: Minato covered the distance exactly from Kyuubi's arm to that cliff.
That's 'Literally' about thrice the size of distance Minato covered.
Not to mention the fact that none of the Kages in the summit - bar Onoki - took Sasuke alone. Not a single one! That's Sasuke for ya.
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"I'm out of chakra" *does boss summon, genjutsu's him and gets inside in 1 second literally*
That's undeniably an asspull
I would love to see a panel for the bold, when he was using additional chakra to keep Orochimaru suppressed. The rest happened on-panel? I must have missed that.