hey there jabz, love reading every single one of your posts dude! a lot of insight seems to go in them and it all adds up. heck, sometimes i wonder if your the man kishi himself haha!yo mystikk, howdy!!!
yea, i also see sasuke alive after the manga. but it will be a long wait for that end.
the "reunion" of the characters through this art of edo tensei should not be an alarm to us all re Naruto manga's fitting end. the characters' individual "techs" are what we witness as showcases in this 4th shinobi war. not the ending. no no, not a premonition of the ending. this is why we have the current war -- but personally, it is not the "real" war madara mentioned before.
sasuke, definitely is Naruto's friend. and Naruto is sasuke's friend. it will stay that way til the end.
..as for the Naruto-sasuke battle at the valley of death, i believe Naruto was the winner. we saw sasuke emerged the last one standing. yes, Naruto was down. that was because Naruto never intended to kill if not "contain" sasuke. yet we saw sasuke's forehead protector "scratched" as Naruto intended - with sasuke challenged Naruto before that Naruto couldn't even touch sasuke's protector.
..sasuke knew Naruto was getting stronger by the day. he left konoha knowing orochimaru will make him stronger --- faster, faster than how Naruto improved by the day.
...sasuke didn't kill Naruto because he knew Naruto had the strength to "kill" him that day. and he didn't kill Naruto because Naruto "IS HIS FRIEND".
wat you say mystikk?
i agree with you about the bond sasuke and naruto share, a very unique bond, rare aswell, the only one of its kind in my opinion in the series, far greater than the lee-gai or even tsunade-sakura one. i say the tsunade-sakura bond as well because even though we havent seen much of those 2 together we have witnessed small amounts of scenes when those 2 really come together. as seen in the first series in the filler arc containing mizuki when tsunade claims sakura might be an even greater machine than shizune, when tsunade claims sakura is one of the very few people to have her complete trust, during the pain arc when sakura held her masters hand and an emotional scene took place and overwhelming joy sakura showed when tsunade woke from her coma.
even though i waffled on about them STUFF THEM! i highly doubt the final fight of sasuke and naruto will be shown in this war, i think this war will have many casualties, which naruto will see himself. this will further reinforce his determination to bring forth peace to the ninja world and his determination to bring sasuke to the light.
i am no fan of kabuto either. i hate him. he's a weasel who to me, is all words no action, a sarcastic rat who will suffer a great deal when madara finally loses it with him. he runs from a lot of situations and if he claims to be so great would confront his enemies rather than run from them. i think kabuto's "that jutsu" is definitley connected to the mysterious coffin there is so much hype about. that may be his one trump card against madara and as long as madara finds out what that jutsu is then madara simply has to wait and keep his cool against kabuto.