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Does anyone else believe that the entirety of the manga up until this point has been preparing both Naruto and Sasuke for their battle against eachother?

For starters, Naruto was the one to fight pain, a master of the rinnegan. He did this by learning and mastering Sage mode, which is the application of using senjutsu to increase the users abilities.

It is heavily implied and believed that Sasuke will obtain the rinngan, seeing as how Madara has shown the rinnegan is a natural progression of the Sharingan.
Naruto now has the skills and the know-how to defeat a rinnegan user in battle. A useful tool when fighting sasuke in the end.

Naruto has also fought Itachi briefly, and has fought alongside Itachi briefly also. During the battle against Nagato, naruto learned and updated his knowledge of the Mangekyo sharingan's powers which are, conveniently, the same powers as Sasuke's.

Sasuke, after killing Itachi, was sent after Killer Bee, one of the first Perfect Jinchuriki. Killer Bee possesses all of the skills that a perfect bijuu can have, mainly the Tailed Beast Bomb, the enhanced speed, the chakra cloak, and the full Bijuu transformation. Since sasuke fought Killer Bee, he now has more knowledge on a Perfect Jinchuriki's power than he did when first fighting Naruto at the Final Valley.

More recently, Sasuke has teamed up with Itachi to fight Kabuto. Kabuto revealed that he has mastered Sage Mode as well. By combining his dna with that of team taka, Kabuto was able to maintain sage mode indefinitely.

Conveniently, sasuke was the man to fight Kabuto, giving him information on Sage mode and possibly applications on how to fight it.


These battle give each man information on how to combat, and defend against the techniques of the other. Mainly,

Naruto- Sage Mode, Bijuu powers Fought Against:
Pain/Nagato- Rinnegan
and Itachi- Mangekyo Sharingan

Sasuke- EMS, Rinnegan(most likely soon) Fought Against:
Killer Bee- Bijuu powers
and Kabuto- Sage Mode

I also find it funny, or ironic that each character learned the basics about eachother's techniques in the opposite order in which the other man learned them. Haha. I just thought that was funny.


After re-reading, i also noticed that not only has Naruto fought a Lightning Release user (The third raikage) but Sasuke has fought a Wind Release user, (Danzo) which is strange as those are the exact elements that the other uses as well... interesting.
 
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Uchiha Josephus

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It's almost as if ... he PLANNED the manga! xd

Joking aside, I think your reasoning is legit. so + rep
 

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sauske and naruto battle may or may not happen or, it will be the last very arc
 

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So you're saying that all the massive battles Sasuke and Naruro have narrowly endured and overcome have all been training for their final climax battle? I've never thought of it like that before! I agree with you 100% dude, awesome thread! +rep
 

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So you're saying that all the massive battles Sasuke and Naruro have narrowly endured and overcome have all been training for their final climax battle? I've never thought of it like that before! I agree with you 100% dude, awesome thread! +rep

I was just thinking about kakashi saying that tobi wasn't using the rinnegan techniques because they already knew how to counter them, so maybe the final battle will be more... "personal(?)" because both naruto and sasuke know how to counter eachother's techniques.
 

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Yup, this was planned from the beginning.
 

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I guess I would disagree about the Kabuto fight. Kabuto and Naruto's sage modes are completely different. The only similarity is that they use nature chakra. Their abilities and uses of sage mode are/were nothing alike.

I would also disagree with the Naruto battling/fighting with Itachi theory. Itachi and Sasuke's only similarity in MS styles is ameretsu. Itachi is much more focused on genjutsu which Sasuke has only been shown to briefly use and that was with Itachi's direction while Sasuke focuses mainly on physical attacks with chakra nature manipulation as his second primary attack style.

So while I do agree that they are heading toward a final epic battle I do not think that fighting Kabuto prepared Sasuke for Naruto's sage mode or that Naruto was prepared for Sasuke by fighting against/with Itachi. The Bee and Nagato fights I will agree with.
 

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Nice! Way to point it out for the others, it sure helped me!
 

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I guess I would disagree about the Kabuto fight. Kabuto and Naruto's sage modes are completely different. The only similarity is that they use nature chakra. Their abilities and uses of sage mode are/were nothing alike.

I would also disagree with the Naruto battling/fighting with Itachi theory. Itachi and Sasuke's only similarity in MS styles is ameretsu. Itachi is much more focused on genjutsu which Sasuke has only been shown to briefly use and that was with Itachi's direction while Sasuke focuses mainly on physical attacks with chakra nature manipulation as his second primary attack style.

So while I do agree that they are heading toward a final epic battle I do not think that fighting Kabuto prepared Sasuke for Naruto's sage mode or that Naruto was prepared for Sasuke by fighting against/with Itachi. The Bee and Nagato fights I will agree with.

Well of course it's not going to be a carbon copy. But it's no coincidence that they fought entirely similar ability using individuals.
 
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