Kishi planned a Tsunade vs Pain battle

[TheEvilOne]

So I found this interview

Spoiler

P: presentator
Mk: masashi kishimoto

P:the 10th anniversary of naruto is very soon ,is there any gift ?

MK:well,a coloured poster will be enough ...

P:what do you prepare fo us for 2009 in naruto?

MK:the story is getting hotter .. there is some characters needing a story developement like the raikage ,hachibi,kisame,zetsu ...and others .. the year of 2009 will be full of surprises ...

P:we all know about the changes that you've made for the last chapters ,can you talk about them ?

MK:yeah,well,i decided to change some stuff in the last chapters so as the battle between NARUTO and pain will be fair
at the time i've decided that NAruto won't come back to konoha while pain is there ,and i choosed to give to tsunade the "honor" to give the first punch to Yahiko . but in our weekly reunion i've been convinced to make naruto return and in order to make the battle fair I cancelled the punch because as you know tsunade's punch is too hard ... and made all the pain in their perfect form to begin the battle from 0


P:so naruto is coming back ?

MK:yep.

P:Is the amaterasu , given by itachi to sasuke the only legendary jutsu?

MK:It's a secret .. but I can tell you that the tsukiyome is starting showing up

P: who is stronger ? NAruto or sasuke ?

MK:hhh.. well that's a hard question . the world now is dividing in 2 groups Naruto and sasuke .any answer would ruin my life (hhh..)
now you saw how sasuke is strong but you haven't seen anything from NAruto now when you will see the battle between Pain and Naruto you can compare them ...
Naruto and sasuke from the childhood are rivals and they will be for the eternity so even if one is stronger than the other the difference between them won't be remarquable!

P:Is that true that shodaime hits madara's left eye so he lost controll on kyuubi ?

MK:these are just predictions .from the chapter ..well let's see .. in the 200s ..i think. When naruto hit sasuke into madara's eye
but i will take this into consideration !

P:NAruto or yondaime ?

MK:Minato is a legend . but the name of the manga is "next gen" so Naruto must surpass his father ..

P:is itachi showing up again ?

MK:yes, but not as an alive person
like kakashi gaiden i'm thinking of an "itachi NAgori"(memories of itachi) but unfortenetly i don't have the time for it

P: One important question :is kakashi dead?

MK: if I answer this question i'll kill the manga so let the answer for the manga


P:Now let's have enough from Naruto .
Is there any new projects ?

MK:..

# Just some random fact #​

 

[Gerkak]

Interesting. Tsunade wouldn't have stood a chance if she fought pain any way. Even naruto couldn't defeat pain on his own

 

[Darkboy85]

Do you have a source for that specific interview?

 

[NSUNSR]

Fight wouldn't last longer than 10 seconds, so Kishi scrapped the idea.

 

[OfficialRikudouSennin]

lol.......

 

[Schɛrzσ]

The interview is legit.
Tsunade was supposed to land a hit on Deva Path on the roof of the Hokage building but the editors convinced Kishi to remove that part so that Naruto vs Pain could occur sooner, till the new WSJ year.
Other than that, Kishi also wanted to spend more time on Hidan/Kakuzu and their backgrounds but editors made him shorten the fights so that the story could move to Sasuke sooner.

 

[SIR UZMAKIMADARA]

Tsunade would be dead with low diff

 

[-immortal-]

Kishi realised, That Pain would've negged Tsunade and she would die. But she couldn't yet for plot

 

[Venomous Cobra]

" the first punch " he wanted to make tsunade fight pain and then get raped so that naruto can come and finish him while his weak -_- I am glad that didn't happen it would be so whacky

And for all of you tsunade fans saying she can beat pain , no she can't obviously CT would solo , black rods gg bansho tense ggggg

Granny is one of my favorite so please don't fanboy -_-

 

[cafe123]

It was perfect the way it went.

 

[Rike Senju]

I agree with all of the above. Kishi needed tsunade alive, so that didn't happen.

 

[Torche]

The fight was still "unfair". How much chakra would that mass Shinra Tensei have taken? Also, Tendou was restricted because of it.

 

[Bantos]

I wish we'd have seen this. Obviously this would've ended in Pain retreating from the village, since Naruto wouldn't have fought him there.

I'm positive Tsunade can take any path 1 on 1(bar deva if CT off the bat, but that isn't in character).

" the first punch " he wanted to make tsunade fight pain and then get raped so that naruto can come and finish him while his weak -_- I am glad that didn't happen it would be so whacky

And for all of you tsunade fans saying she can beat pain , no she can't obviously CT would solo , black rods gg bansho tense ggggg

Granny is one of my favorite so please don't fanboy -_-

The fact is that only thing doing anything against Tsunade is CT. :|
You have no way of knowing how the battle would've went. All we know that Tsunade would go into a coma nonetheless, but Pain would've retreated also, as Naruto would've fought him elsewhere.

It could be that he had chosen to go after Pain to get revenge for Jiraiya and Tsunade.

EDIT// If this were Orochimaru people wouldn't have a problem with it, even if Tsunade does have pretty much better feats in everything. Same goes with Jiraiya. :|

 

[TheEvilOne]

I agree with all of the above. Kishi needed tsunade alive, so that didn't happen.

Not really, as Kishi said 'Tsunade punches too hard'.

 

[Xāvî1]

I need a confirmed link to believe that!!

 

[Rainbow Dash]

Gee, I wonder why he didn't go through with the idea.

 

[Bantos]

Gee, I wonder why he didn't go through with the idea.

Because Tsunade punches too hard. He said it right there. No need to wonder.

 

[AlphaScythian]

More like kishi planned on killing tsunade GG