so naruto finally meets sasuke and passes out from hyperventilation! but not before revealing that they would both die at the conclusion of their next encounter!
do you think this is because sasuke has somehow managed to power up immensely with no training (to be able to rival nine tail chakras and force a draw???) or because naruto is going to suicide upon killing him??? or because... naruto and sasuke are actually the same person!!!
naruto states that at his current level, he would not be able to kill sasuke. why would a naruto operating at full strength not have the ability to finish a 1% sasuke with depleted chakra pools (this is assuming tobi/zetsu do not cheat!)
it would seem naruto's abilities are terribly exaggerated if the fox does nothing more than level the playing field for him. is naruto just a non-factor blessed with good genes?
what do u think???
Ur missing some key things here and you took naruto's ad-mission too literally.
Its true he said he can't kill sasuke but he also said he won't die by sasuke's hand either. And considering sasuke now to naruto is about proving something to himself that he can bring him back to his side there's only one logical conclusion.
The only logical conclusion to all this is that Naruto knows he isn't strong enough to CAPTURE sasuke. Because as we all know it takes greater power to capture someone than simply killing them. Jiraiya said this when they wanted to capture itachi so they got more people to search for him.
Try and read between the lines. Also at that point in time naruto didn't have the fox's spiritual energy to access at will. Naruto now has far more power now, things have changed and Naruto wasn't talking about who's stronger when he said that. Look at their fight at the valley of the end, naruto was only trying to prove something by scratching his forehead band while sasuke attacked him. If naruto did the same he would knocked out sasuke and therefore would have been brought back to konoha and the shippuuden series wouldn't have started. Naruto this time around wants to prove something to sasuke but doesn't want to be the one knocked down.
See where this is going now.