Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25139119-20140705022956/@comment-28861328-20140719034714

Most people choose Naruto because he is, in fact, stronger. Sasuke has been shown, even as of the recent arc, multiple times in fact, to be visibly angered by how powerful Naruto is and has twice acknowledged Naruto's greater control over chakra than himself. Your argument is exactly what is wrong with the perspective. You look at their techniques and try to come up with lucrative fan fiction on how the battle would take place.

What you fail to acknowledge, as if you haven't been watching this past arc, is that Naruto gains the advantage on his targets by being extremely unpredictable. Kaguya, a woman of few words, and one who is rarely surprised, was stunned motionless by Naruto's bizarre tactics, earning her a slug to the face. Naruto also pulled this on Sasuke when he burst from underneath the river in the Valley of the End with a legion of clones and literally beat the living hell out of Sasuke as a result.

Or how about Madara? Naruto was on the verge of death and had, for all intents and purposes, lost. Then suddenly appears, kicks a Gudodama away, and then pulls a LAVA Rasenshuriken out of his ass, which resulted in Madara getting fried, and the Shinju being torn completely in two.

Pain? Naruto used HIMSELF as a decoy, turning hundreds of clones into rocks, allowing him to force Pain to repel them, allowing himself a final shot at the villain with his Rasengan.

Naruto's power doesn't lie in his strength, his chakra, or his tailed beats. It lies in his ability to completely pull these crazy ass maneuvers from out of his ass, to the point where even the most analytical of shinobi, such as Sasuke, cannot predict what he is going to do next. Hence his nickname as Konoha's Number One Most Unpredictable Ninja. Naruto is the walking definition of "flying by the seat of your pants". Unless Sasuke learns to think as much outside the box as Naruto, Naruto will always win, and I really don't care what power-ups he gains that would make anyone think otherwise. He's a lot like Goku, whom he was based on, in that manner. His sheer idiocy becomes an ironic brilliance in combat.

That's just how it is.