Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4271790-20141023105023/@comment-24204714-20141023115321

Elveonora wrote: Also Yin Kurama surely ain't the best strategist, is it? ... Good job helping Sasuke ^_ He might have let him absorb it on purpose.

Anyway, the whole point of this chapter is just to make Sasuke say that Naruto is his friend.