Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25139119-20140705022956/@comment-28861328-20140705171912

The Zeitgeist wrote: For anyone wondering, here's the link where Kishi said Naruto and Sasuke progress as pairs.

He's talking about their story, there. You two are taking him out of context. He specifically says that when he writes about one, he's always thinking about the other, which makes sense, because everytime Naruto makes a significant plot development, the story shifts to Sasuke; case in point, Naruto mastered Kurama, then the scene switched to Sasuke reuniting with Itachi and fighting Kabuto. They have never progressed, power-wise, as a pair, and this interview certainly doesn't support that.