Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25498052-20141004162612/@comment-4271790-20141103213632

TheUltimate3 wrote: SuperSaiyaMan wrote: Except they weren't. The manga repeatedly emphasized that Naruto was holding back and exhausted. If they were equals, Naruto wouldn't have gotten all those instances that he wasn't fighting to his full potential. Even Sasuke called him out multiple times on it.

And where did it say Naruto was holding back? In fact, I remember Sasuke saying to Naruto in chapter 696, "So.. it looks like you finally feel like killing me," and the fact that Naruto was going to hit an exhausted Sasuke with a Rasengan before tripping in chapter 697, but that's none of my business. Carry on.