Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24098614-20141114234521/@comment-1292715-20141115201936

@Kimazuu Well, to be fair, Kishimoto had always planned to end the series with a Naruto and Sasuke fight, though that probably became difficult as soon as the war started. Personally, I think it would've been more fitting if they were fighting on friendly terms, they immediately go into their superforms, they charge at each other, and then the chapter just stopped right there, leaving the outcome to our imagination, and then the epilogue. I can see why some people think the fight was unnecessary, and, if anything, Kishimoto just made an excuse to get the ending he wanted. But still, I didn't think it was that bad. He subtly built it up by making Sasuke's goal in the battle against the Ten-Tails ambiguous. You get the idea that Sasuke want's to protect what his brother sacrificed everything for, but his ruthlessness made you wondering how exactly he plans on doing it. Some of us still saw the battle coming, so it's not like it came out of nowhere.