Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25506982-20150218173901

So I'm pretty new here in regard to creating a topic. I apologize in advance if this had been talked about, I didn't see it in the active discussions list nor could I find it typing in a search box. Also, I'm not sure if it belonged in the Vs. Battles board.

Anyway...

There were about 3 times (maybe more) during Part I and the original anime series that they teased a Kakashi/Kabuto battle. They exchanged kunai during Kabuto's "assassination attempt" on Sasuke once. But other than that:

1) Orochimaru told Kabuto that he's about the same level as Kakashi 2) They teased a battle during the end of the Sound/Sand Invasion 3) During the Search for Tsunade arc, Jiraiya also admitted that Kabuto's on par with Kakashi

I must say that I'm disappointed that they never got to do any serious fighting. I was kind of hoping that maybe they'd revisit it during the War, although Kabuto evolved into "Super Orochimaru" (I'd prefer he'd stayed the way he was). But outside of the fillers, they didn't even cross paths in Part II, so I do feel slightly cheated. But I can imagine what could've been.

Anyway, anyone else think that more could've done with them since they teased it quite a bit? Put yourself in the author's shoes, how do you see it going?

Please forgive me if this has been talked about before and if this is the wrong forum.  