1. Kakashi vs. Zabuza

2. Lee vs. Kimimaro

3. Naruto vs. Sasuke

4. Naruto vs. Neji

5. Orochimaru vs. Hiruzen

6. Kakashi vs. Itachi

Kakashi vs Zabuza for me

Can you really consider Kakashi vs Itachi a fight considering all itachi did was put Kakashi under Genjutsu

I'm only realizing now how goated pre-shippuden Naruto was. We got one or two new kekkei genkai every season, a whole new cast of characters, and summoning jutsu was actually a cool and relevant thing.

1. Naruto VS. Sasuke

2. Kakashi VS. Zabuza

3. Hiruzen VS. Orochimaru

4. Rock Lee VS. Kimimaro

5. Naruto VS. Neji

6. Kakashi VS. Itachi

1. Naruto vs. Sasuke - In the anime, I absolutely loved this fight because it was a straight fight without flashbacks getting in the way for the most part 😭 Not saying that the flashbacks weren't important, the anime just painfully dragged them out sometimes.

2. Lee vs. Kimimaro - This fight was literally just straight hands. Drunken Fist Lee should be one of the Gates on his own 😭

3. Kakashi vs. Zabuza - Reread that fight the other day; it was great. You know a fight is good if it still captivates you long after seeing it.

4. The tug-of-war ending was so painfully dragged out in the anime 😭 I remember just begging for the fight to just end already. The animation was still great though, and that part where Hiruzen talks about the Will of Fire was epic. The manga version was just as great, especially since the end wasn't dragged out lol.

5. Kakashi vs. Itachi - Kakashi was actually putting up a decent fight against Itachi and Kisame before the former pulled out Tsukuyomi. That fight really showed us just how powerful Itachi was. Man, Kakashi saying that Uchihas weren't all that really came back to bite him in the butt 😭. This fight was only the beginning lol.

6. Naruto vs Neji - Let's be real, this was barely a fight. It was literally Neji just beating up Naruto and his clones until Naruto was forced to draw on Kurama's chakra. I consider the actual start of the fight to be when Naruto clashed with Neji's Eight Trigrams Rotation lol. That was the coolest part of it for me.

Yeah tbh not sure how Naruto defeated neji but yeah the others are cool.

If you have orichimaru vs hiruzen what about the edo senju brothers vs hiruzen( that's the first time we got to see what they were made of and a hint at how strong they were)

@Fanking People tend to include it as part of Hiruzen's fight against Orocimaru, since he was the one who summoned them and made them fight on his behalf.

Orochimaru VS Hiruzen Sarutobi