Quote Originally Posted by Yukimura
Just having a strong attack doesn't make one a jounin level ninja...
No, but fighting evenly with Orochimaru does.

Quote Originally Posted by Yukimura
Naruto was treated like a true threat by an opposing jounin level ninja I don't think there are many that would lose to him. All they'd have to do would be move faster than him and kill him quickly with a kunai to the back of the neck (come to think of it....why didn't Rock Lee do that to Gaara?).
What you said regarding "just" moving faster than the enemy and killing him with a kunai is true of everybody. If Kakashi, say, could move faster than Orochimaru, he could probably kill him that way. Naruto was as fast as Orochimaru.

And anyway, we've already twice seen what happens when Naruto is 'fatally' wounded. (First when Kabuto destroyed his heart muscles and chakra circulatory system and when Sasuke hits him with the Chidori in the chest.) The Kyuubi revives him.

Also, where are you getting that Kyubi uses wind chakra? From the thing about his tail waving creating Tsunamis? From what we've seen so far the Kyubi chakra has always been raw energy that can be harnessed for increased strength & speed, or for directly attacking an enemy (Kyubi Claw, Kyubi Rasengan, Kyubi Death Ball). In all the instances it manifested for a direct attack it had a definate shape but never seemed to have any element to it.
I'm basing this on its often used "yell attacks", where he/it yells and a blast of chakra comes out, just like the Shukaku's yell attack (which was confirmed by Gamabunta to be a wind element attack). I think the Death Ball you mentioned was one of these -- chapter 296 against Orochimaru?

But who knows. Maybe it can use them all and it hasn't been explained yet.