Originally posted by: Mut@t@
EDIT: for not being able to make assumptions on sasuke's lvl 2...am i the only person that realizes that sasuke is an overall better ninja than lee and will always be from now on? lee had his 15 min of fame early in the story, now it's more focused on sasuke and naruto. of course, lee is better at taijutsu than sasuke, but sasuke's nin and gen makes up for it. and about the speed thing...IF sasuke was about the same speed as lee was without the weights (it must be pretty close since you wouldn't say someones' abilities are about the same if they are far apart), then isn't it obvious that sasuke must've increased in all areas since he is at level 2 now? he had about the same speed with lee without the weights before using lvl 1 curse seal, so he's gotta be faster now with lvl 2.
totally right, let me reinforce that.

When Sasuke just got the lvl 1 seal, he was able to carry both Sakura and Naruto, and to escape Zaku's ultimate air blow skill, without any troubles. that was when he was still 'slow'.
now, he's about the same speed of lee (about means almost equal, just like my cat is about the same speed of any other domestic house cat), and not only that he has a seal, it's also a lvl 2 seal, which gives you TEN times your original strentgh (so it probably includes speed), which means that Sasuke now is FASTER than every other genin, and most of the jounins...

I'd like to say once again that Lee's appearence was completly uncalled for, you can say he's there to fight Kimimaru and give Naruto an option to fight Sasuke, but then you make Kimimaru unrellevent, since he already is messing up the plotline, and if he loses here, it means that the story could be the same if Sasuke escaped while Tayuya was holding the bucket and Shikamaru would have been the one to order Naruto to go after Sasuke.