Originally posted by: Noonan
Actually - re-reading the chapter doesn't it look like they BOTH pulled their attacks?
Sasuke's hit should have blown Naruto's liver into the water Country.
Narutos Hit should have qualified sasuke for the sequel to sleepy hollow.
Instead Naruto is KO and Sasuke has a scratch on his armor.
I think the frame with them doing the finger promise thing was supposed to be both of them realizing that they couldn't kill each other - in the end they were friends, not enemies, even if Sasuke is still leaving the leaf to persue his goals.