Quote Originally Posted by boilerph
The Hokage specific talent in that fight was the ability to create wood not water. The impressive thinng about waht the second did was that he did a high level water jutsu without there being any source of water nearby. Kisame was not able to do this, he had to provide himself with a water source.
If you think about it, it only took 1 more step. The 2nd starting with a high level water attack, and Kisame making his own water with no water source nearby and then using high level water jutsu's. They sound pretty much the same, or atleast very similiar.