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But if he did fight without his main weapon, i think it would be more suspicious.
Once again, everytime there's a freakin episode without a battle half of you people insist on calling it "filler" or "boring" or whatever. Holy shit!!! The series isn't ALL FIGHTING. Episode 63 was a great episode! I mean, think of all the "BORING TALK" accomplished:
It really wrapped up Neji's struggle well, now we know thew truth behind the Hyuuga....
We got to see the towns reaction to Naruto's victory...some girls think he's cute, and Sakura gets a bit jealous..
We got HUGE hints about the Sand/Sound Plan, and we know there's something important about Gaara's match with Sasuke....and we know Hokage suspects Kazekage now...
That's alot for 20 mins. Suck it up and quit bitching, it was awesome.