Originally posted by: Xollence
I just hope the Orochimaru fight doesn't get dragged on like the fights in DBZ, where it takes 50 episodes to kill one guy.
the outcome of that hokage vs oro fight, regardless of which one of them wins, is still going to be far too significant for them to conclude that before the other fights that are going on right now. if you know much about the order of plot events, you'd know that the resolution of very important events should happen near the end of the saga. Considering that we know for a fact at least one of the 2 characters are gonna be dead, and that the 2 characters in question happen to be the leader of konoha and one of the 3 legendary sanin, im sure concluding that before concluding the battles that are taking place between a bunch of sand and konoha genins out in the forest would lose some of the impact of the story.