Huh, then again, if Sassy-kun doesn't come back, and the kids come back to Tsunade empty handed, it's going to be a bitch.
First Shika's mission, a failure. Two of them dead or almost dead, any of the choices is bad. Not to mention Genma and Raidou in the hospital. They should sue Sasuke.
Anyhow, a good solution would be:
Naruto beats the crap out of Sasuke but gets hurt badly. Sasuke still has some strenght left and goes for the kill. Hinata shows up and beats the crap out of Sasuke cause he is about to kill the kid she loves, and then cures Naruto (insert love scene here).
That has the advantage of being totally humiliating for Sasky level 2, get beaten by someone like Hinata.
Then, they bring Sasuke knocked out cold back to Tsunade where he go to the Intensive anti-Oro Care Unit. But, despite of all Tsunade's effords and knowledge, he escapes.
She says: What the hell, I am not risking more lives of my ninjas for this ungrateful brat.
And life goes on in Konoha...

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Now, how many months already that they'te at this fighting? I will be very frustrated if all this battling was for nothing. Not that I want to see Sasuke saved, but the kids would sure lose their faces if they didn't bring at least the corpse of him.