Chiyo, let me guess that you're a girl, right?

there's no way that Sasuke will realize his mistake now, if you would have paid any bit of attention to what happened during the last 45 chapters you would have known that too...
Sasuke has to get away from the leaf village, we've seen him taking every single plotical step in order to do that (heck, he even died for that...), to have him come back now would be the equivelent of bringing Neji's father back to life - pointless and stupid...

there are lot's of ways for Naruto to win and still have Sasuke escape, my favorite is "sasuke is assumed dead", becuase it allowes the Sasuke plotline to rest a bit...


and by the way, did anyone else find Jing's scenrio awefully resembling DBZ 217? i mean, Sasuke being Vegita and Hitting Naruto (goku) from the behined in the middle of thier fight?