that could be nice, but i rather see something like this:

Naruto completly owns Sasuke in the fight (and I mean own without getting beat up a million of times, like how Vegita owned dweeb-weeb in DBZ), and when Sasuke sends out the chidori, Naruto blocks him with a rasengan and throws Sasuke right into the waterfall, and then he believes sasuke dies and goes back to the villiage to report mission failture, and at the last page we see Sasuke's hand popping out from the water, in a Shreader-like scene (serious spelling issues, but you know who i mean, the villian from TNMT).

I know that theory loses the 'Naruto losing once in a while' factor, but we'll get to see Sasuke having his ass handed over to him, and we'll have a plot excuse why the leaf shouldn't further focus on saving Sasuke in the next arc, while Sasuke is trainning with Orochimaru.