The thing is, if the anime is going to pad, then need to pad with things that anime is good at. Action scenes.

Instead of having people standing there for 10 minute, you could have them making and dodging attacks while they talk. You know. Have shit movie. In manga, they only ever show like 3 moves in a fight. And the fight is over.

In anime, you need to add more than that. That's why Naruto vs. Sasuke 2 was so awsome. Like half of the fight was stuff added for the anime, and that made the fight freakin awsome.