Originally posted by: hiten mitsurugi
Peeps, what's this talk about fighting at full strength? Have you guys forgotten that we're talking about ninjas? They aren't samurais! They don't duel. They're supposed to be deceitful, "know what's underneath, the underneath" (kakashi and naruto said something like that), they attack from the shadows. Since when is a ninja supposed to fight their opponent, when they're at their best. If that's the case, then whats the point of being a ninja.

Ninjas are supposed to be like the "minute men", capping british soldiers, from the distant wooded areas, as they marched to Lexington. Can you imagine if the "minute men" fought like normal i.e. to the full strength of the british? They would have been decimated.

Hooray for the ninjas, kick'em while they're down.
Theortically, i completly agree with you, but in this point, you're wrong.

Naruto didn't have a ninja fight ever since Haku's arc, infact, they actually said 'the only time a ninja truely meets his opponent is when thier fists meet' (sasuke, fighting Naruto), and fist trading is the last thing a ninja should want. Naruto is an action anime/manga, they could be ninjas, pirates, samurais, demon killers or even robots, it'll still be the same. Heck, they could be matrial artist in orange gis fighting off evil alien matrial artists and touring the universe to find the next 'uber alien'....
just replace chackra with 'energy', 'ki/chi', 'nen', 'reiki', 'madogu', 'yoki', 'devil fruit' or 'arm' and you have a new ongoing hit manga with tons of idiotic fans.

as for the 'minute men', i have no idea who they were.

note: don't start bitching that naruto is nothing like anime/manga 'X' and that i shouldn't put them in the same category.