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I was just thinking about this last night actually. I finished reading a book where the advertised protagonist was equally sharing the spotlight with another character who wasn't even mentioned by name in the synopsis. I was thinking about how they're both equal protagonists and compared to other media with deuteragonists.

With Naruto, Sasuke is out of the picture for the entire first arc of Shippuden. Then he doesn't appear until the end of the second arc. He doesn't really become a prominent in-focus character again until Orochimaru tries to take his body.