Yeah. Neji also had a great death-scene but I like him so I´m glad he survived.
But as Flexx wrote; Chouji had done his part. He should have died. Especially considering the his "death". The only time Naruto made me shed some tears. And there´s also so many characters in Naruto now and I think the story is going to be spoiled if every single one of Naruto´s former classmates is going to survive.
I´m kind of surprised that no one has written Yellow Flash/>Yondaime yet.