1. What are the other advanced (mixed elements) nature types that haven't been shown yet?
Prediction: They will be revealed by some new characters possibly in Naruto's age group.
2. What is the background story of the land of iron, the samurai, and the characters that live there?
Prediction: There will probably be characters who are from here that will play a part in the forth ninja war.
3. Who are the other seven swordsmen of the mist that haven't been introduced yet?
Prediction: The rest of them will be revealed and play a part in the forth ninja war.
4. What are the other smaller ninja villages that we have not seen yet along with their leaders?
Prediction: The leaders of these villages will probably be apart of an alliance with Madara and Kabuto during the war with the exception of the rain village. This includes the sound (through Kabuto), grass, waterfall, hot water (Hidan's village), and other villages that haven't been reveled on the map of the naruto world yet. These villages troops would be apart of Madara's army.
5. Will there be any new Akatsuki members? (the resurrected members are nothing but mindless zombies and Madara would need an army to fight the five great shinobi nations)
Prediction: I think that the new Akatsuki members will probably be ten artificially created minions (like a mixture of the Espada from Bleach and the Homunculi from Fullmetal Alchemist) of Madara witch will get the rings that are used for the statue and will represent the aspects and reasons for going to war. (peace, love, ideology, spite, religion, resources, whim, land, and whatever Sasori's and Orochimaru's reasons where)
6. How will the other Jinchuriki be apart of the plot without just being in a colored group picture?
Prediction: I think that Madara would use the corpses of those jinchuriki as puppet's to use on the battle field. I also believe that Kisame would attack Naruto and Bee and succeed in capturing Bee and extracting the eight tails from him. Not to mention that I believe that Madara would send Zetsu to assassinate Gaara and have a Zetsu clone take Gaara's place as a spy for intel on the the five great nations battle plans and strategies and counter them.
7. Will there be any characters in Naruto's age group from the other five great shinobi villages that are from a clan with a kekkei genkai?
Prediction: I think there will be three squads from each five great village. For the sand, mist, cloud, and stone, there would be two squads with three members from a clan of their respective village and one squad with three normal ninja not from a clan. An example for the first category would be Team Asuma and Team Kurenai. Excluding the senseis, the squad members are from a clan with unique jutsu of there own. An example of the second category would be Team Baki from the sand, Team Bee from the cloud, and Team Guy (Neji is a special case or exception because he's from the same clan as Hinata) from the leaf. Excluding the senseis, the squad members do not come from a clan with unique jutsu and trained hard to earn there skills.
8. Where are Suigetsu and Jugo?
Prediction: I think they'll reunite with Karin or something.
9. What was in the coffin that made Madara frighten to his bones?
Prediction: Possibly a new enemy that would be the true final villain. Or maybe somebody besides The Sage of the Six Paths or Nagato who had the rinnegan. Maybe Madara had an accomplice with him on the night the nine tails attacked the hidden leaf village. Maybe it was that accomplice that was in the coffin who had a rinnegan.
10. Will Naruto learn more wind jutsu, sage jutsu, rasengan variations, nine tails control, and the flying thunder god jutsu?
Prediction: Just a straight forward yes. Naruto has already shown some variations of he rasengan but was even more on the way. When he completely learns control over the nine tails chakra, I think that Killer Bee will teach him those taijutsu attacks that he and the forth raikage know. Naruto should really expand on his arsenal of wind jutsu so he can get an upper hand on Sasuke's chidori and be better at wind manipulation. Naruto would probably learn some weapon based jutsu. Also, Naruto should learn some sage jutsu displayed by Jiraiya, Fukasaku, and Shima such as needle jizo variations, toad oil variations, long tongue variations, sonic croak variations, summoning toads more often, using frog kata more often, and should be able to merge with Fukasaku and Shima now that Naruto is close to achieving control of the nine tails chakra. Not to mention that Naruto is going to need the flying thunder god jutsu in order to defeat Madara in battle.
11. Will the rookies get more development fight wise? (Shikamaru,Ino,Choji,Kiba,Hinata,Shino,Lee,Neji, and Tenten)
Prediction: I think they will during the war. I think that the rookies will get to show off a bunch of unique jutsu and for some of them, they might show some transformations of some sorts. For example, Shikamaru would probably have a cloak over his body that would probably turn it into a body shaped shadow, Choji would have that chakra butterfly wing form that makes him skinny, Lee would have his eight gates form, Neji would probably have a form where he releases the seal on his forehead forming a third byakugan eye which appears on his forehead making him stronger and increases his field of vision but would risk death by draining his chakra reserves, and Kiba would probably do a combination transformation with Akamaru where they transform into a two headed werewolf.
12. What is the power that Itachi gave Naruto?
Prediction: Probably a temporary sharingan or something. There are three possibly scenarios that I think would most likely happen. Either it will save Naruto's life from certain death by the hands of Sasuke's mangekyo sharingan if he uses tsukuyomi or amaterasu, send a projection of Itachi himself to try to redeem Sasuke and stop his quest for revenge with Sasuke refusing to stop by destroying the projection, or a mixture of both.
13. What was that ability that Danzo used to control minds? (possibly a mangekyo ability like Kakashi's kamui)
Prediction: Assuming if Shisui and Obito are brothers, Danzo's ability is a mangekyo ability and this is Kakashi's year, I think that Kabuto would resurrect Danzo, Have him fight Kakashi, Kakashi could beat Danzo, implant Danzo's sharingan into his own and get the eternal mangekyo sharingan.
14. What is Kushina's backstory?
Prediction: We already got the hole thing.
15. What was the group of cloud ninjas that were tracking down the second hokage?
Prediction: Possibly a different anbu black ops division unique to the cloud village.
16. What's the background of the crime underworld, black market, criminals, mercenaries, smugglers, bounty hunters, bodyguards, assassins, pirates, and rouge ninja?
Prediction: They could play a part in the forth ninja war or a group of them could kidnap Sakura and Naruto would save her.
17. Is there another continent overseas far more advanced than the ninja countries?
Prediction: I think it would play a part in the forth ninja war and be on Madara's side.
18. What are the other religions and philosophies of the naruto universe besides jashin and the will of fire if any at all?
Prediction: I think that there would be a religion that is the polar opposite to jashin and maybe a will of *insert country element here* for the other five great nations or just a negative outlook on the ninja world.
19. Kishimoto said that he was going to make Sakura more heroic but he hasn't done that yet so when?
Prediction: I think when he said he would make Sakura more heroic, I think he would have her do a few heroic things and have a little more fights.
20. Who are Kabuto's other pawns besides the undead Akatsuki members? (possibly old allies and enemies like Zabuza,Haku,Kimimaro,Sakon and Ukon,Tayuya,Kidomaru,Jirobo,Danzo,Hashirama,Tobirama,Hiruzen,Minato,Chiyo,Asuma,
Jiraiya,ect.)
Prediction: They could be in Madara's army and it would give dead characters a chance to show off more of there abilities.
21. What is "that jutsu" of which Jiraiya and the toads speak of?
Prediction: Probably the flying thunder god jutsu.
22. Is Naruto a descendent of the Senju clan? If so, would he be able to use the wood style jutsu?
Prediction: Maybe?
23. Is Sakura apart of some kind of clan?
Prediction: I highly doubt that she's from a clan with a special unique power.
24. Will Sakura learn some water jutsu, genjutsu, slug summon, poison jutsu, chakra scalpel, acid slime jutsu, and slug division?
Prediction: I highly doubt the last two but the other ones seem plausible. She could have learned some poison jutsu from Shizune and some other stuff from Tsunade including the slug summoning contract. She could probably learn some genjutsu and her elemental affinity (probably water) from Kakashi.
25. Is there a sage mode like state for people who summon slugs?
Prediction: I highly doubt it.
26. Does Minato have enemies that would want to harm his loved ones? (Naruto and his loved ones for example)
Prediction: They could want revenge from Minato and try to kidnap Sakura and lure Naruto to them.
27. Is the Raikage going to get his arm back?
Prediction: I hope he does somehow. Either by having it regenerate by some kind of powerful medical ninjutsu or by replacing it with some metal prophetic arm similar to the automail from fullmetal alchemist.
28. Are Naruto and Sakura going to get a weapon?
Prediction: Possibly a bow staff for Naruto and a battle axe for Sakura.
29. What are the other curse marks besides the heaven and earth curse marks?
Prediction: I would think the curse marks of Jirobo, Kidomaru, Sakon, and Tayuya would have names like wind curse mark, lightning curse mark, water curse mark, and fire curse mark.
30. The dog of Kiba's mother talked so can Akamaru talk?
Prediction: I think he might because that would be cool.
31. Does Naruto have fan girls? (I mean in his own village, not the fandom)
Prediction: He probably will have fan girls like Sasuke but Naruto would have them for actually doing something and maybe for his looks too.
32. Is Sakura going to be kidnapped?
Prediction: I think yes because Sakura and Kushina are a lot alike and it would be an excellent parallel. I think that Kushina's story of how she and Minato fell in love seems to be foreshadowing that Sakura would get kidnapped by a group of Minato's enemies that would want revenge and maybe her genjutsu abilities. Naruto would save her and compliment her forehead and she would realize that it was Naruto that day at the bench and fall in love with Naruto all over again. Though she would be mad until Naruto explanes himself.
33. What is Sasuke's ultimate fate?
Prediction: I think he will be exhausted from a fight with someone (possibly Naruto) and Madara would finish him off by killing him, sending him to his laboratory through his teleportation jutsu, and absorbing him by implanting Sasuke's eyes into his own forehead thus completing his final form which I think would be Madara with long hair, one eye on his forehead which would look like Sasuke's eternal mangekyo sharingan, and a bunch of sharingan eyes all over his body like Danzo had on his arm.
34. What is Naruto hiding from Sakura and the rookies about how he can't beat Sasuke?
Prediction: I'm not sure if this is the result from reading the spoiler of the chapter, but I don't believe that Naruto has given up on saving Sasuke. He probably says that he can't beat Sasuke because he doesn't want to kill him. I think Naruto said they would fight when Sasuke attacks the hidden leaf village because he probably saw it as an opportunity to try and convince Sasuke to come back since he would technically be on the ruins of the hidden leaf village. I think that the promise and his bond with Sasuke are clouding his sense of judgment. He doesn't seem to want to let go of the past and still seems to cling to that bond with Sasuke. He probably still thinks that Sakura still has a crush on Sasuke and wants to keep the promise. To me personally, Naruto doesn't seem to be the type of guy that understands that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. He has this mentality that he can't even be hokage if he can't even save one friend. That's fine for being a compassionate leader and all but what if that friend is an international criminal that threatens the lives of thousands of people is wanted dead by the entire world and doesn't want to be saved. When your a leader, you have to put the thousands of lives above the life of a criminal who was once your friend. A leader has to make tough choices and if Naruto can't do that, then he's not fit to be hokage.
35. Is Hidan going to get out of that hole?
Prediction: I think either Madara or Kabuto would dig him out of that hole. Kishi said that he was slowly dying due to malnutrition but he didn't really say anything about it staying that way so it could be possible.
These are my reasons why I don't believe that this is the last arc. They could be used for potential future story arcs. I could be wrong but only time will tell. Please feel free to debate.
EDIT: I will be editing this topic once in a while when more questions come up and some predictions to go along with them.
Edited by K9ofChaos, 30 July 2010 - 08:30 PM.