Quote Originally Posted by DB_Hunter
This was supposed to be a sad year for Kakashi and a year where Sasuke was developed. He actually said that Naruto's development will have to wait until all this is done, and since the year is almost up I think whatever is going to happen with Kakashi will happen sooner rather than later.

So far we have seen Sasuke develop, and now Kakashi is beginning to get airtime. Maybe someone or some people close to Kakashi will die, like Gai. And we can also assume that everything Naruto is learning right now with the old frog doesn't really count as development in Kishi's eyes.

Now that either means that Naruto is going to go through another whole round of training soon after this, or that his character is finally going to get developed personality wise. I suspect it is going to be the latter.
Wasn't Sakura supposed to have a big event also?
Like her master dieing... so we can get rid of the last Sannin.