Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24168857-20141106193428/@comment-1940096-20141112042526

Gemnist wrote: @Raze In an interview published by Viz in June 2006, Kishi said that he had the final chapter, including the text and story, completed, although he didn't know when exactly he was going to publish that chapter since there was still a lot of things to resolve. Through some guesstimation, the interview was made around the time the Hidan and Kakuzu or Itachi Pursuit Arc was getting published. That makes sense, since it was around the latter that Kishi started wrapping things up, albeit VERY slowly. That was about Sasuke vs Naruto only. Nothing else.