Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-1894786-20160612045444/@comment-756329-20160802123958

Given that Shippuden will nearly hit 500 episodes, it stands to reason they'll want to end it with Sasuke's walk of redemption where Naruto hands him his original forehead protector to mirror how Part I ended.

But because we essentially deal with another timeskip, if/when (why stop animating a cash cow?) they animate the novel, it'll most likely be under another Naruto series like "Naruto: New Age" or something.

After all, SP really wants to use the Blank Period designs and are all tingly about promoting Hinata and Shikamaru to MC status