If a time jump would occur, it would have to be only a couple of months, sorta like how that month Naruto learned about summoning Gamabunta only took 5 chapters (or whatever the amount was).

If a short time jump like that happened, I'd be pretty happy, we'd miss out on some of Sakura's boring medic-nin training (some of it must be more boring than my Bio class, I'd rather not see something like THAT again) and a lot of the painful recuperation the other genin's are going to need. Dialated time wouldn't affect the story in any negative way, and all we'd miss out on are some boring things that aren't really that interesting anyway, like Sakura learning where the Spleen is and what it does.

As much as I'd like to see the characters like 8-10 years later, it would ruin the story completely. We'd miss a lot of good time for charater development, a lot jutsus would appear out of nowhere (yes, watching Naruto learn something for 7 chapters isn't that interesting, but if he suddenly pulls out "Uzumaki Uber Kyuubi machine gun ransengan" or something worse, I'd be a little dissapointed in Kishimoto, and I still want to know how he managed to pull it off), There is NO WAY that Oro and Akatsuki would wait 8-10 years (or any amount over 3) to attack Konoha or try to get Naruto.


As for this chapter: Sakura learning medical nin to become useful is good. Anticipated time jump over a month would be bad for the series.

This is (hopefully) not DBZ, please don't hope to see a series everyone's already seen. (oops, used DBZ reference in a negative way again.)