Originally posted by: RasenDori
Originally posted by: drcitan
I don't remember in any of the episodes stating that the two old people were genin team mates of Sarutobi. You sure about that.
i think it was shown in the anime during the orochimaru/sandaime fight. when they were showing the leaf lineage i can recall seeing a young sarutobi with to other children that looked like younger versions of those two. most of my naruto eps were lost when i had to reformat my hard drive, so i cant reference the exact episode.

any ways, part 2 does reference to the original story line. i think the reason we wont see naruto for another month is because naruto part 2's first chapter might be treated as a premeir (sp?) chapter, so it will probally be longer and therefore will take more time.

i dont think the anime will bother making filler after this arc. they will probally do a "naruto z" transition, and put the anime on hold for a while to let naruto part 2 get a sufficient lead. if they try to do filler at this piont, naruto will go the way of kenshin. id rather them put the series on hold then torture us with horrible filler.
I really hope that they're doing neither and just taking some time off to develope an amazing story line. I'm actually leaning towards part two of the Gaiden, as having the 3 year thing be "Naruto Z" would be kind of pointless. DBZ took place a longer time than three years after DB.