Well the board has been quiet lately, and we have about 5 more days till the Raw of the next chapter shows up on that french site (you know the one).

I'm curious as to how close we manga readers can come to reading the authors mind after a month of waiting for this chapter.

I'd like to hear everyones guesses for what will happen in 245.

Me, I'm expecting the common idea - that the chapter will be "3 years later" and we will be shown all the older characters (now 16-17 years old since almost a year had passed in the manga since the start) and the author will spend 2-3 chapters just revealing power-ups and getting the Akatsuki storyline started.

Specifically -
Naruto - bet he learns a few more of the 4th's jutsu's from Jiraya (like the flash technique?)

Sakura - will have mysteriously have become "super medic" so that she actually has a point in the series.

Rock Lee - Will be able to open more gates, and probably something else

Neji - ? not sure - hopefully better than just '256 hands of Hakke' and "super" kaiten.

Sasuke - Almost can garuantee he will have learned summoning. but he better have spent those 3 years with Orochi stealing a thousand justu or his time will have been wasted.

Shikamaru, Chouji, Ten-ten, Ino, Kiba, Shino -??

anyone else bored enough to speculate?