@James:
And some of the NArusaku fans who go mad right now, do have good points about the story-telling abilities of Kishi in regards to romance and character development. It would have felt better if he had somehow closed up the whole love triangle stuff and dealt for once and for all with the feelings of Sakura and co instead to ignore it cause he had no real clue how to make that enjoyable to read. The whole timeskip and everybody is married, has kids and are happy fells kind of a cheap coup-out by that. :/
This is pretty much what fucks up the entire ending. Having closure WITHOUT rationale behind it and having the readers magically just fill in the plot points. Pretty much overall lazy shitty writing.
-Chouji and what's her face meet up and have a kid. How did it happen? Who cares? You make up how it happened!
-Orochimaru randomly died off screen? How did it happen? WHO KNOWS?! You make it up!
-Gaara is now a cool looking dork? How did it happen? YOU MAKE IT UP DAMMIT!
-Anko is now fat? How did it happen? WHO KNOWS?!
-Naruto is now HOKAGE? Um….yeah, I want to know how Naruto is Hokage material at all....rather than his true calling which is a ramen stall salesman.
No seriously, with time skips at least you can SEE how one can jump from one spot to another like with Hinata and Naruto thing, but everything else is just...made up on the spot.