With how little happens in the chapters nowadays, Pierrot's just trying to keep a steady pace. Plus, there's not much room after this for a filler break anyways.
So 7 episodes into the whole VIZ "each week, on Thursdays, the next episode will be posted after it has run in Japan" thing and they're already off schedule since episode 96 has yet to show up on the official Viz/Naruto Shippuden website.
Oh, now I see why I'm confused. I forgot that in Japan, the wife's family name is the one that's passed on.
Also, it got a little more confusing because of Jiraya and Tsunade's conversation saying that Naruto doesn't reserable the Fourth in personality, although he does have his father's looks. And of course, I thought his father would have "Uzumaki" in his name, but did not. Which is where I got confused thinking that Minato wasn't his father, yet they look alike physically.
You get my drift, right?
Oh, and just to be clear...
Does Naruto know that the Fourth is his father? It doesn't appear he knows much about his birth parents. Iruka-sensei's pretty much raised Naruto his whole life, right?
Yeah unless they tried being like Bleach with filler arcs that completley went against canon rules there isn't too much you can do after this arc for filler since technically the next "arc" kind of goes right into the next "arc" without any real breaks for where they can even have any filler. Besides maybe this is a way of actually getting a chance to see more of the Tailed Beasts we really won't get to see otherwise which would be pretty cool to see actually .