What's in Mashashi Kishimoto's mind?

Naruto is truely the offspring of a super-duper creative mind. A story set in Japanese fantasy land. Japanese storytellers have always fascinated the world with their extraordinary imaginations and concepts and Naruto is one excellent example of it.

There is one thing that often hits my mind. Has Hishashi Kishimoto (writer and artist of Naruto manga) already finished with the whole chapters of Naruto series right till the end or does he continues the story with random ideas and let the story flow in its own direction.

This topic can always be a hot one.

Before "Naruto Shipuden" started most of the episodes were bound to one arc. For instance "The hidden star village arc", Idate Morino's brother arc, and so many other filler arcs. It wouldn't matter to the whole story even if you will forget these parts (although the fillers also have emotional pattern of the series). But almost all the episodes in Shipuden series are well related and hold each other in chains. I wonder if there will be another series after Shipuden or will the story finish in Shipuden. Shipuden is way better than previous. The animation quality has also grown better. Naruto is evolving. Episodes are pretty unpredictable. But every predictions are equally exciting. Many think that Naruto will someday be $HOKAGE$. But may be Kishimoto has some other plans.

Sometimes I can’t help thinking that Naruto is the Japanese "Lord of the rings". (Hope to see Rock Lee soon)

P.S. the Naruto pic is my own art I made it in Photoshop using mouse.