Well I guess the prediction of shodaime is right and therefore, i would also say that 2 big fights will be coming out in the next few weeks.
The first one will be Konan vs Kakashi, Hinata, Naruto etc... and Pain will not be in time to finish them of.. therefore he will rescue his angels and feels the plan for revenge on those guys... then he has even more interest to catch naruto and all the others... meanwhile they nearly finished off.... madara and sasuke will start a fight which will be connected to the other ones which have finished their feight gaist konan.
The second wont be a real fight: Madara will just convince Sasuke being an enemy of konoha and not a friend or inhabitan of it. Therefore the fight will be not as long as most think now and sasuke will stay on madaras site when naruto and the other ones arrive to "save" sasuke. then there will be a battle between sasuke and madara VS the ones of the leaf. In this fight Hinata may be injured that naruto will be forced into anger and develop the five tails. Sasuke will be able to think beyond the normal and will question the kyuubi inside naruto for the real story. To be able to get this information madara has to be knocked out for a while that he cannot do tsukuyomi etc...
Then Sasuke will gather the information from kyuubi and will be part of konoha again cause he realized the true intentions of madara. Then Pain will appear aswell as other living Akatsuki member to save Madara.
Then there will be a new Time Gap cause akatsuki needs more member and sasuke and naruto will train to get a perfect team where sasuke can control the kyuubi. But this will only happen if the scroll of Jaraiya which was given to the frogs will arrive to naruto. Then there will be even more strange fights in the future which will lead to freedom all over the world