In the winter, the TV anime will be adapting the 2015 novels Konoha Hiden: The Perfect Day for a Wedding, Shikamaru Hiden: A Cloud Drifting in Silent Darkness and Sasuke Shinden: Book of Sunrise.
For the next three weeks, Naruto Shippuden will be pairing characters for explorations of their childhoods.
This starts with Sasuke and Sakura on October 27th, followed by Gaara and Shikamaru on November 3rd and Jiraiya and Kakashi on the 10th.