no, the fillers are poo about a half year that naruto kicks around waiting for frog hermit dude to come back from scouting out the new big bad. They spend more time with the supporting cast, and naruto basically takes a back seat and towards the end of the fillers, naruto becomes less and less effective as a team member, I guess to set up how he needs to the training (since the last fight with him and sasuke kinda had the two at god like powers)... BTW, this strikes me as silly in ther naruto-verse... in one fight, naruto is moving faster than normal vision can process and taking down demon powered baddies and then in the next week, he's getting his butt handed to him by some no name punk. Sigh, it best to just skip all the fillers and just watch the reboot.