Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34293820-20180111010823/@comment-3568954-20180111200402

Indk21 wrote: Naruto became Hokage something about 12 years after 4th war so is possible that he was sensei and leader of the genins team, but we don't know when he became jounin (if he achieved that rank at all) because only jounins can carry of genins team. So it's hard to say how it was because we don't have any informations and evidences about naruto's past in blank period after novels and the last. that is not how a military campaign works. its entirely possible for a lower ranked soldier to command a mission there have been situations where 1 person was left in charge of a mission and even though they were not the highest ranked individual in the mission they still had command and could boss their superior officer around. as such its entirely possible for a genin to be in charge of a mission that has chunin and jonin on it. especially if said genin is the most powerful shinobi in the world