Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25712820-20150625204857/@comment-734582-20150824172806

GreatestSin wrote: but nobody say that he cant step down after being hokage long enough in order to let the "younger generation" take the seat :) True, but Kakashi's the only hokage who was an interim hokage. Tsunade stepped down because she truly was a 50+ something ninja. Kakashi became hokage because naruto, no matter how godlike he is, simply isn't old enough to be Hokage. Also, so Naruto could have an actual childhood and be prepared to become hokage.

Naruto has the credentials to become the second Hiruzen, a hokage with a ridiculously long reign. And even Hiruzen stepped down because of politics, not because he wanted to.