We all thought Madara/Hashirama was going to end up parallel to Sasuke/Naruto... but here's how it doesn't work.
Hashi is not 'innocent' like Naruto...he has given up on changing the ninja world. Hashi has given up on Madara.
Hashi also has actual ninjutsu techniques, Naruto has...
It's his series, and it's almost over. The last time Naruto's really "taken charge" of the plot is during the pain arc.
Hopefully kishi starts giving Naruto an attitude adjustment because we all know he will defeat obito and sasuke in the end.
It just sucks that after reading naruto for 641...
naruto:
his true nation, the eddy nation, was annihilated- almost everyone killed
his mom and dad were killed by evil uchiha controlling the 9tails at his birth
this resulted in him growing up alone and never having parents
and the villagers treated him like an outcast because he had the...
why do they have to keep killing off our favorite characters:: hiruzen, minato, kushina, jiraya, itachi, neji, kakashi.... almost all of the best characters they kill off.... we get left with crap characters
^^ or maybe Naruto will let Sasuke become Hokage and Naruto will become some Ultimate-Kage that leads all villages....how else could Naruto vs Sasuke happen now?