Nice tribute indeed. It's true that the characters do teach you a little through their words and that there are many ways to handle a situation. The personalities in Naruto were one of the best parts, I can't think of another manga or story with so many different personalities in it as this one.
Yeah I'm sad it's over too, when I woke up this morning sadly, it was the first thing I thought about! No more Naruto to read weekly. Then for some reason I got the song Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton (I'm not a fan of Clapton nor have I heard that song in years, I had to google the lyrics to find out what it was!), and played it once and kinda felt sad for the imaginary dead characters like Jiraiya, and Minato-who is not there to see his imaginary Grandchildren and how tough and shocking everything must have been for Kakashi...but most of all how 15 years have passed in the real world, and I hope manga maintains it's hand drawn look, and doesn't move on to computer effects. I'm not so sure about the new series but we'll see.