But don't you think minato's story is a little ... redundant. we know exactly what happens , imo i think it will be somewhat a waste of time. If naruto does end , it will be kind of abrupt because A) He's still a gennin B) definitely after this war he will either take the rank of hokage/Jounin C) if he takes the jounin route, there is room for konahamaru's progress. So my point is , there are a lot of different directions the story can go post-war. That being said its kind of premature to end the series for good when there are several avenues kishi can take (unlike trolling DB,DBZ,GT).