godkiller
"We are the Fury"
People must've forgot that even tho Naruto is retarded as a person, on the battlefield he had a special talent/genius that others couldn't match.
We being real, when it came to the young Konoha shinobi, on the battlefield only Shikamaru and Sasuke are naturally smarter than Naruto, but he developed the aptitude to learn through fighting and that aided him numerous times throughout this entire series. The nerve of nikkas to challenge Young Uzi's greatness while plot armor is the only reason Sauce is even alive right now.
Virtually every great Konoha ninja is smarter than Naruto in battle. And even though Kishimoto plot-no-jutsu and killed off Neji, he was originally a smarter ninja in battle than Naruto too. Naruto is the George Bush of Hokages. It's no wonder he needs Kakashi like Bush needed Cheney.