Quote Originally Posted by Sidnne
He is fighting Pein, who just leveled all of Konoha. The entire village is counting on him and regarding him as their savior at this point. And it is being stated that he has surpassed both Jiraiya and the 4th.

He DOES have to be great.
Wasn't that what you were thinking when he went 1 on 1 with Kakuzu? And 5 seconds afterwards he managed to make a fool of himself and only win by an amazing combo of hax jutsu + kakuzu being an idiot.

Again, i hope i'm wrong about this, but i'm just saying that naruto has a long record of pulling our hopes up only to amke our eyes bleed on the following chapters.