No no, go back to the first I dunno 10 episodes or so and watch them again. Given how much they practically beat the viewer over the head with Naruto's determination to some day be Hokage and his driving desire to be acknowledged, it seems obvious (at least to me) that his ultimate fate is to be acknowledge post-mortem. He will eventually use his power to save all of Konoha, die in the process, and be forever immortalized on the Hokage monument as an 'honorary' Hokage and he will be remembered as one of the nation's greatest ninjas. Thus he would have accomplished both his life goals and in the aftermath it will be made apparent just how much the boy who everyone feared and who had no one and no bonds as a child impacted the lives of everyone around him.
That's what I based it on
