It wasn't a matter of skill or rank.
Rather, they had different priorities, and some of them didn't realize how serious the situation was.
"Heh, young people do tend to be impatient, Snow Shadow. It's precisely because these matters are 'important' that we need to discuss them carefully. The Akatsuki issue is important, but gathering the Six Kage here and reaching an agreement is no simple matter either. You're the leader of a village yourself; you should understand that relations between villages aren't so simple."
As the most senior of the Six Kage—and someone who had once faced Uchiha Madara—Ōnoki wasn't impressed by Naruto, the youngest of them, despite the boy being very likely the strongest Kage of his generation. The aura the Fourth Raikage had unleashed at the start, along with Naruto's tone and attitude just now, had left the Third Tsuchikage extremely displeased. The Shinobi World had its rules, and Ōnoki had always lived by them.
More importantly, Ōnoki didn't acknowledge Naruto's strength. In his decades as a Ninja, what kind of genius hadn't he seen? In all of Konohagakure, no one besides the First and Uchiha Madara had ever made Ōnoki feel afraid—not even the Third Hokage at the height of his power, White Fang, the Sannin, or Namikaze Minato. Ōnoki had abundant combat experience and the Particle Style Technique, reputed to have the greatest destructive power.
Those were the things Ōnoki relied on to stand firm in the Shinobi World.
Naruto was a boy of only fifteen or sixteen. Ōnoki truly didn't believe he could be all that strong, so naturally, he let his attitude show.
At the Third Tsuchikage's unmistakable taunt, Naruto didn't get angry. He simply gave Ōnoki a deep look, then leaned back slightly, a mocking expression on his face.
"Still not worried