[He understands that feeling too, even though he knows it's different for her than it is for him. Naruto has always been trying to catch up to the people around him. He'd wanted his strength to be worth acknowledging because that would mean that he, as a person, was worth acknowledging. That he mattered. It's only as he'd gotten older and learned more about the people around him that he realized the true meaning of strength like that- to protect the things important to him.

It sounds like Hime-chan has had that part all along.]

Isn't good enough for what?

[The question is maybe a little rhetorical, but he really only has his own realm of experience to draw from.]

Would it be so bad to have a different kind of strength? All your friends are different from each other too, aren't they? I bet every one of them has felt that way- scared that it won't be good enough.