...She felt compelled to comment on the fact that a Hokage really should be able to deal with a kitchen fire (or not cause one) in much less time than a half hour, considering the skills a Hokage was expected to have. She wasn't so disrespectful, however, and more importantly that might have involved using water jutsu.

Which was obviously an inferior nature she never recommended.

Instead, she just squinted at him a moment. "Are you, Lord Hokage? You're not weak from inhaling smoke?" Feigned concern wasn't strictly disrespectful. He couldn't prove she wasn't genuinely concerned.