Quote Originally Posted by JaySee
It's already been shown that Ero-Sennin and Kakashi can hold their own against the Akatsuki. And they only attack in pairs. Naruto beat Gaara when no one else could.
no one can beat gaara? how did you manage to come to that conclusion?
1. Lee got pass Gaara sand barrier
2. Sasuke was able to injure Gaara with the Chidori
3. Both Lee and Sasuke was Genin at the time so i'd imagine a Jounin would be able to take him down.

In Chest/Shogi the game is lost when the King is taken but as long as the King stay alive it is still possible to win the game.
Who is the only person you can think of that might cause the downfall of the village if he/she was to get capture?
The only person that i can think of is Naruto because if the Akatsuki is able to get Kyubi (the strongest demon, remember what he did to Jiraiya and Orochimaru with only 4 tail?) it would be near impossible to stop them, on the other hand if Naruto through some miracle manage to control his Kyubi power he would have a nearly limitless source of Chakra at his disposal that might enable him to stop the akatsuki and save the village.