Quote Originally Posted by Sam98034 View Post
I think I mentioned this before. Might Gai is being set up to be the next, next Hokage. His carved portrait on the mountainside will be in a "nice guy" pose.

The match-up could still happen, though, theoretically. Gai is no match for him now, but if he opens all the gates, it's a different story. I'm not sure Kishi is still going in that direction, though. And opening all the gates gives you temporary Hokage powers for a little bit, correct? So if Gai opens all the gates, he can be Kakashi for a few minutes---wait, What!? Huh? Man, the Hokage position has gotten a lot weaker in this series.
Yea, a lot of people have "Hokage-level" powers. I think all of Akatsuki are supposed to be Kage level, yet Naruto, Sasuke, and Shikamaru were able to kill some of them. Maybe they should change the gates thing to say like "Tailed beast level" powers or something.