Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24810183-20140925201450/@comment-25358381-20140930042538

I feel that Kakashi will have the role of Hokage simply because Naruto is still to young to cope with all the other roles he must do as Hokage other than being very strong. Naruto's goals require him to be very active and he won't be able to do this as the Hokage as this would limit his time spreading peace and he would have a direct responsibility to the people of the leaf village. Shikamaru and Ino will probably fill in the roles of their parents (who died)

There are quite a few people in the leaf who are as strong as a Kage (Naruto, Tsunade, Kakashi, Might Gai, Sasuke, even Sakura right now), but other than Kakashi and Tsunade, I don't believe that the others are ready for the position of being the Hokage.