alrighty you fellas are about to get schooled, now for starters to the guy earlier that was dissing kakashi on his jutsus, first off its not like kakashi gave himself the name *copy ninja kakashi* the man who copied 1000 jutsus, its a name from being a war veteran, 2nd of all, lets so hypothetically kakashi has only shown 10 jutsu, does that mean thats all he knows? most certainly not my good sir, first of all a ninja never reveals all of his secrets, 2nd of all what if not all the jutsus hes copied are a rank +?? what if hes copied 200 or so D/C rank techniques that aern't as effective as the ones he uses the most?? Now lets get into kakashis battles, EVERYTIME we've seen kakashi fight, hes always fighting to protect someone, not fighting to kill... zabuza - fought to protect the bridge builder, his team mates, if i recall he could of ended the fight anytime he wanted to... notice when he did his summon, and raikiri for the first time? hes was immobilized and about to die, haku died for him... he could of done that at ANYTIME zabuza isn't on kakashis level, even in the war when hes dead, he got owned and sealed with ease him and haku! itachi.. okay the first time they fought he got owned, he underestimated the MS, kakuzu, he was protecting choji and ino the WHOLE time, fighting kakuzu hidan and the hearts for the longest by himself while the other 3 stood there in danger of losing their life... Pain- he protected choji and his dad, and he still even killed one of the pains... You guys are hugely underestimating this man... his dad was said to be sannin level, AND hes a very famous ninja in the ninja world, very respect... im sure hes either surpassed his dad or is very close in strength... shukaku nominated kakashi for hokage, as for gaara, gaara is a very strong ninja and yes he would of beaten deidara if it wasn't for the village, BUT sadly the village was there, so he lost... and onto the subject of kakashi v gaara, kakashi has speed and lightning element which pwns gaaras ultimate defense *not bashing just stating* look at what sasuke did to him in the first series... EVEN JIRAIYA, yes j-man said kakashi was hokage ready, tsunade did to, shukaku did as well, and at the kage summit he was nominated as hokage, so regardless of what you all may think he is CLEARLY kage material, that doesn't mean hes the strongest mofo in narutoverse, but yes he is kage level... And honestly i dont think we've ever seen kakashi go all out, because hes always defending someone, i've never seen him go out of his way to fight someone just so he could kill them... And on top of that, even MADARA said hes fast, a master of space-time ninjustu... AND one last thing, he was so fast and so good at hiding his chakra a man as old as madara even said he couldn't sense him and took out one of his hearts, If he can do that to a battle veteran, im sure he could do that to a kage, hes an ex anbu specialized in assassination dont underestimate him!!!