Who do you think will be the best for the seat of hokage

[Micho22]

Well everyone tought that tsunade was a gonner but she survived being cut a half
So i think we will see a new hokage really at the end of naruto and that will take long

 

[Meowazziel]

I agree about Naruto - he makes a great shinobi, hero and Jinchuriki but he fails as a leader even in the most basic sense (becoming a chunin/jonin is hard for him).
Though he' come a long way in his training, he still has a lot further to go - in terms of curbing his recklessness, strategic thinking, intelligence etc.
Though I think he could get there in the end, it should take a few more years until he's considered - and I think it should be required that he makes jonin and successfully leads missions/teams without mucking it up.

Sasuke - no one would actually elect him in place, unless it was during war-time (against the other nations). He's not good for the alliance. He's ANBU material, and in danger of becoming like Danzo.
Little to no Will of Fire - though he does have Itachi's legacy, if he wants it - he's too inconsistant and unstable.

Sakura - she's a lot like Tsunade, though not as experienced. She lacks the ability to think outside the rules/box, she's selfish and overestimates herself. She doesn't understand others well and lacks empathy.
... she doesn't make a good leader outside the med-nin unit.

Tsunade Isn't Dead Yet
They need time! None of the kids are ready for that position - they're not Gaara, he's something of an exception.
I think in the future I could see Naruto being Hokage - with Sakura as his advisor/assistant.
Shikamaru would replace his father's position.
In an ideal world Sasuke would have ANBU, be what Danzo should have been... but I doubt he's settle for that.

Kakashi
If something were to happen to Tsunade anytime soon - it would be Kakashi who would take her place, he has all the nessessary skills and more importantly the other Kage would want him.
The fact he doesn't particuarly want it makes it/him better.

I am agreeing with a lot of things you mention (Sakura should learn a bit more to think outside the rules/box indeed), except the part where Sakura overestimates herself, is selfish and lacks empathy.

Where do you get that from? Almolst every character has overestimated themselfs at one point in the series.
Does Sakura do this more than others?
Why does she lack empathy and why is she selfish? She has cried and cared for others as well, not only herself.
She wanted to learn some jutsus from Yamato to help Naruto (but couldnt due to lacking Mokuton).
Healing other people is not only for herself either of course. Making soldier pills for Naruto isnt selfish either. I could list more things.

 

[Beatrix]

Empathy is the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience accurate sympathy or compassion.

With Sakura, it's seen most clearly in Part I.
She is selfish, and lacks empathy in the sense of she doesn't understand others. She seems to find it difficult to put herself in their position - ex: Naruto not having parents, of Sasuke in general.

Her making soldier pills for Naruto was such a big deal because she had never done anything like that for him before. It was also kind of sad that she took a lot of direction/suggestion from Sai of all people in order to do even that much in the first place.

Not just with the pills did Sai direct her, but with Naruto - her own team mate. On what drove him, his reasons, his bond with Sasuke, his feelings for her.
And even then... after all that, the years together, the time apart etc she still didn't understand Naruto and why he did the things he did. She didn't have faith in him until after her failed attempt in killing Sasuke herself, it took Naruto's epic talk-no-jutsu for her to finally 'get it'.

Overestimating herself - I can't honestly say one way or the other if she does it more than others. I think Naruto seems to, but always manages to pull it off regardless. Sakura... doesn't, she rarely 'pulls it off'.
Ex: attempting to subdue Naruto in tailed-beast mode and hurting herself when she's a med-nin.

Her need and belief in killing Sasuke by herself drove her to lie to her comrades, going so far as to turn them against one another and have them fight.
I would see that as something of a betrayal - she's much more dishonest than Naruto and even Sasuke. With Sasuke he never lied or really pretended to be anything he's not. He didn't lie to her about going to Orochimaru, or his feelings for her either.
She lied to Naruto about loving him... it just... it's a new low. It highlights how immature she is, emotioanlly/mentally - and again hightlighted that she didn't understand Naruto, because it wasn't just about his promise to her.

 

[Meowazziel]

With Sakura, it's seen most clearly in Part I.
She is selfish, and lacks empathy in the sense of she doesn't understand others. She seems to find it difficult to put herself in their position - ex: Naruto not having parents, of Sasuke in general.

Her making soldier pills for Naruto was such a big deal because she had never done anything like that for him before. It was also kind of sad that she took a lot of direction/suggestion from Sai of all people in order to do even that much in the first place.

Not just with the pills did Sai direct her, but with Naruto - her own team mate. On what drove him, his reasons, his bond with Sasuke, his feelings for her.
And even then... after all that, the years together, the time apart etc she still didn't understand Naruto and why he did the things he did. She didn't have faith in him until after her failed attempt in killing Sasuke herself, it took her seeing them facing one another to gain some understanding.

Overestimating herself - I can't honestly say one way or the other if she does it more than others. I think Naruto seems to, but always manages to pull it off regardless. Sakura... doesn't, she rarely 'pulls it off'.
Ex: attempting to subdue Naruto in tailed-beast mode and hurting herself when she's a med-nin.

Her need and belief in killing Sasuke by herself drove her to lie to her comrades, going so far as to turn them against one another and have them fight.
I would see that as something of a betrayal - she's much more dishonest than Naruto and even Sasuke. With Sasuke he never lied or really pretended to be anything he's not. He didn't lie to her about going to Orochimaru, or his feelings for her either.
She lied to Naruto about loving him... it just... it's a new low. It highlights how immature she is, emotioanlly/mentally.

You make some good points, however, which characters in the serie understand what it is like to grow up without parents, be a jinchuriki, have your clan murdered and things like that? Not many people. Probably not much more than a handful and those that do understand, have experienced similar things.

 

[Beatrix]

It's not that you need to have experienced the exact same events - though that does help - it's the ability to take that event and apply it to yourself and to really feel, for yourself, how it would feel - to understand and comprehend the effects, to have an idea of how they feel.
But you need to first recognise the issue/event/problem.... then you need to want to understand it...

Sakura was prompted into some understanding by Sasuke by his sharp rebuke when she made a comment about Naruto not having parents. By Sasuke calling her annoying, did she wonder if Naruto felt the same pain she did when she called him annoying.
She got a nudge in the right direction, but it's not natural for her - she's not an empathic person by default, where I think Naruto is.

He understood that Gaara, in some ways, had it worse than himself - and I mean beyond beying a Jinchuriki. Naruto didn't grow up with his father trying to assasinate him, of siblings who hated/feared him, of killing. He had Iruka eventually, then his team mates, the Rookie 9 and later the Konoha 11. Gaara... didn't, and Naruto realised that - the difference, and then imagined what it would be like if he didn't have those precious people... and the pain he felt from that, for Gaara, overwhelmed Naruto to tears.
... Sakura lacks that, in general.
It's why Naruto's talk-no-jutsu works so well

 

[Meowazziel]

It's not that you need to have experienced the exact same events - though that does help - it's the ability to take that event and apply it to yourself and to really feel, for yourself, how it would feel - to understand and comprehend the effects, to have an idea of how they feel.

True. Btw I didnt meant that you need to experienced the exact same events to have empathy towards someone. It is just that many characters in the series who have had relatively perfect lives (parents and not many if any deaths of people close to them), behave like this (like Sakura). Kiba doenst seem empathic at all towards Sasuke for example (almost noone). However, Gaara who went through lot of pain, through the darkness, can. Knowing pain helps in understanding (dont have to have experience exactly the same thing).

But you need to first recognise the issue/event/problem.... then you need to want to understand it...

Sakura was prompted into some understanding by Sasuke by his sharp rebuke when she made a comment about Naruto not having parents. By Sasuke calling her annoying, did she wonder if Naruto felt the same pain she did when she called him annoying.
She got a nudge in the right direction, but it's not natural for her - she's not an empathic person by default, where I think Naruto is.

He understood that Gaara, in some ways, had it worse than himself - and I mean beyond beying a Jinchuriki. Naruto didn't grow up with his father trying to assasinate him, of siblings who hated/feared him, of killing. He had Iruka eventually, then his team mates, the Rookie 9 and later the Konoha 11. Gaara... didn't, and Naruto realised that - the difference, and then imagined what it would be like if he didn't have those precious people... and the pain he felt from that, for Gaara, overwhelmed Naruto to tears.
... Sakura lacks that, in general.
It's why Naruto's talk-no-jutsu works so well

I agree, although the characters are still young and were especially in part one, so it is somewhat undertstandable that they still have some learning and growing up to do. Sakura her comment about Naruto not growing up with parents, was really bad though. It lacked empathy indeed, even for her age at the time.

 

[Madara ibn Lahad]

If Tsunade dies in d war or change sides then:
Akemaru will be d new hokage and kiba his servant bcus
Sasuke & Naruto will kill each other.:nexus:
Sakura would do best what she do ie cry till death.:NO:
Kakashi would also die wit Obito.:roku:
Shikamaru thinks its 2 drab 2 be hokage.Zzz
Hinata would also be stunned or get mad after naruto's death._@:
Choja only cares abt food same goes 4 d insect guy.:emperor:
Ino let her be florist.:flowers
Lee & tenten they would only do is training.:klaus:
so only sensible candidate left is Akemaru.:scorps:

Na bro,Akemaru and Tora the Cat along with Ton-ton will have battle to see who becomes the Hokage...we all know that the Solo King Tora the Cat will win....

 

[dvmaz]

Everyone is forgetting Shikamaru-Sama

 

[Thorium]

Shikamaru should be Hokage ^.^

Logically thinking, Shizune would become Hokage before Sakura, seeing as she has way more experience, she's older, and worked under Tsunade for several years as her aide.

 

[Meowazziel]

Shikamaru should be Hokage ^.^

Logically thinking, Shizune would become Hokage before Sakura, seeing as she has way more experience, she's older, and worked under Tsunade for several years as her aide.

and is weaker compared to sakura at both strength and healing.

 

[BestFriendsForever]

Here we go again...
N-A-R-U-T-O will be Hokage, deal with it.