Quote Originally Posted by NaruGuy11
If you look at this from the stand point of a chess game and what the king represents. It is the pieces that is the most important it is the last one you want to put in dangerous situation and if you lose it you lose. We know that the king piece is specific to the player that plays it each player has there own king pieces that he/she holds. This tells that not only is the king piece diffrent for each player but we can assume it represent what is most important to that player.

We take these ideas and apply it to the situation.
~Asuma is the player.
~His king piece would be the what is most important and away from danger which would be Kurenai. We see many sceans of her in her home which one would consider a safe place much like were you want the king piece to be (in this case the king piece is a person but it could be anything a person holds most important)
~the much trickier piece to identify is the queen piece one can assume in this situation it could be one of two people.
1 Asuma- Queen could be seen as and extension of the player being the only piece on the board you have complete control of it moves any driection and any number of spaces and is closest to the king.
+This would lead us to assume that shika(shorten) would be the bishop the piece that is closes to the queen and king. This could be why shika ask to tell Kurenai himself.
2 Shika - On the other hand shika could be the queen piece. The players best freind and the most loyal piece on the board and the one that you want to save the king if in tight situations.
*This is all my thoughts and my preception on it*
As for who will be hokage most likely it will remain the same and the only time it will change is probably the last chapter were it will probably be naruto if he is still alive.(you never know) and even then it will be just a glimpse.
If you're right, then its very campy. I don't like it.

Kurenai may be a woman and a love interest of Asuma, but she's still a freaking Jounin. I doubt she is being put behind in a safe spot on purpose. She most likely is between missions.

Considering Asuma names both himself and Shikamaru as players in the same chess game, I would assume the King piece is common to both of their interests, and most likely the interests of the Village as a whole.

So again, I would think it is Naruto or at least something that if taken destroyed or captured, puts the whole village at great risk.