The masked ninja killed Biwako Sarutobi and Taji then took Naruto hostage, threatening to do the same to him. Soon after Naruto was born they were found by a masked man who had killed the ANBU stationed outside and infiltrated the cave. ANBU would guard the area and Minato would maintain the seal while Kushina went into labour. Since the seal keeping the Nine-Tails within her would weaken during childbirth, Naruto would be secretly delivered in a remote location outside Konoha. īecause Kushina was the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, special arrangements had to be made for Naruto's birth. Jiraiya warned them that it would make him Naruto's godfather, but they insisted that this was a good thing. While Kushina was pregnant, he read Jiraiya's first book and liked the main character's determination - whom he believed to be just like Jiraiya - decided to name their son " Naruto" in the hopes that he would be just like the main character and, in turn, Jiraiya. At some point during his reign, Minato taught his signature technique to the Hokage Guard Platoon to better aid them in their duties of serving the Hokage at any given time. Sometime after the war, Minato, not yet thirty years of age, was chosen to become the Fourth Hokage. Impressed by the fact that B had reacted fast enough to pull one of his swords on him, Minato praised B for his skills. Believing that Minato would teleport to one of his special kunai, A was shocked to see the Konoha-nin appear behind his brother before realising that Minato had marked him earlier. Not one to allow his enemy to escape so easily, A attempted to attack Minato before he left. Minato then declared that the next time they met, it would be to put the title of " Kage " on the line. Upon receiving the signal that Konoha was retreating for the time being, Minato lingered to praise B's bravery and told A that he had a good family and followers surrounding him as he did, and also offered A the advice of making sure his brother knew who he was before he became neither human nor jinchūriki. There, Minato and A had a clash of speed with Minato almost severely injuring the future Raikage before B intercepted the attack. On what was seemingly their first meeting, Minato, Inuzuka, Akimichi, and a fourth member, confronted A and his team. īefore becoming Hokage, Minato clashed with A on several occasions. When Kakashi and Rin recovered from the ordeal, Minato helped them complete the mission. He then returned to his team, just in time to save Kakashi and Rin from another group of Iwa forces, but was too late to save Obito. After meeting up with the surviving and out-numbered Konoha ninja, Minato used his Flying Thunder God Technique to kill the opposing Iwagakure ninja. Because Kakashi had recently become a jōnin, Minato gave leadership of the mission to Kakashi while he went to help Konoha's forces on the front lines. During the Third Shinobi World War, Minato led his team on a mission to destroy roy the Kannabi Bridge. In time, Minato was put in charge of a genin team of his own, consisting of Rin Nohara, Obito Uchiha, and Kakashi Hatake. He even believed Minato might be the Child of the Prophecy, someone who would someday save the world. He graduated from the Academy at the age of ten, and was added to a genin team under the tutelage of Jiraiya, who took a special interest in Minato, and took him on as an apprentice, amongst other things teaching him the Summoning Technique.
Īccording to those who knew him personally, Minato was a very talented ninja prodigy - a rare genius that appeared only once in a generation. No longer seeing him as "unreliable", she fell in love with him. After rescuing her, Minato explained that he had always admired her hair. Years later, however, when Kushina was kidnapped by Kumogakure ninja, Minato was the only one to pick up on the fact that she was leaving behind strands of her red hair to mark their path. He dreamed of being acknowledged by the Konoha villagers by becoming the Hokage, which Kushina considered to be an impossible dream for someone like him. When Minato was in the Academy, his class-mate and future wife Kushina Uzumakithought that he looked "unreliable" and even "girly".