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editMinato Namikaze [1]
Debut
Manga Chapter #1
Voice Actors
Personal
Birthdate January 25
Gender Male
Status Deceased
Blood type B
Jinchūriki
Classification
Sage
Sensor Type
Occupation Hokage
Affiliation Konohagakure
Mount Myōboku
Rank
Ninja Rank Part I: Kage
Academy
10
Grad. Age
[Hide] Family
Naruto Uzumaki (Son)
Kushina Uzumaki (Wife)
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Minato Namikaze (波風ミナト, Namikaze Minato) was the FourthHokage (四代目火影
, Yondaime Hokage; Literally meaning "Fourth Fire Shadow") of Konohagakure. He was
famous in life for his speed, leading to the moniker of Konoha's Yellow Flash(木ノ葉の
黄色い閃光, Konoha no Kiiroi Senkō; English TV "Yellow Flash of the Leaf"). He died
during the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha, sacrificing his life to seal a part of the Nine-
Tails into his newborn son, Naruto Uzumaki.
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Background
Early Life
Minato as an Academy student.
When Minato was in theAcademy, his class-mate Kushina Uzumaki thought that he
looked "unreliable" and even "girly".[4]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.[5]
Team Minato.
In time, Minato married Kushina. He also became a jōnin and was put in charge of a
genin team of his own, consisting of Rin Nohara, Obito Uchiha, and Kakashi
Hatake.[8] For their test to officially become genin, Minato tasked them with taking one
of two bells from him in actual combat. Despite the team not having full loyalty towards
each other, seeing them work together to snatch even one bell convinced Minato to
pass his team.[13] During the Third Shinobi World War, Minato led his team on a
mission into Kusagakure to destroy the Kannabi Bridge. 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. After meeting up with the surviving and out-
numbered Konoha ninja, Minato used his Flying Thunder God Technique to kill the
opposing Iwagakure ninja, in the anime stated to be a thousand shinobi.[14] 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. When Kakashi and Rin recovered from the
ordeal, Minato helped them complete the mission.[15]
Minato vs. A.
Before becoming Hokage, Minato clashed with A on several occasions.[16] On what was
seemingly their first meeting, Minato, Inuzuka, Akimichi, and a fourth member,
confronted A and his team. There, Minato and A had a clash of speed with Minato
almost severely injuring the future Raikage before Bintercepted the attack. 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. Minato then declared that the next time
they met, it would be to put the title of "Kage" on the line.[17] Not one to allow his
enemy to escape so easily, A attempted to attack Minato before he left. 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.
Impressed by the fact that B had reacted fast enough to pull one of his swords on him,
Minato praised B for his skills.[18]
Fourth Hokage
After becoming Hokage, Minato started to take more pride in himself, referring to
himself as "ore", which is a prideful way of saying "I" or "me", instead of using
"watashi", a more formal way of referring to one's self. Still, this did not make him
haughty as he still addressed others with the appropriate honourifics.
Minato was also a very cautious individual as he set up at least two safe houses as well
as scattered his Flying Thunder God Kunai over the outskirts of Konoha, presumably so
he can intercept enemies that cross Konoha's borders. Inadvertently, this trait enabled
him to escape from Obito's Kamui away from Konoha. Ultimately enabling him to
subdue the latter and remove his control over Kurama without causing more chaos in
Konoha.
Appearance
After Yang-Kurama was removed from Naruto, to save his son's life, Minato transferred
Yin-Kurama to Naruto (which was intercepted by Black Zetsu).
Senjutsu
Minato and the other reincarnated Hokage prepare to head out to the battlefield.
After the exchange between an outraged Tobirama, who was ready to retaliate after
hearing Sasuke declare that he may exact his revenge on the village, and Hashirama,
who had to forcefully stop his brother, Minato marvelled at the fact that something so
simple had almost caused the Naka Shrine to cave-in. Upon hearing that Madara had
been reincarnated on the battlefield and about theFourth Shinobi World War, Minato
soon felt Naruto and Kurama's chakra on the battlefield, and was elated that his son
had managed to achieve what he had hoped he would when he sealed the beast inside
him. After Hashirama completed his story, and Hiruzen lamented that he had been too
indulging a Hokage, Minato told the Third that he had done the best he could have
given the circumstances. He lamented that he had failed as a Hokage, having died
during the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha, which left his reign woefully short and falling
short of all the expectations which had been heaped upon him. Nevertheless, when
Sasuke had made his decision to protect Itachi's sacrifice, the four Hokages and their
new-found allies moved to the outside of the Naka Shrine where, upon Hashirama's
behest, took his place upon his bust on the Hokage Monument. Minato expressed
excitement in finally being able to meet his son as well as bringing him a present to
make up for not being able to be there for him as a father.
Unable to teleport to Sasuke and Naruto's aid as it appeared that the seal for the Flying
Thunder God Technique had disappeared from Obito's body, Minato was a