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Minato Namikaze, was the brave and immensely powerful ninja responsible for sealing the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox inside his son, Naruto Uzumaki, soon after Naruto's birth. After completing the sealing and trying to deter the villagers from hating Naruto for the beast within him, wanting them to instead think of Naruto as a hero, Minato died as a side effect of performing the seal. Minato is noted to look very similar to his son, and they share a number of connections and similarities. Despite this, the truth of Naruto's parentage is not revealed until long after the series's start. In his youth Minato, along with two other unknown Genin, was a student of Jiraiya, and sometime in his life, had a child, Naruto, with Kushina Uzumaki. Prior to becoming Hokage he was also the sensei of Kakashi Hatake, Obito Uchiha, and Rin. "Namikaze" translates literally as "wave wind". "Minato" translates as "Harbor" or "Port".

Minato is said to be the greatest ninja Konoha had ever produced, with natural talent that had not been seen in many years. He created several distinctive techniques, including the Flying Thunder God Technique, which essentially allowed him to teleport to any location with the use of a special seal, or "jutsu formula". By attaching the seal to a kunai or an enemy, Minato could teleport to the location of the seal unnoticed, allowing him to wipe out nearby opponents almost instantly. This ability led to his title as "Konoha's Yellow Flash", and it caused him to be seen as so dangerous that a flee-on-sight order was given in regards to him during the Third Ninja War. He also created the Rasengan, a technique that does not rely on hand seals but instead uses a concentration of spinning chakra in one's palm that causes immense damage to its victim on contact. Later in the series it is revealed that technique is actually incomplete. Minato had planned to add his own nature manipulation training to the Rasengan, making it even more powerful, but couldn't manage to prior to his death.