The Fourth Hokage was well known as the greatest Hokage of all, already creating the A-Rank Ransengan and the S-Rank Flying God Technique before achieving the rank of Hokage.

He was taught by the Sannin Jiraiya. The two were very close and admired each other, Minato even named Naruto after an alias Jiraiya used for himself in his own autobiography, saying that he and Kushina wanted their son to be just like Jiraiya and they asked him to be Naruto's godfather. Minato would also teach his own group, composed of Kakashi, Obito Uchiha, and Rin.

When Kakashi became a Jonin (During the Third Great Shinobi War, 13 years before the series began) Minato threw a celebration for his pupil. He gives Kakashi a special Kunai that he says should only be thrown in a case of emergency. Obito Uchiha arrived at the celebrations late and without a gift, and he and Kakashi begin to argue. after their fight, Minato tells all of them of a mission to destroy a bridge in the Iwagakure region, therefore hurting their enemies economy.

As they moved through the enemy territory, it became apparent that they were being watched. Kakashi ran off stupidly to test out his new technique, but the enemy cloned himself and Kakashi began attacking blindly. A clone attacked Obito Uchiha, who became paralyzed with fear, but he is saved by Minato. He then goes and saves Kakashi from a sword thrust from his enemy, while placing a teleportation seal on his foot. He gets everybody out of there. He then leaves Kakashi, who was injured by the sword thrust, in the hands of Rin. Using the Flying Thunder God technique, he teleported behind the enemy they fought earlier. Realizing his opponent's power, the attacker give the regret of ignoring the order to flee at the sight of Minato before Minato kills him.

Minato returns to the place that he left his team, he tells Kakashi to not use Chidori, because it leaves him not enough sight to repel a counter attack. He then tells Obito Uchiha not to speak without thinking.

That night, Obito Uchiha comes to Minato and asks why Kakashi is the way he is. Minato tells him about Sakumo Hatake, Kakashi's father. He was a famous and powerful Ninja who was on par with the legendary Sannin. On a mission one day, Sakumo's friends were capture, and instead of completing the mission, he went back and saved the captives. Because of this decision, Konoha suffered greatly. Sakumo was driven by this failure to kill himself. He then tells Obito that from that day forward, Kakashi adopted a strict mentality of always completing his mission, hiding his emotions and only focusing on the rules. Minato then asks Obito Uchiha to try and understand Kakashi.

The next day, Minato put everyone under the leadership of Kakashi while he went to the front of battle. When there, he gave soldiers dozens of Kunai with his teleportation seals and asked them to throw all of the kunai at their enemy, he then teleported to each kunai and single-handedly defeated the enemy army before they realized what was happening.

Naruto Uzumaki

Somewhere in his life Minato found time to have a baby. He and Kushina Uzumaki had the baby known Naruto Uzumaki. He was named after the heroic main character in one of Jiraiya's books.

Soon after he was born though the Nine Tailed Fox attacked which brought destruction and terror to the Village Hidden in the Leaves. In order to stop the attack the Nine Tailed Fox was sealed inside of Naruto. Before Minato died he requested for Naruto to be known as a hero in the village instead of merely just a container that holds a fox. Unfortunately this didn't happen and most people shunned Naruto.

Powers/Techniques

He created the "Rasengan" where he forms an intense ball of drilling chakra in the palm of the hand; this technique is actually incomplete since he intended on fusing his own elemental affinity with it before he died. "Flying Thunder God" were he throws a kunai with a seal on the handle, he is then able to instantly appear wherever the kunai is. He's also capable of placing these seals not just on kunais but on other items and living beings, allowing him to teleport wherever that seal was placed. And "Reaper Death Seal" where he summons the Japanese Death god, which in return for user's life, would steal the opponent's soul.

Like his sensei Jiraiya, Minato is capable of summoning frogs/toads.