Minato Namikaze the Fourth Hokage is the father of Naruto Uzumaki and spouse to Kushina Uzumaki. Although Naruto and Minato are noted to have a number of similar traits throughout the series,He was the student of Jiraiya and the teacher of Kakashi Hatake.Minato was a prodigy among ninja, such that enemy villages issued flee-on-sight orders if ever he appeared on a battlefield. He developed a jutsu that was in essence a teleportation jutsu, allowing himto wipe out whole armies in the blink of an eye, thus earning him the title of "Konoha's Yellow Flash" It is later revealed during Naruto's battle with Pain that he is Naruto's biological Father and that he never told anyone hoping it would help Naruto.