Team Minato


 * Name: Team Minato
 * Leader: Minato Namikaze
 * Members: Kakashi Hatake, Obito Uchiha, and Rin
 * Affiliation: Konohagakure
 * Status: Inactive

Team Minato is a Chunin team headed by the future Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. They only appear in a brief arc, Kakashi Gaiden, where the origins of Kakashi's different quirks are explained.

Missions
Team Minato is only known to have gone on one mission, which objective was to destroy a bridge in the Rock Country. The destruction of this bridge would be a huge blow to the Rock shinobi in the battlefield, since that's where their reinforcements would arrive. This mission took place shortly after Kakashi made Jonin, and resulted in the death of Obito. Rin may also be dead, though the reasons behind her possible death are unknown. Kakashi's status is unknown but critical from his encounter with Pain during his invasion. The team appears to be very similar to new Team 7. For example, Naruto is similar to Obito, Sakura is similar to Rin (with the exception of how she treats naruto compared to how Rin treated Obito), and Sasuke is similar to Kakashi. Minato's personality traits are similar to Jonin Kakashi's as well.

Trivia

 * Even though the story of Team Minato is shown after all the events of Part I (chapter 239), the first image of Team Minato is at the cover of Manga chapter 16, very early in the series. The cover depicts Kakashi asleep in his room, and framed pictures of Team Minato and Team 7 are on his desk.