Naruto Uzumaki is the title character of Naruto, the manga and anime created by Masashi Kishimoto and serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1999 to 2014. He is a shinobi of the Hidden Leaf Village, born on October 10 to Kushina Uzumaki and the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, on the night the Nine-Tailed Fox was sealed inside him. Shunned by adults as a boy, he grew up pulling pranks for attention before becoming the Seventh Hokage.\