Author's Note: I don't own Naruto. This is before Minato is Hokage. Minato is 22. Kakashi, Rin, and Obito are 9.

Minato stood in the Hokage's office with several other older Jonin, including his friends Shikaku, Choza, Inoichi, Shibi, and Fugaku. The Hokage had just handed out the list of teams. Many of the other shinobi had teams before this, but had failed them. After the meeting, Minato looked at the names of his maybe team. Their names were Rin Nohara, Obito Uchiha, and Kakashi Hatake. Minato walked by the academy and saw a teacher that he had before he became a ninja. Minato was about to approach, but his former teacher had to interrupt an argument going on between a group of students. Probably got put on the same team, he thought to himself, I pity their teacher. He laughed to himself as he walked away, maybe Shikaku will get them. He'll have to stop being lazy then.
The next morning Minato walked to the academy. He was hurrying because he was late when he left, and then his sensei, Jiraiya had to stop him to talk about things that Minato blocked out. When he got there there was only one team left. He felt a little guilty about that. He had been the last team to have their sensei arrive and had gotten extremely nervous that the teachers had changed their minds . Then he realized that they were the group of children that had been arguing the day before. Minato sighed, of course he'd get the team that couldn't stand each other. "Hello, Sensei," said the brunette girl. Minato smiled at her, "Hello, Rin." Minato was proud of himself for not making a total fool of himself. The girl smiled obviously happy that he knew who she was. He could tell she that she usually blended into the crowd and didn't get acknowledged much at the academy or at home. Her family consisted of many hospital workers that were almost always busy, especially with the war injuries. "Do you know who I am?" asked a dark-haired boy. Minato stood trying to decide whether that was Kakashi or Obito. Then he saw the Uchiha crest. "You are Obito," answered Minato as he turned his head to the silver-haired child, "So that means you are Kakashi." The three kids stared at him amazed and made comments that he couldn't tell who said them. "Wow. So you are a Jonin. Jonin really do know everything. Were you part of ANBU?" "No, you idiot. He has a list with our names on it. We aren't allowed to know who and who isn't part of ANBU, you moron." One of the kids were clever and had an attitude, he laughed to himself. Minato sat down beside Rin, who had been silently watching the boys argue. She didn't notice him sit down. This one is calm, thank God, thought Minato. This will be interesting. Minato decided to speak, "So, we've met and that's all we need to do for today. So I'll see you guys tomorrow." The girl looked over at him and raised her hand. "Yes, Rin." "You never said who you were." The kids were staring at him expectantly waiting for an answer. Minato felt like a complete idiot. "My name is Minato Namikaze." The three kids seemed content with that answer. "Bye Minato-sensei." "See you tomorrow."