Team Minato

Under the guidance of Minato Namikaze, later crowned Fourth Hokage, this Hidden Leaf cell brings together three students: Kakashi Hatake, Obito Uchiha, and Rin Nohara. The unit also answers to the name Kakashi Regiment, and for a stretch Kakashi himself takes the reins. In the anime, Minato greets his new pupils with the traditional bell test, using it to measure their skills soon after the team comes together. The squad later enters a Chunin Exams held in Konoha, though only Kakashi walks away promoted to chunin from that attempt.

When the Third Shinobi World War breaks out, the team draws a mission to level the Kannabi Bridge sitting in Kusagakure, cutting off Iwagakure's supply route. Freshly raised to jonin, Kakashi takes command of the operation while Minato aids the war on another front. Iwa ninja seize Rin, and Kakashi and Obito manage to free her, only for a collapsing cavern to bury Obito beneath the rubble and pin him in place. With enemy reinforcements closing in, Obito hands Kakashi his left Sharingan as a parting gift and urges him to escape with Rin. Minato reaches them in time to drive off the attackers, but not soon enough to save Obito. On a separate mission, Kirigakure abducts Rin and seals the Three-Tails within her, making her a jinchuriki meant to be turned into a living weapon against Konoha once she is inevitably rescued. Rather than let that happen, Rin throws herself into Kakashi's Chidori and dies by his hand, while an unseen and still-living Obito watches the whole tragedy play out.

With Rin gone, Obito presumed dead, Minato risen to Hokage and then killed sealing the Nine-Tails, and Kakashi drifting into the Anbu, the original team quietly dissolves. Obito, though, survives in secret and grows fixated on rebuilding the squad in a kinder world through the Infinite Tsukuyomi, an obsession that helps ignite the Fourth Shinobi World War. He reverses course near the end of that conflict, and the team is reborn in spirit when Obito and Kakashi stand alongside a reincarnated Minato against Madara Uchiha and, later, Kaguya Otsutsuki. Kakashi often remarks that his own later students mirror this childhood group, right down to a photograph that nearly matches Team 7's. Notably, he is the sole member never to serve as a jinchuriki. When Obito at last passes on, he reunites with Rin before entering the Pure Land, and her words of encouragement send his spirit back one final time to aid Kakashi.