

Every villager in Konoha is aware that Naruto has the Kyuubi sealed inside of
him.

Is anyone in the village or elsewhere (other than Kakashi and Jiraiya, that I
remember knew) aware that he is the son of Minato and Kushina?  
My main doubt being: **do they know that he is the son of the Fourth Hokage**?


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Are people aware of who Naruto's parents are?


> You forgot the third Hokage (and some other Anbu's).

IMO they aren't.  
After all you can see how everyone who knew that info treated him entirely
different from the rest.

**Edit:** As Madara said,  
It really was TABOO not to talk about it in the village (About the demon
inside Naruto etc).  
Nevertheless, I do not think it was so complicated inform those who need to
know that.


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Yes. After their names were revealed, it seems as if "suddenly" everyone knew
about it. Even Gai, and even the Raikage mentioned his parents without them
being mentioned earlier.

That leads me to believe that people knew, and it was part of the taboo not to
speak of it (or Kishimoto still hadn't thought about it then :D)


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Most of them didn't know. It was a secret to protect Naruto. Just a few people
knew it. I found proof on
[this](http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki#cite_note-10) site:

> Suddenly orphaned, Naruto was left to grow up knowing nothing of his
> parents, receiving only his mother's last name because the Third Hokage
> thought that it was best that nobody knew that he was related to the Fourth
> Hokage.

They found it here: Naruto chapter 440, page 5


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Obviously they don't. He was celebrated after defeating Pain, not because he's
the Fourth's son, but rather because he became the hero of the village. Btw, I
think Naruto is happier to be acknowledged as a hero because of his acts and
not because he's the son of a former Hokage. The only persons that knew about
the truth were: Jiraiya, Sarutobi, maybe Kakashi (we saw a lot of time that
Kakashi imagines he's teacher and mentor in Naruto, maybe he realized the
relationship, but he didn't know that from the beginning), and a few ANBU
members who were at that place when Naruto was born.


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Kakashi would have been one of the few who knew because one of his assignments
as ANBU was to be a secret body guard for Minato's wife while she was
pregnant. As for why people who knew who Minato married didnt put two and two
together when suddenly this boy who looks oddly similar to the fourth ended up
being born in their village and happend to be the one cursed to carry the
burden of the price that was paid to save the village.


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