Short answers, pulled from the story.
Masashi Kishimoto published a one-shot for the summer 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump. This story centered on a boy who could transform into a fox before he revised it into a ninja-themed series.
The Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze sealed the Nine-Tails inside his newborn son Naruto Uzumaki during an attack on Konoha. The Third Hokage later returned from retirement to lead the village after the incident.
The Naruto manga has 250 million copies in circulation worldwide making it one of the best-selling manga series in history. More than half of these sales are located in Japan with the remaining distribution across 46 other countries and regions.
The first Naruto anime television series premiered on TV Tokyo in Japan on the 3rd of October 2002. It concluded on the 8th of February 2007 after running for 220 episodes.
Kishimoto won Rookie of the Year for the series in the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs 2014 Minister of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology Fine Arts Recommendation Awards. On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll he ranked seventh out of 150,000 votes cast by readers.