Initially, he refused to train them in ninjitsu — until Nagato's Rinnegan emerged. Then, he began to train the three in the art of war — setting the orphans on the path to eventually forming the Akatsuki. Nagato's most potent power is his command of the Rinnegan, or "Samsara Eye. Legend has it that the Rinnegan is bestowed in times of great crisis, and that its wielder will either become a god of creation Those possessing its power can master any jutsu, observe the flow of chakra, and unlock unique abilities.
Nagato's Rinnegan was placed within him by the villainous Madara Uchiha. Madara, knowing his death was near, passed the power onto the young boy as part of a plan to restore himself to life. The Rinnegan set Nagato on a path that he had almost no control over: The power of the eye, combined with the machinations of Madara's minions and the immense pain that Nagato suffered throughout his life, twisted him into a fiendish mastermind. This was very much according to Madara's plan, ensured by his underling, Tobi, who manipulated Nagato into villainy, following Yahiko's death.
Nagato, in many ways, never stood a chance. Nagato didn't stay Nagato forever — eventually he became the malcontent known as Pain. But how did that transition come about? Nagato and his companions trained under Jiraiya for years. Empowered by the Rinnegan, Nagato mastered everything he was taught with ease, and in time, the trio set out on their own, eager to make the world a better place.
They formed the Akatsuki, led by Yahiko, an organization dedicated to ending war and promoting peace. Their ranks swelled quickly — they were far from alone in being tired of endless war — and in no time, they had become a formidable power that had to be listened to.
Hanzo, leader of Amegakure, took particular notice. Hanzo offered to work with the Akatsuki, and organized a meeting to discuss an arrangement.
It was an ambush, however — Hanzo and his forces captured Konan, threatening to kill her if Nagato did not kill Yahiko. Yahiko took the decision out of Nagato's hands by impaling himself on Nagato's kunai. Nagato is utterly disillusioned by the attack, and comes to regard his previous, peaceful ideals as naive.
Accordingly, he renamed himself Pain, and shifted the Akatsuki's goals: Now, the group was dedicated to bringing so much suffering upon the world, it would have no choice but to work towards peace. Pain, newly cynical and massively powerful, took over Amegakure, killing Hanzo and all who supported him. But in rescuing Konan from Hanzo, he had lost the use of his legs and became a recluse, mastering a technique that allowed him to control corpses as macabre puppets to carry out his bidding.
His power over the village, combined with his life in hiding and unsettling powers, cast a spell over the people of Amegakure — they began to treat Pain as a god. His aesthetic choices furthered this deification: Pain spent most of his life ensconced within a wooden altar.
Every Sunday, he made it rain in Amegakure, and kept news of Hanzo's death from making it way into the wider world. Beyond their borders, people believed Amegakure to be locked within a never-ending civil war. But Pain was not as all-powerful as he appeared to be. Though the people living under his reign were utterly ignorant of this, he was secretly being controlled by the malicious Tobi to further the goals of the new Akatsuki. Pain maintained his terrifying control over the recently deceased through a technique known as The Six Paths of Pain.
But the names of the Six Paths are far from fantasy. Each of the six paths are named for and based around the six Buddhist paths of reincarnation : the Deva, Asura, Human, Animal, Preta and Naraka paths.
Naraka is the lowest level of reincarnation. It is an appropriately hellish path in the series, utilizing a sort of torture to interrogate people. Preta are ghosts filled with desire and possessiveness. This path enabled Pain's absorption of chakra. The animal path is the the first level of reincarnation that allows a person to come back to Earth, albeit below the status of a human.
In the show, this path was used to summon animals. Despite his fragile state and damaged legs, Kabuto Yakushi regarded Nagato as his second most powerful reincarnated shinobi , second only to an enhanced Madara Uchiha. Despite his effectiveness being reduced due to Kabuto Yakushi's direct control, it still required a combined effort of Naruto, Killer B, and Itachi Uchiha to defeat and seal him. Not only that, he could face the entire village of Konohagakure and destroy it single handily, only losing one of his Paths in the various battles with Konoha ninja.
Before he faced Naruto, Nagato had never lost a single battle. As a descendant of the Uzumaki clan , Nagato's chakra was naturally resilient. His actual chakra reserves were unusually vast, enough that he could perform various , chakra-taxing techniques all in the same day. One of the Fifth Hokage 's Anbu bodyguards attributed his chakra's power to his Rinnegan , implying it enhanced his already powerful chakra.
Nagato also had remarkable control over his chakra and could alter its frequency constantly, negating the possibility of a sensor pinpointing his location when he controls the Six Paths of Pain unless they stab themselves with one of his chakra rods. This limited his mobility for the rest of his life and rendered his original body largely defenceless. He regained some of his former mobility after being reincarnated and restoring his body and legs with some of the Eight-Tails ' chakra.
When not handicapped, Nagato could rapidly move around a battlefield, closing the gap between himself and his opponents fast enough to force them to retreat. During his training with Jiraiya, Nagato mastered every technique he was taught, covering numerous styles, all of the basic nature transformations , and Yang Release , [3] accomplishments extremely rare even for adults, let alone ten year-olds.
One of the more noteworthy exceptions to this was the Rain Tiger at Will Technique , which allowed him to use rainfall to monitor everyone moving within Amegakure. Nagato was also an adept sensor , able to pinpoint the location of others across great distances, even penetrating beyond barriers erected for the express purpose of blocking detection.
Nagato's skill in so many types of ninjutsu was due in large part to his Rinnegan. The greatest advantage of the Rinnegan was that it gave Nagato access to all of the Six Paths Techniques : the gravitational powers of the Deva Path ; the menagerie of summons available to the Animal Path ; the limitless absorptive potential of the Preta Path ; the control over others' souls with the Human Path ; the different options of mechanisation in the Asura Path ; access to the King of Hell through the Naraka Path.
Because of the limitations of his real body, Nagato had few chances to use any of these abilities directly. When the opportunity arose, though, he could shift between the different Paths seamlessly and instantly, performing the many abilities on a level he wasn't capable of when using them through others. As the Outer Path, Nagato could summon and control the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path , [8] produce black receivers into which he can channel his chakra, [37] and use the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive the dead.
By embedding black receivers throughout the bodies of six corpses — arranged to resemble body piercings — Nagato was able to control all of them remotely as though they were his own. He could control the Paths across great distances, but for more chakra-demanding techniques, it was necessary for the Path to first be brought closer to his position.
An alternative to this was cutting off control of five of the Paths and focusing all of his chakra into one. The Paths can be used to react to threats in mere seconds and, because they are corpses, the bodies are unfazed by all but the most debilitating types of damage.
In theory, each of the Six Paths of Pain could be used to perform any technique that Nagato himself was capable of. In practice, however, he limited each body to one branch of the Six Paths Techniques, the exception being the Deva Path through which he performed a number of miscellaneous jutsu. Each Path served a specific purpose, be it offensive, defensive, reconnaissance or repair.
None of the Paths specifically specialised in taijutsu , but all were able to keep pace during hand-to-hand combat with even the most practised opponent. Though he considered all six Paths to be part of the Pain identity he gave himself, Nagato still regarded them as separate entities from himself, referring to them by whichever Path they embody. Although the Six Paths were individually strong, they were at their most formidable when used together, with the simultaneous use of all six being the primary reason for Pain's infamous invincibility.
They could attack from multiple angles and dodge attacks they couldn't have seen but that occurred within another Path's field of vision.
During his attack on Konoha, when the Six Paths were dispersed throughout the village to act strategically, they managed to wreak devastation and kill many powerful shinobi, effectively allowing Nagato to almost singlehandedly overpower the village.
Each of the Paths had its own importance in a fight — the Naraka Path's ability to restore all the other Paths, making it the most valuable — and therefore, Nagato would sacrifice other Paths to protect those further up the hierarchy. Despite the advantages the six bodies granted him in a fight, Nagato tried to limit his usage to as few bodies as possible to reduce the likelihood of anyone discovering the secret of how the Six Paths of Pain work.
When Konoha began to understand the idiosyncrasies of the ability, he destroyed the village in an effort to kill anyone who might know that none of the six Paths were the real one. Main article: Sasuke Recovery Mission Pain gathers the members of Akatsuki to discuss Sasuke Uchiha 's recent alliance with Orochimaru , as well as the anticipated completion of their plans three years hence. Not ready to take Akatsuki public yet, Pain accepts the invitation and sends several teams of genin to keep up appearances.
Pain immediately detects Kakashi and sends guards to capture him, forcing him to retreat. Konoha ninja start to convene on their location during the three day process, so Pain uses the Shapeshifting Technique to send copies of Kisame Hoshigaki and Itachi Uchiha to distract them. The copies are defeated, but they buy the necessary time and the One-Tail is sealed. As the rest of Akatsuki disperses, Pain instructs Deidara and Sasori to deal with the Konoha ninja that have arrived outside their lair.
Because Pain's summons interrupted a fight he was in the middle of, Hidan , the second-newest member, demands an explanation of Akatsuki's ultimate goal. Pain obliges him, remarking on the state of the world and how Akatsuki plans to capitalise on that to take control.
Pain expresses no love lost over Tobi, but encourages the remaining members of Akatsuki to mourn Deidara. As soon as they adjourn, Pain and Konan meet with Tobi in Amegakure. He cannot identify who it is, but from their chakra signature he can tell they are powerful. He sends Konan to track down whoever it is while he deploys the Animal Path. A short while later, Konan sends a report that the intruder is Jiraiya.
Surprised, Pain bids her to kill him if she can while he moves the Animal Path to intercept. On arrival, he frees Konan from the restraints Jiraiya has placed her under and sends her away.
Although Jiraiya does not recognise the body, Jiraiya assumes that Pain is Nagato because of his Rinnegan. Jiraiya expresses his disappointment that Nagato has turned away from his once-righteous path towards peace by leading a criminal organisation like Akatsuki. Pain asserts that, as a god, his plan to liberate the world through destruction is the definition of righteousness. In response to all of the Animal Path's summons , Jiraiya summons Gamaken to hold them off while he prepares himself.
From the safety of his chameleon , Pain sends a multi-headed dog , drill-beaked bird , and giant ox at them, but Jiraiya is able to successfully enter Sage Mode with the help of Shima and Fukasaku. Shima locates and neutralises the chameleon, forcing Pain to summon the Preta Path and Human Path to the fray.
He makes separate attempts to attack the Human Path and Animal Path from behind, but both block him. Suspecting their shared vision, Jiraiya withdraws. The three Paths pursue Jiraiya.
They eventually hear the signing of Shima and Fukasaku as they ready a genjutsu. The Paths track them down and try to stop them, but Jiraiya is ready for them. After confirming that they do indeed share vision, Jiraiya distracts the Preta Path and immobilises the Human Path, allowing him to fight the Animal Path one-on-one long enough for Shima and Fukasaku to cast Toad Confrontation Singing. While the Paths are caught, Jiraiya stabs them with Stone Swords and believes they, and by extension Nagato, are dead.
As he leaves, the Asura Path attacks him from behind, severing his arm. The Animal Path follows him, but ends up getting captured; as its last act it stabs him with a black receiver. Jiraiya contemplates returning to Konoha with what he's learned, but decides this is his only chance to discover the secret of Pain. He returns to the battlefield with Fukasaku and draws the remaining Paths' attention, and in doing so figures it out. The Asura Path crushes his throat before he can tell Fukasaku what he's learned and the other Paths stab him.
Believing him dead they start to leave, but Jiraiya uses the last of his energy to etch a coded message into Fukasaku's back. The Paths try to stop him, but Fukasaku escapes and Jiraiya's body sinks into the sea. Pain holds a moment of silence for his passing. Main article: Six-Tails Unleashed. Pain replaces the Animal Path Jiraiya captured with a new body in preparation for finally going after Naruto. In the anime, he is first sent to Kirigakure to capture the Six-Tails.
When it comes across a group of hunter-nin led by Tsurugi , it slaughters them all. Utakata eventually comes looking for Tsurugi, but instead finds Pain, who quickly captures him. The Six-Tails is later extracted from Utakata's body. Main article: Pain's Assault. The Six Paths of Pain and Konan arrive on the outskirts of Konoha and eliminate all the border guards.
Pain explains the plan of attack: the Asura, Animal, and Preta Paths will destroy the village's infrastructure and draw the attention of its ninja while Konan and the Deva, Human, and Naraka Paths try to find information on Naruto's location. The Animal Path infiltrates the village by itself so that Konoha's sensors will think there's only one intruder, and once inside it summons Konan and the others. They scatter immediately afterwards and begin fulfilling their assigned roles. Early in the Deva Path's search it is found by Kakashi Hatake , who has guessed the misdirection Pain is employing.
Knowing by reputation that Kakashi poses a threat to Akatsuki's plans, the Asura Path arrives to help the Deva Path fight him. The two nearly defeat Kakashi, but Konoha reinforcements arrive in time. Kakashi has already discovered the recharge time the Deva Path needs between attacks and coordinates Konoha's forces to create a window for him to strike. The Asura Path uses itself as a shield to take the attack, creating an opportunity for the Deva Path to level everything and everyone in the area.
The Deva Path leaves, victorious. Though their mission is complete, Pain is frustrated by the Hokage's refusal to cooperate. Combined with the numerous examples that Konoha's ninja are starting to understand how the Six Paths of Pain work, Pain decides to destroy the village and show it true pain.
As the smoke clears, the Deva Path finds Naruto has arrived in the village with several toad allies. When the Hokage angrily confronts Pain for destroying the village, the Asura Path moves to kill her, but is destroyed by Naruto before it can land a blow. The remaining Paths take formation around the Deva Path during its prolonged recharge. The Animal Path sends its summons to attack Naruto, but the toads confront them instead.
Naruto begins focusing on the Deva Path. He nearly succeeds in hitting it with another Rasenshuriken, but a restored Preta Path absorbs it. He severed his loyalties with Amegakure by scratching through the symbol of his Amegakure forehead protector, resolving to teach the village and the world his pain. Upon adopting the alias Pain , Nagato led the rebelling forces in the Amegakure civil war, and took control of the village by assassinating Hanzou.
Then he solidified his leadership by systematically killing anyone who had ties to the former leader. At some point, he assisted Uchiha Madara in the creation of Akatsuki , using Amegakure as his base of operations. Pain Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Pain's story-Nagato. History Talk 0. Nagato- better known as Pain. Nagato known better as Pain was the recognized leader of Akatsuki and a God of Amegakure.
Reffered to as Leader by all akatsuki members, except for Konan, he always directed the actions of the rest of the group and maintained authority over them. However, he had secretly collaborated with Uchiha Madara. Background According to Madara, Nagato is a descendant of the Uzumaki clan.
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