Nagato (Naruto)

Nagato is a male character who features in Naruto.

Biography

Nagato (長門, Nagato) was a male human born as the son of Fusō and Ise on the outskirts of Amegakure. When he was young, he was secretly visited by Madara Uchiha who transplanted his Rinnegan into Nagato without anyone being aware of it. Afterwards, the world was suffering from the events of the Second Shinobi World War with Nagato and his parents taking shelter in their home to avoid the fighting. During this time, two Konoha shinobi broke into their home where they began to look for food. Nagato's parents attempted to sneak out unnoticed but were discovered by the ninjas who attacked his parents with them serving as a distraction to allow their son to escape. Ultimately, the shinobi killed his parents in self-defence only to learn that they were only civilians rather than enemy combatants. The two ninja apologised to the young Nagato who in his grief awakened the Rinnegan for the first time which he used to kill his parents murderers and avenge their deaths.

Nagato, now an orphan, was forced to leave home and begin wandering in search of food and shelter, until he was found by Konan and Yahiko, orphans like himself. They banded together, acquired food to survive through any means, and sharing the dream a future where they could use their power to eliminate war. Yahiko was particularly passionate about this point, which inspired Nagato to adopt the same goal. In order to accomplish this, the three would need to become ninja. With few options to choose from, they approached Konoha's "Legendary Sannin", Jiraiya, who was guilty over his participation in the war, offered to teach them how to look out for themselves and later, change his mind and began teaching them ninjutsu. Jiraiya trained the orphans for three years, until he have decided that three were ready to forge out on their own and he returned to Konoha.

The three formed an organisation they called Akatsuki with Yahiko as leader and they began advocating an end to war. Their message proved popular and they gathered many followers and during the Third Shinobi World War, they were approached by a disguised Obito Uchiha, who was introduced as Madara Uchiha, offering to help them in their pursuits and show Nagato how to unlock the full potential of his Rinnegan. Yahiko refused the offer, suspecting Tobi only meant to use them. Hanzō of the Salamander, the leader of Amegakure, decides that Yahiko's group is a threat to his rule. Hanzō kidnaps Konan and tells Nagato that he must kill Yahiko if he wants Konan to live. Yahiko immediately drives himself onto Nagato's kunai, killing himself for Konan's sake. Nagato is horrified and angered by Yahiko's death and uses his Rinnegan to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to defeat Hanzō's men and Danzō's Root shinobi, while Hanzō himself escaped. Afterwards, Nagato severed his ties with Amegakure, no longer wishing to be affiliated with Hanzō's village. After Yahiko's death, Nagato take over the name of "Pain",. As the damage he'd received from Hanzō's attack and the link with the Demonic Statue left him frail and immobile, Nagato create his "Six Paths of Pain", which he controlled remotely.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Nagato was a young male with pale skin and notable red hair. It was said that his red hair was a mark of his Uzumaki heritage. When he as younger, his hair tended to cover and obscure his eyes thus preventing people from seeing the Rinnegan. During his training to be a ninja, he began to part his hair so that only his right eye was covered. His eyes and skill led to him being referred to as the Child of the Prophecy (予言の子, Yogen no Ko). Following the death of his friend Yahiko, Nagato adopted the alias of Pain (ペイン, Pein) as this represented the despair he felt over his experiences in the world.

Powers and abilities

A descendant of the Uzumaki clan, Nagato was born was a naturally resilient chakra and whose actual reserves were unusually vast. This allowed him to perform multiple techniques that were taxing on his chakra with him able to do several such acts in a day. He was noted for having an incredible level of control over his chakra to the point that he could alter its characteristics and negate the chance of a sensor finding him. Nagato could also cause it to rain over a large area around him with him able to use the raindrops to sense the chakra of anyone inside its range. This allowed him to attain a near god-like level of omniscience and detect any stealthy infiltrations of his territory.

He was able to use the Outer Path technique known as the Six Paths of Pain (ペイン六道, Pein Rikudō) whereby his Rinnegan allowed him to manipulate up to six bodies as though they are their own. This involved implanting black receivers within the bodies of six corpses with these resembling body piercings. Once done, each allowed Nagato to control them remotely as though they were extensions of his own body. He was able to control the Path's across great distances though techniques that demanded more chakra required the Path's to come to close proximity to one another. Alternatively, Nagato could instead devote his full control to one of the Path's and placed all his chakra into that corpse. As they were corpses, these bodies did not react to anything but the most debilitating of damage and Nagato could cause of the Path's to react to threats in a matter of seconds. Through Nagato's Rinnegan, he was able to have each of the Path's share visual information allowing him to coordinate their attacks. He limited each body to one branch of the Six Paths Techniques thus making each specialised in a particular form of attack ranging offensive, defensive, reconnaissance or repair.

Among the Six Paths included:

• Deva Path of Pain (天道, Tendō) : considered Nagato's most treasured Path that was created from Yahiko's dead body and was held as the mightiest of the six with the highest chakra levels along with fighting skill. It wielded Nagato's power to control gravity allowing him to perform telekinesis and to levitate at will with it being known for its three powerful techniques. Among these included Banshô Ten'in (Universal Pull) that allowed him to pull anything towards him at variable force where he could bring in a person at close range to deliver a fatal strike or to attract something to strike his target. Another technique was the Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push) that blew anything in front of him at variable force either creating a frontal blast or a powerful shockwave. This could be used defensively to deflect attacks or to destroy everything around him. Nagato could gather all his chakra into the Asura Path and destroy everything over an immense area though this came at a great cost to his chakra reserves.
• Asura Path of Pain (修羅道, Shuradō) : wielded Nagato's power to duplicate body parts and transform them into mechanical ones that contained chakra-powered weaponry. After undergoing a full transformation, the Asura Path looked like a three-faced six-armed humanoid with it being physically strongest and most resilient of the six.
• Human Path of Pain (人間道, Ningendō) : wielded the power of Soul Removal with this body able to read the minds of victims grabbed by it and transfer knowledge gained to Nagato. The process saw the victims souls removed from their bodies which killed them instantly. The Human Path could extract the soul of anyone it had touched thus killing them quickly. In addition, it was held as the fastest of the Six Paths that even sensor ninjas could not sense it quick enough allowing the body to catch people off-guard before they could react.
• Animal Path of Pain (畜生道, Chikushōdō) : possessed the power of Summoning with it having the power of calling upon many giant monsters and even places unique to Nagato.
• Preta Path of Pain (Preta Path (餓鬼道, Gakidō) : wielding the power of Energy Absorption whereby through physical contact it could absorb another person's chakra that was used to replenish Nagato's strength. This Path often caught its target and drained their energy until they died. It was also able to absorb any Ninjutsu technique with a matter of seconds making it a potent form of defence. In addition, it could create a barrier spell around its body allowing it to absorb chakra-based attacks from all sides.
• Naraka Path of Pain Naraka Path (地獄道, Jigokudō) : controlled Life and Death where it summoned the King of Hell (冥府の王, Meifu no Ō) that could only be seen by its victims or those with perception power. As it possessed the Rinnegans, Nagato was able to see through the sees of the King of Hell. It could devour the life of people and also store the souls of the dead with it able to resurrect those consumed by it such as the other Paths of Pain. When it manifested, the King of Hell unleashed tendrils from its mouth to question them with it devouring the life of those that lied or refused to talk but released those that spoke the truth. The jutsu when used in conjunction with the Samsara of Heavenly Life technique allowing for it to resurrection large numbers of people but this came at the caster's own life.

If a body was destroyed, Nagato was known to replace it in order to keep the Six Paths at full strength.

Among the Akatsuki, he was regarded as its most powerful fighter which was why he served as their leader.

Notes

• Pain was created by Masashi Kishimoto where he featured in the Naruto universe.
• In Sha no Sho, Kishimoto briefly explains the philosophy behind Pain's design, stating, "He's Akatsuki's leader, so he has to look fairly cool, but I still wanted him to look dangerous. Since his name is 'Pain', I decided to add some piercings to his body, like he's the kind of guy who would inflict pain upon himself". Notable among the few unused concept designs is a small sketch in which Pain appears to wear a partial mask and feather, or horn-like accessories fitted to his forehead protector.

Appearances

• Naruto:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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