Though more guarded, Pain was dedicated to Yahiko and they were like brothers. He planned on fulfilling his plans, no matter what. Overall, regardless of being a villain or hero, Nagato did everything for the sake of someone else. He chased Yahiko's dreams for him. Pain brutally took care of Amekagure, even it ended with cruelty. Mix a warped, corrupted mind with a desperation to help others, and Nagato became a dangerous, relentless foe. After Yahiko's life ended terribly, Nagato desperately fought against the man at fault: Hanzo, the new leader of Amegakure village.
After all, the monster caused his best friend's passing and still held his other best friend, Konan, hostage. Pain decimated Hanzo's forces and got Konan back, but Hanzo still crippled his legs and got away. Because of this, his real body stays frail and ill, hidden somewhere else, while his Six Paths acted as his bodies.
His control of them lets him be a leader and weapon. After All, his broken body wasn't his best option. However, in a sense, losing his legs is exactly how Nagato became a nearly invincible, mysterious "god".
When The Six Paths of Pain starts to become a threat to Konoha and the surrounding lands, Jiraiya is quick to confront him. Particularly since the leader of them, the Deva Path, was his old student Yahiko. The Six Paths of Pain, once all working together, overpower the legendary Sannin and defeat him.
As he draws his last breaths, he realizes he's met all the different paths in his travels, all powerful people from different villages. Nagato hypothesized if Jiraiya figured out the secret to the Six Paths of Pain that he could defeat them. Though he lost, the seconds of his life were spent writing a message that helped Konoha shinobi discover the truth.
Many puppeteer ninja can control bodies, dolls, objects, the like. However, with the help of his Rinnegan, Pain is able to control the Six Paths of Pain simultaneously and use their bodies as if they were his own.
Because of this, he's easily one of the most powerful and legendary puppeteers to have existed. Bringing back six corpses and choreographing their movements effectively is impressive.
Even better, he does it all from his base, where he lies crippled, and uses those bodies as his mask. He's not a short-term puppeteer, he's in constant control of these six bodies and doing all he can with them to fulfill his motives.
While Nagato's body is broken and frail, between his Six Paths of Pain and his secrets, he's nearly invincible. After all, even if the bodies he's using fall, then he can just make more and come back stronger as long as his enemies don't find him.
This means that, unless an opponent infiltrates his organization and figures out his secret, he can keep coming back indefinitely. Losing a fight would not destroy him. However, Pain is very protective of his Deva Path. He's more likely to sacrifice other bodies and save that one.
This hardly makes him easier to destroy, though. At best, he just becomes more determined. For someone who eventually became so dangerous and destructive, it was surprising for fans to learn that Nagato was the son of healers.
His parents went out of their way to help save others and not cause more damage. The couple did instill a kindness and selflessness in their son, but losing them only made him wary of the evils of humanity. Growing up with his parents, Pain would have had a better shot at being a heroic, kind ninja.
He could have ended up a medical ninja. However, without them, he was put on the path of pain. Members of the Akatsuki saw Pain as a sort of god. Even when Yahiko was leading and not Nagato, he was the savior. Yahiko just was the man with the plan. Once Nagato adopted his plans, he became their prophetic figurehead, covering all the bases. Even though Pain's plans became a warped combination of Yahiko's and Madara's, his followers were still endlessly dedicated to him.
The goal of making a better world through destroying the current one didn't deter them. Using a mask of charisma, Pain drew people to him and made them believe in his strength and wisdom. His subordinates would have followed him anywhere since he meant everything to them.
During their young lives, the Ame orphans were taught by Jiraiya and then went traveling on their own to make the world a better place. However, when they came back to their old town, which was rebuilt and under new management, things didn't go well. The new leader, Hanzo, abducted Konan and told Nagato that he had to slay Yahiko to save her life. Though Nagato was against this, to save Konan, Yahiko threw himself onto his best friend's blade.
Nagato then decimated Hanzo's forces and took Konan back. However, in the process, Hanzo had destroyed Nagato's body and fled the scene. Hanzo crippled Pain for the rest of his life. He only got his revenge many years later, when he turned Amegakure against the cruel man.
One of Pain's largest advantages involves detection. Though he's terribly strong and powerful, being able to detect opponents is vital in a fight, especially for his Six Paths of Pain.
After all, since they are hyper-aware of their surroundings, the six are much stronger alone or as a unit. He can also pinpoint locations of specific people across large expanses. He can even still detect others through barriers meant to keep people and probes out. Chibaku Tensei is an intimidating ability, but Pain's is completely gargantuan. Using the ability, he can create a large asteroid in the sky. With it, he can trap enemies, threaten villages, and deconstruct the earth around him.
Just based on looks alone, it's terribly looming. 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. Although the Naraka Path is gone, the Deva Path's powers are restored.
It expels the larger toads from the village and helps the Preta Path capture Naruto. As the Preta Path absorbs his senjutsu chakra to immobilise him, it finds itself unable to balance the natural energy and turns to stone.
Shima and Fukasaku, meanwhile, prepare to cast a genjutsu like they did before. The Deva Path kills Fukasaku and, in the same motion, pins Naruto down with black receivers.
With Naruto no longer able to offer resistance, Pain lectures him on the cycle of hatred the world suffers under and the endless conflict that produces. His plans to gather the tailed beasts will be used to cause overwhelming destruction and achieve peace through fear. Because peace is what Jiraiya, who both of them trained under, always wanted, Pain asks if Naruto has a better solution, but Naruto does not respond.
The Deva Path deals with her easily and apparently kills her. Her seeming death enrages Naruto, causing him to enter a version 2 state. Naruto enters a nearly full Tailed Beast Mode and escapes its confines, forcing Pain to let the Chibaku Tensei dissolve. Having regained his senses, Naruto attacks the Deva Path.
He takes one of its black receivers and briefly interfaces with it in order to trace Nagato's location. As his attack continues, he has numerous disguised shadow clones emerge from the rubble of Chibaku Tensei and attack during the Deva Path's short cooldown, but they don't make it in time and it repels them. With so many clones, however, the Narutos are able to resist the Shinra Tensei, enabling Naruto to strike with a Rasengan. Now that all of his Six Paths are defeated, Nagato permits Naruto to come meet with him.
He shoots Naruto with a black receiver as soon as he arrives and tries to control his body, but Naruto successfully resists him. Naruto has been thinking about the question he was asked earlier, about how he would accomplish peace. He thinks he has an answer finally, but first wants to hear more about Nagato, especially since they both trained under Jiraiya yet turned out very differently.
Curious, Nagato indulges him and tells him about the tragedies he experienced in his life and how they drove him to seek peace through pain. Naruto understands Nagato's logic and even sees some merit to his conclusion, but rejects it.
His method to achieve peace is to no longer continue the cycle of revenge that fuels the shinobi world. Although he is angry with Nagato for killing Jiraiya and destroying Konoha, Naruto will not harm him, as that would only cause others to seek revenge against him and repeat the cycle.
Nagato is amazed by Naruto's answer, and is reminded of not only Jiraiya but himself when he was younger. He does not know if Naruto's solution can succeed, but Nagato decides that he will place his faith in it. As a sign of this faith, Nagato uses Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique over Konan's protests to revive everyone that died during his attack.
As his life fades from performing the technique, Nagato cautions Naruto over the challenges he will face on the path he has chosen, but wishes him all possible luck.
Nagato dies with a smile on his face, wondering if perhaps all the circumstances that led him to this end were the work of a real god. The summon fails almost immediately afterwards, causing Kabuto to wonder if the Impure World Reincarnation was still incomplete. To that end he reincarnates Nagato and four other dead members of Akatsuki as offerings for Tobi's war plans. When the Fourth Shinobi World War begins, Nagato is mobilised with the rest of Kabuto's collection of reincarnated ninja.
Still unable to move even in his reincarnated state, Nagato is carried by Itachi Uchiha. Nagato is at least able to sense where Kabuto is controlling them from, which he communicates to Itachi.
Nagato and Itachi are found by Naruto and Killer B. Nagato is glad to see Naruto has finally gained control of the Nine-Tails, but is not actually surprised since they both trained under Jiraiya.
Kabuto forces Nagato and Itachi to attack them, with Nagato summoning various animals to help him move around. Because their personalities are intact, Nagato gives Naruto and B advice about how to counter his summons and jutsu and warns them about Itachi's own. Itachi is able to implement a fail-safe he left on Naruto before his death, which frees him from Kabuto's control. Fearful that Nagato may also break his control, Kabuto suppresses his personality and sends him into battle against the trio.
Itachi joins forces with Naruto and B against Nagato. Nagato hides within his chameleon so he can move around undetected and attacks B with Shinra Tensei. B immediately counters with a version 2 Lariat , resulting in Nagato absorbing B's version 2 chakra. The Eight-Tails ' chakra he absorbs has a rejuvenating effect on him, restoring his mobility. He begins removing Naruto's soul, prepares to kill B, and readies the King of Hell to restore them to life when Kabuto is ready for them.
Itachi interrupts him with Susanoo , releasing Naruto and B. 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. The human path in Buddhism is self-explanatory — you're living it right now. This path allowed Pain to read minds.
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