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Weight Part II: 40.1 kg

Jiraiya trained the orphans for three years. Because of his Rinnegan, Nagato easily mastered
Blood type A
everything he was taught.[13] Once they were able to defeat one of his shadow clones in a fight, Jiraiya Kekkei
Rinnegan
Genkai
decided they were ready to forge out on their own and he returned to Konoha, confident they would
Classification S-rank
bring reform to the country.[14] The three formed an organisation they called Akatsuki, with Yahiko as Sensor Type
its leader, and began advocating an end to war. Their message proved popular and they gathered Occupation Akatsuki Leader
Village Head
Nagato summons the Statue for
many followers;[15] even Jiraiya would sometimes hear news of their exploits.[16] During the Third Affiliation Amegakure
the first time.
Shinobi World War, they were approached by a disguised Obito Uchiha. Introducing himself as Madara Akatsuki
Uchiha, he offered to help them in their pursuits and show Nagato how to unlock the full potential of his Team Ame Orphans
Partner Konan
Rinnegan. Yahiko refused the offer, suspecting Tobi only meant to use them.[17]
Clan Uzumaki Clan
Throughout their quest for peace, Akatsuki's ranks swelled and became known throughout Amegakure, Family [Collapse]
so much so that Hanzō of the Salamander, the village's leader, began to feel Akatsuki threatened his Fusō (Mother)
Ise (Father)
rule. He approached Akatsuki, offering to work together with them to help negotiate with the other Nature Type [Collapse]
warring villages. The next day, at a meeting to finalise the arrangement, Yahiko and Nagato were Fire Release
Wind Release
ambushed by Hanzō and his men, with support from Konoha's Danzō Shimura. Using Konan as a
Nagato wounded following his Lightning Release
hostage, Hanzō threatened to kill her if Nagato did not kill Yahiko. Unwilling to let Nagato have that on
Earth Release
fight with Hanzō.
his conscience, Yahiko impaled himself on Nagato's kunai, using his dying breath to state his faith that Water Release
Nagato would change the world.[18] Enraged by Yahiko's death, Nagato took Konan back from Hanzō, Yang Release

though his legs were badly damaged in the process. He then summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and, upon linking with it, Jutsu [Expand]

used it to slaughter Hanzō's men, though Hanzō himself escaped.[19] Afterwards, Nagato severed his ties with Amegakure by slashing the village's symbol on his forehead protector, no longer
wishing to be affiliated with Hanzō's village.

Yahiko's death ultimately convinced Nagato that his philosophies about achieving peace were foolish; the world would never willingly end the cycle of death
and hatred it had operated on for so long. Only through direct experience of war and all the losses and agonies it brought could anyone truly desire peace.
Intending to personally bring that level of despair to the world, Nagato took on 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 created the Six Paths of Pain out of corpses that he controlled remotely. For the Deva Path he
used Yahiko's body — still wanting him to lead the organisation in spirit — and for the other five he used the corpses of other miscellaneous shinobi that,
Now crippled, Nagato turns
without his knowing it, had met Jiraiya when they were alive. Pain began leading Akatsuki in a new direction, secretly accepting Obito's earlier offer of support.
Yahiko's body into the Deva Path.
Akatsuki composed itself with S-rank missing-nin and started offering its services as a mercenary group to ninja villages, earning the money necessary to fund
its long-term plans.

Years later and still loyal to his own version of Amegakure, Pain and Konan began a civil war in the village to overthrow Hanzō.[20] Much of the village rallied
behind Pain, believing him to be a god because of his immense power. The Six Paths of Pain eventually cornered Hanzō and killed him and all his guards,
earning control of the village, but not before expressing his disgust with how Hanzō had fallen from the man he admired and the fact he can't even understand
how he lost to Nagato. In order to prevent anyone from challenging him, Pain proceeded to eliminate everyone even remotely connected to Hanzō, from
members of his family to distant acquaintances.[21] Because of Amegakure's already secretive nature, news of Hanzō's death never made it outside of
Pain confronting Hanzō.
Amegakure and the village was believed to still be divided by the civil war. Pain embraced the villagers' idea of him being God and single-handedly crushing
remnants loyal to Hanzō whenever they surfaced. Every Sunday, if present within Amegakure, Pain would make the rain in the village cease.[22]

Personality
Nagato was a sensitive child, prone to crying over the sufferings of himself and others. When he met Yahiko he tried to break this habit by following Yahiko's philosophy that crying wouldn't
change anything, but the attempt was unsuccessful. Jiraiya later pointed out to him that his sensitivity was actually a strength, as it allowed him to understand pain better and, in turn, be kinder
to others. This view resonated with Nagato and caused him to realise that he wanted to take on all of his friends' pain so that they wouldn't have to. It also finally succeeded in ending his crying;
when Jiraiya left their group it was Yahiko who cried to see him go, while Nagato only thanked him for all the guidance he'd provided.

In one form or another, Nagato spent his entire life placing the needs of others before his own: his main motivation for becoming a ninja in the first place was so that he could protect Yahiko and
Konan; he viewed his role in the original Akatsuki as a powerful tool meant to help Yahiko bring peace to their country; as leader of his own version of Akatsuki, he felt it was his responsibility to
save the world from itself, inflicting pains of such magnitude that nobody would ever harm anyone else ever again. While this indicates a growing self-importance Nagato regarded himself with, it
was encouraged by the similarly growing esteem others regarded him with due to his Rinnegan: Jiraiya believed he was the reincarnation of the Sage of the Six Paths; Yahiko and the rest of
Akatsuki believed he was the "Saviour of the World"; the villagers of Amegakure believed in him as if he were a "God".

As a child that grew up in the middle of other countries' wars, Nagato did not like killing and was horrified by his early acts of violence against those who had harmed his friends and family. He
supported Yahiko's Akatsuki because it wanted to end the wars and deaths that he hated so much. After Yahiko's death, Nagato compromised his aversion to killing to a large extent, believing
the deaths of specific individuals or even hundreds at a time could be justified if it served a greater and/or long-term purpose. But Nagato remains very clear in this distinction, as he shows
mercy to those willing to cooperate with him and discourages others from defying him because it will only force him to strike them down. Minato Namikaze believes that, at some point along the
way, Nagato's views were corrupted and subsequently manipulated by Tobi.[23]

As leader of Akatsuki, Nagato projected a great charisma through his public mask of the Deva Path so that even Akatsuki held him in great awe. Despite his power and self-appointed divinity,
Nagato was incredibly patient with defiance from the group, likening Hidan's open threats against him to those of a child who needed guidance. Utterly confident in his own abilities, Nagato
showed no hesitation in fighting even the strongest opponents, nor in asserting himself against powerful Akatsuki members when need be. When speaking of Akatsuki's goals, Nagato
demonstrated a contemplative side as to the nature of war and peace, matching his belief that war was the inevitable result of the nature of humanity. While he declared his godhood to his
enemies, Nagato would privately admit that he was never anything more than an ordinary man who was seeking peace through the best means he knew how. When encountering enemies who
disagreed with his philosophy, Nagato would often request their own solution to the problems of the world before almost inevitably being dissatisfied with the response due to his low opinion of
human beings as a whole. Despite this, Nagato is stated to have gone as far as kill anyone from Amegakure who even questioned his idealsWATCH • 02:20
and even went as far as to kill infants of people who
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were even remotely associated to Hanzō.

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