Six Paths Of Pain, The Akatsuki Leader

Pain (from the Naruto DATABOOK)

Catchphrase Text :
People, countries, and the world will know pain!!

Title Text :
The shinobi in which the Rikudou eyes reside, a "god" born form a cycle of strife

Body Text :
Akatsuki, the group that secretly plots to hunt the Jinchuuriki and capture the Bijuu!! Their leader is none other than Pain. In pondering his mysterious true identity, that which serves as a hint is the Rinnegan appearing in his eyes. What will this "god", describing himself as having "attained growth through pain", bring to the world? Will it be "peace", or will it be "destruction"!?

Ninja ID: ?
Birthday: ?
Height: 176.5 cm Weight: 57.2 kg Blood Type: ?
Personality: Emotionless
Favorite Food: Unknown
Least Favorite Food: Unknown
Desired Opponent: Uzumaki Naruto (the Nine-tails)
Favorite Phrase: 雨夜の星 "The stars hidden on a rainy night" (idiom referring to "things that may exist, but are nonetheless unseen" or "things that are extremely rare")
Hobbies: Unknown

Mission Stats, Academy Graduation, Chuu-nin exam passing: All "?"

Lower Left Text :
The expressions of Pain are always devoid of life. One is incapable of finding any form of emotion in his face.

Overall, nothing really big happened this week for Konoha, it seems every chapter for the past couple weeks has started with Pein asking “Where is Naruto??!!” “Is Naruto even in this village??!” it seems he is really not getting anywhere with his tactics of asking and then killing people. No one will tell him anything about Naruto, even if they did know where he was (which no one seems to actually know). But anyway so Pein kills these 2 guys in a pretty gruesome way involving tentacles of some kind (?), and then Konohamaru tries to sneak away but Pein sees him- but Ebisu-sensei comes out and challenges Pein so Konohamaru can get away (awww). Then Pein is about to kill Ebisu, and Konohamaru steps out in front and challenges Pein!!! OH it’s on I can’t remember what level Konohamaru is, he’s still pretty young, but maybe he’s learned a lot and he is the grandson of the hokage so maybe he will surprise us all…

Pein’s powers are slowly being revealed- previously we learned that his 6 bodies somehow communicate with each other, so they can all see what the others see. It seems that all the specific Peins have their own specialized ninja skill. Last week we also saw a creepy factory/temple looking building where they brought dead bodies, supposedly as some kind of tomb for the bodies, but it was very suspicious…then this week we learned that somehow Pein is using the ninja techniques that hte dead people knew. Pretty creepy…how can they stop Pein?

While the ninjas in Konoha try to hold down the fort and figure out Pein’s secret powers, Naruto is still training with the frogs…

But it seems like there’s a big roadblock in the way of using the new technique- the sage thing I think, where the frog “attaches” to Naruto and helps him be still and moving at the same time. The 9 tailed fox in Naruto is rejecting the frog from joining with Naruto, so that kind of sucks…it seems like something they would have thought of before? Especially since the frog is all sage and stuff? Probably he knows how to get around it but not until next week ;).

All I can say is, Kishimoto has mastered the art of keeping a character in limbo indefinitely. I seriously thought it couldn’t go another week without revealing whether Kakashi is dead or not, but nope I was wrong! Well I hope so anyway. This week it seems that Kakashi is passing over…with the requisite and ceremonious “flashback to promises made” and then black out frames with a few sollemn, sad words…and then we see Kakashi meeting his father in the afterlife…or so it seems…but is this the final chapter on Kakashi? I really hope not, he’s such a popular and important character, is this for real??!? There’s always the possibility that in the middle of talking with his father in the “afterlife” he gets pulled back out of it and saved by someone…*hint hint* Naruto get your butt back to Konoha!!

Ugh there’s so many rumors out there for this week’s naruto, and hard to tell what’s the real deal or not! It seems that it is highly suggested that Kakashi dies in this week’s manga chapter…but then I found the following alleged translation- not confirmed however, so don’t get your hopes up too much, but perhaps Kakashi doesn’t die? Despite the ominous flashbacks that seem to be in the manga chapter?

Flashbacks:

Page 2:

Kakashi: This is it…I’m about to die.

Page 3:

Pein: A summoning technique? He should be about out of chakra.

Dog: Good thing we made it in time, this reverse summon should take Kakashi to a safe location.

Dog: This guys is too powerful, the chances of us running away is slim, looks like we’ll have to use “that” and hold him off until reinforcements arrive.

Dogs: Arrroooooo…

Pein: This…this chakra is…

Page 4: Chapter title: Hope.

So it’s kind of hard to tell without seeing the pictures, but from the translation spoilers I’ve seen it seems that this week’s naruto chapter is the last we’ll see of Kakashi! nooooooo

Spoilers:

425: Those left behind
The cover picture is the KIA memorial and team Minato. It abruptly goes to a slide-show description of Kakashi’s past. Sakumo also makes an appearance.
At Obito’s (and others’ ) funeral, Rin and Kakashi lay down flowers. We see Obito’s goggles. Close-up of the Sharingan.
Without changing the Sharingan, what it sees becomes the Kyuubi. Kakashi is in his ANBU outfit. Guy is there as well.
Kakashi and his team use a jutsu without effect. Guy and his team are injured by one of the Kyuubi’s attacks, and are treated by Rin’s medical team.
Kakashi: “That was sloppy…! Guy”
Rin: “It’s all right, they won’t die…!!”
The barrier ninjutsu protecting the medical area is torn open by the Kyuubi’s claws. A beam of chakra is shot towards there.
(Damnit…!!) Kakashi seemingly takes a direct hit, but it turns out to be Rin shielding him.
Rin: “I must protect my comrades… I definitely cannot die here…”
Kakashi realises he again couldn’t save Rin. He cries.
“Only you… please forgive me!!”
He uses the Raikiri, injuring the Kyuubi’s foreleg, but the Kyuubi attacks back with his tails, directly hitting him.
Kakashi disappears behind a barrier, but the Kyuubi attacks once again with a chakra beam, when the Yondaime appears at the targeted place.
Kakashi: “Sensei…”
Yondaime: “Relax Kakashi, I won’t let this monster destroy the village”
He summons Gamabunta and, for some reason, a huge scroll and looks behind him, smiling.
Yondaime: “It’ll soon be over”
Kakashi faints. When he wakes up, he’s in a hospital room and hears from Guy that the Yondaime died in battle.
After that, there’s once again a funeral scene. Kakashi swears an oath in front of the grave, then the flashback ends.

Kakashi looks up at the sky, seeing the faces of Minato, Obito, and Rin.
“…that’s right… I still…have something I should do…”
The figures of Minato and co change into those of Naruto and co.
“You guys are living in a new era…”
After that, he closes his eyes
(This will be the last time… Lend me some strength, Obito…!!)
Summoned dogs appear, escaping from the rubble.
“I’ll be fine… apart from that, take this and go the place I specified” “Go!”
The dogs disperse
“You didn’t watch your back, Hatake Kakashi…”
Asura Pain appears behind Kakashi, stabbing him with a special new electrical saw.
“No… with this, you can’t escape”
He uses an extra-large Raikiri. The cloth on his arm and his mask are torn away by the electrical current, revealing Kakashi’s face.
“Your future is death…!!”
The extra-large Raikiri tears Asura Pain into very small pieces.
It ends with Sakumo, Minato and co watching over Kakashi as he uses up his last power.

I know it’s pretty early for the new spoilers to be out, but I started looking and found a youtube video of the supposed raws from the upcoming week’s Naruto 425 chapter. You can see what you think, it looks pretty real, Kakashi fighting Pein etc… too bad I don’t speak/read Japanese so I can’t actually tell exactly what’s supposed to happen next week, but you can get the idea since fighting is pretty self explanatory from the pictures!

Youtube

In case you were wondering why there’s no new naruto chapter this week…well it’s because there’s no new naruto chapter released this week. T_T I know. We have to wait a whole second week to find out if Kakashi actually dies or not…hopefully author Kishimoto got enough pleading fan mail in the meantime to convince him not to kill Kakashi…man that would be so sad.

But in any case it will be interesting to see what happens next. Will the new secrets about Pein, that Shizune is about to reveal to the village ninjas, help them in coming up with a new strategy to defeat him/them? Can Tsunade keep up her healing the entire village with her slugs? Or maybe it will be another week of close calls and fighting…always so many cliffhangers!

In any case hope you’re all having a good weekend ^_^!

While the rest of konoha is busy dealing with the multiple Peins attacking and destroying the village, Danzo has been plotting to overthrow Tsunade and take over Konoha!

Do you think anyone suspected Danzo of plotting this?? It was pretty obvious that he was bitter about the leadership of konoha, and he seems like a pretty militant, take matters into his own hands so I’d be surprised if everyone in the village is totally surprised that he would do something like this… but really good luck man, Tsunade has the whole family connections thing (her brother was the 4th hokage), and she was in the famous 3-ninja Sannin group with the 3rd hokage as the leader, so it’s no wonder she’s the hokage now. Plus it seems the villagers like her, unlike Danzo …would they really accept him as a leader?