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Force Archer(??? force Archer?) is the leader of Akatsuki and the partner of Konan. He appears in the form of six entirely different bodies that share the same mind, collectively referred to as "The Six Paths of Pain" (????? Pein Rikudo?). The only common physical characteristics amongst them are their orange hair color, a number of body piercings, and the Rinnegan (???? lit. "Samsara Eye").[84] The Rinnegan, a unique eye technique characterized by a number of concentric circles around the pupil, allows the wielder to utilize any ninja ability.[85] Pain uses it to share visual information amongst all six bodies, giving them the ability to coordinate offense and defense as if they were a single entity. Each body possesses a unique skill; the body with a large ponytail, for example, can summon a wide array of creatures, while the rotund body is able to absorb attacks as a form of defense.[86] Following the capture of one of the six bodies by Jiraiya, a new body appears to replace it. Pain's might was enough to overthrow Amegakure's former governmental body, giving Pain control of the village and god-like status amongst its citizens.[87] When first meeting Pain, Jiraiya assumes the entity to have once been Nagato (???), an Amegakure orphan he trained in the past. Though Nagato was the first possessor of the Rinnegan that he encountered and Pain refers to him as sensei,[85] Jiraiya begins to doubt this initial assumption when he sees Pain's six bodies, one of them belonging to Jiraiya's fellow pupil, Yahiko (???). Realizing that all six bodies once belonged to ninja he encountered while wandering the Naruto world and that Nagato's body is not among them, Jiraiya risks his life to learn the secret of Pain.[88] He succeeds and is able to send one of Pain's bodies, along with a coded message reading, "the real one isn't with them" or, in an alternative reading of the statement, "there is no real one" to Konohagakure, though he is killed in the process. Once getting a replacement body to complete his Six Paths, Pain heads to Konoha shortly afterwards so as to capture the nine-tailed demon fox before his secret can be revealed.
As the leader of Akatsuki and one of the two sides of Amegakure's Civil War, Pain is an extraordinarily powerful ninja; his partner Konan confidently stating that he has never lost a fight.[7] He was able to single-handedly defeat and overthrow the former Rain village leader Hanzo (who was more than a match for all three Sannin during their younger days combined) and made short work of Jiraiya after unveiling all six of his bodies. Pain has been seen using the Shapeshifting Technique, which allows him to clone Akatsuki members using human sacrifices that they control and can use to engage enemies in place of themselves.[8] The clones formed are perfect copies of the original, possessing any unique genetic traits or weapons they may possess. The clone's abilities are proportionate to the amount of chakra given to the clone. His most important technique in regards to Akatsuki operations is the Illusionary Dragon Nine Consuming Seals. With the other members of Akatsuki, this technique begins a three day trial to forcibly extract the Tailed Beast from its host and forces it into a giant statue. There seems to be a order on which Tailed Beast they can seal at once as they are unable to seal the demon fox without sealing the other beasts as it would destroy the statue, possibly freeing all the captured beasts. Part of Pain's huge power stems from his Kekkei Genkai, Rinnegan eyes. This was originally possessed by the Sage of the Six Paths, the world's first ninja and the founder of modern ninjustsu. The Rinnegan's abilities are largely obscure but it does allow the user to use all five types of elemental chakra, as well as an unknown sixth element, an ability no ninja without it can possess. It also enhances his vision in a similar manner to the Hyuga's Byakugan, allowing him to see through solid objects and sense the chakra of barrier techniques. The most prominent fact about Pain is that he is not a single entity, but six individual bodies all acting together with one mind and will. He calls this the Pain Rikudo (?????). Normally he operates out of a single body and keeps the others stored in sealed room within a strange machine. The only common feature shared by these bodies is their bright orange hair and Rinnegan eyes. Each also has a vast number of body and facial piercings of various shapes, sizes, and patterns. Each one of Pain's bodies have a single special ability and defined purpose, and he coordinates his multiple selves together via their eyes. Each body can see and sense everything that the other bodies can, giving him a maximum of six fields of view, allowing him to co-ordinate powerful multi-directional offense and defense with incredible speed and precision. They also all carry strange black spear-like weapons that can disrupt a target's chakra on contact. Most disturbing, the bodies can apparently recover from even fatal injuries providing several other bodies survive. During battle, Jiraiya realizes that all the bodies are in fact those of other shinobi that he encountered on his travels although how they came to be part of Pain is still unknown.
