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Originally Posted by Sugetsu
Well my biggest question is: Who created Akatsuki and for what purpose? Maybe the answer will be revealed to us at the end of the manga, or perhaps I am overlooked some important info.
Edit: Another very important question is, what was the role of pain in akatsuki? (or maybe he is still alive somehow?)
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Isn't all this already obvious? Madara told at the kage summit about the revival of the 10-tails, about the role of the rinnegan, about the secret script at the Uchiha place which tells about the 10-tails and the rinnegan.
Which means Madara was the one to learn about the 10-tails from the script, then he learned about the existence of a rinnegan user. Everything was given for his plan, to manipulate the rinnegan user to do what he wants but not let him know his true plan until all the demons are collected. Nagato was a mentally weak guy, so Madara used him, Madara told him about the power of the 10-tails and about the rinnegan being able to control it, then he probably told him to create akatsuki, or just hinted that so that Nagato would think that he was the one who had the idea to create that organization. Then Nagato created akatsuki and was leading it, he was giving the actual orders but the mastermind behind all that was Madara. Also Itachi was after Madara, so he most likely joined akatsuki not because of Nagato but because of Madara. Madara knew about Itachi's true intentions, that he is a spy who works against akatsuki, but he never told that to Pain/Nagato, the reason is probably that he feared Itachi could have done much more damage to him if he forced Itachi to take action. Also Madara did know of Itachi's plan, to die against Sasuke, he also did know about Itachi's sickness, so he just waited for Itachi to die instead of provoking a confrontation which would cause damage to akatsuki. And since Madara was not the direct leader of akatsuki Itachi was not able to reach him anyway, so Itachi was not a direct threat to Madara as long as he was hiding himself behind Nagato.