[ZGoten]

Originally Posted by Hunter

ZGoten it's a little short to make a whole thread but

Spoiler:

if you feel like writing here an opening post about Pain in general to discuss the Rinnengan, its supposed powers, Rikudou Sennin, etc. I will make the thread.

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Ok, thanks for this opportunity, here I go:

Spoiler for manga:

The truth behind the Rin´negan:

In chapter 373 the Rin´negan was introduced as the third and most powerful doujutsu in the Naruto series.
One of Jiraiya´s students, Nagato, surprisingly achieved it and killed a foreign chuunin.

In the same chapter we learned about the Rikudou Sennin (sage of the six paths). According to Jiraiya´s statement he also possesed the Rin´negan and had also been the founder of the ninja world and ninjutsu itself.

In the following chapters we saw Jiraiya fighting Pain, the possible leader of Akatsuki. He possesed the Rin´negan but we couldn´t really see him using it in the battle.
In that fight we saw six different bodies. They all are said to belong to Pain´s mind. All of those bodies look like shinobis Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochmaru had met before, probably in the second ninja world war and one of the bodies looks like Yahiko, another one of Jiraiya´s students and a friend of Nagato.

Right before Jiraiya sank into the waters of Akatsuki´s hideout, he wrote a message on grampa frog´s back: 9, 31, 8, 106, 7, 207, 15.
He told grampa frog to deliver this code to Tsunade, to tell her the true identity of Pain.


This entire story about the Rin´negan brings up many questions:
Who is Pain?
What is the code on grampa frog´s back supposed to mean?
Who is the sage of the six paths?
Are those "six paths" somehow connected to Pain´s six bodies?
What are the powers of the new doujutsu?

Also interesting in my opinion is that Pain said right after the battle was over: "If we haven´t kept our secret, we would never have won."
Did he mean the secret of his identity?

Let´s discuss about all this in this thread. I want to here your opinions and theories.
I´m looking forward to it.

EDIT: I hope it´s not too bad.