Naraka Path


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 * Type: Kekkei Genkai
 * User: Nagato
 * Debut (Manga): Chapter 379

The was the sixth of Nagato's Six Paths of Pain to be seen. It was incapacitated during the invasion of Pain by Naruto Uzumaki's Sage Technique: Rasenrengan.

Appearance
When it was alive, the Preta path belonged to a tall, stocky, muscular man. The Preta path, like all of the six paths, possessed Nagato's Rinnegan eyes. It a spiky mop of orange hair. It had multiple body piercings, such as a circular stud on its upper nose, a diagonal row of studs on each of its cheeks, three spike piercings in each of its ears, and a stud on each of its shoulders near it's neck.

Abilities
Although it was physically strong enough to lift a man with one hand, the only ability exhibited by Naraka path lay in the use of a demonic being, dubbed as the "King of Hell". The King of Hell is a large head sprouting out of the ground surrounded by black flames and possessing Rinnegan eyes. The King of Hell could fill two purposes: interrogation and resurrection. To interrogate, the Naraka path need only catch hold of a person and asked them a question. After an answer was given by the target, the King of Hell's mouth would open to release tendril-like arms that force out the life force of the victim from his/her mouth. If the person was lying or refused to answer the questions, then the King of Hell would remove their life force and eat it, apparently killing them. However, if they told the truth, they would be spared, though left extremely exhausted.

The second ability of the King of Hell was resurrecting other people. It could do so by ingesting any part of the deceased person's body with the tendril-like arms from its mouth, and then after some time, the dead person would emerge from its mouth, completely restored and healed.

At all times when Pain's bodies were shown in a combat formation, the Naraka path always took a rear position with the others protecting it, behind even the Deva path. This indicates that the Naraka path is one of Pain's most important bodies.

Influences
In Buddhism, the Naraka realm, or "hell realm," is a plain of rebirth, based on strong states of hatred cultivated in a previous life or lives. The Naraka, imp-like humanoids, are continually tortured to death, and then revived, so that the torture can continue until their negative karma is entirely spent and they can reincarnate into one of the higher plains.