Naraka Path

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

Appearance
When it was alive, the Naraka path belonged to a tall, stocky, muscular man. The anime showed him to be somewhat of a holy man in a small village, strongly emphasizing the power of prayer among his religious disciples. The Naraka path, like all of the Six Paths, possessed Nagato's Rinnegan eyes. It had a spiky mop of orange hair, which had been a gray-brown color while it was alive. 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 its neck.

Abilities
Although it was physically strong enough to lift a man with one hand, the only ability exhibited by the Naraka path lay in the use of summoning the King of Hell. The King of Hell is a large head which sprouts out of the ground surrounded by black flames and possesses Rinnegan eyes. The King of Hell could fulfill two purposes: interrogation and resurrection.

To interrogate, the Naraka path need only catch hold of a person and ask 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 energy of the victim from their mouth. The King of Hell then proceeds to pass its judgment. If the person was lying or refused to answer the questions, the King of Hell would remove their life force energy and consume it, killing them. However, if they told the truth, they would be spared, although left extremely exhausted.

The second ability the Naraka path possessed is the ability to repair other paths. It could do so by ingesting any part of the damaged 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. The King of Hell also has the power to resurrect the dead, though it is unknown if the Naraka path has access to this ability.

In all situations where 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's healing ability made it one of Pain's most important bodies.

Influences
In Buddhism, the Naraka realm, or "hell realm", is a plane of rebirth, based on Karma build up in a previous life or lives. There are various Naraka and in each, beings are tormented until their Karma has achieved its full result and the being can be reborn into a higher plane.

The Naraka are superficially similar to the Christian hell or purgatory, although there are many significant differences.