Asura Path

The was the fifth of Nagato's Six Paths of Pain to be shown. It was destroyed twice during the invasion of Pain, first by Kakashi's Lightning Cutter and then for a second time by Naruto's Rasengan.

Appearance
When it was alive, the Asura Path belonged to a tall, bald man with an unusual body shape, possessing a very thick neck, no ears and a large jaw. In the anime, the Asura Path was shown to be a wandering puppeteer with insight to the world. He also had part of his face obscured by a rice hat in the anime, possibly hiding a headband that had not been shown in the manga, as Jiraiya quickly discovered that he was a ninja. The Asura Path's unnamed puppet was made to look like a baby, and was capable of emitting infantile cries.

The Asura Path, like all of the six paths, possessed Nagato's Rinnegan. It was the only body to not have orange hair, simply because it had no hair at all. It had a vertical ring piercing on its nose, six spike studs all around its head, three studs on the top and bottom of each of its six arms, an enormous cylindrical stud on its chin, and two vertical studs on each of its upper cheeks. The body had three faces, each with a different expression, and two of which appeared from the sides of its head only when it removed its cloak in a fight: happy (its normal face), angry, and neutral.

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Influences
In Buddhism, the Asura Path is the realm of the demi-divine warring demons. They are sent to this plane because of actions based on jealousy, struggle, combat or rationalization of the world. Following a common depiction of Asura, this path has six arms and three faces, each of which display a different emotion.

Trivia

 * The Asura Path has a few similarities to fellow Akatsuki member Sasori. He, too, was a puppeteer ninja (although this was only shown in the anime), whose body was heavily altered into what appears to have been a puppet form. Because of this, he was similarly-resilient to damage, being able to take a Lightning Cutter from Kakashi after already having been damaged numerous times, and still function enough to later fire a missile at Chōji. Unlike Sasori, however, the Asura Path seems to be more robotic. He also cannot pull himself back together when smashed apart, and instead must rely on the Outer Path to do so.