Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25294339-20141101162145/@comment-4685024-20141101182153

Aka Shi Crow wrote: Deva* I dont understand Nagato's mind:


 * If king of hell can repair bodies ¿Why he didnt used to repair his legs?


 * If Preta path was able to give him his youthful recovered look ¿Why he didnt asked a ninja as sacrifice to suck his/her chakra as a vampire?

The more i see the Six paths of Pain, the more i think they are an excuse for using Yahiko body as puppet.

For the first point; very good point. I would like to bring up my theory that I mentioned in a past comment. The King of Hell may not truly be able to rebuild a body to original working order, but instead just to return the dead corpses back to a full body state and not heal living bodies. The bodies didn't need to be able to have function body parts to work, since it was all manipulated through the chakra rods. It would make sense as well, since it is the "King of Hell", he/it would be able to restore a destroyed dead body back to it's original state.

tl;dr The King of Hell may not be able to repair living matter, but only dead ones since the dead is residing in hell, in a matter of speaking.