Character · Naruto
Nagato
A boy from a country everyone else used as a battlefield, born with a pair of eyes that rewrote what he was allowed to want.
In Otakana the clue reads: Rain orphan with ringed purple eyes
- Type
- Character
- Series
- Naruto
- Letters
- 6 · Normal
Nagato grew up in Amegakure, the Rain village, a small place squeezed between larger powers who fought their wars inside it. He lost his parents to soldiers who were frightened rather than cruel, and that is the detail he never gets past. He also has the Rinnegan, a ringed purple eye pattern the setting treats as the rarest thing a person can be born with.
With Yahiko and Konan he founded the group that later became the Akatsuki, meaning to end the fighting in their own country first. What survives of that plan by the time Naruto meets it is a man wired into a machine, moving six corpses at a distance through black rods, each body specialising in a different power and all of them speaking as Pain.
The argument he brings is the most direct challenge the series puts to its hero. He claims pain is the only thing that teaches, that peace built on anything softer does not hold, and he has the biography to back it. Naruto's answer is not a technique. Kishimoto spends the entire arc setting up a conversation rather than a fight.
Spelling NAGATO
NAGATO is six letters, na-ga-to, and the game wants this name rather than PAIN, which is what he is called through most of his appearances. Vowels land on tiles two, four and six, A twice then O once. The near miss is NAGATA, a real and fairly common Japanese surname, so check the final tile before you commit the guess.