Shini Akuma

Shini Akuma (神威悪魔, Akuma Shini) was a  hailed from. Formely known by his birth name, Ikuse Baraquiel (いくせバラキエル, Baraquiel Ikuse), Shini was a high-ranking within his birth village, being named  captain at the young age of ten. However, always possessing a rather twisted and sadistic mindset, Shini ultimately defected his village after reading tales about 's of  and became inspired by the act, and cemented his defection by murdering the  at the presence of his bodyguards, who attempted to kill him for his betrayal, but were unable to, and Shini went on to become a dangerous figure across the  before being stopped and killed by his twin brother.

Early life
Ikuse and his twin brother, Ryuun, were made orphans as their mother died during childbirth and their father had long abandoned them due to not wanting to have responsibilities as a parent. As a result, both siblings were raised in the streets, with only each other to truly trust, and not before long, both became involved in crime, committing petty crimes in order to survive, such as stealing food and supplies from stores and delivery wagons.

However, their acts weren't permanent as both brothers were eventually caught by a store owner, who was ready to severely, and physically, punish them before being stopped by a red-haired woman, who took pity on the two boys and offered to pay for the stolen food and decided to adopt both boys and raised them. However, not too long after that, both Chino and Ryuun became concerned about Ikuse's growing bloodthirsty traits, such as when Ikuse mercilessly killed a deer simply because it stared at him for too long, although both decided to shake their concerns off out of love and loyalty for Ikuse.

Growing tired of their uneventful and peaceful childhood, Ikuse urged his brother to begin training, and Ryuun agreed to, simply out of interest as both brothers had grown facinated with 's after witnessing a battle. Both brothers trained together, and while both brothers had natural talent for battle and ninjutsu, Ikuse was the superior one, being capable of performing many complex and difficult techniques with ease. Eventually, Chino discovered the two boys's secret trainings, but instead of simply prohibited them from continuing, she decided to allow them to continue training, thinking that their training practises could change Ikuse's growing psychotic tendencies. Eventually, the discovered the boys's talent and decided to enlist them into his personal  squad, despite Chino's protests. While Ryuun was reluctant, Ikuse jumped at the idea and eagerly joined the Anbu.

Over the next year, Ryuun and Ikuse participated in many missions together, often carrying out assassination requests from the Village Head, in which Ikuse performed brilliantly, while Ryuun often disappointed due to his more caring and friendly nature. For his tenth birthday, Ikuse was named "Captain" of the Anbu squad, while Ryuun was dismissed due to his unability to kill his targets in cold-blood. However, Ikuse protested his brother's dismissal, not out of loyalty, but out of jealousy as Ikuse had grown romantic feelings for Chino being her being the twins's legal adoptive mother and was resentful at seeing his brother living alone with her.

Defection from Takigakure
Ultimately, Ikuse's growing concerns about his unmoral feelings about Chino, his paranoia about his brother's supposed "relationship" with her, and his continuous merciless acts whilst under the Anbu caused Ikuse's mental state to deteriorate and after witnessing Chino giving Ryuun an innocent hug, Ikuse finally snapped and viciously assaulted his brother, and was close to killing him, before Chino stopped him. Lashing out at Chino for "loving" his brother instead of him, Chino immediately realized his assumptions and called him sick for assuming such an unmoral and "disgusting" type of relationship, and reinforced that she would never develop such feelings for either of her adoptive children. This rejection caused Ikuse to attack Chino in a blind fit of rage, and despite Chino's best efforts, she was unable to fend him off, and Ikuse ultimately killed her.

After snapping out of his rage, Ikuse finally realized what he'd done, but instead of feeling remorse or guilt, Ikuse simply laughed and proceeded to sexually violate Chino's now-deceased body, while Ryuun was conscious, but nevertheless helpless due to his injuries, and silently cried while watching the horrendous act. Ikuse was well aware of his brother's consciousness and continuously taunted while performing the act. Once finished, Ikuse fled from their home and traveled to the Village Head's residence, where after feigning an urgent report, immediately killed him by slashing his throat with a, all while in the presence of his fellow Anbu members. Ikuse then unleashed a smoke bomb and fled from the residence, but was pursued by the Anbu squad, but despite their best efforts, weren't capable of stopping Ikuse, who also managed to kill two of his pursuers before fleeing from Takigakure.

The news of Ikuse's inhumane acts and murders were quickly spread throughout the, and Ikuse was marked as a  and was placed as a priority target in the  for his crimes. Whilst traveling through the, Ikuse came across a library and read a book, which explained in detail about 's , and subsequent destruction, of , as well as his backstory, abilities, and ultimate goal. Having grown fascinated and inspired by the act, Ikuse decided to follow in Pain's steps and inherited his goal of world domination. However, Ikuse realized that his power was nowhere near as Pain's and decided to search for power similar to Pain's. Dying his hair orange to match Pain's, Ikuse traveled towards, Pain's birth village, and searched around for clues about his resting place.

After talking with numerous villagers who lived under Pain's rule, Ikuse ultimately found the resting place where 's body was laid to rest. Upon inspection, Ikuse found that Yahiko's body had two artificial created by 's power and stole both eyes for himself. Unsatisfied, Ikuse proceeded to collect Yahiko's body and headed towards an underground laboratory created by years prior, where upon further experiments and using Nagato's leftover  stored within Yahiko's body, Ikuse managed to create numerous artificial Rinnegan's, and implanted them throughout his body and declared himself the Second Pain (二代目ペイン, Nidaime Pein). In order to truly obtain his goal and carve his name in history, Ikuse abandoned his birth name and adopted the name Shini Akuma (神威悪魔, Akuma Shini) and stole an cloak, and announced his determination to revive the name as a one-man organization and conquer the world and fulfill Pain's dreams.

Personality
Ever since his childhood, Shini has displayed psychopathic tendencies, such as mercilessly killing a deer simply because it stared at him for too long. Aside from this, Shini also showcased a battle-hungry side, growing tired and resentful of his eventful and peaceful childhood and thirsted for battle and conflict, eagerly accepting the offer of joining 's squad.

Shini was also an intensely sadistic with brutal, violent tendencies. He possessed a fierce and dangerous temper, and was described by others as one of the world's cruellest shinobi, always eager to inflict pain and suffering upon others simply for his own amusement. Shini is shown to be something of a perfectionist, expecting nothing less from himself. He also reacts violently to criticism or if his plans either fail or if his pride is abashed.

Despite his preference for chaos and destruction, Shini was originally capable of feeling love, although his version of love was twisted and unmoral, as Shini developed romantic feelings towards his adoptive mother, Chino Uzumaki, from a young age, but kept his feelings hidden simply out of fear from a rejection. When his feelings were made clear, his fears were proven true as Chino not only rejected him, but discarded any thoughts about it, deeming Shini's obcession with her as "sick", which resulted in Shini murdering Chino in a fit of rage, followed by sexually violating her deceased body, which also proved him as a sexual predator. Following this rejection, Shini gained an unwavering disdain for women in general, deeming them simply as "tools" and only showcased sexual attraction towards them instead of genuine feelings, and whenever facing off against women in combat, Shini would not only openly admit his attraction, but vow to violate them once they were dead.

At his core, Shini relishes glory, power, agony, dominance, control, and destruction, as he shows in his enjoyment of attacking, as well as his maniacal glee from destroying countless towns and making his enemies suffer before he kills them. He is noted as being one of the most sadistic, callous, brutal, selfish, short-tempered, dispicable and megalomaniacal individuals without any sympathetic or redeeming traits. Even more, Shini has an outspoken disdain for such joyful environments. Shini holds a very deeply cynical view of others, believing everyone is as selfish and untrustworthy as himself. Ironically, Shini is outspoken against any and all forms of nobility, finding it such a nauseating concept, believing that the thought of honor and pride are "lies" to justify any killings and make the killer feel better about themselves, and deems any noble or honorable enemies as "liars" and refers to himself as the only "honest" shinobi in the world.

Shini's fascination with caused him to relish power above all else, desiring to become the "ultimate shinobi" by obtaining the most divine sort of power in existence:, and devoted the remainder of his life to fulfill "Pain's wishes", being completely unaware of 's noble intentions and ultimate act of redemption. While being called out on Nagato's true intentions, Shini dismisses Nagato's actual goal, deeming it as "lies" and proclaims that Nagato was "corrupted" by peace, further showing his delusional mindset.

Shini was also incredibly egotistical and arrogant. He had immense confidence in his skills and never hesitated to jump into battle against any shinobi, regardless of rank or status. Furthermore, Shini was immensely proud of his status as the most "loyal" and "devoted" follower of Pain, and responded with pure wrath at the mere mention of Pain's defeat and subsequent demise. Shini thought of everything in terms of power. He was somewhat willfully ignorant of people or matters which he considered to have no value. He was dismissive of non-prestigious due to their lack of unique abilities. Shini had very little attachment to anything that did not amplify his fame or existence, seen as Shini only agreed to spare his brother's life during their first battle simply because Ryuun would then be able to spread the news of Shini's victory over him throughout the lands.

Shini's arrogance inevitably led to his major downfall. He suffered from thanatophobia, a pathological fear of death, which he regarded as a shameful and ignominious human weakness. He equated death with being defeated or loss of domination, the ultimate humiliation. Because of his arrogance, Shini would constantly engage in battle without keeping his guard, allowing others to interfere in his battles, which ultimately led to his death at the hands of his brother,, and.

Appearance
During his early life, Shini had short black, spiky hair, which was despicted as being shaggy-looking style. During his time as part of 's, Shini's outfit consisted of a kitsune mask, a dark blue-grey robe with grey lining and a fur collar, and a tattered grey-blue cape. He also wore fingerless opera-length black gloves wrapped in studded red-brown leather straps, baggy black pants, and red-brown sandals.

After defecting from his home village and adopting 's original, twisted, mentality, Shini drastically changed his appearance: He dyed his hair orange to match 's and often allowed it to grow up to the point that gave him a bang that covered his left eye, but later cut it short again, and was often wearing an old, torn, cloak. Underneath, Shini remained bare-chested, and wore dark grey pants, with white leg-warmers and standard shinobi sandals. He also wore his Takigaure, although a scratched version to cement his defection, while occasionally discarding it for a simple blue bandana. Shini also possessed numerous implanted throughout his body: One in each eye socket, one in each shoulder, one in his suprasternal notch, three across his lower hip, one in each backhand, and three across each forearm.

Abilities
Shini's position as a former captain was well-deserved, as even before becoming an official, Shini possessed tremendous natural skills for battle. During his first training session, Shini showcased being capable of performing numerous difficult techniques, such as the Shadow Clone Technique, (as well as an exploding version), and the Substitute Technique.

deemed Shini's power even greater than 's when the latter had fought him in the past, exclaiming that Shini had greater mastery over his abilities than Pain. After obtaining the, Shini was also capable of using Summoning Rinnegan to summon animals that also possessed the Rinnegan. During his final battle, Shini was capable of overwhelming Ryuun Baraquiel, Naruto Uzumaki, and all at once, before being slowly overwhelmed himself due to his growing loss of stamina. Sasuke stated that without Shini's loss of stamina, they would've probably been defeated by him.

Charka and Physical Prowess
Shini possessed resilient amounts of and unlike Nagato, who needed to distribute his chakra across his, Shini's chakra was only focused on himself, allowing him to battle at greater pace and power than Nagato ever did. His actual chakra reserves were unusually vast, which were even further enhanced with his, enough that he could perform various, chakra-taxing techniques all within minutes of each other, and repeat it numerous times without visible signs of exhaustion.

Following his first fight with his twin brother, Shini's power increased due his body absorbing the experience and adapting from receiving its first actual challenge, and allowed Shini's endurance and stamina to increase, although Shini wasn't aware and pushed his body past its own limits, which ultimately resulted in his body giving out on him and leading to his eventual defeat, and demise.

Nature Transformation
During his training sessions with his brother, and later his harsh training whilst part of 's, Shini learned how to perform all five of the basic , as well as and , accomplishments extremely rare even for adults, let alone ten year-olds. Through, Shini can unleash countless fireballs at once, and by increasing his chakra, increase the fireballs's size and power.

With, Shini can create powerful gusts of wind that can sends countless targets flying at dangerous speeds with the possibility of death upon mere impact with an object, as well as create an external source of wind, which are capable of slicing through their target with ease. While the latter are usually depicted needing the assistance of wind fans to use the technique, Shina can use it by using his bare hands to create wind.

Shini's affinity is for, and his most effective choice for techniques. Shini can create tigers made of pure lightning and strike his enemies from either a distance or while standing right in front of them. He can also unleash a electricity-based dragon to bite his opponents to either cause severe damage or mobility paralysis, with the latter being used to interrogate his enemies for information without the chance of escape.

By combining his Lightning and -based chakra, Shini becomes capable of unleashing the. With it, Shini can summon and control lightning and hurricanes and unleash both towards his enemies, and can also blind his opponents with strong flashes of light in order to catch his opponents off-guard.

Rinnegan
Shini possesses multiple implanted throughout his body after stealing from 's body and using 's leftover chakra from within him to create numerous, artificial, Rinnegan. With these eyes, Shini has heightened perception and is able to perform various complicated attack patterns.

With this, Shini has access to many of the Rinnegan's primary abilities and techniques, such as being capable of absorbing all sorts of and ability to forcibly extract a person's soul, although Shini was never truly able to fully execute the technique as his attempts were prevented each time. Shini can also manifest chakra chains, which bind anyone they touch, through the Outer Path.

Through the Deva Path, Shini had the ability to utilize Chibaku Tensei, which creates a black sphere between Shini's hands that he hurls into the sky. When the sphere is activated, it generates a powerful gravitational pull, attracting everything in the vicinity to it until a large satellite is created; Shini control how large the satellite becomes depending on the amount of power utilized, although the full extent of Shini's capability wasn't displayed as Shini utilized it during the final stages of his final battle, when Shini was nearly out of chakra and stamina.

Also through the Deva Path, Shini was capable of using Shinra Tensei, allowing him create a "repulsive force" (斥力, sekiryoku), which pushes away everything in the vicinity. This repulsive force is most commonly created around Shini as a defense, repelling nearby opponents or incoming ninjutsu; it can also be used to disperse ninjutsu that have already struck him, such as.

Intelligence
Shini was highly intelligent, as evidenced by his top performances during his training sessions, and his tremendous achievements during missions whilst under the, but his interests were narrowly focused on powers to his goals. His inability to see the larger picture and inattention to events, powers and human traits that were not immediately useful to him was a serious flaw that led to most of his setbacks and ultimately his downfall.

Thoroughly studying the allowed Shini to obtain a vast knowledge about the dōjutsu, which allowed him to utilize the dōjutsu's power to its maximum extent. However, despite his vast knowledge of the Rinnegan's abilities, Shini was still occasionally caught by surprise by 's Rinnegan abilities, such as Amenotejikara and his.