Hidan

1. 1
   The village that gave up the sword

   Yugakure lays down its arms

   Hidan's home, Yugakure, abandons the shinobi life to become a quiet resort town. Hidan has no interest in a quiet life — the change leaves him with nothing the village still wants.

2. 2
   The cult of Jashin

   Killing as worship

   Hidan finds the cult of Jashin, a faith that treats slaughter as devotion. He kills his own neighbours in its name and leaves Yugakure a missing-nin, his religion now the whole of his life.

3. 3
   The gift of immortality

   A body that cannot be killed

   A Jashin ritual grants Hidan what he most wants — a body no wound can kill. Cut apart, scattered, run through, he simply keeps living, and keeps talking.

4. 4
   The Akatsuki's pair of immortalsDebut Arc · Twelve Guardian Ninja

   The Zombie Combo

   Hidan joins the Akatsuki and is paired with Kakuzu, the only other member who refuses to stay dead. The two are nicknamed the Zombie Combo — and cannot stand one another.

5. 5
   The death of Asuma

   He marks a Leaf jōnin

   Hidan drinks the blood of Asuma Sarutobi, links their bodies through Jashin's ritual, and kills the Konoha jōnin slowly — wounding himself so the wounds land on Asuma instead.

6. 6
   Buried alive

   Off the board forever

   Shikamaru Nara hunts Hidan down to avenge Asuma. He cannot kill an immortal — so he blows Hidan to pieces and seals the still-living parts deep beneath the Nara forest, alive and trapped.

Hidan was not a fast or clever fighter — he did not need to be. His entire style rested on a single fact: he could not be killed, so he could afford to be hit, cut, and run through. What made him deadly was the curse jutsu his immortality unlocked, a technique that turned every wound he took on himself into a wound on the enemy he had marked.

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• Who is Hidan?+

  Hidan is a missing-nin of Yugakure and a member of the Akatsuki. An immortal zealot of the death-god Jashin, he was partnered with Kakuzu, and the two were nicknamed the "Zombie Combo" for their refusal to stay dead.
• Is Hidan immortal?+

  Yes. Through a ritual tied to his faith in Jashin, Hidan cannot be killed by any wound — he survives being cut apart or scattered. He still feels pain, however, and could in theory die of starvation or thirst.
• What is Jashin?+

  Jashin is the death-god Hidan worships. The cult of Jashin treats killing as an act of worship, and a Jashin ritual is the source of Hidan's immortality and of his signature curse jutsu.
• What is Hidan's curse jutsu?+

  Hidan's signature technique is the Curse Technique: Death Controlling Possessed Blood. After drinking a target's blood and standing inside Jashin's ritual symbol, any wound he inflicts on himself is reflected onto the linked victim.
• How did Hidan die?+

  Hidan never died. Because he is immortal, Shikamaru Nara could not kill him — instead he blew Hidan to pieces and sealed the still-living parts deep beneath the Nara clan's forest, leaving him alive but trapped forever.
• Has Hidan been a Narutodle answer?+

  Hidan is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date he was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
• How do you guess Hidan in Narutodle?+

  Hidan's Nature Types column is the oddity — it is empty, a grey row almost no one else shows. His Yugakure village is rare, his Juinjutsu jutsu type is uncommon, and his Akatsuki member attribute confirms.