Konan

1. 1
   The war orphan

   A child of the Hidden Rain

   Konan is orphaned young by the Second Shinobi World War, surviving alone in a Amegakure that the larger nations have fought their wars across. She is a child with nothing, in a country with little more.

2. 2
   The three friends

   An orphan family

   She joins with Yahiko, then helps take in a starving Nagato. The three become a family, and when Jiraiya passes through, they ask him to teach them. He stays for years, and calls Konan the kindest of the three.

3. 3
   The original Akatsuki

   A dream of peace

   Grown, the three found the Akatsuki — not as a criminal ring but as a movement to end the wars that had orphaned them. Yahiko leads it; Konan and Nagato stand at his side; the dream is a world without this kind of grief.

4. 4
   Yahiko's deathDebut Arc · Pain's Assault

   The Angel of the Rain

   Hanzō and Danzō trap the three. Cornered, Yahiko throws himself onto Nagato's blade so Nagato will be spared. Konan, hardened by the loss, follows Nagato as he rebuilds the Akatsuki — his loyal partner, and the village's God's Angel.

5. 5
   Loss of Nagato

   Alone with the dream

   Nagato dies after Naruto reaches him and changes his mind about peace. Konan leaves the Akatsuki and takes up the leadership of Amegakure, the last of the three friends, keeping faith in the boy Nagato chose to believe in.

6. 6
   Her last stand

   Guardian to the end

   When the masked man comes for the bodies of Yahiko and Nagato, Konan fights him to protect their remains and the future they had believed in. She studies his technique, very nearly kills him — and dies in the attempt.

Konan is a master of paper ninjutsu, a style built almost entirely around a single idea: she can turn her body into countless sheets of chakra-infused paper and shape them at will. From those sheets she folds wings to fly, clones to fight in her place, blades and shields in an instant, and — when everything is on the line — a sea of explosive tags large enough to threaten the strongest shinobi alive.

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• Who is Konan?+

  Konan is a kunoichi of Amegakure and a founding member of the Akatsuki. Known as the Angel of the Hidden Rain, she fought with paper ninjutsu and was the lifelong partner of Nagato, the man who led the Akatsuki as Pain.
• What is Konan's paper jutsu?+

  Konan is a master of paper ninjutsu — she can turn her body into countless sheets of chakra-infused paper and shape them at will, folding wings to fly, clones, blades, shields, and her ultimate technique, a sea of explosive paper tags.
• Why is Konan called the Angel of Amegakure?+

  With her paper-ninjutsu wings unfolded, Konan resembles an angel in flight. The people of Amegakure gave her the title "God's Angel," as she served as the public face and intermediary of Pain's rule over the village.
• What happened to Konan after Nagato died?+

  After Nagato died — having been reached and changed by Naruto — Konan left the Akatsuki and became the de facto leader of Amegakure. She kept faith in Naruto and the peace Nagato had finally chosen to believe in.
• How did Konan die?+

  Konan died fighting the masked man who had manipulated the Akatsuki. She studied his technique and came very close to killing him, but he survived and killed her — as she defended the remains and the dream of Yahiko and Nagato.
• Has Konan been a Narutodle answer?+

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

  Konan's Amegakure village is the giveaway — a hidden village almost no other character on the board shares. Her Rogue rank and Akatsuki member attribute confirm her; she has no clan and no Kekkei Genkai.