Originally From: Unknown

Miscellaneous Information:
Tobi was formally Zetsu’s subordinate. He has a very formal and correct manner of
speech and wanted to fill in Sasori’s position in Akatsuki after he had
died. To his luck, he was eventually let in Akatsuki. In
chapter 362 Deidara blew himself up and it was believed Tobi died as well.
In chapter 363, however, a surprising turn of events takes place – Tobi is
seen giving orders to Pain! It is revealed that he is Madara Uchiha, the
real leader of Akatsuki, and one of the founders of the Hidden Leaf
Village. Madara created Akatsuki as a means to hide himself from the world, using their activities to disguise his own plans. As Madara, Tobi’s personality and speech become completely different, with
a much less formal speech and a more typically villainous sway. Tobi’s only
known abilities are that he can let attacks pass through him easily, and that
he has the power of the Sharingan.

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Originally From: Hidden Rain Village

Miscellaneous Information: Pain is the assigned leader of Akatsuki,
and is partners with Konan. He was told by
Tobi/Madara to capture Naruto, and that because he is the leader, he cannot fail.
Pain has shown us that he has as six different bodies which share the same mind,
and are known collectively as The Six Paths of Pain. These bodies all have
brown/orange hair color, piercing, and the Rinnegan doujutsu (which allows the user to perform any jutsu and manipulate all six types of chakra-nature
manipulation). All six bodies
are, in a sense, connected since they can share visual information seamlessly, giving
Pain the ability to coordinate offense and defense of all six bodies as if they were a single entity.

Each of the six entities that are Pain were ninja that Jiraiya encountered as he wandered the world.
Some of the abilities we’ve seen Pain’s bodies perform are detecting the movements and chakra levels of people traveling within
the rain (that he has created), the summoning jutsu, ability to absorb ninjutsu
as a form of defense and the ability to fire his left arm like a
missile.

Pain’s real name is Nagato, and he was left orphaned by one of the Hidden
Rain Village’s many wars in his childhood along with Konan (who is also a
Akatsuki member), and a boy named Yahiko (who is presumed dead). After one
of the wars, Jiraiya met the three kids, and became their teacher for a
short time. Sometime after Jiraiya left, Nagato started to view himself as a god destined to teach the world the meaninglessness of
fighting. Eventually ‘Pain’ came into existence and single-handedly killed
the Hidden Rain Village’s former leader, Hanzo and those affiliated with
him, and became somebody the village’s people worship.

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Originally From: Hidden Leaf Village

Miscellaneous Information: Killed everyone in his clan except for
his little brother, Sasuke. Initially, Itachi murdered his best friend, Shisui Uchiha, to gain the Mangekyo
Sharingan, but went on to massacre the rest of the clan, leaving only Sasuke.
Seven or eight years after the Uchiha massacre, Itachi reveals to Sasuke
that he had the help of Madara Uchiha, and the only reason he left Sasuke
alive was to steal his eyes. The Mangekyo Sharingan brings upon blindness
to the user, and the only way to prevent going blind was to take the eyes of one’s
sibling. With that goal in mind Sasuke was left alive to live hating
Itachi, and one day possibly awaken the Mangenkyo Sharingan. At some point in time Itachi joined Akatsuki. The timeline that has been given throughout the series coupled with his age suggests that he joined the organization prior to killing his clan.

Itachi is a genjutsu specialist, and can trap opponents within an illusion by merely pointing
or looking at them. He also relies heavily on his Sharingan in battle, and
uses them to reads an opponent’s movements and respond accordingly. With his Mangekyo Sharingan, Itachi
uses the attack Tsukuyomi to take his opponent’s mind into an alternate
dimension and torture them. A matter of seconds in the real world is equivalent
to hours to the person under control of Itachi’s Tsukuyomi. The Mangekyo
Sharingan is more than just genjutsu, however. There is a physical attack
associated with it – Amaterasu – a ninjutsu, which emits a black flame
several times hotter than the sun’s heat. Both the Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu
take up an incredible amount of chakra, so Itachi tries to wrap up battles
as fast as possible.

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Originally From: Hidden Mist Village

Miscellaneous Information: Kisame is one of the Seven Swordsmen of the
Mist, seven powerful ninja who utilize large and unique swords. He has
unimaginable amounts of chakra and wield’s a sword called Samehada, which
is a scale-covered sword that shaves things, instead of cutting them. It
also has the ability to absorb chakra and prevent anybody other than
Kisame to use it.

Unlike most members of Akatsuki who fight with one another, Kisame gets along
well with Itachi. He listens to what Itachi says and looks out for him,
indicating he ha a human heart. Oddly enough, Kisame has a distinctive shark-like appearance,
as he has pale blue skin, small white eyes, gill-like facial structures, and sharp triangular teeth.

Like others from the Hidden Mist Village,
Kisame uses water element jutsu in combination with his powerful physical
attacks. Even if there is no water source where he is fighting, Kisame can use
a Water Release Jutsu to create a lake’s worth of water to aid him in
battle.

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Partner: None

Originally From: Hidden Grass Village

Miscellaneous Information: Zetsu seems to have a split personality, as
half of him is black and the other is white. The black half of his face speaks in a deep voice while the white side in a lighter voice. The two halves
are often seem to talk to one another other and occasionally differ in opinion.
This split personality might be the reason Zetsu does not have a partner.
Along with having a “two-face,” Zetsu’s head is surrounded by
what looks like a venus flytrap.Zetsu has the ability to merge the ground, trees, and other
plants, which helps him immensely in his functions as a spy for Akatsuki.
He also eats the bodies of people Akatsuki does not want found, such as
spies and Akatsuki members who have been killed.

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Partner: Pain

Originally From: Hidden Rain Village

Miscellaneous Information: This is the only female member of
Akatsuki. In chapter 363 we finds out that she is Pain’s partner. Konan has blue hair
with a white flower in it. When she was younger, Konan and her teammates (Nagato,
and Yahiko) were left orphaned by one of the Rain Village’s many wars, forcing them to fend for themselves.
One day, they met Jiraiya, who stayed with them for a short while and
taught them the art of being a ninja. Konan has a unique ability where she
can divide her body into a countless pieces of paper. This paper can be controlled individually and formed into various shapes for a number of purposes, such as butterflies for scouting or
random weapons for attack. Her weakness is water, as when she uses her
paper abilities, the paper clings to itself and loses its stiffness

Originally From: Hidden Leaf Village

Miscellaneous Information: Orochimaru not being picked to be the
Fourth Hokage, led to him fleeing from the Hidden Leaf Village. He became
an Akatsuki member afterwards, but fled because of his fear of Itachi’s
power. Upon leaving, he kept his Akatsuki ring, which is currently still on the hand of his original body. The apparent special nature of his ring, his knowledge of their plans, and
his fleeing of Akatsuki without informing the leader have led to bad blood
between Orochimaru and Akatsuki. He found the Hidden Sound Village and
took Sasuke as his subordinate with plans to transfer himself into
Sasuke so that he could have the power of the Sharingan. Unfortunately for
him, his plan never fully materialized as Sasuke killed Orochimaru before
he could lay his hands on him.

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Miscellaneous Information: Flashbacks seem to indicate that his
descent into darkness started when his parents died. Sasori is a very
skilled a puppet master and controls
puppets in combat. He can even turn the living into puppets and than use
their jutsus. After killing Gaara with the help of his former partner
Deidara, he fought with Sakura and his grandmother, Chiyo. They had a
fierce battle, and in the end Sasori was killed.

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Miscellaneous Information: A fancy and skillful fighter, with special mouths in the palm of each hand, he is able to manipulate clay into either a flight-capable clay bird that can support
him or a a huge bomb that is capable of leveling a village without the use of exploding tags.
After Sasori’s death Deidara was partnered with the newest member of
Akatsuki, Tobi. The partnership didn’t last long as Deidara blew himself
up as his final work of art to try and kill Sasuke.

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Originally From: Seems to be from the Hidden
Rain Village

Miscellaneous Information: Hidan is first
shown with a three-bladed scythe and says
that he is the slowest attacker in Akatsuki.. He was a very religious
individual and prays to his chain of prayer beads before a fight, wishing
for nothing less than a kill. He believed in the Jashin (wicked heart) religion
where killing is encouraged and anything less than that is considered a sin.
He put his religon into practice by killing Asuma. Unfortunately for him,
Shikamaru could never forgive him for that and killed Hidan using
explosive tags.

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Originally From: Hidden Waterfall Village

Miscellaneous Information: Kakuzu is the tallest member of Akatsuki.
He is obsessed about money, and will do anything to get it. He also
dislikes Hidan’s religion as he believes that the rituals Hidan performs
are a waste of time. He gets in frequent arguments with Hidan because they
have two distinct personalities – Hidan is a religious type of guy, while
Kakuzu is a money man. The only reason Kakuzu puts up with it all because
be believes in the end it can bring him money. Kakuzu was heavily wounded by Naruto
using the Fuuton Rasenshuriken and then killed by Kakashi.

Unnamed Subordinate
His name is unknown
but he was the subordinate of the puppet master Sasori. He was a
replacement used in a shapeshifting jutsu and took on the shape of Kisame
as a diversion to hold off Gai, Rock Lee, Tenten, and Neji from entering
into Akatsuki’s Lair while they extracted the Bijuu out of of Gaara. He
was eventually killed by Gai when he was in the form of Kisame.

Cloak

(on Itachi and Kisame)

Forehead Protector

(on Itachi)

Painted Nails / Ring

(on Itachi’s Hand)

Ring

(on Kisame’s hand)