Chapter 369 offers a more in depth glimpse of just who Pein is. According to the low-rank shinobi Jiraiya has been interrogating, Pein is seen virtually as a god by the people of the Land of Rain but is so secretive that most people don’t know what he looks like. It is said that Pein comes from the Fuma clan, although nothing more about that clan is known at this time.

Amegakure, the Hidden Village in the Rain, had been in a civil war for years now. One …