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Well that's one route, but still you don't think like a ninja!

It's ok.

Still not a Ninja. ~shakes head.~
A Ninja wouldn't run. Being a student at the Academy is basically the same as being contracted under a Lord. Missions would be taken and completed; but they would be completed in a Ninja Like Fashion!

...you...know...like...nothing about ninja other then the obvious don't you? sweatdrop

Loyalty and Money were basically it. They were mercenaries for the most part, thus if they were paid properly the mission would be done. Loyalty would generally be to one's own clan, or family, but occasionally to a Lord.

Very few ninja operated alone, and frequently those that did, did so because they were either outcast, the last of a clan, or because they were out for revenge. Additionally modern pop culture, and old folklore has actually added a loooooot of bullshit about ninja. ^_^"

Assassination. Espionage. Arson; and various Terrorist acts. Ninja did have honor, but their code of honor was different from that of the Samurai. Samurai had a strict honor code, they would not perform underhanded acts, and would fight openly. In the time the term Shinobi was first coined the Feudal Lords had need of men willing to do what the Samurai would not. Ninja first started out merely as spies, most of which came from Iga and Koga. In time these two places began training their agents more specifically, and their pool of tasks grew. Not all ninja worked in the field. Most of the higher ranking ninja actually served to organize things. Keeping tabs on who went where, contracts, payments, equipment, and the like, acting in a more supervisory role then the lowest ranking Ninja who performed only field work.

Several ninja were in fact loyal to a specific lord, though in truth these particular ninja were coined as such by their descendants and others. The famous 'ninja' Hattori Hanzo was actually a Samurai, with ancestry in Iga. Several of his descendants actually wrote 'Ninja Manuals' thus leading to the belief that he himself was a shinobi, or at least trained as one.

I get that you don't want them to be the perfect Shinobi, but as she is...she's basically a lil girl playing ninja.

I will admit perhaps I'm being overly critical right now and I'm not entirely sure what's gotten into me actually. Now as for why they'd send someone important. They could owe the Organization a favour for one. Secondly the Organization ruled the world once, assuming that is likely to occur again it wouldn't hurt to be on their good side. Better to be the right hand of the devil then in his path. In this case it seems more likely to be training seeing as the Academy doesn't exactly pull punches.

A nightmare ...good luck, Jazz. heart

You arrive back JUST in time to witness my demise, lol