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[cloudpotter]

[Apropos of nothing, towards the end of the return mingle...]

I'm in need of someone who wants to learn to become a ninja.

[This will surely end well.]

Comments

[starshaper]

[no, but that sounds like she may have found her ninja soulmate then.]

Really? Because I thought they always sneak around and do things silently.

[cloudpotter]

[she, yakumo's eldest cousin, kinji, and a couple of the ToQgers would all match startlingly well]

Once you've learned the rules, it's up to a ninja's discretion to break them. There are times when hiding is the smartest option... but it isn't always necessary. There is more to subtlety than just being quiet.

[starshaper]

Oh, so that's why the loud ones exist too [ in anime or wherever. ] And yeah, sometimes hiding is good even when it doesn't always work in magical worlds like my home world ... What kind of rules do ninjas have???

[cloudpotter]

[there is a long, long moment of silence while Yakumo tries to figure out if that comment about loud ninja is actually a pointed barb against his team. She... doesn't sound like she's being malicious. It's probably just coincidence.]

Those who are ninja do not give in to fears or worries. A ninja protects that which is dear to them, and never takes lightly the duties they're given. There are... other guidelines [sometimes], but most ninja are inclined to disregard them.

[Yakumo. Yakumo is inclined to disregard them. He is a troublemaking rulebreaker when the rules do not suit him.]

Above all else, where we're from ninja protect the world from the youkai who would destroy it. So long as we're accomplishing that much, there aren't many who would try to impose additional restrictions upon us.

[ninjayeehaw]

Ninja council did their best t'try an' impose on us, mind you. Yakki here just about fought them himself fer our right t'go rampagin'!

[cloudpotter]

Frivolity has no place in legislating. I won't listen to a council that has no understanding of the rules they're setting.

[except he totally did. for like two minutes. he probably definitely would have exploded at them afterwards if Jiraiya hadn't interfered.]

In any case, Chairman Jiraiya's corrected their impositions. They're not something we have to concern ourselves with any further.