Episode 2

**I Want to Be a Ninja** is the 2nd episode of Under Ninja anime series.

## Synopsis

Kuro's been assigned a mission to infiltrate Kodan High School, but while waiting for his enrollment to finish, he's tasked with confronting a mysterious assailant with a very particular target.

## Summary

Kuro faces the Rear-Enders' leader and tells her to surrender and he will guarantee her survival. The girl takes out a rotating twister dagger, noting it can pierce his blade-proof hoodie and doubts he will survive. Kuro then tells her to look at her arm holding the dagger. She see a red laser and Kuro explains that they came prepared and if he gives signal, she will lose her hand. Meanwhile, Kato reminds Ozu about an incident this summer of a foreigner who was cutting male organs. As the foreigner was making noise about ninjas, the top brass were concerned and formed a group of genin to deal with him. Ozu remembers the case, since he was essentially the first to contact the foreigner.

Back on July 23rd, the Foreigner wants to be a ninja and goes around looking for one. Meanwhile, a crazy old man chases some kids, offering them to drink some breast milk. While looking around, the Foreigner sees a torii gate symbol at the bottom of a post. He quickly assumes its a hidden ninja symbol and starts looking around and sees a note stating that if you piss there, you thing will be cut. He takes a picture of the symbol and the note and calls someone who knows. The other man is in Germany on a mission right now and carries a child, and seeing the images, he confirms that they are hidden ninja messages. After bumping into a man, he proceeds to explain that the note says to cut the man's thing of anyone who pisses on the wall. After he cuts a few, the ninja will contact him. The man he bumped into, then dies and the man tells the Foreigner that he is taking care of his daughter, which is quite useful during assassination missions. The Foreigner then decides to cut three and he will become a ninja. And once he becomes a ninja, he will be able to save his daughter.

Kawado heads home. She sees some old drunk man pissing and he calls her a pervert for looking at him. As she passes him by, she sees the Foreigner waiting. At home, Oono dresses up and Kuro shows up wondering why he is wearing Kawado's bra, and suggest he tells him about over a drink. Oono states that Kawado drank all his bear, but Kuro knows that he has a plum brandy, which his mother sends each year. While drinking, Oono explains that two weeks ago, when he was fired from his old job, while coming back home drunk, he saw a flying bra. He grabbed it, but felt he was being watched. As he looked down, he saw a young boy's ghost watching him. Kuro guesses its probably some kid from the neighborhood with a drone. Kuro had noticed that some kid was peeking at Kawado's room and guesses that he is the one who is stealing her underwear too. Kuro notes that if he explained what happened and returned the bra, everything would have been fine, but Oono explains that he got scared and went home, where he also ended up throwing up in the bra. He washed it the next day, but felt it would be weird to return it washed. Kuro however still wonders on why he is wearing it. The news report that last night in Nerima Ward's Koinu neighborhood, a man was attacked. The attacker also wrote on the wall that he wants to be a ninja.

On July 24th, at night, the old man with the breast milk prepares to pee. The Foreigner sneaks behind him and cuts his thing, but realizes its just a sausage. The old man then quickly jumps on the Foreigners back and then jumps and walks on the wall. The Foreigner realizes that he is a ninja and is happy that he finally met one. As the foreigner takes out a karambit knife, the old man realizes he is a Russian assassin. The two start fighting, but the old man blocks or dodges all of the Foreigner attacks. He eventually manages to disarm him, however the Foreigner takes out a small gun and shoots the old man. The Foreigner continues to shoot and manages to hit the old man on he shoulder, however there is no blood. The old man's torso then becomes invisible and he runs away.

Eight hours earlier, Kuro takes the bra from Oono and decides to try it too. Kato then shows up and Kuro excuses himself that he is rehearsing at being a weirdo so that people stay away from him. Kato sees the hoodie and realizes it was in the package he gave him. Kato then asks for update on his mission and Kuro explains that he figured his mission is to infiltrate a school. He is currently on standby since his entrance exam is on Saturday. Kato notes that this means he has three free days and asks him if he herd of the Nerima Slasher, and gives him the job to dispose of him. After Kato leaves, Kuro had noticed that he froze when he saw the hoodie, so Kuro guesses there must be something more about the hoodie.

Back at the present on September 9th, Kuro zips up his hoodie and says a phrase. The hoodie then turns invisible. The girl recognizes that its the latest Marishiten model, but stats it conceals only the upper body. She attacks Kuro, but he hits her in the eye and breaks her arm on a rail. Kato asks Ozu if he had ever see Marishiten latest model, 4.0. Ozu states he haven't as they only go to front-line operators.

On July 25th, a young girl looks for a foreigner in a blue hoodie. The old man with the breast milk tells her that she needs to eat properly and offers her some breast milk, but the girl runs away. Kato then shows up in front of the old man. The girl continues to look for the foreigner and ends up finding him hiding under a shrine. She states that she is playing hide-and-seek and since she found him, he lost. The foreigner confirms that he lost, since he couldn't defeat a ninja and even used a gun. He asks the girl to bring him some water and how old she is. After she tells him she is 10, the Foreigner explains that he has a daughter that was recently born, however he doubts he will ever see her again since he failed his mission. He doesn't think that the ninja will let him escape, but also his employers won't forgive his failure.

Kato speak with the old man Sasama and asks why he stepped down. Sasama explains that he trusted them to cover his back, so he kept moving forward, but as each door he opened, there were only more doors and no exit. Sasama is a former First Class Ninja. He wonders why the Prime Minister haven't used them in seventy years. They are also 200,000 and most are in Japan. Even more, the top Chunin class are also being recalled from overseas duty and stuck working missions inside Japan. Sasama then states that all answers lead to UN, aka Under Ninja, and then leaves.

## Characters

* Kuro Kumogakure
* Miracle Hibi
* Suzuki
* Shion Hachiya
* Kato
* Ozu
* Foreigner
* Sasama
* Kawado
* Oono
* Eita