This short work gets to the heart of a debate about the ninja and the samurai. Many believe they are totally separate, while others think that the ninja were merely samurai with a role. The truth is rather more nuanced. Instead of a despised underclass forced to create ninjutsu to survive, the truth is that the ninja were fairly well off socially speaking.This ebook goes into the important details that explain that things are not so cut and dried on the subject. While the subject is deep and complicated, this work is kept fairly short by only dealing with the subject of whether the ninja and samurai were indeed mortal enemies or if they were rather closer together than most media sources now present them.