Punxx

True but where there's smoke there's fire. There haven't been any non-ninja related conflicts in the story line so far. If we look at the scope of Naruto so far, the timeline minus the timeskip hasn't taken up a huge amount of time really. Even if there were a war going on there's no guarantee that the lords would necessarily need the ninja. And because wars are so expensive, spending even more resources on Ninja may not be the best use of their money.

Yes we haven't seen them, but since we have no proof either way, we can't say they aren't there.

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