the great ninja
When the Ministry erased the ninja order from history, they believed they had ended a legacy of shadows and blades.
They were wrong.
Hayate, the last trained ninja, survives by disappearing—moving from place to place, leaving no trace, no attachments, and no reasons to be hunted. Survival is his only rule, until he meets Aiko, a quiet archivist who preserves forbidden memories not with weapons, but with stories, songs, and shared meaning.
Together, they flee across a land tightened by control, learning that resistance does not always roar. Sometimes, it listens. Sometimes, it refuses.
As the Ministry hunts threats it can name, Hayate and Aiko build something it cannot see: a living network of trust, culture, and quiet defiance. Towns learn to stand without shouting. Power falters not through rebellion, but through irrelevance.
When Hayate finally chooses to stay—to be seen, to belong, and to protect without violence—he discovers that being “the last” was never about endings. It was about becoming a hinge between what was lost and what could endure.
The Last Ninja is a slow-burn action romance about identity beyond legend, love as partnership, and the courage it takes to stop running and let a better future take shape.