Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-27260817-20160215215709/@comment-2043993-20160219111216

while it could indeed help flesh out the universe, the Naruto universe is far more exciting when it's Ninja that's the focus of the story, a samurai turned Ninja would and could be an exciting character and would tie in well with the in universe history as noted by Hanzo. As antagonists a samurai could be fascinating in an initial storyarc, but given their focus on swords and lack of other skills they'd get boring to see fight when compared to what we're used to.