As each clan has secrets that are vital to their independence and prosperity, those who possess sensitive information about the clan and are deemed a security risk, having slipped from under the supervision of the clan leaders, are very serious threats to the clan’s survival. These threats must be eliminated at all costs and a band of shinobi are often dispatched to kill the nukenin. It is thus a suicidal fate to become a runaway unless the runaway is confident that they can defeat the clan’s best assassins.