Shinobi, Koi Utsutsu

The heroine, Katagiri Kaede, goes to a ninja school! She lost her parents very young and her grandmother at 16. She is trying to become a ninja.

She attends a local ninjutsu dojo, and one day meets the head of the Sanada Secondary Training Campus (founded by Sanada Yukimura after beating Tokugawa Ieyasu), which trains ninja. He invites her to take a ninja exam, and she agrees, transferring to the school to do a short-term study before taking the test.