Big ups Kaze/Felicia.
Word count: 528 words.
Ninja Training 101
"To be a ninja," Kaze begins, his voice gentle amidst the Hoshidan breeze. "Is to be like the wind."
"Like the wind," Midori nods, mimicking her father's hand signal.
"Like the wind!" Kana giggles, her signal backwards and wildly imprecise.
"Silent as a whisper," Corrin grins, his signal different altogether. "Subtle as the shadows!"
"You must act swiftly," Kaze says. "Yet carefully—with conviction and without hesitation."
His words catch the attention of a passing maid and songstress, who watch on with intrigue.
"They seem like they're having fun," Felicia says, her hands full with laundry. "Heehee! Wouldn't you say, Lady Azura?"
"Mm," Azura hums, eyes set on her jubilant prince. "Some a little more than others, it would seem."
Kaze senses the audience at his back and steels himself accordingly.
"Observe."
The wind picks up as he vanishes, a spectacle so striking that it leaves the class in awe and Felicia distracted.
"There he goes again," she sings. "Now you see him, now you don—w-whuh-wh-whooah!"
The offending pebble that Felicia stumbles over is summarily thwarted by the changing winds. Kaze reappears in a flurry of dancing leaves, catching her in one hand whilst balancing her basket in the other.
"Beloved," he says to her without skipping a beat, drawing gasps and coos from his daughter and Kana alike. "Are you alright?"
"A-ah! K-Kaze?! O-oh, um, y-yeah!" the maid stammers, her face alighting all over. "I-I was just um, not watching where I was going again l-like always a-and—"
"This path is far from pebble-proof, dearest," Kaze smiles as he sets her upright. "Please be careful in the future. I would hate to see you hurt, or our garments scattering in the wind."
"R-right! T-that would be pretty bad, wouldn't it? Heehee, t-thank you, love."
Kaze moves to release her while letting another endearment slip from his lips, but it is at that moment that Azura chooses to trip over the air itself.
"Oh no," she bemoans her cruel fate without a hint of emotion. "Whatever shall I do...?"
Corrin's ears perk up in an instant, pureblooded instinct and burgeoning ninja prowess melding together into a sporadic sprint faster than the eye can follow; a mad dash that cleaves the wind itself in twain, leaving only dust in its wake.
"I've got you!" the self-proclaimed daylight ninja exclaims, stretching his arm to cushion the songstress' fall with his half-shifted claw. "Ninja! Fwoosh!"
"Corrin," Azura chides amongst the oohing and aahing of the children. "What are you doing? This is cheating!"
"Huff... ahaha... huff.. hah... What?" Corrin pants in-between laughter. "Cheating? I haven't learned how to appear out of thin air yet! I'm just making up for that the only way I know how! Speaking of which, I'm getting pretty good at this, aren't I? I may just end up becoming the world's first dragon ninja at this rate!"
"Uh uh! Not if I beat you to the punch, Papa!" Kana boasts as she manifests alongside Midori. "Double tag team ninja fwoosh! Tada!"
"Wha... How... We all started at the exact same time! How did you two do that?!"
Needless to say, the laundry falls slightly behind schedule.