Mama Kaze

In Saizo and Kaze’s house, Kaze was putting a sleepy fox (Selkie) to bed.

“Aww do I have to go to bed so soon?” the Kitsune asked.

“Well like they say in Hoshido; early to bed, early to catch the worm… Or, is it rice?”

“Tell me a bedtime story! Tell how Kaze found Selkie and Selkie rescued Kagero!”

“Okay, okay…” Kaze hung his head back in recollection. “It all started when Saizo, Kagero and I went to the Kitsune Hamlet for a vacation.”

“We banished all the Mokushujin from Hoshido, but Kotaro found a way to escape into your father’s village. And when we got there, the place was deserted! Then, ninja football players grabbed Kagero!”

“Wait, nobody equipped a weapon on me, I want a do-over!” Kagero yelled.

“Saizo was attacked by a Nohrian wizard, and a rabid wyvern!”

“…Great.”

“And I found myself face to face with a ninja with a Wolfskin!” The beast charged at Kaze, knocking him off a cliff. “Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaawww!”

“I fell for hours!”

“Wow, hours? Long time!”

“Well, it felt like hours anyway. I was falling. Nothing below me but boiling lava! Good thing I found a Pegasus!” Kaze landed on the Pegasus, and it thrashed in pain, as it plummeted. Kaze leapt over to a solid ledge, heedless of the Pegasus’s fate.

“Oh! Then Kaze pick up items off ground!”

“Okay smarty, what happened next?”

“You found me!” Kaze walked over and found a fox cub with extra tails. “Mama?”

Selkie was giggling to herself. “Hahahaha! I called you ‘Mama!’”

“Yeah well I didn’t think it was that funny…” Kaze muttered.

Kaze carried baby Selkie in his hands through the cave, when the two of them heard the stomping of Wolfskins behind them.

“Yum, Kitsune!”

The ninja warily narrowed his eyes and stepped back. “Stand down, you Wolfskins. You’re dealing with a licensed ninja!”

“Yeah, so?” asked one Wolfskin. “I ate a ninja yesterday!”

Kaze gulped and proceeded to run away from the Wolfskins. They kept clawing at him as they ran, but eventually Kaze lost them in another tunnel, and made his way to the surface.

“Phew. Back in the forest.” He set Selkie down. “Okay, I gotta find Saizo and Kagero. You stay here while I catch my breath.”

With that, Kaze lied down, and Selkie immediately wandered off. Kaze groaned and got back up, following Selkie further into the woods. The Kitsune was smelling a flower, when Kaze picked her right back up.

“Hey. I told you to stay put.”

Selkie’s tails began to wag. “Look Mama Kaze, lizards!”

“Stop calling me…” Kaze turned around and saw that a group of wild wyverns were headed his way. He gulped again. “Saizo, wherever you are, HEEEEEEEEALP!”

“I wanna plaaaay!”

“Well I think these wyverns are playing for keeps, so-”

“I WANNA PLAY NOW!” Selkie then leapt from Kaze’s arms and did a rolling attack right into the lead wyvern. The dragon wailed in pain and retreated before Selkie did the same thing to the others.

“I’M-A COMIN’ KAZE,” Saizo bleated in his monotonous voice. He emerged from sudden smoke, but the danger had passed. He glared at the little Kitsune.

“What, this fox is giving you trouble? Pathetic. But all right, I’ll kill it for you.” Saizo was then jumped by Selkie. “Blaaaah! Great, now I know how a Nohrian feels…”

“Selkie, get off him! That’s my brother, Saizo!”

Kaze managed to get the boisterous fox off his brother, and whom himself managed to regain composure. Kaze chuckled. “I guess that’ll teach you to mess with little Selkie.”

“Mama Kaze!” Selkie nestled herself against Kaze’s chest.

“I already told you, I’m not your-”

“Mama? Mama Kaze?! Heh. Heheheh. …Heh.” Saizo cleared his throat. “Anyway, Kotaro has Kagero tied up in his underground disco palace. I fought my way out, we have to go back for her!”

“Mama Kaze don’t leave Selkie!”

Kaze sighed. “No, I won’t leave you. But you have to behave. And stop calling me ‘mama.’”

“Mama Kaze…” Selkie fell asleep in Kaze’s arms.

“So we jumped into a nearby canyon and made our way to Kotaro’s new palace, where the bright red and blue floors affected our classes.”

“Yikes! Why aren’t we Ninja Masters anymore?” Kaze asked.

Saizo pointed to a glowing spot. “If we use the Dragon Vein over there, we can change which floors do what!”

“But we don’t have our lieges with us!”

“… ARGH! Let’s just go…”

LOOKING FOR YOOOOOOU!

Saizo and Kaze made it to Kotaro’s throne room. From the shadows, Kotaro sent out automata to attack the brothers. They both fled from the robots, until Kaze realized Selkie was not with them. He turned around, and saw the little fox bashing all the automata… after having trashed all the decorations in the throne room.

“Uh… Saizo, I think we’re good.”

“Huh?”

“My throne!” Kotaro yelled. “My throne room!”

Saizo turned to Kaze. “You didn’t tell me you were bringing a secret weapon, Kaze.”

“That’s Mama Kaze to you, Saizo,” Kaze wheezed.

Then Saizo glared at Kotaro. “All right. Tell us where Kagero is, or Selkie will take your castle apart until we find her!”

“I can find another castle, but you’ll never find your friend!” Kotaro boasted, holding a key. “Without this key, you’ll never find her!”

“Not even with Locktouch?” Kaze asked.

“…Drat.”

“And so, we made our way back to Shirasagi after saving Kagero. All thanks to you, Selkie.”

In the present, Selkie was already asleep. Kaze smiled.

“Goodnight, Selkie. Ebebebebebeb.”

“…Night, Mama Kaze…”

To that, Kaze shrugged.





We don’t normally do drabbles anymore in observation of a character’s birthday, but I thought this would be funny. It’s based off the Super Mario World cartoon, because there’ve been jokes comparing the ninja bros to Mario and Luigi. Happy birthday to Kaze and Saizo.

-Mod Jakob