I'm baaack! More nonsense, since it seemed to be appreciated. Saizo stalks the Nohrian royals...

"Saizo?" Xander had expected a butler to be at his elbow, and instead found that Ryoma's retainer was standing behind him at the dinner table.

Scribbling in a notebook.

Xander squinted at the label. "'Xander Observations Notebook'? I didn't know I was so interesting."

"I am always interested in potential threats to my lord."

"A threat. I see." Xander sighed and turned back to his meal. "I hope that such intense examination of my actions will spur me to greater success as a warrior and a prince."

Is desperate to become more powerful, Saizo wrote.

000

"Lord Leo, a creature of the umbral mists haunts your wake. Every step, every gesture, even every breath that issues from your lungs is captured in the glance of his single eye. Such guile-"

"Odin!" Leo snapped. "How many times have I told you cease speaking ill of Niles?"

"But I wasn't," the mage protested. "The shadows about your grand person harbor none other than Saizo, retainer-"

Leo cut him off with a wave of the hand. "How long has he been watching me?"

"His suspicious glower has followed you for half a score of sunrises and gives no sign of relenting."

"Wonderful. I can factor that into my latest strategy. He is bound to be an ally, despite what suspicions he harbors."

Twists every situation to his advantage, Saizo scrawled across the page.

"Ah. I'm going to tell Niles to hold off on the stabbing." Odin chuckled nervously.

"Please do. Before he gets himself killed."

Saizo pushed aside unconscious form of Leo's thief and hurried to his next post.

000

"Saizo!" Elise ran across the flowered field to where the ninja was standing. "Are you here to make daisy crowns too?"

"No."

"Whatcha doing then?"

"Watching you."

"Great! Now I have three retainers!"

"But I'm not-" His protest fell on deaf ears.

"Come on!" Elise dragged him towards Arthur and Effie. "We're going exploring and it's gonna be so fun!"

That night Saizo could barely keep his eyes open as he wrote in his 'Elise Observations Notebook'. Exhausts the enemy by forcing them to help her climb mountains, swim rivers, wrestle her female retainer, and rescue her male retainer.

000

"I like the title of your notebook, Saizo," Camilla crooned. "How exactly are you gathering these observations?"

"There is only one way to gather observations."

Is stupid.

"Let me clarify. When are you gathering these observations?"

Has a knife in her voice.

"All the time."

"You're watching me all the time? I'm flattered, darling. But, even when-"

"Especially then."

"Oh dear me. Well then, I don't suppose I can dissuade you..."

"Of course not."

"Then if you'll be so sweet as to excuse me a moment..." The princess swayed off in the direction of the royal tents.

Saizo followed like a good ninja stalker. He arrived just in time to hear her coo Ryoma's name.

"Dear Prince Ryoma, as much I hate to be the bearer of bad news, I must inform you that your lovely retainer, Saizo, is a pervert..."

Grounded to his lord's tent, and hot with the shame of disgracing his liege, Saizo angrily penned his latest entry. Is a nasty tattletale.

I hope you liked this. I always thought that Corrin F should have handled Saizo a little differently, so this happened. If you want me to do a follow up with Beruka stalking the Hoshidans, say so in a review. Camilla wouldn't hesitate to have her assassin make sure no plans were being laid to steal Corrin away, you know. ;-)