ladies, please

Kuroki did as he pleased most days. With the curse lifted he’d been given much farther reign in his duties as Chunin. Letting her children out into the world was one of her most difficult challenges in life. Rivaling Hattori’s acts and the death of her father. Seeing her little beans turn into real wolves, as susceptible to the dangers of the world as any of them. She opened the door and let them fly, knowing they would see their own fair share of heartache and pain. To hear her son call for her at the border now could only mean he had another wolf with him. For a moment she felt fear that he had brought his father back to reunite, but the foolishness was obvious even as she thought it.

White gloved paws carried her through the pale forest that surrounded the shrine and approached her son and the two young she wolves at his side. The Empress raised a pale brow to the prince in curiosity as she couldn’t help but notice the bare skin of one of his companions. She might have been worried if they were in a colder season. ”Yes, Kuroki?” She asked briefly, sunset gaze assessing the company at his side. Both were roughly the same age as her son, but there wasn’t much else judgment she could rend at first glance.