Violetta POV
My feet pattered against the pavement, as I rushed home from day camp, a flyer in hand. I duck into my cousin Akari's shop to pick up the wallet a man had dropped and slip it into his pocket as I pass him on the street. Remind a fruit vendor to move his cart from the path shortly before a blonde and orange blur barrels through the space. I stop and buy flour from the market as quickly as I can, and grab my brothers forgotten coat from a bench on the corner near his girlfriends home. By the time I reach the house my excitement is bubbling beyond the surface, and my hands are a bit fuller than they can handle.
"Mama, I got you flour! You don't have enough for the cake you want to make Uncle Zar for tomorrow. And brother left his coat lying about again," mother pokes her head out of the kitchen at me and smiles. Motioning for me to come in there with her.
"Thank you Violetta. I'm sure your brother will need that coat, but why did I need to make a cake for Uncle Zar?"
"It's his birthday tomorrow, but you forgot until just now," her face goes pale as she places the flour in the cabinet, and then passes me an apple and a cookie for my snack.
"Oh dear, I did forget. It's a good thing I have you around. Who else did you help today?" I bite into my apple thoughtfully and then swallow.
"There's a lot Mama, I don't even know them all for sure you know that, but on the way home I picked up a wallet a man lost and got it back to him, and helped save a poor fruit vendors fruit from a little blonde boy." I take another bite out of my apple and look at my mother expectantly. She looks back and me, and eyes the flyer on the counter. Picking it up she studies it for several moments, getting paler again by the moment.
"You're going to say no, but you shouldn't Mama. I really think I could do it, and I think I'd be really good at it. I have the family gift, and there are lots of things we do I could probably make into skills for it. You don't have to be scared Mama, I can do it." Setting the flyer back down she then takes my apple away and kneels down, hands on my shoulders and looking me in the eyes.
"You always know what I am going to say, but I am now going to tell you what I think. I know by the look on your face that you didn't see this speech coming little one because you changed the moment before it happened and you knew how to change it well. Yes, you have a gift. A magnificent but sometimes terrifying one, one that you cannot share with any but your most trusted companions. No one can know about it unless you trust with your life and the life of the entire village. I will let you do this, but we must first speak to the Hokage. Your grandmother told me this day would come, and she told me you would be the one to stir the pot. That like her, you would be able to see life and what it holds without the aid of cards or crystal balls. Whether it be past, present, or future. That even without realizing it you would change moments for the better, and that no matter how much wanted to say no I must say yes. Now, let's go see the Hokage, and then come home and make that for Uncle Zar." I throw my arms around her neck and smile.
"It's going to be vanilla with chocolate frosting Mama." She squeezes me back, "Of course it is baby girl. Now..."
That's how I ended up standing here, staring into the school bathroom mirror the day I hopefully graduate. The day of final exams. I keep my power shut off, now that I know how to control it most of the time because I don't want to spoil anything that is going to happen today or tomorrow. Thankfully, Iruka-sensei is letting me take the exam in a separate room. I won't even have to deal with my classmates, and all I had to do was use the excuse that I didn't wish to cheat in any way by having a vision of their answers. He had me do taijutsu exams yesterday and secretly tested if I could spot genjutsu while I walked home. I already knew I'd passed those. I push my dark hair away from my face, and despite its curly unruliness, I manage it get it to stay away from my eyes.
There are five minutes before I have to be in the testing room, and I carefully smooth the outfit mother and I had worked hard to design with cousin Amethyst. I should probably head out, nearly everyone should be where they're supposed to be by now. Taking my own advice I go to what is usually the detention room near the teacher's lounge and find an unfamiliar face there. It's difficult to resist the urge to turn my power on for a moment, but I don't want to risk seeing anything I don't want to.
"You must be Violetta, I am Yuhi Kurenai. As a favor to Iruka, I am overseeing all of your exams today according to the parameters he gave me. Do you have any questions?" I shake my head, "No, Yuhi-san. I am fine." She nods at me and hands me the paper exam, "Then you may as well begin, I will be at the desk if you need me." Doing as she says I begin the long process of the written exam. Nearly two hours later, I'm finished.
"Alright, and the final part is the clone jutsu. You have to produce at least two functional clones." I nod and take my stance. Tiger. Boar. Ox. Dog. I push my chakra into the technique and hear two familiar pops near me. They're perfect copies, right down to the color of the buttons on my uniform. Yuhi-san smiles at me, "Excellent. I'll give Iruka your exam to grade, and you can go see him after school after the others take the second part of their exams."
"Arigatou Yuhi-san, and out of curiosity why did you owe Iruka-sensei a favor?" Kurenai snaps her eyes up to me a little surprised, "What makes you think that I owed him a favor, and not that he's going to owe me one?" I shrug casually, "I'm a very skilled guesser." Her eyes twinkle at me a little, "Well then, you'll just have to guess why as well." I bow to her before I leave, and I can't wait until after school when I see Iruka-sensei to find out if I passed the exams.
The cover photo is her.