Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto.
Author's note: Just a general piece about Hanabi. She's a difficult character, and I'm not sure that I like this one.
Will
She learned to crawl at a relatively early age, scrunching up her face and pushing herself across the tatami floor until her small knees where scratched and red. Her busy father watched this spectacle with something akin to pride, but the nurse found the child's drive to be worrisome. Unnatural, almost.
Not long after, holding tightly to the edge of a low table, the toddler stood up and met the clear, admiring gazes of her relatives with her own haughty look. The whispers began then, some hopeful while others not: "Maybe this child…"
A few days later, the little firecracker took her first steps, seemingly shuffling hurriedly towards the future and the day when she would take her unworthy older sister's place.