A/N: I decided to make Japan female for this one, because I kind of accidently typed "she" instead of "he" and was too lazy to change it, if Japan ever shows up again, he'll be a guy, worry not :P

1. Pick a character, fandom, pairing, friendship, whatever.

2. Put on your music program on shuffle/random and start playing songs.

3. For each song, write something inspired by the song related to the theme you chose earlier. You only have the song length. No pre-planning and no writing after the song is over. No skipping songs either.

4. Do 10 songs and post. Make sure to include the song name/artist

I Choose America and Japan

1. Cry for Eternity-Dragonforce

They always met on the battlefield, whether it be a physical battle, a mental battle, or an emotional on, that was how they knew each other. And that is how they would know each other for the rest of eternity.

They would never know what the other was like in times of peace, was America always to determined to win? Was Japan as angry as she made out on the battle field?

All the time it seemed that they fought, almost every other year, but still they knew the stories they created through their battle would linger on throughout the rest of the history of the world they were sure to destroy during one of their lovers spats. That was how they knew each other, and they wouldn't have it any other way. Because every so often when the fighting was done and the official ceasefires had been signed they would love each other so strongly it was a wonder they didn't burst with the fire of their passion.

It was after those times that they would cry, cry for their children that had been lost because of their stupid fight, cry for how the war could have turned out, cry for their past, cry for their future and they would cry for the eternity that would never let them be at peace until they had wiped each other off the face of the world or died trying.

Neither knew what had made them this way, it was the one thing they agreed on, because when they were fighting they didn't care who had done it to them, when they were fighting they felt more alive than they ever had. The stories of their fights would linger on for the rest of eternity, the eternity that they cried for in their times of greatest weakness…

2. Birthright (Beta 1.0)-Celldweller

Right after America gained his independence from England he began expanding, seeing it as his right to rule over all of the vast land he had been found on. He never expected to be challenged by a bunch of Mexicans, the French or his mother's own people.

There were times in his expansion during which America had fallen and had no drive to get up again, but there was always an annoying pull at his mind, the promise of a nation that stretched from sea to shining sea, a nation that would one day be one of the most powerful in the world.

Because it was, after all, his birthright to rule the entire North American continent.

When he realized this America would saddle up his horse and hurry back out west, because he could feel it, someone or something calling out to him, calling him to come soon before it drifted away, lost forever.

Then the voices started…

At first he was able to ignore them, but they got louder and eventually sparked a war within him. A war that would kill more of him people than any other. A war that drove all thoughts of finding that thing that called to him so long ago from his mind. A Civil War…

3. The Stars Look Down-Billy Elliot Original Cast

It was a time when the entire world was going crazy, Margret Thatcher was destroying England's industry, Russia was taking over the world one nation at a time, Germany had been chopped in half and Japan was still suffering for both her war crimes and the hideous scars that America had place there himself.

To make matters worse, trouble was brewing in Korea, America could feel it in his gut and he hated it.

But he didn't care, Russia had his allies and America had his own, not least of which was Japan herself, having long since accepted that holding a grudge was not the way to go. But if America was to attack one of Japan's siblings could he still count on her aid? It wasn't like Japan hadn't had wars with her brothers before, but would she do it again? After all of the pain the last war she had been involved in had caused her?

And then there was the Space Race. A race to the stars against the Russians, what more could America ask for? It was so romantic sounding that he nearly killed himself with the girliness of his giggles when he saw the next prototype. It would be mere years before he sat amoung the greats of history. Before he sat with England, France, China, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, and, yes, even Russia himself. It would be mere years before he sat amoung the stars that looked down on him, before he made his mark in the history of the world. He had promised Japan that one day he would take her with him to see that stars and they could claim them as their own forever. And that was what kept him going.

4. Heaven's Gaze- The Cruxshadows

They were locked in yet another war, America not yet looking East to see if he could stick his nose in, he was still neutral at this point, but for how long? How long until he snapped or someone got cocky and attacked him?

Heavens gaze was a cold one, the gods never spoke to the Nations, demigods in themselves, they just mocked their futile attempts to reach them. Only Greece was close to them and could sometimes catch a piece of what the gods were thinking. However, both Japan and China believed themselves to be the centre of their own tiny universe and they both believed the other was an evil force to be eliminated. How the gods must laugh at their folly.

The fact nobody could reach the gods made many a nation very upset, even going as far as to bring some to tears; it wasn't anyone's fault, if anything the tears made the gods laugh harder. So how much were they laughing when they saw Japan invade Manchuria again? How hard were they cackling when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour? How much did the giggle when the Atom Bombs were finally dropped?

5. New Divide-Linkin Park

America was dreaming, he had to be, there was no way that something like that could happen. There was no way that Japan would attack him like that. Yet his senses told him something very different, his senses said that this was very, very real and that the fire he saw burning would actually hurt him.

Then he took notice of the ground, he noticed the intricate cracks the spider-webbed across it before it groaned and crumbled under the stress it was put in. And all America could hear was the other Nations' mocking voices:

"You got what you deserved."

And it killed him inside.

Because he wasn't a bad country, right? He was just a country that made mistakes, every nation did that at least once, right? It wasn't his fault that Russia had perished, it wasn't his fault that Mexico had been swallowed up, it wasn't his fault that-

But the mocking voices spoke the truth:

"Yes it was."

6. Perfect-The Cruxshadows

Why was it that America couldn't see it? Why was it that he had to put himself down constantly? Why was it that he could only see the horrible things he had done in history?

It was like this whenever America got drunk, he would come stumbling home and knock and whine until Japan let him in, and when she did he would cling to her and never let go. They would sit on the couch together, or sometimes curled up on the bed, and he would cry. Cry over everything he had ever done that had gone wrong.

Nagasaki.

Hiroshima.

Korean War.

Vietnam War.

His Revolution.

World War I.

World War II.

His own Civil War.

He would apologize to her time and time again for the pain that he had caused her and her family. Then his hands would find the old scars his terrible, terrible bombs had left on her and he would press his fingers to them and he would ask:

"Do they still hurt?"

And Japan would answer:

"Yes."

Because it was the truth, they still ached sometimes, but never as badly as they had when she had first gotten them. But the fact that she had to voice that truth broke her heart every time. America was a more depressing drunk than England on occasion…

But then, like a firefly, a glimmer of light would come in his expression and America would smile through his tears.

"Good," he would say. "Let that pain serve as a reminder of how horrible I am."

He just didn't understand, didn't realize how perfect he really was, or how much Japan believed in him.

7. Our War-Neon Trees

A long time ago, a rowdy nation came to visit Japan on a quest to make friends with whales, and he found something so much better.

Yet the thing he found was also something terrible, Japan would drag him after her in her quest to rule the world, she would drag him into one of the bloodiest conflicts in history.

But for that brief and shining moment they were in love, Japan and America, and they believed that their love would heal if they stayed true to the dreams of their youth. How could love heal after such a blow though? How could they recover from World War II? How could they pick up the pieces of their lives and move on, with or without each other? How could…

No, they had to stay together, they were meant for each other and as they lay entangled in each other one of them whispered:

"I'm leaving our war behind."

Neither knew who spoke and each thought it was the other.

8. Everything-Lifehouse

It was nice, having no pressures to ally for war. Being able to be with who she loved because she loved him and not because of some silly little political agreement. Because what were those agreements but little pieces of paper? What chance did paper have against true love? America wasn't just her lover, he was Japan's rock, her stabilizer in times of trouble and the one person she could talk to when things got tough between Yao and herself.

Yes, Japan mused to herself as America tightened his grip around her waist, it was nice to spend time together while at peace. Japan supposed she should thank the men of the Manhattan Project, for without them America and herself would have never gotten together, America would have never needed to look after her and Japan never would have fallen in love.

Sometimes Japan felt like America was all she needed, her everything, America could do anything.

America grunted in his sleep at this thought, almost in agreement and Japan smiled softly. How could life be any better than this? How could she stand by America and not be moved to tears at least part of the time?

9. Elissa-The Cruxshadows

Japan didn't want America to leave her, but there it was, he had made a promise long ago to go to war with anyone in his alliance should they need his help. Korea had been hard enough on her as it was, but now it was Vietnam's turn? Would America rip her in half the way he had Korea?

Japan was more than a little resentful towards America for what he had done to her brother, but she wasn't surprised, Korea had deserved it, taunting everyone at meetings like that. And Japan did love America more than anything else, and that was the reason she didn't want him to go. A selfish, impure reason at that.

Japan let out a sigh and held the worn leather of her lover's bomber jacked closer, America had told her that the jacket was a gift to remember him by when he was away, but why did he have to go in the first place? Because of his promise…

That goddamn promise that they had made so long ago, how Japan hated it. America had actually said that he would have rather stayed with her, but no, there was something to do. Japan was sure that America's heart was breaking just as hers was, but could he hear it the way Japan could hear the sound of her own over the roar of the jet engines?

Now Japan had to say behind and believe that America would come back to her. And what killed her most was that she couldn't help him, she couldn't give him tomorrow or the next day, he could die and any second and there wasn't anything she could do about it!

What were they fighting for anyway?

10. The Letter-Billy Elliot Original Cast

They had found it while they were going though America's things, a letter addressed just for her. Japan had cried when they brought it to her, she hadn't touched the thing for a while now and this was her first time reading it.

Hey Japan, it read, if you're reading this it means that I'm dead-

Japan sobbed at the finality of those words.

-or that you've gone snooping in my stuff again, in which case, get out! Anyway, if it turns out that I am dead, then I hope it was a good death, not something like tripping over a brick…although that would be painless I suppose…

Listen, I just want you to know that I love you, I'll always love you and I have never been prouder to have known another Nation. Do you remember how we met? I was looking for whales, I found something better though. You.

And I know this is going to sound sappy, but I want you to know that I was always right there beside you, and I always will be. I will always support you through the bad times and the good times, of which we had many, but believe that I will never leave you ever again.

Please don't cry for me, Japan, I-

"What's that?"

Japan spun with a sharp gasp at the sound of a familiar voice and burst into renewed tears.

"Hey, that's not cool, don't cry for the hero." America crossed the room in three strides and pulled Japan into his chest. "I see you got the letter…Dammit, England needs to learn that just because a guy's MIA doesn't mean he's KIA," he let out an annoyed sigh, "Now I'm going to have to write a new one…"

Japan just sobbed harder.

A/N:

…Wow…It actually turned out a lot more depressing than I thought it would…

Ummm…First Fan-fiction ever so…don't be mean…plox? I do enjoy constructive criticism however, but do try to make it nice (No flamers Plox!)