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Bonjour! Or Bonne Nuit, if that's what's up. This is just a short collection of one shots about who else, but NaruHina! What I basically did was get a list of 75 prompts, and divided them up between various pairings. So here's my NaruHina list! I hope you enjoy this one, and the rest to follow! (Heads up: this was written quite a while ago, pre-ending) Enjoy!

Title: 002. Pain

Genre: Romance/Angst

Length: 917

The pain was almost over whelming, and would've overwhelmed me, had I not known what this bitter pain meant. It meant that I was dying, and fast.

The sword that pierced my stomach and severed my last chances of life seemed like such a small, meaningless object in the events that it would disrupt. My future. The entirety of a life that I wouldn't ever see.

I wanted to get married. I wanted to gain my father and sister's acceptance. I wanted children. I wanted to teach at the academy. I wanted to grow flowers. I wanted everything I would never have, when I was so close to the end; so close to living through this abomination and attaining my dreams.

My pearl eyes slowly drifted shut to relieve them of the sight of the morose, navy, sobbing sky.

I saw the wedding I wouldn't have; I saw the white fabric cocooning me and I felt how soft it was on my skin. I saw the guests giving me happy smiles and wishing me luck - and there were my father and sister, smiling at me with the smiles I'd always wished they'd give me and the ones they'd never deigned to share with me. And my friends smiling and cheering me on, all leading up to my groom...

I heard the happy cries of my children - the three daughters and two sons I'd dreamt of. With their bright smiles and beaming whiskered faces. I could almost reach out and touch them and their joy as they frolicked in the wide open field I loved in life, before they faded into the summer sky and gently swaying grass. Oh, how I longed to embrace them just once, to know them just for a while.

I saw all the eager looks from the children in a classroom full of awaiting shinobi to be, and all the dreams that they'd accomplish, or never embark on. But when I blinked, I could see oh so clearly where my friends and I used to sit, back before this hell on earth descended, back when we were young and naïve and in the spring of our lives.

I could smell the sweet scent of lilies and lavender drifting up to me, and the feel of soft earth between my fingers as I cared for my plants that in reality I'd only ever pondered on the possibility of. Everything I'd ever hesitated over doing now seems like such a waste, such a huge waste if life...

"Hinata" I saw my mother, my ever kind mother. She looked down on me kindly with that soft, warm smile and her aubergine hair surrounding her like a soft halo as she reached out one gentle hand to me, just begging for me to give in to the warmth, and the light, and the never ending promise of peace.

"Hinata..." Her voice was drowned out as another, familiar voice called my name.

"HINATA!" They yelled and shook me by my shoulders, forcing my eyes to jerk open and my ears to finally pay attention to the slowly settling cacophony of war.

My friends were all there - well, most of them were. Those left alive were crowdingI felt his warm hands on my shoulders and noted with some sick irony that if I hadn't been fading away, I would've blushed and passed out by now. The blackly-hilarious thought was all I could think about to keep myself from slipping away in fits of bloody convulsions.

"No, Hinata... Not now!" I could just hear the anguish in his voice and if I had the energy, I would've winced from the pain that I caused him. His promise to Neji, broken, my promise to him, shattered. "The war was over Hinata! Why couldn't you have just lived? WHY?!"

He was right as always, I was so close to surviving that I couldn't help but die.

"Perhaps it was meant to be this way." I croaked with a voice far weaker than it should've been.

"But Hinata-"

"Shush! It'll be okay."

He looked at me with cerulean eyes streaming and full of the shock and agony. "How? How can it be okay?! My eyes were just opened to you, and now you're closing your eyes on me! It's not fair!"

"No, it's not fair," I said with the trace if a smile on my lips. "But life is not always fair."

"I swear, I'll make you live, Hinata. I'll do whatever it takes, I'll-"

"No. Stop. Don't sacrifice anything for me." My eyelids grew heavy again, and the world around me grew to a dull blur, even the friends who gathered in a tighter circle around me were all but gone. I blocked out the sounds of Shino's sobbing, I'd never heard it, and I never wanted to. "You know, I would've spent a lifetime and more with you, if I could've."

"Hinata... You will! I don't care what you say! I'll be with you forever!"

Hinata smiled slightly as her eyes drooped shut a final time and her breaths grew short in the tell tale sign of what was to come.

"This time... it just wasn't meant to be."

"HINATA!" His voice cried in total anguish, as though his heart had just been ripped from his still living body.

"Naruto, clam down!" The usually fiesty pink haired ninja hushed, before she was violently thrown off.

Even when the red eyed Uchiha tried to subdue the usually sunny number one ninja, he was thrown off as he violently transformed into the beast he'd vowed never to use against others once more.

The loss of love could do terrible things to a person.

And the pain could destroy a world.

Well... That's nice start. Nothing like an uplifting one shot to get us started! Anyway, I just was thinking one day about Naruto, and I thought 'what if Kishimoto decides to be an ass and makes the ending all angst-y and awful?' And this is what happened.

Regardless of angsty-ness, I hope you like it! Please review/follow if you did, I'd very much appreciate that, and I'll see you in the next one. Thanks!