I wrote this after i saw one of my friends suffer from severe over exhaustion during our twelve minute run on june seventh. She was fine, but this idea stuck in my head. My apologies to goldberry if she decides to read this and thinks i copied this from "The Sparrow." I didn't mean to. This could be any pairing in the Naruto world, i didn't actually pick one for this story. Actually, now that i think about it, i can see this as a Shikaino ficlet, whatever the heck that means. (failure)
Failing. One of the most depressing words in the world. You could fail on a test, or at life, or just be a failure. But nothing can compare when your body decides to fail on itself. Well, maybe one thing can. Watching someone else's body fail. He stared as she writhed on the ground, trying to force her body to operate. Forcing her heart to pump and her lungs to breath as tears rolled down her face from trying. Just trying to live took so much effort it made him want to cry as well. But there was nothing that could be done. All he could do was watch and wait until it passed. If it passed. All he could do was tell her to relax, to count her breaths, to focus on nothing but breathing and his voice.
He held her hand as she struggled to sit up later, and then carried her when she couldn't stand the walk to help. He helped her, wishing that her body wouldn't cease to operate, hoping that it would continue to work as they went to go find the help to heal it. She lived, but there was no pain greater than the pain of watching her body fail on her. No pain.