Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and not me.
A/N: You hardly see anything for Yugito, poor girl. The summary for this one is: Death is swift and unforgiving. She thought she knew it. But the pain was more than she could believe.
Death, thy name is Yugito
That fleeting life, she knew death all too well. But her own was a too-new experience. Shocking.
She looked over her crumpled body, blood-stained and tossed aside like a useless object. Pain. Nothing but pain for all those days. She begged for death in a silent voice, but only one could hear and it screamed back at her, desperately.
The Nekomata, the Symbol of Death, the Monster of Twin Tails, was now screeching to cling to her life – it seemed pathetic.
But… now it was over. In those fleeting moments, in the shining white space of nothingness, she had held the creature's head in her hands and embraced it. The creature she had resented, respected, restricted within herself. Somehow, despite the hatred and the arguments, they had formed a bond. Surely, Death couldn't love, but in that fairytale ending, it had cried as they departed.
She stared into the ruins of her own eyes, blurry reflections of the night sky littered on their lenses. The stain of blood had carried onto the ground around her. A blooming flower, pressed against her cheek, rubbing red onto its petals. Beauty marred.
She was sprawled on the grass of some unknown place and far from home. Nobody would find her, nobody would bury her. In this field she would only rot until nothing could distinguish her from the ground itself. Nothing to remember her by, her existence was extinguished. Her world was destroyed.
How often… How often she had talked to the dead… listened to their laments and cry about their own worlds abolished to forgotten graveyards.
She thought she knew the pain. She was wrong.
This was death. This was what it was like. This was nothing like what her empathy had predicted. She was a hypocrite to listen and to say she knew that pain.
"All in vain," she whispered, "all in vain."
Her punishment was before her, obvious. She would be lost to eternity, to join that wandering army that would never find rest.
She only had herself now.
"Death… thy name is Yugito."