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Prologue

She could feel her life slipping away from her.

Hinata Hyuuga bled endlessly on the lap of the person she loved the most in the world, and she tried to breathe, tried to stay alive. For him, just for him.

But she knew, as her breath began to shorten, her life was nearing its end. She also knew it was about time to say those three words she had yearned to say to him for more than three years. The three words that changed the relationship of two people, and brought them closer together. The three words that had hung on her tongue whenever she was near him.

So, Hinata lifted her blood-stained hand, and placed it on the side of Naruto's face, and whispered:

"I love you…"