Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Shakespeare in Love ❯ 154 ( Chapter 1 )

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finally decided to write a romance drabble collection! There will be, hopefully, 154. That’s one for each Shakespearian sonnet. If someone else would like to use the same themes, please send me a link to the story.

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The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow’d chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm’d;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm’d.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseased; but I, my mistress’ thrall,
Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.

-Sonnet 154

When he had left today’s training early to get treatment at the hospital, Orochimaru had given him nothing more than a strange look. When he had come down with a “rare and mysterious illness” just last week, his father had merely rolled his eyes and muttered something about love-sick fools. When he had run out of the Hokage Tower a month ago and demanded that his paper cut receive urgent medical care, Sarutobi-sensei had, once again, failed to hide his grin. Whenever he was met with Tsunade’s agitated expression in a hospital room, Jiraiya’s couldn’t help but wonder if she was catching on to him.

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