Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Shakespeare in Love ❯ 77 ( Chapter 7 )

Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,

Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;

The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,

And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.

The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show

Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;

Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know

Time's thievish progress to eternity.

Look what thy memory cannot contain,

Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find

Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,

To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.

These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,

Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.

 

-Sonnet 77

 

Tsunade had always assumed that Jiraiya had started writing in order to share his perverseness with everyone else. After all, he had always been complaining that his students (male or not) were repressing their normal teenage hormones in order to fit in with a prude society.

In actuality, the toad sage hadn't begun writing his series until after one mission where one of his students had passed away. That incident had made him realize that he wanted to have something tangible to leave behind for the slug mistress when he finally died as well.