"Sometimes I think I remember what it was like before," she says, staring down at her tea, fingers shaking. "Do you ever feel like you're forgetting something, Todoroki-kun?" "Too often," Todoroki tells her. "Too often." (three parts written in increments of 1500 words each)

He fails to understand how one can burn so brightly without harming anyone.

It's mating season for demons and Gaara is at his wits end. Little does he know that somewhere there in Konoha there is a little blonde fox that awaits him. Guilt and regret eat at Gaara for his past doings and he certainly did not expect THAT when he took off to Konoha. To talk bussiness with the Hokage, of course, what else? GaaraxFemNaruto, sexual content

...A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware, /So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move /Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair, /And a voice said in mastery, while I strove, ... /Guess now who holds thee'—Death,' I said. But there, /The silver answer rang... [Sonnets from the Portuguese, "I thought once how Theocritus had sung"]