Title: Mine
Author: kira
Genre, AU/Canon: Romance, Pre-canon
Word count: 284
Rating: Older teen…
Pairing: Ban/Jak
Warnings: None, more boys love than yaoi
Summary: Instead of sleeping, Jak reflects on what Ban had said earlier that day…
Author's note: Special thanks to Jen for pinking this for me, as well as to Hime-sama and Vexed-chan for their behind the scenes cheerleading!
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Jakotsu sighed softly as he snuggled up next Bankotsu. The fifteen year old was sound asleep but the cross-dresser found sleep eluded him. He just couldn't get that word out of his head. Mine…Spoken in Bankotsu's soft, yet deadly tones, it frightened the cross-dresser as much as it thrilled him. Mine…mine… mine… he had heard it in his lover's soft grunting as he pounded into him, heard it in the gentle beating of his heart as he slept peacefully next to him.
Mine… a simple word and yet it carried so much meaning, so much hopeful meaning in the eighteen year old's heart. He loved the young warrior, who was his friend and lover, with a passion that knew no bounds, and yet, that passion was always tempered by the uncertainty of whether or not he was loved in return. Mine… Was he a thing, a toy to be played with and discarded when Bankotsu grew up? Or was he more… a lover, a partner, someone to share his life and grow old with? Jakotsu sighed as his mind tried to make sense of his jumbled thoughts and emotions.
Mine…Did he really mean it when he said it to that man who was flirting with me? the cross-dresser wondered. After all, he did pull me away from him and we did nookie as soon as we got back to our room… And it was rough and possessive and tender and sweet all rolled into one…Mine… Maybe he really does love me and wants me all to himself…
Shifting slightly in his sleep, Bankotsu murmured, "Mine…"
Looking up at him from where his head was pillowed on the younger boy's shoulder, Jakotsu whispered, "Yours..."