Title: Tales of love
Pairing: Bankotsu, Jakotsu
List and Prompt (# and Theme):Creamy, #3 fragile
Rating: M
Universe/Genre: Precanon, romance, angst
Warnings: yaoi, with shouta overtones
Author's Note: Special thanks to my beta, Jen, for looking this over for me.
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Part one: Falling in love…
3. Fragile…
Bankotsu held the cross-dresser close as he had started crying again. He hated the way Jakotsu's emotional outburst reminded of his older sister Fumiko. He remembered she was devastated by the loss of her betrothed to the point of endlessly crying until she decided to become a Buddhist nun. The last thing he wanted to deal with was an emotionally fragile friend, while feeling homesick. And when Bankotsu thought about it, the cross-dresser's life was just as sheltered as his beloved sister's, and instead of letting him retreat from life, the fourteen year old decided he was going to make Jakotsu live his life to the fullest. Unfortunately, he had no idea how to make that a reality for now.
The younger boy simply sat there, holding on to what was beginning to become an important part of his young life. Right now it felt like he had a tenuous hold on things. He liked Jakotsu a lot, as he was fun to be with and his novel way of easing the pain of loneliness, especially at night, was entertaining to say the least. But sometimes the way he felt about the cross-dresser left him feeling rather confused.
Jakotsu clung to the younger boy, afraid to let go for fear of him leaving again. He was having a hard time sorting his feelings out as well. While a part of him dreaded the thought of surviving on his own, another insisted that was because Bankotsu was like no one he had ever met before. And the desire he felt for him was much more intense than he had ever experienced too. He wondered if this was really love or simply lust for the boy who held him like he was made of fragile porcelain. And if Bankotsu felt it too…