Title: Tales of love
Pairing: Bankotsu, Jakotsu
List and Prompt (# and Theme):Creamy, #14 conquest
Rating: M
Universe/Genre: Precanon, romance
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 two: Love hurts…

12. Conquest…

"I'm being stupid, hunh?" Jakotsu said sheepishly.

"Not stupid, a lil silly maybe… but definitely not stupid, Sweetness," Bankotsu assured him. "But you need to conquer your temper. I'm dead serious. Getting angry in the heat of a battle is a sure way to get yourself killed. And I, umm…" the fourteen year old trailed off. He looked away but not quickly enough as Jakotsu caught a glimpse of his cheeks heating up.

"What?" the cross-dresser teased.

"Nothing…"

"Nothing? It doesn't look like 'nothing' to me," the older boy playfully insisted.

"Jakotsu!"

"What?"

Bankotsu heaved a long suffering sigh. "I like you, okay!"

The seventeen year old's smirk softened into a smile. "I like you too, Aniki-chan."

"Yeah? Well why do you flirt with other guys?"

"Why do you flirt with girls?" Jakotsu said tartly.

"Yeah, well uh…" Bankotsu sputtered.

"Hurts, doesn't it?"

"Yeah…" The younger boy sat down in the grass, flopping onto his back to stare up at the cloud-filled sky.

Jakotsu joined him. "I guess we need to conquer our flirting along with my temper…"

"Yeah… Just as long as we don't ummm…"

"Stop flirting with each other," the cross-dresser finished for him.

"Yup! Now shut up and kiss me, Sweetness!" Bankotsu teased. He laughed when Jakotsu's face filled his vision as the older boy leaned over to kiss him. Snaking his arms around the cross-dresser, he pulled him close.

Jakotsu kissed him long and hard, preferring this form of swordplay to the more tiring and body aching kind they had been engaged in before. Breaking the kiss, he giggled when his young lover ran his hand up the cross-dresser's bare thigh to cup his bottom. He ground his hips against his lover's. Giggling happily, Bankotsu held him tightly as he rolled them both over. They kissed…