Title: In the Still of the Night
Theme: Set #1, Theme #9 Locust
Genre: Romance/Humor
Pairings: Bankotsu/Jakotsu
Word Count: 284
Rating PG-13
Summary: Finding a way to sleep with all the noise was never easy.
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The locusts were insufferable; their sing-sing racket filling the night with a deafening echo of noise. And for the two young travelers who were already finding sleep hard to come by, it was insanity in insect form.
"Mou…can't you just go kill them?" Jakotsu pouted, sitting on the inn's porch and fanning himself.
Bankotsu shifted from where he laid sprawled out nearby, "No. I'd have to cut down every damn tree in the whole area and then there'd still be some left alive."
"Why must they be so loud, anyways?"
Bankotsu shrugged, "Some crap about attracting a mate or something. I heard some old woman telling the children in the village about it."
Jakotsu's eyes brightened at that, a mischievous idea beginning to form in his mind.
"Neh, Bankotsu?"
"What?"
"The others are all in rooms down the other hallway- right?"
The young leader thought back to the inn the daimyou had provided accommodations in and the location of his other men.
"I believe so. Why, you think it's not as nosy over there?"
Sitting down the fan, Jakotsu walked towards Bankotsu and stood over his head looking down at him.
"Just had an idea to help us get to sleep, that's all."
Blue eyes blinked, innocence not yet comprehending the darker motives his companion had.
"What? Don't tell me it's something crazy like trying to have Renkotsu blow them up or something."
"Oh no, much better than that."
Jakotsu reached down, quickly scooping up the other boy in his arms. By the time they reached the futon, Bankotsu had figured out what Jakotsu's great plan was.
And echoing over the locusts and their racket was his voice very firmly yelling, "You damned pervert!"
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