Authors note:Thank you all so much for reading! I didn't expect to get this many reviews! I was so happy that I was fit to burst! I kept bragging about it to my friends, I was literally on cloud nine. Every time someone left me a new review it made me want to write even more. So now it's finally here and I have all of your to thank for making me want to write this! 3 Its not very good but I hope you all will like it anyway. Also, a writer I really like Shirosenshi Kisetsu 116 read an reviewed this which just makes me even happier. -grins-

Title: Bandits and Gentleman

Pairing: Balthier/Vaan

Warnings: Bandits, and Balthier being sexy

Disclaimer: If it were mine there would be a lot more of Balthier grabbing Vaan and dragging him into random dark corridors so obviously its not. Though i'd probably still write fanfiction about it if it were. XD

STORY START

Vaan struggled to free himself from his bindings, cursing when the ropes tightened and dug into his flesh. "Fucking bandits." He muttered under his breath glaring at one of the unconscious figures lying around him. Somehow they had managed to catch him off guard, successfully binding his arms tight behind his back and his legs were caught in an oddly intricate series of knots. Fortunately, Vaan still had magic at his disposal and had zapped the hell out of the group of them with several well placed lightening attacks.

He growled in frustration when even after a good hour of struggling, he hadn't been able to free himself. Normally he would cut the ropes with a knife or something but the damn bandits had taken all his weapons. He was beginning to consider using a fira to burn the ropes when the sound of footsteps drew his attention. He glared at whoever was approaching, ready to defend himself even in his weakened state. The glare soon melted into a look of mortified embarrassment when he saw that the person rapidly approaching was Balthier.

The man stopped, taking in Vaan's predicament before raising an eyebrow, lips twitching. He sighed dramatically. "Pray tell Vaan, how did you manage to get into such a situation?"

Vaan glared up at him. "Shut up and untie me."

Balthier smirked a dark devious smirk that filled Vaan with dread. "Now now boy is that any way to talk to your saviour? Why not try using a more polite tone?"

Vaan groaned flopping backwards into the dust. "Balthier, just untie me."

"Beg me and I may consider it."

Vaan twitched. "I'm not gonna beg you!"

With a dramatically resigned sigh the Arcadian tapped his shoulder with his gun and turned away from the struggling teen. "Well than I suppose you shall have to free yourself boy," he tossed a wave behind him as well as a grin and a short chuckled, "give my regards to the bandits."

Vaan's jaw dropped in disbelief as the older man simply walked away. "W-wait a second!" But his protests fell on indifferent ears. Then, in what Vaan would later describe as a fit of madness, he was reminded of back when he was a kid and suddenly Balthier's retreating figure looked oddly like Reks. "Pl-please don't go!" He cried out in a sudden panic.

Balthier stopped and turned to face the boy with a smug grin on his lips that slowly died as he caught his expression. Fear, horrible despairing fear was written as clear as day across his tanned face and that concerned him. With a frown he crossed the short distance back to the desert child and crouched down in front of him. "What pray tell did I do to force you to make that face?" He murmured resting his chin in his open palm and staring into Vaan's suddenly embarrassed eyes.

"What face?" He muttered averting his gaze from the older males. "Geez Balthier, you must've been seeing things."

Balthier watched him silently for a moment before rolling his eyes. "Yes of course, whatever was I thinking." He said in a voice dripping with sarcasm that simply made Vaan blush in humiliation. "Well than since I am apparently delusional from the heat might you hurry up Vaan?"

Vaan glowered up at him. "Are you seriously still thinking about that?"

Balthier smirked at him in a charmingly devious manner that Vaan had personally seen make most woman and even some men swoon. "You may have forgotten boy, but I am a pirate. I don't simply forget something and go on my merry way." In a quick motion he pulled out his knife and held it dangling in front of his face, barely clutched between two fingers. "Since I am such a stubborn breed, I would suggest you man up and beg for it like a good boy."

Vaan glared at him even as his cheeks dusted a light pink. "Bastard." He growled.

"I assure you that my parents were quite happily married at the time of my birth." He remarked with an amused raise of his eyebrow. He began to wave the small knife back in forth, nearly laughing when Vaan's eyes followed it as if in a trance. "The sun is growing high boy. Best make your decision soon or I may leave you here to seek out more comfortable accommodations."

Face crumbling into an expression of resigned embarrassed defeat Vaan turned away muttering something under his breath. Balthier raised an eyebrow leaning in closer so that he was mere centimeters from the boy. "What was that Vaan? I couldn't quite catch it."

Vaan's face pulled into a scowl as he turned to face the pirate, grey eyes burning into his own. "Please untie me Balthier." He gritted out the blush on his cheeks darkening at Balthier's smirk.

"Well if you're going to go so far as to beg," he readjusted his hold on the knife through the ropes binding the aspiring pirate's hands as well as the ones on his legs. Vaan let out a shaky sigh of relief and began to attempt rubbing feeling back into his arms. "Now then," Balthier said standing up and holstering his gun behind his back, "if you have nothing more you wish to do with these filthy vermin, I should like to return to the Strahl."

Vaan rolled his eyes moving to stand. "Yeah yeah, whatever you say you jer-" With wide eyes Vaan pitched forward and would've fallen face first in the sand if it weren't for Balthier catching him around the waist.

"My my Vaan," Balthier chuckled helping the boy to his feet, "I am quite used to people falling for me, but you certainly take an interesting approach to it."

Vaan frowned at him, shrugging the supporting hands of the pirate away and attempting to take a step forward only to repeat the process. Balthier laughed as he caught him a second time and Vaan's eyes narrowed. "Fucking bandits." His legs were shaking and felt numb and weak. Probably due to being tied up for so long. There was no way he was going to get very far like this.

"They do appear to be the cause of this don't they?" Balthier remarked adjusting his hold on the young teen so that the younger's arm was slung across his shoulders with his own arm griping his lower back. Even still it was obvious that it was a struggle for the boy to stand, let alone walk the several miles back to the Strahl. "Will you be able to walk?" He asked anyway, it would be an inconvenience if he had to carry the boy. Not that he would mind but it wouldn't do for them to be struck down by monsters.

Vaan pursed his lips. "Of course I can." He pulled away from the pirates support and promptly fell on his butt. Balthier snickered. "Sh-shut up."

Smirking Balthier held out a hand to the younger male which Van pouted at. "I can walk just fine." He groused.

"Your legs seem to think differently boy." Balthier mused hovering over the young man with a contemplative expression on his face. Suddenly he grinned in a distinctly sinful way and before Vaan could even pale at the sight he'd been tossed over the Arcadian's shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

"Balthier," Vaan protested pounding on the older man's back in protest, "put me down!"

"I think not." Balthier replied easily ignoring the weakened fists his back. "You haven't the strength to make it back under your own power and I don't particularly feel like watching you become a monsters meal or a bandits toy." With that he smacked the blonde firmly on his backside startling a yelp and a blush from him. "So quiet down or i'll gag you."

Vaan growled hands gripping the leading man's shirt. "You perverted jerk."

Balthier's only reply was a quiet chuckle.

SCENE BREAK

After a good twenty minutes of wandering through the estersands and encountering only a few weak monsters that were easily taken down by a few shots from Balthier's gun the Strahl came into view. Vaan was more than happy to get out of the pirates grip. When Balthier did nothing mildly in the way of releasing him and in fact tightened his grip Vaan growled. "Hey Balthier, I think I can walk now."

"I'm sure you do Vaan." The brown haired man agreed in a tone that said he was only humoring him. "However you aren't exactly known for your overwhelming intellect so pardon me if I'm not surprised."

Vaan was silent for a moment, than, "did you just call me stupid?" He cried indignantly.

"Bravo boy, I would applaud but I'm afraid my hands are occupied. "To prove his point he squeezed Vaan's legs and lower back where he was holding them to keep the desert child from trying to wander off on his own.

For a while there was silence and they managed to walk in relative peace as Vaan seethed and Balthier enjoyed his victory. "You're an ass Balthier." Vaan muttered as they stepped into the relative comfort of the Strahl and Vaan was finally set down upon his own to feet. He stumbled slightly but seemed perfectly fine if not a tad annoyed.

Balthier frowned crossing his arms over his chest. "I am nothing of the sort. In fact I have been a perfect gentleman all afternoon."

"Gentleman?" Vaan said indignantly. "You haven't acted like any gentleman I've ever seen."

Balthier hummed looking amused. "I suppose you would know, seeing how you've met so very many."

Vaan growled. "Larsa." He snapped.

Balthier's eyes narrowed at the mention of the young noble. "Yes I suppose we must take him into account." Vaan smirked and was about to rub it in the pirate's face when the older man held up his hand. "Never the less, my point still stands. I have been nothing but a gentleman towards you today."

Vaan scoffed. "Oh yeah? Name one gentlemanly thing you've done."

"I untied you and then was kind enough to carry you when you were not able to stand."

The younger male raised an eyebrow leaning against the wall. "You wouldn't untie me until I begged you and I didn't want to be carried." Vaan's cheeks tinted a light pink. "Than you had to go and be a pervert and slapped my butt."

Balthier fixed him with a cocky alluring grin. "Did you not enjoy it Vaan?" He goaded leaning closer.

Vaan's eyes widened in surprise and the pink quickly changed to red. "Wh-who'd like something like that you jerk?" He shouted. "Geez gentleman my ass, you haven't done anything a gentleman would do."

Balthier smirked pressing his arms on either side of the younger males head and leaned forward so that his face was mere inches away from Vaan's own blushing one. "I held myself back," he whispered against a ruby red ear, "from doing very ungentlemanly things to you were bound. Remember dear Vaan, that there would have been nothing to stop me."

The blush on Vaan's cheeks spread like wildfire covering the entire span of his face. "I, th-that doesn't count!" He defended.

Balthier raised an eyebrow, looking far to amused. "Oh no? So are you saying, that you would rather I hadn't bothered stopping myself?" He purred sliding a knee between Vaan's legs. For a moment Vaan's face seemed to debate between paling and flushing before finally settling on the later. "Is that a yes?" Balthier whispered huskily into the young thief's ear.

"Wh-what, I y-you-" Vaan stuttered eyes darting around in an attempt to find an escape route. He gulped bringing his hands up to Balthier's chest in an attempt to push him away only to find the hands trapped between their bodies as the sky pirate pressed closer. Balthier chuckled at the soft whine that escaped Vaan's throat at the loss of movement.

"You may want to try again, Vaan." Balthier's voice was low and husky sending shivers down Vaan's spine. "That mess of syllables could hardly be considered a sentence. However endearing it may be to listen to you stutter."

Vaan's blush deepened considerably. "P-pervert."

"If thats what you must label it than feel free." Balthier murmured pressing open mouthed kisses against the boy's neck and reveling in the gasps he was rewarded with. "I myself would call it passion."

"j-jerk." Vaan whined turning his head to try and hide his bright red face. "St-stop."

Balthier chuckled licking the shell of Vaan's ear. "Why would I do that vaan?" He whispered his husky voice sending shivers down Vaan's spine. "A predator isn't known to release his prey when he's finally caught it. The same goes for a pirate."

"I'm not y-your prey." Vaan gasped glaring into the Arcadians chocolate brown eyes. Balthier smirked licking the seem of the teen's mouth. Vaan blushed furiously, his eyes going wide which was exactly the reaction Balthier was looking for. He chuckled planting a soft kiss to startled lips.

"You're right Vaan." He purred quietly as he pulled away smirking when the blonde tried to follow him before realizing what he was doing and abruptly pulled back trying to hide his embarrassment behind a half hearted glare. Balthier chuckled pressing another kiss to one of Vaan's steaming cheeks. "You're far more desirable."

Vaan didn't think it was possible to blush and more than he already was but Balthier was proving him wrong. Why did he have to say things like that? "Sh-shut up." He pouted averting his eyes. "And get off you pervert."

Balthier snicked at the boys adorable antics. "Not until you agree to be mine Vaan." He said nuzzling his nose into the crook of Vaan's neck.

Vaan's heart fluttered in his chest and his eyes softened. "F-fine, b-but only because you're a perverted jerk and you wouldn't' have left me alone otherwise!" He protested immediately. Balthier raised an amused eyebrow at the words and Vaan realized he must've sounded ridiculous. Blushing, he glowered at the man and pushed at his chest. "I agreed," he muttered, "now let go Balthier."

Balthier chuckled pressing another kiss to Vaan's lips, this one longer and more heated, leaving Vaan panting for breath when it was over. "I don't think I will." He smirked licking and nipping at the boys temptingly exposed collar bone.

Vaan whined half from pleasure and half from exasperation. "But you just said you wou-ah!" He cut himself off moaning when the knee between his legs rubbed with tempting friction.

"I might've Vaan," the pirate grinned darkly against his skin, "If you hadn't agreed in such an alluring manner." He rubbed again staring into half mast eyes with undisguised hunger. "Don't expect me to let you go now, or ever."

END

Thank you all for reading! I'm already working on the next chapter so it might be up soon. Hopefully by next week. I edited it a little and reposted it. XD I was REEEAALLLY tired when I typed this out onto my com from my Ipod.