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CHAPTER TWENTY: BLOOD TESTS

GAARA'S POINT OF VIEW

*****SMALL LEMON*****

I shifted when I woke, making Karin writhe around me. Her walls clenched around my half-hard cock that was still inside her and I hissed in pain and pleasure. By tightening her walls, I became painfully hard again. I looked at her and she opened slightly blurred eyes. I thrusted inside her and she gasped, opening her eyes all the way.

"Too early," she spoke huskily.

I pulled out of her and she writhed and cried out loudly. I kissed her, silencing her cries, but it was too late. The sounds of someone getting out of bed and scrambling down the stairs brought us to our senses.

Karin was the first to act and scrambled out of the bed and ran into the bathroom as someone scuttled down the hall to my room. I pulled the covers over me just as the door opened. Kankuro came in, face empty of his normal make-up, and had an interesting look on his face as he took me in, propped up on an elbow in bed.

"What?" I growled.

"I heard Karin," he frowned as he looked around the room. "Sounded like she was in pain or something..." His eyes came back to me and bulged. "Did an animal bite you or something?"

I touched my neck and winced. I looked at my fingers and saw some blood. Karin said she was going to mark me as 'mate' as animal terms went. Well, she had a wolf spirit inside her.

"Get out of here. It's too early to be worrying about anything," I growled.

"Don't worry about it?" he growled back. "Whatever it was took a piece of you with it!"

Temari came in, blurry eyed and confused at all the noise. "What the hell is everyone doing up at the crack of dawn?"

"Gaara got himself bit by something," Kankuro snapped and Temari studied me.

"GET OUT, BOTH OF YOU!" I yelled, summoning sand from my gourd from across the room. They scrambled out and I used the sand to close the door and lock it.

I stood up and walked into the bathroom as Karin turned on the shower. I studied her petite form and smiled as I felt my cock harden again. She looked at me and I saw some blood on her lips.

"Damn, I did take a piece of you," she muttered as she looked at my neck.

I looked in the mirror and studied my neck. At first, my brain didn't comprehend what I saw but as I kept looking, I saw that it looked like an animal had bitten me. I chuckled and walked to Karin, who had her mouth slightly open as she studied me.

"You are kind of an animal," I chuckled as I kissed her brow. "Come lets clean up."

I smiled and pulled her into the shower. I ran my fingers through her hair under the shower head. She leaned her head forward and I laughed at her. As soon as I finished washing her hair, she turned and grabbed a wash cloth and started to wash my neck gently. I hissed once as she directly touched the wound as she washed away the blood.

"Sorry," she muttered when she was done.

"Don't worry about it, it will heal. I am yours now," I whispered in her ear and her body trembled. She smiled as she looked at me and I felt her fingers caress my cock. "Please don't tease me."

"Aww," she pouted as she squeezed me.

I groaned and kissed her deeply before pulling away and hopping out of the shower. I wrapped a towel around myself as she got out and wrapped herself. She grabbed a pile of white and walked out of the bathroom and into the closet. I watched her dress, smiling before pulling on my clothes.

*****END LEMON*****

"Gaara?" Temari knocked on the main door. "The doctor is here."

I saw Karin tense a little before she relaxed. I frowned and left the room to talk to Temari. Once I opened the door, I saw pure fear in her eyes.

"Relax, Temari. I won't hurt you. Karin told me what happened and I'm sorry," I spoke as Karin came out of the closet.

She nodded to Temari then disappeared from the room and appeared down the hallway and I saw her talking to Kankuro in hushed voices. My brother's eyes flashed to me a second before he walked out of view. They were hiding something from me.

"What was that about?" Temari frowned as she looked at Karin.

"No idea, but I will find out," I hissed.

"Later, the doctor is waiting in the living room. Have him bandage your neck while he does his tests," Temari sighed, pulling me out of my room.

I undid my tunic as we walked down the hall to make things fast. He checked vitals like normal and when I showed him my neck, he chuckled. I frowned when he drew twice as much blood as usual. Soon the tests were done and he put away his tools.

"Why the extra blood?" I narrowed my eyes.

"Just some extra tests this time," he spoke but I could tell he wasn't telling the full truth. "Kankuro, help an old man back to the hospital."

"Yes, sir," Kankuro hurried over and carried his bag as they left.

Temari made breakfast but didn't eat much as she pulled on a borrowed Kazekage cloak and left to help settle the village. That left me and Karin alone for a bit. I walked up to her room and saw her actually meditating. As soon as I walked in and closed the door, she stood up and smiled at me.

"I have a question," I spoke, crossing my arms over my chest.

She cocked her head to the side. "What's up?"

"What are you and Kankuro hiding from me?" I growled and her eyes widened just a tad.

"What are you talking about?" she recovered quickly.

"Don't act like I'm stupid, Karin, I saw you two talking earlier. You are definitely hiding something," I snapped and she winced.

"I asked Kankuro to get me some of your blood," she spoke after a minute.

"Why?"

"To make sure the mating went properly," she smiled. "I didn't want to have you worry too much."

I looked at her and studied her expression. I saw the sincerity in her eyes but I also saw a hint of fear. She spoke truth. I nodded and brought her into my arms. Kankuro came back and Karin pulled me out of her room. She pulled me to my room and told me to lie down and rest from all the blood loss.

KARIN'S POINT OF VIEW

I left him in his room and exhaled as I walked up to Kankuro's room to get the blood. I knocked and he opened seconds later. He let me in and pointed to a small bag on the couch.

"He knows something's up," I breathed. "He asked me about when you and I talked earlier. I told you not to look at him."

"Did you tell him?"

"Not about the beast thing. I told him I needed some of his blood to figure out if my bite did anything to him," I laughed softly. "He bought it but he may be a little suspicious."

"What... You took the chunk out of his neck?" Kankuro blinked.

"Yes, who else would be in his room?" I smiled. "I am the host of a wolf."

"What exactly where you two doing?" his eyes narrowed.

"Are you sure you want to know, brother?" I hissed through a full-out grin.

"Ugh, get out," he groaned, covering his ears.

I grabbed the bag and went up to my room. I pulled out the vials and saw that Kankuro delivered…two vials of plasma and three vials of blood. In truth I had needed to check the new bond between us, but I did need to figure out of he still had some lurking beast.

I poured out the blood and swirled them into the air before me. I smiled as I saw the formations and was glad that the mating had gone well. I pulled the blood back into the vial and looked at the other vials. I hesitated over the plasma vials, not really wanting to know the answer. I sighed and spread the plasma before me. The Shukaku was gone, but there was something there.

I sank to my knees, afraid of what truth I would find if I drank the clear liquid. I swirled the plasma around me and dripped it into my mouth. Images pulled me into darkness and I felt lightheaded. I studied the distorted forms around me and stiffened.

There was the form of a demon in front of me, his eyes black and hair like open flames streaked with black. His claws were about half a foot long and you could see the cords of his muscles as they protruded. He had black leathery wings and horns on top of his head. Along his abdomen was a type of seal someone would do for a Jinchuuriki.

"Karin," the image whispered. "I've wondered when we'd meet properly. I'm sorry for attacking you before."

"So it was you," I breathed. "Who are you?"

"A part of Gaara he locked away, his inner monster that even the Shukaku feared. He hid me as deep as he could until we met you. A few people have a true monster inside of them and Gaara is one of them. Once I saw how you protected Temari after Gaara lost control of me, I lost so much anger. The pain I saw..."

"What does that mean?"

"It means that your actions calm me," he smiled.

"Are you going to be a danger to everyone?" I snapped.

"As long as you never leave unless you warn us and you come back," he whispered before the world of darkness faded.

I came back to my senses and coughed for air. I was on my knees surrounded by broken glass and blood, one vile of blood had survived. I had crushed the vials when I went into the darkness. I looked at my hands and saw blood welling up. I hurried to the bathroom and washed my hands before I got infections from the glass. My hands had a few shallow and deep cuts.

"Karin?" Kankuro's voice came into the room. "What the...? Karin!"

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