One-Hour Challenge #85: Scene: One of your 'Couple' gets really sick with the flu and gets doped up on medication-which makes them think they're a Vampire looking for a Mate.

***

Title: Adventures in Flu Medicine

Author: Aisuru

Email: aisuru_chan@yahoo.com

Summary: Kagome's flu medicine does more than cure flu symptoms. Now she thinks she's a creature of the night, Shippou is a snack, and Inuyasha is prime mate material! What's an inu-hanyou to do? Take Miroku's advice, of course!

Rating: PG

Challenge: One hour challenge #85

Couple: Kagome and Inuyasha

Group: Inuyasha

Series: no

Chapter: 3/4

Date completed: 11/20/02 (posting one chapter a day; please review!)

***



Inuyasha didn't release Kagome until he had leapt into a small cave with only one entrance, which was in the middle of a sheer cliff - in other words, a place that she wouldn't be able to get out of on her own. When he set her down, she scrambled to her feet and backed away from him, hissing like a cat. He only grinned in response, showing his own fangs.

"What do you think you're doing?" she shrieked, and Inuyasha flattened his ears against the sound. She lunged at him again, and once again he found himself pinning her to the ground in a mimic of their earlier pose in the woods. This time, though, he was far less careful about minimizing contact between them. He stretched out over her, pelvis to pelvis, chest to chest. He pushed her face aside with his own, nuzzling her neck and giving it a lick.

"I thought you wanted to become my mate," Inuyasha answered, his voice filled with a seductive quality that betrayed his confidence. He licked her again, followed by a quick nip that bruised but didn't break the skin. Kagome squirmed beneath him, and her scent changed just enough to let him know that she enjoyed it more than she would admit.

"I'm supposed to turn you," Kagome insisted, "not the other way around!"

"And just what does becoming your mate entail?" he asked her, nipping her again.

Kagome took a deep breath so she could focus enough to answer, just another sign that she wasn't really a vampire. "I bite you, and drink all of your blood," she said, that artificial growl once again coloring her voice. "Then I give you some of my blood. My blood changes you into a vampire, like me, and you will be immortal!"

Inuyasha laughed. "I'm already immortal in the way you're using the word," he told her. "As an inu-hanyou, I will not die of old age or natural illness. True, I can be killed, but even a vampire can be killed. Plus, I can go out in the sunlight, and my diet is much more varied."

Kagome didn't know what to say for a moment. "So you don't want to be my childe," she finally said. "Can you still be my mate?"

Inuyasha gave her another lick over the pulse in her throat, then traced a path to her mouth, where he licked at her lips. She opened them happily, welcoming his tongue with her own in a violent mimic of a kiss. Inuyasha growled in contentedness even as he was careful to not really hurt her. Then she bit his tongue.

He yelped, pulling his face away from hers. "What'd you do that for, bitch?" he asked.

Kagome licked her lips. "Just wanted to taste your blood," she replied.

Inuyasha growled a true inu-youkai growl that Kagome could feel rumbling through her chest. "Don't do that again," he warned. He maintained the growl at a deeper pitch, making it more of a purr than a growl, and nuzzled against her neck once again. "I'm going to mark you as my mate," he warned, adjusting his hold on her so that both of her wrists were captured in one of his hands. He used the claws on his free hand to shred the neckline of the T-shirt she had been sleeping in. When the juncture between her neck and shoulder had been exposed, he used a combination of fangs, claws, and his own blood to permanently and intricately mark her as his own. In another contradiction to her supposed Vampire nature, she slipped into blessed unconsciousness early in the procedure.

END 25 MIN