This was originally submitted for inuyasha_et_al on LJ.
Title: A Tasty Bite
Author: LC Rose
Rating: K
Genre: general
Characters: Myoga, Shippou
Word Count: 238
Warnings: none
Summary: Myoga thinks over his palate…
He had tasted many during his long, long life. At one point he had sworn that bat tasted the best and then he'd turned to horse. His tricky taste buds changed their preferred flavors like a human in a wine shop…that is until he'd met the great Dog General. After a sucking of that blood, he'd immediately changed to dog and for thousands of years the furry canines rated at the top of his preferred palate list. There was just something about the tang of their blood…sickeningly sweet with an edge of tartness. Even inu-hanyous tasted delicious to his velvety tongue.
And then had come the miko Kagome, with her saucy ways and flea-flattening abilities. For a human she'd tasted pretty good. He'd considered her a delicacy—what with her coming from a future he had yet to experience—and he'd savored her as such. But females were so…touchy…about feeding another's life from their own selves' and so he'd rarely pressed for a taste.
Then he'd discovered kitsune.
Oh how the fox scratched, clawed, bit, and tore at him! Evading his claws in search of the sugar-sweetened blood was a relishing day, indeed. But was it just this kitsune that he favored or was it all of them in general?
Hmm, pondered Myoga as he jumped from the neko—whose blood tasted nowhere near as delicious—to the kitsune for a bite. Perhaps another taste will tell me…