CH. 21

Sesshomaru sniffed the air again and snarled in frustration. Tama had been missing for a day and a half and again he'd lost her scent. Where the fuck has he taken her? Inuyasha and his travel party came up the road behind him and just when they reached him he caught a whiff of her scent and he started running again.

"Sesshomaru," Kagome panted, "please wait up." Sesshomaru snorted weak humans slowing me down.

Tama's claws were shattered and bleeding from scratching at her cell wall. She'd made a small dent, but nothing really substantial. She slammed her shoulder against the small hole trying to break it down, but nothing happened.

"Are you done yet?" Tama looked at Kagura and growled.

"How long have I been here?"

"Almost 2 days now." Tama cursed and slammed against the wall harder.

"It's no use all you're doing is hurting yourself and pissing me off with all that banging around." Tama bit her tongue until blood dripped from her lips. The little girl with the mirror appeared in the door way and looked up at Kagura.

"Kana?" Kagura knelt down and the girl whispered into her ear. Kagura looked at Tama and then a smirk spread across her face. Kana handed Kagura something and then disappeared just as swiftly and as silently as she had come. Kagura walked over to Tama and forced her mouth open. She shoved something down her throat and forced her to swallow.

"What did you give to me?"

"It will make you sleep for a bit." Tama's vision began to fade and them she was out. When Tama woke up her arms were back behind her again, but they were chained to the wall this time. Tama's vision stayed blurry and no matter much she blinked they wouldn't focus.

"How long has it been since you last had food or water?" Naraku's voice was hazy to her ears and Tama could barely lift her head to look at him. "At least 3 days, but I'm betting more than that." Naraku chuckled and Kana entered the room and stood in front of Tama with her mirror. "Try hard to focus your eyes Tama or you'll miss your friends coming to save you." Tama squinted her eyes and made out a fuzzy image of Sesshomaru in the mirror. She pulled on the chains but nothing happened. "I'll go greet our guests." Naraku left Tama to watch Kana's mirror. Her eyes were completely strained, but she was able to focus enough to see Inuyasha running alongside Sesshomaru and his friends were right behind him. Tama managed to crack a smile, "Naraku has no idea what he's done."

Inuyasha sliced through the barrier that hid Naraku's hideout and Sesshomaru quickly ran past him.

"Sesshomaru you basterd don't just going charging in there!" Inuyasha yelled. Sesshomaru paid him no head and ran strait into a cloud of miasma. Sesshomaru ignored the poison and waited for Inuyasha to knock it away with his windscar so he could try and find Tama's scent.

"Naraku," Sesshomaru spoke calmly and coldly, "bring me Tama and I will kill you quickly." He heard the human priestess tell the others that he wasn't much of a "negotiator", but he ignored her and began scanning the compound for any sign of Tama.

"Lord Sesshomaru I expected you to be here much sooner, any later and I don't think Tama would have been able to watch you come and rescue her." Sesshomaru's expression stayed bored as he looked to see Naraku, without his mask, up ahead. Inuyasha and his band of weaklings came up behind him brandishing their weapons and speaking without thinking.

"Naraku where's Tama? If you hurt her I swear I'll…" Naraku began to laugh and spear like tentacles shot out from his body.

"Killing me is the only way to free Tama, so you need to fight me until one of us dies." Miroku went to rip the beads off his arm to open the wind tunnel, but Naraku tsked at him, "If you open the wind tunnel how do you know you won't suck Tama in as well? You don't know where she is so you could very well pull her into that cursed hand." Miroku glared and Sesshomaru looked at the monk to give him the promise of death if he even dared to use his hand. Using Tama as a shield perhaps I will save your death for her. Sesshomaru growled at Naraku and his eyes turned red. If she is in anything less than the condition I last saw her in he will die slowly. Sesshomaru charged at Naraku and the battle began.

"Sesshomaru what are you doing?" Tama watched as her beloved tried to hurt the seemingly indestructible demon and none of his attacks seemed to work. She pulled harder on the binds and her arms screamed in protest.

"Look at how he fights for you, he must truly love you." Tama glared at Kagura and snapped at her with her fangs. The more she watched Sesshomaru fight to no avail the harder she struggled and the harder she struggled the more she slipped into madness. Is this a test Lord Inutaisho? You saw your love die and you saved her, but I let her die again and so this is how I will be punished? Someone has to save him. You need to save him. "I HAVE TO SAVE HIM!" Tama pulled on her binds so hard that her shoulders ripped out of her sockets and through the blinding pain she pulled until they were yanked out of the wall and as the power surged through her the binds melted off her raw wrists and she shifted into her demon form. Tama tore down the cell walls until the roof caved in and she saw the beautiful light of the moon, heard the sounds of battle, and smelt the blood of Sesshomaru as it filled the air. You capture me, use me as your pawn, and now fight my lover and my little brother and his friends, your death is inevitable.

(author's notes: I am so sorry it has taken so long to put out the latest chapter, but something about this chapter was so crazy hard to focus on that I needed to take a break from it...I very long break. Again very sorry to all my readers and now that this chapter is out things will be much eaiser from now on. Thanks for all the people who care enough to keep reading my story sadly Tama's tale will be coming to an end soon.)