Chapter 26: Surrounded

"How did we get here?" Paramore, Decode

Inuyasha!

Her heart was pounding and aching as her mind was full of Inuyasha.

She missed him so much.

Kagome felt awful. Her head hurt. Her eyes hurt. She opened her eyes and saw Sesshoumaru glance at her. She tried to move but was unable to since he was holding her tight. Then she looked around in confusion. What was going on?

What? Where was she? Sesshoumaru was holding her so tight that she knew that she would have bruises.

"Sesshoumaru? Get off of me." Kagome demanded blinking.

"Silence," he snarled.

It was then that she looked down. They were in the air. Just a few feet. She looked down to see the demon attacking them. It was then that Kagome looked behind them. They were surrounded by a hoard of demons.

She wasn't sure what kind of demons that they were, but they looked like monsters. They were hideous.

How many were they?

It was a swarm.

Inuyasha's name was stuck in her throat. He wasn't here to save her. She wished he was here. When Inuyasha was with her she never felt afraid. Not that Sesshoumaru wasn't strong but it wasn't the same. She didn't know him. She wished so much that Inuyasha would show up, but she knew that it wasn't possible. If only Inuyasha was here, he could use the wind scar.

They were in trouble.

Sesshoumaru had no windscar. No wonder he wanted Tetatsaiga so much. Great. What a time to understand this stoic demon.

If only she could convince him to runaway. Sesshoumaru could fly them away, but the stupid demon would probably rather die than runaway.

"You finally decided to join the world of the living", Sesshoumaru landed on the broken ground avoiding the attacks of the demons as he cut through the crowd.

"Watch out!" Kagome screamed as Sesshoumaru continued fighting oblivious to her screams.

He cut through the demons quickly and without mercy. But it was too many of them. No matter how many that he killed, each demon would rise again then would split into a new demon.

It was getting too many by the minute. They were going to get overwhelmed.

Kagome started to panic as she looked around. Her headache vanished. She had to help Sesshoumaru. He couldn't fight them. No matter how many he killed, more kept multiplying. The only one that did not multiply was the one that she had purified. She had to purify them. She had no arrow. She was too weak to throw projectiles.

"Sesshoumaru, they are not dying!" Kagome asked. "Let's leave. There is too many. It is only us against all of them. Well- technically only you. We need to go. Can't you fly us out of here?"

He ignored her.

All of the demons had chose that moment to launch themselves at the two of them. Sesshoumaru spun them into a tight deadly circle. Kagome felt like that she was on merry-go-round. He cut through each demon that got close enough to them.

He smirked until they got up again. Now there was more of them.

"Sesshoumaru! Stop!" Kagome shouted. "This is not working. You are just making more of them! Let's go! Who cares about your stupid pride! Surviving is more important. You can't fight all of them! Let's go! Please!"

Now there were so many demons that she couldn't count them. She wanted to fight but his grip was a vice grip.

What could she do? At least she had to put a barrier behind them. So he wouldn't have to keep turning in every direction. But Kagome was so tired. She could barely get a grip of her power.

She had to make a barrier.

Sesshoumaru needed help even if he did not ask for it.

Kagome dug deep inside herself and wrapped a barrier behind them. The demons tried to take it down but were purified instantly. The rest stayed away from the barrier.

He glanced at her for a second before he keep fighting.

It was hard to hold up the barrier. It was taking all her energy. She felt so dizzy.

She couldn't give up or they would die. She had to try. They had find a way. There had to be a solution. Kagome had to find the strength within her.

She had to give Sesshoumaru time.

How could Sesshoumaru always look so confident? This fight was not a fight that you should be calm in. By now Inuyasha would have turned demon.

But Sesshoumaru was forever the ice prince. He did not look worried at all.

It felt like her skin was burning. Her limbs were shaking. But she didn't let go.

She needed to guard his back. She had to try her best.

There had to be a solution. Think! Think! There had to be a way out of this. Every time he killed one, it multiplied into another one. Obviously, using a sword was not going to work. She had no arrows and barely any strength. What did they have?

Think!

Her mind was blank. If only Sango was here, she always knew about all the different types of demons and their weaknesses. Kagome had no clue what these things were much less how to kill them.

It wasn't as if she ever had demon anatomy class. Oh- no now there were more demons.

Acid? Sesshoumaru's acid.

Yes, if he melts them then they can not multiply again.

It had to work.

"Sesshoumaru," Kagome said but he ignored her.

She hit his chest, "Don't ignore me."

"Silence," he snarled at her.

Kagome hit him again then winced as her palm hurt.

"Sesshoumaru! Stop cutting them up! You have to melt them with your acid, so they can't get back up," Kagome screamed.

His angry golden eyes caught hers then he smiled an evil smile. He put away his sword, and dropped Kagome on the floor. "Priestess drop your barrier then do not move until I allow it."

Kagome watched as Sesshoumaru eyes turned red, his jaw extended, until he grew into a giant white dog demon. He was as big as a house.

To her horror, he snatched her into his jaws and threw her over his shoulder. She grabbed on to the white fur tightly. His jaws and claws dripped with green venom. The demons stepped back. Sesshoumaru stepped forward. Crushing them with his paws and dissolving them with his acid. Snapping them between his jaws and melting them.

It was so many.

Kagome held on for dear life. She didn't want to fall. He was not even being careful at all. She was being flung around in so many directions. Her knuckles were pale white. She prayed that she would not fall from this height. Why did he have to be so tall?

The demons tried to attack him from the back.

"Behind you!" she screamed.

Sesshoumaru turned around so fast as Kagome screamed in terror. He crushed them.

It felt like hours before it was over. Finally, he transformed without warning tossing Kagome high into the air, catching her with one arm.

"Did you have to do that!" Kagome screamed.

He did not look at her. Instead, he rose above the ground, set her down on his cloud, and took off high into the air at a high-speed.

"Slow down!" Kagome screamed on instinct clinging onto his arm.

"Silence," Sesshoumaru muttered under his breath. "We are being followed."

Kagome looked behind Sesshoumaru to see bat demons behind them. Sesshoumaru speed up. Kagome was shocked that he did not stop to fight.

She did not complain since she was relieved. She didn't realize that they were climbing higher and higher until it became hard to breath.

The bat demons were now underneath them.

Sesshoumaru dropped on top of them and released his enormous aura.

The bats scattered.

Kagome stared at Sesshoumaru in shock, "Can you turn it down? Hello? I am a priestess."

He just grinned his evil grin and it sent a shiver of fear down her spine. She needed to stop forgetting how dangerous that Sesshoumaru was.

Kagome reconsidered her choice of an ally but then he dropped to the ground suddenly.

Knocking all the air out of her lungs, he let her go and she collapsed on the ground.

"We will rest here tonight," He declared then retracting his aura.

Kagome glared at him from the ground, "What is your problem?"

"Priestess, we are in alternate world. I believe it is a prison for demons created by magic. I have heard of such things but I thought that it was a myth," Sesshoumaru said.

She felt her temperature spike, "A alternative what-!"

Was she ever going to go home?