"Hand it over! The Jewel of Four souls!" The demon cried at her.
"You have the Jewel?"
"No, but so long as she think I do, I can lead her away from the village at least." Kagome said before flagging down the demon's attention and dashing toward to forest.
"Head to the well!" The old woman cried. "It's in the forest, that wa-"
"Where the trees are shiny? I'm on it!" Kagome interrupted. And with that she was gone.
Kagome ran as fast as she could, vaguely remembering the path that she had been forced to take away from the God tree. 'Turn right at the tree, and I'm home free. At least, I think so? Well, not really. This thing is going to kill me anyway, so I guess at least it won't eat any more villagers?' It knocked her off her feet just as Kagome had reached the tree. That should teach Kagome to not let her mind wander during a battle...
"What are you doing playing around, Kikyou?" asked an unknown and haughty voice. Kagome looked up.
'The corpse talked?' She asked herself.
"Kill it with a single arrow, like you did to me." The corpse continued on.
"That would indeed be the proper course of action, assuming I had a bow with me. And assuming I was this Kik-"
"Look there." This time, Kagome was the one interrupted. The demon swooped down at her again.
"Eeek!"
Luck was on Kagome's side, as the villagers drug the beast away from her with spears and ropes.
"Tut, tut, what a pathetic performance, Kikyou."
"Forgive me for not being Kikyou, then."
"Don't be stupid, only Kikyou reeks like tha-..." the boy stopped talking and began sniffing her.
'Ah. so he is a pervert.' Kagome thought to herself as she mentally took a step back.
"Wait, you're not her?"
"A bit behind the times, aren't you? My name is Kagome."
"Bah, of course you're not her. Unlike yours, Kikyou's face was intelligent... and beautiful."
"And yet you did, indeed, have the two of us confused." Kagome said, with a twinge of anger. "The difference can't be so great. I suppose I shall thank you for your indirect compliment." He glared at her, angrily. Kagome's mind had completely wandered from the ensuing battle, until the demon seized her.
"Eeeek!" Kagome seized the nearest thing to keep her on the ground, er, well, on the tree? The poor boy. She'd managed to get her fist full of his hair.
"OW! Let me go!"
"After she lets me go! Get away!"
"I'll eat you whole, girl, Jewel and all!"
"NO!" And with the same burst of light which had freed her from the creature's grasp in the well, Kagome flopped to the forest floor with severed arms. Rather than run away, Mistress Centipede sunk her fangs into Kagome's side.
This time, Kagome met the forest floor accompanied by a shiny, pink jewel instead of more of the creature's arms. The villagers shouted something, but Kagome heard nothing due to the pain in her side. The tree-corpse shouted something, too. Kagome reached for the jewel, but the demon was faster. Kagome was now wrapped up along side the corpse by the demon's body.
Mistress Centipede addressed the corpse-boy.
"Hmm... you are Inuyasha, no? I had heard of a half dog demon in these parts, who also hunted for the Jewel of four souls."
"Stuff it, Hag. I can blow you apart without blinking."
"Did anyone ever tell you that actions speak louder than words?" Kagome asked, with a bit more sarcasm than she had intended. The pain in her side had more than assured her that this non-sensical world was nothing to joke about and that her ensuing death was very real as well.
"Shut up!"
"True, though. Just watch as victory, possession of this gem, becomes mine, little half-demon."
Pinned to the tree along side the boy, Kagome watched as the jewel which the demon had cut out of her body disappeared down it's throat.