Kagome manages to make a tiny, extremely annoyed sound deep in her throat.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Poor thing, unable to move. I know a way to wake you and break the spell!"

And he hops onto her face and starts sucking her blood.

Well, it's no prince charming kiss, but it gets the job done. Her hand flies up and swats him. It still isn't easy, but she's able to sit up under the weight of the chains, afterwards.

When she starts moving the tiny goblins scatter!

Inuyasha is still resting in the mother-monster's arms, not quite conscious, and she doesn't seem to have noticed Kagome. His body seems to be fading into hers, and it's not quite clear if he can breathe.

Sesshomaru's henchman, Jaken, is visible, though! He also hasn't noticed her, but he's paddling a boat down the swamp towards the monster. He's got the flame-staff and an annoyed expression.

She needs to wake up Inuyasha before the monster finishes... whatever that is. She needs to do it without getting incinerated by the goblin guy's flame attack, and without getting noticed by Sesshomaru, wherever he is. This sounds kind of impossible, but if they kill Inuyasha then she's definitely not getting out of here alive, so she'll just have to make it happen or die trying.

She slips out of the chains and creeps up along the riverbank behind him, staying low to the ground and being as quiet as she can.

"Dear boy... darling boy..."

Jaken runs the small boat aground and whacks her with the staff. "Un-Mother! Stop crushing that fool and give us what we came for! Where lie his father's bones? Where lie the bones of Lord Sesshomaru's father?"

"Try to remember, Inuyasha... tell your mother where it is..." She's reaching horribly into him -

"... Don't remember..."

"Show your mother your soul..." This does not look good for him.

- all right, this is gonna be stupid, but if she waits for a non-stupid option to come along, he's going to die.

When she's close enough to maybe, possibly make it, she charges Jaken from behind and makes a grab for his fire staff.

Jaken is half her height, about a third of her body weight, and distracted! The staff is hers!

"the... right... black... pearl..." murmurs Inuyasha, apparently ignorant of the theft and still being absorbed into the Un-Mother's body.

Kagome has no idea how to make this staff spit fire. Even if she did, it probably wouldn't be a good tactical decision, given that one of her enemies seems to be subsuming her apparently-technically-not-friend into herself. 

You know what she can do, though? She can use the staff as a club, putting all the strength she has behind it, and knock the little goblin hard enough out of the way that he can't cause any more problems. Or kill him. It probably won't, if Inuyasha and Myoga are anything to go by, but Kagome is in fact way past caring about whether this kills him, at this particular moment.

She can, in fact, golf-club him straight into the swamp!

"GAH!"

GOOD.

Kagome is... much less sure what to do about the situation where Inuyasha is being absorbed, so she's going to go with her instincts! Her instincts say to grab onto what's left of him and pull as hard as she can.

"INUYASHA! WAKE! UP!"

Not only does this plan not work, but it's not wholly clear if he or the Un-Mother notices.

This is STUPID and POINTLESS and DOOMED, and given all that she would still rather go down fighting.

"Let him go!" she screams, and aims her makeshift club at the place where the faceless woman's face would be, if she had one.

Bonk! Her not-face goes in slightly. Then it starts to sloooowly inflate outwards.

"My little one... I'm so happy..."

ARGH.

Okay. This is - not working. He's still being absorbed, he doesn't seem likely to wake up, and she's obviously not going to overpower the mother-monster. If there's anything to be done - and there doesn't have to be, it is possible for there to be nothing she can do - then it has to be something else.

Little one.

Her eyes snap to the reflection in the water. There's the monster, of course, reflected with no face, but there's also Inuyasha, reflected as a small child sleeping peacefully in the arms of a thing that is not his mother, and does not want to protect him, but to consume him.

She doesn't know what to do about the reflection, mind. She doesn't know the rules. So, again, she defaults to what comes naturally.

She jumps into the water and reaches to grab hold of that Inuyasha, of the lost child, half-expecting that there really is someone solid and drowning that she really can scoop up out of the water, that she can protect where the monster will not.

And when her touch shatters the Un-Mother's reflection - 

- Inuyasha comes ripping out her, falling back and away, his face full of horror.

And the Un-Mother screams in agony and collapses.

- not what she expected, exactly, but she'll take it! She turns around and runs toward Inuyasha.

"Are you okay?" she asks, as if there's anything she could possibly do for him if he wasn't.