Uh, not any good ones, but she vaguely remembers someone telling her that you should give muggers what they want unless they want to take you to a secondary location, in which case you should not go with them to a secondary location, even if your alternative is facing down someone with a gun. So! Trying to avoid being taken to a secondary location!

Somehow. She should probably start with the obvious thing to try.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!"

....yeah okay that's not working this time, that's not good.

It really doesn't! On with the plan!

The well is RIGHT OVER THERE and if she can just GET TO IT then she might be able to get away, but by now she's very thoroughly caught, her escort is looking very dead, and further struggle seems to be getting her nowhere.

Maybe the power only works on demons. Maybe she could only do it when the Shikon jewel was inside her. Maybe she can only use it when she has her hands free. Maybe she just doesn't have any idea how to trigger it, or can only trigger it when she's literally about to be killed, and being taken prisoner or watching someone else die doesn't count.

(Maybe Inuyasha was right, and this whole enterprise was unconscionably stupid.)

They haul her off back to their camp, in some abandoned old hall that is not looking well maintained in the slightest, and deliver her to their boss, who, in a contest for ugliness, slovenliness, stench, and - based on his unfocused gaze and vague manner - unintelligence, would come second to none.

"We brought the foreign girl you asked for, boss," says the bandit hauling her.

"and... the... jewel..."

That's...... not a human person.

Like, okay, on some level she did in fact expect them to be working for a demon, but she thought it would be, you know, a charismatic demon! A demon with some ability to put together compelling arguments for why you should kidnap people for him, even though he's definitely going to eat you at some point! This is just sad. She feels herself crossing some kind of fear event horizon, faced with this guy, where the situation is just too awful and stupid and full of overdetermined doom to waste her last minute of life bothering to cower about it.

"You're working for a demon?" she says to her human captors. "That's low even for bandits."

"Hey! The boss isn't a demon! He's just -"

Pause. The bandit looks at the boss.

The boss's priority is grabbing the jewel! His minions DID get it off Kagome, right?

No, right now the jewel is in her pocket, and she's sure not helping anyone find it faster.

"That's not a human. You should have higher standards for evil bosses."

"He's just not doing well lately."

Next stage: Go through any hiding places she may have for the jewel, while the possibly-demonic boss watches with sullen impatience! The pocket does, in fact, look like a pretty likely hiding place.

Well, she's still tied up, so there's not a lot she can physically do about that.

"Listen to me! Look how he's moving! If you give him the jewel he'll transform, and then it'll be too late!"

(Does she know that that's how it works? No, absolutely not, it doesn't seem like a great time to hedge about whether the effects on Mistress Centipede were specific or universal.)

"Uh -"

The bandit is now looking at his boss in a slightly worried manner.

And the boss will physically grab the jewel! He's not doing well on hand-eye coordination, so he also grabs his subordinate's hand with it and kind of crushes it, pulling the hand and the jewel both up to his eye level, which is, uh, high.

"Pretty..."

"Don't let him use it!"

The boss will slowly disentangle hand from jewel, drop his henchman, and then take an exceptionally clumsy swing at Kagome with his enormous sword!

Well, Kagome's not really any better at this than she was yesterday, but she's rediscovered her will to survive in the last minute and a half, and this guy doesn't exactly have speed on his side. She pushes as hard as she can into one of the bandits who's holding her (and hopefully too distracted to keep his feet planted), aiming to knock both of them out of the path of the sword.

Success! It's the other bandit holding her who gets decapitated. She goes down, the bandit she pushed goes down, and the entire bandit crowd is now staring in horror and confusion at their boss.

"... ooops. missed."

... Not that he seems to be stopping to try to kill Kagome.

"Pay attention! It'll be you next!"

She gets up and tries to stay moving. The reasonable thing to do is to try to get everyone to run... except that he already has the jewel, and she isn't at all confident that she can get it back on her own, and only managed last time because -

"You!" she says, enlisting a randomly selected bandit. "Ride to the village and tell Kaede the priestess what's happened! Go!"

The bandits panic and flee! Hopefully the bandit she pointed at is indeed doing that!

Meanwhile the big bandit is chasing her with a sword. He wants to HIT HER with the sword and his sole relevant skill at this is being very, very strong.

Ugggh why is her life like this.

She'd really like to not be tied up, did the bandits do a shoddy enough job of that that with them gone she can wriggle out while also dodging his sword? At least if she had the use of her hands, she could.... grab a sword from one of the fallen bandits and try to cut off the hand with the jewel in it? As long as she's acting like she has a death wish anyway?

He is spectacularly bad at cutting her, so yes, as it happens, she can wriggle out!

Unfortunately, he's realized that hitting her with a sword isn't working, and has decided that his NEW PLAN is to EAT THE JEWEL. You wouldn't think it would go down his throat without him choking, but it does seem to work out for him!

Oh. Well. There goes that plan. 

This is pretty far out of her weight class, at this point. She turns to run away, thinking maybe she can also get back to the village and beg help off of Kaede -

- and, instead, she trips over a piece of smashed furniture, and falls down with a yell.

That's a target the bandit doesn't think he can miss. He raises his sword to bring it down -

- And through a decaying wall in a flying leap comes a red-robed dog demon! Before the sword lands, he's jumped over to Kagome, grabbed her and then leapt a good ten feet back, and the blow strikes only floorboards.