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"Come on, we have to get out of he-"

Inuyasha was cut off by a sudden stabbing pain in his abdomen, and looked down to see a blade pierced through him. Sango's blade. He fell to his knees as Sango ripped her sword from Inuyasha's stomach, with a small smirk on her face.

"S-Sango... What..."

Inuyasha stammered, caught off guard, clutching his open wound. Sango rose to her feet, raising her sword again with both hands, ready to have Inuyasha's head off his shoulders with one quick swipe.

"What...Are you doing Sango!"

Inuyasha asked in a demanding voice, but it went ignored.

"I-it's me! Inuyasha, your mate!"

He yelled, and she finally answered.

"Die...Inuyasha!"

Chapter 15 A cruel game

"No...Sango please!"

Inuyasha pleaded, but Sango didn't respond. She gripped her sword tightly, and swung at him, but Inuyasha quickly got to his feet, and back flipped, still clutching the wound Sango gave him.

"Sango, why are you doing this?"

No answer. Not so much as a word. She just charged at Inuyasha, and swung again, narrowly missing. Inuyasha managed to strike back, and kicked the sword out of her hands. He grabbed her arms, swung around behind her holding her arms in a firm grip, barely able to restrain her.

"Sango, stop! What did Kohaku or Naraku do to you!"

He asked but merely received a hard blow to his stomach from Sango's elbow. He staggered back slightly, and his grip loosened. Sango took advantage of the moment, and grabbed one of his arms, flinging Inuyasha over her shoulder. He slammed hard into the ground, but regained his footing quickly.

'Damn it, what's wrong!'

He wondered furiously.

"Inuyasha, you wonder why the woman you love attacks you?"

Asked a deep, cold voice from behind a thick cloud of miasma.

"Naraku!"

Inuyasha yelled, recognizing the voice. He picked up the tetsusaiga which was on the ground, and held it with both hands, trying to make out the dark figure walking towards him.

"Inuyasha you fool."

Naraku was finally visible to Inuyasha, and he wore the baboon suit, but with the mask off, with a cold smirk on his face. Kohaku was right next to him, a lifeless look in his eyes.

"Don't you remember this from somewhere? It has happened before."

Naraku said, and Inuyasha replied,

"What the hell are you talking about!"

"Something like this has happened, yet you do not have the wits to notice what's going on here. It happened, say, fifty years ago?"

Naraku hinted, and Inuyasha was finally able to piece it together in his mind.

"This..."

He pointed to Sango with the tetsusaiga.

"Is one of your little incarnations... Isn't it? It's changed to look and sound like Sango!"

"Correct. They're all acting like the real Sango right now.

"What the hell are you talking about! Sango would never turn on me like this! She wouldn't be anything like this!"

Inuyasha said angrily, and Naraku replied,

"Sango, thanks to my servant,"

He put a hand on Kohaku's shoulder.

"Is completely under my control just like her brother. As soon as she sees you, she'll want nothing more but to have your blood on her sword and your corpse thrown to the birds of prey."

"What! How..."

"Through a sacred shard Inuyasha. She's being manipulated by it."

Naraku said, and turned his back to him, starting to walk away as the incarnation and Kohaku disappeared into the miasma.

"I've prepared something special at the castle... Something just for you..."

"Wait, I'm not done with you yet you bastard!"

Inuyasha dashed at him, swinging the tetsusaiga, but a second too late as Naraku jumped forward out of the way easily. Inuyasha ran over to where he landed, and was ready to swing at him again, but stepped back at the sight he saw there. Out of the many doors of the rooms of the castle, stood the same person. Sango. Ten, maybe twenty. Each and every one of them had the same lifeless eyes as Kohaku, and they were all staring at Inuyasha.

"W-what the hell is this!"

"As I said, the real slayer is being controlled completely by me, and there's only one of her; yet, as you see here, there are many Sangos."

"The rest are of them are...You..."

Inuyasha said, almost feeling sick.

"You finally use your head."

He said with a smirk.

"Then which one's the real one!"

Inuyasha demanded,

"Now now, it wouldn't be very fun if I gave that away, wouldn't it? You'll have to find out for yourself."

All at once, the Sangos ran at Inuyasha, who leapt out of the way.

'Damn it! Which one is it!'

He desperately blocked their attacks, kicking and punching them.

'What do I do! I might end up killing Sango if I attack them... But if I don't attack, they'll destroy me... I can't tell which one's the real one!'

He fought them off, pushing them back at the cost of all his energy. The fighting stopped for a second, as he fell to his knees, trying to catch his breath. He received a few wounds on his arms and abdomen.

"Why don't you attack Inuyasha? You'll be killed this way."

Naraku said, smirking.

'This little game is getting quite amusing... Watching that wretch suffer like this...'

He thought.

"Grrr..."

Inuyasha growled as he looked around at all of the Sangos. They all looked exactly like her; her looks, her scent, her style of fighting.

'I..I... Can't do this...They're all just like her... Which is the real one!'

He thought desperately as one of them slashed at him with her sword which he dodged with great difficulty due to his wounds.

Sango awoke with a sharp pain in her back, and sat up to see she was lying on a futon, in a dark room. Besides the small patch of flesh on her back which felt like it was on fire, the rest of her body felt completely numb.

She closed her eyes in thought, slowly remembering what happened

'...Was it all just another nightmare?'

She wondered, but shook that thought away. It was all just too real. She stood up from where she was lying quickly, and saw that her weapons and equipment were neatly lined up near the wall.

'If I'm supposed to be some kind of prisoner, why would Kohaku leave my weapons here?'

She thought, but put that question at the back of her mind as she heard voices outside. She quickly changed into her slayer suit, and grabbed her weapons as she rushed outside to see Inuyasha fighting a group of people who looked exactly like her.

'Inuyasha? What's going...'

Sango's thoughts were interrupted by a sharp pain in her back, and it seemed to spread throughout her body. She felt like screaming out in pain, but she couldn't. Her head suddenly started to hurt like crazy, as if it was going to burst. She could hear a voice in her head, and her body was responding to it without her mind agreeing to it.

'W-what's happening to me!'

She thought desperately as she fully lost control of her body, and everything in her mind went dark.

Naraku walked up to the inside of the castle, leaving Inuyasha struggling in the one sided battle.

"Sango, you will stay out of sight of Inuyasha."

He commanded, and Sango's body obeyed, closing the door to her room. Naraku looked back at Inuyasha, who was now fairly battered and cut up, still desperately trying to find the real Sango.

'The fool... He would do all this for a woman? He was weaker than I presumed... I doubt he can keep this up much longer; the girl that's the reincarnation of Kikyo is nowhere near and he has no way to tell the difference... Not that it would matter however...'

He thought, and continued to enjoy the fight.

Inuyasha was struggling to just hold off their attacks. He was being slashed left to right, his blood all over the courtyard of the castle. One of them kicked Inuyasha in the stomach, and he flew back a few meters. Too tired to react, he smashed into a wall, making a large crack on it. He swore under his breath, and got back to his feet, feeling nauseous. Everything around him was spinning, and it was hard to concentrate.

'Damn it... I can't do this... Not alone!'