Eijun sat alone on the window seat in his guest/prison room, looking out the glass in forlorn. Outside the lake shimmered in the sunlight but it couldn't lift his spirits since he was a captive that was forced apart from his beloved Miyuki. Even Furuya and Haruichi were put in separate rooms away from him.

The door rattled and Mei came inside but Sawamura refused to look at him.

"Aw, still upset about last night?"

The prince didn't answer.

He kneeled next to the boy, "I have a proposition for you. If you marry me I'll give you nothing but luxury for you and the child."

He scoffed, "You're only doing this to get back at Miyuki, and you want my child because Miyuki's the father. I'm not stupid."

"That's fair. But you should consider this very carefully within these next few months, especially regarding your future with your child or if you won't be in it…"

Eijun quickly turned his head and uttered in disbelief, "You-you would take my child?"

"I would." he stated.

Tears started running as Sawamura screamed, "YOU CAN'T!"

"But I will." he got up and went back to the door, "So choose wisely young prince." and once again Eijun was locked in.

Sawamura cried in his hands, whimpering, "Kazuya… Kazuya… please find us… hurry before its too late…"

Miyuki sat on his throne in disarray, it looked like he hadn't slept a wink and it concerned his servants. Yuki, Ryosuke, Tanba, Jun, Kuramochi, and Kawakami his highest ranked knights were especially worried by the condition of their king. Chris and Rei were there too and was scared of same thing the knights were feeling.

"Your Majesty you need rest-" Yuki started.

"I CAN'T REST!" Miyuki shouted, making everyone stay in place as he angrily said, "Mei stole something precious from me, not only that but he took two of my promising knights. Furuya and your brother, Ryosuke."

"Yes sire, we know, but without proof we can't go get them." Ryosuke replied.

"Yes, the bastard was clever covering his tracks. And it's ticking me off to no end."

Kawakami suggested, "Should we send scouts into the kingdom of Inashiro then, would that help?"

Miyuki nodded, "Yes, it's a good start, eventually something will slip up and we'll be there to snatch it!"

Kuramochi muttered, "Cunning as always even when sleep-deprived…"

Yuki heard that and commented, "Sleep-deprived is right, please Your Highness you really should go get some sleep…"

Rei spoke up, "I agree, you had a very stressful night and your health is too important to ignore."

"Not until Sawamura is back! I won't go to sleep until then!"

"Oi, now you're just being pig-headed!" Mochi complained.

Chris finally said something, "Your Majesty, as the castle's apothecary, I insist you go get some rest to have a clearer head when you wake up unless you want to die from exhaustion and leave Sawamura a widower before you got married," Not to mention leaving a child fatherless before it's born but I can't say that right now, it would only make things worse. "Do you want that?"

Miyuki mulled over Chris's words till finally he sighed, "Fine…" then turned to his captain, "Make sure you keep up the search and choose the best scouts you have to go to Inashiro, okay?"

"It shall be done, my lord."

Miyuki let out a yawn then, and began going, "It's all in your hands now." and gone up the stairs to his room.

Yuki told Jun, "Get Nabe, Ono, Seto, and Okumura. As it is they're the best scouts for the job."

The vice-captain acknowledged this and went to find the chosen.

"Daddy! Daddy!"

Miyuki could hear a little girl's voice and he turned to see her with Sawamura and a young boy older than her.

"Dad, hurry!" the boy called out.

He found himself chuckling and quickly joined them. They were having a picnic in the palace gardens and happiness radiated from the family.

Then the kids went to play and Eijun laid his head on his lap. Miyuki looked down at him lovingly before they exchanged a kiss.

"Let's have five more…"

Eijun rolled his eyes, "My, such a demanding king you are…"

He laughed and kissed him again.

"But you know your wish will come true…" the younger man smiled.

"Really?"

"I'm expecting again…"

Miyuki exclaimed in joy and got up while lifting his husband and twirled him around making Eijun gleefully laugh.

The king woke up from the dream. Confused yet happy from what he witnessed. Miyuki knew it was wishful thinking that he and Sawamura could have children of their own but the dream was enough.

Chris came in then carrying some tonics, he handed him a bottle, "For your nerves."

"Thank you." he drank it, "Just now, I had the strangest dream, Sawamura and I had a family."

Chris had to cover his mouth and look away.

"It was crazy but I actually wish it was true…"

Chris debated to himself to say something but given how distraught the king was when he heard Sawamura was missing that he would be more upset to learn about the child.

"But a dream is fine if anything it gave me hope we'll find them and I think I know another way we can do that."

"Oh? How so?"

"I need to make contact with the neighboring kingdoms and request their help. Yakushi are already our allies so they will help, Sanada and Todoroki will make sure of that. The others might be harder to convince… But King You Shunshin from Akikawa might since we have high respect for each other."

"I certainly hope you're right, the more help we get the sooner they'll come home."

"Send for Rei-chan, I need her help to make a list of invites so we can have our neighboring rulers in one place by the end of the month."

"Yes, my king. As you wish." He bowed and gone.

Miyuki looked at the window seeing the sunset, he said softly, "Don't lose hope Sawamura, I'm going to find you just you wait…"

The days went on, and at Mei's castle, Sawamura was allowed to be with his friends again and they were allowed to go around the castle and its grounds as long as they had a couple of escorts accompany them. It was annoying at first but slowly they got used to it. Sawamura also had a doctor assigned to him to keep check of his condition. His stomach slowly grew as time went on and as much as this was supposed to be a happy moment he couldn't help but feel fear especially of what the future would be like.

But there was hope. Every time he went to sleep he would have beautiful dreams of him and Miyuki and their future children or at least what he thought they would look like being a family. Right now he was sitting by the lake while he rubbed his belly and started humming a tune his mother used to sing to him when he was small.

Furuya was next to him skipping stones which went a long distance on the water and commented, "That's pretty."

"Thanks, my mom taught it to me."

"So you're passing the tradition?"

He chuckled, "I guess so!"

They looked up to see Haruichi climbing around in the tree then he hung by his arms like a monkey would on a branch, he told them, "Even from the treetops I can't find an opening to the outside, but I'll keep trying, we'll get out of here soon enough." he made a reassuring smile.

Sawamura sighed, "Even if you did, Harucchi… I'll only slow you guys down here so you should get out while you can…"

"Not going to happen." the pink-haired boy jump down and put his hands on his best friend's shoulders, looking determined, "We will all escape together." he looked at the boy's swollen stomach, "That's a promise."

Sawamura sniffed and rubbed his eyes, "Harucchi…"

The shorter boy patted his head and kept smiling while Furuya went between them and put his arms around them making the trio hug. And Sawamura knew with them by his side he'll make it through this with his child.

Just wait Miyuki, I will come back to you and show you a surprise you never expected… He smiled at the thought and couldn't wait for it to happen. Now… it was just a matter of how it could happen, making the three brainstorm.

"Thank you for coming." Miyuki spoke to the delegation before him. Prince Todoroki Raichi and Lord Sanada Shunpei sat to his right as Raichi proclaimed, "Well of course! Sawamura is missing and I want to help find him!"

Sanada mentioned, "Since our jousting tournament last year, my young master has become good friends with your majesty's intended and thus our alliance was born so it would berate us if we don't do something to help."

"You have my thanks, Lord Sanada and Prince Raichi."

King Shunshin spoke, "I too wish to offer my services, I don't much care for Inashiro and if we can find proof of their wrongdoings then by all means do what you must to get back your fiancé."

Earl Umemiya Seiichi speaks loudly, "It's the same with us, as my king instructed me before I came here is to do whatever it takes to help you defeat Inashiro."

Marquis Amahisa Kousei stated with a smirk, "What a coincidence, we were thinking the same thing."

Miyuki smiled himself, saying, "I'm please to see we all have a common goal even if it's for different reasons. As of right now, I have scouts stationed in Inashiro but there's only so much they can do so I'm welcome to any ideas you can present."

Shunshin mentioned, "As it so happens I was planning on meeting Prince Narumiya about a trade agreement until you told me about his threat and the sudden disappearance of your betroth. It made me think I had to reconsider that option and hence why I'm here now. So I will go through with that meeting while your scouts can look for clues."

"That's perfect. I like it."

Umemiya said, "I'll help with that too, while Shunshin talks with Narumiya I'll search around his castle."

"I'll do that too!" Raichi declared.

Sanada told the boy, "As much as I agree to that, we should be careful of how many royals visit or else we end up getting caught before we have a chance to get to the truth."

Miyuki nodded, "Agreed, and I know how it can be done."