For two months Kikyou and Inuyasha spent time together. She enjoyed spending time with him because she found him very amusing. But she thought about Sesshomaru every day though. She eventually decided that she would try to find him on her own. She knew that it would be dangerous yet she needed to know if he was alright. As she and Inuyasha were sitting by the river she told him about her plans.

"You want to do what?" he asked.

"I want to go find him. I haven't heard from him in months he could be wounded or worse."

"I still don't think that you should go that's enemy territory. And I'm sure that your fiancé wouldn't want you to go out there. You could be killed." From the way that Inuyasha spoke it sounded as if he really cared for her. And she appreciated his concern. Only Inuyasha didn't understand she needed to see if Sesshomaru was okay.

"Inuyasha I appreciate the concern but this is something that I must do."

"Yeah I understand. I can't let you go alone though so I'm going with you."

"What. Oh no I couldn't ask you to come with me."

"No I'm coming with you." He made up his mind. "I don't know what I would do if something happened to you." He leaned over it looked as if he was about to kiss her. She took a look at her watch and noticed that she was about 10 minutes late for Keade's lessons. "I have to go. I have piano lessons." She spoke.

"Oh yeah with that old lady right? See ya around Kikyou."

"Bye."

Kikyou couldn't bring herself to kiss him. Not while she was still very much in love and engaged to Sesshomaru. Although he was at war she wasn't going to break her promise to him. It wasn't as if she didn't like Inuyasha. He was very nice to her. It was just that she couldn't betray Sesshomaru. While she was with Keade she was so unfocused that she was messing up on the simplest of notes. This was when Keade suspected that something was wrong. Kikyou had never messed up this badly.

"Kikyou what troubles you so that it would cause you to play so miserably?"

"I'm just thinking that's all."

"About your fiancé no doubt." Keade figured as much.

"Yes and another friend of mine. He's very nice only today he tried to kiss me."

"There's another man in your life. Well what's his name?"

"We're not involved or anything. He's only my friend and his name is Inuyasha." Keade began to think about what Keade was saying. She couldn't help but get the impression that perhaps she was in love with both men. She decided not to ask Kikyou about it until she knew more about the situation.

"Kikyou go home and rest you are in no shape to play today."

"Keade I want to play. Today is the first day in a long time that I actually want to play."

"Yes I know right now though you need to rest. You can come back next week when you're feeling better."

"Thank you for understanding Keade."

Kikyou left Keade's house deciding that she would indeed go home. She did need some sleep. Only she would soon find out that home wasn't the best place to be. She would soon find out a secret that her father had been keeping from her for months. She walked back past the river to see if Inuyasha was still there. He wasn't so she continued on her way home. In the back of her mind she wondered why she had felt the urge to see him.

"I wonder why I wanted to see him so badly just now."

When she got closer to home she saw Sango on the porch pacing nervously. Kikyou noticed that she had been acting strange lately. She seemed to be really nervous especially whenever their father was around. She did say that she had something to tell her. "Kikyou he isn't home right now come on."

Sango led her sister to the back of the house. They went over to one of the many trees in the backyard. Kikyou had no idea what she should expect next. "Sango where are we going?" she wondered.

Sango took out a shovel and went to one of the trees. She began digging up the ground. She would constantly look up to see if their father was coming. Kikyou was officially worried now, not only was the whole situation weird. She didn't like the way Sango was behaving. "Sango will you tell me what's going on?"

"I should have told you this sooner when I had first found out. But father threatened me to keep it secret." When she finished digging she took out a black box she handed it to Kikyou. She reluctantly took the box and was about to open it. Kikyou stopped when she realized that she needed the key.

"There's no key to open this."

"I have the key." Sango reassured her. Just as Sango was about to hand Kikyou the key their father came running over to them. Sango quickly grabbed Kikyou's arm as she started pulling her away from the house. They did not stop running until they came near the river. By this time they were both out of breath

"Sango… I don't understand. Why did you pull me away from the house like that?"

"I didn't want father to do to you what he had done to me."

"Sango what did he do to you?"

Sango reluctantly lifted up her sleeves and showed Kikyou all over the scars all over her. They looked to be fresh too. It was no wonder why she had been so nervous around their father. "Sango I' am so very sorry. If I would have known." She reached over hugging her sister.

"There are more but you don't need to see them. Here this is the key open the box." Before she could they heard some movement up in the tree and then a voice.

"Hey will you two keep it down I'm trying to sleep."

"Inuyasha?" Kikyou questioned. He turned around focusing his eyes on to her. "Oh hello Kikyou. Who's that?" he asked as he pointed to Sango.

"This is my sister Sango." He jumped down from the tree so that he could join them on the ground. He turned his attention to the box. He too was curious to know what was inside. The only person who had known was Sango. "Aren't you going to open it Kikyou?" Inuyasha wondered.

"Yes I will Sango please pass me the key." Sango gave her the key and she wasted no time in opening it up. To her surprise she found that it was a stack of letters. They were dating back more than 6 months. She continued to look threw the box only to find more letters.

"Damn must be over 50 letters in there." Inuyasha said.

"Sango these are from Sesshomaru. He has been writing me this entire time. Father has been keeping these letters from me this entire time."

"Yes I found out awhile ago. I saw him with a letter that was addressed to you. I followed him to the back yard where I saw him putting that letter in a box filled with other letters. He saw that I had found out so he kept on threatening me. That's why I didn't tell you sooner."

Kikyou got up and walked away with both Inuyasha and Sango following after her. She was beyond furious with her father. Here she was thinking that Sesshomaru couldn't write to her because something had happened to him. Instead she found out that her father had been hiding all of his letters. "Kikyou where are you going?" Inuyasha asked.

"I'm going to ask him why he would do this to me. I was worried sick about Sesshomaru. How dare he keep his letters from me? How could he allow me to believe that he was hurt or dead? Then she began to think about how Sesshomaru had felt. He had written her so many letters and she never responded to any of them. He must have thought the worse like that she didn't love him anymore. This wasn't true at all. She did still love him and he needed to know that. She found her father sitting on the porch holding some new letters in his hand.

"Father how could you? What was the point in all of it?" she asked angrily.

"I do not need to explain myself to you Kikyou. I assure you what I did was for your own good."

"Are those more letters from him?"

"I don't know. Why don't you just have a look and find out."

She picked up one only it wasn't a letter from Sesshomaru. Instead it was a letter from one of the commanding officers for his unit. Her eyes fell instantly on to the words that were written. "Kikyou what's wrong?" Inuyasha questioned. She took a moment and then read what some of the letter had said out loud:

Dear Kikyou we regret to inform you that your fiancé Sesshomaru Motoyama is now currently missing in action,"