Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or Cardcaptors. All rights to Digimon go to the people who created and produced it. Rights to Cardcaptors go also to the people who created and produced it – Nelvana in North America, and CLAMP in Japan. This story was only written for fun and not profit. Do not steal the plot though, as that is mine.

A.N. '...' Means someone's thoughts. I wasn't sure how old Sakura is near the beginning of the series, but I wanted her and TK to be the same age, so I made them both 12. Also, I am a person who only has access to the North American versions of both shows. Please don't be upset it I use the N.A. first names. I tried to keep them in character as much as possible, but I totally changed the Digimon plotline so there are bound to be differences – it's writer's prerogative. Set around beginning of the second season of Cardcaptors.

Chapter 2 – Meetings and Hidden Truths

When TK came upon the park, he decided to take a shortcut through it. Not only would it be a shorter distance to the house, he reasoned, but it would also be more scenic. He always had had an appreciation growing things and the life they represented, and that appreciation was only amplified by his mergence with Angemon, who was, after all, an angel.

Walking down one of the paths, he suddenly felt an intense feeling of warning; as if something important, maybe bad, were about to happen. Looking up from the ground and checking out his surroundings, he saw two girls about his age: one with sort brown hair in pigtails and emerald green eyes, and the other with long black hair held partially back with a yellow bow.

Gazing at them, he saw a powerful aura around the brown haired girl, as if she had some sort of powers. A moment later, he also noticed something else, which made his eyes widen. They were walking not too far from him, and were concentrating on their conversation so much, that they didn't even notice the tree branch above the green eyed girls head that was just about to break off. TK ran toward them, determined to get them out of the way of the falling branch.

"Look out!" he shouted, pushing both of them out of the way just as the branch broke off. He wasn't so lucky. Unable to get out of the way in time, TK looked on in horror as the branch came crashing down on his head. 'I need to be more careful,' he thought, before everything went black.

"Sakura!" Madison shouted. "Are you okay?" Her fallen friend picked herself off the ground with a small groan. Shaking her had and causing her pigtails to swing back and forth, Sakura turned to face Madison.

"I'm okay," she told her. Turning to the boy who had saved them, she saw that he was unconscious. "I don't think he is though. That tree branch must have fallen on his head." She bent over, seeing the rapidly swelling bump on the side of his head.

"Hey Squirt. What's going on?" a voice came from out of nowhere.

"Aughhh!" Sakura jumped up and turned around. "Tory! Don't scare me like that!"

Peering behind his sister and her friend, he saw the injured boy lying crumpled on the ground behind his sister and her friend. "What happened to them?" A frown appeared on his face.

"He saved me and Madison from that falling branch." Sakura told her brother, pointing to the offending piece of tree.

"He saved you?" An eyebrow rose, and his frown deepened. "We can't just leave him here. Come on, I'll take him back to our house and then call a doctor." Stooping down, he picked up the unconscious boy and started carrying him to his house.

TK groaned and tried to sit up. "Did anyone get the license plate on that truck?" he mumbled. He felt like someone was beating over the head with a stick. 'Oh yeah...I did get hit in the head with a stick – A very large stick' he corrected himself, thinking of the tree branch that had fallen on his head.

"You should stay lying down," a voice told him. "The doctor says that you shouldn't be moving around a lot." Looking up, TK saw a teenage boy with short dark brown hair. His expression was unreadable, but TK thought he saw a glimmer of suspicion in his eyes.

"Where am I?" TK asked. "And who are you?"

"You're at my house," the stranger told him. "My little sister is one of the girls that you saved, so I thought that it was the least I could do. Mind telling me who you are?" His voice, just like his expression, was emotionless. 'Why does he seem so suspicious of me?' TK wondered. 'I guess I can use my real name though, since no one I knew before will remember me.'

"My name is Takeru Takashi," he told his 'interrogator', "but you can call me TK." 'Better make up something convincing that he'll believe' he thought. "I just moved here, and was taking a look around, seeing the sites. I was walking through the park, and I saw that branch about to fall on those two girls. They probably told you the rest. Which one was your sister?"

He tried to make his question sound as innocent as possible. He knew from seeing the way Tai acted about Kari, that big brothers could be very protective. He didn't really feel like having this boy chase him around, especially not with the way his head was pounding. The older boy was just about to answer him, when the two girls from the park came into the room.

"Tory! What are you doing interrogating him! He just woke up, and he probably has a big headache." The brown haired girl with the magical aura glared at the other boy. TK guessed that she was the little sister that he had saved, which would make this boy – Tory – her older brother.

"It's okay," TK said hastily, trying to head off any arguing that might occur. I don't mind. He just wanted to know who I am anyway."

The girl looked a bit happier. "I wanted to thank you for saving Madison and me," she told him. "By the way, I'm Sakura Kinomoto. You've already met my brother Tory," she sent a glare in the dark haired boys direction, "and this is my friend Madison."

"I'm TK," he introduced himself for the second time. Pushing himself off the couch, he got a little shakily to his feet. "I really don't want to intrude on you anymore," he told the girls. "I probably should be getting home anyway. My parents will be worried about me."

'That's a good one,' he thought. 'I'll be living alone, and my parents don't even remember that I exist. Not only did I erase their memories of me, but I removed all traces of myself from that area. Luckily, I had a little hiding spot in the digital world to store a few of my more important things.'

"Don't worry," he told Sakura, who looked like she was thinking about arguing. "I'll be fine. It's just a headache anyway." The two girls looked doubtful, but didn't make any comments.

"Where do you live?" Madison asked him. "I can give you a ride if it's farther away."

"Not to far from here," he reassured them. "Just over by Cherry grove lane. I just moved here."

"Really? That would explain why we haven't seen you around before. Do you know which school you'll be going to?" Both girls seemed excited at the prospect of a new friend.

"I'm not totally sure," TK told them. "I think I heard my parents say something about Reedington Elementary, but I'm not sure."

"Great!" Sakura told him. "That's the school me and Madison go to. We'll probably even be in the same class. You're grade five right?"

"Yeah, I am. So you'll be able to show me around and stuff huh? It'll sure make going to a new school easier if there's someone I know there already."

"We'd be glad to show you around." Sakura said.

"Thanks. Well, I guess I probably better be going now. I don't want to keep my parents waiting. Nice to meet you Sakura, Madison. You too Tory!" TK walked down the street, ignoring his headache. Already things were looking up. A falling tree branch wasn't really his idea of a way to meet someone, but he was still glad it had happened.

'I'll have to keep an eye on Sakura though,' he though. 'Not many people have auras like that. The fact that she has one, especially as strong as it is, probably means that she has some special destiny. Her brother Tory has one too, though his doesn't seem quite as powerful, and there was something else in that house, something that felt powerful too, but also different.'

Tory watched the boy TK walk down the street away from his house. Though he seemed nice enough, he couldn't shake the strange feeling of power he got whenever he looked him. There was something strange about that kid. In a way, he sort of felt like Julian did. Not long ago he had began feeling weird flashes of power whenever he was around Julian, and his friend had been more tired of late as well. He still hadn't managed to talk to Julian about the power and other presence he had sensed around him yet. Now he would have one more person to worry about. 'I'll have to watch out for Sakura...'

TK really did have a house on the street he had named to Madison. He would soon anyway. While still in his earlier form of Hope, he had created some documents listing a 'guardian' who had bought this house and whom he lived with. It wasn't true of course. He would be living in that house alone, but none of his friends would know that.

'I've just met them and already I consider them friends...' He shook his head slightly. They might be his friends, but he wouldn't be able to really tell them about himself, about what he was. No, he would use some clever little story about his parents being out of town or at work. Even with his new life, there would always be remnants of his previous one that would haunt him...

She was wearing a costume of white and gold with a star on her hat, and running, though she wasn't sure why. She was in a house, and as she moved past the door, she glanced inside. Clow Reed's face; he was laughing and smiling. Falling leaves. She was outside now. A tree. Keroberos and Yue were sitting beneath it.

'What's going on?'

The scene changed abruptly. It was night. To her left were three figures on a rooftop. Just their silhouettes were visible. The Clow cards floating around her, but they were different. Pink now, with stars. Glance to her right. Another figure's silhouette; one with wings. 'Yue?' But this one appeared to be smaller than Yue was. 'Who are you?'

'BRINGGGG!'

"Aughhh!" Sakura woke with a start as her alarm clock went off almost directly in her ear. "Sakura! What's wrong?" Kero floated sleepily over to her.

"Kero, I just had another weird dream."