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Summary: Ever wonder how Clow Reed knew who his successor was going to be or why he seems so nice to Sakura when ever they meet? Well here it the first story, long before Cardcaptor Sakura took place. This is the story about Clow Reed and Sakura,……………. His Daughter??

Sakura Reed

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

Martin Luther King Jr.US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

Chapter 4

Needless to say Cereberos wasn't happy at all with his new disguised form. Sakura had apologized, once she had managed to stop laughing that is. Yue even found his brother's unfortunate situation amusing, Sakura could have swore she actually heard him laugh but he quickly denied it with a straight face. However Sakura didn't believe him, she knew what she heard.

When Tomoyo came over and was told about the incident she continually pestered Cereberos to change his form. He continued to refuse until Tomoyo discovered his weak spot, sweets.

"Oh Kero!! I got something for you!…." said Tomoyo as she stepped into the massive house.

"What is it now? And no matter what it is I am not changing form, no matter what." said Cereberos from down the hall. He looked at Tomoyo nervously, not really liking the big grin she had on her face.

"We will see…. Here open it" she said confidently..

Cereberos opened the lid off the box and the smells from inside the container started to make him drool.

"There are chocolate cookies, a bowl of fudge pudding, and some strawberry short cake that I helped make," said Tomoyo as she pointed to all the sweets.

Cereberos looked like he was in heaven and was about to snatch all the goodies, when Tomoyo pushed the lid back down and picked the box back up.

"Oh no you don't !! Only if you show me your other form…." said Tomoyo

"What? But…but, Tomoyo that isn't fair! Those are all my favourites you know that! Come please can I have them please?" Cereberos begged..

However his begging did no good. Tomoyo just smirked and said, "Only if you show me your other form."

Cereberos, for his part pouted.

"And I thought you were sweeter then Sakura…." he said trying to lay a guilt trip, unfortunately it back fired on him.

"Actually Sakura was the one who suggested it to me." said Tomoyo.

"What!? That little brat!" Cereberos growled as more steam came out of his ears.

Tomoyo was giggling as she watched the guardian throw another temper tantrum.

"So do you want the treats or not?" Tomoyo asked.

Cereberos looked at her and then at the box of his favourite sweets. Then he sighed, "Fine, you win……. But you and Sakura going to pay when I am done"

Tomoyo just waited patiently for him to transform with stars in her eyes.

Cereberos sighed again before he closed his eyes and expanded his wings around him.

Once he transformed he flew right at the box of sweets and purposely ignored Tomoyo's exclamations of how cute he was in his Kero form as Sakura had started calling it.

Even though Sakura had called him Kero ever since she started talking, so that didn't bug him, what did was that now his body actually looked like a Kero, so now everyone called him that, even Yue.

Surprisingly even in his smaller form Kero managed to swallow everything in two minutes flat.

Then for the rest of that day Cereberos made it his personal mission in life to terrorize Sakura and Tomoyo when ever he got the chance including tickling them both mercilessly. Both of them tried hiding behind Yue for protection, but he had no part in it and merely shook his head and flew away to observe from a safe distance up in the air.

Sakura and Tomoyo would never admit it to Kero, but it had been the best day ever.

However in the center of the village below them a dark shadow moved through the city and it slinked nearer and nearer to the Kinomoto manor sensing a soul in deep despair……

Lord Kinomoto stood in the middle of the art room of his mansion. He came here every once in a while and stared at one painting in particular. It was a picture of the backyard flower garden, most of the flowers were red roses, but in the very center of the garden was a old and very large cherry tree. It was almost an exact portrait accept of two figures standing at the base to the magnificent tree. No one could really tell who the figures were at the time, because they were standing in the shadow of the tree, but now he knew. It was Clow Reed and her, standing together peacefully in there garden.

Anna had painted it just mere days before she was disowned and banished. At first he was going to have the portrait burned, solely because of its meaning, but for some reason he had changed his mind. He didn't really know why he had it hung on the wall, maybe it was perhaps deep down he felt guilty, guilty for having to send his daughter away and for making her do some thing that would break her heart inside. It lightened his conscience just a little to be able to let them be happy together through her painting.

He thought back to the week he had met Sakura Reed, his only Granddaughter.

"She looks just like Anna" he said quietly as pictured Anna and Sakura at the same age in his minds eyes. If he hadn't known any better they may have been twins at the same age.

Lord Kinomoto shook his head.

"What am I thinking, she is only Clow Reeds bastard child, nothing like my Anna." he said.

"Oh how I wish I could have you back my daughter………… my little girl," he whispered.

His fists tightened as if he was trying to suppress a very strong emotion building up inside him Then in a momentary loss of control his had took out a sword and in mere seconds the tip was touching the painted shadow of Clow Reed in Anna's painting.

"It is all your fault Sorcerer! If you had stayed away from her like I told you she never would have been sent away. She would be here living a proper life, married with children and be the head of the family…. That is right.. I was going to name her my sole heir, she would have inherited everything, after I stepped down. Now my idiot of a son must take that title, but he isn't a leader, his own children don't even listen to him. You will pay for what you have done, I swear it upon my own life!!" he yelled as he pushed his sword right through the painting and into the wall.

"Do you want to take your revenge human?" asked a low condescending voice.

Lord Kinomoto pulled his sword out of the wall and spun around.

"Who is in my house? Show your self!!" he yelled.

Then a dark shadow materialised right in front of him, startling him.

Kinomoto swung his sword at the figure, but his blade went right through it, not injuring the being at all.

The dark figure laughed evilly.

"Your crude weapons can't injure me, human." it said and with a mere flick of his dark shadowy hand the sword vanished.

Lord Kinomoto wanted to protest about where his sword had gone, but something about the figure before him prevented him from doing so.

"What do you want?" Kinomoto asked.

If the figure had a face, it would had been smiling evilly as it said.

"I merely want to assist you in taking your revenge on Clow Reed, Lord Kinomoto,"

Lord Kinomoto eyes hardened and turned around.

"I don't need your help." he said.

"Oh yes you do, you can't do a thing to Clow Reed on your own. He is much to powerful for you, you know if you try anything against him on your own ii will be useless, he will just use his powers and fling you aside like he did last time." said the figure.

'What do you have in mind?" Kinomoto asked.

This time the figure had a definite evil smile to it and then he said,

"An eye for an eye,"………..

Then the next moment Lord Kinomoto heard only an evil laughter, and saw only darkness, as the evil dark spirit moved into his body, and he did not fight it. Although he know he should have, he didn't. He let the spirit take over his mind and heart and for a split second he felt the power that now ran through his veins, but then he know exactly what the spirits plans were. It didn't plan to take revenge, it planned to murder Clow Reed and his young daughter, in the cruellest most hurtful way possible. It was like the spirit took his need for revenge on Clow Reed and magnified it ten fold. Turning it into something so evil and cruel that it even sickened him.

"But…but I didn't want that……." was his last conscious thought as the power of the spirit caused his mind to pass out.

It was late at night when Clow Reed was a woken from his sleep. Something dark, and powerful was out there, and it was close by. He got up and looked out his window, yes he could definitely sense an evil presence near by and it felt like one of the worst kinds of evil he had ever faced, the presence was run by anger, vengeance and hate.

Clow's eyes narrowed.

"Shield, reinforce the protection around the mansion, block out all our aura's from the outside." he commanded.

Almost instantly a large dome flashed brightly and remained slightly visible to the normal eye.

Clow stood there thinking for a long time when he heard a small voice behind him.

"Daddy?"

Clow turned around to see Sakura staring up at him with scared eyes.

'What is wrong Sakura?" he asked, although he was sure he already knew the answer.

"Something doesn't feel right, it makes me feel cold." she said a she shivered.

Clow knelt down in front of her, and placed his hand on her shoulder.

"I know I feel it to, listen to me Sakura it is important the you don't leave the mansion. What you feel right now is the warning of a very real danger to you, it is critical you don't leave the mansion for any reason alright?" he said.

"What about lessons with Miharu Daddy?" Sakura asked.

"I am sorry Sakura but no you can't go anywhere until this presence leaves, or is defeated. Besides if I know Miharu she has already shut the temple down." said Clow as he continued to stare seriously into Sakura's eyes.

"You must promise me not to go out side until I say it is safe, alright? Promise me." he said.

Sakura never saw her father worried or nervous about anything, so seeing him like this scared her quite a bit.

"Yes Daddy, I promise"

Clow sighed, "Good, now it is best you get back to bed and get some sleep while it is still night, we will continue your magic training tomorrow in the library" he said.

"Umm Daddy?"

"Yes Sakura?"

"Can… Can I sleep here tonight?" she asked timidly.

Clow smiled a little and nodded his head.

"Alright, for tonight," he said as tucked his five year old daughter into bed.

"Have pleasant dreams Sakura" he said as he pulled the covers over her.

After a big yawn Sakura whispered "I'll try," and the fell fast asleep.

Clow stayed at the side of the bed until he was sure she was asleep, before getting up and gazing out the window once again.

As Sakura entered deep sleep and started to dream……………..

"She was outside playing with Tomoyo, when all of a sudden everything went dark and she heard a evil, thundering, laughter. Then the screams came, she heard her father call her name urgently, then she saw him running towards her was a frantic look on his face. Frightened by the look on her father's face she turned around and saw a man in shadows pointing a sword at her. Then the next thing she knew someone had flung her out of the way but she didn't see who. When she looked back to the direction of her father, she saw him and the man in shadows fighting with magic.

She wanted to scream but she couldn't, she could only watched as she saw a flame of black magic break though her fathers shield and burn the edges of the sleeves of his robes. However the fighting continued and it seemed for Sakura at least everything was going in slow motion.

Then for what seemed like hours something changed, the man in shadows had pushed his black aura to its strongest state and started tearing right through her father's magic, crippling him.

Then as Clow Reed, her father fell to the ground, she could finally scream, and scream she did, and then everything went white.

And Sakura's eyes flung opened…………………….

Clow was still staring out the window thinking when Sakura suddenly started screaming.

He rushed back to the bed asking worriedly what was wrong, when he noticed she was still asleep.

"A nightmare?" he asked to himself. Sakura never had, had a nightmare before. Then again, never had she had to deal with an evil presence before.

Clow gently held on to Sakura's flailing arms and held them still.

"Sakura? Sakura wake up it's alright, wake up." he said, but to no avail, as Sakura continued to scream and fight against what ever was scaring her in her head.

Yue and Cereberos had ran in looking alarmed.

"What is the matter Master Clow? Is it that evil presence that has appeared? Yue asked.

Clow looked at his guardians and said,.

"I am not sure, she won't wake up."

All three of them tried to wake Sakura up but she wouldn't wake, she had stopped screaming a few times but only started up again. Clow was just about to use him magic to wake her up.

When Sakura started screaming bloody murder and was crying hysterically.

"Daddy!! No!! Daddy please!! No please!! Don't…… don't…. You can't….Can't leave me!!" she cried.

Then for two split seconds she was surrounded in a brilliant white light, and then she opened her eyes and the light vanished.

She looked around and saw Cereberos, Yue and her father. Then she launched herself at Clow, hugging him as tight as she could, as she cried her heart out.

Clow didn't know what to do, Sakura had never been this distraught over anything.

"Sakura it is alright, everything is fine, it was only a dream, a nightmare, what you saw wasn't real". he said, trying to reassure her.

"B.. but it seemed like it….. I saw.. I saw you……I saw you die!!" yelled Sakura as she continued to sob and hug her father even tighter.

Yue and Cereberos gasped, the thought of their seemingly all powerful Master dieing was a frightening thought.

"Sakura I am fine, I am right here, and I am not going anywhere. Shush now, calm down it's alright, don't make your self sick over it. Come on take a deep breath and let it out slowly, just like how Miharu showed you, calm down now."

Sakura took a couple deep breaths, and managed to calm down considerably, but still cried herself softly to sleep once again, this time in Clow's arms.

When Sakura had fallen asleep, Clow sighed in relief, he had not been sure if he could get her to calm down. To make sure she at least got a couple more hours rest, he had the Dream card repel any more nightmares that came her way.

Unlike Sakura, Clow did not sleep all night. What lurked outside was powerful, powerful enough to challenge even him in a fight.

What worried him even more was that Sakura's nightmare was magically effected and it may very have given Sakura glimpse into her near future. That future, ultimately could meant his death.

End of Chapter 4

(Alright, this is where the story really starts, Next chapter you will find out what the evil shadowy guy is. Really though isn't much of a shocker. Don't worry the story isn't ending soon I am only getting started.

Find out what happens in Chapter 5.

Oh! And big cheers to my beta reader DarkAngelNever22 yay!!