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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

Chapter 5

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The Reed house hold soon became tense and everyone was on the edge.

Clow had received little sleep at night, because every time he closed his eyes he became filled with anxiety and worry . He couldn't explain why though. The house was well protected and so were the people in it. He had also received word from Miharu that they had closed the temple down and all spells were being used to keep any evil forces out.

So he lay awake most of the night and waited until morning, when it seemed the evil being lost some of its strength, that was he able to get a few hours sleep.

Sakura worried him a little though, every night so far she had a nightmare about him being killed by a man in shadows, who he assumed was the evil spirit that lurked outside.

As a result Yue and Cereberos were also very tense, they worried for him and Sakura. They constantly patrolled the mansion and glanced out windows for any sign of suspicious activity.

Clow tried continuing Sakura's studies during the day, but she could not concentrate and he had neither the energy to make her nor the patients to teach her properly.

Across town the man in a black cloak smiled.

His presence was already having an effect them, he would wait a few more days before making his next move. Until then, he a lot of preparations to do.

The he turned around and headed in the direction of the temple.

……………………….

Tomoyo sat in the middle of the court yard petting Hoshi.

She knew something was wrong, everyone around her was very worried and nervous about something. It must have been really bad if Miharu had to completely closed the temple, no one was allowed in or out. Not even Sakura or her father were allowed to come over now and nor was she to their house.

She to sat in the court yard and hoped that what ever was happening would be over with soon..

"Excuse me miss, is there anyway you could let me in?" Came a voice from the other side of the fence.

Tomoyo startled, jumped up, she felt something weird. She wasn't exactly sure what though it felt very fuzzy.

Cautiously she called out over the fence.

"I am sorry sir, the temple it closed I am not allowed to let you in."

She heard a chuckle from behind the fence and it made a shiver go down her spine. It sounded so sinister.

"How old are you child?" he said.

"I am 6 sir." Tomoyo said timidly.

"Well could you get an adult please, I have business that is quite urgent." the man said.

Tomoyo began to feel even more nervous as she repeated.

"But sir we are closed, business or not no one here can let you in accept for the head priestess."

If the tall wooden fence had not been in place Tomoyo would have seen an evil smirk appear on the mans face at what she said.

"Then please go and get the head priestess." the man hissed.

Then Tomoyo started to move against her own will.

"What!!" Tomoyo gasped as she started moving toward the priestess chambers. Then she felt it, an unbearable evil that was now controlling her body. She started to understand now, if Miharu came outside and became trapped in the same control the whole temple would be in danger. For Miharu was the only one who could bring the protection spells down from around the temple..

She walked closer and closer to the door, she knew all she had to do was knock and her aunt would come out.

"No aunt Miharu don't come outside!" Tomoyo cried.

The door of Miharu's chambers opened but Miharu didn't step beyond the door. She could sense something dark around Tomoyo, controlling her movements.

"He wants you to drop the shield don't let him, if you do he will only use us against one another," Warned Tomoyo as the evil thoughts from the man on the other side of the fence continued the flow through her mind.

"Hmm… What a good idea Ms. Tomoyo," Came the cruel voice from beyond the court yard.

Then Tomoyo began to move toward the stand that had fire pokers inside it and she picked one of them up.

"If you don't drop this shield right now, your little niece won't live to see you regret it." the man sneered.

Miharu's eyes widened as she saw Tomoyo point the sharp poker to her chest.

"No! you don't have to do this, why do you want in to the temple so badly. There is little we could do for you!" said Miharu, trying to have the evil spirit be less interested in them.

"I am afraid I have to disagree with that statement Priestess, there is plenty you can do for me. You two are my ticket into the Clow Reed house hold, so I can take my revenge."

"Revenge? Wait who are you?" Miharu asked, trying to buy some time and somehow get close enough to Tomoyo with out him noticing and get a spirit repelling charm on her.

"Who am I? Well that is rather a complicated question, it would be better to just show you if you would only let me in," said the voice.

"But why do you need us to get in to Clow Reeds mansion? Why not do it your self?" Miharu asked carefully as she took another step towards Tomoyo.

"Because the magic that surrounds that house won't let me in, in order to take my revenge I need them outside the house borders." said the voice, still oblivious to the fact that Miharu was nearing Tomoyo more and more as he talked.

"You want to use us as bait?" Miharu asked. She was only two steps away from Tomoyo now, all she had to do was cast the spell and then they could make a run for it to the safety of the inner temple walls that held more protection.

"Hmm yes, exactly………" then the man smirked.

"Foolish girl," he said.

A minute later, if anyone had been watching the magical shield that was up around the temple fell to a ear piercing scream………………

Clow's head snapped up.

Something was wrong, a huge shift in power had just occurred.

He briskly walked over to the nearest window that over looked the town and his eyes widened.

The temple shield had fallen and black aura was radiating around it.

"Miharu, Tomoyo……"

He was sure now that whatever was out there, it was after him, why else would, force its way into a secluded temple that was run by one of his only friends in the village?

He felt like running outside to the temple to save Miharu and Tomoyo from whatever it was, but then he realised that was exactly what the evil being wanted him to do.

It was using them a bait, to get to him, he was sure of it.

"I am sorry Miharu," he said quietly.

It was happening again, anyone who was close to him was put in danger, by getting to them whatever was out there was able to get to him and Sakura as well.

Clow Reed sighed and shook his head.

"I wish there was another way…" he whispered as he turned away form the window.

Sakura cried in her room, she was tired, lonely, bored, and terrified all at once. She knew something was very wrong, her nightmare became more intense every night she closed her eyes, so her father had to keep on using the dream card ward off nightmares. But the effect only lasted a few hours at most, so she only got 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night. Though it was more then her father was getting.

Even she knew her father never slept anymore at night, there was something about the cold presents in the air the prevented him from sleeping.

Like any other sorcerer, he needed sleep to replenish lost magic. Because of his lack of sleep and increased use of his powers he grew a little more weary with each passing day.

Yue and Cereberos could feel it as well and neither knew what to do. At first they thought Clow could handle it, no problem. It was just another common power hungry demon spirit that didn't know who it was facing. However as the days went on the evil presents outside began to grow immensely powerful, and with Sakura saying she saw her father die because of a evil figure. The two guardians grew more and more nervous of what events were going to unfold.

It was one evening that everything fell apart.

The sun had set and it was dusk.

Sakura was looking outside when she heard a scream from the street.

A man in a black cloak was holding a unconscious, Miharu in one arm and a crying Tomoyo in the other arm.

"Tomoyo!!" Sakura screamed as she ran for the front door.

She knew she wasn't allowed outside, but she had to help her friend.

"Sakura, no! go back it is a trap!! He… he..wants to….." but Tomoyo was cut from her warning when the man holding her slapped her hard across the face.

Sakura saw red after that, she didn't even remember how she got through her fathers shield, but she did and managed to get to Tomoyo as she captor let her drop to the ground.

"Tomoyo?! Tomoyo wake up!! Please wake up!" cried Sakura as she hugged her friend, unaware of the black figure walking towards her with a sword in his hand.

Tomoyo started to open her eyes and she began to cry again.

"Sakura get back inside, she wants to use you against your Father just like he is using us against you. Please run!" she yelled as she pushed Sakura away.

Unfortunately it was to late to run, as the back figure roughly grabbed Sakura by the arm.

Sakura screamed as the figure held the sword to her neck.

"Sakura!!" came a frantic call form the mansion door.

Clow couldn't believe what he was seeing Sakura was being held with a large broad sword being pointed directly at her throat.

He ran out towards the street, if he could get beyond the shield barrier and then activate the time card he could get Sakura to safety, but before he could even move his foot the menacing voice of the figure in black snapped.

"If you take another move this little girl will die right here."

Clow reluctantly remained where he was and asked.

"What do you want?"

"Easy…. I want revenge on you Clow Reed." the figure said with a smirk.

"Wait Revenge?.. Who are you?" asked Clow as if he feared the answer.

The figure chuckled darkly, sending shivers up Sakura's spine. He lifted his hood and revealed Lord Kinomoto.

Sakura screamed again when she saw his eyes, they were entirely black and a equally black aura surrounded him.

Clow narrowed his eyes, he knew it wasn't really Lord Kinomoto speaking. First off, Kinomoto had no magic, none at all. It is impossible for a normal human being to suddenly gain magical powers when they weren't born with them. So the only conclusion he could find was that Lord Kinomoto was being possessed by an extremely powerful spirit.

"Clow Reed!! I call upon the revenge magic contract… either you give me your life or you watch me take the life of your daughter. Release!! Now choose it is either you or her." said the possessed lord.

The magical Revenge contract was made by a powerful dark sorcerer, who had been consumed by revenge after his wife was killed by a drunken peasant. He ended up killing the peasants entire family and made him watch as he did it. The man was drunk at the time and didn't know what he was saying or what he had done. For some reason the revenge contract was still in effect, so since Clow Reed in the lords mind was the reason his daughter had to leave then he had the right under magic to force Clow Reed to choose.

Clow, the cards and, the guardians took no time at all to choose. With all 52 Cards spinning around him and his two magical guardians, Clow looked at the demon and said "Mine… now let my daughter go."

"Daddy!! Daddy no… what are you doing? Your not going to let him hurt you, you can't! You can fight him!!" Sakura cried as she realized what they were talking about.

The spirit frowned, unhappy at not being able to kill the child but released her anyway.

"So be it," he said and roughly throw Sakura away from him.

Sakura landed on the ground with a thump and the blacked out.

Clow breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed she had passed out, that way she wouldn't have to watch him die in real life.

Then the spirit suddenly began to chant and his black aura started to grown and lash out at his. It felt as if something was stabing him, he saw his cards start to shimmer, and Yue and Cereberos both went down to their knees as his magic and life started to drain away.

Then he suddenly felt the urge to fight, he didn't know where it came from but he felt his defences rise and his attack cards ready to charge.

Yue and Cereberos seem to get a little bit of fight as well as they assumed attack stanses and prepared their attacks.

"What is this? You are trying to fight against my spell? Well that is more like it, revenge is so much sweeter when I can beat the life out of you." said the demon as his eyes began to glow red and his aura grew larger and more menacing.

His cards lasted only a few minutes against the lethal aura as it zapped their energy and moved forward towards him.

Yue and Cereberos got in to way of it next, resisting the effect far longer then he thought the would have before they two fell, exhausted. The only thing keeping them alive was him, if he died so would they.

Once again the aura was bitting at his life force, slowly killing him. He decided to activate some of his strongest magic and to his surprise it work slightly it pushed the aura back. His cards started spinning even faster until they were only blurs of light around him. Yue and Cereberos also stood beside him and began turning to energy to magnafiy his power.

With his power almost completely refreshed he focused again and his magic broke through the spirits aura, temporarily cripleing him.

The spirit, not at all happy that Clow Reed managed to break through his magic and weaken him, turned his sights back on the still unconscious daughter of Clow Reed.

"Clow Reed, either you accept your fate to death, or watch as I kill your precious little daughter, remember I can't be defeated, the revenge contract is on my side, not yours." Kinomoto sneered.

Clow stopped, if he continued to fight and resist the revenge contract, the other option would go to defualt and he would have to watch Sakura die, which was something he couldn't bare. So he dropped his defences, the cards went back into the book, and Yue and Cereberos fell unconscious at his side, all their energy spent.

Then he put his staff away, and met the evil eyes of a possessed Lord Kinomto. He stood in the middle of the street unarmed and unprotected, not as a sorcerer but as a man only.

"Fine take your revenge on me, take my life, I won't do anything to stop you." Clow said calmly.

Lord Kinomoto's eyes narrowed and asked "Why?"

"Because I won't let any harm come to my daughter for something she is completely innocent of. She will live on after I die, and I hope for yours and her sake she doesn't crave revenge upon you," he said simply.

Lord Kinomoto narrowed his eyes at him even more as dark lethal energy started pouting through his sword. He aimed it at Clow as his aura began biting once again.

"I Hate YOU!!" he yelled as a blast of energy came like lighninig from his sword.

Clow met it with opened eyes…..

"Sakura……"

Sakura heard a voice in her head.

"Sakura, wake up now" the voice said again.

"Why?" Sakura asked the voice, she felt comfortable as she floated in the warm glowing room.

"Because the people you love are in danger….." the voice answered.

"Who?" Sakura asked as she tried to remember she life out side her comfortable void.

"Your father, his guardians and your friends." the voice said again.

"Oh, but how can I help, I can't protect anyone, I would just get in the way" Sakura said.

"No! Sakura Listen to me, you have a tremendous power that you can use to protect the people you love, you have the key all you have to do is use it…. Now wake up…" said the voice.

"Alright, but wait… Who are you?" Sakura asked once again.

"A friend… now go, hurry.. Your Father needs you." the voice said.

"Right……."

Sakura opened her eyes to see her father on his knees covered with cuts and burns coming from the evil man in front of him.

Tomoyo was unconscious by Miharu by the border in the mansion.

Sakura quickly turned her head back to her father when he let out a gasp of pain as another bolt of black lightning struck him on the shoulder.

"Daddy!" yelled Sakura as she started to run towards him.

Clow lifted his head at Sakuras voice.

"Sakura, you must run away, go now, somewhere safe," he said softly.

"No, I won't let my nightmare come true, you can't leave me, you promised you wouldn't, Please don't leave me!!" Sakura cried.

"Sakura….."Clow desperately wanted to make her leave but his energy was being zapped quickly. Lord Kinomoto had entered a deep transe to strangthen his attack and make it all the more painful, but at least now he was oblivious to Sakura awakening.

Then another large bolt of lightning hit him making him fall over and hit the ground.

"Daddy no!! I…can't.. I can't let this happen…." she said as tears ran down her face.

Then she could feel something warm glowing under her shirt, it was her star key, as she held it in her hand words suddenly formed in her head and the came out of her mouth as if her has heard them a hundred times before.

"The key that holds the power of the stars.Reveal your true form to me.I, Sakura, commands thee under contract.Release!"

Her key emitted so much light it snapped Kinomoto out of his transe.

"W..what is that light?'

As Sakura grabed her now fully formed staff she herself started to glow brightly, and the light she emitted was enough to awake Clow from his near death sleep.

"Sakura…?

Sakura started to float into midair and come inbetween the evil spirit and her Father, effectively cutting off the stream if deadly energy. The moment the energy hit Sakura's light it froze and disappeared harmlessly.

When the light dimmed Sakura had a pair of great wings on her back and her small staff had grown considerably, to the length where it could even rival Clow's staff.

"I call upon the Contract of Love, aid me and guide my actions now. Help me to seal the Hate and Revenge in this mans heart. Release!!" as Sakura chanted, she and her staff suddenly burst into a white light once again

Clow stared wided eyed at his young daughter, she had the ability to call upon the emotions? That was something even he had never been able to achieve, to cast contract over the emotions required the spirit to accept you, and none them had accepted him. Also it required a great amount of magic to yield them, only the strongest sorcerers and sorceresses ever attempted to use them even slightly.

So he watched as his 5 year old daughter fought against two of the most evil of the emotions, Revenge and Hate.

Sakura stuggled as the Love contract used her magic to overwhelm the Hate and Revenge that resided in Lord Kinomoto's body.

The process was exhausting to say the least, her staff had heated up because of all the energy going through it and the heat was burning her hands, but she couldn't let go not yet. If she didn't have the wings keeping her up her legs would had given out long ago. Her arms started to hurt from the way she had the hold the giant staff.

The hate and revenge tried to fight, black lightning was striking with a fercitly, most of them were blocked, but few lucky shots made there way through her sheild and cut her arms and legs. Just has her vision started to blurr and the wings on her back faded, a pair of arms held her up and as a burst of energy was pushed into her veins. Because of the extra burst of energy she was able to see three card float in front of her, and a man fell before her, finally free of the evil spirits in his heart..

Then a calm cool darkness pulled her in and she felt so tierd she couldn't resist but to fall into it.

The last thing she heard was she name being called.

"Sakura…."

End of Chapter 5

( Whew!! Finally I finished the first big fight scene of the series! Hope you liked it and I hope it makes sence to ya. Anyway R&R please.. They are much appreciated, and thanks to all who reviewed in the last Chapter and Clap for my Beta Reader DarkAngelNever22 who corrects my mistakes and makes this story easier to read.)