Disclaimer: I do not own CCS but I do own the idea

"Wh-What I was wearing?" Sakura slowed down as both her and Emerald got outside. "Well, you were wearing a dress an-"

"Stop hiding the facts!"

Sakura jumped out of her skin while Emerald narrowed her eyes at who had shouted at her father: Syaoran Li. "You know I'm in a relationship with her! What the hell's going on?! What happened in the past!? It's not like it matters!" Sakura's mouth flew open in shock as everything in the garden went whisper quiet.

Eriol was looking at Syaoran while he glared at him. "Tell me! What the hell's going on!? Its not like that girl is real!" After Syaoran's voice disappeared Sakura stepped forwards. "Syaoran!" Eriol glanced at where Emerald was stood then back to Syaoran. "Bad idea..." Syaoran looked at him, then Sakura and finally his gaze fell onto Emerald. "You aren't even here! A fig-"

Before any of the guardians could stop her, Emerald had moved (almost in a flash of light) at force towards Syaoran, slammed into him which forced him onto the floor. Emerald had (literally) jumped onto the Chinese sorcerer, punching him with so much force that you would cringe.

"You. Fucking. Chinese. Bastard!" Emerald screamed while Sakura stood in shock. On one hand she wanted to go and help Syaoran and get Emerald off of him. Yet on the other hand she felt as though Syaoran had gotten it easy for years since she met him.

"Emerald" Eriol walked towards the pair while Syaoran looked like he was struggling to even move let alone fight back. Emerald couldn't hear him which proved rather infuriating to Eriol. He looked to Sakura who nodded, finally out of her confused state.

"That's" He turned to the scuff between Syaoran and his daughter, grabbed Emerald by her waist and threw her off of Syaoran. "Enough!" Emerald hit the ground with a loud thump, Syaoran looked to Eriol with shock. Even though the Chinese man had blood on his face and was weakened in terms of pride.

He watched as Eriol walked over to Emerald who was groaning in pain. "Emerald! Get up!" Emerald cringed as she felt waves upon waves of pain enter her small body. "Ugh..."

Sakura raced over to Eriol before anything else could happen. "Eriol! No more!" Sakura put her hand on his shoulder, and within seconds, Eriol had cooled off into his mellow state once more.

Emerald rolled onto her right side away from Sakura and Eriol's gaze while Ruby alongside Spinel stood in-between Eriol and Emerald. Kerberous and Yue on the other hand stood to Sakura's right. "You" Sakura cringed at Emerald's pain filled voice. "You wondered why I...Was in hiding?" She managed to choke out as she very slowly clambered to her feet. She swayed several times as she couldn't stand up straight.

"Ma...Maybe you should look at your...behavior around me first...I wanted to see you father, yes, but I didn't want to be hurt...In this way..." Eriol cleared his throat. "I got you off of Syaoran, I do not think that, myself or anyone here, would have wanted you to kill him"

He stated while Sakura's eyes softened on Emerald as she heard Emerald's rather forced words. "Are you saying...That you don't care about your own daughter?"

Before Eriol could say anything, Sakura let go of Eriol's shoulder and walked over to Emerald's side. "I'm not saying that I'm saying" Emerald lowered her head she began to cry, both Sakura and Eriol both fell silent as Emerald put her hands into fists and back again.

"You're not saying it Clow. But I know you're thinking it. I'm not stupid. I don't belong here. When you sent me away I only had Sakura. When she sent me to England to hide there...Do you honestly think I felt loved? Well, newsflash, I didn't. Its the same way now. First you hurt me for one reason or another. Then you try to apologize, whatever that means, leading you to tell me to go away. Well, guess what? That's precisely what I am going to do!"

Sakura walked forwards a few more paces, her face had turned into a warm smile. She had to do something...Anything to prevent this situation from getting into either a war-zone or a death-site. "Stop" Emerald's voice felt like acid to Eriol's ears while Sakura stopped in her tracks.

"Just stop..." Before Emerald knew what was happening, she was in floods of tears, on her hands and knees. "I've always been the, scape-goat, I've...I've always been...Told to leave..." She felt her tears over-come her as she took in rapid yet jagged breaths.

"I never wanted-" Eriol started but Sakura couldn't take anymore of this, within seconds, she had gone to her pas- well fuck it her daughter's side. "It doesn't matter where in time I gave birth to you. I don't care what anyone thinks!"

Sakura shouted which made Eriol not only stop talking but freeze on the spot. "Whether I like it or not, you to Eriol, we have a child here who badly needs us! For one reason or another, whether that was for safety or not, we can't ignore her!"

Tomoyo felt herself go to the other side of Emerald. Sakura put her hand on Emerald's back and tried to calm her down. "Hey...We can work this out Emerald..." Sakura whispered while the little girl poured her heart into her tears.

Sakura looked over to Syaoran and then to Eriol. "What are you two doing just stood there!? Just because I had a child with Eriol in our past lives Syaoran doesn't mean I don't care for you any less! Eriol! If you truly respect my honor...Or rather OUR honor in the form of Emerald here, you will stop acting like a child and get over here! Now!"

All four of them were instantly at the side of Emerald helping in whatever way they could, or what Sakura wanted them to help with. Soon enough the eight of them had calmed her down and got her inside (Luckily enough it took only 20 minutes...It could have EASILY lasted over 4 hours).

[Inside Eriol's house]

When they got inside and got her to sleep, Sakura was the first to leave and close Emerald's bedroom door behind herself. Eriol, under the command of Sakura, had given Emerald a rather spacious and comfortable room. "How old is Emerald?" Sakura questioned Eriol when she walked back into the 'table room'. Eriol looked over to her as he had been talking to the others for awhile.

"I'm not 100% sure. Judging from the way she carries herself and the way she is...I would say physically she's 12, but mentally she would be...40. The interesting thing is, she isn't acting any more mature then 12..."

Everyone lowered their heads in thought. 'Emerald...Why would she act like...this if she was...12, I got it!' Sakura screamed in her head, Eriol did not get any of that when Sakura clicked her fingers, everyone looked to her. "You said the Clow Card's were asleep for 30 years before you woke up because of me right Kero?" Kero nodded. "Yeah..."

Syaoran started to get the picture. "Are you saying that..." Sakura nodded. "Maybe Emerald was put under the same spell? After all...Eriol, whoops I meant Clow in your past life Eriol...Clow put the spell on the Clow Cards because he was linked magically to them right?"

Eriol's eyes widened as realization began to appear in all their heads. "Now, because Emerald is linked to you and me both bio-logically and magically Eriol...wouldn't it stand to reason that she fell asleep as well?"

Syaoran looked to them all. "If she has only just woken up then-" Eriol nodded. "She's going to need a rather delicate upbringing in both terms of Magic and-" Sakura smiled. "Emotions" Finishing off both boy's sentences. Yue groaned. "I don't like it when you" Sakura began to giggle. "When I finish people's sentences?" Yue frowned which made Kero bowl over in laughter.

Eriol looked to them all. "We have to think" Sakura nodded. "So far, Emerald is our child. Whether we all like it nor not. We are going to have to raise her as though she was 12 years old" Sakura nodded again. "That means that we'll have t-" Syaoran stood up. "Wait a second. Do you feel that?"

They all nodded. "That's not a good feeling..." Eriol looked to Sakura. "Emerald!" Sakura nodded and shot for where her daughter's room was (Sakura had, had enough of calling her, her past daughter, she was here now...and she was very real so Sakura called her, her daughter).

[Emerald's Room]

Sakura shot into the room and raced over to Emerald's bed, said girl was starting to wake up anyway. "Emerald!" Emerald rubbed her right eye. "Five more minutes" She moaned while Sakura shook her head. "No time. There's a very dark loathsome presence coming here" After another minute of waking up, Emerald's eyes lit up in the term of danger. "I sense it to!"

[Outside Eriol's House]

A creature, about double the height of Syaoran was heading towards the house. Very slowly. Enveloped in plasma with hemoglobin flowing off of it, it crushed each and every piece of stone and/or tree twig that stood in front of it.

Cardinal turned heavens began to slowly turn clouds in slight formation.

"Emerald Skylan Reed. You're time is here"