Eriol and Sakura walked out of the large dining room together, needing a few moments to talk in private.
"Saku, what are we going to do now?" he asked his dauter, blue-gray eyes glinting with worry. "They can't be kept in the dark forever."
The carmel-haired sorceress frowned worriedly, and clasped her hands in front of her anxiously.
"Honestly... I think it's time I tell everyone, including you, about my past as Sakura Reed, and my life with Clow as my father."
Eriol's eyebrows raised slightly at that, and he looked straight into his daughter's emerald orbs.
"Is that alright with you, Hii?" Saku asked gently, her emerald green eyes peircing straight through his very soul.
The midnight-blue haired sorcerer simply nodded his head in way of an answer.
"So, we agree then?" she quietly asked him, her smile slowly growing with every second that passed. "Shall we head back inside and tell the others the whole entire truth?"
Eriol nodded his head and the two walked back into the dining room and retook their seats.
"What were you two talking about in there, Clow?" asked Yue rather coldly. "You didn't hurt her, did you?"
Saku shot the silver-haired moon guardian a scathing look. "Yue-san! Be nice to Hii!" she growled lowly, emerald-colored eyes blazing with fury.
Eriol chuckled slightly and gently grabbed Saku by the arm. "Woah! Take it easey, Saku. Relax, Yue-san's just protective of you. Especially after what I did to you."
"You still could've just told her." Tomoyo said sharply. "Why must you torcher her like you did?"
Eriol gave the violet-eyed girl a small frown. Then, he turned to face Saku.
Saku gave her best friend a sad, yet stern look. "Tomoyo-chan!" she began warningly, her eyes falling upon Eriol's sad gaze.
"Saku and I have something very important to discuss with you." The dark mage stated in a sad, quiet tone of voice from his place at the head of the table. "You may not believe us: But the story must be told."
Saku turned to Eriol, and quietly whispered, "Hii, we should tell them. It's about time they know the truth."
Eriol nodded his head and turned toward the other occupants of the room. "I guess we should start from the aftermath of mine and Saku's battle." Eriol's eyes lowered to his lap, and his hands visibly began to shake under the table.
~FLASHBACK~
Sakura held her cards tightly to her chest. Then, she turned toward Eriol and his guardians.
"Eriol-kun, wait!" she called after him, just as he had turned to walk away. "I um. C-can I talk to you for a moment? Alone?"
Eriol blinked, a small hint of confusion shimmering in his bright blue eyes for a moment.
"Yes, yes of course, Sakura-san."
The two young magicians walked a fair distance away from their guardians and friends to talk in private.
Once they were out of earshot, Eriol was the first to speak.
"So, what did you wish to speak with me about?" the blue haired sorcerer asked, turning to stare at Sakura with a concerned gaze. "Is everything alright, Sakura-san?"
Sakura fidgeted nervously under Eriol's piercing blue gaze.
"Sakura-san?"
Sakura still said nothing. But, then, Eriol's eyes grew wide upon spoting tears begining to form in the young girl's emerald green orbs.
"Sakura-san?" Eriol called once more. "What's wrong? Why are you crying?"
Sakura's gaze lowered from Eriol's sapphire blue one, and her emerald green eyes shifted down to her shoes at hearing the concerned edge to his voice.
"Saku, please talk to me!" Eriol pleaded, sounding almost scared, as he placed both hands on her shoulders. "Please, Saku. You're really beginning to scare me."
Upon hearing her nickname being spoken aloud by the bespectacled sorcerer, her head shot up, and she met his worried gaze head on.
"I um. Eriol-kun, there's something very important I need to discuss with you. It's about Clow Reed."
At hearing the name of his past self, Eriol's curiosity was now clearly written on his face.
"What about Clow Reed?" he quietly asked her.
Sakura's emerald eyes shined with an emotion he couldn't quite pick up on, and her face grew suddenly very serious.
She looked straight at him, and calmly said, "Were you ever made aware that Clow Reed had had a child?" she softly asked, eyes darkening some upon seeing his face grow pale, and how his sapphire eyes looked about ready to pop out of his head.
"Saku? What? How is-" Eriol tried to form a coherent string of words together, but his mouth just wasn't on track with his brain at the moment.
Saku took his reaction to mean that he was never made aware of this fact. Clow, her father, had kept the knowledge of the young sorceress and her true origins to Clow Reed a secret from his reincarnation.
Sighing heavily: Saku decided to just get straight to the point. No games. Eriol deserved to know the truth.
"You weren't the only one reincarnated, Eriol-kun." She began slowly, leting her words rejister before beginning again. "I, too, was reincarnated. I, Sakura Kinomoto, am the reincarnation of Clow Reed's daughter." She paused to take a breath, then began again.
"I am the full reincarnation of Sakura Reed, the only daughter of Clow Reed himself."
~END FLASHBACK~
The whole entire room fell completely silent after Eriol had finished recounting the events of the prior evening.
Eriol's head was lowered, and his shoulders were shaking. Saku, recovering from whatever trance she'd previously been in: Leaped forward, and rapped her arms around the dark mage's quivering frame.