Threads of Fate

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.

"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.