Another Chance

By: Snow Horse

Disclaimer: I don't own Cardcaptor Sakura, which is very mean and rude and well, just plain sad. Anyway, CLAMP owns all of CCS and all the characters I use in this story, except for Izumi, Tetsuya, Mika, Ron, Kei, Chris, Jonouchi, Hayao, and all the characters that aren't in CCS that I have already used or might use in the future.

Summary: Sakura and Syaoran were killed...by a Clow Card. All the cards released themselves. And now two new Cardcaptors are coming into the picture...Will they be able to take their place or will they die as well?

Key: "talking"

'thinking'

Scene Change...

(a/n: author's note)

typing

Chapter 9

Return's Ability Is Revealed

"Well, I'm turning here, Tomoyo-chan," Izumi said and sighed. "I forgot to tell Tetsuya about Meiling in karate class so I have to go to his apartment and tell him now."

Tomoyo giggled. "Have fun, Izumi-chan!" Tomoyo said before walking towards her house.

Izumi narrowed her eyes at her. "What are you thinking!?" Izumi shouted, but Tomoyo just laughed and waved at her. Izumi sighed. "I swear that girl has problems."

Izumi walked down the street and then stopped suddenly. "It was right around here," she whispered to herself, looking around for something. "Man, where is it?" Then she spotted what she was looking for. "There's his apartment!"

She was just about to run towards his apartment when a feeling hit her.

Izumi widened her eyes. "That was strong," Izumi whispered to herself. "I wonder if Li heard it...maybe I should tell him about it. I guess that would only be fair."

She ran towards the door and rang the doorbell for his apartment. "Come on, come on!" Izumi whispered.

Just then, the door opened. Tetsuya stood there. "What do you want?" he asked coldly.

"Well, first, I was coming to say that Meiling told me to tell you good-bye, but just a few seconds ago, I felt the presence of a really strong Clow Card and I thought it only fair if I told you as well, just so we would have an even chance at it," Izumi said all in one breath. For some reason, she felt really hot and all tongue tied when she tried talking to him. 'That's odd,' Izumi thought to herself.

Tetsuya raised an eyebrow. "You want this to be a fair capture for either of us?" he asked.

Izumi nodded, not trusting her voice.

"Fine, but I'm not going easy on you because you're stupid," he said coldly and Izumi stuck her tongue out in reply.

"FLY!" Izumi yelled and her wand grew wings. See, her wand could now automatically know when she wanted to call on it, so she didn't have to say the saying to open it any longer, kind of like Tetsuya's sword. Izumi got on her wand and said, "You can come along too, if you want."

"Fine, but when we get there, we're enemies," Tetsuya replied and got on as well.

They flew towards Penguin Park, but when they got there, two people were already fighting the card, which looked a lot like a tall girl with elf-like ears in a long robe and holding a blue clock. "Who are they?" Izumi asked Tetsuya, pointing to the two people fighting the card.

The girl had a purple outfit, consisting of a long hat with a point at the end and two pieces covering her ears, a thick strapped tank top with a long cape behind her, a short skort, tall over the knee boots, and a face mask that covered her nose and mouth.

The boy had a blue outfit, consisting of a shorter version of the long hat the girl had, a long sleeved shirt with a long cape behind him, long baggy type pants, short ankle boots, and a mask that covered his nose and mouth.

"I don't know, but we have to seal that card before they do," Tetsuya replied and Izumi nodded. She landed behind some trees and her wand turned back into a wand.

"I was wondering when you would get here," a voice said behind them. Izumi spun around and standing there, camera in hand, was Tomoyo.

"What are you doing here, Tomoyo-chan?" Izumi asked.

"I saw those two coming here, flying actually, and well, I followed them," Tomoyo replied. "When I saw that it was a Clow Card, I got out my camera." Tomoyo smiled sweetly. "I got some really good scenes on here, of course, it was all very confusing."

Izumi turned toward Tetsuya to see what they should do, but when she did, he was gone already.

The Older Versions of Izumi & Tetsuya...

"Return just had to come now, didn't it?" Tetsuya asked Izumi as they were flying towards Penguin Park. "Ruining the whole night for us, that stupid card."

"The sooner we catch it, the sooner we get out of here and stop messing up this time," Izumi replied. "Besides, we didn't have any plans for tonight." Then she paused. "Unless you were planning something that I didn't know about."

Tetsuya smirked. "Maybe I was," he replied and Izumi sighed.

"Let's just hope neither of us felt that card," Izumi stated. They arrived at the park and flew down to land. "If either one of us did, then we're in big trouble."

"I'm not worried about me feeling it, I'm worried about you feeling it and then trying to catch it on your own again," Tetsuya replied.

Suddenly, the wind started up. There was a rush of leaves in one place and then Return appeared. Tetsuya and Izumi stood side by side, both glaring at it. Then they looked at each other and nodded.

Tetsuya took off and tried to slice it with his sword, but suddenly he was back beside Izumi. Izumi blinked and then groaned. "I don't think that will work," she said.

"Sorry, but you have to try all the possibilities," Tetsuya answered.

Return's clock glowed suddenly and Tetsuya stepped in front of Izumi, thinking that Return was going to send them back into time again. Instead, the ground started shaking and then holes appeared in the ground and creatures started coming up from them.

"SWORD!" Izumi yelled and her wand turned into a sword. "I didn't know Return could return the dead!"

"It can't, they're not alive, just like undead or something," Tetsuya answered and then sliced one in half that came close to them. He then had to move away from Izumi, in order to get closer to Return in the process of killing zombies.

"Oh, that's a lot better!" Izumi yelled and locked swords with one of the zombies, it was like a pirate sort of person. The zombie jumped back and then another one was just about to slice Izumi's head from behind when she heard a sword clang, sword against sword. She ducked in the nick of time, when two swords flew over her head, one held by the zombie and one held by the young Tetsuya.

Izumi widened her eyes and then glanced around for the young Izumi, but didn't see anyone else, so instead she swung her foot around in a full circle, knocking both the zombie and Tetsuya to the ground.

The older Tetsuya, on the other hand, had bigger problems. He was fighting a whole bunch of militia men and they all had guns, so you just see him jumping around trying to dodge every shot.

"We've got a problem over here!" the older Izumi yelled and the did a round off back handspring to avoid another sword.

"I've got bigger problems over here!" the older Tetsuya yelled back, dodging another shot.

"I'm not talking about the zombies, I'm talking about the ten-year-old kid that just showed up!" Izumi shouted back, kicking a zombie in the stomach.

"Who are you calling kid?" the younger Tetsuya shouted to the older Izumi. He was also fighting the pirate zombies.

"TIME!" a voice yelled from behind the trees.

"NO!" Izumi and Tetsuya both yelled and then all the zombies stopped suddenly. Even Return stopped suddenly.

"They can't both be here!" Izumi cried, before slicing a still pirate zombie with her sword.

The younger Izumi jumped down from a tree and smiled. She was holding the Time Card. "Show off," the younger Tetsuya muttered under his breath.

The older Tetsuya sighed and walked over to Izumi. "Erase?" he asked.

Izumi nodded and took out a card from her pocket. "ERASE! Erase all the zombies!" Suddenly, the zombies all disappeared. Time was wearing off and right when it did, the older versions of Izumi and Tetsuya spun around to where Return was, but she was gone.

The younger versions of Izumi and Tetsuya were really confused and then Tetsuya asked in a cold tone, "Who are you?"

The older Izumi saddened her eyes at him and then yelled, "DASH!" Then, the older versions of Izumi and Tetsuya were both gone within a few seconds.

"That was way strange!" Izumi said and then Tomoyo ran over to Izumi and hugged her.

"You were great!" she said and smiled.

"I didn't do anything, Tomoyo-chan," Izumi replied and sweatdropped.

"That's right, you didn't do anything," Tetsuya stated in a cold tone. "While you were waiting for the perfect moment to use Time, we were fighting our hardest to try and beat those zombies."

"Don't be so harsh, Li-kun, you know if it wasn't for Izumi-chan, than you would all be dead," Tomoyo replied with a confident tone.

"I highly doubt that," Tetsuya replied. "You weren't paying attention." He paused. "Those two people were highly skilled and I highly think we could've beaten them and captured that Clow Card. Time made the Clow Card disappear."

"We have to figure out who they were and why they were after that Clow Card before we do anything else," Izumi replied. "Besides, we don't even know what Clow Card that was." She turned around and started to walk out of the park. "I'll talk to Kero and maybe, I'll tell you tomorrow at school."

Tomoyo followed Izumi out of the park and left Tetsuya stand there with his own thoughts.

"When we get to your house, Izumi-chan, we have to watch this video of those two," Tomoyo stated. "Maybe we can get an idea of their fighting style or their weakness." She paused. "Of course, half of it is cut out, because you used Time, but I don't mind."

"I just want to know who they were and why they want the Clow Cards," Izumi replied in a sad tone. 'Just when I think I've got everything figured out about my life, thousands of new problems arise,' she thought and sighed.

"They didn't try to take your cards, Izumi-chan, just Return," Tomoyo pointed out.

"That's true, but why only Return?" Izumi asked. "Does it have a power we haven't seen yet or something?"

Tomoyo shrugged her shoulders. "I just can't wait to see the footage of those two fighting the zombies!" Tomoyo almost screamed, her eyes shining.

Izumi sweatdropped. "You act like they're Tetsuya and me or something," Izumi replied and Tomoyo stopped in her tracks. "What's wrong, Tomoyo-chan?" Izumi stopped and turned around.

"I just have to get home, we'll watch the tape tomorrow," Tomoyo replied and then she was off, running the other way towards her house.

Izumi blinked. 'What was that all about?' she asked herself and then shrugged her shoulders and walked the rest of the way to her own house.

The Older Versions of Izumi & Tetsuya...

"I can't believe they didn't figure it out yet, especially you, Tetsuya," Izumi said as she sat down on their couch. They had rented an apartment for the time they would spend in this time. It was a very small one though, without much room, but with two bedrooms.

"Like I said, I wasn't that smart, Izumi," Tetsuya replied and sat beside her.

Izumi sighed. "It's just our fighting style should be recognizable, shouldn't it?" Izumi asked.

"Well, I'd have to say that you've grown to be a better fighter than you were back then, and you've learned to use your gymnastic moves in fights as well as your sword," Tetsuya answered. "So, I can see why Izumi didn't recognize your style, but about mine." He stopped suddenly and thought about it.

"You've been a great fighter ever since you were little, and really, you haven't gotten a new style, have you?" Izumi asked again.

"Actually..." Tetsuya started, but cut himself off.

"Actually what?" Izumi asked and raised an eyebrow at him. Tetsuya smiled secretively.

"I've taught you all I know and in return, you've taught me all your moves," Tetsuya said simply.

Izumi turned her head to the side. "Hoe?" she asked, confused.

"Last month, you used a move that brought me down to the ground, and I learned that move by seeing it done," Tetsuya explained.

Izumi smiled. "Then, I guess we've both taught each other," Izumi replied. Then, Izumi's eyes saddened.

"What's wrong?" Tetsuya asked and put his hands on her shoulders.

"It's the look you gave me," Izumi replied.

"What look?" Tetsuya asked.

"Not you, little Tetsuya," Izumi answered. "The look he gave me was so cold and I could barely bare it. I just never want to see that again."

"You won't," Tetsuya replied with a smile that made Izumi look him in the eyes. "I promise." (A/n: awww...sorry, continue...just had to say that ) Their faces got closer and closer until they shared a sweet and gentle kiss. (A/n: Do you know how weird it is writing a kissing scene...it just feels weird...anyway, aww........)

A/n: Sorry to end it so quick, but I like that ending the best. Sorry that it's a little lame too, but I'm just not good at kissing scenes so everything from here on will be just weird. Anyway, send your feedback, good things, bad things, love 'em both! What suddenly happened to Tomoyo anyway? Where DID she run off to in such a hurry? And will Izumi and Tetsuya ever realize that Miss Hinacogee and Mr. Huffer are actually future versions of themselves? What's with the Return Card and will they ever capture it? Will Tetsuya and Izumi ever be friends again? Find out in the next chapter of Another Chance: T style! (T stands for my favorite character Tomoyo!)