Another Chance
By: harada sis
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)
Chapter 11
A Weird Turn Of Events & A Strange Dream
"It's so lonely without Kero around," Izumi said quietly to herself. She was laying on her bed being bored because Kero had just left with Tomoyo. "I wish I had something to do." She sighed and then looked around her room.
There was nothing at all she could think of to do, except for go on the computer, so she decided she would. She also signed onto the internet.
Suddenly, Ron IMed her.
/Haven't talked to you in a while, Izumi,/ Ron typed to Izumi.
/Yeah, seems like forever./
/So, how have you been?/
/Pretty good, but now I'm really bored./
/Too bad. I just came back from a date with Mika./
/Really? How did it go?/
/It was fun, at least, I hope it was./
/Why do you hope it was?/
/Because I took Mika to this new amusement park and I think she was going to kill me when I took her on the roller coaster./
Izumi laughed. Mika was pretty afraid of heights. /She made me go on the merry go round with her afterwards,/ Ron typed.
Izumi laughed again. Ron and Mika had to be the weirdest couple in the world. /Well, she doesn't like heights./
/I wouldn't say that. Since she's the new captain of the cheerleading squad here, she is always on the top of the pyramid./
/She's the new captain!? I'm so happy for her!/
/Well, the squad just made it to the Championships this year./
/Really?! Our squad did too! Maybe I'll see you guys there! It's next weekend, right?/
/Yeah, Mika has been talking about it for weeks./
Izumi giggled. Mika always was one for competition. Izumi was just about to respond when a shock hit her. 'A Clow Card!' Izumi thought and logged off really quickly. She dialed Tomoyo's number and then waited for her to answer.
"Hello?" Tomoyo asked on the other end, almost bursting out laughing.
"What's so funny, Tomoyo?" Izumi asked her.
"Oh, Izumi," Tomoyo responded. "The phone woke Kero up from his sleep."
"I don't think it was the phone," Izumi replied. "It's a Clow Card."
"Oh," Tomoyo replied, but Izumi thought that she didn't seem all that surprised. "I'll be right there."
Then, she hung up the phone.
Tomoyo, Kero, & Older Versions of I&T...
"Is it Return?" Tomoyo asked Izumi and Tetsuya while gathering her things together.
Izumi shook her head. "It's definitely not strong enough to be," Izumi replied. "I remember that a Clow Card came today, but I can't remember what card it was." Izumi tried racking her brain, but still couldn't remember.
"How could you forget?!" Tetsuya almost yelled at Izumi. "I mean, it was the stupidest card in the world! Why do they even make a card like that?" Tetsuya crossed his arms and then Izumi smiled.
"Now I remember," Izumi said and her smile widened.
"What card is it?" Tomoyo asked. Kero was on her head and she was just about to leave.
"You'll see, now go before Izumi gets impatient," Izumi replied and shooed them out the door.
"I hate that card," Tetsuya said again.
"It couldn't have been that bad, could it?" Izumi asked sincerely.
"Oh no, it was way worse," Tetsuya answered. "Being stuck in that stuffed animal's body was no party."
(A/n: Do you know what card I'm talking about? If you don't, I suggest you read on. If you do, shhhhhhh! Don't tell the people who don't know. Let them find out for themselves.)
Tomoyo, Kero, & Izumi...
"Tomoyo, I look like a mouse," Izumi stated, looking herself over in the mirror.
"That's the whole point, Izumi-chan!" Tomoyo replied, filming her friend in her new costume. As Izumi said, she looked like a mouse. She had a headband with little mouse ears on it and a mask over her eyes and nose, but not covering her eyes that made her look like a mouse with the nose and all. She also wore two pointy gray shoes and a cute overdress that was gray with a tail in the back with a red ball at the end of it. She also wore an undershirt that was white and had puffy sleeves.
Izumi sweatdropped and then snapped out of it and called, "FLY!" Her staff grew wings and she hopped on with Tomoyo right behind her and Kero on Tomoyo's shoulder.
"What if Li didn't feel the Clow Card?" Izumi asked while flying towards Penguin Park.
"I thought you didn't care about him," Tomoyo stated with a smile.
Izumi got red. "Well, I never said that I didn't care about him," Izumi retorted, but then realized what she just said.
Tomoyo giggled and then said, "If only Meiling were here."
When they arrived at Penguin Park, Tetsuya was already there, fighting the Clow Card. "Do you know what card that is, Kero?" Izumi asked him just before they landed. Izumi got off her wand and its wings disappeared.
The Clow Card looked like a small girl from far away, but up close you could see that the card's eyes were huge and blue and her mouth was small, but that made her look cute. She had big puffy pink hair that was tied on the top of her head and then flowed down behind her. It had a cute pink outfit on and small hands that were waving around, making pink shields appear while dodging Tetsuya's attacks.
(A/n: Okay, I'm going to say this right now. I KNOW this isnt how the Change Card is supposed to look, but who said it had to look right? ;; When I wrote the story, I had no idea what it looked like. So I made it up! Now I know...but I can't go back and change it or everything will be messed up. Sorry.)
"There's no way to tell Izumi," Kero replied. "It could be Shield because of the shields, but some other cards can produce small shields." Kero watched the card carefully, but nothing happened that could make it be any certain card.
"That's just great," Izumi replied and sighed. Then she got out a card and yelled, "Sword!"
Izumi stepped up closer to Tetsuya which made him turn around, sensing her aura. The Clow Card had jumped back away from Tetsuya when he wasn't looking and was smiling. "What are you doing here?" Tetsuya asked with a glare. He was leaning on his sword for support because he was tired out.
"The Clow Card, of course," Izumi replied, glaring back.
All of a sudden, the Clow Card giggled, which made everyone's attention turn to it. Then, a purple aura blasted everyone off their feet, knocking them all unconscious.
The Older Versions of I&T...
"Something bad is going to happen, Tetsuya, I just know it," Izumi said, laying on the couch looking up at the ceiling.
"What could happen?" Tetsuya asked.
Izumi closed her eyes and for the second time that night, she tried to sense little Tetsuya's aura. When she sensed it, she sighed, but all of a sudden, it was gone.
Izumi's eyes snapped open and she sprang up from the couch. "Your aura is gone," Izumi said with worry in her voice.
"Don't you remember we covered our auras so Izumi and Tetsuya couldn't feel them," Tetsuya replied. He was putting up all the pictures that Izumi had taken down.
"No, not you, little Tetsuya," Izumi replied and Tetsuya looked over his shoulder at her. Izumi looked at the ground with worry all over her face. "At first I sensed it, but now it's gone."
Tetsuya sighed. "It's probably when I got switched with Kero," Tetsuya answered lightly. Izumi walked over to him and got her puppy dog look on her face.
Tetsuya tried to ignore it, but finally, he gave in.
"Fine, we'll go get them, but we're not wearing our costumes," Tetsuya replied. "We'll bring him back here if he's hurt. And no Clow Cards. We can't have Tetsuya or Izumi figuring it out."
Izumi nodded and then they ran outside of the apartment and Izumi pointed in the direction of Penguin Park. "That's where I last sensed it."
"Then, let's go," Tetsuya replied with just a tint of worry in his voice.
About 5 Minutes Later...
'Almost there,' Izumi thought as they came to the entrance of Penguin Park.
When they walked inside, Izumi gasped. All four of them (Izumi, Tetsuya, Kero, and Tomoyo) were unconscious. "We have to take them back to our apartment."
"But what about Kero?" Tetsuya asked her. "We can't just leave him here and we can't explain how we knew he was real and not just a stuffed animal."
"That's it!" Izumi replied. "We'll say we thought it was a stuffed animal and took it with us!"
Tetsuya sweatdropped. "Even I could've thought of that," he replied. "But how can we carry them all?"
"Tetsuya, there's no other way but the Clow Cards," Izumi replied. "I'll have to use the Move Card to make them move to our apartment. Anyone who sees them will just think they're walking."
Tetsuya thought about it and agreed, reluctantly. "Move!" Izumi shouted and commanded Move to move the three kids to walk and she picked up Kero and they were on their way back to the apartment.
About 10 Minutes Later (it took longer walking w/ the kids)...
"We'll have to set them on the floor," Izumi said once they got there and set Izumi, Tetsuya, Tomoyo, and Kero down on the floor in the kitchen. "Was this the doing of a different card?"
"I don't know," Tetsuya answered. Izumi was sitting on the floor beside the kids while Tetsuya was sitting against the counter on the floor. "I don't know how it could've been different, but only Kero and I got hit with the blast from Change, not you and Tomoyo."
"Do you think that it was a different card, then?" Izumi asked, concerned for the kids and Kero.
"No, another card would've finished them off," Tetsuya replied, thinking about it. "Something must've happened that was different from when we faced it. Something had changed."
Izumi, then, realized it. "Kero!" she said, stunned. "When I brought Kero along, he had no idea that you and I should be together, so he started to make remarks to you. But this time, he must've realized that nothing he did could change the fact that we would be together and he didn't make any remarks. Also, Tetsuya was on the way back to his apartment tonight when he must've felt the Clow Card and he must've got there sooner than Izumi did. He might've been fighting it when I got there with Tomoyo and Kero and I made the remarks. Change just wanted to have some fun with us, but thought it would be funny to do it to us all since we were close enough."
"Right, Tomoyo and Kero must've been closer than you and Tomoyo, so they got caught in the blast because Change can only hit targets so far away," Tetsuya continued. "But who's who?"
Suddenly, the three kids stirred. Tomoyo, Tetsuya, and Izumi all sat up (at least their bodies sat up.) "What happened?" the person who was in Tetsuya asked.
"We found you in Penguin Park and brought you back here, Mr. Li," the older Tetsuya answered.
"Mr. Li?" the person in Tetsuya asked and then turned to the left and widened her eyes.
The little Izumi couldn't believe it. She was staring at herself, but it wasn't herself, she was herself, but then, who was this person?
"Are you okay, Li-san?" the person in Izumi asked. Then she was about to address the person behind her as Izumi, but it wasn't because it was her body. Tomoyo widened her eyes and stared at the Tomoyo before her.
Then, Izumi (in Tetsuya) saw Tomoyo acting really strangely, just sitting there, pretending to be a stuffed animal? A stuffed animal!
"Could we have some time to talk alone?" Izumi (in Tetsuya) asked.
"Sure," the older Izumi answered and Izumi and Tetsuya left to Tetsuya's bedroom (closest to the kitchen) and closed the door, but were still listening from the crack at the bottom.
Tomoyo (in Izumi) talked first, "What happened? Why am I two people?" She pointed toward herself and the other Tomoyo.
"Tomoyo?" Izumi (in Tetsuya) asked, unbelievingly. Tomoyo looked at her strangely and nodded. "It's Izumi."
"Izumi?!" Tomoyo asked. "You're in Tetsuya's body!?"
"I'm what!?" Izumi asked and then looked at her outfit. It was Tetsuya's. Izumi got red and then replied, "You're in my body."
Tomoyo looked at herself and saw that Izumi was right. Then, the other Tomoyo spoke. "Is it okay to move yet?"
"Huh?" Izumi asked. "Wait, Kero!?"
Kero (in Tomoyo) looked at her and raised an eyebrow. He hadn't been listening to their conversation at all.
"I'm Izumi," Izumi replied. "We must've switched bodies or something. You're in Tomoyo's body."
"Of course!" Kero replied. "That Clow Card was Change! It has the ability to switch people's minds with another."
"Well, if I'm Izumi, Kero's me, and Izumi is Tetsuya, then Li must be Kero, right?" Tomoyo asked.
As if on response, Kero's body stirred and it sat up. "What happened?" it asked and then right when it turned its head, it got really angry and flew over to Izumi, staring her right in the face. "What are you trying to do, making a clone of me!?"
Tomoyo grabbed Tetsuya and then said, "Li, Izumi didn't make a clone of you, Change all switched our minds up. I'm Izumi, you're Kero, Izumi is you, and Kero is me."
Tetsuya calmed down after that, but then Izumi said, "We're at Miss Hinacogee's or Mr. Huffer's, I think, since they were the ones who found us."
"Yeah, but we can't lead them onto anything," Tomoyo said and then let Tetsuya go. "So, you have to be a stuffed animal."
"Fine, but we'll go back to my place so we can figure out what we're going to do about this," Tetsuya agreed and Izumi opened her bag and he stopped. "You are not carrying that, are you?"
Izumi blinked and then gave it to Tomoyo before Tetsuya got in. Then, Tomoyo yelled, "We're sorry for ruining your evening, but we have to leave now!"
The older versions of Izumi and Tetsuya came out of Tetsuya's room where they had been listening and Izumi asked, "Are you sure you'll be alright?"
"""Fine!""" They all said in unison and then headed towards the door.
When they left, Izumi burst out laughing. "Even w-when we all sw-witch bodies, you st-till end up b-being Kero," she said between laughs.
Tetsuya glared at her and then sat on the couch and sighed. "I just think this will be worse than before. You being me, Tomoyo being you, Kero being Tomoyo. It'll be difficult to live up to my standards," he said when Izumi had stopped laughing. She sighed as well and sat down, which surprised Tetsuya.
"Being you won't be just difficult for her, it'll make her like you even more," Izumi replied.
"How so?" Tetsuya asked, confused.
"If I was you for just one day, I'd be looking in the mirror countless times just to be able to stare at you without you noticing," Izumi replied. "And now that she will have the experience to live as you, it will make her like everything you do, including your room and everything." Izumi sighed. "I just think it'll be the most difficult for her, being in the body of her crush."
Tetsuya nodded in understanding. It would be the hardest for Izumi.
The younger versions of I&T, Tomoyo, and Kero...
Upon reaching Tetsuya's house, Tomoyo opened Izumi's bag and Tetsuya flew out of it. Kero sat on the couch and sighed. Izumi sat on the couch also and thought about what effect this would have. "So, what are we going to do?" Tetsuya asked them when Tomoyo had sat on the couch.
"We'll just have to live life normally as each other," Izumi stated. "We can't change back without The Change Card and I've tried sensing it, but it's gone."
"I might have a locating spell on my compass board I can use, but we'd have to have someone do it with a lot of magic and I don't know if the magic is in Daidouji now or if it stayed with you, Hinako," Tetsuya replied, thinking.
Izumi widened her eyes for a moment and then blinked again, trying to hide her surprise. 'What's wrong with me? Tetsuya and I are fighting and yet, I hate the fact that he called me Hinako...' Izumi thought for a second and then replied, "We'll have to try it to see if it works."
Tetsuya nodded and flew into his room to get his compass board. He grabbed it and gave it to Izumi. She took it and then asked, "What do I do?" Her voice was confident because she knew however longer she stayed in Tetsuya, she was bound to have the same feeling she just had about him.
Tetsuya showed her what to do and she did as he told her.
She closed her eyes and tried to focus all her thoughts on The Change Card, but it wasn't working. The fact that she was in Tetsuya's body was all she could think about. She tried harder and then threw the compass board out and a glowing compass board surrounded her. She pointed her finger up and held it in front of her face while the other was right below it in the same position. Then, she stopped.
'Come on, Izumi, just perform the spell already,' Tetsuya thought. Then he realized what he just thought. He had called Hinako, Izumi. 'Why did I just do that? Probably because I'm used to calling her that.' He shook the thought out of his head and then watched as Izumi fell backwards and the glowing compass board disappeared.
Tomoyo ran to her and asked, "Are you alright, Izumi-chan?"
"She's just fainted," Tetsuya replied. "She wasn't strong enough to handle the spell."
"She is strong enough," Tomoyo argued. "Something else must've been on her mind so she couldn't perform it."
"It would've had to be a great feeling to make her mind focus on that instead of on Change," Tetsuya replied.
"Why do you say that?" Tomoyo asked, confused.
"Even if her mind was focusing on Change with all her strength, if something from her heart was bugging her, then the spell wouldn't work because the heart is stronger than the mind. If the heart has a problem, the mind can't focus," Tetsuya explained.
Tomoyo looked down at Izumi and then saw her eyes open slightly. "What happened?" she asked, confused. She opened her eyes the whole way and sat up.
"You fainted in the middle of the spell," Kero answered.
"Yeah, is something bothering you, Izumi?" Tomoyo asked, wondering if what Tetsuya said was true.
Izumi felt her cheeks burn and asked, "Why do you ask?"
"Two reasons," Tomoyo replied. "One: Li said that might've been a reason why you couldn't perform the spell and two: you're blushing."
Izumi's cheeks burned even more and then she replied, "Um-well-I-" She couldn't admit that she was thinking about Tetsuya because he would hear it and then, everything would be a mess. Tetsuya picked up his compass board and then replied, "She just wasn't strong enough to perform it, Daidouji. I knew she couldn't be."
Izumi snapped her head up and then glared at Tetsuya. "I could so perform that spell! Something was just on my mind at the time!" Izumi yelled at Tetsuya. Then, she grabbed the compass board and threw it down on the floor again.
She did the same thing as last time except she didn't stop and yelled, "CLOW CARD! CHANGE!" The compass board glowed all around her and then in her mind, it showed where The Change Card was and what it was doing at the time. Then, the image disappeared and Izumi blinked a few times, really confused.
"Am I supposed to hate myself right now?" she asked suddenly and randomly.
Tomoyo looked at her strangely. "Hate yourself?" she asked.
"Yeah, I have this strong urge to hit myself across the head," Izumi answered.
"Strange," Kero announced and then examined Izumi for any physical changes.
Tetsuya then looked at her, confused. "That's exactly what I'm thinking right now."
Kero and Tomoyo shot their heads toward Tetsuya. "Izumi must've got into your thoughts when she performed the spell," Kero stated and then asked, "Do you remember what the spell showed you, Izumi?"
"It showed me Change, it was sitting down and that's all I can remember," Izumi replied.
"It's erasing your memories now!" Kero stated again.
"What!?" Tomoyo almost cried.
"Why is it doing that?" Tetsuya asked and then flew over to them and examined Izumi. "She doesn't look any different."
"She's turning into you," Kero stated. "With every passing moment, she forgets something else."
"So, I'm losing my memories and gaining Li's?" Izumi asked. "I don't feel like I'm forgetting anything."
"You probably won't," Kero answered. "I just can't believe this happened."
"What happens when everything she knew from her life disappears and she gains Li-san's memories?" Tomoyo asked with concern in her voice.
"She'll become him and her memories will be lost," Kero answered.
Tomoyo was shocked. She couldn't lose her best friend! "Is there any way to stop this from happening?" Tetsuya asked quickly.
"We have to get her back to her body and her memories will be back, but at the rate she's going, we'll have 10 days to do it," Kero replied. "She'll lose a year of her life every day."
"This is really weird," Izumi said suddenly. "My past is all messed up."
Tomoyo was really worried, but they couldn't do anything about Izumi now. "Kero and I will have to go back home," Tomoyo stated. "I'll have to go to Izumi's house and he'll have to go to mine." She got up and then looked straight at Tetsuya. "I'm counting on you, Li-san, to take care of Izumi-chan."
Tetsuya nodded and Izumi waved to both of them as they left. Tetsuya didn't know what to do about Izumi, so he just decided to let her sleep in his bed and he could sleep on a pillow or something since he was so small.
Dreaming, Izumi...
"It's this place again," Izumi said out loud. "I'm glad I didn't forget it yet." She was in a white room with no doors, windows, or walls. Everything was just white. "I love this place. It's where I can be with my mother and not have anything or anyone interrupt our talking." She closed her eyes and smiled to herself. Then, she opened them and realized that she was herself and not Tetsuya in this dream.
"Izumi," a voice stated.
"Mother!" Izumi shouted and then looked around, but couldn't see her. "Where are you?"
"I can't let you forget this."
"I know, this place is great!"
"No, this." All of a sudden, the scene had changed and it was a scene with her and Tetsuya when they first met. Then it flashed to when they were talking about The Ring. It went to Jump and then Power and then it just flashed to a scene she had never seen before.
It was a picture of herself with a thought bubble over her. It said, 'I won't let Dark control him anymore.' She was holding a Clow Card in her hand and she was angry. She had one of Tomoyo's outfits on also. Then, behind it was a picture of Tetsuya's face with his eyes darkened, looking like he was hypnotized.
"That looks like a comic book picture," Izumi said to her mother.
"I made it so you could see these future events that you can't forget," her mother replied.
Next, came a picture of her laying on the ground with a dark figure above her, but Tetsuya was standing, sword in hand, glaring at the shadow. The next picture showed him trying to slash it with his sword.
Then, was a picture of a sort of clown figure with a piece of white cloth (his outfit was checkered black and white) and he was just about to put the cloth over Tetsuya, on the ground, hurt. The next picture showed her yelling, "NO!" and standing in front of Tetsuya.
Then, the images stopped. "There are more images, but I do not have time to show you them all," her mother explained.
"But, what happens!?" Izumi asked in a yell. "Is Tetsuya all right in them all?! Why was he protecting me like that!? Answer my questions!" She didn't know it, but she was crying. She didn't want Tetsuya to get hurt because of her.
"What happens!!??" Izumi cried and then all of a sudden shot up out of her dream and she was back in Tetsuya's room.
(A/n: Alright. Here's the deal. A reviewer asked me to continue this story or at least, give it come sort of closure. And I figured, "WHY NOT!?" Since I always like to reread the story and it DOES make me smile. First full blown fanfiction that made it past 50 pages...then 100...now it's 149 pages. So I went into the document, looked around, then came on And realized, I had FOUR more chapters written but not uploaded. I have up to Chapter 14 DONE. gets yelled at and hit for not updating Heh, sorry. So, I'll put those up. And then continue. Please enjoy!!)