AN: YEAH! I am on winter break whoo hoo! But you know, I actually kinda miss my classmates already! Maybe I'm just crazy, but I actually do miss the annoyingnance of some of the people in my class lol >. Anyways, onto Chapter 7 of Killing the Past...it sure took me long enough X.X

Disclaimer: Evil disclaimers! I do not own CCS and it's characters, they legally belong to CLAMP!

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Killing the Past
By ~Xiaoling~


Chapter 7: Into the Past



Sakura sighed in frustration after an hour of scanning through her cards. She just couldn't think of a way of how her cards were going to help her out on this one.

*Ok...Syaoran is stuck somewhere in the future...or somewhere in between time...time...future...present...past...* Sakura suddenly smiled as an idea sprung to her. "Yes! I know! The return card!"

Kero flew out of his drawer and gave Sakura a proud smile. "Right...but do you know how you are going to use it?" He asked worridly.

"Yeah! I'll return to the past and stop Syaoran from being sent into the future!" Sakura grinned a summoned her wand and was about to summon the Return card when Kero stopped her.

"Wait, it's not that easy."

Sakura blinked at him, "Hoe?"

"I know that Kahzuni pretty well to know his plans...he's wouldn't make it that easy...he knows about the cards, and he must have thought about you using the return card...this would be all to simple..." Kero said.

Sakura frowned, "But how will we know unless we try it out?"

"...It's risky Sakura...you don't know what might go wrong while using the return card. You might return to the wrong time or get stuck in time just like that gaki..." Kero explained.

Sakura gripped the Return card tightly. "I don't care. I have to save Shaoran..." She lifted her wand and swung it at the return card. "Return card! Release and dispel!" She said quickly, before Kero could say anything, a black ball engulfed Sakura and she was gone. Kero frowned.

"Good luck Sakura-chan..." Was all he could utter. Somehow, he had a bad feeling about this.

Sakura felt all the colors fly around her, whisping and twirling and weaving around her. She was falling and falling, falling back to the past. Doors, and clocks flew by her, everything went by in a glimpse until Sakura found herself actually standing on solid ground.

"Hoe..? Where am I?" Sakura glanced around the area and noticed that she was in Tomoeda, and right next to her house. "Oh good, I'm not lost or anything..."

She quickly hid behind a bush when she saw a girl around the age of ten appear out of the door with rollar blades on. *Wait a second! That's me and I look so little! That must have been me years ago! What am I doing so far in the past?!*

Sakura decided to follow her past self to know exactly what time she was in. As they entered the school, Sakura stood beside her past self, since no one could see her anyways.

She noticed that the seat behind her was...empty. *Where's Shaoran?* She noticed that this was her elementary school...which meant that her teacher was...

"Good morning Mr. Terada," The class greeted as he entered.

He greeted them back and started to write a name on the chalkboard. "Today, I have a special surprise. We have a new exchange student from Hong Kong today!"

Sakura gasped. *Syaoran has just come?! That means...my past self is 10...* Sakura saw her other self listen to Tomoyo whispering something, but then she turned back to look at Syaoran who had just entered the classroom. She giggled softly, seeing him again at age 10 was exciting.

She noticed that this Syaoran was glaring at her past self, and she noticed that her past self felt very uneasy as Syaoran took his seat behind the past Sakura.

*Oh don't worry other self!* Sakura thought happily, but then she saw someone staring right back at her from across the classroom. She gasped, "Kahzuni Retosha?!"

Kahzuni smirked, "I knew you were going to use the return card. And, I will give you a chance."

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked, confused why Kahzuni was in the past with her.

"I messed up the time periods so you ended up back in Gr.4." Kahzuni explained. "I did this so that you can have a chance."

"Get to the point," Sakura muttered.

Kahzuni chuckled, "The only way you can save your little wolf is for you two to never meet. Then everything will be alright and Syaoran back in the present will be alright to."

"No!!" Sakura shouted. "There must be another way!"

"No there isn't my dear cherry blossom. If you don't make sure that your past self doesn't fall in love with the past Syaoran, then you will ever be able to return to the present. And, your Syaoran in the present will forever be stuck."

Sakura felt her heart sink. "No..."

"You got yourself into this Sakura Kinomoto," Kahzuni laughed, "And it's perfect for my revenge."

"What are you doing in the past then?!"

"That's none of your business," Kahzuni said and disappeared with one thought in his mind. *I'm here in the past to make sure that you won't suceed.*

Sakura watched as all the card captoring scenes went by day by day and how her past self was getting closer and closer to the past Syaoran. She frowned, did she really have to break herself up with her only love? She just couldn't, and now she noticed that the past Syaoran was always blushing everytime she smiled at him.

*They're falling in love...* Sakura thought sadly, even thought she should have been delighted. She had stayed in the past for weeks or even months now! But the present time would have been frozen, so her brother and father shouldn't have been worried.

She didn't even know how she was going to break them up. They couldn't see her, and they couldn't hear her. And, she didn't want to do this.

Sakura sighed, she was sitting on the branch of the tree that stood right outside of her bedroom window when the wind seemed to pick up abnormally.

Kahzuni.

"You! What are you doing here?!" Sakura spat angrilly.

"Give up neh?" He snickered.

Sakura sighed in defeat. "Isn't there another way?!"

"..No...er..yes..." Kahzuni smirked.

"How?!" Sakura asked immediately.

Kahzuni smiled wickedly. "It's basically the same thing as breaking you two up. And if you complete this, I will leave your little wolf alone...and your friends..."

"What have you been doing to my friends?!" Sakura yelled immediately.

"Oh? They are just finding there way back home...just like Syaoran." He started laughing insanely and Sakura grew angry.

Sakura gritted her teeth. "Leave them alone!"

"Just if you do as I say."

"Fine."

"Kill youself."

Sakura's eyes widened in shock. "What?!"

"Two words, and I know you heard me. Kill yourself Kinomoto Sakura." Kahzuni said bitterly.

"Why?! What good will that do for you?!"

"That one of Clow Reed's descendants are gone from this small world!" Kahzuni said as if he had won the lottery. "And then, I will let your friends go."

Sakura frowned, "That doens't really answer my question."

"Basically, I want you all to suffer! Isn't it tragic?" Kahzuni said drastically. "Two lovers, bound together by magic. But once the magic is broken...so is the love." He hissed.

"...You're making no sense you evil person!" Sakura cried.

He started laughing evilly. "It's your choice. You die, or all your friends are basically history." And then he disappeared.

Sakura was left alone, on the tree branch to make a very tough discension.

Kill or not to kill.




AN: Heh >. What will Sakura do?! Stay tooned to find out! But I have to warn you, I am going to end this story slightly different then my others. It's not going to be a happy dappy ending like all my fics. Just warning ya. Anyways, please review thank you!