AN: First of all, this is kind of a reply to lil dreamer's review X.X And no, I'm not mad at you or anything. I just want to say that I do not spend my life on the computer, and I've been busy lately and I haven't been able to write this chapter as quick as you wanted. Some people take months to post up another chapter ya know. Well, I'm just babbling on and Crimson Skies is rated R because of someone attempting to kill themselves but they don't. I feel like leaving FF.Net just for a while, but I probably won't. Well, thanks for the patient ones out there, I appreciate it ^.^

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 8: Making a Decision



Sakura was swinging her legs gently with the samw speed as the breeze. She was deep in thought, and she was about to make one of the hardest decisions in her life.

*But if I die...I'll never see Shaoran again, or Tomoyo, Kero, oni-chan...otou-san...never ever again!* She thought destressfully. *But then if I die, then all my friends will be ok! And they can live their lives happily and eventually forget me...* She felt tears forming in her sad emerald eyes. *Why me?*

She jumped off the tree branch and just stood their and glanced up at the window where her past self was doing homework.

"...Is this really good bye to this world?" Sakura mumbled. "How do I kill myself though..?!" She reached out for a pine cone that was on the grass, but her hands went right through and she couldn't grab anything. "...How am I going to do this?"

"Why don't I help since you have already made your choice." Sakura jumped at the voice but quickly noticed that it was Kahzuni's.

Sakura glared at him but tears rolled down her cheeks. "...Fine..."

Kahzuni smirked and raised one hand, a sword like thing materialized in his hand. "It will be quick, but painful." Sakura winced slightly but stood her ground.

"...I'm ready.."

Kahzuni raised the sword..

His hand ready to throw it.

It soared through the air...

Slicing the air it went pass....

Sakura shut her eyes, waiting.

Time seemed to freeze.

What I do for you, my love

We are one, together etwined

No matter what, I will remember you...

Will you remember me?

Sakura could hear the sound of the sword coming...it seemed like it would peirce her heart any second now.

To kill the past

Of what we had together

Is that how our fairy tale ends?

Suddenly, Sakura felt her feet leave the ground, and she was in the air. Her eyes shot open, and she noticed a spiral of wind was beneath her feet.

"Sakura!" That voice...so familiar.

She glanced over to the ground and saw the amber eyes of Syaoran at age 16. "Shaoran?! How...how did you get here?!"

"I guess I must've opened the right door! Is this the right time Sakura?" Syaoran asked, scratching his head.

Sakura sweatdropped. "Not exactly. This is six years ago!"

"What?! Then why are you here?"

"...I was trying to return to the past to stop you from being sent to the future...but Retosha messed up the time and I got transported here!" Saskura explained and returned her gaze towards Kahzuni.

The sword was on the ground now, and Syaoran ran up to Sakura and the two stood in fighting stance. Kahzuni smiled evilly. "Two is always better then one neh? Both of you dead would make my revenge even sweeter!"

"Be careful Sakura," Syaoran warned.

Sakura nodded, "You too..." She summoned her star staff and Syaoran already had his sword out.

Kahzuni sent a pillar of water at them and they both jumped out of the way but the water kept on following them. "Split! You go that way I go this way!!" Syaoran quickly shouted and he dashed towards the right.

Sakura nodded and went left, the water also splitted into two halves and went for both of them. "That didn't work to well!" Sakura shouted back as she jumpe onto the roof of her house. "Er...erm...Syaoran! Use the freeze card!!" Sakura yelled.

Syaoran pulled out the card and swung his sword at it, releasing the Freeze. "Freeze card! Freeze the water!" The icey spirit swirled towards the water and it froze in mid air and crashed to the ground.

Kahzuni frowned but raised his hand a staff appeared. "Bah, that was just the beginning." He muttered and summoned a round black orb at the two of them.

"That doesn't look very nice," Sakura remarked as she summoned fly and told Syaoran to hop on. They flew into the sky, the orb following close behind.

"It's to fast! Can't you go any faster?!" Syaoran questioned.

"Er no!" Sakura replied as she did a dive into the air, but the orb seemed to copy their moves. "Ahh!!" Sakura looked straight ahead and noticed that they were going to go right through a tree. "Hold on!!" Sakura and Syaoran braced themselves as they flew through a small grouping of trees.

"At least those trees didn't have thorns or anything," Syaoran muttered. He sent a blast of fire at the orb, but it just sucked it in. "Great." He shot another blast of water, and it seemed to only make the orb bigger.

Sakura frowned, "Is it close?!"

"Very close..." Syaoran said. His eyes widened as he noticed how close the orb was. If he stretched his hand out, then he would touch the orb. "Hurry!!"

"Hoe!! I'm trying!!"

"It's touching almost!!"

"Ahh!!"

Sakura closed her eyes and quickly summoned the first card she could think of. Sheild. Two pink orbs circled Syaoran and Sakura as the black orb came crashing into them.

Nothing came and she slowly opened her eyes and saw that her sheild had worked. "Yeah!!!" She cheered.

Syaoran sighed in relief, and noticed that the black orb was trying to break their sheild. "We have to do something..."

"Er...like?" Sakura flew lower onto ground level and they got off the wand.

Kahzuni smirked at them. "You have no where else to run." He clapped his hands together twice and the black orb grew wider and a sword shot out of it.

It pierced the sheild...and came at them.

Syaoran's eyes widened. It was coming at him.

Sakura's eyes widened. It was going at Syaoran.

"NOO!!!" Sakura screamed and the next thing she knew was the she had threw herself in front of Syaoran...

The sword went through Sakura and out of her again and returning to Kahzuni. "Oh what a pity, I only got one of you." He started laughing.

Sakura choked slightly and fell to her knees, one hand over her chest where the sword had gone through her. Blood was oozing out slowly and it was staining her clothes.

Syaoran's eyes widened even more. "SAKURA!!" He held her tightly.

Sakura raised on hand and summoned the sword card. With her last ounce of energy, she threw the sword at Kahzuni with lightning speed and before Kahzuni knew what had happened it went through him.

"...No...at least...I got...my revenge!!" He laughed softly and disappeared into dust.

Time seemed to go crazy then. Everything around them went swirly and blurry, and Syaoran found that he was not holding Sakura anymore.

"Sakura!!!" He shouted and now he felt that he was flying upwards, wind blowing at his face so strongly that he had to close his eyes.

And then he opened them again and saw that he was at his apartment. "What? What time am I in?"

"Master Li!" Syaoran turned around and saw Wei standing there. "What are you doing on the ground?!"

Syaoran stood up slowly. "What day is it? I mean, how old am I?"

Wei gave him an odd look. "Why, you're sixteen master!"

"Oh...where's Sakura?" Syaoran looked around the room.

"Miss Kinomoto? You don't remember?"

Syaoran raised an eyebrow. "Remember?"

"The car crash! And she died!" Wei exclaimed.

"What?!" Syaoran shouted.

Wei shook his head softly. "Are you sure you're alright?"

"..." Syaoran pushed past him and out the door towards Sakura's house. He ran and ran and he finally saw the familiar roof of the yellow house as he knocked at the door urgently.

No one answered and he quickly decided to climb the tree next to Sakura's bedroom window. He crouched on the tree branch and peered into the room and saw Tomoyo, Chiharu, Rika, and Naoko all huddled together weeping.

At once he knew that something was wrong and he quickly tapped on the window. Tomoyo's head perked up and widened when she saw him.

She dashed to the window and flung it open. "Li-kun!"

"What happened?"

"Don't you remember?! Sakura...she...she died in the car crash!!" Tomoyo sobbed.

Syaoran nearly fell off the branch but jumped into the room. "What car crash?!" He felt so confused and all he heard was sobbing.



AN: *sigh* Done. To be continued.