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Summary: Sakura and Li are in the ninth grade and they have captured all of the cards. Sakura has become the master of the Clow Cards and the gang now knows that Eli is the reincarnated form of Clow Reed. I know this is a really crappy summary but if I give you a good one, it'll tell you too much about the story, and we don't want that now do we?? ^_~



Changing The Past : For Better Or Worse

Author's Note: Ok, so is my story not good enough to review or something? I mean for this entire story I have like only 6 or something reviews!!!!!

Summary for the last chapter: Sakura brought the Li back that acted cold- hearted towards Sakura. (For everyone's sake I'm calling him Showron) And Sakura finally believes Li when he says that he went back in time to change their relationship.


Chapter 4

After Showron raced to his house (or Li's house..whatever. They're the same people...well not really because they act completely different. Now I'm just confusing myself. ^_~) Sakura, Madison, Eli and Li followed him.

"Why do you think he ran away from us like that?" Sakura asked. You can't blame her anyways because she doesn't know what the old Li felt and acted like.

"I don't think, I know." Li answered. "He runs away from what he doesn't want to believe and things that doesn't make sense to him."

Sakura looked at him with bewilderment. "How do you know that for sure Li? Oh wait, you were him.are him.er.um.you know what I mean right Li?"

Li softly chuckled and replied, "Yeah, I know you're trying to tell me you're dense. But you didn't have to tell me that, I figured that out all by myself." Li stated proudly as Eli and Madison clapped as if Li had accomplished a major task.

"Ha ha, very funny..HEY! I am NOT dense. I'm just a bit slow." Sakura pouted.

"Uh Sakura? They mean the same thing." Madison corrected.

"You silly, little thing." Eli said sadly as if he pitied Sakura.

By that time, they had arrived to Li's house and they were about to open the door when they heard yelling coming from inside. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN I HAVE A DATE TONIGHT?? AND WITH SAKURA AVALON??"

"I take it Wei told Showron about our date tonight huh." Sakura said to Li.

"Yeah. Wow, for once you guessed right." Li smiled.

"What's today, 'make-fun-of-Sakura day? Holy shit." Sakura said as she walked inside.

Showron looked over to the door as he heard it open. "NO!! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU TODAY!!" he screamed.

"Hey, back off. I live here too and these are my friends so they have every right to be here. And if you have a problem with that, then you can kiss my ass." Li smirked.

"Whatever." Showron said as he walked up the stairs.

"I'm gonna go talk to Wei, Madison, would you care to join me?" Eli said, motioning towards the kitchen.

"I don't want to talk to..oh...ok. Yeah sure. Be right back guys." Madison said getting the hint from Eli.

As Eli and Madison walked into the kitchen where Wei was, Li made the first move. "Hey Sakura, I heard around the school that there's going to be a winter ball." He said as he looked at the floor.



`~`~`~`~`Meanwhile in the kitchen`~`~`~`~`

"You know you have to send the other Li back to his own time right? If he stays here, it will cause everyone misery, and I won't be able to cook!" Wei complained to Eli and Madison.

"I guess you're right. We don't want him to get too scared. We better go tell Sakura and Li." Eli said walking back out to the front room.





`~`~`~`~`Meanwhile in the front room`~`~`~`~`

"Yeah, Chelsea told me about it. It sounded like it'd be fun to go to." Sakura said as she looked around. 'Wow. He has some really cool looking stuff in his house.' She said to herself.

"I was wondering.um. I was wondering I....if you w..wanted to *deep breath* go with me." Li finally managed to spit out.

Sakura looked at Li and smiled. "I'd love to Li. If it's as fun as Chelsea said it would be, it's going to be even more fun with you."

Li smiled his genuinely rare smile at Sakura as he gently took her hand in his.

"Oh my god. I can't believe how boring cooking was! I always thought it was fun!" came Madison's voice as she and Eli walked back into the front room where Sakura and Li were.

"Are you guys finished talking with Wei?" Li laughed.

"Oh yeah. I mean, he VOLUNTARILY talked about cooking. Holy crap Li! How can you put up with it?" Eli said.

"He serves me remember. Whatever I don't want to put up with, he takes care of it. Heh, I guess I'm lucky huh?" Li smirked smart-alecky.

"I WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT COOKING YOU LITTLE LIER!!!" came Wei's voice from the kitchen along with a pot which hit Eli on the head.

"Ow." He replied simply as he fell to the ground.

The other three looked down at the fallen Eli and blinked. "Anyways. Li, we have to send Showron soon before he gets even more out of control." Madison said as she forgot about the injured Eli lying sprawled on the floor.

"When Eli wakes up, send him over tomorrow morning ok? It's the weekend tomorrow so no-one will notice that there's two of me. You guys better go now. I think Wei's trying to kill the refrigerator." Li said as he heard Wei yell, "I will kill you my pretty, and your little freezer too..HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

"That's just messed up. Ok, see ya later Li." Sakura said as she helped Madison carry Eli out of Li's house.





`~`~`~`~`~`The next day`~`~`~`~`~`



Li was training with Wei when the doorbell rang. Li answered it, but since he was training, he had his shirt off (AN: My god, can you imagine what he'd look like? *drool*) and forgot to put it on when he answered the door. (AN: I'd like to be the person at the door.*sniff*.ok I'm done for a while with the AN's) "Hey Eli." He answered.

"Li, would you put some clothes on? ....Sakura's here isn't she? I'll come back when you're not 'busy'..heh heh." Eli smirked.

"Oh god Eli! You're sick! I was training! Geez. Come in." Li let Eli in as Showron came down from his room. (He slept in a guest bedroom that night)

Li glared at Showron as he got his shirt and put it on, not realizing that both Li's were wearing the same shirts. "So you're sure that this'll work Eli?"

"Why wouldn't it?" Eli said as he opened a 'time portal' not looking at Li.

"Ok Showron, go in. Be gone! Go back to being your old, evil self." Eli said as he pushed Li.I mean Showron into the portal. (AN: the mistake I made is a hint for something that happens later.)

There was a bright light as Showron was pulled into the portal.

"Well now that's been taken care of, have you found out when the winter ball is Li?" Eli said as he wiped his hands off dramatically.

"Why would I care about a stupid..." He stopped himself and he said to himself, 'He doesn't know it's me. Maybe I should see what's so good about being, well, good.' "Oh, uh. No, not yet. Do you think Madison would know? Isn't she decorating it or something?" Li said, and he reluctantly smiled to make it more effective.

"Yeah, I think she said something about decorating it. I can ask her for you. Anyways, are you going to get back together with Sakura? I mean, when she came to me asking for the truth about you, she was in tears. And she cried even harder when she found out that she broke up with you for no reason. It's really sad. So are you going to?" Eli said sadly, but with a hint of hopefulness in his voice.

'Wait a minute, I went out with Sakura? I must be really nice. Either that or out of my mind.' He said to himself. "Maybe at the dance thingie but I'm not sure, maybe we're better off as friends. The friendship we have is too special to me to break over a little fight we might've had when we were going out. Like, if we went out again and had a fight, we wouldn't be friends. But if we kept it simple, we could work it out faster than if we were a couple. Do you know what I'm talking about here Eli?" Li said in his most sincere tone.

"I guess. But you should ask Sakura what she wants." Eli said as he put his jacket on and opened the front door and started to walk out when he turned around and finished. "I'll talk to Madison for you to see when the dance is ok?"

"Uh, yeah. See you later Eli. Say hi to Madison for me." Li said as he closed the door quietly behind Eli. 'A date with Sakura Avalon? I must be out of my mind!' he thought to himself as he walked up to his bedroom.





`~`~`~`~`The night of the Winter Ball`~`~`~`~`

Sakura's House

"Are you sure I look alright Madison? Do you think Li will want to get back together with me?" Sakura said as Madison stood Sakura in front of the mirror and fixed Sakura's dress a little before Li came to pick Sakura up to go to the Winter Ball. Sakura's dress was a sweet taffy colour. It was a strapless dress that was like Madison's, but a different colour.(AN: I just went to a paint store and saw a really pretty pink. ^_^;;; oh and to see that colour go to this web site: www.geocities.com/sakura_tenshi111588/changingthepast.html  )

"He'll be dieing to get back together with you Sakura. Trust me! A guy like that only comes once in a lifetime, grab him while you can! And the same goes for him. Sakura, if you two are really meant for each other, then you'll be together." Madison said as she finished her adjustments.



Li's House

"Now Li, don't worry. Don't be nervous when you ask her. She'll be dieing to be with you again. Trust me! I girl like her only comes once in a lifetime so grab her while you can! And the same for her. Li, if you two are really meant for each other, then you'll be together." Eli said as he straightened Li's tie.

Li looked into the mirror and said to himself, 'I have to tell him.' Li turned to face Eli, looked him in the eyes and said, "Eli, when you pushed the other Li in the time portal thinie, um. Well, you didn't exactly push in the person you were supposed to. I'm Showron." Showron looked at his feet on shame for not telling him sooner.

"WHAT????" Eli yelled so loud the whole house shook. "So you're telling me that you knew you had a date with Sakura and didn't say anything and you didn't resist?" Eli said with a smirk.

"Yeah well, I guess I didn't want to hurt her. And anyways, who said I wasn't going to stand her up?" Li said with just as big a smirk as Eli had got wiped off his face.

"You wouldn't dare stand her up! Would you?" Eli said hopefully.

Li thought for a minute, about the look on Sakura's face when she looked at Li, the way she smiled at him, they way she talked to him.

Wise men say only fools rush in

But I can't help falling in love with you

Shall I say would it be a sin

If I can't help falling in love with you

Like a river flows

To the sea

So it goes

Some things are meant to be

Some things are meant to be

Take my hand

Take my whole life too

For I can't help falling in love with you

Wise men say only fools rush in

But I, I can't, I can't help Falling in love With you

Like a river flows

To the sea

So it goes

Some things are meant to be

Some things are meant to be

Take my hand

Take my whole life too

For I can't help falling in love with you

Take my hand

Take my whole life too

For I can't help falling in love with you

Like a river flows

That's the way it goes

I just can't help fallin' in love with you

Fallin' in love with you

Like a river flows

That's the way it goes cause I can't help

Fallin' in love with you

Like a river flows I just can't help myself

That's the way it goes

I can't help falling in love with you

I can't help falling in love with you

Fallin' in love with you

"I guess not. But if anyone asks, I'm only going for the food." He smiled as he walked out the door to pick up Sakura with Eli close behind.



Sakura's House

Ding Dong! Tori opened the door to show Showron and Eli holding flowers for their dates. (Eli's going with Madison) "Hey guys! Come in. They'll be right down. You know how long girls take to get ready. Heh heh." Tori said as he let the two in the house.

A couple minutes later Madison came down wearing a purple lace (see the link above to see the colour: purple lace) strapless dress that hugged her body slightly and flowed down past her ankles. She smiled at Eli. "Hey Eli." She went over to him, gave him a hug and kissed him quickly on the cheek.

"I need to talk to you in private about Sakura and..um...Li." Eli whispered in her ear and led her into the kitchen.





In The Kitchen

"When I sent back Showron, I accidentally sent back Li. He just told me." Eli said as they entered the kitchen.

"You're kidding right?" Madison said as she sat down from the shock.

Eli sadly shook his head in reply.

"But why is he here? He's still going out tonight with Sakura even though he's supposed to hate her?" Madison said.

"He said he didn't want to hurt her. But ya know what? I think he's starting to fall for her. I guess Sakura has a way with that guy huh?" Eli smiled as Madison walked over to him and wrapped her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek, then on the nose. And Eli, being the impatient person he is, put his lips over Madison's, relishing the fullness of her lips.

Madison pulled away first. She looked at Eli in the eyes as they stood with their arms around each other. "We should go see if Sakura came downstairs yet." She said letting go of Eli and walked out to the front room. Eli followed her with a small smile on his face. (AN: Heh, I think he like that kiss don't you?)





Front Room At Sakura's House

A couple minutes after Madison and Eli came out of the kitchen, Sakura walked down the stairs. Once she got to the bottom of the stairs, she looked at Showron and her eyes opened wide. 'I have to admit, he looks really good in a tux.' She walked up to him and he smiled.

"You, look great Sakura." Showron said.

Madison and Eli looked over to each other and smiled. They knew what they were both thinking. 'This is going to be easy.'

"Thanks Li. So do you." Sakura smiled at Showron and took his offered arm. "Are you guys coming too, or are you going to stand and look at each other all night. " She said to Eli and Madison.

"We're coming." Eli said as he offered his arm to Madison, who took it.



At The Winter Ball

When the four walked into the school, they heard music playing.

"Wow, they sure have the music up load don't they?" Sakura noted as they walked into the gymnasium, which was where the dance was being held.

"Yeah it is. I'll go get a table." Eli offered, who was followed by Madison. (Of course)

Then the song "Never Had A Dream Come True" came on. Showron looked to Sakura and said, "Do you want to dance Sakura? I mean you don't have to. If you don't then it's.."

But Sakura interrupted him. "Li. I'd love to dance with you." She smiled.

Everybody's got something,

they had to leave behind,
One regret from yesterday,

that just seems to grow with time,
There's no use looking back or wondering

How it could be now, or might have been
Oh this I know, but still I can't find ways to let you go,

Showron's Thoughts 'This can't be happening. Am I really falling her? I don't ever want to let her out of my arms. GOD! I am falling for her!'

I never had a dream come true
Till the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby,
I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be with you

'Even when I go back, I'll still be here. Because the Li that she loves will be here. So at least she won't get hurt when I leave. And I'm glad.'.

Somewhere in my memory I've lost all sense of time,
And tomorrow can never be cause yesterday is all that fills my mind,
There's no use looking back, or wondering
How it should be now, or might have been
Oh this I know but still I can't find ways to let you go,

I never had a dream come true
Till the day that I found you

Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby,

I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day

'I wonder if Li told her his feelings. Should I tell her?'

And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be
You'll always be the dream that fills my head
Yes you will, say you will, you know you will baby

 You'll always be the one I know I'll never forget,

There's no use looking back oh wondering
Because love is a strange and funny thing
No matter how I try

I just can't say goodbye, no no no no

I never had a dream come true

Till the day that I found you
Even though I pretend that I've moved on
You'll always be my baby,

I never found the words to say
You're the one I think about each day
And I know no matter where life takes me to
A part of me will always be with you.
A part of me will always be with you

When the song ended, Showron slowly let go of Sakura and they sat down at the table that Eli and Madison had saved.

AN: So how was this chapter? I think it sucks but hey, I'll know what you think when you REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!! Ok? The button is right.......

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