Chapter 7: Welcome to the past.
Location: Penguin park, Tomoda
Saturday 1pm, 2 weeks prior to the attack.
(Now for this time onwards, Sakura from the future is simply Sakura, the past Sakura is Sakura-Chan, this also applies to the other characters, in conversations, if they are talking to there past self’s, the past person has there ending I.e. Chan, Kun, etc, and vice-versa)
In the bushes behind the Penguin Slide, a bright light sparks appear out of nowhere, the glowing sphere then emerges and starts to explain, slowly the bubble grows a very large size, in that the sphere bursts inside the Group of 7 emerge unharmed, Sakura faints went the return and time cards return to there card forms, Syaoran quickly caught Sakura, Syaoran loses grip on the ground and breaks Sakura’s fall, Sakura is pretty much out like a light, Syaoran didn’t mind Sakura being on top of him, but he had to hide and fast.
“Yamazaki, help me here!” Syaoran whispered from underneath Sakura.
Yamazaki quickly helps Syaoran and moves Sakura to a nearby tree, the group huddle and try to wake Sakura. Nothing works as Sakura gracefully snoozes without notice. Tomoyo attempts to wake her up, but quickly stay’s quiet when they hear a noise from down the path, everyone ducks into a bush and wait. Down the path Eriol and Syaoran’s past self are walking, fortunately the past Sakura and Tomoyo aren’t around, and it eliminates the chance of being noticed to much. Sakura is still sound asleep, Syaoran then concentrates his attention on what was going on, he then tries to hear on the conversation that Eriol and his past self were having. Yamazaki is crouching down and walking slowly towards a opening 20 metres away, when he arrived, he got up and started walking slowly towards a post box about 70 metres away, Eriol and the past Syaoran took notice and caught up with him, Syaoran and the girls are standing in front of the group, Yamazaki stands still when he is approached, Syaoran starts to think the worst when,
“Yamazaki? Where are you going?” Eriol said,
“Oh!, um…Syaoran-kun, Eriol-kun, um…I am just going to the post office”
“What are you wearing?” Eriol asks Yamazaki pointing out the military uniform.
In the bushes Syaoran, Naoko, Rika and Tomoyo look on hoping he will not blow there cover like this.
“I’m in a play…the school is putting on a new play”
“Play?”
“yes, its about spies and a mission to America to stop a evil…robot…who plans to destroy the world!”
Naoko and Rika start to giggle almost aloud, Syaoran blocks there mouths with his hands, the girls the jerk to look at him, he stares at both and doesn’t say a word. Meanwhile Eriol and Syaoran’s past self look disappointed and say goodbye to Yamazaki an walk off. Yamazaki relieved that his lying was still affective. When Eriol and Syaoran’ past self walk out of site, Syaoran jumps out of the bush and attempts to strangle Yamazaki, Naoko, Rika, Meilin and Tomoyo try to restrain him from doing so.
“Yamazaki?!?, are you nuts?, we have order to meet eventually!”
“I was not going to do that, I had to do something”
“What?!?” Syaoran almost yelled out.
“listin is Sakura alright?” Yamazaki said in hope of changing the subject.
Syaoran and Tomoyo looked at Sakura, she body had slumped to the ground, Tomoyo and Syaoran then picked her up and tired to wake her up. Slowly Sakura was becoming awake, but was really fighting to do so. Sakura’s eye’s slowly lifted and quickly, everything was bright momentary as she saw her friends around her. Tomoyo was reified when her friend started to awake, Syaoran was glad as well. Meanwhile Yamazaki and the girls waited on the path pretending that nothing was in the bushes, Naoko and Rika were looking sometimes at the bush but were more positioned in finding Yamazaki who disappeared right after Syaoran went to Sakura’s aid.
“I wonder were Yamazaki is?” Naoko said looking around.
“He hasn’t been acting normal all day, but at least we know he can lie still!” Rika laughed.
Sakura was now awake but her power was incurably weak. Syaoran picked her up and Tomoyo helped put Sakura on his back. Sakura smiled faintly as she started to sleep again.
“We better find a place to hide, Sakura needs rest” Syaoran said to Tomoyo is walking beside.
“let’s try my place, if I can convince myself” Tomoyo said delightfully,
“That’s great, we will try later to contact our past self‘s” Syaoran said.
Just as Tomoyo and Syaoran spoke the turned a corner and bumped into someone head on, Tomoyo falls back and Syaoran stumble to try break Tomoyo’s fall, in doing so forgetting Sakura and falling back again, Sakura was on top of Syaoran again with now Tomoyo on top of Sakura, Syaoran hit the ground almost face first, Naoko and Melin both run around the corner, Rika follows.
“What’s wrong Tomoyo…?” Melin yells to Tomoyo
In front of Sakura, Syaoran and Tomoyo was Tomoyo’s past self, She looked at the Tomoyo on top of Sakura and then fainted. Meilin ran quickly to catch Tomoyo’s past self. See just did in doing that fell on top of her.
“Damm it!’ Syaoran speaks from underneath.
Yamazaki finally shows up and stands confused, he looks at Melin and Tomoyo’s past self and then at Tomoyo, Sakura and Syaoran then looks at Naoko and Rika.
“What happened?”
“Don’t ask!” spoke Rika.
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Location: Tomoyo’s home, Tomoda
Time: 3pm, Saturday
Syaoran struggled to carry Sakura an extra mile, as did Yamazaki carrying the past Tomoyo. Naoko and Rika, with Meilin helped carry Tomoyo. Eventfully Syaoran, Yamazaki, Naoko and Rika all managed to walk into the house, Melin waited outside, around the block and in a bush with Tomoyo. Syaoran walked slowly to the gate there stood a guard, Yamazaki walked to the door before being stopped.
“Who are you?” The guard talked to Yamazaki.
“It only us, Tomoyo and Sakura both fainted, were taking them her to rest” Syaoran explained
“Oh, then why did Tomoyo faint?” asked the guard sarcastically.
It was pretty obvious that the guard was brand new to the house, and probably didn’t know Syaoran and the others.
“It’s been a hot day, Ok? Now let us in before we call for her mother!”
“Ok!, ok!, hang on!” the guard said trembling at the thought.
Syaoran directed Yamazaki to Tomoyo’s bedroom, as they entered the cool breeze of the room’s air conditioner brought a chill to Syaoran and Yamazaki, Sakura was laid down on the couch by the window and Yamazaki placed Tomoyo on the bed. As he did, Tomoyo awoke, first of seeing Yamazaki, she instantly screamed aloud, Syaoran quickly blocked her mouth and waited. Tomoyo past self quickly looked at Syaoran and panicked.
“Tomoyo listen!, don’t scream!!” Syaoran whispered
Tomoyo nodded and stopped screaming into Syaoran’s hand, Syaoran removed it and wiped his hand his uniform and sat on the bed.
“Syaoran-kun? Yamazaki-kun??, what…where?” Tomoyo spoke afraid, Syaoran told her to be quiet.
“Tomoyo!, listen to me, your at home, we brought you here after you fainted. Now listen!!” Syaoran spoke seriously “Meilin and the other girls are waiting outside, do you know a way in?”
Tomoyo nodded and sat up and looked at Sakura
“When did Sakura come here? And why are you all wearing those uniforms. Sakura-Chan? Sakura-Chan!”
“Quiet, you help us first, then we will give a explanation!”
Sakura then fizzed with dizziness from the loud noise, slowly she looked at Syaoran and Yamazaki with Tomoyo and then realised what was going on.
“Syaoran where are we? Did we make it?” Sakura slowly said the plummeted back to the sofa.
“Are you ok?” Syaoran Said to Sakura, lifting her onto the Sofa again.
“I’m fine…”
“Damm it, ok Yamazaki, stay here and take care of Sakura for me. I’ll go get the other Tomoyo and the girls, Tomoyo-Chan, lets go”
“Syaoran-kun wait, what ‘other’ Tomoyo?!?”
Tomoyo snuck into her closet, after walking into a tiny room of costumes of every description. Syaoran looked at them and followed her carefully. Tomoyo came to a trap door, she opens it and goes down a ladder, Syaoran has no objection and follows her to the bottom, they run for a second, and stop.
“Wait…no…Syaoran-kun got a light?” Tomoyo asks her
“sure” Syaoran opens a pocket and get out a lighter, a few flicks and it lights up a bright flame.
“Syaoran?, where did you get that, you don’t smoke!”
“I don’t, I’ll explain later, now where is the exit?”
“Follow me”
Tomoyo run to another ladder, this time there is a light on top, Tomoyo gets a portable periscope and pops it out of a hole in the door, slowly Tomoyo’s past self rotates it around and pulls it down.
“nothing above, lets go!” Tomoyo speaks,
She places the mini periscope in a pocket and opens up a man hole. Syaoran goes up carrying a lid remover. Both emerge just outside the house on the street, Syaoran then runs with Tomoyo to the others. Meilin gets up and directs them.
“Ok, lets go Meilin, is Tomoyo ready”
“yep, were is the entrance?” Meilin spoke.
“A manhole, we’ll have to move her carefully thought, Naoko? does your bag have flash lights?”
“Yes, here you go”
“Right lets bring her down”
The past Tomoyo stands there confused as ever, the notions that Syaoran and the others were saying got her out of touch. She also notices that even Naoko, Meilin and Rika were wearing the same uniform as Syaoran and Sakura. Also they took a body wrapped in a blanket, the face was covered partially to block sunlight. Syaoran then picked up a bag and gave it to Tomoyo’s past self.
“Here, can you take this, she …or… I mean you…um…can you please?”
“ok?” Tomoyo speaks to Syaoran.
The group run street to street, hiding behind bushes, Tomoyo is no were near finding out what is going on, eventfully Syaoran goes to the well, all the girls have hiding in the bush across from it, in army style they make it across to the man hole, Syaoran stands guard waiting for the last person to enter. Tomoyo is the last person to enter hole, Syaoran climbs in and closes just before a car goes by inside a person in black looks at the manhole.
“Funny, I saw that open before?”
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Syaoran with a torch follows Tomoyo past self to the next ladder, they bring a still asleep Tomoyo to her room again. Finally they reach the room again, Yamazaki and the now wide awake Sakura see the blanketed body, Yamazaki locks the door, Sakura help’s the Tomoyo in the blanket to the sofa, slowly the past Tomoyo came to her room to see who it is.
“Who is it Sakura?” Tomoyo past self looks at the body,
Sakura tries to find a right answer, confused in what to say, Sakura removes the blanket to reveal a sleeping Tomoyo, Tomoyo past looks at herself, and looks at Sakura and the others, she gets up and looks at Sakura, Sakura also gets up and gets some distance.
“Who are you people?, who is she?, what do you want???”
“Tomoyo, we are your friends” Sakura spoke.
“Who are you???!!!!” Tomoyo almost yelled.
“We are from the future Tomoyo-Chan, we are here to save you”
“The future?…”
Tomoyo faints again. This time onto her bed
“Damm it!!” Syaoran spoke in anger.
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Some hours past before both of them wake up, in that time, Sakura has regained her energy and Syaoran and Yamazaki have checked there stuff. Naoko and Rika, along with Meilin try to nap on the chairs at the table.
Slowly Both Tomoyo’s woke up, Sakura and Syaoran took note to them both and hoped that they would not faint again. Eventfully the sun outside slowly descended into the west, a crescent moon replaced the sky, not a lot of clouds were out, meaning it was a cool night. Tomoyo’s past self woke up, this time not surprised of the 7 other people sitting in the room, she walked over to Sakura who dosed off in Syaoran’s arms, Syaoran was unable to keep awake ethier.
“Well is she awake?” Tomoyo’s past self said.
“I’ll try to wake her up” Syaoran said quietly
Syaoran moved over with Sakura sleeping on him, he nudged Tomoyo slightly, Slowly Tomoyo awoke with the view of Sakura and Syaoran.
“Oh, are we in my house yet, did you talk to my past self”
“Your past self, is right here, she would like to talk to you”
Tomoyo looked over to her past self, for once none fainted.
Meilin awoke as the noise of Tomoyo past self , Tomoyo and Sakura giving light talk, Syaoran was very sleepy and wasn’t ready to do anything hesitant. Eventually the entire group woke up and moved to the table and started to get organised. Everyone sat down and got out their papers, Tomoyo sat down on end and the past Tomoyo sat at the other. Both looked at each other closely, carefully they looked directly at each other, Sakura and Syaoran moved there heads back and forward to Tomoyo and her past self. Slowly over a period of 5 minutes the started to break contact, eventually they stopped.
The past Tomoyo speaks “Ok, now tell me, what are you all doing here?”
“We have come back from the future on a mission of importance, one in which to stop something terrible happening to us and the world. Our very lives now depend on the survival of the free world” Sakura said to her friends past counterpart.
“What will happen?”
Yamazaki in his official mode began to walk to her and showed some pictures. As well he closed all the blinds on the windows, and dimmed the lights.
“These are the photo’s of your house in 2007”
“that’s not my house, that looks like a runway”
“that’s because the American army knocked it down, 3 months after you, Sakura, Syaoran, Naoko, Chiharu and Rika were placed under prison guard, by the Americans”
“What did they do?!”
“Three days ago, a C.I.A operative was around your winter retreat, accidentally he caught a glimpse of Sakura performing magic, this ‘Act of War’ prompted a full investigation, about 1 night later, you, Sakura, Syaoran and Eriol are caught in a shootout at the park, after which you were placed in custody. You would have died that night, but Eriol saved you from bullet shots, in that he died from shock”
“Oh my god!!!” Tomoyo’s past self spoke,
She couldn’t believe what she was hearing and walked from the table towards the door, Tomoyo then stopped her past self from exiting, both looked at each other, both of them cry temporarily, Syaoran then brings them both back to the table.
“Then, what does the world have to do with this?”
Sakura begins to speak “When we were placed at a laboratory, the American army started a war on the world, eventfully the cards that Sakura had were processed and turned into weapons of war, and began a world struggle to remain free, millions died as the imperial army of America started a genocide campaign to take control of the world, but one force stood in the way…”
“Which is who?”
“The Soviet Union” Meilin spoke, she and Yamazaki rose from there seats and walked down the table.
“Now that’s silly, the Soviet Union doesn’t exist anymore, right?”
“After Europe’s major armies fell, the Soviet Union was re-constituted, after stopping the invasion army with nuclear weapons, the Americans bombed Moscow, and began a long stalemate between both Soviet and American forces, ships, planes and tanks rolled back and forward on all fronts, Russia was surrounded, but it had an advantage” Meilin then spoke seriously,
“Both Meilin and I were tracked down three years from now, they saved us and asked for our help. They wanted us to help break Sakura and her friends out, we planned to get you all, both Meilin and I then were inducted into the Soviet special forces department and into the secret service department of the Kremlin” Yamazaki then finished.
“so the uniforms that you are all wearing are in fact…”
“Soviet special force uniforms” Sakura answered.
“So why did the soviet union want all of you, they would never of done this” Tomoyo’s past self continued.
“You should very grateful Tomoyo-Chan, they saved my and your life, twice in one night” said Tomoyo frustrated an answered.
Everyone looked at Tomoyo, no one in recent time saw her angry.
“How?”
Sakura and Syaoran both tun to Rika and Naoko,
Rika starts to speak “You were dieing when they got you out, nothing more than”
“2 day’s after my 16th birthday, the Soviet army commenced a break out operation, to bring us to them for there mission. The day before that Tomoyo had entered coma, Sakura and Syaoran were not healthy too, all of us were dieing. You though started to have bad heart beat, slowly you started to gasp for air, eventfully Naoko and Rika tried to keep you alive, by doing everything they could. Thankfully you were able to stay alive long enough to be taken out to army helicopters, unfortunately you were not able to breath to well, you then entered what could only be called a state of cardiac arrest” Sakura explains.
Syaoran continues, “Fortunately they started to do everything they could to save you, fortunately as well they were taking us to a submarine of the coast. From there, they managed to save your life, from there you recovered and now she is sitting at the opposite end of your table”
Tomoyo at the Tomoyo from the future, she nodded twice, not convinced, Sakura asked Tomoyo to stand up and show her the bandage, it was wrapped around her, in regular army style, Sakura and Tomoyo then sat down again and continued.
“So after we were rescued, they gave us equipment and these” Sakura says as she displayed the cards on the table “but Eriol-kun should really be the hero”
“I thought he was dead?”
Tomoyo intervened “Sakura’s staff was destroyed when we were attacked, but I took Eriol’s for safe keeping, Sakura then used his staff to use the cards, and then we came to here this afternoon”
Meilin finished “ We tried to figure out what to do, Sakura was out cold and we had no contacts, then we bumped into you, and then…here we are”
Tomoyo past counterpart looks like she didn’t get 1 word of what they said, and stands up
“Ok, I’m convinced. What do you what me to do?”
Sakura speaks “ Firstly we need somewhere to hide, then we all have to contact our past counterparts, we can handle that”
“Well I can hide you here, what about this room?”
Sakura and the others follow into a small room next to hers, its part of her room but is darker.
“What do you do in here?” Asked Rika nervously.
Both Tomoyo’s smiled, the past counterpart reached for a remote and switched it, a familiar image pops up as Sakura, Syaoran and Meilin drop to the floor and faint. The others enjoy a view of all the films, all 40 hours of it (estimated time of Tomoyo’s camera rolling in all episodes and movies)
Sakura turned to the two Tomoyo’s, Syaoran and Meilin decided to get up and start getting ready to sleep,
“We all better get some sleep, Tomoyo, Tomoyo…?” Sakura announced, then looked at both Tomoyo’s, and became confused.
“Don’t worry Sakura, I’ll sleep in the double bed with my past counterpart, both looking at each other in a funny sense”
“Sakura, we better sleep, your energy is not enough now, we have too be ready to meet our self’s too” Syaoran said.
The group assembled there sleeping bags in a line in the small room, Tomoyo and her past self, close the doorway and jump in the bed, both giggle despite the awaked position of sleeping the same bed with there future/past self.
“Good night Tomoyo-chan”
“Good night Tomoyo”
In the other room, Sakura and Syaoran lie side by side for the first time since that morning in the prison, Sakura turns over to face Syaoran, who is half asleep, Sakura kisses him on the cheek., Syaoran is awakened by this, but doesn’t alert everyone else, behind Syaoran, Meilin moans in her sleep “No!, I don’t leave me!!”
Syaoran and Sakura notice and turn to Meilin, Syaoran turns over and places two fingers on her right cheek, he then gets her blanket and covers her with it more, she actually calms down and starts to sleep quietly. Syaoran quietly turns over again to Sakura who looked on in amazement.
“How did you know that?” Sakura whispered.
“Meilin and I have know each other for a long time, and I know what concerns her and her worries” Syaoran returned silently.
“Thanks very sweet of you” Sakura finalises.
Syaoran smiles and starts to go to bed, but then asked “why did you kiss me?”
“Because you stopped Tomoyo from telling someone else, and you have protected me since we got up today at the base”
(In practice there day started 20 hours ago, at the army base; if they woke up at 6am, travelled in time at 5 pm and arrived at 1pm, they were awake until 10pm, that’s a long day!)
“Of course Sakura, I never want to see you harmed again”
Sakura shifted herself and hugged him in the bed, Syaoran then noticed that Sakura fell asleep in the process of that hug, somewhere. Syaoran doesn’t do anything but goes to sleep himself and leaves Sakura on him, they fall asleep in the gentle quiet of the night, tomorrow was going to be a long day.
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I HOPE THAT WASN’T CONFUSING, JUST WAIT TO WHEN I ADD THE OTHERS!
STAY TUNED FOR ANOTHER CHAPTER OF THE EPIC “Sakura’s Chance in time, the only chance in time”
CHAPTER 8 : Sakura-san, meet Sakura-san…


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