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Hater and Hated

Chapter I - She Meets Him

"Where is my shampoo? I'm sure there was still some remaining." Sakura Kinomoto, a 16-yr old freshman of Tokyo University, was turning all her things, searching for her shampoo. When another girl with long, black hair came in and saw her making mess, she asked, "Miko nee-chan, have you seen my shampoo? I can't seem to find it."

Sakura didn't receive any response other than the stifled laugh. She directed Miko a questioning stare. "S-sorry." Miko apologized, holding back her laughs. "It's just that you really seem to forget things so easily, considering that I'm four years older than you. Your memory fails you more than mine does. Didn't you throw it already yesterday after you clumsily dropped it in the bowl?"

Realizing what her roommate-slash-cousin said, the young girl turned red, embarrassed – probably because she forgot what happened or the fact that it fell on the bowl. "Uh, y-yeah, you're right." She was scratching the back of her head in embarrassment. "And it seems like I forgot to buy some." She said, still embarrassed.

Miko patted her shoulder and pointed at something. "Don't worry. You can get from my stack of sachets." Then, shyly, she got one and thanked Miko for it.

Finally, after being inside the bathroom for about an hour, carrying the empty sachet, she was looking for something- a trash bin to throw it into when she suddenly heard a familiar TV commercial about the same brand of shampoo she was holding.

Sakura saw lots of sachets flying in the TV screen with prints of "DSLR", "Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.0", and different amounts of money. That's when she remembered the promo. Quickly, she opened the sachet. Then she stared back at the screen. She watched the rest of the commercial with disappointment and shock written all over her face.

There was a man walking alone in a busy street and on his line of sight was the Eifel Tower. He stared at it longingly. That's when a voice said, "Maybe YOU are the girl he's been waiting for! So hurry up and buy sachets of Raffie in any variant and open to find out what lies waiting for you!"

She could only sigh and realized that Miko wasn't there. "I guess I'll tell her later then."

Sakura was about to lock their apartment door when she remembered that she left the sachet. "Why do I forget the most important things?" She wondered as she walked her way towards the nearest mall.

It has already been almost two months since this auburn-haired girl lived quite independently from her parents. After being accepted at the most prestigious university in Japan, she decided that this was the time she should learn independency.

She currently stays at an apartment near the campus with her distant cousin, Miko, who she just met when she came to Tokyo.

Her family actually never gave her much pressure with regards to her studies ever since she was a kid 'cause they knew how responsible she was. That's why, they gave her everything she needed and wanted but their love is seen a bit differently by their only daughter.

She was thinking that she was already spending too much of her parents' money that she might have already have extracted every cent they have just to finance her studies and some silly wants. Even her two brothers aren't given this much attention. "That's why I must do this!" She convinced herself.

Without her noticing it, she has already arrived at her destination and proceeded to the redemption booth and presented the sachet she got. The man in-charge gave her an awarding smile and said, "Congratulations! You must be really excited to get your price, aren't you?"

She didn't know why the man in-charge was congratulating her with just what she got, but she had to be respectful so she gave him an off-willed smile. The man told her to wait for a while and he talked to someone over the phone and it hasn't reached ten minutes when a man in a tailor suit came and was greeted by the man she had talked with before.

The man in the tailor suit faced her and shook her hands. "Today must be your lucky day! Are you excited to get your prize? I'm sorry but could you wait for a little while? There are some people who want to meet with you. I've already spread the word and they wanted to meet you so that they could award it to you, personally."

"There really is no need for that." She refused, wanting to return to her room soon. She did not see why she has to meet up with them, but the man talked her into it, so she accepted. "When?" she asked.

"Right now." The man eagerly replied.

"What? But it's so sudden. I didn't even have time to ask permission." Sakura said in surprise.

"Alright then. You should call home now 'cause we must hurry." The man reminded her.

She decided that she'll only tell Miko but she wasn't picking up her phone. 'I guess there's no need to worry much. I'll just have to go home before dinner.' She thought as she closed her phone and said that she was ready to leave.

A woman in her early 30's came up to her and said, "I'll accompany you there. I'm sure you wouldn't want to be in a man's presence the whole time. Anyways, I'm Kobayashi Fumi, the lawyer of the company responsible for Raffie, Toshika Corp., and I'm here to escort you." Sakura gladly shook hands with her and followed the woman obediently.

She was quite surprised when the lady led her to luxurious silver Mercedes Benz, seeing that she was supposed to get inside, she smiled shyly and rode in it before Fumi.

The engine revved away and Fumi realized that Sakura was bothered by something. "The manager didn't tell you where we're going, huh?" the younger girl nodded shyly and the older one gave her a reassuring smile and said, "Don't worry. We're meeting them at a hotel. If you're wondering where, you'll have to wait and see."

The girl just smiled, feeling a bit relieved that Fumi will be with her while she gets to meet those people. She felt that Fumi was somehow a good person so she believed in her.

A pair of blue eyes was scrutinizing the girl who was staring outside the moving car quietly and musing herself. "Can I call you Sakura-chan?" she asked suddenly, making the auburn-haired girl a bit surprised but then nodded in approval. The lady giggled a bit and said, "You really are a shy type, aren't you?" Sakura blushed pink at her sudden remark. "See. You don't even retort on my comments."

"I'm...I mean it's just that I'm not used to speak in this language yet. I still feel awkward." She confessed, not making any eye contact with the person beside her.

The woman was interested and asked, "From where are you, anyway?"

Sakura was hesitating to tell whether the name of the province or the city itself and finally answered, "From Hong Kong."

"Really? I grew up there, too!" Fumi replied in Mandarin. It took Sakura for a while to digest what she heard. She turned towards Fumi and saw her smiling. "It looks like you don't believe in me?"

Sakura chuckled, realizing that she must've looked rather idiotic. "No, it's not like that. I was just surprised. I never expected to meet someone who's also from Hong Kong."

"What's your family name, again?" Fumi asked the delighted girl.

"Amamiya." She answered.

As expected, Sakura saw Fumi realizing something. "Are you connected to their governor there?"

"Yes, he's my father's older brother." She explained, as if it had been spoken more than a dozen times before.

"You mean 'The Engineer Amamiya' is your father'?" Sakura nodded. "I was attending most of the parties your family had been hosting but I don't quite recall your face. I know that he also has two boys...wait-" she was thinking deeply when suddenly she remembered something. "You have celebrated your birthday together with Ichi when you were 6, ne?" She again nodded. "That's odd. All I can remember about you was when you were 6. I can't seem to recall when you were even younger."

Sakura laughed awkwardly and said, "I guess I was too shy?" The answer was more of a question than a statement. She was not sure why but somehow, she managed to tell Fumi some things that had been troubling her, but when she realized that she poured it all out to someone she had just met, she turned red and faced towards the window in embarrassment.

"Hey, Fumi-san-" She was cut-off by Fumi.

"Too formal. I would like you to call me nee-chan. Plus, you don't have to worry about what you said. I'll tell no one about it. I was quite surprised with what you said, though. Both of them laughed and chatted animatedly, peaceful with the other's presence. They seemed to have told each other everything about themselves when the chauffer stopped the car and said, "We have arrived, Madam."

"I guess we have to continue later. Everyone had been waiting for us." Fumi got out after a valet opened their door as Sakura followed suit.

In her surprise, she was greeted by a 75-storey building. "Whoa! So huge!" A greater surprise hit her when she saw the large sign above them, "SHIRO HOTEL?" She racked her brain for that familiar name.

"HOOOEEE!" Almost every people within the ten-mile radius heard her shriek. Feeling embarrassed, she apologized continuously and stared at Fumi questioningly. "Why didn't you tell me we're going off the main island? I thought we were just going somewhere at the heart of the city."

Fumi was rather amused with the girl's reaction. "Don't worry. I'll call Miko later. I'm sure she'll understand. Stop worrying and let's get inside now. We have a lot of people to talk with about your decision." Then again, she gave her an assuring smile.

Fumi held the girl's hand while they entered the lobby and into the VIP restaurant where three old men in tuxedos, a man in his late 30's and a face she had already seen many time in TV were waiting for them, sitting around a circular well-polished table.

"Shiro-san, this is the girl who was lucky to have got the winning sachet." Fumi faced Sakura and one-by-one introduced themselves to her. They rather welcomed her warmly.

The three old men are the highest officers of the company that made Raffie. The man in his late 30's is the manager of the last man. "And lastly, as you may have already known, he is Li Syaoran."

'Li Syaoran, a man in his early 20's is already one of the most famous leading actors in the whole of Asia. He has already starred in a lot of TV series and also award-winning movies for the past six years- that is, according to what Fumi nee-san told me. Such a successful man, I might say.' Sakura thought while forcefully smiling at something beside the actor.

Breaking her thought, Fumi introduced her. "And this young lady here is Amamiya Sakura, a Freshman of Tokyo University." One-by-one they shook hands with her, saying things like: "Nice to have met an intellectual child." Or "Congratulations for winning." Or "Thank you for purchasing our product."

All she replies is, "Me, too. It's an honor to meet you." And "Thank you." Attached with an obliged smile.

In reality, Sakura doesn't like meeting the likes of actors and actresses 'cause there is one- and only one- impression in her mind attached to being actors and actresses. "The greater the achievement being actors, the more pretentious they are." But she, herself, is also one of the greatest pretenders of all.

So when the chocolate-haired actor came closer to greet her with a "grateful" smile, she also gave an equal smile, but didn't reply when he said, "I'm really looking forward to that one-week trip to Paris." He made his voice as alluring as possible and even kissed the girl's hand.

The auburn-haired girl didn't expect him to, specifically, kiss her hands, making her blush a little. 'I would have the same reaction if another guy would do the same thing to me.' She made an excuse for herself.

Pretending to be delighted with his actions, she smiled sweetly, yet her pair of emerald orbs remained blank. "I'm so touched. Thanks." She finally replied, almost forgetting to hide the sarcasm.

The rest were really amused at the two's interaction and didn't even made a sound to interrupt them until the actor let the girl sit at a chair across him and the rest followed.

"I can already see that the two of you would have the greatest time in Paris. Looks like they are already in terms with each other." One of the board members commented and the other two seemed to agree while Fumi and the manager were chuckling at something different.

"Actually, about the trip, Sakura has something to ask from you." Fumi said after recovering from the earlier program. She signalled Sakura to start explaining.

The nervousness she felt before had vanished since she amused herself into something else, smirking to herself. She sat straight and acted business-like, swiftly changing to some poor girl from a sweet one.

"I was really thrilled to have found out that I won the trip to Paris with Li-san. I really think that it's a once-in-a-lifetime chance, for the fact that it is Paris, the city of romance. It is every girl's dream to go there, especially being escorted by a gorgeous and successful actor like Li-san..." she trailed off. No one interjected, knowing that she has still things to say and she nearly want to explode to laughter but tried her best to hold it in, seeing that the actor's ears were growing bigger.

Everyone was waiting for her to finish speaking, anxious on what she would have liked to ask them. Then she continued. "As you may have heard a while ago, I'm still a freshman at Tokyo University. I am actually living far away from home and there are two of us in the family who is in college and our youngest is in his third year in high school. My parents are just government employees but they kept on telling me not to worry about the money I'm going to need even though they are actually pushing themselves to the limit just to support us and I know that I am spending too much."

She didn't expect that the board members would actually sympathize with her so easily and that even Li and his manager would be spell-bound with her words. She, herself, didn't actually think that she could manage to make her eyes watery as she told them her enthralling speech.

And to end it, she said, "That's why I'm here to ask a favour that if it's fine with you, instead of going to the trip, I would like to ask for something in equivalence." Everyone except Fumi was surprised with her request. She faced the actor and said, "I know that you have other businesses that you should have attended at the time you were waiting for me and now that I'm talking here. I'm so sorry to have bothered you much. I know that this trip would have been the greatest time of my life but I just want to help my family rise from poverty through graduating in time from college and to work hard in the future.

"I just can't help to see my family suffer while I go and have the greatest time of all." Sakura was really into letting Li think that she had a hard time thinking if she'd accept or reject the promo. "That's why I'm begging all of you to please consider my request." The girl was doing her all to make them agree.

When she glanced at Fumi, she saw her smile amusingly. She was looking at the three old men who are near to agree.

Seeing that they still need a bit of push, Fumi said, "I have already analyzed our situation here. I asked Sakura a while ago how much she'd like to have instead of going ahead with the trip and answered me, 'I'm okay with at most half of the total expenses the trip would cost.' In that way, we would be able to allocate the rest to our other projects or even use it to some philanthropic activities."

"What she wishes is actually equal to a four-year tuition fee in her University and the remaining of her share in the half. If we accept her offer, not only she will benefit from it but the company, as well." Fumi and Sakura were eagerly waiting for the three old men to approve of it.

After discussing it with each other, Shiro-san, the president of the company asked Sakura "Are you 100% sure about this?" Without hesitation, she nodded. Then he faced Li and asked, "What can you say about this?"

Sakura was staring at him, trying her best not to give him a try-to-disapprove-and-you'll-not-see-the-sun-set look and instead, looked pitiful while thinking, 'I know what you're thinking. You're too relieved you don't have to spend a week pretending to have a great time with someone like me but then again, I ruined your schedule for having to tell you that I would just have to reject the promo when you could have a rest in your too-luxurious vacation houses with some women you flirted with.'

As she would have expected for him to answer, he said as he stared at Sakura, "That's really a pity. I was totally looking forward to spending a great week with you in Paris but I know that you still have to do your best to finish college to help your family, so" he reverted his glance at the old men and said, "I say that you should accept her request." Then he reverted back his attention to her. "I really do admire your way of thinking. There aren't many kind of people like you nowadays, are there?"

Sakura smiled gratefully, this time not pretending one. "Thank you. I know you could understand me." But behind those words, she was thinking, 'If someone else would have told me that, I would gladly believe it but then again, you're not someone else.'

Finally, the president sighed in surrender and said to Fumi, "I'll leave it up to you to settle the paperwork of this agreement. Make sure that the University recognizes her scholarship 'cause we don't want any future problems for this bright young lady. I'm sure she did the right choice."

This time, Sakura stood up and bowed thankfully at the three officials, honestly. "Thank you so much. You don't know how much this means to me. I can't thank you enough. I'll make sure that you'll see that you didn't make the wrong decision. Again, thank you."

The three men also stood up and shook her hands. "We should be the one thanking you. For the half of the cost will be given to the unfortunates who want to study to help their family in the future just like what you also want."

Those words made the girl even more happy and delighted, forgetting the actor for a while.

"I'm sure you are tired from travelling and dealing with us, old people. Fumi has already settled your room here so please feel free to use any services here. We really are glad to have you here." The last old man said gently and spoke to Fumi, "Make sure that by tomorrow lunch everything has been settled and that our special guest would be enjoying her stay here."

"Rest assured. I have already made the initial arrangements before we arrived here." That lady lawyer assured them.

Then they approached the actor and his manager, giving them their apology and appreciation, as well before finally exiting the hall.

When the young man and his manager were about to exit, as well, they passed by the two women who were already near the door. "Well, we must be going as well. Nice meeting you." The manager said to Fumi.

When Li passed them, he smiled at Sakura whose left side can only be seen by the actor and said, "I hope we can see each other again-" he stopped when he saw that she was actually talking to the phone and rather felt embarrassed, but when he saw that no one was watching him, he continued walking, as if nothing happened.

As soon as no one was already in sight, Fumi started chuckling quite louder than usual.

"I guess you've seen that. Oh how priceless his face was. It took me great effort not to laugh when he was here." Sakura said, giggling, as well. "Do you think he knows that I've been messing with him?"

Fumi raised two thumbs up and said, "If I didn't know you, I would have surely believed your antics. This is our first meeting, but I had the impression that you are definitely evil." The two of them laughed until the auburn-haired girl realized something.

"Now that I remember, I don't have any clothes. How am I going to change clothes? I can't meet them again with these." Sakura asked, panicking.

"You sure are evil but a frantic one, at that. Don't worry. We're going shopping. And don't worry about the bills. I already allocated some of your money for clothes and also to commemorate the start of our sisterhood, I'll treat you!" seeing that she couldn't do anything to stop the older woman, she surrendered and let herself be pulled towards the car, which drove them from one store to another.

She was dragged from stores to stores, being dolled up and bought what the older one thinks best suits the younger one, squealing "KAWAIII!" all the time.

They also bought something for Miko, who is, for sure, going to rattle with not bringing her along.

What the auburn-haired girl didn't like the most was when she was dragged into a summer outfit boutique where Fumi forced her to try out some bikinis but she refused to try so many so they ended up buying the one and only she fitted.

It was a two-piece, purple bikini. Fortunately, when she fitted it, no one besides Fumi and the sales girl who was busy in front of a computer was in the store or she wouldn't have gotten out of the changing room.

"Why do I really have to buy a bikini?" Sakura asked the black-haired woman who was evilly smiling at her success of forcing her in buying one.

"Because we are going night swimming tonight!" she answered enthusiastically. "We should have our dinner now since we didn't have lunch today. After that, we'll watch a movie then the much-awaited night swimming!"

Sakura couldn't do anything else but join in as well in Fumi's enchantments. They had dinner in a fancy restaurant then watched a dramatic movie. Both were gushing rivers of tears when the movie ended. When they got out of the theatre, they hurriedly went back to he hotel and asked some attendants to carry their shopping items in two full carts into Sakura's room and quickly changed into their swimsuits.

Sakura was still shy in her bikini so she put on the same sleeveless hoodie she wore before over the bikini and went to the shore with Fumi.

At the age of 33, Fumi's body has already matured – accentuated with a one-piece, red bikini leaving a little portion of her front covered made her appear sexier.

Fortunately, no one other than the two of them and two maids from a cottage are at that place, which intrigued her, too.

"This is actually an off-limits to common customers, and since you are a special guest and that the owner was fond of you, we can have an access here to our hearts' content." The lawyer explained.

With only the bright full moon lighting the area, Sakura wore off her hoodie, still a bit shy but was pulled into the sea by the black-haired woman. They played like they were true sisters who were reunited after a long time of separation.

They still have not reached 15 minutes having fun when one of the maids called out to Fumi, saying that there was a phone call for her. So using a cordless phone, she spoke with the person on the other line.

Sighing deeply, Fumi explained to Sakura what happened and that she needs to go there personally to fix some things for her scholarship.

Without any other choice, Sakura said, "Awww and I was having fun. I'm sorry I shortened your rest." She then felt a hand on her head.

"You don't have to apologize. I should be the one doing that. You won't have the time to have fun." Fumi said as she dried herself.

"No, don't worry about me. You've already shopped, ate and watched a movie with me. I had so much fun today. You should go now, nee-chan. I'll stay here and so that I can do some emoting here." They both laughed.

Fumi looked at the younger girl worriedly before she and one of the maids went back. "Be careful and don't stay too late out here!" she reminded her.

When they were gone, Sakura noticed that the other maid left with her was getting bored, so she told her that she can go back first and that she'll just take a walk for a while and come after. It took the maid for a while before agreeing to go on ahead. She wore her hoodie back but didn't close it.

She just sat there, at the shore, feeling relaxed as the wave hits her feet at a nice rhythm. She stared at the moon's reflection on the water. She was somehow hypnotized into staring at it that she didn't notice someone coming towards her.

"What does a beautiful young lady doing here all alone?" A low voice suddenly asked.

In response to this, the young girl shrieked and jumped almost ten meters from her original spot, cowering like a frightened little child. "HOOOEEE! Don't come near me! The other ghosts do not like how I taste!" She continued shrieking while burying her head between her knees and swatting her hands, as if to keep anyone from coming near her.

Seeing the girl act weird, the man who, apparently, scared her couldn't help but laugh his heart out. When she heard him laughing, she took a look at him and when she realized who the man was 'Li Syaoran.' She thought bitterly.

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Author's Note: So, how was it? Review please! Thanks you! Criticisms are accepted 3