*!Sakura was a small town girl, raised to appreciate everything she's ever had. Syaoran was a rich boy from Hong Kong, setting business roots in Tokyo. Let the two worlds collide, and trouble in bound to stir.!*

A.N: Hello again! I promise this chapter will be more interesting than the last. Last chapter I just had to kind of set up who Sakura was and her surroundings, but now I can play with it a bit and add some drama to her seemingly peaceful life ;)

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Chapter 2- Night on the Town

"Have a good night Miss Kinomoto!" A worker called as the elevator door closed. Sakura sighed as she relaxed against the back of the small metal room. The metal was cold on the back of her head, relieving some stress from the day. Kero had her working on meeting agendas and booking meetings all day long. He would have helped her, but he said that he had agreed to meet with the foreign client. Sakura was shocked that he had actually agreed to meet with them. In reality it just meant more work for both of them. The golden decorated metal doors opened as it came to a stop on the main floor. Sakura quickly composed herself and headed for the door, where Yukito would have normally been waiting for her, but today was different. Instead of acting like the cool and composed company heir she was seen as, she ran and smothered her friend waiting for her into a hug.

"You know that everyone is staring at us, right Sakura?" Tomoyo said as she returned the hug. Really neither of them cared what the onlookers thought of them. The two had been friends since elementary school and hadn't seen each other in weeks; it was a big deal for them.

Sakura slowly pulled away from her squeezing embrace with her best friend and smiled at her, "I'm off the clock, so I really don't care how they see me right now." With that she hugged Tomoyo once more before the two made their way through the large glass doors. The two walked, arms linked together as they talked about how great the other looked.

Tomoyo had always been beautiful with her long wavy black hair and purple-grey eyes. Sakura has always been jealous of her fair skin and award winning smile. Although the girl was downright gorgeous, she hadn't dated anyone since high school. She swore that she was going to be, what she called a "cock-block" until she could get settled as a fashion designer in Tokyo. Since her dream was becoming a reality faster than she had thought, she had started to want to go out again. Sakura got in on the passenger side of the sleek black Camaro. Tomoyo had bought the car wanting to look the part of a classy designer, with its retractable roof and black tinted windows. The engine roared to life, and the two drove off back to Tomoyo's apartment to get ready for their night out.

"So how was your little family dinner with Kero last night?" Tomoyo asked as they pulled up to a red light. Tomoyo had also known Kero since she was young since she had been there many times when Kero was visiting.

"It wasn't much of a dinner," Sakura laughed and she turned to look out the window at the people walking on the sidewalk. "We basically sat, talked and drank wine all night. I got to talk to my dad at least. He promised he would try calling more, and even get Touya to come with him to visit sometime." Sakura liked the sound of having her brother and father visiting her. She could them stay at her place, but knowing Kero, he would insist that he had more room and get them to stay with him. Yukito would be happy if Touya came here, since Touya could stay with his boyfriend for the first time ever.

"That sounds like a fantastic evening either way," Tomoyo smiled as she accelerated as the light changed to green. "And now you'll have another great night out, only this time… no Kero watching how much you drink." Tomoyo laughed. Sakura laughed with her imagining Kero in a nightclub dancing and drinking. It just didn't seem like a natural picture.

They came to a stop in Tomoyo's apartment building's parking garage. Sakura never had to worry about paying the parking garage fee since Yukito insisted on driving her absolutely everywhere. Their heels echoed in the deserted garage and made their way to the extravagant elevator. Since Tomoyo made more than Sakura would actually like to know, she lived in one of the most prestigious apartment buildings in the area. The elevator came to life and slowly moved them up towards Tomoyo's apartment on the fifteenth floor. When they reached the fifth floor, the elevator's glass siding was exposed to the outside of the building, and a ray of neon lights filled the small room. It always made Sakura smile thinking about how small they really were when they bustled through the streets believing that what they were doing at that moment was the most important thing in the world. Sakura's thoughts were broken when the door dinged open, and Tomoyo made her way to her door. Each door was spaced far apart meaning that each apartment was huge inside. A twinge of jealousy came to Sakura's mind as she thought about how nice it would be to live in one of the high class apartments rather than her lower income one-bedroom apartment.

Tomoyo's keys clicked into place and they entered her mansion inside a mansion. The open concept apartment had dark brown floors that shined against the warm white lights. To the right was the classic-modern kitchen with white cupboards and steel fixtures. Sakura dropped her purse onto the island leading to the large apartment decorated with some of Tomoyo's designs and pictures of her with some of her models. The picture that stood out to Sakura was the one of the two of them in elementary school at their school's sport's day festival. Their feet were bound together for the three-legged race, and they both had smiles on their faces even though they both knew that they probably weren't going to win. Tomoyo wasn't as athletic as Sakura, but Sakura still chose to be her partner anyways. Sakura's appearance hadn't changed much except her face had been slightly pudgier than now and her hair had been slightly longer back then.

Tomoyo came up behind Sakura and put her hand on her shoulder making Sakura jump slightly. Tomoyo smiled, "Come on, let's get a glass of wine and go pick out what we're going to wear." She said pulling Sakura towards her room. Tomoyo had already gotten the wine, and began opening her large walk-in closet. Sakura took that as a sign that she should jump on Tomoyo's king sized bed. Her body melded with the soft fluffy comforters and soft memory foam mattress; if she had it her way, she would have just stayed like that all night. Tomoyo came back holding up several club dresses that she had bought on her trip to Paris. "What do you think of this one?" She said holding up a purple halter dress with a ring to attach the strings. If she had put on the dress, it would have come up slightly above the knee. It was a beautiful dress, but didn't fit Sakura.

"I think it would look great on you, Tomo" Sakura said as she rolled towards the wine. She took a quick sip and placed the glass back down on the side-table.

"I want to find something for you first, since I know you're impossible to agree to something." Tomoyo said as she tossed the dress onto the bed next to Sakura. The next dress was a white form fitting dress with slit down the side where the wait would be. "I think this would look amazing on you." She said offereing it to Sakura. She shook her head again and Tomoyo sighed and tossed it with the purple one. "How about a skirt and a shirt?"

Sakura shrugged and took another sip of the wine. Tomoyo retreated back into the abyss of clothing that was her closet. It wasn't an easy task for Sakura to fall in love with an outfit, and most days she would just slap some sort of business outfit for work and hoped it looked alright. She followed her friend into the back of the closet to help her find something. Tomoyo was slipping through clothes on hangers and would look back to drawers that were open that were overflowing with more clothing. Sakura wasn't entirely sure what she did with all of this clothing, but began her own search. A red shirt caught Sakura's eye and she pulled it out of the pile to take another look at it. It was a short sleeve shirt with a low cut neckline, and was stretchy, which Sakura assumed meant it was very form fitting. "Hey Tomo, I think you should wear this!" She called.

Tomoyo appeared from behind a rack of clothing and came to inspect what her friend had found. She looked it over, trying to think of something to wear with it. An idea clicked into her head and she ran to find one of her denim skirts. When she came back and help it up to the top, she decided she was satisfied with her choice, and went to put it on her bed. "So there's my outfit, but what about you Sakura?"

Sakura looked back down at the pile of clothing she had found the shirt in and saw something pink sticking out. She leaned down and pulled it out to take a look at it. She had always loved the colour pink, despite how girly it seemed. This however, was not at all what she thought it would have been. It had turned out to be a dress, although not really looking like one at first glance. She discovered that it had actually been a dress with a low neckline that ruched together. The back of the dress wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for the lace that replaced an actual back. What really made Sakura rethink was how short the dress would come on her; Tomoyo was slightly smaller than her, but it still would at least cover her butt. She was about to throw it back into the pile when Tomoyo came into the closet and immediately fell in love with the idea of Sakura wearing it. "You have to wear that!"

"I don't know… it's kind of… revealing." Sakura said as she tried to put it down again. Tomoyo stopped her and snatched it away from her.

"Sakura, we're going out clubbing for the first time in forever! Wearing something a little revealing is all in the fun of it. And who knows, you might meet a cute guy who just loves your cute little butt in that dress." Sakura was about to protest when Tomoyo disappeared out of the closet back into her room. She honestly knew there was no winning against the girl, so she silently gave in and accepted that she had sealed her fate by picking up that dress.


The music blared as Sakura and her group of friends entered the club. The bass pounded inside Sakura's chest, making her want to dance even though she knew she really couldn't. Her and her friends made their way to a table on the far side of the room where they took a seat and placed their clutch purses on the table. "So who wants a drink?" Chiharu yelled over the music. All of the girls agreed, even though no one could really hear what they were saying. Chiharu turned to face Sakura, "Please tell me that you're not thinking of not drinking tonight…"

"I just… I don't really want to get smashed tonight." Sakura said leaning towards Chiharu. Chiharu scoffed at the idea and said that she would buy Sakura a drink anyway. Sakura knew she had no real control over that, since Chiharu was always telling her to loosen up a bit. Sakura noticed Tomoyo's look in her eye, the one saying she wanted to dance. Being the good friend that she was, she help out her hand and motioned to the dance floor. Tomoyo's smile grew instantly, and took Sakura by the hand and dragged her out into the sea of people.

As they got onto the dance floor, the song changed and the two girls fell into the ecstasy of having a good time and simply dancing. Sakura knew she wasn't very good at dancing, but for some reason she really didn't mind all that much. Tomoyo smiled at her and began to mouth lyrics that Sakura didn't know, and she just laughed and kept dancing. It wasn't until she felt hands touch her waist that she began to take notice of her surroundings. She turned to find the owner of the hands now invading her personal space. The man was tall with dark hair and his breath smelled like stale alcohol. Not wanting his dirty hands on her, she took a hold of his wrists and forced them off of her. He looked slightly disappointed by her actions, and turned his hands in her grasp to take a hold of her wrists. Now stuck in the hands of this filthy man, she couldn't help but shiver in disgust, "Let go of me," She said still trying to get away, "I took your hands off of me because I would like you to leave me alone. Can't you take a hint?" She put on her business strength to show that she wasn't a weak girl, when deep down she knew she was.

"Ah come on babe, you wore the sexiest dress I've ever seen and you can't expect me to keep my hands to myself." He tried to come close to her face but she twisted her head so he wouldn't try to kiss her. She noticed the look on Tomoyo's face, the face of someone lost. She wasn't sure what to do either, seeing as the guy wasn't taking a hint, but didn't want him to target her either. Sakura wouldn't have let her step in either way. Tomoyo was strong willed, but couldn't really be taken seriously with her doll-like face.

The strange man twisted her arms so that she would wretch and twist her face for him to see once more. The people around them began to notice the girl's discomfort, but like Tomoyo, wasn't sure how to handle him. She opened her squinting eyes and saw how close he really was to her. She prepared to be assaulted by his lips against her will but it never came. She felt the man release his grip on her wrists and heard something that sounded like a groan of pain. When she opened her eyes again, she noticed the man was now being subtly hurt by a new stranger. The drunken man slowly backed away into the crows and headed for what Sakura thought was the direction of the bar. She looked down anther wrists and began to rub the sore, red area where he had held her. She looked up again to see that she was now face to face to with a new stranger. He looked down at her and smiled, "Looks like he had just a little too much to drink." He tried to joke.

Sakura smiled back at him at his attempt to cheer her up. "Thank you… really, I don't want to know what would have happened if you didn't step in." A look of what Sakura thought was surprise quickly washed over his chocolate brown eyes, but composed himself again.

"Well I don't think anyone else quite knew how to handle him, so no thanks necessary." He extended his hand like a gentleman, unlike the man from before. "My name is… Eriol Hiiragizawa, it's nice to meet you Miss…?"

Sakura extended her own hand to shake it. It was something she was now used to because of the business world, but otherwise would have been considered strange to Japan. "Sakura Kinomoto, you don't need to call me Miss, Sakura is fine."

He smiled again at her and pulled his hand back after their introductions. He was about to speak again when Tomoyo stepped in and jumped onto Sakura. "I'm so sorry, Sakura!" She squeezed her friend and looked up at her friend's saviour. Sakura could hear and feel Tomoyo suppressing a giggle, "Anyway, I'm going back to the table. Why don't you go get a drink since you haven't had one yet?" Tomoyo smiled. She waved to Sakura before heading in the opposite direction to them. The direction she left to was nowhere near their table.

"Well if you haven't had a drink yet, I'll buy you one." Eriol offered.

"No, I couldn't. You just saved me, so the least I could do would be to buy you a drink." Sakura bowed. She wasn't entirely sure why she bowed to him, but she could faintly hear a chuckle from him over the loud music.

"I told you that you didn't need to thank me. I've never had a girl buy me a drink before, and it would be kind of rude if I made you be the first one." His smile was genuine, and he took her by the hand as he led her towards the bar. Sakura tripped slightly over someone who stuck out their foot while dancing and stumbled forward. Eriol extended his arm to catch her as she fell. He smiled down at her and put her back onto her feet. He led her towards the bar again and gave her the empty seat for her to sit. She noticed the man from before a few seats down, and apparently Eriol did too. He placed his hands on either side of Sakura on the bar, leaving his chest pressing into her back. She could feel her heart beat faster. She mentally slapped herself for the reaction she was having for a man that she had just met. "So what would you like to drink?" He asked.

His breath sent shivers down Sakura's spine. "I uh… um… rum and coke is fine." She stuttered. She prayed that he didn't notice how nervous he was making her. He showed no signs of noticing as he smiled and signaled the bartender to make a rum and coke for her and grab a tap beer for him, not caring what kind. It didn't take long for their drinks to come back to them, and a seat freed up beside her, so he took a seat next to her and began sipping away at his beer.

The two sat for what felt like hours talking, sometimes about nothing that made sense. This seemed to happen more and more as their drinks continued to disappear and be refilled by the ever ready bartender. Sakura found this new companion extremely entertaining, and laughed whenever he told a joke, even if it really wasn't that funny to begin with. A hand came down on Sakura's back and she sloppily turned to see that the owner was none other than Tomoyo, "Sakura, the girls and I are ready to go… how much did you drink?"

Sakura giggled like an idiot when she saw Tomoyo, and Tomoyo knew that she had had far too much. What surprised her though was that this guy hadn't tried to take advantage of Sakura while she was like that. Rika and Naoko helped Sakura up and she stumbled slightly but gained her balance again and flowed the girls out waving goodbye to Eriol who was slightly drunk but not as much as Sakura.

When they got out onto the street, Tomoyo was trying to hail a cab and Sakura was still stumbling slightly. In her drunken state, she realized she had forgotten her purse on the bar with Eriol. She tried to tell the girls but it came out in an idiotic mumble as she headed back inside.

The loud music was now welcoming to her, not like the first time she had entered the club. As she got close to the bar, she saw that Eriol was now talking to another guy that she hadn't seen before. Eriol seemed to notice her and handed her the bag that he had noticed she forgot. "Forget something?" He asked in a sarcastic tone.

Sakura smiled at him again, and took hold of the purse. Her conscience told her to thank him and leave, but the side of her that was now possessed by alcohol was screaming to her about how attractive he was. Giving into her temptation, she leaned in and captured his lips. She closed her eyes hoping that he would react to her kiss.

At first it was simply shock that washed over him, but after a moment, he closed his eyes and kissed the girl back. His hands worked their way up to cup her face and slide to the back of her neck and up into her hair. Sakura moaned slightly as he deepened the kiss when his tongue licked her lips asking for entrance. In her haze she opened her mouth and welcomed him by caressing his tongue with her own. She moaned again wanting more; more of the kiss, more of him. The part of her mind that was still working was mentally kicking the crap out of her for kissing him, but still couldn't deny how good it really felt.

After another minute the two broke away to breathe. Sakura could feel her face was flushed red, and immediately realized what she had just done. Her face grew an even brighter shade of red as she ran for the exit to find her friends outside. She felt completely stupid for making out with a guy she had just met that night. Her side of reason was screaming at her that she was so going to regret it when she sobered up in the morning, but that same side still couldn't deny how his touch really affected her.


Well there you have it! I hope this chapter was a little more interesting than the last. Please review and let me know what you think!

Thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, and I hope that you will continue to review and critique me on anything. Eventually I will come back and edit all of the chapters, but any recommendations for future chapters are always welcome

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*~Ciara