OF SUAVE BUSINESS MEN AND EFFICIENT SECRETARIES
Author Janna
Anime Card Captor Sakura
Genre Romance/ Business
Pairing Syaoran Li X Sakura Kinomoto
Rating T
Disclaimer
I'm just a poor person trying to create my story with the existing characters from Clamp's show, Card Captor Sakura. (wipes tears) Sole property rights go to Clamp. The standard disclaimers apply.
Summary
Secretary of a tycoon, Sakura, helps her boss Syaoran realize that there is a world outside other than business, accounts, profits and more business. In a unexpected way. For a pleasure read. Enjoy the mushiness.
People, I realize that I said that it would be a three shot tentatively, but then I decided to extend it.
Read the Author's Note at the end of the chapter and please review or PM me about your thoughts and ideas.
Of Suave Business Men And Efficient Secretaries
CHAPTER 4
Previously
"You're a surprise," he said, his voice thankfully not betraying the confusion he felt. What was he thinking? This was his secretary. His Sakura. He could not fee- Wait did he just think of her as his?
"You mean the boat and everything." She said twirling back at him.
"No. I mean you."
Her green irises widened.
Present
Syaoran's voice whispered against her like warm velvet, her every single nerve ending quivering. Kami –sama! If just his voice could elicit such reactions from her, imagine what would happen if he actually started flirting intentionally?
Sakura had to consciously hold in a shiver, while she attempted to summon her trade mark cool, aloof and sophisticated expression.
"I'm who I am. I am who I've always been," she told him, speaking.
His dark, searching gaze never left her face, scrutinizing every emotion which flickered past it. "Funny, I didn't notice until now."
Hardly news. All knew was work work and more work. Did she say work? She meant work. "I'm like one of those multifunctional printers, phones plus fax machines. Except I do more than print, copy and scan." Sad but nonetheless true.
He chuckled appreciatively. "If you're motive is trying to make me forget work, you're doing a real good job. All right, Sakura, now that you have me here, what do you plan to do with me?"
She hated that her mind instantly flashed to the large master suite fit for a king that she'd seen when she'd toured the yacht before reserving it. The queen sized four poster bed was huge, and the amenities impressive enough to dazzle a prince out of his kingdom…or a tycoon out of his fetish for office.
But she'd never been one to make the first move – heck she had never done anything like impulsive like this before, and plus buying Syaoran for the day had used up all her resources.
"I plan on showing you a really good time that will make you take vacation trips so often that you are going to give everyone a heart attack. I want this day to make a change in your life, that you don't spend every passing second, the eight days a week and twenty five hours a day in that stainless steel jungle of yours"
"Hey of course I don't spend every waking moment there! I do take…" Seeing Sakura's brows lifted up in skeptic retort, he faltered, "Okay, so I work a little bit more than I should…"
The finely shaped lifted eye brows practically merged in with the hair line.
"Okay, so I keep working all the time…"
"Moving on, your going to have a nice time. Sit back and enjoy your time okay?"
"What exactly does that constitute?"
"Its for me to know and you to find out. All in all, it involves a few hours here on the water, a little dive in to the shallows, towards the waterfalls. You told me once you used to crew on sailboats in the summer breaks in the fall holidays with your cousins and uncle and that you missed it."
He frowned in surprise. "How could you remember that?"
Because she remembered just about everything he said and everything he did. He was her world around which her life revolved.
So either she evened the score, making him to fall head over heels in love with her and became his universe, too, or she would swallow up her pride and ego and make a clean break and start her life all over in the other part of the country where she would hopefully never ever meet him again, save the occasional family get togethers which she would be forced to attend by her beloved brother and Meiling his wife and Syaoran's cousin whom she genuinely liked. Salvaging the remains of her shattered heart and start helping run her family business.
That was the other reason she'd carefully planned their time together, meticulously. If it wasn't going to work with Syaoran, then this was goodbye.
"You painted such a vivid description of racing on those boats all kinds of stupid stunts" she found herself saying instead, leaning against the railing, her loose hair whipping past her face, flowing behind her gracefully. She looked so ethereal, that Syaoran breath stuck in his throat.
"So that's our afternoon. Tonight we're having dinner at a very exclusive restaurant, Blue Iris. We have reservations for a surf-side table, followed by dancing at a club. Tomorrow we—"
He threw her off track completely by moving close and resting his free hand on top of hers. There was the cool brass railing beneath her long slender fingers and his warm rough skin on top.
"What about after dinner and dancing?" he asked, his voice husky. "Where will I spend the night?"
Her mind chose that moment to seize up at the question. Fortunately fate was smiling, and she was saved from answering by the appearance of a school of stripped whistling fishes and a couple of gray dolphins directly in front of the boat, weaving in and out of the silky green waters, their sleek bodies, shining the light off.
"There are dolphins around here? I didn't know! Aren't they just beautiful?" she murmured as one dolphin blew water into the air letting out a peal of whistles which remotely resembled laughter.
Syaoran leaned in close. "If you're not going to tell me right now, you're going to have to show me eventually. It doesn't matter when.", his warm breath fanning across her flushed cheeks silkily, the musky scent, characteristic of Li Syaoran seemed to envelope her into its tantalizing smell.
They settled on chairs on the warm deck, the sun shining bright and clear casting a comfortable glow which completed the serene atmosphere. Syaoran stretched out his long frame on the chair laid outside, his legs comfortably resting against the rails and he silently studied the mysterious woman who was Sakura.
What kind of a woman arranged for a beautiful afternoon like this, then blushed when he asked where he would spend the night?
Two days ago, if someone had asked him just what he knew about his personal assistant, he would have claimed that he possessed complete knowledge of and about every part of her.
Now he realized he knew absolutely nothing about her.
"Tell me about your family," he said hoping to strike conversation.
She sipped her glass of mineral water and ran a finger around the rim. That gesture was shockingly intimate and struck something in Syaoran.
"There's not much to tell. As you probably know, I have an older brother, Touya. My mom died when I was three."
He frowned. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up. I knew you lost your mother but I didn't know that you were that young. What happened afterwards? Did you go to live with your brother?" Sweet. Way to go Syaoran. Open mouth, insert foot. By the way, why was he messing up again?
"No actually. I stayed with my aunt. My father threw himself into his work there after earning money which was not needed in the least and still is and back then it was all alone for me, as my brother left for higher studies to England with your cousin Eriol. My aunt's children were already grown. She used to say she and my uncle worked up around in their big house managing me, and that having me around kept them young at least at heart." Her mouth softened into a tender smile in remembrance and love. "She's the best."
"And what about your brother?" he asked distracting himself from the pang he felt, wanting that smile directed for him, at him.
"He was already in college. He graduated with a degree in business coming out university topper, met your cousin through Eriol made her fall in love with him after valiantly fighting off her suitors,0 then got married happily. Now he has two adorable little girls and another bundle of joy on the way. Hooray."
"Everyone close still close to you?"
She looked taken aback by the question. "Of course."
No doubt in her world, families stayed together, cared about one another without fail. His world was oh so very different. Another difference between the two of them. In his case, he had remained aloof from his family ever since that fateful incident which he had absolutely no wish to remember.
"How old are you?" he asked, continuing his bout of questions.
"Twenty two."
"Why aren't you married?"
Humor darkened her eyes, show casing golden highlights of specs in their emerald depths. "Perversity. Fate. The arrow of cupid missed my Prince Charming and got embedded into the heart of the devil himself, meaning, the one I wanted to ask didn't, and the one I didn't want to ask did."
Which made him want to know who had been refused and who had been foolish enough not to inquire.
"Anyone I may know?"
"Maybe"
"Do you ever give straight answers?"
"No"
"No as in 'No I don't know the person', or no as in 'Absolutely no straight answers for me'?" he said in a poor imitation of a girly preppy voice.
"Hey! I so do not sound like that! Li – you better start running now mister!" Sakura unceremoniously dumped the glass of water onto the table and started running towards him with an evil glint in her eyes.
"Oohh… like I'm so scared.." he said as he got up and started moving backwards and then started running full force as he found her not only matching his pace, but also gaining speed by the second.
He felt exhilarated. He felt like a child, and could hear the laughter of the crew as Sakura chased him around the boat with peals of laughter spilling out of her luscious lips, hair flying about her, she looked a vision in her radiance.
Wow.
Redefine beauty people….