Eriol had returned to work two days later. He went into Syaoran's office after giving his review to Meiling who oddly enough had Sakura's folder. He made an extra copy so that he could show it to Syaoran. He knocked on the door. Syaoran barked that he could enter.

"Yes Eriol what is it, I am kind of in the middle of something." Eriol sighed, "I think I found the answer to a few problems down at Tokyo headquarters." Syaoran was waiting making no reply. "Oh well the reason the accounting department is a little slow down there is because Miss Kinomoto is doing all the work. Her boss in the two days I was at the company never showed up. He usually golfs his paychecks away. She says he rather even pops in to work. Sometimes she sees him go in his office to check that his work was being done and then leaves." Syaoran was going red. His nearly favorite color because usually his face is that color. Eriol sighed waiting for the explosion. 3…2…1 .. "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I PAY HIM 100,000 AMERICAN AND ALL HE DOES IS HAND HIS WORK TO SOMEONE ELSE. HE IS SO FIRED. I SHOULD SUE FOR SOMETHING, ANYTHING, OH IF I COULD GET MY HANDS ON HIM I WOULD…" Eriol gave him a few more seconds of ranting before he reasoned with him. "I found out that not only does Kinomoto keep amazing records other than his pay you have lost no money from that office. She keeps everything to the penny. The other office girls can barely get her to sign a release of funds for office supplies. I gave her a glowing review. You know my professional attitude never is wrong. I think she would be excellent as lead cost accountant here in Hong Kong." Syaoran seemed to consider. He didn't like to remember he was losing money by paying someone he thought was doing a magnificent job. "But tell me why exactly Alvarez was getting such glowing reviews and Kinomoto was getting average ones?" Syaoran wanted answers before sending the promotion over to the Tokyo offices. "I looked into that too but it seems that Alex Hamilton was in on the arrangement, he was receiving money from Alvarez to write good reviews. Luckily we didn't use Hamilton this time because of your hunch, if we had let this cycle continue poor Kinomoto wouldn't have gotten the promotion she deserved. We also would have lost a lot of money paying a dead beat like Alvarez. We still have plenty of time to train Miss Kinomoto before Asumo (Cost Accountant retiring from Hong Kong offices) leaves." Syaoran gave a few seconds to consider this. "Alright I will write up the proposal now we will have Kinomoto in here on Monday."

Sakura looked over at her fax machine while it was printing. That was really odd I wasn't expecting anything today. She went over to the counter to see what it read. She gasped at its contents. Oh Eriol, you are the best. She read the letter carefully.

Dearest Miss Kinomoto,

When reviewing your work since taking the job nearly three years ago, I have found your performance to be more than to my satisfaction. Any member of my company should be given the opportunity to rise within Li Corp. Those who earn my respect enough to do so should always be rewarded. Your reward has been a long time in coming. For this I regret mostly. However, I wanted to congratulate you because you are to be our senior cost accountant at headquarters in Hong Kong. I will not take no for an answer. I will expect you Monday morning in my office at 8 am. Please make arrangements for your and Mr. Alvarez's job as he will no longer be working for me. Hopefully your replacements will be as satisfactory at performing your work as you have been. Hopefully you will also be able to make some living arrangements on such short notice. If you have any problems please let me know.

Yours,

Li Syaoran

CEO of Li Corp.

The man was positively the sweetest! Sakura wanted to hang her letter up for everyone to see. She stopped when she remembered what she had heard of the famous Li Syaoran. Li had been known to be the biggest snake and the coldest when dealing with people. She had read the tabloids. He had a new woman every week or was in some sort of violent conflict. For being as old as he is he sounds like a child. This letter seemed to tell a different story. She thought to herself maybe Li has a soft side; someone who really cares about his business. More than one man in her life treated women like playthings. She sighed she didn't want to think about him now or ever. She smiled when she looked at her letter. She put it in her brief case and called Tomoyo.

"Tomoyo you wouldn't believe it I got a promotion today!" She knew they were both smiling. "That's great Sakura what will you be doing, you are still in Tokyo right?" Tomoyo asked. "Well…unfortunately I have to transfer to Hong Kong, but I will be the senior cost accountant there. That means I am one of the big bosses!" Sakura sounded so excited. Tomoyo was formulating her own plan in her mind. "Don't we have the lease ending this month?" Tomoyo asked Sakura. Sakura was thinking about this, "Oh I think so why?" "Sakura think about this, you pack as much as you can get on the plane. I have been thinking about opening another studio in Hong Kong and this studio can be a boutique I was going to tell you about this a while ago but now I actually have people in mind to run it. When the lease comes up at the end of the month I won't renew it and I will follow shortly behind you to Hong Kong. You do still want to live together right?" Tomoyo asked anxiously. Sakura smiled, "Of course Tomoyo what are you thinking? Well I have to call around in Hong Kong for an apartment near work. Wish me luck you know how rusty my Cantonese is. Ja ne" Now Sakura felt less bad because she wouldn't be leaving Tomoyo behind.

She called up the Li Corp. offices to see if they had any apartment places to recommend. The secretary was most helpful giving her some places to try. She had set up an appointment with one place that was a block away from Li Corp. It was a two bedroom it was a little pricier than the place they currently had but Tomoyo was independently wealthy and Sakura would most likely be getting a raise. There should be no problem with getting the money together. Sakura was excited already about her new job. She was happy because she would be starting a new chapter in her life.

Author's notes

I am writing a note for this one because I am falling into a gap in my story. I would love to hear if any of you have any ideas. I am very good to writing when I have an idea; I just need to figure out how I can get syaoran to go along with this charity date project. Let me know I am looking forward to your reply.

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(Amanda)