Hey people...I know I have taken so long to update this one...I'm really sorry...today was the first day of school...and it was...okay. I couldn't get a locker * grumbles * so I have to get it next week..arghhh.

I hope you guys still remember this story...hehehe...-_-' It's a bit boring now...but the fun will start! I promise you that! Things are gonna get cheesy. So stay tuned.

Disclaimer: I do not owe Cardcaptor Sakura...even though I'm tempted to...so run along...^o^'

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After the two girls had talked to the lady in the huge reception corner, Sakura and Sora were both led to a private room, where Aurora was said to be waiting.

As they opened the door, a woman in her mid forties enthusiastically greeted them.

"Hello girls!!" she welcomed eagerly getting up from her desk.

Sakura smiled politely at her, while Sora just stood there gaping thinking how a woman as old as her could look so beautiful!

Indeed, Aurora had the most fantastic figure, even at such an age! She had wavy black hair that reached just to her shoulders, and her hazel eyes fitted her oval wrinkle-free face perfectly.

"It's not fair" Sora mumbled, "...every one I see has something to be praised about" she said in a childish, but a playful way.

Aurora was immediately laughing, her eyes joining in with her.

"You seem to be full of praises yourself too!" she said softly.

Sakura just stayed quiet. Now she could see why Ben Rogers had gotten so attracted towards her. She was in a high status and was beautiful at the same time, tanned perfectly.

Then she turned towards Sakura, "And you seem to be the quiet thoughtful one!" she suddenly broke in.

"Huh?"

Aurora only laughed, looking back at Sora, who was grinning, "What did I tell you, dear?"

Sakura smiled again at the woman

"Well, then...now that we are here...let's begin with work!" she said with the same excited voice.

Sakura turned on a sad face, 'How can every woman I meet sound so happy?'

Then as if having been noticed, Aurora pulled the two girls towards her desk, asking them to sit.

After sitting on her own swivelling chair Aurora looked through some heavy pile of papers.

"Looks like a lot of paper work you have got there" Sora commented amused.

Aurora shook her head, "Actually...I just give the half of them to my assistant...or to my son!" she said as if it were nothing.

"Your son?" Sakura questioned, feeling a tight tug in her chest.

Aurora smiled sheepishly, "I know he's not supposed to be doing my work...but he has to get used to it, ya know?"

"Oh my gosh!!" Sora exclaimed up on her feet.

"What?" both women asked confused.

"Don't tell me Jack Aurora is your son!!!" she jumped heartily.

Aurora's eyes twinkled, "That's right!"

The next thing Sakura knew, Sora was already jumping higher that she thought any women could jump...that is...with their pointed heels on!

"Oh my god...this so unbelievable...Jack Aurora from the Dragons?!" Sora breathed trying to calm herself down.

Aurora laughed again...then she looked at Sakura noticing that she wasn't as surprised as her friend, "Looks like...soccer is not your sport" she giggled.

Sakura opened her mouth to say something but her friend beat her to it, "Oh, Sakura really hates soccer!!" Sora explained.

The emerald-eyed girl only smiled, seeing that her friend had given away her speech.

"Is that right?" Aurora asked curiously.

Sakura nodded timidly...but to her utter surprise Aurora only broke into a laugh.

"I'm with you!!" she exclaimed clasping her hands together, reminding Sakura of Tomoyo.

"Huh?" Sakura mouthed puzzled...beside her Sora was baffled too.

"I'm not much of a crazy soccer fan..." she clarified, "...I only watch matches in which the Dragons play...that too because I'm literally forced by my son to"

Sora smirked, "Look Sakura...you have someone to join your side!"

Sakura let out a small smile. She didn't like what this was getting to.

'Aren't we supposed to talk about the contract??!' she thought, making sure that her expressions didn't give her away.

Aurora then cleared her throat, "Well...enough about soccer...I don't even know your names?"

"I'm Sakura Kinomoto..." Sakura introduced herself, "...and this is Sora Banks"

"Good to meet you...I am as you already know Mei Aurora"

'Mei...I never knew her first name' both girls thought.

Just then there was a knock on the door.

"Come in!"

A petite woman instantly popped in.

"The packages are here!" she announced.

Aurora smiled, "Good...now, I want you to meet the workers from Trésor...Sakura Kinomoto..." Sakura smiled, "...and Sora Banks"

Sora waved like a little child.

"And this is my assistant, Lisa Kidman"

Lisa smiled politely, "It's very pleasant meeting you, Kinomoto-san and Banks-san...but I apologise for my sudden departure...I have a few papers to take care of...sorry!"

"That's okay!" Both Sakura and Sora said in unison.

Lisa laughed then opened the door a bit wider, so that the man Sakura had talked to in the van, and his partner, could bring the packages in.

The two men took one glance at Aurora then separated the packages around Sakura and Sora.

"Thanks" Sakura murmured as one of them ripped open one of the package, which was directly on her right.

"Sure, no problemo" he waved his hand as he walked out of the door with his partner.

At this Sakura zoomed out for a while.

'Wait a minute...wasn't that what...that Li had said too...argh...Sakura get a hold of yourself...your thinking too much about that jock...for god's sake...stop thinking about him!!!'

"Uh...Sakura?" Sora whispered tapping Sakura's shoulder lightly, "Are you alright?"

Sakura only smiled nervously, blushing a deep pink when she noticed both the women in the room were staring weirdly at her, "Oh...me...uh yeah...I'm okay!"

Aurora clapped her hands again, "Lets get going then..."

The only thing Sakura said was, "Okay!" as she lifted the opened package and placed it on the huge desk.

"Well...let's start with the first product!" she instructed pushing back a strand of hair as she stood up.

Aurora eyed the girl carefully...then blinked, turning serious.

"Ok, this little bottle is the Make-up Remover...I can say that it is very high in sale through out stores and we have quite a lot of stock of this particular product...because women, mainly the ones who are aged from 20-50 find this lotion very useful"

Aurora made an impressed face, "Hmm...sounds good...can we give it a try?"

"That's fine with me"

Sora turned on confused as she heard the co-leader push a bell on her desk.

The door was soon opened and in came a woman who practically had all colours of make up artistry on her face.

Aurora stood up and walked towards the woman.

"Kinomoto-san...can you help me with a demonstration?"

Sakura looked at Sora then shook her head, "Sora, will help you...her hands are softer than mine"

At this Sora blushed deeply, "Sakura...your flattering me too much" she muttered.

Aurora laughed again, "I don't mind which one of you help do Miss Chen"

Sora stood up, the flush on her face not disappearing.

Miss Chen pulled away a curtain, which was separating another room.

Sora gasped, "Whoa!"

Aurora practically dragged both her worker and Sora to the other room, while Sakura trode behind them with the lotion bottle in her hand.

The room, which was separated, was basically like a hairdressers shop. There were mirrors glued to all three walls, which were gleaming at them.

'She is quite full of confidence!' Sakura thought eyeing her supposedly new boss.

As Miss Chen took her seat on a tall chair, Sakura handed the lotion to Sora and a seat next to Aurora who was sitting far on the other side.

"Tell me Miss Kinomoto...what ingredients does that lotion consist?" she asked noticing that Sakura didn't have the product in her hand.

 "Oh!" Sakura paused looking at Aurora and smiled. Then as for the next two hours, the two workers from Trésor were busy demonstrating each of the products. Through out the time Mei Aurora sent little sneak looks at emerald-eyed woman who sat next to her explaining each aspects of each product. Finally Sakura blurted a question she wanted to ask all along.

"Aurora-san...can you tell me...more about the contract?"

Aurora turned to her surprised, "You mean Benny hasn't told you about it?"

Sakura could but raise a brow, 'Uh...Benny?'

"Uh...no"

Aurora laughed, "I can understand that...Benny has always loves surprises!"

Sakura inwardly rolled her eyes, 'Yeah...he's a surprise too'

"Well...let's start from the starting...we actually had two reasons for this contract"

Sakura narrowed her eyes, "You mean a two-in-one contract?"

"You could say that...but not actually...the first reason is that Ben is giving Trésor over to me for a year...he said something about needing a rest..."

"A rest?" Sakura interrupted incredulously.

"I didn't ask him the reason of it...but since he's giving it to me...I'm gonna have double jobs...you know, being the co-owner of Japan's Lakmé products isn't easy..."

"Then why did you agree to the contract?"

Aurora laughed again, "You've got he wrong idea, dear...I'm indeed going to be incharge of Trésor...but my daughter's gonna do my work for me!"

Sakura almost chocked, "Your...your daughter?"

The woman nodded, "Yes...the new owner of Trésor starting from next month is gonna be Emily Aurora!"

Sakura could say nothing except let the information drown in.

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A man with unruly brown hair cried as Tomoyo dragged him inside an apartment.

"Tomoyo...let go off me...Eriol...heeeelllpppp!!!!"

But Eriol only waved to the man as he followed after them.

Tomoyo held her free hand to her ears.

"Oh Syaoran...stop shouting like a maniac...your gonna bring the roof down...and then Sakura would kill me!"

Syaoran instantly stopped, and yanked himself away from the woman's grasp.

"Man...I can walk by myself okay!" he grumbled patting his crumples sleeves.

Tomoyo glared at him, "Uh, like hel-lo!" she barked sarcastically, "Do you want her as your date or not?!"

Syaoran looked hard at Eriol, "Dude...I can't believe your marrying a bull next month!"

And before he knew it Tomoyo slapped him roughly on his arm, making Eriol cringe.

"Oow!" he yelped taking steps away form her, "Eriol! I would like some help here!"

Eriol shrugged grinning, "I thought you asked me to stay away from your love-life?"

Syaoran gritted his teeth, "I'll take that back only if you get your wife's hoofs away from me"

Tomoyo went wide-eye and was left instantly boiling with anger, "WHAT!!!??" she screamed, making Syaoran go white. Then just as she was about to go and strangle him Eriol leaped into the middle and held on to her fiancée's flaying arms.

"Calm down Tomoyo!!!" he hushed, but Tomoyo ignored him her anger taking the best of her.

"Let me go Eriol...I'm going to kill that friend of your once and for all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Syaoran rubbed his ears, standing a good distance away, "Man, Tomoyo! If you keep up with that voice...you're gonna bring the whole roof down!"

Tomoyo suddenly paused, then let her arms fall down, "True..." then she turned a glare to Syaoran, "I'm letting you free this time, wolf!"

Syaoran rolled his eyes, "Whatever, bull"

Tomoyo eyes clouded with anger again, but before she could pounce on him, Eriol pulled her into a passionate kiss.

Syaoran stared wide-eyed at the two. As he took a seat on the same sofa he had taken in the morning he sighed, "Saved by the ox..."

At that Eriol immediately pulled away and glared at Syaoran, "At least leave the groom in piece!" he muttered brushing his lips past his fiancée's ones again.

Syaoran rolled his eyes again, then got up and walked towards the television stand, getting intrigued by the photo frames for the second time in a day.

He bent to their height to get a better look. The first picture was of a younger version of Tomoyo and Sakura Kinomoto.

Syaoran grinned as he trailed the girl's face softly with his fingers. She was indeed very beautiful.

He raised his head a bit to look at the next one. He raised a brow as he looked at her much older version of Sakura...much older.

"Uh...Tomoyo?" he called out his voice a bit louder.

"Hmm?"

Syaoran jumped as he heard the feminine voice next to him.

"Relax Syaoan...I'm just a scary ghost" Tomoyo rolled her eyes sarcastically.

Syaoran relaxed at that then pointed at a woman's picture.

'That for sure is not Kinomoto-san' he said eyeing a woman who looked exactly like Sakura, but living in years of 30 or 40.

Tomoyo smiled, "That's Sakura's mother...she's beautiful isn't she?"

Syaoran carefully eyed the woman beside him, "Huh?"

But the raven-haired woman ignored him, "She died when Sakura was just three...Sakura was devastated when she first heard the news...she was so young that she really didn't understand that her mother was dead...but then the day came when she found out that her mother would never come back to her...never ever...the poor girl was heart-broken...everything just seems like yesterday that..." then she trailed off.

Syaoran could have sworn, that she was about to cry, but as soon Eriol wrapped his arms around her shoulders, her face brightened.

He shook the thoughts off, then turned to the third photo.

This time it had young children. Both young Tomoyo and Sakura were leaning on the shoulders of a young blue-haired guy.

"Oh my god!" Syaoran gasped, "Tell me that's not Eriol!"

Tomoyo smiled, "It is!" she gently squeezed her fiancé's hands.

"Dude!" Syaoran smirked, "You never told me you guys knew each other from such young age?"

Eriol nodded as a flash of sadness crossed his eyes. He smiled at the young Sakura in the photo who seemed to be smiling widely, 'I...I'm sorry Sakura...'

Tomoyo caressed the fluffy carpet she was sitting on.  "That picture is very old...it was taken before Eriol left to London"

Syaoran curiously looked at his friend, "You mean you knew Sakura and Tomoyo all along...I thought you two just met last year and fell in love"

Tomoyo shook her head, "No...Eriol came back to Japan in our last year of university...and I had already left for Florida to continue more on Design...so we hadn't met each other in those past years...only Sakura had...when I reached back last year...he was still here...and that is when we met again...and fell in love"

To Syaoran Tomoyo's little speech hadn't seemed to take any effect on her. There was something in her voice that sounded...negative.

Eriol's heavy sigh soon broke Syaoran from his thoughts.

"You okay?"

Eriol only nodded.

Syaoran looked at Tomoyo far answers, and he was just in time to see her eyes flicker.

Was it anger? Hatred? Jealousy? Or sadness?

Syaoran shook his head again, 'Man...I'm thinking way too much!'

Determined to get such thoughts out of his head he looked at the fourth picture.

It was of Sakura and Tomoyo again, except this time Sakura was in a sort of weird outfit, and she was rubbing the back of her head nervously.

Tomoyo laughed, "I can't believe she kept it for all these years!!"

Syaoran peered closely at the photo. Sakura was dressed in a way he could never believe. She was wearing a short bright pink camisole made of some kind of fabric, with designs of some characters and the weirdest looking flowery shorts.

Syaoran smiled to himself. It looked good on her.

"How old were you at that?" he asked.

Tomoyo giggled, "10 or 11..."

"And how is she now?" he asked straining to keep his eyes on the photo.

"Twenty...I think...yeah, twenty. I get the point Syaoran..."

"What point?" Syaoran asked innocently.

"The point that your so interested in her that you want to find out her whole life history!"

"Whatever!"

"Well...I'll let you go again...anyways back to the photo...that outfit was a dare I made with her...and she was so determined to get though it, that she said that nothing would stop her from doing it!"

Syaoran grinned, "You mean like a bet...for what?""

Tomoyo giggled, "The bet was that if she sustained to wear that outfit through out the whole week of school...then I would do her Maths homework for a month! And the girl just couldn't back away from that!"

"Hmm...so your saying that Maths is one of her least favourite subjects?"

Eriol grinned, "Actually it's her worst...I even spent two hours going through a few equations with her...and the only thing she could understand after the tutor had ended was that x-x was equal to 0!"

Syaoran let out a small chuckle.

Tomoyo made herself comfortable on the soft carpet, "We always played truth or dare...once I even made her flirt her with high school's hottest guy...and I have to tell you that is really something I'll never forget...that guy was like on her feet for the next three months!!"

Syaoran looked away, taken back by the information; "Whatever you say" he grumbled looking at the next picture.

Both Eriol and Tomoyo exchanged curious looks, then gulped as their eyes fell on the frame Syaoran was holding.

Eriol grabbed the frame from his hands and stared hard at it. His hand gripped hard at the photo, almost bending the fragile frame. Tomoyo looked away.

Syaoran looked at them both confused, "What's up with you guys?" he asked cracking a small smile, but there was silence.

Without a word Eriol handed him back the frame grimly.

Syaoran stared at Eriol for a while and then at the photo. It was once more of Sakura, but she was in a red gown...kind of a ball gown. There were almost five girls around her laughing, one including Tomoyo. In the baground there were guys all looking at the girls...and one of them was Eriol who was wearing a black tux.

Syaoran smiled at her beauty.

'Wow...she looks great in everything!' he wondered.

Eriol and Tomoyo who had noticed his face lifting up relaxed a bit. To Syaoran's confusion again, Tomoyo took the frame away from him and pointed at the next photo.

Syaoran smiled. This time it was of only Eriol and Tomoyo, except Eriol's right arm seemed to have been missing. Tomoyo gingerly held the picture, and smiled too.

Eriol again looked hard at the picture. 'I could never forget that party...'

Then Syaoran glanced at the last picture, and he frowned. He hadn't noticed the photo until now. He swiftly grasped it scowling in process.

Tomoyo laughed at his antics, while Eriol just made an amused face.

"Man Syaoran...your jealous already!"

Syaoran ignored his teasing and growled inwardly at the photo. It was of Sakura, who was smiling lightly with an arm around the waist of the guy next to her, while he was holding her close by her shoulders grinning.

"Who is this?" he chocked out, feeling his heart crush into a thousand pieces.

From behind him Tomoyo winked at Eriol and placed a finger on her lips. Smiling slyly she cleared her throat, "Oh that?!" she looked at her nails, "That's one of her close boyfriends" she answered as casually as she could.

Syaoran's hands went numb as he held on to the frame.

'She...already...has a boyfriend?' his mind flamed.

"Hey wait a minute...whaddya mean by boyfriend 's'...is it a singular or plural?!" he asked not looking away from the photo.

Eriol shook his head laughing silently, "Plural" he decided.

Syaoran clenched his fists, "How come you guys never told me that!! I can't possibly go and ask a woman whose in love with another to go out on a date with me?!!!!" he glared furiously, as his whole face went red with fury

Tomoyo took a step back, "Whoa..."

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"And what may I ask is the second reason?" Sakura asked trying her best not to sound rude.

Aurora laughed, "I really can't believe Benny never told you two!" Then as she glanced at Sakura's red face she turned serious, "Well...the second's one because we needed two workers from Trésor...actually two attractive women...so I asked dear Benny to lend me you two!"

Sakura stood up hastily, her face red with anger. She held her clenched fists to her sides.

"You mean...we came all the way here...only because Ben Rogers agreed to lend you two of his workers?!" she spat angrily.

Aurora only smiled innocently.

Sakura took steps back, her body growling. Then she abruptly grabbed an amazed Sora's wrist and dragged her out of the room ignoring the calls the two women gave her.

'That's it...I'm quitting!'

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PLEASE READ!

Okay people, I know all of you are gonna get confused by this chappy, but I assure you it's gonna be clarified in the next chapter.

Well, you now know the reason of the contract...little Benny wants to take a vacation...so when he meets beautiful Mei Aurora, who is the co-owner of Lakmé in the conference, he sees his chance.

As he kindly asks her to take over for a year Aurora agrees, but she would only be able to give him a million-dollars and keep the rest. As Trésor is a worldwide beauty product (in the story that is) the income is usually more than a million per annum.  But since Mei Aurora is already busy with her work in Lakmé she appoints her youngest daughter to take over instead of her.

But along with her contract Aurora had other things in mind. She also asks Ben to give her two of his best-looking workers who work directly under him. At the end of this story what Sakura didn't expect to find out was that she and Sora was being moved as labour into Lakmé. And now you also found out...that she's quitting...that is before her work has even started.

One more thing...I hope Tomoyo's and Eriol's uneasiness gives you something to think about. There's something very important about it...but I'm not gonna tell you...you'll find out soon enough.

I also actually thinking of writing another fic. It's gonna be Romance/Drama...but I haven't written it yet...but the idea is really taunting me.

Well...I've gotta go...But I'll see ya all next time!

Ja!