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Summary -

Daidouji Tomoyo had worked long and hard establishing her long time dream of becoming an owner of a clothes store, her and her best friend Kinomoto Sakura had, had about enough of the crap, that the men in hard- hats across the street do, her and her customers all have to deal with the countless catcalls and wolf whistles. This time she goes over and chats with the manner, only to find that he is one bloody hot thing! Well love bloom? Find out!

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Please excuse my grammar, English isn't my first language, so if I have any mistakes, don't flame me. This story might be a little OOC-ish, I want Eriol to be really funny, not that he isn't already, but more, and he has a kid! Whoa!

Disclaimer -

I don't and will never own the wonderful show or story of Card captor or Card captor Sakura, because it is owned by the great, talented ladies of Clamp!!

Keys -

"Talking"

'Thinking'

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[Emphasized words]

{Author note. E.g. E/R}

(Character P.O.V)

~*~ Flashback ~*~

Hard-hat and lace

Chapter 6

Eriol looked for the voice, he'd been hearing everynight in his bloody dreams 'don't tell me I'm dreaming again!' he thought, as he searched for her.

There he saw her with that suit of hers and the way she walked with those hig heels, 'dear god..' Eriol thought wishing that she was his.

"What do you want Ms Daidouji?" he asked a little too harshly for she gave him a glare.

"Please sign these papers about the construction you're going to be doing for my shop, so I can leave this dust dump and go back on making a living" She repiled back, her little nose stuck in the air in a stubborn way.

"Charming today aren't we?" Eriol asked sarcastically. "Come on into the office, all my stationary are in there" Eriol added the last bit when he saw her take a step back. "Don't worry Ms Daidouji, I won't touch something so sweet and sexy like you, even if I badly want to" he whispered into her ear as he escoted her into the trailer, his big tanned muscle hand on the small of her back.

Tomoyo shivered at the way his voice sounded, it's been so long since she heard or felt him next to her and she began to long for him.

Once the two adults where both in the trailer, Eriol took a seat behide the desk and gestured for her to do the same thing.

"Take a seat Tomoyo, it's not going to bite you" Eriol demanded when she shook her head to his offer.

"It's [ Ms Daidouji ] to you Mr Hiiragizawa" she said, taking the seat carefully, in case the soft blue seat was about to take a snap at her behide if she didn't.

When Eriol had signed the papers and had given them back to her, Tomoyo made a mad dash to the door and ran across the street, so fast that an ex-murder couldn't catch her.

Once back into the shop, Tomoyo ran into the back store-room and kept herself busy. Taking a look at her notebook, she tallied the many things that woman bought today. 'hmm..' she thought as she pursed her lips together. "Seems like the swimsuit rage is a big yes this summer. And the hats.." she mumbled to herself.

Just as she was about to put another tally on the notebook on what she should get in stock, Sakura poked her honey head through the door.

"Where you...um..expecting Hiiragizawa Eriol?" Sakura asked, her honey brown hair in a messy bun today.

"Of cause not, why would you ask that Sakura?" Tomoyo didn't look up but continued to tally the mornings totals.

"Because his outside the shop front window that's why, and his looking so good today...no stratch that, his looking sexy today" Nakamura Aikawa said, the new helper at the store. Her blue sapphires eyes began to sparkle in delight and her long brown hair was in a high ponytail like always.

"That's no reason to drool over the guy Aikawa" she said, taking her time to look at the store window from her office.

Eriol was indeed there - eyeing the mannequin in the electric blue outfit as if it were ET in a red sox uniform. She groaned inwardly. Weren't there any man in town who appreciated fashion? But then again, she wouldn't expect a rough-and-tumble man like Eriol to understand chic.

Although she had to admit that, in a silk black buttoned up top, jeans, a chain of hanging from his pant pocket and a black meshed truckie hat on his head he, that exuded his own male brand of chic. 'His formal today' she thought as she looked at him. Her pulse quickened and her stomash did an uncharacteristic flip-flop. She wasn't sure why the man had such an effect on her, but he did.

Aikawa put her head on the side door and gave a gusty sigh. 'The man didn't have to do anything to make woman swoon.' Tomoyo thought irately. But that didn't explain why she had kissed him like that a few weeks back, and why she wants to kiss him again.

"Oh look his coming in!" Cried Aikawa as she held up her hand and fixed her perfect ponytail.

Tomoyo cooled the urge to do the same to her hair as Eriol strode into the shop. He looked totaly incongrous in the small shop, out-sized and all male againts the feminie surroundings, which only enhanced his raw virility rather than disminshed it.

He smiled a hundred-watt smile at Aikawa and Sakura before giving on to Tomoyo. "my men have been curious about the wild get-up at the front window" Eriol said, hooking his thumb behide him.

"And you came over to check it out?" Tomoyo asked, as the girls walked out.

"Oh Sakura!" he said, when Sakura was about to leave. She turned around and faced him with a what-do-you-want-look.

"My cousin, you know Li Syaoran, he whats to know if your busy tomorrow, I think he has a thing for you, I'll be careful on what I wear from now on aye? Don't want to give Syaoran wet dreams do we now?" Eriol said, watching Sakura turn a bright shade of pink.

"tell him to go to hell" Sakura said, before storming out of the office and getting back to work, with Aikawa bouncing around her singing a song about love or something a-rather.

"And back to your question...what was it again?"

"You came here just to check out the dummy?"

"Something like that" he said studing the front of her creme silk blouse, his gaze pausing at each and every pearl botton, making her hot under the collar in more ways than one.

She resisted the urge to cross her arms over her breasts to hamper his line of vision. He'd like knowng that she was uncomfortable under his arrogan perusal.

His deep azure eyes finished with her shirt front and moved upward to her mouth, which did not do a whole lot to ease her distress.

She glanced at Sakura and Aikawa for help, but Sakura was helping a customer while Aikawa was glancing at his back side with Chiharu. Tomoyo made a mental note to throttle her assistant at the first oppitunity.

"It's a fashionable riding suit. So now that you've seen it, and know what it is, you can leave and report to your fellow comrades." Tomoyo said, looking down at her paper work. She didn't give a flying toss on what Eriol of his fellow losers thought about the outfit, she just wanted him out of the shop, the sooner the better.

"Oh I will - once I've finished here." Eriol said, taking out a measuring tape from his jean pocket, he starts to measure one wall of her back office.

"What are you doing?!" Tomoyo asked, following him around as he moved to the front room and began to measure the wall between all the clothes.

"Checking to see if this is a load-bearing wall before I bring a crew in to knock it down."

"Knock it down? With what?!" Tomoyo asked, fearing for her life that he won't use the crane..car thingy..

"A wet saw, it'll keep the dust down"

"Dust?"

Eriol turned to her and began to look annoyed. "Do you want this work done or not?" he asked, before going back to the measuring.

Eriol had remember when he jumped at the job of fixing Tomoyo's shop. He could run both jobs easliy, with him and his cousin Syaoran working, the job would run smoothly, the one across the road was easy enough but the one here was way more interesting.

"Mr Hiiragizawa" She said following him around. Eriol looked at the wall and jointed a little mark on it and wrote something down on his clipbored.

"I told you to call me Eriol" He said, turning to face her. "We've shared a kiss, don't you think we can skip the formaility?"

But he didn't have to remind her, she remembered it like it was yesterday, she sure could taste it. "Okay Eriol" she said, giving in. "There's something I want to straighten out before- What are you doing to my wall?" He was making more pencil marks, and it was runing the pretty white and lilac wallpaper.

The tape measuring recoiled back into it's proper place, not without snapping Eriol's thumb with a wack "DAMN" Eriol said, shaking his finger so the pain would ease. "Look, this walls coming down anyway, so a few pencil marks here and there won't matter."

Returning to the wall he began to tap this place and that.

"What are you doing now?" Tomoyo asked.

"Locating the studs" there was a definate irritation in his voice. "Can you stop hovering over me like a mother to her child and let me get on with my work?" he asked.

Tomoyo looked evilly at his back 'how I'd like to stab something into it' she thougt as she sat down on the seat and let Mr-Large-and-in-charge go back to his so called work.

"Fag" she mumbled under her breath.

"I heard that, don't get all PMS-ie with me missy" Eriol said, tapping the wall and writing something down in his book.

"Don't get all PMS-ie with me missy" she whispered under her breath in annoyence as she copied him. 'How I hate him!' she thought, "Don't be all fatherly on me" she said.

"Don't act like a child and I won't be all fatherly." he answered back looking at her again before walking to a spot and tapping it again.

"Don't call me a child!" she yelled, getting to her feet, her hands on her hips.

"Don't act like a child!" He yelled back at her.

Both adults breathed in harshly. Both pissed at one another. 'Fag' 'cow' they both thought at the same time. 'Argh how I hate her/him' both adults thought, walking to the furthest parts of the room from the other.

"Tomoyo?" Sakura asked walking up to her.

"What?!" she snapped, when she saw the frigthen and hurt look on Sakura's face she smiled in sorry. "Sorry" she said "didn't mean to snap at you Sakura, what was it that you want?"

"er...Tsuyo Tadashi was wondering if your can help her with a few things on this formal of hers that she's having soon" Sakura said quickly and walked over to Tsuyo, letting Tomoyo follow her.

Eriol inwardly thanked Sakura, as much as he loves to have Tomoyo around him, her buzzing around like that can get a little annoying. He looked at Tomoyo and saw a smile playing on her lips as she talked to the teenage girl. "I think this emerald dress would suit you perfectly!" he heard Tomoyo say, as she took out a beautiful emerald dress , it's sleeveless and the only thing holding the thing from her body was a thin string crossing over her shoulders. There were jewels and sparkling things sewn from the hip down on old side.

"See with your redish brown hair and emerald eyes, this dress would look wonderful on you! add abit of green tint on your eyelids and eylashes, you'll be the queen of the prom!" Tomoyo exclaimed, starting to get all starry eyed. Eriol laughed softly to himself as she saw the way Tomoyo got all excited about a girls formal. 'She really loves this job of hers' he thought as he walked over to Sakura and smiled at her.

"What is it now Hiiragizawa?" she asked annoyed, fixing the jewerly stand that got knocked down when the wind blew through the door.

"Come on Sakura, go out with Syaoran, he really likes you" Eriol said, trying to get her and Syaoran together. Syaoran had been bugging him all day about Sakura, and Eriol has very close to raming his head into a metal poll.

"No!" Sakura hissed, she doesn't want to disturb the customers.

"COme on! ONE little date, and if he does anything bad, I give you permission to smash his face in okay?" Eriol asked, trying to bribe her into hitting Syaoran.

Sakura thought about it for a minute and nodded at him. "Fine ONE date, but that's it."

'Yes!' "Thanks Sakura, your a life saver!"

"Whatever, but one wrong move and his face is going to be so ruined plastic surgery won't even be able to fix it" Sakura warned dangerously, before going back to the jewerly.

"okay" Eriol said, a little scared at the dangerous Sakura.

Tomoyo after helping Tsuyo with the formal dress walked over to her desk and took a seat. 'God look at all this paper work! and it's all Hiiragizawa Eriol's fault!' she thought angrily writing down things and signing things. Tomoyo concentrated hard on her paper work, there shop was quiet now, Sakura and Aikawa were having lunch at a crispy cream shop and Eriol had finished his work and had gone away. Customers where not here yet so she decided to make go with the peace and work on something.

She tossed down her pen in annoyence. Just when she thought her life was on a straight line, who decides to come in and ruin it but Hiiragizawa Eriol. Yanking out her desk draw she pulled out an apple she bought for lunch. She toyed with the steam of the apple for a minute, then deciding that she didn't have an appetite for it, she put it back down and picked up her pen.

"That apple doesn't look like a fulfilling lunch" a male's voice echoed through the small back office. Tomoyo looked up to see non other than Eriol himself, standing at the doorway, holding up take-away, with delicious smells coming from them. Tomoyo must have been so engrossed in her paper work that she didn't hear him come in.

"I don't need a proper lunch" Tomoyo said 'What I need is peace and quiet' she thought to herself.

"Everyone needs a proper lunch." he said, taking a seat in front of her table, he sat down and place the food in front of her. "The most importent meal of the day."

"That's breakfast" she corrected him.

"Whatever" he said, opening the container, Tomoyo's stomach growled at her, pasta was looking very nice and yummy today.

"Thanks" she said picking up the fork and beginning to eat. Eriol smiled in satifaction and watched her eat, the fork going down to the food, rolling the pasta up and then lifting it till it was near her mouth, before she opened the sensually lips of hers and munched on the food.

"I've been quzzing Yukito and Miaso about you lately." Eriol said, braking the comfortable silence.

"Why'd you do that?"

"Because I'm curious about you" he repiled, resting his elbow on the deak and leaned closer to her.

"You're one damned appealing woman, Tomoyo, and I'd like to get to know you better"

"And you're one damned appealing man, Eriol, and I'd like to get to know you better too" Tomoyo said.

"Are you serious?"

"You beat I am"

TBC!~

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