In A Blink of an Eye

Chapter 10

Preparation…

JACKIE IS BACK! Yes yes… the hyper author of this story is back and I'm with Sheena again once again. Haha… she had to do all those chapters, but I helped… don't listen to her complain about me in all those chapters. Anyways… thanks to all those who reviewed! This chapter came up extra fast because of our lack in working on the chapter. Hope you enjoy… and thanks to those who reviewed for chapter 9…

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So here it is… chapter 10 in 'In a Blink of an Eye.'

It had been a few days now since Syaoran, Sakura, Tomoyo, and Eriol had arrived at Tokyo. Everything seem perfectly normal; Sakura and Tomoyo were living together in Tomoyo's house, Eriol began to work in his hotel again, and Syaoran went to meeting everyday from morning to night.

Eriol still didn't trust Syaoran with Sakura and took every chance to be with them to make sure Syaoran would not do anything he would normally do to a girl. Syaoran on the other hand was gaining the upper hand. He knew he was winning Sakura very easily, and maybe this week, he was going to accomplish his mission. Sakura was still as dense as ever and still didn't see through Syaoran's plays. She was confused herself; was she in love with Syaoran or was it all just lust?

Sakura lied in her bed in the middle of the afternoon as she looked out her window. She was so bored; no one was home. Tomoyo quickly began working at her fashion industry again, trying to make new dresses for Sakura to try on. Eriol was also working again, but he was working in his hotel and she didn't want to bother him. Her friends were all busy so she had no one to hang out with. Who else was there? Wait… there was one more person… her so called 'boyfriend'. Was Syaoran even considered to be a boyfriend? Sure they had made out many of times and did things together, but they never really agreed to be in a relationship.

Sakura rolled over to her nightstand and went to her phonebook. She scrolled all the way down to Syaoran's name and fought an internal battle with herself whether of not she should call him or not. 'He's in a meeting Sakura, you can't disturb him.' Her mind screamed at her. 'But you are technically considered his girlfriend, you can interfere with him and he won't be mad at you.' Her mind shouted again. Sakura groaned and stuffed her face into her pillow and breathed deeply.

"What should I do?" Sakura asked out loud, not really expecting an answer from anyone. Just then, she felt her phone on her hand began to vibrate, as she quickly took her face off her pillow and looked at the caller id, seeing the name; her heart began to pound deeply. (guess who it is…)

"Hello?" her voice came out shakily, knowing her heart was going to come out of her chest feeling it pound so hard.

"Don't tell me you just woke up." A masculine voice said, making her heart begin to shake with ecstasy.

"Don't be so silly. Aren't you suppose to be working right now?" Sakura asked, looking over at her clock seeing it was noon already.

"Na, its lunch break right now. I had nothing better to do but talk to you. I couldn't get you out of my mind for the last few hours." Syaoran spoke, not knowing what was coming out from his mind. It was like his heart was controlling what came out of his mouth the past few days since he had gotten to Tokyo.

"Are you working too hard? Your voice seems too tense." Sakura said worriedly, hoping he wasn't working too hard.

"It's just kind of confusing working with these people right now. I'm not used to their style of working." Syaoran said, spinning on his chair so he was looking out at the window; seeing the whole city of Tokyo right under him.

"Don't overwork yourself though. I don't want you to turn all old with grey hair." Syaoran heard her melodic voice, and instantly all the burden he had built up just vanished into thin air.

"Hey are you busy tonight?" Syaoran asked, using his business tone on the phone, making Sakura laugh.

"Would you stop sounding like you're trying to make a deal with me?" Sakura said, laughing the tone of voice he was using on her.

"Okay, okay, I'll lighten up, but seriously, are you busy tonight?" Syaoran asked, getting up from his chair, and stuck his free hand in his pocket; his amber eyes burning with determination.

"Nope, I'm free tonight, why?" Sakura asked, even though she had an idea what he was planning to ask her.

"Silly, I want to take you out on a date. I've realized me and you never had any time to be alone. Eriol and Tomoyo are always with us. I just want some time for you and me to be together, get to know each other a little better." Syaoran said, even though he didn't know why he wanted to know more about her.

"Sure, I'd love to go out with you." Sakura said, trying to sound like she wasn't too needy, but deep inside, she really wanted to go.

"Good, I'll pick you up at 7:00. Dress formally please." Syaoran said, making Sakura gulp nervously.

"Syaoran I don't want you to waste so much money on me though. Can't we just go for pizza or something like that?" Sakura asked, but quickly shut her mouth. She quickly realized that Syaoran wasn't like any guy, he was a fucking billionaire. Of course he wouldn't eat such things.

"I know, but I really want to take you to this place. Maybe we can go for pizza on our next date." Syaoran's response shocked her, hearing there would be another date.

"There's going to be another date after this one?" Sakura asked, knowing she shouldn't have asked that question to him.

"Of course there would be, isn't there?" Syaoran asked, making Sakura blush. "Yea, there's going to be one." Came her simple answer.

"Good, sorry Sakura, I have to go now. I got to get back to my work. I'll see you later alright?" Syaoran asked, looking at the big stack of paper sitting on his desk waiting for him to read them.

"Alright, until tonight, bye…" Sakura said lightly, a little sad they had to stop talking. "Bye…" came Syaoran's voice, as they both hung up on each other.

"What am I going to wear tonight?" Sakura asked herself, as she got off her bed and went to open her closet to look what type of dresses she had.

"This is what I get for not listening to Tomoyo about dressing more feminine." Sakura scolded at herself as she saw that all she had was jeans and pants in her closet.

"I'm going to regret this…" Sakura said to herself, as she picked up her phone and dialed her best friend's cell phone number.

"Sakura, is there something wrong?" Tomoyo asked, stopping at her paper works, when her cell phone began to ring and she answered it.

"Tomoyo I need your help." came Sakura's nervous voice, making Tomoyo raise her perfectly shaped eye brows.

"I'll be glad to help you Sakura, but what is it?" Tomoyo asked, hoping it wasn't anything bad.

"Syaoran and I are going on a date tonight…" Sakura tried to say, but was quickly cut off by Tomoyo's squealing.

"Oh my god, you're so lucky Sakura. What do you need help with? Wait, I know, you don't have a dress to wear am I right, or am I right?" Tomoyo asked, making Sakura sweat drop, seeing how well her best friend knew her.

"Yea, that's the problem." Sakura answered, hoping Tomoyo wasn't busy right now.

"You're just in luck Sakura, I just finished my latest creation. Come down to my work place and I'll set you up and everything." Tomoyo said excitedly, closing all her documents on her table and computer.

"Aren't you busy right now though Tomoyo?" Sakura asked, as she began to look for some decent clothes to wear outside.

"Nope, I got nothing to do right now. Come over quick and we'll get started." Tomoyo said, making Sakura smile.

"Thanks Tomoyo, I owe you big time." Sakura said excitedly.

"As long as you tell me what happened on the date and we're even." Tomoyo said, making Sakura laugh, hanging up, as she began changing.

Sakura walked on the beautiful streets on Tokyo, seeing how the scenery had become so much prettier with the cherry blossoms beginning to bloom on the trees. Tonight, she and Syaoran would go on their first official date. This meant so much to her; this was going to be her first date in her whole entire life. She had always waited for the special someone and she hoped that Syaoran was the one for her.

She came to a stop as she saw the right light change to green and the car began to speed up. She stood there silently and waited for the light to change when a couple of women appeared right next to her, with shopping bags in their hand, gossiping about the latest thing. Sakura paid no attention to what they were saying, until she heard Syaoran's name from their mouth.

"Did you hear the famous Li Xiaolang is right here in Tokyo." A woman said, making all her friends grasp.

"You mean the Li Xiaolang, China number 1 bachelor?" another woman asked, making all the females squeal.

"I heard he has someone right now." The woman said, catching Sakura's full attention.

"How long do you think he'll stay with her?" one of them asked, making Sakura frown.

"Who know, Li Xiaolang doesn't keep his women more than a month. I heard this one was going to be a fling also." The 1st woman said, making Sakura angry.

"I heard that Li Xiaolang only uses women to warm his bed. Once he has had enough of the woman, he throws her out for the next best thing in his life." The women gossiped, as the light turned red and everyone began crossing, snapping Sakura out of her thoughts.

"Even though he does that, you got to admit, Li Xiaolang is sexy. I wouldn't mind if I warmed his bed up for him every night." One of the females said, making Sakura feel disgusted.

Sakura closed her eyes and began to walk even quicker than ever. She passed through the group of gossiping women and hoped what they said were all lies. Syaoran wouldn't do that to her; would he? Just then Sakura realized, she really knew nothing about Syaoran, nothing about his past or what he used to be like. Suddenly, Sakura was about to change her mind about going on the date with Syaoran when she looked up and saw she was already on the front doors of Daidoji Fashion Designs.

She felt her cell phone ring again, as she took her phone out of her pocket and answered the phone, not really in the mood to talk to anyone right now. "Hello?" Sakura asked, as she looked down at her shoes, her heart sinking.

"Sakura where are you? I have the clothes ready for you. Syaoran is going to drop to his knees seeing you in this dress." Came Tomoyo's excited voice. "I'm coming up now Tomoyo." Sakura said, not knowing if she should still go on with this date or not. "Alright, hurry up." Tomoyo said, hanging up.

Sakura looked up at the building and took in the deep breath, going through the automatic doors of the building. She walked into the elevator and pressed the 20th button, as the door closed and reflected Sakura's reflection since it was metal.

"Would Syaoran ever fall for me?" Sakura asked, as she looked at herself. "Tomoyo and mother always said I was beautiful, but does Syaoran think like that too?" Sakura asked herself again, as she bend closer to the doors and fixed her bangs a little to see the outcome. When she moved her hands away, her bangs came right into place again.

The elevator soon came to a stop and the doors slowly opened, revealing all the hard workers that worked for Tomoyo. Sakura walked out of the elevator and walked towards Tomoyo's office, greeting everyone she came into. She knocked on the door, and heard a 'come in' from Tomoyo's voice as Sakura walked inside and saw her best friend taking out an expensive dress from the dress clothe bag.

"Sakura, you're finally here!" Tomoyo exclaimed as she pulled Sakura towards her desk and showed her the dress that almost knocked the breath out of Sakura's lungs.

"Well? Do you like it? Sakura!" Tomoyo blinked and waved her hand in front of her best friend's face, tilting her head at the dazed look set upon her face. "Sakkkkurrra? You in there?" She bit her lip gently and set the dress across her desk, turning and gripping Sakura's shoulders gently, trying to snap her best friend out of her astonishment.

"Wha-What?" Sakura glanced over at Tomoyo, biting her bottom lip gently before glancing back at the beautiful dress draped over the table. This dress was definitely her key to getting Syaoran completely tonight, but then again, could she ever really get Syaoran to open his heart to her…? Frowning, Sakura shook her head to rid of the horrible ideas before looking up at Tomoyo again. "It's so beautiful, Tomo, thank you so much!" Sakura exclaimed thankfully, sniffling from Tomoyo's kindness, what would she do with her best friend?

Tomoyo smiled kindly in a motherly way and patted Sakura's hair, pulling her friend closer and hugging her gently. "You're welcome, and this is what best friends do for each other right?" She winked and brushed Sakura's bangs out of her face before turning towards the dress again, running her hand over the wonderfully made dress. "So…are you willing to wear this for tonight?"

"Of course! How can I not? I mean look at how beautiful it is and I have nothing else to wear anyways. Syaoran did say to wear something formal afterall." Sakura sighed and smiled cutely, "Besides, I think it's lovely and I don't know how to pay you back, Tomo."

Tomoyo giggled and shook her head, "It's not problem and didn't I tell you to pay me back by tell me everything about your date." She winked and raised an eyebrow, "Each and EVERY detail that happens tonight. Mmm, now go change!." She smiled brightly and picked the dress up gently, pushing Sakura out of her office and towards the changing room before shoving Sakura gently into one of the booths and leaning against the wall across from the booths.

"And don't even think of running away before I see you in the dress…I think I have the perfect jewelries to go for the dress anyways." Tomoyo grinned mischievously, refusing to let her friend go without her knowing how the new design fitted and felt. Never mind the dress, she wanted to see how her friend looked for her date tonight, she refuses to let this one date go to a waste!

"Right right…" Sakura mumbled and pulled her clothes off, pulling on the dress quietly before staring at herself in the mirror that was put in there for the convenient of the models dressing. She looked wonderful, but she needed some of Tomoyo's help with it, was it really suppose to look this way? The dress itself was wonderful, but wasn't it showing a bit too much?

Sakura fingered the dress gently, biting her lip and running her hands over the silky light pink material that wrapped her form beautifully, the top half of the dress was strapless to show Sakura's small, delicate shoulders and neck, down her back were small crisscrosses of strings all the way down to her lower back, showing enough to please Syaoran tonight but still leaving enough for the imagination since it stopped right where her back met her ass.

The lower half had the sides of the gown were split open to almost the top of Sakura's thighs, giving her special man tonight a pleasurable view of her long, well shaped legs, adding to that was the small designs of cherry blossoms along her dress that was designed with sparkly dust-like materials, making the cherry blossoms almost come to life when she stood in the right position. (J: this paragraph and the paragraph before it was going to be one, but I hate big, huge paragraphs so yeah…split time .)

Sakura tilted her head and pulled at the gown gently before sighing and glancing towards the exit of the booth, "Tomoyo, are you sure this is how it's suppose to look?" Sakura called out, a light blush staining her cheeks as she stepped out of the changing booth, glancing around at the awed looks everyone was giving her, which made her blush deepen at least ten times more. "Tomoyo…?" She whispers, fidgeting slightly and pouting at her best friend, reaching up to tuck her auburn hair behind her ear.

Tomoyo stood there, stoned and gaping at her friend. "SAKURA, IT'S ABSOLUTELY RAVISHING! LOOK AT THAT EVERYONE! HELLO I SAID LOOK!" Tomoyo yelled out, glaring at her workers for defying her order, making most of her workers snap their eyes from their current work station to the beautiful emerald eye girl, "Ye-Yes m'am, it's absolutely ravishing…" The workers whispered, fearing for their lives and their paychecks.

"See? It's wonderful, you're going to make Syaoran Li, the number one bachelor drool allllll over the table." Tomoyo giggled and smiled happily.

Sakura nodded slowly, paling and glancing around, laughing nervously. "Uhh…um right, ah hehehe he-he he…" Blinking, Sakura tilted her head at Tomoyo, "Um…Tomoyo, did you just say 'ravishing'?" She stared at her friend with a incredulous expression on her face as Tomoyo nodded, tilting her head, not seeing anything wrong with her use of language. "Oooookay, now I definitely know you've been spending way too much time with Eriol…" Sakura teased, almost completely forgetting what she was wearing until a worker walked past her and Tomoyo and complimented on the beautiful evening gown.

"Oh right! Is this alright? I don't want to be too fancy for him…but not too casual looking either." Sakura bit her bottom lip, making it pouty and red, sighing tiredly from all the stress her new relationship with Syaoran was making her go through (J: sooo much like Sheeny right now with her bf haha) before glancing down at her dress again, fingering the silky material gently, looking up at Tomoyo after a few seconds. "So…?"

"It's fantastic." Tomoyo finally calmed down and said, reaching out to grab a hold on Sakura's hand, holding it in her own hand. "You don't need to worry so much, I'm here to help you, so don't worry, Sakura, I mean you look like you could faint from the stress." She murmured quietly, sighing. "It looks wonderful and as a gift, I'm giving you that dress, free of charge." Tomoyo smiled cutely and winked teasingly at her friend. "Just don't worry and have fun tonight…oh and when is the date? I want to stop by and help with everything before you leave hehe."

Sakura smiled and nodded, feeling slightly better. She should enjoy her 'special' night with Syaoran, shouldn't she? She deserved it anyways and Tomoyo was right. She was definitely going to enjoy it, but then again, she was awfully nervous…at least she doesn't need to think about the rumors she heard until later on.

"It's at 7, so come at like 5 or 6?" Sakura smiled at Tomoyo, glad that she had such a good friend on her side.

"I'll see you there then. Oh, do you want to take the dress with you now or do you want me to bring it over?" Tomoyo blinked.

"Um…you could take it, knowing me, I'll probably ruin it before I wear it." Sakura pouted and sighed. "Well…I'll see you at 5 or 6 then?"

Tomoyo nodded and smiled at Sakura, watching Sakura go back into the changing room to change before taking the dress once Sakura was done and waving her best friend goodbye for now.

Tomoyo drove down the block quickly, biting her lip in worry and fear that she was too late. Quickly she glanced at the digital clock in her black BMW. Holy Shit! It's 6:34, already? Oh.My.God. Sakura is going to throttle me!

She shook her head and pressed on the gas pedal even more before slowing down when she saw the house they were both sharing and turning a quick, sharp right into her drive way and hitting her brakes quickly, making her body lurch forward roughly in her seat before grabbing the bag next to her that contained the dress and some jewelries she picked out for Sakura.

"Oh God. Oh God. Shit, Sakura is going to kill me." Tomoyo kept mumbling, trying to find her keys until the door was yanked open angrily by a certain emerald eye woman that stood there, glaring at her best friend.

"5 or 6! 5 or 6!" Sakura screamed, waving her arms above her head madly. "TOMOYO! It's 6:45 for Pete's Sake! What were you thinking!" She yelled angrily, towering over her cowering best friend. "I can't believe you! I was all joyful because this was suppose to be the best night of my life and you go and ruin it by being LATE! LATE I SWEAR…UGH!" She huffed out some more until she ran out of breath, panting slightly from her anger.

"Aah, but if we continue to stand out here, we'll have even less time. Now c'mon Sakura, we have to hurry! You can bitch at me all you want afterwards, but right now it really is NOT the time for it." Tomoyo yelled back and pushed Sakura into the house, telling her to go into the room while she closed the door.

After closing the door and making sure it was locked, Tomoyo practically ran into Sakura's room and pushed her down onto the seat in front of her makeup table. "Now…we are definitely going to make you look special for him tonight." Tomoyo smirked evilly and turned Sakura around, digging through the bag she bought with her until she felt a small makeup kit touch her finger tips; grabbing it, she pulled it out of the bag and set it onto the table, opening it and working with quick, diligent hands that were used to the makeup applying business.

Quietly and quickly, Tomoyo applied a creamy, tanish color foundation that matched Sakura's skin tone perfect. After that she pulled out the eye-shadows and applied a whitish, ivory shadow to her eyes evenly, making sure it was perfect for her tastes until taking out a light, shimmering pink eye-shadow and putting it on top of the white, ivory eye-shadow, making the first layer of eye-shadow as her base coat. Once she was done, she put some mascara on Sakura, as well as some pink lipstick with lip gloss over it.

After putting the final touches on Sakura's makeup, Tomoyo made Sakura turn around and grabbed some fresh cherry blossoms out of her bag and placed them onto the desk in front of her while she combed out Sakura's hair. She continued with that until she decided it was enough and went on to weave the cherry blossoms into Sakura's hair, making them stand out beautifully. After she was done, Tomoyo stepped back to observe her work.

"Wow…it really looks good, Sakura." She smiled and leaned over Sakura, looking at her through the mirror. "You're gonna knock Syaoran out tonight." She giggled and pats Sakura's shoulder before standing up and stretching. "Now…for the final touch," Tomoyo winked and smiled, "Your dress!" She pulled it out of the bag and handed it to Sakura, giggling. "Well I'll leave you to change now."

Stepping out of the room, Tomoyo left Sakura to get dressed. Right as she glanced up at the clock to check the time, the bell rang and at this, Tomoyo called out for Sakura to continue and not rush while she went out to open the door. She gaped in surprise and blinked at the figure of her current lover standing in front of her, his hair flying wildly in the wind, his clothes looking like they had seen better days.

"Eriol! What are you doing here!" Tomoyo quickly stepped aside and let her boyfriend into her house, closing the door behind him and turning to face him, feeling the urgent, nervous vibe coming from him easily. Looking up, Tomoyo saw the serious expression set into her boyfriend's face and this made her stomach churn unpleasantly. "Eriol…?" She whispered, frowning and walking towards him, placing a hand on his cheek, cupping it. "Are you alright?"

Eriol frowned and shook his head before nodding before shaking it again, "Ugh, I don't know! All I know is that I'm not the one you should be worrying about! Where's Sakura!" He yelled out, glancing around anxiously with slight fear and almost…regret.

"Yes?" Sakura stepped out of the hallway, fixing her dress and blinking at the savage looking Eriol, gasping softly. "Eriol! What happened to you?" She paled and rushed over to her friend, staring at him with concern shining through her emerald eyes.

Frowning, Eriol shook his head, "It's not me you're suppose to be worried about! Worry about Syaoran, he needs us right now, Sakura!"

Sakura blinked in confusion and frowned, staring at her friend, paling even more if it was possible, her lips quivering. "W-What do you mean by that…?" She whispered weakly, " Eriol…what happened! ERIOL TELL ME!" Sakura yelled, clinging to the front of Eriol's shirt, shaking from the fear running through her body at what happened to her beloved man. "Eriol! Please what happened!"

Standing stiffly, Eriol paled and lowered his eyes to stare into Sakura's own gem-like ones, feeling himself tremble inside from the tears leaking from her eyes, but outside his face and body stance was completely blank and lifeless. "…Syaoran…he was…" He mumbled out, practically incomprehensible except to the two standing mere inches away from him.

Slowly he began over again, willing himself to stay calm, but it could be easily seen that he was slowly losing his cool, "…Syaoran, he was…He was in an accident, Sakura…" He whispered piteously as he watched the world shatter around his fragile, delicate friend. "I'm sorry, Sakura…"

BUM BUM BUM! WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW!

JACKIE'S BACK NOW! After much yelling at her, she finally agreed to work on the story again! YAY! You saw how hyper she was up there when she wrote to you people. The story will be much better now, now I have a perverted and dramatic mind on my side… haha… just wait until she sees that!

Well… for all those who said it was quite predictable… did you ever predict that that was going to happen? I don't think so, ha.

So what will happen now? Who knows… you people have to keep on R+R if u want to see what will happen next… until then… ja

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