It's meant to be.

Chapter One - Problems

Yue frowned deeper still; if it were even possible to do that Sakura wasn't sure but somehow Yue managed to deepen the creases on his forehead. "Sir…"

Yue looked up irritated by the interruption and then realised that Sakura was waiting to be dismissed from his office, he looked back down at the information in his hands. "You may go." She didn't move Yue looked back up a few seconds later as he realised that the door hadn't opened or closed to announce her departure. "What is it?" He asked placing the document down on the mahogany desk, putting one elbow on top of the document, the other hand rested over the desk as the fingers tapped on the wood in a fast and measured manner, and resting his chin on his punched fist, he looked at Sakura in expectance.

"I'm sorry Sir; it's just that you look so discomforted I was wondering if I could be of any assistance." Sakura moved a step forward, her eyes showing her concern.

"There is nothing you can do at this time, unless you want your brother to back off. Mr Avalon has decided that it would be a good idea to put one of his lines of business in our district; I do not need the competition right now. And I doubt that you would like to be out of a job if we don't get through this. Of course, you are his sister, he may take you onboard; but how about all the other hundreds of employees that work here, I don't think that, however humble you may think he is, he can put his own people out of a job so that my people can have one. Damn." Yue pushed his chair back as he stood up; Sakura flinched as the chair collided against the wall with a thunderous crash and bounced back. Yue walked up to the window and looked down at the streets. He could see little of what was taking place below and he hated it, he felt so out of place, being so high up.

"I know I'm being optimistic Sir, but couldn't the two businesses work together?" Sakura spoke up after a few minutes. She knew Yue was worried about his employees, even though people believed he only liked being above others, after all he was young all he was capable of caring for was money. Sakura pushed the thought away, disgusted. People could be so narrow-minded and cruel. He was just like her brother, in so many ways, Tori too would not face the cameras – and no, the reason was not because he though he was too good to be photographed, it was because he didn't like the publicity, he didn't believe anyone was better than anyone else, so he rather have his employees being photographed, he said that the workers showed the true face of a business. Tori was stubborn and he would work very hard. But his first priority would be to put people first. She smiled, just like Yue even in the fact that they would never let anyone see that they really did care. But she could see it, yeah she could see it. She knew it was there, behind those cold eyes.

Yue turned around realising that Sakura was expecting an answer. "it would be a good idea but we would be hurt the worst, your brother's business is well known, when people find out that he is opening a new branch in this district, we could lose out. After those allegations and rumours, people are thinking twice about coming to us."

"Maybe I should speak to my brother, ask him to postpone the opening of the branch, so that we can get back on our feet. He will understand-" Yue put his hand up.

"Your brother will think of me as a coward, I don't want him to think that I am using you just to keep the company safe." Yue shook his head. "You may leave."

Sakura closed her mouth, she knew she had lost this argument, and there was no changing Yue's mind. But there was no way that she was just going to stand around and watch Yue and the company fall. Tori would be going home in the evening; she would talk to him then.

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Tori looked through the documents in his hand, he was getting annoyed; Ruby kept chatting away about one thing or another and although he was trying hard to ignore her, it was virtually impossible. The car light was not helping, it was too dim and it just made him feel claustrophobic. "I want to go home." He smirked at the idea and at the way he sounded. He carefully tried to look down at his shoes, yep they weren't red, so he couldn't tap his heels and get away from Ruby. He frowned disappointed but then mentally scowled himself for being so cruel.

"Ahhh, we're here!" Ruby's sing-song voice caught Tori's attention but this time he smiled in relief. "At long last." She giggled.

Once out the car Tori walked towards the door and rang the bell, he could hear numerous cheering inside and rushing feet coming to the door.

Just as Sakura opened the door, she caught the expression of alarm and shock in her big brother's face; a brunette clang to his arm like there was no tomorrow and her face was twisted into a dangerous smirk. Tori pushed away from the young woman and moved forward to envelop his sister in a hug. "Hi squirt." He mumbled.

Ruby threw daggers at Sakura as she watched Tori embrace the younger woman.

"Welcome home… oh why Tori your girlfriend doesn't seem too happy." Sakura pushed away, a smirk of her own plastered on her face.

Tori looked back at Ruby with ridicule painted on his face, he caught the change in her face as she forced a sugary smile. He laughed ignoring the look of over-jealous hurt that came across her face as he dismissed her. "My girlfriend? What on earth gives you that idea little sister. She is only the secretary." The two moved back into the house. Sakura cringed, this secretary must have done something really bad if Tori was being so brusque and cold. Ruby in turn ignored them and entered the house, closing the door behind her, she was confident that Tori would be hers. She always got what she wanted, she made sure of that.

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Yue looked out his office window; no doubt that Kero would be moaning right now because he wasn't home, but if went home right now... would he come back to work? He needed to find a solution for his little predicament, the allegations that had been thrown at him were finally over and done with but they had accomplished one purpose, to destroy the business's reputation, people were not the same any more. They doubted one another at every chance, they back-stabbed each other and stirred things up. When he first found out about the allegations, he was more than angry, how could people be so cold as to make up rumours like that. His employees were hard working people, he knew that. There was no need for people to go around and questioning their integrity. When Yue found out that it had been a competitor that had started the entire allegation, he was beyond angry. It had been so unethical to just do that, it was low. He had wanted to get back at the company that could be so malicious as to attack another company the way they had. But Sakura had of course been the voice of reason and Yue had to agree that by getting back at that company, his company would become just as low, and he couldn't do that to his people. They never did found out who had started the allegations, but in the end they just dropped, and nothing was heard again. So Yue and his business were left with a major blow to the heart; and now this, Tori. "Argh if I only knew what he looked like so that at least I could hate my opponent, but this is pointless I'm just angry at a shadow." His train of thoughts were disturbed as the phone rang. Out of habit he picked up the receiver, regretting it at once. "Yueshi, where the hell are you, this better be your answering machine, coz if its not I am going to murder you. But if it is I'm sure I'll get over the humiliation of shouting at an empty room. So which one is it?"

"Kero…" Yue didn't get to finish his sentence as his older brother began to rant again. Something about, wrong answer, dinner getting cold, the party was almost finished and there was going to be nothing left for him to enjoy. Yue sighed, well now he had to go home, there was nothing left of him anyways, might as well get some rest and clear his head.