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I enjoyed writing this chapter so I hope you enjoy reading it too!

Chapter Eight

"Hong Kong Encounters"

"I-I can't believe I'm doing this" Sakura said as she rested back on her seat. "I-I never rode a-a plane before didn't I?"

Tomoyo giggled and nodded. "I think this is your first time"

"No wonder, because if I did, there's no way I would be riding again. I would've racked my brain to remember that" she said nervously as she shifted on her seat for the thousandth time.

"I don't know…go ask mother" Syaoran hissed at the man before getting up from his seat and walked towards the balcony.

Syaoran leaned on the ledge and let out a deep sigh as he looked at everything before him. He was about to get married to a woman he doesn't love in 5 days. He will take the place of his father as king within a matter of time alongside the woman he doesn't love. How the hell is he gonna live on with his life? He just felt miserable and incomplete without Sakura beside him.

"Syaoran?"

He turned abruptly and was face to face with his future wife.

"Chyou" he acknowledged with a slight nod of the head.

She smiled weakly as she walked over beside him and leaned on the ledge, looking out the distance.

"Look" she started to say, still without looking at him. "I know we're still kinda awkward. Normally, I wouldn't mind since we both just recently met…but, considering the fact we'll be getting married, I really want us to open up to each other, you know?"

Syaoran looked at her and understood what she meant. They were getting married and he hardly knew anything about the girl.

"I-I have a suggestion" she spoke again, almost shyly while looking down.

"What is it?"

After saying this, next thing he knew he was kissing her. In normal circumstances, he would push away the girl unless it was Sakura. After everything that had happened, he still minded what he was doing but since Chyou was his future-wife, he decided to go for it…for the sake of the family and country.

He kissed her back and he noticed her relax unto him and lean against his chest. In his mind, he was thinking he was kissing Sakura…or rather, he wished he was currently kissing Sakura, more than anything in the world that was what he desperately wanted.

"Here already?" Eriol asked with a yawn.

"How would you know, everything must've went by as a blur, you slept all through out the flight" Tomoyo pointed out.

Eriol gave a grin as he walked out the plane and to the ramp behind the girls.

"It's already night time" Sakura said as she looked out the airport glass window-walls.

"The flight wasn't that long" Tomoyo said as she took out her camcorder from her bag. "We just left late in the afternoon back in Japan. It's only about 7 o'clock right now"

"So, what do think they're doing now?" Chiharu asked the group from Takashi's lap. They were all gathered over at her house, talking about what they're gonna do the next day when they're gonna head over to Hong Kong.

"Tomoyo is obviously taking videos of everything there in Hong Kong" Naoko said with a giggle.

"Eriol, probably already counted all the nice restaurants and clubs worth going to when we get there, or if we have time" Takashi said in a sure tone making them all nod.

"Sakura…" Rika said, voice trailing off. "If she were her normal self, she would be feeling nervous until she sees Syaoran and his family. But, now…I guess she's enjoying her time there"

The group looked at Rika and couldn't help but agree. She would've been fidgeting on her current position and start fiddling with anything she could get her hands on and start jabbering about Syaoran and if his family might not liking her.

Now, they just weren't sure of anything. If they did get to see Syaoran, what are they gonna do? They can't make him marry Sakura now, not now that she doesn't love him anymore…and to add to the problem, she doesn't know him at all.

"I'm dead tired" Tomoyo said as she dropped herself on the bed.

Sakura giggled and sat on the other side. They had rented a room at a 5 star hotel. Tomoyo had suggested she sleep with Sakura and Eriol would stay in the single room beside theirs.

"Any normal girl would. Eriol has hunted down a lot of restaurants for us to try out next and you've consumed more film than a normal tourist would"

"If you remembered our old selves, you would consider it as normal" she smiled and closed her eyes, not seeing the sad look on Sakura's face.

"So, we're gonna go to Syaoran's place when?" Tomoyo asked.

The trio was eating breakfast over at a nearby café that Eriol chose.

"Around 2 o'clock in the afternoon" he said as he pocketed back his phone.

"Did you tell him that Sakura's here?" she asked, watching her friend walk their way from the ladies room.

"If I did, he would have come down here himself right this moment" he pointed out. "Besides, I was only able to talk to one of his sisters. She said he was busy and when she told him my name and that I was here, he told his sister to tell me I can come by tomorrow"

"So, when are the others coming?" Sakura asked as she took her seat once again.

"Later today around the time we arrived yesterday"

Syaoran was restless; he wanted to talk to Eriol soon. Knowing that one of his friends was here in Hong Kong and not being able to talk to him as soon as possible isn't very relaxing. He still couldn't believe his advisors forbade him to talk to him over the phone. It wasn't like he was a teenage girl who can talk over the phone for hours non-stop.

"Master Li, we need your opinion on this"

Syaoran sighed and walked over to the lady who had piles of magazines for flower designs. Now, there was 4 days left until his wedding.

As Rika and the others arrived, there was uncontrollable fun. After unpacking and settling back at the hotel, they went out to eat fancy at a prestigious restaurant and later ended up going bar-hopping at different clubs in the city. Hong Kong wasn't as boring as they thought. They know they should think about what's going to happen to Sakura and Syaoran the next day but it was best to enjoy themselves during the spare time.

Now, it was 8 o'clock in the morning. They just finished eating breakfast at yet another café which Eriol had chosen. Eriol and Takashi were both sitting on one of the waiting chairs as the girls went from stall to stall, looking through different types of clothes…mainly for Sakura to really surprise Syaoran.

"Umm…are you sure it's legal to wear these types of clothes?" Sakura asked Tomoyo, as she looked at the camera she held up at her.

Somehow, the rest of the girls managed to let her wear a prostitute style version of a bunny costume which is what girls usually wear to look sexy at costume parties. It was colored in a light pink and she wore light pink fishnet stockings underneath along with a headband with bunny ears.

Tomoyo giggled at her and nodded.

"Oh Sakura, you look so kawaii!" she said and laughed her maniac laugh.

"A-Are you all right?" Sakura asked with a sweat drop.

Rika, Naoko and Chiharu laughed at Sakura for not remembering how crazy Tomoyo is.

"Aww! You're so kawaii!" four voices said in unison.

Sakura and the rest of the girls all turned their heads to the source and saw four ladies looking at Sakura with stars in their eyes and are slowly advancing on her.

"N-Nani?" asked Sakura unsurely.

"You speak Japanese!" said one of them.

"Even more kawaii!" said the one next to her.

"What's your name?" said the other.

"Such a cute bunny costume" said the last one.

Tomoyo looked at the four ladies and noticed they were quads and judging by what they were wearing, they were very rich…very rich…they looked like celebrities, or even…royalty.

"Royalty" whispered Tomoyo to herself.

"Come again?" asked Naoko who was closest to her.

Tomoyo shook her head, looked at her and gave a small smile before looking back at the four ladies who were now gathering around Sakura telling her she was cute.

'They are Syaoran's sisters' thought Tomoyo. She remembered Syaoran mentioning to her, Eriol and Sakura once that he had four older sisters who can 'annoy annoy the hell out of you' as Syaoran put it. Seeing one of the quad's bags that had the Li family crest on it confirmed Tomoyo's suspicions…they were the princesses of China. But why were they here? This place wasn't cheap, in fact it was a store maybe the rich would also shop but not exactly fit for royalty. Instead of thinking about it any further, she stopped to listen as a man came in looking for the quads being having no hard time doing so since they were the ones making so much noise.

"Girls, girls…please settle down" the man said as he went over to them. "We're hear to buy a gift for Syaoran so let's get to it. You say he wanted something from this store, although I can't see why he would want anything that would suit a wedding gift from here, anyway where is it?"

Hearing Syaoran's name, Tomoyo, Eriol and the rest of the group listened to the man except for Sakura who ran to the changing room as soon as the quad's let her go.

"Oh Shing, you were always very picky with everything" said the one with long hair.

"You're one to talk Fanfren" Shing said.

"Yeah Fanfren, you're the most picky person we know" said the one with wavy hair.

"Oh hush Fuutie" said the one with her hair in a high ponytail. "Now, Fiemie, help me look for the right present for Syaoran, we're probably the only one responsible enough to do so, seeing as we are the oldest"

"Actually, I'm the oldest, your younger than me, so I'm the oldest, not us" the one with chopsticks holding up her hair said with a grin.

"Don't be so smug Fiemie" the three said altogether. "You're only older by minutes!"

The quads laughed and Shing rolled his eyes. He knew they weren't fighting, they never fight and they get along all the time no matter the situation, especially when it comes to teasing Syaoran.

"Did anyone find a gift yet?" said another voice from the doorway. It was new but still sounded familiar.

A girl about Sakura's age entered the store wearing a red cocktail dress with her straight and silky black hair down her back.

"Mei Lin, I thought you didn't want to leave the car" said Fanfren.

"Yeah well, you were taking too long…so, where's this present you said Syaoran would want?"

Tomoyo and the rest of the group were huddled outside the changing room Sakura was in, when they heard the new voice, they considered it as no one important but when they heard one of the quads say the name of the speaker, they all turned to see an oh so familiar face.

Chiharu's eyes widened. She was about to shout out her name but when Eriol saw this he covered her mouth to stop her from doing so.

She looked at him as he gave her a look before he and Takashi pulled the girls behind a stall and away from the Lis.

Chiharu pulled Eriol's hand away and looked at him.

"What's the big idea? Didn't you see her? That was Mei Lin!" she told the group.

"We did, what's the big deal Eriol?" Naoko asked.

"We shouldn't let anyone else but Syaoran know that Sakura is alive"

"Why not?" asked Rika.

"Well, what if his relatives did find out that he was engaged to a girl who isn't actually dead. They planned Syaoran's wedding with the other woman and if they find out that Sakura's alive, they might not allow him to call it off and marry her instead"

"But, Mei Lin's our friend" Tomoyo Chiharu pointed out. "We can trust her, just because we haven't seen her in years doesn't mean she'll betray us"

"It's not her I'm worried about" Eriol said. "It's Syaoran's advisors. He used to tell me that they make every decision for him and force him to do things he doesn't want for the benefit of his family and the country. The woman he's engaged to now is more influential and beneficial to the Lis, if they find out that Syaoran might go to Sakura, they will do anything to break them off. If the advisors do find out, Sakura won't have a chance. So we must be careful"

The group remained silent, considering what he had said.

"He's right…we must lie low from his family" Tomoyo said.

"Umm…that may be hard to do" said Takashi.

They all looked at him, he was looking at something behind the group and pointed. They all turned around and saw Sakura exit the changing room, walking over to the stall by the Lis where the costume was hung before.

"Oh damn" said Eriol.

"What are we gonna do?" Tomoyo asked worriedly. "Mei Lin will notice her for sure!"

"Okay, okay…here's the plan" Takashi said as he pulled the group closer to him and whispered.

Sakura looked at her reflection in the mirror and her gaze fell on the heart shaped ruby necklace. She really wanted to remember but she just couldn't, no matter how hard she thought of her past, nothing came to her except for a real pain in the head.

She sighed before grabbing the bunny costume and stepping out of the changing room. She expected to see Tomoyo and the rest of the group to be there but they weren't. She shrugged her shoulders and decided to look for them later after she returns the costume to the stall were Tomoyo found it.

Seeing the quads near the stall, she tried to be inconspicuous by walking silently behind their group as they continued to talk to the other girl she had only seen just now.

Sakura placed the costume back on the stall expecting nothing from the quads since their backs were on her. Exhaling, she stole a glance at the girl they were talking to before turning around and hearing her name.

"S-Sakura?" Mei Lin choked out as she saw her.

Sakura turned around to look at her. Mei Lin and the four Li sisters were staring at her now.

"Sakura!" Mei Lin confirmed with a smiled as she made her way towards her and engulfed her in a hug.

"Hello" Sakura replied unsurely. Who was this person?

"Sakura?" the quads said altogether. Sakura didn't look familiar to them but her name was.

"Cherry darling!" a voice shouted from behind them making them turn around.

"Yes?" Sakura said instantly.

"Cherry?" Mei Lin repeated in wonder, looking at the person who was approaching them.

A man wearing a tight pink shirt, tight leather pants, a pink fluffy boa around his neck, and red platform shoes with circle green stylish sunglasses as well was heading directly at Sakura. He was walking funny and swayed his hips about like he was doing a poor attempt at the cat walk.

"Umm…wh-"

"Cherry!" he interrupted, his voice was familiar but the way he talked and moved gave everyone the impression that he was gay. "What are you doing here? Who are these people?" he looked at the five Lis before turning to Sakura who was about to answer.

"Well, I was also wond-"

"Never mind darling, now, there is a reporter from GCTV here to see you…I want you to be polite and be as natural as you can okay? Now go" he said as he instantly pushed her towards two girls who were standing not so far away.

Sakura gave a nervous smile at the Lis before heading to the blonde who was holding a pen and paper with her, looking extremely eager with her friend holding up a camera, covering her face from view, and the huge sun hat and the pair of star-shaped sunglasses she was wearing wasn't helping.

"Umm, excuse me…I was supposed to…umm" Sakura really is now confused. What is going on? "T-Tomoyo?"

Was it her? The color of her hair was familiar but it was shorter, so she wasn't sure.

"Shhh…" said the person holding the camera.

"W-What is going on here?"

"Nothing…just act like your having an interview with Chiharu here"

Sakura looked at the blonde. She lowered her heart-shaped sunglasses and winked at Sakura.

"What is going on here? Why are you two dressed like that? And who was that guy back there?"

"That was Takashi" answered Chiharu in a giggle.

"Now, act like you're Cherry and that you're a famous model back in Japan" said Tomoyo quickly.

They all turned around to look at Takashi who was currently laughing so hard with the Lis but Mei Lin was still constantly looking at Sakura's way.

"Who is she anyways?" she asked nervously, looking directly at the camera.

"Well, she was one of our closest friends" said Tomoyo.

"Before she moved back here in China years back" added Chiharu.

"Oh, so why are we avoiding her?" Sakura asked.

"I would also like to know the answer to that question" said a voice from behind Sakura making them all turn around quickly. "Now," she said looking at Chiharu and Tomoyo, not recognizing them. "Who are you and what are you doing to 'Cherry' here?" she asked with an air quote to 'Cherry'.

"Why, hello M…M…M-Ms. Li" said Sakura. She forgot her name! She mentally kicked herself for forgetting her name.

"Why are you calling me 'Ms. Li' all of a sudden Sakura?" asked Mei Lin looking suspicious.

"My name is Cherry, not Sakura" she replied.

"Oh please" Mei Lin said with a wave of her hand. "I'd recognize you anywhere, you can't fool me"

"Okay fine then" said Chiharu. "If you want to know, come with us"

The four girls headed through different stalls until they came to one where Eriol and the others sat, waiting. They looked up and were in pure shock.

Chiharu shrugged. "She found out"

"E-Eriol? Rika? Naoko?" Mei Lin said. "What are you doing here in Hong Kong?"

"Umm…it's a long story" Rika said.

"I have time" she said simply.

Chiharu and Tomoyo started to take off their disguises by then Mei Lin recognized them.

"Tomoyo! Chiharu!"

"Yup…it's us" said Chiharu.

"I knew I should've suspected something. I never see Sakura going around without a camera held by her best friend watching her close by"

Tomoyo grinned and locked hands with her before pulling her down to sit on the floor.

"Ok, now spill"

"Okay, we don't have time for this" said Shing to Takashi. "You may leave us now"

"Fiiiiiinnneeee" Takashi said with much exaggeration as he strutted away from them, leaving the quads in giggles.

Shing sighed and shook his head before looking around.

"Now, where's Mei Lin?" he asked.

"She left a while ago; she said she'll start looking for a gift" answered Fuutie.

"Okay then, let's start as well"

"Y-You're joking" said Mei Lin, her face dropping considerably. "But, we have to do something, it's the only right thing to do!"

"We know…but we have to be inconspicuous about it. We're meeting Syaoran later this afternoon. Any plans?"

"I'll try to drop by the mansion if I can. Just remember to act natural when you go to the mansion. None of them saw your face yet. Just don't call her Sakura or else Uncle Yuan and Aunt Yelan will notice" she warned. "I'm gonna kill Syaoran for not telling me"

"Telling you what?"

"Well, he told me he was supposed to get married a month ago with a Japanese girl but it was cancelled because of an accident. He never told me it was Sakura"

"Well, he must've had his reasons"

"I bet. When he arrived here he was in an unusually good mood but as the weeks passed, it faltered. When he was set to marry Chyou, he was back to his normal strict and serious self again"

Author's Note:

How did you find this chapter? If I have to admit, I had fun writing this chapter…especially the part where Takashi was acting like he was gay. Lol

But anyway, I hope you liked this! Remember, 4 more days until Syaoran has to marry Chyou!

Ja ne!

Raeny