A/N: Hope you guys don't have to wait for too long this time. I made up for the time being by writing it a little longer and release it as soon as I can. No more long-term waiting!

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This chapter has been beta-ed by: yingfa07

Chap 6: Acquaintance.

Both Syaoran and Sakura arrived at the resort only to see a bunch of noisy people standing in front of the lobby. Syaoran frowned. He didn't like lots of people. They would only disturb him in his job anyway. And… to make it worse…

- "SYAORANNNNNNN!" A slim figure ran toward him with an incredibly fast speed and jumped on him.

Syaoran stepped back a bit leaving Nakuru lost balance and fell on her butt. He growled: "What the hell are you doing here?" Nakuru shamefully stood up and sulked "What are you saying? Aren't you happy to see me?" He smirked "You wish. Anyway, answer me. What the hell are you doing here? I don't wish to see an annoying obstacle in here. Fuck off." Nakuru yelled angrily: "Stop mocking me. You knew it. Meilin sent me here to work with you. Don't you dare say those words to me." Ignored her anger, Syaoran growled again: "That bitch! I'm gonna crush her." With that, he ran off.

Sakura sweat dropped. He really wanted to crush Meilin? God! This family was so complicated. Suddenly, a female voice came: "Hey! That girl over there. Yes, it's you I'm calling for. Who are you? His fan? What are you doing here? Don't you feel shameful for running after him like that, you stupid bitch?" Nakuru raised her voice. Sakura turned back and frowned: "I'm here for work as well, so can't we just get along?" Nakuru glared at her: "Don't think I'd cooperate with shameless bitch. Ya' hear me? Fuck off." Sakura's eyes darkened with her rising anger. She looked furious: "Excuse me, what did you say? Bitch? Take a look at yourself-please?" Nakuru trembled in anger. Never once in her life did anyone dare to mock her, not to mention insulting her well, except for Syaoran, but since he was special, that didn't count: "You…I…Fuck it! Who are you? I swear I'll chop you up!" Sakura sighed in disgust. She turned away. Her actions spoke louder than words: end of discussion.

The disgust in Sakura actions couldn't pass Nakuru's eyes. Her face darkened, her teeth sunk onto her lower lips as she raised her hand up and prepared to slap Sakura…

"Calm down, my lady." A calm voice came then a strong hand grip Nakura wrist and didn't let her go.

As Sakura was waiting for the slap to arrive on her face and closed her eyes to prepare, when she didn't feel anything, she opened her eyes and gasped:

- Garret?

~oOo~

Syaoran furiously pulled out his cell and punched the number of Meilin. A few rang and…

"Moshi mos…" Meilin's cheerful voice didn't have the chance to finish the hello part. An angry voice cut her: "Moshi your ass! What the fuck did you tell me? Why is Nakuru here? With a bunch of noisy people? Call them off." He heard her laugh nervously: "Well…about that…I tried my best but couldn't stop Nakuru. You know, her irresistible charming smile that I love the most. Oh, how wonderful her smile is…" Syaoran cut that off with an even more angry tone that changed into furious: "Are you nuts? Why don't you just fall in love with her already? Now, answer me, what the heck does that suppose to be? You agreed with her arrangement just because of her - god knows what - charming smile? For God's sake, why don't you try to be realistic at least once? Stop dreaming about beautiful things. You're obsessed with those." Meilin's seemed out of her dreamy world: "It's gonna be ok you know. I thought that it can be very interesting. It seems like that Sakura girl is quite my style. She can be good. And, also…-" Her voice suddenly became uncontrollable: "What is more interesting than seeing a triangle romantically involvement? That sounds tempting, don't you think?" Syaoran's anger reached its climax: "Hey! You fucking bitch. Wait a minute, don't you dare hung up on me. Arggggg…You're gonna pay for that when I come back. I swear." He shut off his phone violently and angrily walked back to where the crew was.

There, he saw Nakuru raised her hand up and prepared to slap Sakura. Before he could do anything, a hand stop Nakuru. "Garret?" He heard Sakura's surprise voice.

~oOo~

Sakura looked at the fully growth man before her eyes and stuttered: "Garret? What are you doing here? I mean…you're part of Ruby as well?"

Ignored Nakuru's struggle, Garret pushed her aside and warned: "Stay calm, my lady. Do you want the press to capture a picture of you jumping up and down like a child? Now, if you excuse me, I'd rather have a private talk with my…acquaintance." He said. Slowly and clearly. As Nakuru heard about the press part, she stepped back a bit but still glaring at Sakura: "I'll get you one day. Fuck off, bitch." Then she, with her head up, walked pass the gate with her hips swayed gracefully.

Garret sighed and turned back as he saw Syaoran. He gave Sakura a tight smile: "Sorry. I'll keep you company later. Gotta go." Without waiting to get her reply, he turned his attention to Syaoran and politely brought out his hand: "Nice to meet you, Li. I'm Garret McLeroy, Nakuru's manager and this session's photographer. Hope we can cooperate with each other well."

Syaoran took a glance at his hand then, without any words, he walked pass Garret and headed to the resort area.

Garret was surprise for a moment then he laughed out loud: "What a guy. He's way too out of my imagination." He turned back to Sakura and guessed: "I bet you are his other partner right? We've been announced but we didn't expect it'd be you. So how have you been for the past few years? Should we go and have a glass of cocktail together? Some private. That would be the best for those who want memories back." He smiled charmingly and winked at her seductively as he took her hand into his and lead her on. Sakura struggled violently to get out of his grip but it was no use. So she decided to attack the responsible part of him: "Wait a minute Garret. If we go then there won't be anyone to work. And my luggage too" Sakura nervously said. "It's okay. Yours will be delivered to your room. I told the staffs. And today is our day off. Starting tomorrow, it'll be our exhaust times. So for now, let's just relax." He said with his charming smile again and pulled her off before she could say anything more.

~oOo~

They went to a bar on the white sand of the beach. Sakura was running one of her hand on the edge of the counter while her other hand was under her chin, taking the weight of her head. Her long auburn hair flowing freely in the wind.

Garret took a sip of his drink and smiled: "It's been a long time since our last meet right? How have you been? Is Touya still working for that famous professor? Yes? He's been an intelligent boy since he was still a child." Sakura frowned at the mention of her brother's name: "What are you up to, Mr. McLeroy? Why are you trying to bring back the past?" Garret's mouth corner turned into a frown: "People lives with memories. What's so wrong with people that know each other to bring up the memories of the pleasant days?" She smirked bitterly: "Memories huh? Not all are pleasant. If people want to live on, they would have to push bad memories aside. In our case, isn't it best to just forget about the past and continue with the present?" She bit her lower lips, disguised the pain in her heart. But it seemed like she didn't do that very well. Garret saw through her: "Please. Forget about the past? Then why are you still blaming me for everything?" I didn't mean to hurt you. You gotta believe me." She looked deep into his eyes then shook her head: "I didn't blame anyone for anything. Stop accusing me." She sighed frustrated: "I can see that this is getting us nowhere. It wasn't very pleasant from the beginning. I'll head back now. If you excuse me, I'll take my leave." She dismissed herself and turned away from him when he captured her wrist. His eye looked directly into her crystal-clear sorrowful emerald eyes: "Please. Believe me." Sakura crawled her hand into fists. She looked down: "After all what I've heard and gone through, how can you still asking for my trust?" She turned on her heels and quickly walked away.

Behind her, Garret angrily punched the counter hard. He swore and put his head into his hands.

~oOo~

Next morning…

Syaoran straightened his shirt as he walked out of his room. The night before was a sleepless night for him. All the noise that Nakuru made from the outside nearly drove him crazy. 'They should have taken her to madness centre than leaving her here to make everyone go mad.'

He took his sunglass with him and shut the door loudly.

"Syaoran. Let's start the day together. Shall we go have breakfast with others?" Nakuru's cheerful voice came from behind his back. Syaoran growled in despair and kept walking without turning back. He bet that it's Meilin who made their rooms next to each other.

"Hey! Syaoran. Don't you dare ignore me." Nakuru ran after him, called him loudly. At that time, he suddenly saw Sakura, standing next to the elevator, pressing the down button. Syaoran ran his slender fingers through his hair then groaned and walked straight to her. He grabbed her forearm and pulled her into the elevator with him in front of Nakuru's angry and hatred eyes.

"What the? Hey! Syaoran, wait for me!" She ran after him but the elevator door has closed cruelly in front of her.

~oOo~

In the elevator…

Sakura struggled to get out of Syaoran's iron-hand: "What are you doing? Let me go!" He glared at her: "Keep your mouth shut. Don't get me wrong. I just wanna get rid of that burden, nothing more. Don't think I'd actually like to go with you." She frowned and pushed his hand out of her arm: "You're making me in trouble, you know that? Keep doing this and Nakuru would kill me one day. If that happens, can you give me back my life?" She touch the part that was grabbed by Syaoran earlier and ran her fingers up and down to sooth the pain. His grip printed five finger of his hand on her forearm made her arm reddened.

Syaoran took a glance at her arm: "You seriously think she can touch you? Ignore her. Think of her as a rock or stone or whatever you want her to be. She's not that powerful." Sakura hissed: "As if. Even if she's not powerful, it's already enough for her to beat me up. Anyway, I just hope that this time it'll be ok. No more accident like the last time." She said, her cheek flush as the memories of last session came. She took a glance at Syaoran's face by the corner of her eyes. Syaoran's reactions seemed just like her as well. So this time she could be sure things like that weren't gonna happen again.

~oOo~

After having a hearty breakfast, the crew went to part of the beach that they've hired to become their private beach-background. The photo session would be taken there as Syaoran and Nakuru's crazy fans couldn't come and interrupt.

There, the three of them were being applied make up and wore custom. Syaoran was wearing a black pant that reached to his knees and a sleeveless shirt which was unbutton to his abdomen, revealed his rock-hard muscle while Nakuru was wearing a strapless red shirt with black super short shorts (A/N: Believe me, I felt weird when writing this ^_^) and a pair of red sandal. Simple but active.

Nakuru stared at Syaoran and smiled sweetly: "Charming as always, my little wolf." Syaoran frowned at his nickname. He gritted his teeth: "Sorry but I'm no little wolf and yet, I'm not anyone possession. Stop thinking that I belong to you." Nakuru hissed: "Yeah, right. I bet you lost your heart to that auburn hair bitch already and yet, you dared to say you are not anyone possession. Just acknowledge it." She sulked and turned her head away. She hated that girl. Since when did she become so close to her Syaoran like that? She swore that if she ever see Sakura acted friendly with Syaoran in front of her, she would chop that bitch up. Suddenly, she felt a piercing pain in her forearm as she was grabbed and pulled back by Syaoran's iron hand. He said furiously, his eyes sparked with anger: "You better shut you mouth up before I get mad. What the fuck do you know? For you to dare saying things like that to me is out of my imagination. Be careful, there's no second time. Dare to do that again then you, your career, your future, all will be over. Remember that." He glared at a trembling, scared Nakuru once last time and turned away. At that time, he met a descended goddess.

There, stood Sakura in a pure white dress that reach her mid-thigh and a pair of sparkled white sandal. Her auburn hair flew freely in the wind, her crystal-clear emerald eyes looked direct into his eyes like she could see through his soul.

Syaoran nearly stuttered in front of her beauty. He closed his eyes in a second then opened again. Sakura was still there, as beautiful as ever. He shook his head in disbelief. What has he just do? Standing there, frozen with her beauty? Something might have gotten into his mind.

"What are you staring at? And then shake your head? What kind of attitude is that?" She raised her brow. Syaoran quickly turned his head away and said with a growled: "Amateur is still amateur. No matter how hard you try, you're no match for me." Sakura's flushed with anger but since she's used to his annoying manner, she just shrugged: "Whatever. You lost me once but won't acknowledge it. You should feel ashamed of yourself ya' know that?" He glared at her: "Watch you mouth. Who said anything about me losing you. What a joke. Want me to acknowledge you? Then reach to the top of the career ladder. When that time comes, I'll consider about it." He smirked and walked back to the preparing crew.

Sakura hissed. She rolled her eyes and sighed. Right now, Syaoran wasn't the thing she had to worry about. It's about Garret. How long would she have to endure him? She's afraid she couldn't take it and might fall before the show ended. She afraid so…

Consider to the dark past of her life…

A/N: So how was it? Do you like my new chapter? I think a lot of readers would wonder about what kind of relationship did Garret have with Sakura and I'll reveal it in just a few more chapter.

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