I'm in Love with a Plumber

Chapter 17

Rule Number Seventeen:
Whoever thinks that it's improper for girls to woo guys
Has never met Kinomoto Sakura.

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Mission: Catch 'Moby Dick'.

Target: 'Moby Dick' aka Li Syaoran.

Step One-Bait.

"You're going to what?!" Eriol spit his morning coffee all over his desk. "You can't be serious!"

Sakura nodded as she sat across from him. She came to his office first thing in the morning to deliver the shocking news: that she, Kinomoto Sakura, was going to woo Li Syaoran. Despite how awful it was to see the man's dreadful face that early in the morning, Sakura knew that Eriol was the man capable of helping her. Because Sakura knew nothing of wooing, she needed some pointers from someone that was experienced and knew Syaoran well. She could've went to Taguchi. He knew Syaoran very well, but she doubted he knew anything about wooing. She didn't know how well Koji knew Syaoran, so she'd thought she would just save the time and find Eriol himself, despite how much she didn't want to.

"I'm very much serious," she answered. "Now... are you going to help me or not?"

"What if I refuse?" He smirked. "After all, you did lie to him."

Sakura rolled her eyes. "You know you only want to torture me, Eriol, so leave the 'good friend' crap out."

"True. True."

"If you don't help me then..." she paused and gave him the once over look.

"Then...?"

"I will do something very awful to you."

"Like what?"

Sakura crossed her arms together and said, "I'll hug you."

The other man shuddered. "What do you need to know?"

"Taguchi talked to me yesterday," she began slowly. "He said that Syaoran feels insecure... that he's avoiding me because he's afraid of losing me. I don't want him to avoid me. I want to approach him, but I don't want to scare him off either. I'm not sure which is the best way to approach him."

Eriol simply looked at her and coolly said, "He just needs to be assured, Sakura. It doesn't matter how you approach him, just get him to sit down, talk to him, and assure him of how you feel. It's simple like that. And as of Syaoran wooing other girls, he never had to. Girls just threw themselves at him, but I believe he wooed you."

Sakura smiled. "So... how do you woo somebody?"

"I honestly do not know how you woo a man," he said. "Why don't you ask Koji?"

Sakura started sputtering. "He's g-g...gay?!"

"Why do you think he's a male secretary?" the man laughed at the expression on her face. "I've always wanted to say that."

"H-hoe?"

"Been waiting years for a chance to say that." He took in a deep breath and calmly said, "No, he isn't gay."

Sakura threw a pen at the man. "Then why did you make that statement in the first place!"

"You were the one that assumed he's gay!"

She grabbed a stapler off the desk and threw it at him before walking off. She slammed the door behind her. She couldn't believe that she had just wasted twenty something minutes on that man.

Sakura groaned.

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"Koji, how do you woo a guy?" She bent over the guy's desk and looked at him in the eyes.