Medicine is like a game. You can either play it and turn out to be a bad player or you can rock at it and be a genius, like my mother was. Now she was brilliant, did thing most doctors would only dream about doing. But not only her so was my adoptive mother, Anko, she was the best. No surgeon could ever cut a pancreas and fix it in 15 minutes.1 5 FREAKING MINUTES. But she did it, she broke the world's record and she did it.

They were awesome surgeons and me..well I was kind of screwed. Oh just in case you wondered my name is Sakura Haruno and this is how my life begins.

After a long night of sleep Sakura was waking up feeling warm, cozy and a little bit strange. Her mattress was very uncomfortable and cold because it was very old and a bit broken. It belonged to her grandfather after all. But then why was she feeling so warm and good on the old broken couch.

She slowly opened her eyes and she realized that a man was holding her. She quickly recognized him from last night, than everything came back to her like thunder, the bar, the dance floor, the good looking guy. She tried to get up and go take a shower without waking him up.

"Hm.."

"Oh shit he is waking up" she thought.

"Good morning." He smirked at her.

OH WAW If this isn't embarrassing than I don't know what is..oh come on just greet him already and get this over with.

"Good morning..um.."

"Sasuke. My name is Sasuke."

"Well good morning Sasuke. I'm Sakura"

Ï know…you told me last night. But unlike you I didn't forget your name"

"Sorry. I tend to be quite..forgetful sometime. "

"It's ok it's not like you didn't make it worth forgetting my name last night."He smirked

She was so blushing at this moment ".How rude of him..that..uh.."

"Ahem leaving that aside I'm already late for work and you know what they say. It's not good to be late on your first day at a new job so I'm going to take a shower and by the time I get back you will be already gone and then we won't have to see each other and be embarrassed by this situation."

"Oh well I guess you're right. Except for one thing"

What?

"I'm not embarrassed."He smirked again

God doesn't this guy know how sexy his smirk is. I could be running late for work just for another sexy ti- AH no what am I doing I need to get going."Well Sasuke I need to go now and so do you so..goodbye"

"Goodbye."

And with that she went to the shower. By the time she was out he was like she predicted. Gone.

…

O.M.G. I was sooo late. I was practically jumping 5 meters to get at my new work place as soon as possible. Damn that guy, making me late and all. Damn him! I was soooo going to be kicked out of the program for this .I need to speed up. There is it! I can see it!

I stopped. In front of me was the one place I worked so hard to get to. The place where I longed to be ever. In front of me stood Konoha Grace Hospital. I stared at it in awe because I couldn't believe that I was actually standing in front of ,what seemed to be, the rest of my life.

As I entered the door I could feel the beauty of medicine, the smell, the touch, the sight of it. Every little thing it screamed to me: This is where you belong.

I soon spotted the other trainees and I went to them. I could remember some of them from last night's party. Oh that's right last night the hospital held a party as a welcome to KGH thing. That's where I've met him. Gosh I need to get him out of my head I need to focus today it's not like I'll ever going to see that guy again.

Well you don't know that for sure.

WTH? Who are you?

I'm your inner. I'm that part of you that looks after you when you need it.

Oh like a conscience you mean?

Oh God NO! I hate moralizing people. Jeez. You have one life to live so live it. Don't mind the ethics they are sometimes really boring and useless and held you back from havinf real fun…like you had with that cutie. She smirked.

Will you shut up about him. He was a one night stand and that's it. I was upset about my mom and everything that happened so I let it out on him.

Oh you let it out on him for sure.

O.M.-You know what. I'm ignoring you I need to get to know my new colleagues. Bye!

With that she shut her inner up and walked over to her colleagues.

"Hi! I'm –"

"Yes Sakura. I know. I remember you from the party. You walked away with that hottie didn't you" The girl winked at her

"Not him again"

I told you. You made a big impression on him and apparently others noticed as well"

No you haven't told me. SHUT UP NOW!JEZZ!

Ok ok! I'm going. jeez.

"Anyways my name is Ino. This are Hinata and TenTen"

"Hi. It's nice to meet you."

"Hi .Glad to meet you too."Tenten smiled. She seemed like a tough yet gentle and outgoing person."

"H-hi. N-nice to meet you too" she greeted. Hinata seemed like a shy and nice, decent girl.

"Hi."My name is Naruto. I was at the party last night too and I remember you guys. Sakura-chan you looked lovely the other night..with that black strapless dress, with one leg sticking out and black sandals"

"Aha..I didn't knew you were into clothes Naruto. Perhaps we can go cloth shopping sometime together."

Ö-What? No..I mean not that..well I'm not actually into clothes you see. I just um..umm"

"Nevermind that now. What resident did you get guys?"

I got Tsunade

I got Tsunade too.

I also got her.

Yea me too.

"Well it seems like we got the same teacher. How about we find her"

"Hey guys have you heard she is called the Nazi."

"They might have given her this nickname because they are jelous of her skills. You know how people can get.I'm sure she is nice."

"Look there she is. Let's go to her and find what we can doa round here"

They walked over to a desk where Tsunade was doing some paperwork.

"Hello my name is Sakura Haruno.I'm new and so are them. They are-"

Ök let's get to the chase and the rules. First don't try to suck up. I already hate you. Rule number two don't stand in my way, be responsible for your actions. Rule number three I'm making the rules here and you go as I say. Got it?"

They all nodded terrified of her.

"Good .Rule number four when I'm sleeping you don't wake me up unless a patient is dying and when you do wake me up the dying patient better not be dead. There's only five rules so you follow them like they're your bible. You are only interns here which mean you guys are nobody so don't dare to break any of these rules. Questions?"

A hand was raised.

"Yes ."

"You said there were five rules but you told us only four." she said a little afraid of the woman.

Tsunade's pager started ringing .

"Rule number five is when I move you move. Now move people. We got a case coming in. Follow me."

They run after her on the roof. A helicopter had just landed and a out of him came a weird looking guy with black glasses..they looked like sunglasses? On a weather like this?

He came out carrying the patient on a stretcher.

"Yulo Shatoun. 24 year old male with four broken ribs, a broken leg and seizure. He is epileptic and he had a seizure while he was driving. He crashed his car into a tree."The weir looking guy yelled.

" get him in."

They got him into the hospital and began treating him."Haruno give me a perfusion. Actually you put it. You need to learn. Yamanaka I need a long needle."

In about 20 minutes they have stabilized the patient.

"Ok now you guys will have different tasks. Haruno you're in charge of this patient now, Yamanaka you go run some test on him, Hyuga you go to office number 9, on the desk there will be some papers about the patient, like medical history, test and other stuff. In other word you go do paperwork while Uzumaki you will go on rounds."

"Yes ma'am" they said in unison.

…...

I was in Yulo Shatoun's salon making sure he had enough oxygen and that he had calmed down after the seizure. I took his pulse to see if his heart was ok and right after that a couple came in.

"Hello miss. We are Yulo's parents. We heard about the accident and we came here as fast as we could" the man said.

"Please would you tell us what had happened to him? We understood he has a difficulty in breathing and that his leg is broken and some kind of infection had inflicted him and he might not walk? For how long?" the woman asked.

"W-well you know I-I'm actually not his doctor so just let me get his doctor for you ok?"as I said that I went looking for Tsunade. I found her on the hall bossing around some nurses.

"Ano..Excuse me?"

"What is it Haruno? Please tell me you haven't killed the patient."

"NO!I-I mean no I haven't..the patient is fine."

"Than what seems to be the problem?"

"The patient's parents are here and they have questions. Would you come and answer them? Or should I find the doctor who brought him in?"

"You mean Shino? No, he's off the case. You go find doctor Uciha. He is in charge of the patient now. You'll find him on the second floor "

I left searching for this Mr. Uciha doctor on the second floor. Seeing as I didn't know how he looked like I asked around a few people but then I eventually managed to find him. I was pointed towards his direction and just as I was about to walk to him I stopped. I froze. He was the guy from last night. Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!

I have to leave before he sees me. Crap! He already saw me. He's heading towards me.

"Well hello Sakura."He said smirking at me.

"Hello Doctor Uciha."

He raised an eyebrow at this.

"Doctor? This morning I was Sasuke"he said a bit confused.

"Listen Dr. Uciha I think we should forget what happened the night before. You are not the guy at the bar and I'm not the girl at the bar anymore. We are doctors and we have a professional relationship and I would like to keep it like that."

" you used me. I was drunk, I was drunk and I was good looking. You took advantage of me.

"Ok I did not take advantage of you. I was the one who was drunk and you are not that good looking"

"Take advantage of me again. Friday night?"

" this is please there are some concerned parents in salon number 231 and are asking for you. Bye."

And she left.

…

OMD I can not believe he is a doctor here. IN THIS HOPSITAL.

Easy there! He might be just what you need to get the tension off every once in awhile

Oh no! Not you again

Aww thanks sweety I missed you too

Get lost already. I can't deal with you right now

Hmph. Fine

Iwalked over to the canteen to get my food then I sit down next to the gang.

"Hey guys have you heard? The one who is considered the best today is going to do a procedure in O.R by himself. Ain't it cool? "

"Where did you hear that from Ino?"I asked the blonde.

"Oh please. I hear all sort of things. And this is true and beside-hey Sakura ain't that the hottie you walked away from the party last night?"

"He is a doctor?"Tenten asked.

Oh please God not him. Not now

But my praiers were heard because he didn't see me and walked out of the canteen.

"I didn't know he was a doctor here.I had no idea he was going to be my boss."

"Chill believe you." Tenten smiled.

"YOU SLEPT WITH THAT GUY?"

"NARUTO!You idiot! Keep it down "

"Sorry Sakura-chan but still did you had to hit me so it's like you don't know how powerful you are."

True. I am indeed a very good fighter I have the black belt so my punch does hurt. Not that I ment to hit him so hard it's just that sometimes I forget how strong I really am.

"I'm sorry Naruto. I hadn't ment to punch you so hard."

"No problem". The blonde grinned.

"Haruno,Uzumaki,Yamanaka,Hyuga get ready we have a new case coming"Tsunade yelled from where it seemed like the other side of th earth. So that is how our lunch ended.

…

"So as I'm sure you have all heard today we chose the most promising intern to make a procedure on his own being watched over by an have already chose who that intern is."

Ok this is it. It's my looks so tensed and hopefull but I really want to operate. Really bad!

"Based on the results you guys had today we chose Uzumaki to do the procedure."

"YES! I WIN!HAHAHAHA! I WILL OPPERATE ON MY OWN!HA!"

"WHAT? But all he did was paperwork!"Ino yelled

"You're just jelouse cuz I got choosen and you didn't"

"Shut up you little-ugh!"

"Uzumaki didn't handle just the paper work. He went on rounds he helped patients and took good care of them. While the three of you seemed like lost you guys all go to the main hall. The chief want's to welcome you to the program.""

We all went down to the main hall where a grey haired man who had half his face and an eye covered was waiting for us. I recognized him immediately. He stood up from his chair and began to speak.

"You all came here to be doctors. To be part of the game..the medicine game. A month ago you were just med students taught by doctors. Today you are the doctors."

He took a small pause and looked around the hall from the stairs where he was standing and then he continued.

"The time you will spent here as surgical residents will be the best and the worst years of your life. You all will be pushed to the breaking point. Look around you and say hello to your competition.""

"8 of you will switch to an easier specialty, 5 will crack under the pressure, 2 of you will be asked to leave. This is where the game starts. This is your start, your arena. How well you play? It's up to you."

Like I said..I'm screwed.

You said it sis. Not me.

After the chief held his speech he walked down the stairs and came to me" I would recognize you anywhere. You are the spitting image of your mother. Welcome to the game. "and with that he walked away.

"One more thing" Tsunade yelled form the top of the stairs.

"Right now all of you will form groups and you will go see how a surgery is done. Now Frenzy, Sparks, Peterson and Kensi you are one group you go to OR Hyuga, Tenten,Peters,Abuzu and Hischoki you go to OR2 and Uzumaki,Haruno,Yamanaka,Hintata Hyuga and O'malley you guys go to OR1. Enjoy the show and try to learn something."

"Yey! Cool we are in the same group Sakura-chan"

"I guess so Naruto!"

We took the elevator to the third floor was, where OR1 was. We entered the OR and there he was. The surgeon who was going to show us the wonderful surgery. None other than Uciha Sasuke.

He began to greet us whole because it turned out that the group who was supposedly only of 5 members was now made out of 20.

"Alright everybody, it's a lovely night to save lives. "and then he looked at me and smirked "Let's have some fun."

I am soo screwed.

…

The day has finally ended and after I bit my goodbyes to everyone while avoiding a certain someone I got in my car and I pulled out of the parking lot. As I was driving past a park and a busy streets I reached the street I was looking for. Avenue Park 7. I entered a happy, cozy and welcoming yet a bit old and weird building on which said Rosalinde's Place. I entered and went to the main room where I knew I would find her.

"Hello mom. How are you?"

"Who are you? Do I know you?"

"It's me Sakura. Your daughter."

A little silence took over the moment.

Ï came to tell you that I got into the medical program that I wanted to , you know? The KGH. Someday I'll be a great surgeon."

"Oh that's good. I..I think I was a doctor too."

"You were a doctor mom. In fact you were a surgeon and a great one too."I smiled at her. I smiled because that is the only thing I can do now for her. Even if it hurt.

…

Sometimes we get absorbed by the game and we fight for it. Fight to stay in it. To be stronger, smarter and better at it. We hunt, we kill, we make sacrifices just to stay in the game. Why you may ask? Because when we are in the game we forget what it's outside of it. We want to forget what the outsides of the game looks like because the outside it's were our lives are being hit by reality and were it hurts.