Chapter 4: Seeing the Devil

A bizarre interest on you. Interest? On her? As in "intimate interests"? Mr. Li, whose name she finally learned, had a "somewhat" bizarre interest on Sakura Kinomoto, the girl that almost called him asshole the very first, and only, day they saw each other?

Mr. Lawson was kidding! Kidding, right?

Once again, Sakura's fingers were frantically dancing on the keyboard, typing illnesses and deceases of people; although for the attention she was paying to it, she might as well be writing the continuation of the adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

Intimate

She frowned hard as the word came back again and again; not like it had left her mind at any moment anyways. Still, something inside her craved to know what Mr. Lawson meant when he asked her if she was "intimate" with Mr. President -Li. How in the world could she be intimate with someone she has seen once in her life?! HE had a bizarre interest on her?

Oh, yeah, of course! Sure Mr. Li was one of those stuck-up bosses who thought they were just too rich and snobby and they could have whatever they wanted: ice cream, a huge company, a state, a Sakura Kinomoto!

"Perverted man!"

How come she came to work at the company with the sick boss! She would show him! Sakura Kinomoto was not any pretty doll that can be played with. She was a smart, graduated, serious Doctor. Definitely not the boss' pet. No! He was going to learn how to treat girls, he was not God, he was just a–

"Miss Kinomoto! Could you be as gracious as to come back to this world and stop day dreaming?"

Great. The grouchy old lady again. Sakura wondered, as she smiled and looked at Ms. Robertson, how many cats she had. Because she must have cats!

"I'm sorry, Ms. Robertson. I was a little too focused on these," nervously, the green-eyed looked at the list she was typing, what was that again?

"Save your interesting work for yourself, Miss. I came to tell you that Mr. Li is calling you to his office and that it is an urgent matter," she announced solemnly. For some reason Sakura did not quite understand, the old lady seemed to really appreciate the perverted (as Sakura had already decided) president of the company. "By the way," the woman stopped on her way to the door, "it will do you much good if you learn to plug that thing we call phone. You know, just so that people can communicate with you and I don't have to be coming every time someone requires the presence of Princess Kinomoto"

Slap. Yes, today was certainly her smart day of the week.

She sighed once again –how many times this day?– as she pondered if she should really go to the office of Mr. "Li".

"Well, he's my boss after all, right?' she stood up and tried to fix the wrinkles in her skirt. "And he would go to jail if he touches me, right?"

Maybe not.

Frowning, Sakura went through the door of her square looking space, with the determined gaze of an army officer, and trusting that her heels were high enough as to pierce someone in the abdomen.

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From behind the fine cedar desk, the man rapidly looked at the same papers he had been working on for an hour. Focusing was not his thing today. Finally, he decided to put the papers aside, being that he had accomplish and astonishing amount of 0 stuff… and it was only the beginning of the day!

"Damn it"

He put pressure on the sides of his nose with two of his fingers –kind of hoping that it will make his headache go away. But someone knocked the door and interrupted his concentration before he could even feel any improvement.

"Who is it?" he growled. Did people not know that it was life threatening to talk to him at this moment?

"Mr. President, Mss. Kinomoto has come here as you ordered"

For an instant, Mr. Li had an almost uncontainable wish of locking the door close until everybody finally understood that he wanted to be alone, for God's grace –and then, what his secretary had actually said sank in..

"Tell her to come in"

He sighed profoundly and went to his little bar to get a glass of red wine for himself. He heard the door opening quietly as the red liquor was poured into the glass; he turned his eyes to the door, not moving his head too fast, or it will most certainly explode and scare his employee. In any case, he could not say if his headache had intensified of lessen when he saw the young girl coming into his office as a mouse going into the cat's place.

Sakura, on the other hand, was not precisely scared, not at all. The shivers that were running up and down her spine were just a result of the cold currents in the 74 F room. Indeed.

"Mss. Kinomoto, good afternoon"

Rule number one: For God's sake, do NOT wait for your boss to greet you first!

"Good afternoon, Mr. Li." Score! She knew his name. "Did you request my presence?"

"No power on earth would have allow you to go through that door if I hadn't," he said. Charmingly, Mr. Li smiled at her and walked back to his desk, laying against it to face Sakura.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" the green eyed girl asked, almost a little too eager-to-please.

"Many things." A spark danced in the eyes of the employer as he looked at his employee.

Sakura was no less than the perfect professional. In her pink suit, consisting of a skirt and a jacket, her matching heels, and her white coat, she had the most soothing appearance of all –the appearance of a doctor. However, Mr. Li couldn't help but to stop a moment to look in her eyes, full of a emotion that he could not put his finger on, and an immense determination, a fire that he had long not seen.

"Mr. Li," her voice interrupted the silence, calling the attention of the president. Sakura frowned, still wondering what all that was about.

Nothing good.

"Yes. I'm sorry. You just happen to remind me of someone," he smiled again, but Sakura didn't like the tone of that 'someone'. "Anyways, I called you here, Mss. Kinomoto, because I wanted to ask if you knew a particular person."

"Is that it?" Sakura asked, a little confusion showing in her face. "And, who is this person, Mr. Li"

"He is," he doubted for a second, "a friend of mine."

"I don't think I know any friend of yours, Mr. Li. But if I do, I will most certainly tell you. What is the name of this person?"

Suddenly, something on Mr. Li got incredibly tense; yet, he continued smiling and looking at her over his half-full glass of wine. Before talking again, he wondered if she was ever going to stop calling him Mr. Li.

"He's name is Syaoran"

Sakura felt as if her whole self had beat. That name… there was something about that name. She remembered herself years ago, a night, a backyard, and… what? What was it? What was that she wanted to remember? Why wasn't it coming to her mind? Did she actually know that "Syaoran" her boss was talking about?

Sakura opened her eyes, which she had closed when the rapid current of questions had come into her mind, and fixed them on her boss's. And then everything made complete sense, but not for her. She was still very confused.

Rule Number 2: DO NOT look at your boss in the eye. Do you want to be fired?!

"I'm sorry, Mr. Li. I don't think I know this friend of yours."

"That's alright. I thought I remembered him telling me that he knew a Sakura Kinomoto. But it might be another one. Don't you think , Sakura?

"Maybe"

"Well, that was it. You may go back to your duties."

"Thanks"

And she left, more than just a little disoriented. As she went into her office, not knowing how she got there so fast, she noticed something important.

Rule Number 3: Never….

"Hold on…. Did he just call me Sakura? He, a perfect stranger, call me by my first name?!"

Alright, so maybe it wasn't a national crime, but it was her name and no one, particularly not he, had any rights over it.

Sakura growled lowly as she was getting into the elevator, which thankfully was empty. Someday, she will go back to the fabric she was made in and ask one of those little people working in there why they gave her such a temper. Meanwhile, she could use it on her boss, who apparently had no manners whatsoever and very eccentric friends.

And she knew this Syaoran person was eccentric. Somehow.

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A/N: So, guess who's back? I'm so sorry I didn't upload this chapter! How long has it been? I can't even remember last time I updated. But this chapter has been written since a while ago, I thought I had already uploaded it. I'm really sorry =(

But back to the chapter, what did you think of it? =) There is a little more Syaoran in this one, and there will be even more in the next one =D *drools*

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