Surgical Heart Chapter 2: Tardy, a card captor sakura fanfic

Dark-wolfling: Thank you for the reviews for the first chapter! Here's the second one! It's pretty hard working on it with school homework added to my already heavy load.

Disclaimer: If I owned this, I'll be the luckiest girl alive!

Summary: Sakura studied to be a heart surgeon. She has just started her training in Tokyo's biggest and busiest hospital. Syaoran is her mentor with an insolent attitude towards girls. Can Sakura cope with the extra work and all the strenuous activities in the everyday-bustling hospital? How will she cope with him? Is she going to give up?

Surgical Heart

Chapter 2: Tardy

"Iie Tomoyo, I don't want to get up!" Sakura grumbled as she rolled over on her messy bed.

"You have to! It's your first official day at work!" Tomoyo reminded her.

"Oh yes! I forgot! Hoe!" Sakura yelped as she got out of bed and washed up in a record time.

"Whoa, that was fast!" Tomoyo remarked.

"I have to get there early and show him that I can work!" Sakura said as she scrambled to find her shoes.

"Then you better leave," Tomoyo laughed. "I got to go first. See you tonight!"

"Ok see you Tomoyo!" Sakura said as she grabbed her purse and ran out of her room.

"Hey Doctor Li," his helper, Nurse Kato called out.

"Oh hi Mara!" he said, using her last name.

"You're slightly later today," she commented.

"Yea… huge traffic problem out there," Syaoran said as he picked up some files from the front desk. "Is Kinomoto here yet?"

"Nope," Kato said rather smugly.

"Oh, ok thanks." Syaoran said and walked to the office.

Honk! Honk! Cars polluted the highway and Sakura was clearly not happy.

"Damn it! Not today! Not on my first day!" Sakura groaned as she honked at the driver in front of her to move.

"Quick, quick, quick! I ain't got all day!" Sakura shouted as she weaved her Ferrari Modena slowly in and out the midst of the traffic.

"Aww… shoot. Just my luck," Sakura slapped her steering wheel and leaned back, frustrated. In front of her were probably another million cars and a red traffic light.

"It's just not my day…" she muttered.

"Doctor Li," Kato entered the office where Syaoran was.

"Mmm…" Syaoran asked absentmindedly.

"Kinomoto's not here yet?" she asked.

"No," Syaoran said, still staring at his papers and taking a sip of his coffee.

"Oh ok," Kato couldn't hold back her smile.

"What are you here for?" Syaoran asked, getting irritated.

"Oh yes, the office is requesting for the reports."

"Oh yes, the reports," Syaoran said, digging into his bag for them.

"Oh great," Syaoran groaned "I left a couple of them in my car. I'll go and get them and hand them to the office personally."

"Ok," Kato shrugged and walked away with some reports, her steps light.

"Finally! I'm late by an hour. Just by an hour. Just by an hour," Sakura ranted, trying to comfort herself. "And on my first day… what is Li going to say about it?"

As if on cue, Syaoran came strolling out of the building and towards his car.

"Speak of the devil," Sakura uttered. Scanning the car park for a lot, she was not very happy with the only position left. It was the lot beside Syaoran's car!

"It's really not my day…" Sakura said bitterly. Pushing the gear to reverse, she slammed her foot down on the accelerator and backed up into the last parking lot.

Syaoran was closing his car door when the Ferrari Modena charged into the lot backwards. Syaoran frowned when he saw who was in the driver's seat.

"Look who we have here," Syaoran mocked when Sakura emerged from her car.

"Shut up Li," Sakura said, obviously disgruntled.

"Why so cranky on your first day?" Syaoran smirked when Sakura just grumbled in annoyance.

"Get lost," Sakura grunted as she pulled her laptop out of the passenger's seat.

"No can do," Syaoran said and plucked the laptop bag out of Sakura's hand. "You're late," he said casually.

Sakura rolled her eyes. "Do you think I didn't notice that?"

Syaoran nodded, "Just reminding you."

"Argh!" Sakura yelled, clearly aggravated. "Don't start."

"Ok," Syaoran shrugged and walked beside Sakura to the office building, Sakura's laptop bag in one hand and his reports in the other.

"Hi Sakura-chan!" Naoko greeted her when she entered the nurses' workplace.

"Hello Naoko!" Sakura smiled. "Sorry I'm late! Traffic's a killer."

Naoko nodded understandingly. "It always happens on first-days."

"Yep… unfortunately for that," Sakura added. "So what do I begin with?"

Naoko laughed. "Sorry Sakura-chan! As much as you want to avoid Doctor Li, you have to ask him what to do since he's your mentor."

"No…" Sakura whined. "Do I have another option?" she asked Naoko hopefully.

Naoko shook her head sympathetically. "I'm afraid not."

Sakura sighed in defeat. "I better go find him then…" Sakura trudged forward, completely unaware of her mentor's eyes on her back. "Where is that bloody fool anyway?" Sakura grumbled.

"The bloody fool's right behind you miss," a male voice said.

Sakura spun around on her heel only to be greeted by the sight of whom she was looking for, Syaoran.

"Oh hey… I was just looking for you," Sakura said, slightly nervously.

"I believe so," Syaoran answered. "Come… I've got lots of stuff for you to start on…"

Naoko… Sakura silently begged with her eyes towards Naoko to do something to help. Naoko simply smiled back, mouthing to her, Good Luck.

Syaoran smirked, witnessing the 'silent' transfer between Sakura and Naoko.

"Come on now… you amateur." He said, grabbing Sakura's immediate attention, or rather, temper. "Or are you too spoilt and want other's to finish things for you?" Syaoran added, "Kinomoto-san's daughter."

"Grr… Don't call me that." Sakura glared at him.

"But aren't you his daughter? Or are you adopted?" Syaoran raised an eyebrow, his eyes dancing with glee to see Sakura that mad.

"I am not adopted!" Sakura shouted, catching the attention of the nearby nurses and patients.

"I still don't understand why you choose this career when your father owns one of the biggest companies here."

"I have my reasons…" Sakura stated.

"I bet that you are just too lazy being a rich man's daughter to be able to stand it here," Syaoran said triumphantly. Sakura's face was red with anger and she looked like she could have an outburst there and then.

"Li Syaoran…" Sakura murmured. "One more word and you'll be dead."

"I believe that you will die first from heart attack. Come on; let's go, unless you want to work overtime." Syaoran smiled and walked off.

"The nerve of that guy! I'll show him that I can work!" Sakura growled and stomped off after him.

The other nurses, except Naoko, glared distastefully at Sakura. Naoko looked cautiously around. Uh oh… Sakura's in trouble.

"Push the tube into the mouth this way…" Syaoran said as he demonstrated an act on a patient. They were in the middle of a surgery and Sakura was by Syaoran's side… taking notes.

"Make sure that the patient's face remains the same colour and not purple or blue. And then slowly push your way through his throat to your target."

Sakura nodded, taking notes enthusiastically. She was going to show him that she was being serious about being a heart surgeon. She cared about other people's lives and plus… her mother had died of heart problems.

Mom… I hope you're proud of me… Sakura thought sadly.

"Kinomoto, snap out of it!" Syaoran hit her on the head resulting in more glares from the girl herself.

"Cut it out too! Stop hitting my head like it was a punching bag!" Sakura shouted.

"Be quiet Kinomoto." Syaoran warned. "I was right that you are too spoilt."

Sakura glared at him but kept her mouth shut. You're more spoilt. She added in her head.

"What!" Sakura yelled. "This many reports after a day's work!"

"A day's work?" Syaoran scoffed. "I hardly call it work at all."

Sakura refrained herself from shouting obscenities to Syaoran. She didn't want him calling her spoilt again.

"Ok… just give me the data and I'll start working on the reports." Sakura said.

Syaoran was shocked but smirked inwardly when he realised that she wanted to prove herself. He handed her a stack of files.

"Even after you do this… you're still an amateur… and spoilt." Syaoran smiled evilly and resumed work on his computer.

Sakura pretended not to hear him and plopped down on her desk near Syaoran's and started filing the data.

"I still have to work overtime with this load." Sakura muttered unhappily to herself.

Eheheheh…Don't scold me for making Syaoran and Sakura fight a lot. It's one of the first processes involved to go to… Love! So the torture from Syaoran begins. Now is the question whether Sakura will be able to cope.

Anyway, in this chapter, I explained that Sakura's father owns one of the biggest companies in Tokyo, therefore, he is rich. The extras below the summary state this. Here is a copy:

Extras: Sakura's father is one of the richest men in Tokyo. But of course, having an older brother, the company was handed down to her brother, Touya. Sakura still can live off with the money her father is going to leave her. But, she chooses to have a career. A heart surgeon career, that is!

This chapter happens just the day after Sakura visited the hospital in the first chapter. I jumped the parts that Sakura would meet Syaoran as her mentor and that he knew that she is Fujitaka Kinomoto's daughter. Being rich and all, he certainly thinks that Sakura is spoilt. Syaoran is not that poor either but he believes that Sakura isn't like him.