A/N: Since now I'm calling her Yume.

A week later

"NANI? I am NOT goin' to school! Absolutely not!" Yume shouted. She was at Yoru's again.

"Yes, you are. Little girls need education." Yoru said back. "I even have your birth certificate and other papers that prove Yume Kuroi does exist."

"I-AM-NOT-LITTLE!"

"Oh, really? Tell me then why do you look like a first grader?"

"I'm in high-school! In Ekoda high!"

"You WERE in high-school!" Yoru was losing her temper.

"Yes, but mentally I'm still seventeen."

"Really, then why do you act like a little kid?"

"'Cause I'm tryin' to adjust to my new role."

"What ever, but you're still going to elementary school. Like it or not."

Yume knew she had lost this battle and sighed. "Fine then. I'm goin' to school if I really have to…" She finally agreed.

"Good girl."

"Stop that! That's annoyin'!"

Teitan elementary school, the front yard

Yume stood at the school gate and looked at Teitan elementary school. Kids were running around and playing football.

"It won't kill you. The first step is the worst one." She muttered to herself.

"Are you the new girl?" A boy about her age asked.

"Well, yeah." Yume knew the boy. He was Nendo Seihôkei, Ketsui's little brother.

"Great, you're coming to our class. It is 1-B." Nendo smiled." By the way, my name is Nendo Seihôkei. You are Yume Kuroi-chan, aren't you?"

"Yes, pleased to meet you… um… Seihôkei-kun."

"'Nendo' is enough."

"Uh… Nendo-kun then"

"Yup, I'll call you Yume-chan. Is it okay?"

"It's fine."

"Great!"

School-bell rang and they walked inside the school buildning.

"Class, we have a new student. Her name is Yume Kuroi." Teacher, Sumiko Kobayashi, said. A little girl came to the class room. She wasn't an ordinary Japanese. She had blond hair in a high ponytail, ice blue eyes and two locks on both sides of her face.

"Hi! Like sensei already said, my name is Yume Kuroi. And I don't have anythin' to add to that." The girl said. A boy with dark hair and glasses yawned behind his hand. Yume sat between him and Seihôkei-kun.

"Oi, Yume-chan. You're not pure Japanese, are you?" Nendo asked from Yume.

"Well, my mother is American and father Japanese but I'm not stayin' at home right now."

"Where do you live then?"

"At my nazuke no oba's friend's place. She is kind."

The school-bell rang and the kids ran out to the school-yard. Yume followed Nendo who was talking about everything. School, friends, his family, absolutely everything.

"Come, we are going to play hide and seek. And I heard that even Shounen Tantei attend this time. They are mostly playing football." Nendo said when they walked towards other kids.

"Shonen Tantei? Detective Boys in English?" Yume asked.

"Hm?"

"Forget it. What is Shonen Tantei?"

"It is like a detective club of our class."

"Who belongs to it?"

"Let me think… Kojima-kun, that big boy on the other side of the classroom; Tsuburaya-kun, he sits behind Kojima-kun; Edogawa-kun, that boy next to you…"

"That boy who had glasses?"

"Yes, and Ayumi-cha-, I mean Yoshida-chan." Nendo blushed, "and Haibara-san."

"You like Yoshida-chan, don't you?" Yume pointed out.

"Yeah… how did you know?"

"Well, maybe I can call it a woman's instict. But why did you call Haibara-chan with '-san' –endin'?"

"Everyone calls her like that except Yoshida-chan, but they're very good friends. She is so adult-like."

"Seihôkei-kun! Kuroi-chan! Hurry up or we start without you!" One boy shouted from the school's front yard.

"Coming!" Nendo shouted back."Come, Yume-chan!"

"Yes!" Yume chirped and made Nendo blush. "An adult-like seven-year-old girl? Could it be… that the same thing that happened to me happened to her too?" She wondered.

A/N: Japanese-English wordbook

-nazuke no oya = godmother/-father