Sorry! I didn't post this chapter yesterday because I was working on the next one. I was so concentrated in chap 26 that I forgot to post the 25. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Please forgive me!

Anyway, here it is!

From last time…

"Hey you! Watch out where you…" The guy into whom she bumped immediately stopped when he set his eyes on the culprit. She look up at him with her huge orbs. He blushed.

'She's adorable…' he thought.

As for Ryoma, when she saw who she bumped in, she became blue.

'What is he doing here?'

She saw the boy's companions.

'They are here too! My angel guardian, you're not yet back from your vacations? How long do you plan to take them?'

The boy she bumped in forgot his anger. He flipped his hair with his right hand like a movie star and put on his most mesmerizing smile, the one that melt every girls' heart instantly. He kneeled down on one leg like a prince charming in fairy tales, put the right hand on his heart, the other one hold out to help her up.

"Hime-san(1), are you alright? Did you hurt yourself? Here, let me help you!" he said, his teeth shining through his hypnotizing smile - so he thought it is - with unnecessary roses and glints popping out from nowhere to perfectly frame his face.

Ryoga was ready to beat the crap out of him.

'Who is this playboy?! How dare he try to seduce her right in front of my eyes! He's dead!' Ryoga's eyes were red, his teeth showing out, homicide ideas taking form in his head.

But Ryoma defended herself alone against the said playboy just fine.

"Show off!" Ryoma blunted. The decor with the roses and the glints instantly crumbled. His face clenched and his fingers twisted.

Ryoga grinned, proud of her.

'That's my little sister!'

The boy's friends snickered behind him. One guy with a blue cap wearing back to front clutched his hand on his mouth, trying to suffocate his laughing.

"Thanks but no thanks!" Ryoma said, pushing the boy's hand away. "I can stand up alone by myself fine!" she said as stood up and dusted her skirt. Then she look down on her left side, then her right side, searching for something.

"Where is it?" she wondered, frowning.

"Hime-san, are you looking for something? Would you like some help?"

Then she saw what she was looking for and where it was. On his expensive suit.

"Aaaaaaaaaaah! My fruit cake!" Ryoma morned on the lost of her delicious and precious péché mignon (2), hands clapped, teary eyes as she watched the strawberry felt down on the ground. "Bouhouuuuuu!" she cried. The boy's body tensed again, trembling, his smile twiching.

'She worried only about her cake. What about ME?!' he thought, quite pissed off. No one never treat him like that before. This was quite mortifying.

Ryoga sighed. 'By kami-sama, what else can you expect from her?'

Ryoma pierced the boy with her furious eyes.

"This is all your fault, Monkey King!" she roared.

A vein popped on Atobe's temple.

'First, she bumped into Ore-sama gorgeous body, then dirty his exquisite clothes and don't even say sorry. Second, she dared not to fall for Ore-sama outstanding god's gift charm! Third, she refused Ore-sama great generosity when HE was being a the most charming gentleman to her. And on the top of everything, she called this great Atobe-sama by that outrageous naming?! Where did she learn it from?!' Each point he listed won a new vein popping on his face, his eyes and fingers were twitching hard.

Ryoga snickered. The blue cap boy was no longer holding himself as the comical scene got into him.

"Hahahahahahaha!"

A girl actually didn't fell for Atobe. It was a first! Worthy to watch! He wished he had a camera to take a picture of Atobe right now.

"Shishido-senpai. You shouldn't laugh at Atobe like that!" Ohtori tried to calm down his partner. But Shishido continued to laugh louder. Even Oshitari couldn't surpress a smile.

'Calm down, a beautiful pray is never easy to catch. She must really want me to catch her, but she's playing the hard to catch!' Atobe took a deep breath. 'That's right! Let's try again!'

"Feisty aren't you? You're very different from all the girls I met up to today. This Ore-sama really likes you!" He flipped his hair again in an exagerated hand move.

"Well, I don't like you!" Ryoma blunted again, her hands on her hips, looking away, still frustrated by the lost of her cake. Atobe's hand clenched. He desperately try to keep his smile but it turned out to be an horribly creepy grin.

Even Ryoga was not holding himself back as he laughed with Shishido.

"Wuahahahahahahahahaha!" Shishido cried now from laughing to much. Now, Oshitari, Gakuto and Hiyoshi were no longer holding themselves either. Kabaji was the only one to keep a decent attitude to not laugh. Jirou wasn't laughing too because he was snoring, leaning on Kabaji.

Shishido put a hand Ryoma's shoulder, still laughing. Ryoga immediately felt electricity running through his body, ready to attack. But Shishido's gesture was friendly, so Ryoga let it slip.

"Hahahahaha! I really like you! Do you happen to know a certain Echizen Ryoma?" Shishido asked her.

"Echizen Ryoma?" Jirou woke up upon hearing the name.

"Euh, what are you talking about? It's m-…" Ryoma started.

"Now that I look at you closely, you really look like him," Ohtori cut her.

"You have the same eye and hair color. If we don't count the heels, then you'll be as tall as he is," Oshitari developed.

"More ever, if it wasn't because you're a girl, I would think that you're him," Gakuto concluded.

"Usu!" Kabaji confirmed.

"Well, that's because she carried the Echizen blood too. She's Echizen R-…" Ryoga started, but immediately got interrupted.

"How can you be related to that Echizen Ryoma?!" Atobe yelled. Ryoma covered her ears.

'Why does people keep shouting in my ears? First Kirihara, and now him?' Ryoma thought, annoyed.

"Of course I'm related to Echizen Ryoma, I'm Ech-…"

"Ochibi-chan! Is that you?!" Kikumaru popped next to her, startling her.

"Kikumaru-senpai!"

"Yo! Echizen!" Momoshiro saluted her. The other Seigaku were there too.

"Senpai-tachi too!"

"Seigaku!" Oshitari exclaimed.

"Yo!" Shishido greeted them.

"Ussss!" Momoshiro greeted back.

"Ooishi-senpai, how come you're here?" Ryoma asked. Tezuka advanced to take Ryoga's hand.

"Echizen-san, thank you for inviting us," Tezuka said, shaking Ryoga's hand.

"Hehe! It's my pleasure!" Ryoga grinned.

"Aniki, so it was you who invited them!"

"What? A problem with that?" he teased her. "Knowing you, they would probably have a hard time to believe that you're actually a real girl when you're so tomboy-ish. I thought this will be a great opportunity for them to really see you as a girl!"

Ryoma sulked. It was true that they didn't want to believe her when she first told them. But she didn't need her brother to interfere with it! She knew too well that he only did it to have fun over her.

'Damn you, aniki!'

Upon seeing her in a dress, Momoshiro whistled.

"Echizen, you look pretty good in that thing!" Momoshiro said.

"Ochibi-chan, you sure look better in a dress than in your usual clothes!" Kikumaru said as he glomped her.

"Oupffffff! Kiku-!… pai-… brea-… Mmm Mmm Mmmm Mmmmm!"

"Eiji, let her go!" Ooishi released her from Kikumaru's dead grip.

"Thanks you, Ooishi-senpai," Ryoma said.

"It's nothing, Echizen," Ooishi said, smiling.

"But Ochibi-chan, Momo's right. You really look cute dressed like this!" Kikumaru chirped.

Pop! A red vein.

'That's it. He said the forbidden word.'

Her fists curled, ready to strike. Ryoga immediately stopped her.

"Chibisuke, calm down!" he whispered in her ears - ordering her. She uncurled her wrists. 'Kami-sama, thank you for making her so obedient!' He had a very good idea of a furious Ryoma and he don't wish anyone - not even to his worst ennemy - to meet her wrath.

"Echizen, you really look wonderful!" Kawamura stuttered, mesmerized too.

"Mamushi, don't you think she looks good like that too?" Momoshiro teased. Kaido blushed.

"Fssssssh!"

"Hm!" Ooishi nodded. "Like that time when you wore a yukata."

"Aa… Arigatou…" Ryoma said, not knowing how to receive a compliment.

"Ii data… Even in girl clothes, she remained a tomboy in her head, not knowing how to receive a compliment like a girl should do…" Inui mumbled, scribbling in his notebook again. Kikumaru and Momoshiro snickered as Ryoma pouted.

"So, you're really a girl after all. I still didn't want to believe it when you told us. But now that I see you dress like that, maybe I believe it now," someone said behind her. "Though it's really hard to tell that you're a girl…"

She turned around to see Niou.

"You!" she rudely pointed a finger in his face.

"Rikkaidai!" Gakuto exclaimed. Jirou's attention immediately awaken.

'If Rikkaidai is here, then it means that…' Jirou's hope were answered.

"Yo! Echizen-chan!" Marui appeared behind Niou, winking at her.

"Marui-senpai too!" But Ryoma switched her attention to Niou again. "And what do you mean by it's hard to tell that I'm a girl?" she asked menacingly, black aura emitting from her. Niou saw Kirihara, Momoshiro and someone very alike Ryoma - (Oh yeah! Her brother Ryoga! I saw him in her photos album!) - behind her waving frantically at him.

'You idiot! Don't say thing like that if you want to stay alive!' They gestured at him in panic. Niou paled.

'Yikes! That's right! I have completely forgotten! Kirihara and Momoshiro had experiences of her wrath!' Niou took a step back, hands up.

"Ah… ah… ah… Nothing! He he he…" he laughed embarrassingly. "I only mean that you look different in a dress because it's the first time I see you in a dress… Ha ha ha…"

"Aa. Ok," Ryoma said, her black aura disappeared as fast as it appeared. And she turned away as nothing happened.

'Pioufff! That was close!' Ryoga, Kirihara, Momoshiro and Niou sighed in relieve, their hand clutching their frantic heart. Marui snickered and Yukimura chuckled.

"Yukimura-senpai, what are you doing here?" Ryoma asked.

"Sanada and Yagyuu invited me," Yukimura explained.

"Sanada-senpai and Yagyuu-senpai?"

"The Sanada are good friends of the Atobe and the Yagyuu are one of their business partners," Oshitari explained.

"Aa. But what about Niou-senpai, Marui-senpai and Kirihara?" The three mentioned people grinned, showing all their teeth.

"We decided to go with buchou too," Niou said. Sanada sighed, hopeless.

"You weren't invited, you monkeys!" Yagyuu said. Niou, Marui and Kirihara guaffed. They overheard Sanada and Yagyuu inviting Yukimura, so they decided they want to have fun too - 'like a big whole family' from Niou's saying. They dragged in Jackal and Yanagi too.

"Poor you…" Ryoma said to Yagyuu and Sanada. "It must be really hard to babysit those big babies."

Kikumaru, Momoshiro and Gakuto snickered.

"We're not big babies!" Kirihara, Niou and Marui yelled in her ears. Ryoma covered them again.

'Urgh! If they keep shouting in my ears like this, I'm going to be deaf by the end of the day!'

Yagyuu and Sanada sighed while Yukimura chuckled.

"By the way, Rikkaidai and Seigaku, you seem to well know this young lady. I know that she's an Echizen but we haven't meet her before. Can you introduce her to us?" Atobe said.

"Introduce?" Momoshiro repeated.

"But you already know her!" Kirihara said.

"We do?" Jirou said, dumbfounded. He was mixed up. Maybe he needed to go back to sleep.

"I know Echizen Ryoma, but not her!" Gakuto said.

"She's Echizen Ryoma," Yagyuu said, pointing at her.

"What? Then there are two Echizen Ryomas?" Hiyoshi said.

"That's weird…" Shishido commented.

"Why would people named two people in the same family with the same name? It must be confusing," Ohtori pondered.

"Very particular," Oshitari said.

"Usu!"

"No no no!" Marui tsked. "There is only one Echizen Ryoma, and it's her."

"I don't understand. The Echizen Ryoma we know is a boy. She's a girl? How can it be?" Shishido said.

"The boy Echizen Ryoma and the girl Echizen Ryoma are one person," Kikumaru explained.

"WHAT?!" Hyotei yelled.

(1) hime: means "princess", the appellation for girls from noble families.

(2) péché mignon: French expression for one's weakness, usually involving sweets.