A/N: To all my readers, I'm sorry to tell you that, but I have give up upon finding a beta-reader. Up to now, all the people who proposed themselves to be my betas have give up after reviewing one chapter. Or they didn't give any news after I send them a new chapter. I understand that they are very busy too, or maybe also because I scare them because of my weekly posting. I have give up waiting for a respond from them and post the new chapters as they were. Otherwise, you will be waiting for eternity before reading a new chapter. In that case, I think that you will feel frustrated and/or bored.

The only thing possible now, is that you, by yourself, point out my mistakes and I will correct them. For example, someone send a review saying : "You made a mistake in the chapter XX. It's not "snakes" but "snacks"." After that, I change the "snakes" to "snacks". Or, if someone feel the desire, you can take the already posted chapters, beta-read them and send them back to me. Then, I will repost the said chapters. If you can also suggest me new vocabularies or a better way to turn out my sentences, then I will happily apply them.

I will stop asking for an official beta-reader. If you want to correct one of my already posted chapters or you want to suggest something new (styles, new sentence turn-out, new vocabularies...) to make it better, feel free and go for it. I will take all your suggestions into considerations.

So now the next chapter.

Enjoy!

From last time…

Yukimura, who was watching from the beginning, thought it was about time to untangle the confusion.

'Seems like Ryoma-chan needs my help,' Yukimura thought, silently laughing.

"All of you, that's enough," Yukimura said. "Stop it already. Leave Echizen-chan be now."

"Echizen?" Momoshiro asked. They all looked closely at the girl standing next to Yuuta, examining her from the head to the toe.

Up.

Down.

And up again.

. . .

Silence.

. . .

Tokyo. Seiyou Academy school ground.

Today was a beautiful day. The sky is blue and the sun is shinning high in the sky. On Seiyou Academy ground, birds were chirping happily in the trees, squirrels dancing from one branch to another. It was a beautiful and peacef-!…

"USOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"USOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

. . .

Well, maybe it wasn't such a peaceful day after all. Forget about the lines up there!

The ground of Seiyou Academy trembled. The birds flew away in the sky in panic. People in the whole school were holding themselves against something so they won't fall or trip somewhere. The vice-principal Ashimoto-sensei wasn't happy because he got splashed with his hot tea. And the principal Ishigawa-kouchou-sensei (1) was laughing at Ashimoto-sensei. Throughout the country of Japan, people wondered "What happened?" They don't remember hearing the weather forecast talking about an earthquake today. In Europe and in America, people thought: "Asian people are sure noisy today!". In the space, aliens observing Earth wondered what could have cause the little blue planet to suddenly shake itself violently.

"Maybe the humans are experimenting a new high sensation game?" one alien hypothesised. His companions agreed with him.

. . .

Now, back inside Seiyou Academy school green house.

A heavy silence now replace the previous shocking atmosphere. The regulars examined again the girl standing next to Yuuta. Wherever they look at her, she looks exactly like the male Echizen Ryoma they know: black hair with emerald glints, golden eyes, short height. The only differences were the girl set uniform and the long hair, but nonetheless exactly like their boy Echizen Ryoma. One must reaches the irrefutable final conclusion.

"…Echizen…" Kirihara started.

"…Ryoma…" Marui continued.

"…is…" Niou added.

"…a girl…" Ootori concluded.

"…No way…" Momoshiro finished.

"Fsssssssssssssssssssh!" Kaido approved Momoshiro.

"Yes way," Ryoma retorted.

"Ara? You didn't know she was a girl?" Jirou said.

"WHAT?" Gakuto exclaimed. "Jirou, you knew that she was a girl?"

"Yes," Jirou answered.

"USOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

For the second time of the day, another earthquake occurred on Seiyou Academy ground. Ashimoto-sensei who was holding a tea pot to serve himself another cup of tea, got splashed with the whole content of the tea pot. Ishigawa-sensei was laughing harder.

"Ishigawa-sensei…" Ashimoto-sensei said, twitching an eye.

"I suppose that some people discover that Echizen-chan is a girl by now. Hahahahahaha!" Ishigawa-sensei laughed.

Ashimoto-sensei sighed.

"Jirou-senpai, why didn't tell us that you knew that Echizen was a girl?" Shishido asked."How could it be possible that you know it when you are asleep 99 percent of the time?"

"Hum. Shishido has a good point…" Inui mumbled as he hastily scribbled in his notebook about the new development.

"Huh? You really didn't notice?" Jirou said. "But I'm not the only who knows that Echizen-chan is a girl."

"Who else then?" Kikumaru asked.

"Well…" Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori turned to Yukimura, who was smiling brightly. "YUKIMURA/BUCHOU! YOU KNEW IT!" they accused Yukimura.

"Yes," Yukimura said, smiling a dazzling smile again.

"Why… Why didn't you tell us…?" Sanada asked, his voice trembling a little bit. He was too shock by the news.

"Because I thought it would be funny to see your reactions," Yukimura said. "And I was very right. It was verrrrrry funny. Hahahahaha!" He laughed.

"Yukimura…" Yanagi trailed slowly.

Except Fuji, Jirou and Kabaji, all the regulars became instantly very tired.

"Ahhhh…" they sighed.

'He got us again!' they thought.

"Since when you knew it?" Yagyuu asked.

"Since the first day we met her," Yukimura answered.

Flashback

3-A room. English period.

"Atobe, that's enough! Let him be. It's just his first day here with you guys. Besides, I advise you to have him to tutor you. His accent is perfect while yours is still a little tainted with Japanese. You can also have him to tutor you for French! Your French accent is horrible!" the teacher said.

"Wuahahahahahahaha!" Niou, Marui and Ootori laughed louder. It was too comical. Ryoma pulled her tongue to Atobe.

End flashback

"She pulled her tongue to Atobe. It was a very girlish way, and childish too, to behave," Yukimura explained.

Ryoma pouted at the "childish" qualitative. Yukimura saw her. He laughed again.

"Huhuhuhuhu!"

Then he continued.

"But Jirou and I aren't the only one who know that Echizen-chan is a girl," Yukimura said. "Nee, Kabaji?"

"Usu!" Kabaji answered.

"Gah!" Atobe became blank. "You knew it? Why didn't you tell me?"

"…" Kabaji don't say anything.

"Have you asked him, Atobe?" Yanagi asked.

"Err… No…" Atobe trailed off.

"Well, in that case, it's normal that he didn't tell you," Gakuto said.

"Since when you know it, Kabaji?" Hiyoshi asked.

"…" Kabaji answered.

"Since the Preliminary District?" Oshitari read Kabaji. "When you carried her on your shoulder. Is that right?"

"Usu!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaah!" Atobe screamed. He felt like an idiot. He, who was the most intelligent one in Seiyou - so he thought about himself - didn't notice that that brat, who kept calling him by a dreadful name, was actually a girl.

In the green house, it was chaos. Everybody were talking in the same time, no one listening to no anyone. Tezuka fight to remain stoic outside, but inside was another story. Sanada was gloomy. Yanagi and Yagyuu tried to find out why they didn't know that their freshman was a girl. Inui's pen danced madly across his notebook. Ooishi and Kawamura were gaping like fish out of water. Yuuta was trying to convince Momoshiro and Kaido that Ryoma was really a girl, but the two Seigaku boys kept denying, saying that it cannot be possible. Oshitari, Hiyoshi and Gakuto listened to Yuuta's explanations, trying to link together the new information Yuuta tells them. Ootori, Niou, Marui and Kirihara were quarrelling over Ryoma's head. Ryoma, sat in a chair, rested on her elbow, kept sighing at their stupidity. While waiting for them to stop, she tapped her right foot on the floor. Yukimura was simply smiling while watching.

The whole time, Fuji didn't say anything. He was deep in his thinking.

'Echizen-kun?' Fuji thought a moment. 'He… is a she…?' He looked closely at her. Indeed, it was Echizen, but with long hair and in the girl uniform. 'Now I remember the first day we bumped into eachother, I felt a soft lump on his/her chest. That would be a girl bosom…' Fuji gulped. 'So he was a she after all. And I… (blush) I touched… a girl's…' He blushed more. He looked at her. 'I hope she forgot that part…'

He watched her. Ryoma was tapping madly her foot, many veins popping on her head.

'When will you stop this nonsense, you dimwits?' Ryoma thought, very annoyed.

"Wait!" Kirihara suddenly exclaimed. "If Echizen is a girl… Then… Then… Then…"

Silence.

Think again.

"Then I have been beaten… by… a… GIRL…?"

Silence again.

Next, he screamed.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Kirihara crouched down in front of the roses bed and grabbed his head in his hands, crying.

"Bouhou…! I got beaten by a girl who is younger and shorter than me… Bouhouhou! Woeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Ryoma twitched.

'Did he really need to add "shorter"?' Ryoma thought.

"There there, Kirihara," Yuuta said, patting his shoulder. "I know how you feel. I perfectly understand it."

"What! You mean that she beat you too?" Kirihara asked. Yuuta fidged. A black atmosphere descended on Yuuta's head. Suddenly, he becames gloomy. At first, he only wanted to comfort Kirihara, but the Kirihara just remined him something he wanted to forget about. The next second, Yuuta was crouched next to Kirihara in front of the roses bed, hugging his knees. Three of Yuura's spirit ghosts floated over his head.

"Ah. Then it means that Yuuta got beaten by her too," Kikumaru said. Kawamura nodded.

"Fshh-…!" Kaido dropped next to Yuuta.

"Mamushi/Kaido!" Momoshiro and Ooishi exclaimed. Ooishi fussed around the dead Kaido.

"Hmm, guess he is shocked to got beaten by a girl too," Inui mumbled, scribbling in his notebook.

"Inui-senpai, I beat you too," Ryoma said.

". . ."

Next, Inui was crouched down next to Kaido.

The remaining of the regulars sweat dropped as they looked at the four boys crouched in front of the roses bed, chibi form. Kirihara was drawing circles on the ground, Yuuta was still hugging his knees, very depressed. Inui wasn't scribbling anything. Momoshiro lifted the granite block Kaido on his legs so he was crouched like the others. On their head, their spirits were floating.

'At least, they've stopped their nonsenses,' Ryoma thought, sighing.

She took out her bento. This time, her bento box was bigger than usually. It was the same size as the one Ryoga brought to her during the District Tournament, with three layer boxes.

"Will you stop making the atmosphere heavy if I give you this?" Ryoma asked, showing them her bento. Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori switched their attention to the rectangle box in Ryoma's hands, their eyes shining. Ryoma lobbed a layer in the air. All their eyes followed the motion of the box, up and down.

"Hanyah?" Kikumaru caught it. Suddenly, he felt something different in the air around him. Momoshiro, Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori watched him with dangerous eyes.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" they growled.

"Yikes!" Kikumaru frigtened, sweating cold. By instinct, he did something he shouldn't have: he pulled the box closer to him. He only did it because their growl scared him, but they misinterpreted his actions. In their eyes, the cat-boy wanted to keep the box all for himself.

They jumped on him.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Kikumaru yelled.

A battle for foods was the next thing happening. Yuuta, Ooishi and Kawamura sweat dropped. Ryoma sighed as she set the remainging boxes on the table.

"Here, serve yourselves, senpai-tachi," she said to the others. They smiled and each of them picked something in the bento boxes.

"It's surprising, Echizen-chan," Oshitari said. "Why did you bring such a big box today? And sharing it with us on your own will?"

Ryoma took out a piece of paper and gave it to Oshitari.

"What is it?" Oshitari asked as he unfold the paper.

"From kaa-san, for you," Ryoma answered as she took an onigiri.

"What is it, Oshitari?" Gakuto said as Shishido and he leaned over Oshitari's shoulders to see the paper.

"To Seiyou Academy tennis club regulars, thank you for taking care of my daughter Ryoma. Please, accept this bento as a token of my gratitude. Echizen Rinko," Oshitari read. Yagyuu took the paper from Oshitari hands and read it too.

"So it's confirmed. Echizen Ryoma is a girl," Yagyuu said.

"For once that I can eat something from my bento and not just them," Ryoma said between her teeth and bite in her onigiri. Yukimura chuckled. Even Fuji could not suppress a small smile.

(1) kouchou and sensei: principal and teacher. Ishigawa-kouchou-sensei was a former teacher before and is now a principal. The fact remained that he was still had been a teacher before. I cut it short him as Ishigawa-sensei.