A/N: Probably some of you had noticed it. I rewrote the last chapter, the 21, making it a little bit longer. I focused on Fuji's thinking about Ryoma. See around the end of the chapter if you want to know what does it look like. Please, tell me what you think about it.

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Anyway, now the next chapter. Enjoy!


In the green house.

"So everyone, there will be a party at school tonight before the summer vacations and we thought that the tennis club could perform a play," Inui said.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!"

"Why must we do that?" Kirihara asked.

"We are the tennis club, not the drama club!" Ryoma protested.

"We play tennis. We don't play play!" Kirihara insisted.

"I don't see why we must do a play!" Ryoma concluded.

"It's because this is a special request from all ours fans," Yagyuu said simply.

'Yuck!' Kirihara and Ryoma thought.

"Indeed, like Yagyuu said, this is a special request from our fans," Yanagi said. "They send us a letter with the signature of each of their members. We must answer to their request."

"Ahhh…" Kirihara and Ryoma sighed in despair.

"So, what are we playing?" Marui said.

"Fairy tales," Sanada grunted.

"FAIRY TALES! Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!" Kirihara and Ryoma strangled themselves until they collapsed on the table from lack of oxygen.

"Ahou," Marui said. Fuji and Yukimura chuckled.

"What fairy tales?" Niou asked. Inui pulled out a paper.

"Look at this," Inui said as he put the unfold paper on the table.

"The president of the fan club gave us a list of the stories they would like to see us do. They said we can choose the one we want," Yanagi said.

"Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty…" Shishido read as he scanned the paper.

"Hey! They are all princess stories! We don't have girl to play princess role! We only have boys!" Ootori said. Someone tapped Ootori's shoulder.

"Ootori, remember, we have one girl in the team," Oshitari said, pointing at Ryoma. Ootori turned to look at Ryoma.

"Ah! That's right! I completely forgot that she's actually a girl! She's so tomboyish that it's hard to tell! But how can anyone tell that this cocky, skinny, short, unfeminine, ungraceful, lacking of sex-appeal, flat chest tomboy is actually a gir-… (WHAMP!) Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Ootori lay dead on the ground, eyes swirling.

"Ahhhhh…" he whimpered. He got knocked out by Ryoma's delicate and graceful hands (A/N: Hmm… Well, maybe not that delicate and graceful…) with something big. What something? A table. The table around which they sat. The table on which displayed their snacks.

Marui, seeing Ryoma's action coming, snatched the strawberry cake away to keep it safe. Yukimura, who was going to pour himself a cup of tea, wondered how his cup was now on the ground as he watched the liquid poured down into nowhere. Kabaji was acting as Atobe's personal table as he was holding Atobe's plate while Atobe drank his cup of tea. It was a chance that Fuji took his portion of cake, because only 0.1 seconds too later, and it would have ended like Kirihara. Kirihara, who was leaning on his elbow on the table, stumbled on the ground, his face in the dirt. Jirou, who was snoring on the table, was now snoring on the ground, next to Kirihara. Niou blinked twice. He wondered why the cake he was eating didn't end up in his mouth but all over his face. Tezuka and Sanada sighed.

'Well, it's true what Ootori said about her, but I won't say it out loud!' Shishido and Gakuto thought.

'I don't want to end like him!' Momoshiro and Hiyoshi thought.

'I value my life more than that!' they all thought.

"Fsssssssssssssssssh!" Kaido said. Yagyuu leaned near Yanagi.

"Yanagi, what is today's date?" Yagyuu whispered. Yanagi was going to answer when he and Inui remembered something very important.

"Inui, could it be…" Yanagi asked. Inui flipped through his notebook and checked his calendar. Marui gave him the calendar he received from Ryoga. Yanagi and Inui made a copy and kept it.

"Yes. It's today…" Inui trailed off.

"What? You mean that today is…" Oshitari said.

'today it's the first day of her PMS time!' they finished in their heads. They looked at Ryoma, whose face was lowered. Ryoma slowly raised her face. Her eyes were closed, like Fuji's. And she was smiling. She SMILED? Yes. She was smiling. She was smiling a beautiful smile with glitter and flowers around her.

Sparkle! Skarkle! Sparkle!

"Ootori-senpai, what did you say again?" Ryoma asked nicely, head slightly tilted in a cute way.

Sparkle! Skarkle! Sparkle!

Seeing that pretty, adorable, sparkling, flowerish smile, they turned blue from pure fright, their bodies shaking madly and they broke out in a cold sweat. Except the three buchous, Oshitari, Fuji, Yagyuu, Yanagi, Inui and Kabaji; they were frightened by her.

"Iie (1)… Absolutely nothing… You were just hearing things! I didn't say anything at all… Ha ha ha…" Ootori said, fearing for his life if he gave the wrong answer.

"Aa sou ka. Very good then," Ryoma NICELY answered, smiling beautifully again, her eyes still closed like Fuji's. Yukimura and Fuji chuckled.

Sparkle! Sparkle! Sparkle!

Shivers ran down their back against and they felt very cold.

'She's scary when shes smiles like that!' people thought. They began to think that they preferred Fuji's sadistic smile to her pretty smile.

'Note to self: never piss her off during her PMS period!'

Marui, to make thing easier, sliced a piece of the strawberry cake.


Flashback

When Ryoga gave Marui Ryoma's PMS periode calendar.

"During her PMS periods, always have Japanese foods or sweets with you. Feed her with a hundred percent Japanese foods will save your life," Ryoga said. "If you don't have Japanese foods, you can tame her with sweets and cakes."

End flashback


Marui sliced a BIG portion of strawberry cake. There was enough for two people.

"Here Echizen-chan, an extra portion just for you," he said as he handed her the cake. Ryoma magically transformed. She now has a huge happy smile. She put the table back and proceeded to eat the cake, forgetting about everything around her. Marui looked up, showing off a V sign. They all gave him their thumbs up.

'Good job, Marui!' they silently told him.


"Now, let's get back to business," Inui said. People took back their place around the newly placed table and listened while Niou washed his face.

"So, which story do you prefer?" Yanagi asked.

"None," Ryoma, Kirihara, Marui, Niou, Ootori and Shishido answered. Yanagi and Inui sweat dropped.

'I should have expected this answer from them!' they thought.

"Then let's do a random drawing," Oshitari took a pen and a paper, which he tore into many little pieces. He wrote the name of a tale on one piece paper and folded it. Ooishi brought out a little box in which Oshitari put all the papers. Then, he shook the box to mix the paper.

"Inside are all the tales our fans want us to do. We will do the play which is picked. Who will pick?" Oshitari said, holding the small box in front of them. They looked at the box, gulping, as it was a box from hell. Well, considering the actual situation, anything from this box was from hell for them.

"Echizen, you pick!" Kirihara said, pushing her to the box while he hid behind her.

"Huh? Why me? Why not you?" Ryoma protested.

"You're a kouhai (2)! Do what your senpai tell you to do!" Kirihara retorted.

"You're a senpai! Do you responsibility and show the right example! So you do it!" Ryoma retorted back.

"Arrrrrgh! Who cares?" Marui said, holding his head in his two hands.

"Just do it!" Niou added. Niou and Marui pushed Ryoma to the box, her nose coming to 1 cm to the small box. Gulping, she slowly put a trembling hand inside the box. Looking at her, everyone could tell that she was scared that she might be bitten by a piece of paper. After what seemed to be an eternity, she finally pulled out a paper.

"What is it?" Kikumaru asked. Gulping again, Ryoma slowly unfolded the paper with her trembling fingers. When she saw what was written inside, she felt backward, consciousness lost.

"Aaaaaaah!" Kirihara yelled as she felt on him. Both of them tumbled on the ground. Unconscious Ryoma, lying on the top of the knocked out Kirihara.

"Echizen!" Oishi fussed around her in his mother-hen mode as Kawamura tried to fan her fresh air. Ryoma let slip the paper she was holding in the air and Marui caught it. Marui and Niou read the paper.

"Cinderella?" they yelped.

"So it's decided. We will play Cinderella," Inui concluded.


"But there is a problem. The Cinderella story has more than one female character. And I don't think Echizen can play all the female characters at the same time," Shishido said, scratching his head.

"Well, obviously, some of us have to cross-dress!" Gakuto said.

"How about the casting?" Oshitari asked.

"How about you suggest who plays what? If you got proposed a role and you don't protest against it, then we will take it that you accept it," Yanagi said. "Unless there is a role you want to play."

"Then I shall be the king," Atobe said, flipping his hair in a majestic move.

'We should have known that, coming from him!' everyone thought.

"Yukimura can be the fairy godmother," Marui proposed.

"Uh… I don't mind," Yukimura said.

"Who will be the step-sisters?" Oshitari asked.

"How about Momoshiro and Kaido? Those two are like brothers to me, so they can be sisters," Kikumaru proposed. Marui, Niou, Ootori, Shishido and Gakuto imagined Momoshiro and Kaido in a dress, with their built up body. Their face turned blue and they shivered.

"Nah!" they chorused. Momoshiro's and Kaido's faces were bluer than the others. The thought of the two of them being brothers or sisters just disgusted them.

"Why don't you do it, Marui?" Ootori asked.

"Why me? Why not you?" Marui retorted.

"Why me?" Ootori asked.

"Because you proposed it," Marui said. "And why don't you do it with Niou too?"

"Hey! Why do you add me in with him?" Niou said.

"Because you two have the same hair color!"

"It's a strange reason, but it's noted. Niou and Ootori are the step-sisters," Inui said.

"Hey!" Niou and Ootori protested, but everyone ignored them.

"Anyone for the step-mother?" Yanagi asked. No answer. Except Jirou's snoring. They took Jirou's snoring for a yes.

"So, Jirou is the step-mother," Inui noted down in his notebook.

"Who will be the prince?" Ooishi asked.

"Hey! Can I be the prince?" Marui said.

"No, you can't," Yanagi said.

"I forgot to tell," Inui said. "The fans want Fuji to play the role of the prince."

"Huh? Who? Me?" Fuji said.

"So Fuji will be the prince," Kikumaru decided in Fuji's place for Fuji.

"Ah…" Fuji said, not very sure.

"So all the casts are decided," Oshitari concluded.

"Hey! Wait a second! We forgot the main character," Gakuto pointed out.

"Ah. That's true," Momoshiro said.

"So, who will play Cinderella?" Sanada asked. No one raised hand.

"How about Echizen?" Hiyoshi proposed. They all looked at Ryoma, who was still unconscious.

"She's not protesting, so we can consider it as a yes," Yagyuu said. They nodded, agreeing. Yuuta shook his head, rubbing his forehead.

'She is unconscious. How can she protest?' Yuuta wondered, sighing.

'She won't like it when she will learn about it!' everyone thought, but they really don't care. Yukimura and Fuji chuckled.

"Fshhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Kaido said.


(1) iie: no;

(2) kouhai: underclassman.