I was reading through all of the reviews on this story today after la clase de español. "You're wrong; There's NO building large enough to house my ego." (Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged). I must thank you for making my ego grow to the size of Kaiba's. Seriously, you guys rock~3

XD While I'm thanking people, I think that I should mention TheVulpineHero1. If you like Final Fantasy VII, then I highly recommend his stories. The Ballad of the Gunslinger and the Cat is my all-time favorite fanfic, and it serves as a major inspiration to my writing style. XD And without further adieu ("My name is Adieu!" (lol iCarly references are fun XD The "iStart a Fan War" episode was awesome)

"So Blood, what am I gonna get to do if I don't have to clean?"

"You're going to become a Hatter," he said, standing up.

"But my dad said that if I ever ran away and join the mafia my brother gets my stuff." It was true; he actually did tell me that once. It went something like this:

"Toki, just clean your room. It's a disaster!"

"No. I'm going to go join the mafia."

"Fine, but your brother's getting all of your things."

"Nevermind."

He laughed at this. For some reason he didn't seem to believe me, which I didn't understand at all. I mean, I'm freaking Toki Hana. How can you not believe me?

The mafioso was now standing beside me, giving me a smile much like Cassandra Jill Warlock from Black Blood Brothers (okay, I know Casa's a girl, but I'm running out of vampires here!) "How sad. Unfortunately for you, though, you don't have a choice. If you're going to continue staying here, you'll have to pull your weight."

"My weight is only approximately ninety-five pounds, thank you." I glared at him, offended that he would imply that my weight would be difficult to pull. Or something like that. Actually, I really just felt like glaring.

"Even so, I'm sure you'll get used to working quite quickly."

"That's funny, Blood. I guess I can help out though; how hard can working for the mafia be?"

He grabbed his hat and cane and took me outside. It was a very bright noon. Annoyingly bright. So bright that I wanted to shoot someone repeatedly, but that's not the point. Although I did make this very clear to Blood.

He handed me a gun (I never thought anyone'd be dumb enough to do that) and explained to me that I was going to get to have a fun job. "And you'll finally get to shoot someone repeatedly," he added after teaching me how to shoot the weapon that I shouldn't have in fact been given. "Since you seem so intent upon doing that."

I was suddenly interested in this joining the mafia thing, not like I wasn't interested before; I mean, I'd get to shoot and rob people for a living! (Okay, even I'll admit that it's kind of disturbing how excited I was to kill someone.). "Like this, right?" I asked, positioning the little targeter-thingy towards a tree.

He nodded so I fired it. It was fun, getting back at nature for the evil things it'd done to me. Not that nature had ever particularly done anything bad to me, but I really enjoyed shooting that tree.

"You learn surprisingly quickly, Miss Toki."

I stared at him for a moment, completely insulted. "What exactly do you mean, "surprisingly quickly"?"

Again he gave me an über-kawaii vampire smile desu desu. I almost squeed (What? I wanted to see what it was like to sound like a fantard) with happiness. "I mean what I say."

"Meh." I was horribly unimpressed with his answer, even though that's exactly what I would've said. "Whatever; I guess it's better than being an expectantly slow learner."

"I did notice something a bit off when you were aiming, though." He came uncomfortably close, standing behind me and grabbing my hand that was currently holding the gun. "Like this." He showed me how to properly hold the weapon when I fired, aiming it more precisely at my target.

I felt awkward with him holding me like that. I think, yet again, that most girls would. "Blood, you're invading my personal bubble," I said after about twenty seconds of me actually understanding the new concept and no longer needing him to guide me so directly.

He didn't answer me at first, still kind of staring off into the distance. "Blood? Hellooo?" I waved my hand in his face and he finally looked down at me. "Did you forget what you were doing?"

"You seem to have that effect on me. Perhaps it's because you're an oustider."

Again with the "outsider" thing. I wasn't sure what he meant by that, but I didn't bother asking because I was too busy trying not to spaz with joy because he was still holding me closely.

"Speaking of which," he continued, "I have a gift for you. Once night falls, will you join me in my room?"

Last time I joined him in his room he strangled me half to death and then provided for a very awkward event that seemed like something straight out of an otome dating sim. I had to use my head here.

As I'm sure you can assume by now I said yes. Although I was crossing my fingers that I wouldn't end up pinned to the couch again.

"Boss~! Lady~!"

Blood looked behind us to find the two gatekeepers and the not-rabbit. "Is the lady going with us?" the red-wearing twin asked. I glared at him.

"Me llamo Toki, no me llamo "lady"." I was in Mexico, after all. I figured that maybe saying it in their native language would help them.

"Llamas?" his brother asked, horribly confused. I shook my head.

"Nevermind."

"On that note, yes, Miss Toki will be accompanying us today."

At first I hoped I was accompanying them to somewhere fun, but then I realized why he had taught me how to use the gun. "Dear god, do I get to shoot people?" I asked in (morbid) excitement.

He nodded. "Welcome to the Hatter Family, Toki Hana."

Oh my dear god. I was a member of the mafia. And I was going to get to kill people.

This was going to be epic.

/AN. This will be fun XD I love writing this story so much. I feel like I can really pour myself in Toki~. I should write Empire of Sin (my original story, I believe I have it on my fictionpress page under the same Pen name) and/or Fate (another of my stories, which I am currently making an animated movie trailer for) for Luna-sama XD But I just can't seem to get into those ;; Which is sad because Sin is my favorite of my characters, and besides Haru and Toki he's my favorite persona. ~3 I need to work on my cosplay for him so I'm ready for Luna's b-day party XD XD

Enough ranting XD Yet again, thanks so much to everyone who has reviewed, and remember that I only bite those who irritate me~ XD

DISCLAIMER: I don't own ~Wonderful Wonder World~, although I do own the pudding in my refrigerator. SO TAKE THAT, QUINROSE!