/Hey guys~3 Wow, chapter 10 already! I'm surprised! XD Thanks so much to all of the loyal readers of this story! :)

To celebrate, you get a bonus chapter-insert before the continuation (God, I hate that word .) of the plot.

Bonus Chapter 1

I sighed, falling back on my bed. I was exhausted after a long day of entertaining Dee and Dum. Which let me tell you is more tiring than it may first seem. And I'm pretty it seems pretty tiring at first.

I closed my eyes, and when I opened them I was again in Blood's room. "God, sleepwalking's annoying," I muttered to myself slightly quieter than usual. (I had finally learned that talking loudly to yourself wakes people up.)

Last time I'd woken up in Blood's room I had been on the couch. I had been in many odd places when sleepwalking into his room; the floor beside his bed, on his desk, on the couch. And now I had provided myself with an even MORE awkward situation.

I was curled up beside him on his bed, so close that his hair brushed my face. When I realized this I screamed. Very loudly.

Apparently I was like a very effective alarm clock going off in your ear, because Blood jumped and much to my amusement fell onto the floor. "Toki? What're you doing in here?"

"I was sleepwalking again."

"And why, might I ask, where you screaming in my ear?"

"I'm sure you'd be freaked out too if you woke up in someone else's bed right beside them. And no offense, but you're not exactly the most comfortable person to be alone with, especially after yesterday." (If you're wondering what happened yesterday, it was a bit more than PG-13 rated. Hopefully that helps you. Because I really don't want to go into detail.)

"Are you saying that you don't enjoy my company?" he asked, pulling himself up.

"Of course I'm not. But still." My face was by now bright red, I'm sure.

He sat back down on the bed beside me, leaning closer and putting his hand on my face. "You're so cute when you blush, you know."

"I could say the same about you." The only thing that made him even hotter than normal was when he was blushing. It was so cute~!

He kissed me and I closed my eyes. "Blood~," I said, pulling back. He stared at me for a moment. "You know, this is only going to make everything more awkward when I sleepwalk."

"You'll get used to it."

/Hooray for random story inserts XD I hope you enjoyed that~ As for the bit more than PG-13 rated thing, I am 13 so I don't in fact want to go into detail. And this story's only rated T+, so I can't make it too graphic. So I would really hope that helps you XD XD Anyway, on to the actual story~.

I clung to Blood's side like a lost little kid as we waked to the destination. I held my gun tightly, actually somewhat afraid of what was coming up; don't lie, you would be scared of going off to battle with the mafia too. I think he could tell I was afraid, though. Or rather, it was horribly obvious.

"Don't worry, Toki," he said, smiling at me. This smile was friendly; very inviting, like Ichijou from Vampire Knight. He pulled me closer and I returned his smile.

"Right. This'll be fun."

"That's the spirit~!" Elliot said, leaning over me and wrapping his arm around Blood's neck.

Blood sighed. I couldn't help but laugh at them; they were pretty close friends for being polar opposites (wow, I used a smart-sounding phrase!).

Elliot laughed too, but after a few minutes Blood silenced us. He glanced back at the servants that had accompanied us, calling Aido over to us. "Yes sir?"

"I want you to keep an eye on Toki while we're fighting. Make sure that she doesn't get hurt, okay?"

He nodded (somewhat reluctantly. How rude.). "Well then, let's go settle this with those Amusement Par goons," the not-rabbit said, raising his gun in the air. "I've been wanting to test this baby out for a while now!" I was a bit unsettled when they mentioned the Amusement Park. Boris had helped me out before, so I was kind of wary about killing his comrades. But even so, if I was going to be a Hatter I figured that I should probably do what I'm told.

Blood and Elliot led the way, Dee and Dum right behind them. I assumed that they weren't the kind of people for an ambush, so they were probably going to go greet their enemies openly. That sounded fun, and I hoped that one day I would actually get to be there to watch.

It wasn't long before we heard gunshots. Aido pulled out his überly-awesome machine gun, so I grabbed my weapon too. "So we just shoot anybody and everybody?" I asked. "Besides friends?"

He nodded and I glanced around. The conflict had already erupted into a huge battle. But that's when I lost all motivation. None of them were and/or resembled Jeffery from science class. And I doubted that any of them were named Todd.

So, to quickly sum up the battle, I didn't shoot anybody. In fact, I had so little motivation that Aido had to drag me off of the battlefield. But really, why would I bother killing them if they weren't Jeffery or named Todd?

"Toki, what were you doing out there?" Blood asked once the battle had ended. We were on our way back to the Hatter Mansion, everyone but me sprinkled with blood.

"Not much. I didn't have motivation."

"I believe your 'motivation' should have been that you were told how to act on the field."

"Yeah, but that didn't work for me."

He thought for a moment. "Perhaps you're not cut out for this job."

I frowned, staring at him with wide eyes. "Does this mean I have to clean?"

He nodded and I was horribly unjoyous. If that's a word.

Anyway, I was unjoyous because for all 17 and ½ years I've been alive, I had never cleaned. Sure I'd picked up my clothes a few times, but never anything big. So this was also going to be a completely new concept for me.

"Aido will be your mentor," he added, much to Aido's displeasure.

"What? Sir, why me?"

I was insulted, especially based on Blood's amused expression. Which made me think that he was in fact getting back at Aido for something by making him teach me.

"Are you saying that you don't want to teach me?"
With a sigh, he responded, "No, no, Miss Toki. I'm... honored to be your new mentor."

He took me to the kitchen, deciding that that would be a good place to start. He handed me a bottle of cleaning stuff that you'd die if you ate (I think he wanted me to eat it at that point, because I hadn't shut up the whole time I was with him).

"So I just spray this on random things and wipe them off?"

"That would be the idea, Miss Toki."

So I began this 'cleaning' activity. I can't believe I hadn't done this before; it was so fun! Unfortunately for Aido, I had coated the floor in the soap and he kept falling over. "Hey Aido, do you think if I sprayed your face with this stuff and scrubbed hard enough you'd grow eyes?"

"How is that question relevant? Or logical?"

"It isn't~! I just wanted to ask."

He did a face-palm and groaned. And then I heard someone fall over.

"Oh, hi Blood. You might want to watch your step. It's a bit slippery in here."

As you can probably imagine, I wasn't allowed to clean anymore.

The next cycle was the worst job of all, in my opinion. I was getting dizzy just looking at all of the random crap piled up on the shelves, not to mention the smell.

Now, if you're wondering where I was, it wasn't the smelly old library down the street. Luckily Blood had some kindness in his heart and didn't make me go there. Even if I had nearly broken his back, gotten myself killed on his account, and almost caused him to break his leg.

I was in a place that was pretty close to the terribleness of the library, though. The grocery store.

Now I'm sure you're curious as to how I can screw up a trip to buy food. But it's me, so it's obvious that it was a simple task.

"Aidoo, this list is so boorringg!" I said, glaring at the slip of paper in my hand.

"Yes, well we only need a few things, so this list isn't particulary long."

"See, there's no chocolate on this list." I pointed at the paper now, unimpressed with the utter lack of candy. All it said was milk, bread, and eggs. "Seriously, who comes to the store and just buys milk, bread and eggs?"

"Evidently, I do."

"Pfft. You don't count. You don't even have eyes."

"I hardly see why that matters," he muttered indignantly. "In any case, let's just hurry up and get home."

"Meh. This job requires too much effort. I have no motivation."

He walked off, leaving me behind. I wasn't sure if that was accidental or if he just made it look like he'd just spaced out. Either way, I was happy to be away from him for a bit. He was so boring, I didn't feel like being around him.

Unfortunately the store was relatively small, so when I knocked over an entire shelf of canned goods he noticed. "Miss Toki!" the faceless guy hissed, glaring at me in his own, special non-glaring type way that could've been taken as a threatening look based on his eyebrows which technically shouldn't be called eyebrows in this case because he doesn't have eyes for them to be browing. If that made any sense. Okay, basically if he had eyes, I know he'd have been glaring.

Even more unfortunately, said cans had fallen on top of me. Needless to say, I was banned from shopping by Blood. And I was also banned from that grocery store for the rest of eternity and then some.

"Toki, I know that you can't truly be this useless," Blood said, staring up at me from his paperwork.

"I never really was all that helpful. I don't want to overstay my welcome though." Then I did something horribly out of character. "If you can show me the way I can go back home. I mean, Mexico's not THAT far from Pittsburgh. Probably."

"That's not necessary. And although I'm not sure exactly where these places you're talking about are, I doubt that walking there would be very enjoyable."

"To me, walking across the street is unenjoyable. But if I'm going to be in the way, I don't want to bug the Hatters."

He looked back down at the papers for a moment. "Why don't you go back to your room for a while? I'll think of something for you to do."

For the first time since I accidently sneezed in my cat's face three years ago I actually felt bad. I tried shaking the thought to the back of my head though, and actually listened for once.

I fell back on the bed, closing my eyes for a minute. Unfortunately (wow, there's a lot of non-fortune-ish things happening to me, huh?) that minute turned into... longer than a minute.

I found myself in crayon-world, only I couldn't hear the loud, ticking theme music of Nightmare this time. He didn't say my name like the ominious voice that he had been for a brief thirty seconds of me knowing him. And I knew he wasn't there when I called out "Sama" and he didn't respond.

Someone else did though, and I began wondering why I had so many random people showing up in my dreams. "How strange, that you would call someone you've yet to meet "Sama"."

"I can honestly say I was not expecting a girl to answer."

Yes, that's right. I finally introduced a character that was not in fact a super-hot guy.

She was in fact a strange looking young girl, probably only about thirteen years old. By strange-looking, I mean she was wearing a black joker hat, a black and gray jacket-type-thing, a black undershirt, and a red and black striped skirt. Plus a little white mask on her belt and a black eyepatch with a yellow eye drawn on it covering the only one of her eyes visible through her crimson hair. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joker- Gray Joker to be exact."

"Gray Joker, huh? Odd name. I'm To-"

"You're Toki Hana, correct?"

"Um, yeah. How'd you know that?"

"I have my ways. I've come here to warn you, in fact, Toki. You can't stay here in Wonderland."

I had no idea what she was talking about; even if I was having a bit of trouble finding a way to help out the Hatters, Blood didn't seem like he was going to kick me out. Especially since he'd said he was the one that brought me there in the first place.

"Why not?"

"Because, Toki. You aren't one of us. You don't belong here. Sadly I don't have time to explain it to you; my brothers and I will return soon enough, though. Until then." She waved and started walking, leaving me behind to ponder her cryptic message alone. At that time I was thinking something alone the lines of, 'What the flipping fudgecakes just happened? Did a little girl just tell me to screw off?' Which I'm pretty sure is in fact what happened.

When I woke up (finally in my own room with nobody else in there) I started thinking (dear god, my personality changed completely here!). And that's when I came up with an idea to finally help out the Hatters a bit.

All I needed to do was track down a lizard.

AN/ This chapter was considerably longer than the others XD Hopefully you enjoyed it, I certainly found it quite fun to write. In case you're wondering, the current word count (minus the bonus chapter-insert and notes) is up to 12444 words. I would also like to say happy birthday to Luna~ I'll have to work on Empire of Sin and Fate for her XD Gray Joker was my first H/C/JNKNA fan character, so I figured that she'd fit nicely into this story. I probably could've put a better description of her, but I haven't actually drawn her yet XD I spent most of my time on the computer reading VG Cats (which is an awesome comic) and trying to learn how to play "Mononoke Hime" using Synthesia (Mononoke Hime is the theme from the Studio Ghibli movie under the same Japanese title, or Princess Mononoke in English. It's a really good movie, especially if you're a wolf fan like me. Synthesia is a computer program resembling Guitar Hero where you can use a midi imput device or your keyboard to play digital midi music files XD) so I didn't get around to designing her ^^'

Reviews are appreciated~3