Blood stepped in front of me protectively, transforming his cane into a gun all cool-like. "You've got a lot of nerve showing your face her, knight."

"Hahahaha~." He narrowed his red eyes, smiling at me. "I only came to see Miss Outsider. You keep hogging her all the time, Hatter~."

"Dude, you freaking groped me last time I saw you!" I shouted, clinging to Blood tightly. "Why the bugger does it seem okay to come back?"

"Oh right~." You know how I said his laugh was kind of cute before? Yeah, I take that back. When he had a psycho-rapist face it was more like serial-killer-standing-over-your-bed DISTURBING.

"Miss Toki, please go wait inside."

"But-"

"Just do it," he insisted as Ace pulled out his sword. He propelled himself forward with an epic kick on the ground, sliding toward me. I felt bad, but I quickly listened to Blood's order (maybe I'll call it a friendly suggestion, to make me sound less obedient) and made a mad dash for the house. I heard the machine gun go off a few times, followed by Ace laughing as I ran inside.

I quickly went for my room, attracting the attention of a few servants, and fell on the floor when I got there. I knew Ace was stronger than Blood, so the only real advantage my Mafioso could have was speed, and that was given Ace wasn't faster than him. I've never really seen either of them running at the same time... maybe I'll organize a footrace or something. That'd be interesting.

I jumped when I looked up and saw the twins staring at me. I guess I forgot to close the door, either that or I was just being really unobservant when they came in. "Sis?" They sat on either side of me.

"What's wrong~?"

"Did the boss make you mad again?"

I shook my head, trying not to laugh (I imagine I made a pretty funny face in the process) at that. "He's fighting Ace right now.

"Huh~? You mean the knight?"

"Yeah, that would be Ace."

"Eww, I hope blondie-chickie-rabbit doesn't get to be in charge when he dies!"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'WHEN HE DIES'? YOU GUYS ARE BUGGERING AWFUL LITTLE JERKS, GET OUT! HE'S TOTALLY NOT GONNA DIE, YOU KNOW WHAT I'LL GO BUGGERING SAVE HIM MYSELF SO HA!" I shouted, suddenly inspired to get myself killed. But the important thing was, I would die like a hero. An awesome hero. With an axe. Halberd, actually, but who cares, right?

And so, I slid my trusty weapon (which I'd never actually used) and returned to the front door, peeking through the window. Blood didn't seem to be doing so well, judging by the fact that Ace had him on the ground and panting heavily at that point, and so I did my best to (oh dear Gackt, the third time!) muster my courage and heroically threw the door open.

Actually, no. I just sort of opened the door like a regular person and walked out, almost managing to fall on my face (sort of like that one time when I was on vacation on this island... the doctor was really cute). The important thing is, I'm Toki Hana, so my exiting ability was still 20% cooler than that of anyone else ever.

Fortunately for me, neither of the guys seemed to notice me when I came out. Ace was laughing like a freaky sociopath and was coming closer to the Hatter with his blade. I inched around behind him, thank the gods that Blood didn't give me away when he saw me, and prepared myself for stabbing. However, it was then that Ace DID notice me.

"Hahaha~, what are you doing, Toki?"

"Oh, you know, just... Stargazing."

"But it's noon~, haha~."

"THEN I'M FREAKING BIRDWATCHING, GOT A PROBLEM WITH IT?" I then proceeded with my attack, succeeding in tripping. Awesomely enough, I tripped in the same direction that he dodged and managed to land a nice blow right across his stupid chest. Despite the fact that he was a freaking pervert that just tried killing my boyfriend, I still felt a little bad though. He sat on the ground for a minute, either dying or contemplating something (I wished it was the former), and then looked up at me and laughed. I realized that my awesomeness had actually only managed to cut his shirt open and leave a tiny little cut, feeling slightly less bad, but he was apparently impressed.

"Wow, Toki! You're the first person besides Gray that could actually hit me! Hahaha~, I guess that means you're stronger than the Hatter!"

And if that's not an ego boost, I don't know what is. So take that Blood, I'm stronger than you. Hah.

After that Blood got up and we finally convinced Ace through a long, confusing barely-a-conversation-at-all-more-like-talking-in-circles conversation that he should go leave and go on an adventure (minus the go on an adventure part, but I know he'll manage to find one). "Are you okay?" I asked him loudly, standing on my tip-toes in an attempt to brush down a piece of his hair that got messed up.

"What were you thinking?"

"I was thinking something along the lines of, 'I'm Toki Freaking Hana! I'm in the freaking mafia! I can totally do this! But this'll be my first time stabbing someone. I wonder what it feels like. Oh well-"

"You know what I meant," he cut me off, with a weird slightly panicky and very adorable look in his eyes.

"I'm fine, Blood. It's not like he hit me or anything. Besides, I did better than you~. I appreciate the effort though."

He didn't seem amused like he usually did, so I was sort of worried. "That isn't the point. You can't be so reckless in a fight; if I recall correctly people from your world can't be reborn when they die."

Daww. He was worried about me. I almost cried a little happy tear. "Why is that any different than if you would've died?"

"I would just have my clock repaired and come back."

"Yeah, as a total stranger! If I do recall correctly, you weren't doing so well when I showed up! What do you think I would've done if you died?" The way he said that he would just come back really made me mad; geez, he can be such a jerk sometimes!

"You could just leave Wonderland, go home and forget about all of this."

I was silent, trying to pierce into his soul with a death glare, until finally I gave up and realized I would never develop laser vision like that. "Blood… You know what, fine, I'm sorry for trying to help you out, okay? I feel so freaking useless, I might as well just go home anyway! Are you happy?" I didn't wait for a reply; instead, I stormed off into the woods angrily. I didn't go very far, because I was pretty sure I got my point across and figured I would just wait for a bit and go back, but after a short while I sat on the ground. "Stupid Blood."

"So, Toki, are you following me now? Hahaha." I was silent. "Toki?" He-with-the-freaky-laugh knelt down in front of me and put his hand on my chin, tilting my head up to look at him. I could (grossly enough) smell blood on his coat, and I really hoped (but doubted) that it was from his cut.

"L-leave me alone," I muttered, pushing his hand off.

"What's wrong? Did you make the Hatter mad by ignoring him?"

"Shut up." I pulled my knees up to my face and looked away from him.

"Hahaha, you're so mean." Again, I was silent. "What are you doing?"

"Ace, DO YOU KNOW WHAT FREAKING SHUT UP LOOKS LIKE? NO? IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR FACE. SO THERE."

Don't ask where that came from. I think a friend of mine said that to me once.

He grinned and stood up, offering me his hand. "Do you want me to spit on it or something?"

"Of course not. I'm just going to take you back to Heart Castle." He got that freaky look in his eyes, but I didn't protest because I was an idiot and left my weapon behind. So, I let him pull me up reluctantly.

"Why? What do you want from me?"

"I think you know the answer to that, Toki."

Bugger.

/AN/ Geez… this was a long one O.o 1,414 words, in one chapter? What the bugger happened to me? XD So, this took a different turn then I thought it would, but whatever. I think the inspiration came from the Panic! At the Disco and Of Monsters and Men songs I was listening to… A few references were made, 20% cooler is My Little Pony; the "do you know what shut up looks like" thing was from when my friend Luna took me and my sister to Tekkoshocon 2012; and the island thing is a reference to my new Toki story "Welcome to Wonderful Waffle Island", a Harvest Moon Tree of Tranquility fanfic (if you're interested in more Toki, you don't have to play the game to get the story, so just check out my story list :3). Thanks for reading, please review :3