Hope you liked the last chapter.

I am giving everyone an extra chapter today.

DID I SURPRISE YOU!

On with the story now.

Chapter Four

Joker POV

The girl, (for she was a girl, and not quite a woman), groaned and shifted her body.

Then let out a very quiet whimper/sob and opened her eyes.

Kagome POV (It's been a long time, hasn't it?)

When the clutches of unconsciousness finally let me escape, all I felt was pain.

I groaned and tried to move, but I almost lost my mind from the pain.

I half whimpered/ half sobbed.

It took a little while, but I could finally manage to open my eyes.

I realized that I was on my stomach and my face was against the wall of what seemed to be a tent because of the look and feel of the fabric.

"Are ye awake girlie?" Asked a man's voice.

I groaned again and turned my face towards the voice's location.

"W-where am I?" I asked.

There was so much pain.

Why was there so much pain when there wasn't any before?

"JOKER! DAGGER!" Shouted the man.

"The girlie's awake!" he continued excitedly.

Two more men entered my field of vision.

Dagger POV

I heard Docs' shout about the girl being awake and went to see how she was fairing.

When I got there, what I saw wasn't pretty.

Slash marks all over her back, like someone or something had taken claws or some sort of blade to her.

Then my gaze made its way to her face and I was stunned.

She had the most beautiful pink lips.

The cutest little nose and then my eyes met hers and I was floored.

Her eyes were such a startlingly, glorious shade of blue.

Her face was so elf-like, it made me breathless.

All of a sudden, the girl shifted again and looked like she was trying to roll over.

Joker moved over to her and put his hands on her shoulders.

He bent down to her eye level to speak more easily.

"Hold still girlie. You're injured pretty badly." He told her.

She looked apprehensive for a little while and then slightly moved her head in a nod.

Then she looked at Joker and me.

She got a look of wonderment in her eyes and stared at us both until I started to fidget, uncomfortable with her staring at me for so long.

She turned her eyes back to Doc and winced a little as he poked and prodded at her.

"D'ya knows what did this to ya girlie?" He asked her when he got done.

She nodded her head after a short pause.

"Where am I? And who are all of you?" She asked in a hesitance voice.

Her voice was as beautiful as the rest of her was.

Clear and sharp with only a small hint of some foreign accent, maybe Chinese or Japanese.

"My name is Doc. They there are Joker, Dagger, Jumbo and Beast and you are inside the medical tent for the Noah's Ark Circus. Who might you be and how did you get down that well we found you in?" He asked.

She looked at him warily and then cleared her face of any expression.

"I don't trust you enough to tell you any time soon. Maybe with time, but not right yet. I'm sorry." She told them emotionlessly.

"I'm not so sure you'd believe me if I told you anyway." She continued.

Beast scoffed at her.

"Of course not." Beast said scornfully.

"I'm not answering to you and if Joker or Doc has anything negative to say about my decision, they need to speak up for themselves. I don't think you are their voice since I heard them talk to me already." The injured girl said.

Big Sis didn't like that too much, glared at her and stormed out.

"Beast really didn't like that girlie. She and you won't really have a good relationship. I must admit though, that she deserved it." Doc said.

"Will you really tell us nothing about you though? No family information so that we can let them know that you are all right or anything?" He continued softly.

"What would you do if I told you exactly who I am? Would you really try to help me? Kick me out? What would you do?" The girl asked us in a distrusting tone.

"No miss. We could never do that. We were the ones that found you, and until you get better, you can stay here as long as you want." Joker told her.

It was the first time he had spoken since the young miss had woken up.

"Will you at least tell us your name so that we can know what to call you by?" Doc asked her.

She was reluctant.

You could tell that from the look in her eyes.

She thought for a long while, and then she nodded her head, like she was agreeing to something that she was discussing in her head.

She had made a decision.

"Fine. My name is Kagome Phantomhive-Higurashi-Taisho." She told us matter-of-factly.

As I heard her name, I was shocked.

Could she be of any relation to the Earl Ciel Phantomhive?

The young Lord who we are supposed to kidnap?

I looked over at Joker and saw that he was just as stunned as I was.

Then he went to say something to her.

Kagome POV

They all looked shocked at the name I had given them.

I knew my real family are nobles, but are they really that well known?

I watched as the blond and black haired boy, (that I now know as Dagger,) thought for a moment.

I could practically hear the questions running through his mind in that moment of complete silence.

Then he turned to face the orange haired man named Joker and watched him.

The man stared off into space for a moment and then turned his gaze to me.

He opened his mouth to speak…

But the man named Doc interrupted him.

"Now, now. No more questions for the patient. She is seriously injured and needs to rest. Come back tomorrow and see how she is doing." He told them and ushered them roughly out of the tent.

Doc turned back to her with, what she thought was a nice grin, and came towards her.

She scrambled back away from him and the searing pain in her back reminded her she really shouldn't have done that.

"Please don't move girlie. You will only hurt your-self more. Now lay back down and I will treat and clean your wounds. Then you can sleep. Ok?" He told her.

She stared into his eyes, and even though Midoriko had told her not to trust this man, she couldn't find any bad intentions in his eyes…

For the moment at least.

Kagome slowly nodded her head without a peep of noise and lay back down on the cot that she was on.

Doc treated and bandaged her wounds and gave her a cup filled with some sort of strange liquid.

She looked at him warily until he gave up and told her it would help her sleep without pain.

Kagome looked down at the cup and sniffed the contents delicately.

She didn't find anything wrong with it so she upended the cup and handed it back to him before she lay back down and finally went to sleep.

~For handing you a heart worth breaking~