Welcome To The Phantomhives {Kuroshitsuji x Modern!Reader}

[TWENTY]

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖚𝖙𝖑𝖊𝖗, 𝕮𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖌𝖚𝖊𝖘

After their stage names were revealed to be Black, Belladonna and Smile, respectively. Joker took them on a tour of the backstage, y/n was lost in her own thoughts as she followed them closely; not hearing to Joker's words since she already knew most of it.

"Oi, Bella." Joker called out to y/n "What happened to your thigh?" he questioned in genuine curiosity.

The girl tilted her head at the side owlishly before she noticed that her costume was so short that her scar was evident. Her cheeks turned vermillion from embarrassment. Ciel and Sebastian stared at her as well, they knew nothing of her past as well so, naturally, they were as clueless as Joker. She had never let anything about her life before they met slip, and, even when she did, she was careful not reveal much. The said scar didn't exactly look like a scar but more like a calligraphic rhombus with another shape in the middle of it that she couldn't quite imagine what it resembled and, on top of that, it didn't seem healed up at all. In fact, it was like black ink with red around it.

"O- oh, that. . ." she said, startled, her face was blank but her tone indicated an embarrassment that they had never seen her show- not in public at least - as she shyly tried to hide it. "I. . . There was an incident when I was little. My aunt took me to many doctors but nothing seemed to have worked."

"Is that so." Joker said, he stared at her empathetically, as his skeleton-like prosthetic hand gently caressed her cheek "Both you and Smile. . . So young, but you've been through a lot." The h/c haired woman felt her face heating up at the touch and the closeness, her eyes were wide and her mouth had turned into a thin line. Joker then brought her and Ciel into a side hug, her cheeks only turning even redder and felt as if she had eaten a Carolina Reaper pepper whole while Ciel was sweating nervously. "Everyone here's been through something, so you'll get along will with 'em."

"Yes." Ciel stuttered out

Sebastian was the next one to speak. "Did everyone join during the tour like we did?"

"Hmmm?" hummed Joker as he turned to look at him "S'true for most everyone, but the first tier members're all from the same hometown. We're all childhood friends."

"Childhood friends?"

"Yeah, but Snake's still a new face. His snake-charming's none to shabby an' we didn't have a snake-handler, so he quickly became a member. The perks are much sweeter if you're a first tier member, an' you don't gotta worry about survival of the fittest. You even get a private tent. That's the reason everyone's working too hard to compete to be a first tier member.

Sebastian stared to the direction of the tents, "First tier. . ."

Finally, Joker showed them to the practice tent and left them to warm up and start practicing. Sebastian, y/n and Ciel mulled over what they have learned while they stretched, and Sebastian pointed out that the kidnapped children were not present. Dagger noticed them and came towards them.

"Hey----!! Don't stretch so sluggishly, you guuuuuuuys!" Dagger said, y/n was on Sebastian's back and yelped in surprise when the bleached blond haired boy appeared out of nowhere.

"Boss Dagger," another member of the circus said "What about your performance?"

"Today I was the top batter!" he replied with a cheerful attitude "I'm already done observing practice." he then turned back to the trio, y/n had gotten off Sebastian and helped Ciel fix his pirate hat "First you gotta decide your program. What're you hoping for?"

"A program that doesn't involve using my body for something like a tightrope walking would be good. . ." Ciel responded "Seriously."

Dagger chuckled lightly and nodded, "You seem weak, yeah~ Then, I'll be earnestly teaching Smile knife-throwing. You, Belladonna?"