A/N: Hello all! I know that in my new story, I said that I might have yet another new tale today and well… yeah, I do, this idea has been bugging me for a while too so I've decided that screw waiting, I'm gonna type it! On another note, my dad sold my car today T.T it makes me so sad, it was my first car and it was a lime green VW bug, I loved my car, but I'm going off to college and have no use for it there and we've had to put a lot of money into it so my parents sold it and are probably going to get a different one for my brother. Now! Onto to story, you guys probably don't know me yet and really don't care about my personal life so I'll shut up about it XD

Disclaimer: Dante is my video game crush; if I owned him I wouldn't have destroyed him as Ninja Theory has done.

Random Quote that suits this story: Never criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes- that way, when you do, you're a mile away… and you have their shoes.

A fight not to forget

"Come on kid, please?" Dante tried pulling the younger's headphones from his head. All he got was a slap and a glare. Nero had just returned from a very exhausting mission and now the elder was trying to beg him into going on another. Or rather, annoy him into going. The teen felt his brow twitch, was the man trying to get punched into the wall? Because the partial devil was close to doing just that. Dante poked him in the cheek again and Nero lost it.

"Fine! Just stop doing that!" he snapped and the half devil grinned, knowing that he'd won.

"Great, get your stuff kid, this is going to be one hell of a party." The teen groaned and winced as he pried himself off the couch, all he wanted to do was sleep… that's all he wanted… was that too much to ask for?

The whole journey Nero was pretty sure that he was going to explode as his hunting partner sang songs on the radio off key and prattled on about stupid and pointless things. After about an hour the teen had had enough, he was exhausted and annoyed.

"Shut up Dante! Just shut up!" The older slayer looked at him, startled at the partial devil's outburst but Nero wasn't done yet. "You are so freaking annoying! You just run your mouth because you're so full of yourself that you don't know when to shut up! You're a slob and probably the most annoying person that I ever encountered!" by the end of this the half devil's face had darkened.

"If you feel that way kid why don't you just leave? It's not like I'm forcing you to stay." Dante said quietly, the lack of volume not taking away the mean edge that was in them. They both knew that the younger had nowhere else to go. After he and Kyrie had broken up, Fortuna had all but kicked him out, with little money and no job, Nero had come to Dante looking for help. It had taken a lot for him to swallow his pride and actually ask for the help but the elder had welcomed him with open arms, almost as though he'd been expecting the teen to show up on his doorstep.

Nero had no comeback for that and simply turned and looked out the window, he wasn't going to apologize for what he'd said; he'd meant every word of it. The rest of the trip passed in tense silence, neither slayer even looking at one another. Even upon arriving the two were silent as they collected their gear and headed out to confront the demons they'd been hired to slay.

The demons weren't hard to find. The twins were lounging in the branched of some trees, looking like they were having the time of their lives, both looked vaguely cat-like, multiple tails swishing over the branches. One looked up and gave a smirk, reminding Nero greatly of the Cheshire cat, so much so that he expected it to disappear any moment.

"Look sister," the smiling one purred, keeping eye contact with the slayers before him, its voice obviously male. "it seems we have company." The other looked over and smiled as well, the two mirror images of one another.

"It seems we do brother, why don't we give our guests a proper welcome?"

"Wait sister, am I wrong or is this the Son of Sparda and the one rumored to be his apprentice?"

"I am not an apprentice of his!" Nero growled, he'd been resistant to coming on this mission to start with but hacking up some demons would be a good stress reliever. The twins had leaped from the tree and now began slinking up to them, their pawsteps nearly silent upon the mossy ground.

"Oh like I haven't seen you trying to pick up my devil arms kid." Dante sneered, it seemed like he was still angry. That took the younger a little off guard; the elder always seemed to shake things off right away, no matter how serious they were. I must've really hurt his feelings, Nero thought, then turned his attention back to the demons in front of them, now was no time to focus on that.

"It is indeed them, so sad though, to see ones who should be close fighting so fiercely." The she devil purred, the two shared a look and too late did the half devil notice the sparks flying in-between the twins' armored plates. As angry as he was, he wasn't about to let the younger get hurt on his watch.

"Nero look out!" he tackled the teen as the cat like demons bolted around, reminding the elder strongly of a Blitz, but unlike the thunder demon, these two never seemed to stop, Dante struggled to see the ghostly outline of each one as they sped around them, trapping them in.

"What the hell old man?! I can look after myself!" This ticked the elder off, the kid didn't realize how inexperienced he really was.

"Really? Cause it sure doesn't seem like…" The half devil never got to finish as the twins leapt right through the quarrelling slayers. Both collapsed instantly, Nero managed to hold on to consciousness long enough to hear the she devil say.

"It'll be good for them to have a walk in one another's shoes."

A/N: My first chapters lately have been getting me so excited :3

Till next time,

-Winged Element