Alternative Lifestyles CHAPTER 1

This fic is dedicated to my most faithful reviewer SirenaLoreley, who reviews almost every single chapter of my DantexNero stories. She also drew me a beautiful pic of Nero for one of my other fics! :3 So this story is a NeroxDante with a vampire twist. I don't own Devil May Cry, but I hope you all enjoy the story!

Nero had been living at Devil May Cry for a few months with the famous man in red, Dante. The young half-devil had realized that Fortuna was not the place for him to be and so he'd struck out on his own and with some luck had managed to find Dante who offered to give him a place to call home and a job. He really was grateful to the older man, though most of the time it didn't show.

Said man in red was out on a job, leaving Nero in the shop alone. He was sitting on the beat up couch, eating Chinese takeout and sipping from a glass of milk, the TV was on and he was already lost on where this thing was going, something about a vampire in a rock band, but other than that he had no clue.

The huge and ancient phone on Dante's old desk started to ring causing the young male to put his food aside to go answer it.

"Devil May Cry." Nero heard the magic word that meant a job and smiled. "Okay, give me the details." he said, scribbling down some notes on the pad in front of him. Three victims, all drained of blood found on the west side of town. He frowned, wasn't that where Lady lived?

"Yeah, I'll head out right now. I should have taken care of the problem by sunup." he said before hanging up the phone. The half-devil grabbed his coat, Blue Rose, Red Queen and his keys, flicking off the neon sign reading 'Devil May Cry' before locking up and getting on his motorcycle, heading out to the west side of town.

The west side was a little nicer than some of the other parts of the city, explaining why Lady lived here. He pulled his bike to a stop and looked down the alleyway the man on the phone had said the trouble had been coming from. The backstreet was well lit with neat garbage dumpsters lining the right edge. It didn't seem the right place for a monster.

He figured he had to check it out anyway and got off his bike, walking into the mouth of the alley. "Anyone down here?" he asked cockily.

"Yes…" came a smooth woman's voice.

"Well then, why don't you just come on out?" he asked, putting one hand on his hip, looking around for the source of the voice.

"Why don't you come a little closer?"

Nero continued to cast his gaze around suspiciously, but he walked forward

A woman stepped out from behind one of the dumpsters, she had pale white skin, and black hair that fell artfully over her bare shoulders. She had on a black strapless dress that showed off far more cleavage and leg than was necessary.

"Is my form…appealing to you?" she smiled, turning her ruby eyes towards him.

The devil barely gave her a once over. "Nah, I'm over girls, and I was never interested in sluts like you to begin with."

The woman at once turned angry, lunging forward. Nero drew Blue Rose in a split second-but it was surprisingly too late. She had his left wrist in an ice cold grip, twisting it and making his gun clatter to the ground.

Nero started to struggle, reaching to throw her off with his devil bringer, but she grabbed that wrist as well and slammed his back into the brick wall behind him, hiding them between two dumpsters, her body pressed flush against his own.

"Show me what you want darling."

"I want you off of me! Mm!" he was cut off as her cold lips meshed with his. He quickly turned his head away and tried to throw her off, but she was stronger than he anticipated and wouldn't budge.

"The son of Sparda a beautiful creature? Ha! Good luck with that one darling." she grinned showing canine teeth much longer than was natural. By turning his head away to avoid the kiss he had inadvertently given her a huge opening to his throat which she took, sinking her fangs into his tender flesh.

Nero gasped with pain once again struggling in her hold, but the strength was quickly draining out of his limbs, his vitality failing. His eyes started to flag, his mouth falling open to gasp for breath…

He heard a loud sound a gunshot followed by a screech as his neck was released, something thick and warm landed on his tongue and he swallowed without thinking.

"Get the hell off him bitch!" Lady shouted, a pistol in one hand, but she pulled Katalina Ann over her shoulder ready to hit her with that next.

The vampire hissed and had backed up a few feet in less than a second. Without her support Nero felt his legs give out and he landed on the ground Lady fired her rocket launcher, the missile hitting the vampire with an explosion. Blood rained down for a moment and then it was gone.

Lady holstered her weapons and ran over to Nero kneeling by his body and praying that it wasn't too late.

"Nero!" she hissed, shaking his shoulder and trying to roll him onto his back. "Damn it you cocky punk! Wake up!"

Meanwhile…

Dante headed back into Devil May Cry, noticing the light to his business was off as well as most of the lights in the joint. Either the kid had gone to bed or was out on a job. He walked up and unlocked the door. He could hear the TV going, and pictured Nero asleep sprawled out on the couch, the kid passed out there once in awhile. He always liked when the younger slayer did that, it showed off some of his muscle and sometimes his shirt rode up showing off his strong abdomen.

The kid was nowhere to be seen however so he guessed that his second option was probably the correct one, he was probably on a job, and hoped that Nero would get back soon.

When the kid had come to his doorstep he couldn't believe it, he'd broken up with Kyrie and had no where to go. Since then he'd found himself getting more and more attached to the quickly growing devil hunter. He figured that Nero was straight though, and had barely hinted at his real feelings.

The son of Sparda sighed to himself just thinking about it. Then his stomach rumbled, reminding him there was a real world beyond his thoughts and he needed pizza!

Nero started to come back to his senses as his face was being slapped back and forth someone repeating 'Wake up! Wake up!' like it was a mantra.

"S-Stop it!" he managed, trying to lift his arm to bat the hand away from his face.

Lady sighed. "My God! I thought you were dead!"

"Why?" he grumbled, lifting himself onto his right elbow as he rubbed his head with his left hand.

"Why!? You just had your blood sucked out by a vampire! She was going to kill you!"

"Oh…" he closed his eyes, turning them away from the bright streetlight and getting into a sitting position. His mouth had a tangy coppery taste. He figured he'd just bitten his tongue or something in the struggle and it had healed already. "Is she dead?"

"Yeah she's dead." the brunette replied pointing at the puddles of blood on the ground.

"Okay…I'm gonna head home." he said, getting onto his feet, using the wall for support. Lady grabbed Blue Rose from the ground and handed it over.

"Are you sure you're okay to drive?"

"I'm okay." he assured, though he actually felt like he'd been hit by a freight train. He'd never admit that.

"…All right. Be careful Nero." she said, watching as he got on his bike, started the ignition and zoomed off back towards Devil May Cry.

Nero waited until he was out of Lady's sight before carefully touching his eyeteeth with his tongue, wincing when they cut him. He swore under his breath. The stuff that had fallen on his tongue earlier had been the vampire's blood…and in swallowing it-even accidentally, he'd changed himself. He just hoped it wasn't permanent.

This is chapter one-hopefully there will be about 3 chapters in all. :3 Please review! Until next time!

Ja ne!

~Bitbyboth February 15, 2010