Title: Mistletoe Blues, or is it?
Pairing: Reboot Dante and Nero
Approx chapters: 4-ish maybe 5.
Description: Christmas antics with Dante, Nero, Kat and Vergil. all fluff and cuteness. Very ooc for some parts its just how I imagine the characters in my head if they weren't so sad.
Disclaimer: I don't own Devil May Cry in any way, shape or form. If I did the games wouldn't be so sad and you would be able to play as the girl characters. I would also try to make Kyrie more bad-ass rather than being captured by a giant statue.
Nero woke up to hearing Dante insistently knocking on his door and pleading with him to get up. Nero glanced at the clock to notice it was 5am! "Ugh can't we wait a couple more hours, I'm still tired." Nero groaned out, which his message was half muffled as it travelled through the door.
"It's Christmas though! You have to go open the presents under the tree!" Dante whined like a kid, still pleading with the other. "It could be Christmas, or it could be the apocalypse, I'm still not getting up at 5 am ok." Dante didn't reply, and Nero could hear him walking off. Nero instantly felt bad and forced himself to get out of bed.
He walked over to Dante just sitting on the couch. He wasn't crying, but he looked like he was about too. "Hey, look I'm sorry, I just had a bad dream last night and didn't sleep that well. Come on we'll open the presents together." Nero held out a hand, but Dante just turned the other way and continued sulking.
"Come on don't give me that face. Look I'm really sorry ok, I'm not used to Christmas, and you have to teach me what to do." Nero sighed and sat down next to the other, then hugged him again.
Nero wasn't sure why Dante actually let him hug him, but as soon as Nero's arms wrapped around him Dante nuzzled further into Nero's arms. Now Dante was actually crying.
"Whoa are you… shit I'm sorry. Please don't cry. I'm right here I'm not leaving, just please don't cry." Nero tried soothing Dante, and stroked his hair to calm him down further. "Do you want to tell me what happened? Come on you know I won't tell anyone anything you don't want me to tell." Dante popped his head out of Nero's shoulder and was about to speak when the phone rang. "You should get that, and go on a mission or something." Dante said, his voice a little croaky. Nero reluctantly let go of Dante but reassured him, "It might be Kat and Vergil ok, that's the only reason I'm picking it up. If it's a mission I'm not going to take it and instead I will stay here with you ok? Is that ok with you?"
Dante was surprised with the compromise Nero had made, but allowed him to answer the phone anyway, it wasn't like there weren't any other hunters in the city, probably.
Nero answered the phone, and surprisingly it was Kat. "Hey Kat what's up? Huh? Ok I see. Yeah I better tell him then. No, no it's fine I mean I'm here. Yeah ok. Bye then, yeah Merry Christmas. Bye." During the conversation Nero's facial expression dropped from happy to sad, and Dante could tell something bad was going to happen. Something bad always happened on Christmas to Dante, he just didn't want to tell Nero because Dante wanted Nero's first proper Christmas to be perfect.
"What did she say… they're not coming, are they?" Dante mumbled out, he curled into a ball and tried to hide himself in the couch. Nero walked over pulling his friend out of the couch and into his chest. "Yeah, Vergil had some important meeting or something, and Kat didn't know the way to get here. I'm so, so, so sorry." Nero said while trying to calm Dante down again.
Nero felt terrible. He saw how excited Dante was for Christmas and he didn't expect for it to go downhill the way it did. "Come on, let's open our Christmas presents. You'll love what I bought you, please Dante?"
"Okay, come on then let's at least try to salvage the Christmas spirit." Dante said, wiping the stray tears from his face. Both boys headed to the Christmas tree and looked at the gifts they had gotten each other.
"Here, this is from me." Nero said as he handed Dante a box, which was wrapped quite neatly in red paper and gold ribbon.
Dante tore away the gift-wrap, and Nero chuckled at his childishness, but saw it as an improvement from his previous mood. Dante had a huge smile on his face, as he pulled two Combichrist CDs and a signed poster of Combichrist from the box.
"Where the hell did you get this!" Dante was ecstatic, and immediately glomped Nero.
"We all have our secrets, now will you stop choking me!" Dante released Nero form the tight hug, and fished out his present to Nero.
"Here this is yours. I hope you like it I couldn't really think of what to get you." Dante said as he handed Nero a box, with drawings of candy canes and mistletoe on it. Nero preferred hardly any wrapping, that way he could see the present quicker! He could be just as impatient and childish as Dante sometimes.
When Nero opened the box, he saw a strange looking ring. "Whoa dude, you do realise that Limbo city doesn't allow gay marriage right?" Nero jested as Dante looked flustered at the comment.
"Jeez I didn't mean it that way. I just thought, since you got rid of your ring from the Order of the Sword, you were always fidgeting and expecting something to be there. That's why this ring is special. The two lines of teeth turn when you twist it and the gears in the middle help them turn." Dante explained.
Nero hugged Dante. "Thank you so much, this is exactly what I needed, it's perfect, especially since I was used to my old ring being there. You're the best you know that." Nero gave Dante a caring smile as he put the ring on his left hand.
Dante blushed, he didn't know why though. His thoughts from last night tried to infiltrate his mind again but he just waved them away. He just took what Nero said as a compliment.
"I can assure you, I'm not the best person in the world. I guess that we can eat dinner for lunch then?" he asked Nero. "Yeah that sounds good, but its only 6:30 in the morning, that's another six hours until lunch you know right?" Nero laughed as Dante had a shocked expression on his face.
"But I'm so hungry!" Dante whined.
"Now you know why I didn't want to get up so early." Nero said triumphantly Dante just glared at him.
"We could just nap until lunch I guess. I mean I'm not too tired but, are you ok with that?" Dante asked Nero. Truly he wanted to stay up and watch the lame movies, but if the other was too tired he'd let him sleep.
Nero however was up for the idea of watching the movies so he suggested it back to Dante.
"Are you sure you don't want to sleep? You looked pretty cranky this morning."
"No, plus as you said it's Christmas. And the couch is pretty comfy to fall asleep on anyways." Nero reassured. He knew from the amount of times he collapsed on the old thing after missions.
The boys sat down on the couch and began watching "How the Grinch stole Christmas". Not too long after the movie started Nero had fallen asleep, with his head resting on Dante's shoulder. Dante really didn't mind. He had officially decided that he had a crush on the other hunter. Whether or not he was going to tell him or act upon his feelings was another story.
Nero's head kept slipping down and eventually Nero was pretty much resting in Dante's lap. "This is why I suggested you go to bed and not sit here and watch movies." Dante said, smiling softly as Nero scratched his nose in his sleep.
Dante tried to move the other but Nero was clinging to his legs with his devil bringer and wouldn't let go. Dante decided he should wait a while for the other to loosen his grip, but as the Grinch finished and another movie began, Nero was A) still fast asleep and B) still holding on to Dante's leg tightly.
Dante wanted to move the other because a bed would be more comfortable, plus he needed to pee. However he couldn't bring himself to wake Nero up, he was too cute when he slept. Actually, Nero reminded him of a sleepy kitten, and as a rule, it is illegal to move if you have a kitten asleep on you.
At around 11am Nero finally woke up, and Dante sat there fidgety as he was now really busting to pee. "Please hurry up and move, just move pleeeaassseee." Dante said whining.
"Why didn't you wake me? I would have fallen back to sleep. Or you could have moved, I wouldn't have cared, you know that?" Nero said as he slowly sat up, his voice groggy from the nap. When Nero was fully off of Dante, Dante dashed to the bathroom to relieve himself. Nero started laughing at his impatience.
He too had begun to feel things for the other man. The way he laughed, the way he smiled, even the way he worried about him yesterday because of the mission. And that was the exact reason why he wanted to stay away from the mistletoe; he didn't want to kiss Dante. Actually, he wanted to kiss Dante, but he wanted it to mean something. He didn't want to kiss him just because of mistletoe, he wanted Dante to willingly kiss him. Nero didn't want to accidentally spill his feelings out for the other and have the other reject him. Maybe if Dante rejected him they couldn't be friends anymore, and then where would he go? Fortuna is too boring for him and it's to prim and proper for someone as rebellious as he is. And he didn't want to live back in Capulet city with his uncle. He'd always get shit jobs and there wasn't even guaranteed pay for his hard work or even a nice shower for when he got home.
At least here with Dante, Nero felt like he had a proper home. They had a clean and functional apartment which was gracefully given to them by Vergil and the Order of Limbo city (1). The only condition with the apartment was that both Dante and he would go on missions to clear off demons. That also meant they got paid by the clients which had hired their services.
As Nero's mind reeled, thinking about all the worst case scenarios, Dante came up behind Nero and rested his head on the others. "What's up broody mc sad pants?" Nero almost jumped as he didn't expect Dante to appear so suddenly. "Uh its nothing, should we start preparing lunch then? It's almost eleven-thirty anyway."
Dante nodded in agreement and helped Nero prepare the food and set the table.
1: the order of Limbo city was a completely different organisation from the one in Fortuna, it was just a coincidence they both had the same name.
Aww arent they adorable when they sleep. i'm sorry for the amount of OOC, the boys are just cuter this way :D Also I got the idea of the ring from a post i saw on tumblr. In the comments underneath people said that it would be good for fidgety people and since nero is kinda fidgety, (well thats how i see him) i thought it would suit him.
Almost done with the last chapter so the 3rd and 4th chapter could be up by tomorrow maybe.
