A/N: Hi guys! First I just wanted to apologise for taking so long to upload a new chapter. It has been mental at work because of Easter, but Easter is over now(Hope you guys enjoyed a good time!) so I´ll be able to focus more on the story. I´m not planning to stop it, there´s still lot to come that I´m sure you guys will love. Thank you for your kind words and your patience. i´m really fond with this story and it makes me happy you guys are enjoying it. Thank you!

Chapter 4: Yamato

Somebody knocked the door; Vergil lifted his head up in response to the sound. He took a quick look to Nero still sleeping in his bed. Vergil put his hands on Yamato, an old habit.

"Yes?" Vergil asked in a soft voice.

Naevia walked in, carrying in her hands some fresh towels and a bowl of what seemed water. "Sorry, didn't meant to disturb you. I need to clean Nero´s wounds so it doesn't get infected and add some antiseptic cream…if that's alright with you?" she added this last looking at Vergil. She still wasn't sure of his connection to Nero, apart of what Nico told her but is not like she went deep into details. Also, seeing this man transforming into a huge blue angel monster still makes her a little bit nervous.

"Please go ahead" Vergil was watching her with hawk eyes how she was getting closer to Nero and doing her work. For some reason this woman made him feel uncomfortable. He couldn't explain how or why but after transforming in front of her and seeing her scared face and the way she reacted, he couldn't figure out why she still stayed on the room. He knew humans weren't exactly the clever race, but why she didn't run? Why is she still here?

Naevia wet one of the towels with the water in the bowl and started to clean first Nero´s arms and then she moved to his chest. She stopped to look one of his scars, a deep cut on the right side of his chest. She looked at him and wonder how that happened, he was just a kid. A kid that started facing demons and killing them from such a young age. He was forced to grow up so fast and now he has a kid. He has a family that he needs to protect. She looked at his face one more time and she felt admiration for him. He was a cocky idiot kid but with more courage than anybody she knew.

"You didn't run, why?" a husky voice from behind her snapped her out of her thoughts. Vergil was so silent that she forgot for a second, he was still on the room. She didn't understand the question so she turned around to face him.

"What do you mean?"

Vergil leant forward and tried to explain himself, he wanted to know. "Back then, when I… devil triggered, I thought you would run away screaming scared, but somehow you didn't. Although you did look scared, you still decided to stay in the room and help. I was just wondering why is that" he was looking into her eyes trying to see if whatever she will say next would be a lie or not.

"Seeing… that… well, is not something I see every day, I´m not going to lie. But what good would have done if I left running? There was no time for that, we needed to help Nero." She made a sad smile and added "I guess I´m a doctor first and stupid human later" She broke his sight from him, somehow feeling a bit intimidated by his gaze. However, Vergil was looking at her with more curiosity. A doctor she said, that was interesting. He wanted to know more.

"A doctor you said, have you ever treated a half human - half demon before?"

"I can say that I have, no. I have treated demons' attacks on humans, cuts, broken bones… but not an actual demon. Then again, I guess there´s no many of them in the world." She turned and kept treating Nero, after she put the cream on him, she put back the blanket so he could keep resting. She started to clean Nero surrounding and then turned to Vergil before leaving "You should rest, there´s an empty room if you would like to use it." She hesitated first but the added "No offense, but you look like shit…regarding how powerful demon you might be". She added in a whisper.

Vergil took her statement by surprise. He can't recall anybody talking to him like that apart from Dante. But she was right, he was feeling like shit and he did smell like shit. "Thank you, I guess I should appreciate your honesty" He stand up and he got close to her until he was on her face. "I was hoping I could use your shower as well… if that´s alright"

She looked at his bright blue eyes and for a moment she was paralyzed. She couldn´t take her eyes off his. They were so bright, so mysterious… She tried to get hold of herself and managed to give him an answer "yes, of course… ahm… there´s a bathroom on the otherside of the hall, you can…you can use it…of course.. I will stay with Nero while you´re gone, take all the time you need, that´s fine…I mean if you okay with it, of course…" For some reason, she couldn't stop talking nervously.

Vergil made a small smirk and tried to answer "Thanks". He passed next to her and left to the empty room. She stayed on the door still wondering what the hell just happened. She closed the door to let Nero rest and went to the kitchen while still going through in her mind the scene that happened a minute ago. For some reason she was beating herself because she was never the kind of woman that would talk nervously in front of anybody like that. She will never behave like a teenager movie girl. In fact, she would have just rolled her eyes and let a sarcastic response come out. But when it came to this man, to talk to him, to be in his presence… she just couldn´t understand why it made her feel like that.

"Hey auntie… auntie… AUNTIE!" Naevia snapped out of her deep thoughts with a blush on her cheeks "Yes?" She faced Nico through the little window that separated the kitchen and the living room.

"You okay? You look a bit distracted" Nico was trying to see her aunt´s face better.

"Yes, yes. I was just focus on cleaning this. Tell me, what is it?" Naevia tried to get the attention out of her.

Dante and Trish were on the living room trying to put together all the information they were getting. They laid out a map on the dinning table and they were trying to put marks to track all of Nero´s routes so far.

Dante heard Naevia and Nico coming to the room and turned around to ask Naevia how´s his nephew doing.

"He´ll be fine I recall, what your brother did surely helped. Now we just need to wait for him to wake up".

Dante let out a snort laugh, "I knew he would make it, he´s as stubborn as we all are, it runs on the family, I guess. Speaking of which… is my brother still in the room with him? That idiot needs to rest" Dante asked while rolling his eyes.

At the mention of his brother, Naevia flushed but tried to hold herself and answered him " He, well, I told him he can use the empty room to rest, and well he needed a shower too, so I´m guessing he´s now in the shower and then he might get a rest, not sure, I mean…"

Dante was still looking at her but now with a funny attitude. "Will you look at that…my idiot brother has an admirer" He thought he was seeing that she was starting to feel embarrassed after this so he tried to take the attention out of her as now everybody was looking at her.

"Alright, well, while he´s busy, we need to make plans about how we can track these demons. Nico, what exactly did you guys find out?"

"After it happened, we realized they opened a kind of portal to get to Nero´s place. We tried tracking the left tracks of this portal, and see where it got us. What we didn´t count is that the portal was bouncing on different locations that made us to get lost. I know, I admit it wasn´t our clever moment, but we weren't thinking straight. We never knew someone would try to kidnap little Eva, so when it happened, Nero wasn´t thinking. He just wanted to get her back, he was furious and reckless, he couldn't bare looking at Kyrie, so we tried to leave as soon as it happened" Nico felt really sad after saying all of this, she felt guilty of not being smart enough to find Eva quickly. She always thought she was very smart and talented to do this demon hunting and now she couldn't find them.

"We will get her back"

Everybody looked up to see where the voice was coming from. Vergil was standing on the back, hearing Nico´s story.

"You said they opened a portal, that is a good lead. That means I can track it with Yamato as it will be able to remove all the "traps" they've made to confuse you while looking for it" He came closer to see the map on the table. "Hmm…. I have an idea, but I need Nero to wake up so I can explain it to him" Vergil looked at his brother.

"I think is time to wake him up then brother" said Dante. He smiled at this brother and asked him "Do you want to do it or I´ll do it?"

"It would be better if we do it both, I´m not sure how he will react" Vergil asked nervously looking at his brother.

They both went to the room while the rest were looking at them leaving with curious face.

"So… should we bet who will get stabbed first?" asked Nico

Trish let out a loud laugh "My money is on Dante, he hasn't been stabbed in a long time"

Naevia stared at Trish with a concerned look. "He needs to get stabbed time to time to keep him happy" Trish tried to explain. Naevia was still looking at her, what kind of messed up people she was dealing with. Nico was laughing "My money is on Vergil, I bet Nero will not be happy when he wakes up" Naevia flinched at the mention of Vergil "Should we help them?" she asked.

"Nah, they'll be fine" Answered Trish laughing and went back to keep working on the map.

Meanwhile Vergil and Dante made their way to Nero´s room. Once inside they looked at each other.

"He looks so peaceful sleeping… So.. how do we wake him up?" asked Dante with an amusing tone.
"I´ll try to wake him up with Yamato, it should wake up his demon side" Vergil pulled out Yamato and got closer to Nero. He took out the blankets and touched Nero´s chest with Yamato. A blue light came out of it and went into Nero´s chest. His body started to react to it and Nero let out a deep sight. Seconds later he opened his eyes.

Nero tried sitting up while rubbing his eyes. "What the fuck…? Where am I?" Nero started looking his surrounding and then stopped suddenly when he realized he wasn´t alone in the room. Dante and Vergil were looking at him with cautious faces. "Dante? What are you doing here?" Nero tried standing up. He lost his balance for a second but Vergil was quick enough to try to hold him and help him sit on the bed.

"What happened? How long I´ve been out?"

Dante and Vergil looked at each other, they didn´t know how to answer him so Dante tried to explain as he could his version of the story. "Well, so far the only thing we know is that you were poisoned by a demon during a fight, that's what knocked you out. Kyrie called me asking for help, and well I brought Vergil and Trish with me to help." At the mention of Vergil, Nero looked at him.

"I didn't expect you will be here." Said Nero to him.

"I understand". Vergil answered cautiously. He was a little bit unsure on how to proceed. However, he couldn't take his eyes out of Nero.

"In fact, I didn't expect any of you to be here. I need to get up…Eva…" at the mention of his daughter, Dante started to ask.

"Sooo… when were you going to tell us that you have a kid? When she was ready to have another? I mean I don't know if you noticed but Vergil and I are not getting exactly younger by the days." Dante asked with a sarcastic tone.

"It was none of your business, Dante."

"None of my business, NONE OF MY BUSINESS!?" he repeated with a heated astonishment voice. "Are you serious?" He turned to his brother, "Is he serious?"

"Brother…" Vergil was trying to calm the situation. He didn't want to provoke Nero.

"Yes, Dante. Excuse me that for once, I didn't think of you. Sorry that I didn't include you on my family´s business!" Nero standed up and was starting to get angry.

"Family. We are your family, and whether you like it or not, Kyrie and Eva are our family too. Do you think we will stay in home watching movies while our granddaughter is kidnapped by demons?!"

"Family…family? What family are you talking about?" Nero was now standing on Dante´s face getting very angry. "You mean my crazy ass uncle who btw, when I first met, was trying to kill me? Or my father? You know, the guy who cut my arm to get more power?... Please, don't make me laugh. You want to know who my family is? I´ll tell you! My wife, the one who has always been there for me, the one that I can't survive without. My daughter, the one that I cursed into this world with all my demonic bullshit but I would never regret. The one that makes my day goes from shit to the best when she smiles at me and calls me daddy. That's what I call family. Dante."

"Nero" Vergil called from behind him, Nero still looking at Dante with a defiant eyes as it was almost like he wasn't expecting a good fight. However, Vergil was still trying to calm the situation.

"We understand, excuse Dante, sometimes he talks too much for his own benefit" Dante looked at him, then he relaxed his shoulders and rolled his eyes "Whatever" and went to sit on the sofa that was in front of the bed.

"Nero, we understand, however we would very much like to help. We understand why you wanted to keep it a secret, but whether you like or not, she´s family. We are family. I can not change the past and I would always blame myself for what happened to you. But I want to believe that somehow what happened made me found you. And now Eva." Nero looked at him. The man that was his father, the one that gave him life or how Nico would say, he wouldn't be here without him and that's a biological fact.

"I don't have time for this bullshit right now, I need to find Eva. That's the only thing I have in my mind right now" Nero wasn't ready to start sharing feelings or regrets, he only wanted to find his daughter. He tried getting his shirt on and was trying to get his shoes. Dante looked at him and thought that he was right, the sooner they find Eva, the sooner they would have "time" to talk.

"Well, that's the clever thing you have said so far today, well… Vergil has an idea apparently" Dante got up and made Nero look at his father after saying this.

"Yeah? What is it?" Nero was leaving the room and Dante and Vergil followed him. The headed to the living room where everybody was waiting curiously for them.

"Disappointed" Said Trish to Dante "I bet a lot of money you will get stabbed"

He looked at her, "Sorry love, not today unfortunately. But who knows? The day hasn´t finished yet" He winked at her.

"Hey, you okay?" Nico approached Nero "I was worried you´d stay in that bed forever!"

"Yeah, I´m fine. Fill me in…what did I miss so far? Any update?" He approached the table and looked at the map.

"I think there´s a way to track the portal. Nico told us that you guys tried but got lost with the multiple verses lines." Vergil looked at his son. "Yamato can fix that"

Nero looked at his father´s sword that was resting on his waist. "How?" Nero asked.

"When you absorbed Yamato into your arm, it left a mark on you. You are connected to it. But also, you are the only one apart from me and my father that can react to it. Yamato has the power to open a portal anywhere, it was used back in the day to seal the portal between the living world and the underworld. One of the reasons I found you, it was because I was tracking the power of Yamato, and I could only do so because it lived in me long enough to keep that mark and give me that power." Nero was listening carefully, he never thought of this.

"So how can we make it work, brother. You are alive now, do you think Yamato will obey to anybody else than you?" asked Dante curiously.

"It will to him, he has my blood and father´s running through his veins. Yamato recognizes him already and it will obey. What I need you to do Nero, and this is important as it will help us track Eva, as she as our blood too, I need you to think of her. Any memory you have of her, I want you to imagine that you´re back there with her, that she´s in front of you. I know is hard, but you have to trust me." Nero tried to do what Vergil asked.

"Now, while you do that, I want you to hold Yamato. Everybody should make some space". Nico and her aunt, started to take the table out and push the furniture to make space in their living room. Vergil put Yamato on Nero´s hands. "Now, just think of her, her laugh, her face, her smell… it should take you to her"

Nero was grabbing Yamato hardly. He had his eyes closed and was trying really hard to get a picture in his head. The most powerful one was when Eva was born. When he saw her for the first time, her face, her eyes, when he held her. He felt euphoric, he had a daughter, from him and his love for Kyrie, then Eva looked at him and smiled. That smile will stay forever in his mind.

"That's it Nero, you´re doing well. Keep going" Vergil encouraged his son. Blue light was coming out of Yamato and was flooding through Nero´s arms.

Suddenly, Nero started to feel something he couldn't describe. Ït was almost as if he could expand himself. Like he could be somewhere else. He then started to have a picture on his mind, it looked dark at the beginning but then he recognized some trees, it looked like there were fire around but nothing was burning, then he saw what it looked like a cabin in the forest. Something was moving around it, very fast like shadows. He then heard a scream, he recognized that scream. It was Eva when she was getting tired and it was sleep time. He tried getting closer, it was getting difficult for him to keep this connection. He tried memorizing everything he was seeing. He heard another voice, much deeper "Silenceee! How many times do I have to say that your mummy and daddy are not coming! You ungrateful child, I should sacrifice you already and get it over with".

Nero got back to himself panting "I know where she is, I know how to get her". Vergil helped Nero to sit down. "You did very well, we have now a good track, we can follow it" said Vergil.

"What did you see? Where is she?" Asked Dante.

"I´m not sure of the location exactly but I can take you there with Yamato. I heard her voice, and the demon that is with her. I´m not sure she will have much time, she seems like she´s giving them a hard time" tried to explain Nero.

Dante burst a laugh. "Why am I not surprised? She took that from her amazing uncle".

Nero let out a smile at this, Dante couldn't even begin to imagine how much his daughter looked like Dante. She was a troublemaker, that´s for sure.

"Is that time to go for her, do you feel strong enough for that Nero?" Vergil asked his son.

"I am to get my daughter back, not matter how much it would take me."