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Chapter Nine

Do Something About Your Brother

They left the next day with their clothes still warm from the dryer, and the lady was sound asleep as they crept away from the house. They did this, of course, to avoid more conversation. They were both being rather antisocial, understandably. Dante took the front seat, with Nero holding onto his waist, and they sped off towards DMC.

Nero wanted to tell Dante about what he'd let happen, but he couldn't bring himself to; crying in his shirt all night had been embarrassing enough. The old man had asked what was wrong of course, so it wasn't as if there wasn't a good opportunity to say something, but Nero liked to do things the hard way it seemed. Hasn't this been said before?

Whatever. When Nero heard the slap of his boots on the now familiar hardwood floor, he decided it'd be a good time to work on getting actual help. You know, Dante had kept promising to take care of him, but so far there hasn't been a single thing done about Vergil. So it was time to change that.

"Hey, old man."

He'd looked over at him over his shoulder, for he was by the coat rack, and Nero had perched himself on his desk. "Huh?"

"I think we should do something about this god damned voice in my head."

He stared back wide-eyed at first, but eventually this smirk broke out on his face. "You're flip floppity, kid. I bet once we start you'll change your mind again and go home." He was just teasing, but it wasn't funny to Nero. He didn't bother getting offended, though. What would be the point?

"Keep talking like that and I just might." He didn't want to call Fortuna his home, but it didn't matter he guessed. Dante just laughed and straightened up.

"Give me details then, kid. We gotta know what this thing really is, you know?"

He let out a sigh before starting his description, because thinking about it was tiring enough as it is. "He's not always a voice; sometimes he turns himself into a body that I can see and touch. I'm not sure if I'm the only one who can see him or not. He's very teasing, and cocky, and... Touchy... He usually feels like ice, but apparently he can regulate his temperature to fell like a regular body, and whenever he's around it seems like whatever room I happen to be in gets a few shades darker."

"What's he look like?"

Nero's blank fell fell into a small frown and slightly furrowed brows. "He looks just like you if you pushed your hair back and shaved."

Why was he so surprised to hear that?

"...And his name...?" His voice was a little worried now.

"Vergil...? What does his name matter?"

He turned around completely and made his way to Nero, serious face and a tense walk. He stopped in front of him. "You're sure?"

"Yeah," Nero answered with confusion.

"Shit. Shit." He was pacing now, hands in his hair.

"You're freaking me out, old man. What the hell is so serious all of a sudden?" Nero held his hands out to his sides, feeling like he was about to lose his shit.

"It sounds like my brother is in your head..."

He'd heard mentions of Dante's brother before, but never anything bad. He knew that Yamato had belonged to the stranger, but who was he? Obviously someone to worry about if Dante is getting upset over it. Obviously someone to worry about if he was the one in his head.

"If he's your god forsaken brother then why is he such a bastard? It's hard to believe you might be related."

"Yeah, I know. I gotta call Lady...!"

What? He thought Lady was a bitch. If she's as bad as Dante says, what could she possibly do to help? Did he really want Lady to know he was insane? Maybe Dante saw the questions on his face.

"I have to. If my brother really is in that head of yours, then it means we'd be removing a soul from your mind, rather than just a voice. She has a bunch of old tomes from her dear old daddy about stuff like this, and I was gonna call her anyways because I still don't know how to get rid of some shit like this... Has he done anything to you?"

He didn't want to tell Dante he was sexually harassed or that he'd actually got finger fucked by his brother, or that he let it happen, or any of that shit, so he didn't. He lied and said "no," but Dante knew it was a lie. Who could fall for a lie like that? Oh, and he didn't know what he was doing, huh? Well, that's great. He started to dial the number.

"I used to have a bunch of books on demons from my father; me and Verge were going to inherit them, but our house was burned up in a demon attack, along with our mother. They probably would've been better research materials, but I guess we'll just have to take what we can get."

Okay. That made Nero feel a little bad. Dante didn't seem too down about it, but still. That surprised Nero; how easily he could speak of his burned mother and everything. It made him remember that Dante hadn't had an easy life either. He remembered the old man saying that you didn't get to save the world everyday to him during the savior incident, but it was funny that somebody like him would say something like that, considering that he'd probably saved the world a few times himself. Nero had never asked him about it, but the older slayer had dropped hints saying so.

And it made more sense the more he thought about it. How had Dante even met Trish and Lady when Lady didn't seem to care for him, and Trish might be bat shit crazy If he didn't meet them through saving the world? If they had met through normal circumstances, one way or another, they'd have parted ways. Nero was sure Dante didn't like crazy women near Devil May Cry, and he was sure Lady didn't like Dante, so by forming a bond over saving the world, they stuck around. Either way, it didn't matter.

He'd been so caught up in his irrelevant assumptions that he'd missed all of the phone talk except for the butt end of it.

"I'm so sick of your bullshit, Lady. I don't give a damn if you don't have the fucking time to help the kid out, can we come over and look ourselves?... Okay, cool. Thanks, Lady."

He hung up the phone and turned towards the kid, a small and calming smile on his scruffy face. "We'll be leaving for Lady's place later today; look through some dusty boxes and all that good stuff."

Nero returned the smile with one of his own and nodded, hopping off the desk with his hair bouncing a bit on the way. He crosses his arms and shifted his weight between his feet. "Okay. When is later today?"

At this, the old man's smile turned into a mischievous smirk; never a good sign. "Well..." He'd stretched his word out with an innocent tone of voice. "Lady did say to wait a few hours because she's on a mission... But I was thinking that maybe we could leave as soon as we've eaten and cleaned up."

Nero just shook his head and turned away with that same smile on his face, throat emitting a soft chuckle and his eyebrows arching in amusement.

"Alright, old man. We'll do it your way."


Please pardon the length of this chapter, I feel like I've waited too long to post such a short piece of nothing... I could include some more details about how they ate together and then changed their clothes, but I don't think anybody would've wanted to read about something like that. I'm just going to write out the part where they leave Devil May Cry in the next chapter, excluding all the in between stuff. That is, of course, you'd actually want me to write about it?

In this chapter, I hoped to show a good reaction to Dante finding out the identity of the voice, but I fear it may have been boring. I guess the main point of this small chapter was also to show a start or a course of action for the "voice in head removal" process. I don't really like this chapter because of the length and lack of story progression, but I think It'd be best if I posted it anyways.

It was hard to write this piece of shit, too. I couldn't decide if I wanted Nero to tell Dante about what happened or not, but as you can see, I decided it'd suit his character more to keep it bottled up for now. So here are my chapter questions for my lovely reviewers then.

Did you like this chapter, considering how short and boring it is? Do you agree with me when I say that it was a necessary addition? And did you guys want to see more of Vergil in this piece? I kind of missed Vergil. Also, do you want to read about Dante and Nero getting ready to leave in the next chapter, or do you want me to go with my original plan?

Moving onto replies...

Saraneko: Your reviews are always very short and sweet, so thank you! I'm always happy to hear someone liked a chapter of mine, but I wonder if I've let you down this time?

SirenaLoreley: I'm sorry I made you cry! I'm glad I could affect somebody like that, but I don't want you to be sad! I'm looking forward to reading your review the most, I hope you know. After being so upset over last chapter, I can only imagine what you might say about this one. Not that I can compare last chapter to this one, because last chapter was one of my favorites, while this one was a big pain in the ass! I hope you like it anyways, though :)

Chibi-Onee-chan: I'm glad you liked that little piece of lemon I wrote in the last chapter, because I was worried it might not be as detailed as people would've liked. How did you like this chapter? Surely you agree with me about how interesting it is, right?

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