A/N: S'up people? So when I told my dad that the school had blocked he was all like "well maybe you should use that time to work on scholarship essays." Right, third hour is my me time, and that entails giving you guys some juicy yaoi. Anywho, I'm doing all around at gymnastics tonight, wish me luck! Anyway, I just want to say thanks for all the support when it comes to this fic. It made my morning to get up and see a bunch of reviews waiting in my inbox, I want to reply to them so bad but… damn block…

Disclaimer: I'm running out of ideas, anybody got some suggestions?

Late Lunch

When consciousness first returned to the young vampire, he had a moment of panic, not knowing quite where he was or why. He looked around and noticed that he was in Dante's room and then the older man shifted behind him snuggling the top of his head right in between Nero's shoulder blades. That was when the memories of earlier that day rushed to the forefront of the teen's mind and his cheeks turned a very bright red, he was about to get up and clean up when the half devil behind him mumbled sleepily and pulled the younger closer.

"I'm not a teddy bear…" Nero grumbled, now entirely awake and wanting to get out of the cozy bed.

"…yes you are…" came a muffled response from the other slayer. The teen twisted as best he could to look at his partner.

"Let go of me." He said flatly.

"…no…warm." With that Dante rubbed his cheek on the younger's side again.

"I don't care, let go." Nero was now actively trying to squirm away while the half devil just gripped tighter, hoping that the spitfire would calm down and go back to sleep. The teen froze when an idea occurred to him; his venom had knocked the larger male out pretty good last time hadn't it? His fangs slid down as the thought of tasting the elder's blood came to mind again. With a rather malicious grin on his face he pretended to nestle down again and he felt the half devil's arms relax around him just a little. Then without warning, he bit the area where neck met shoulder, pushing as much venom into his friend's veins as he could. Dante jerked once and his eyes flew open, only to start drooping as the vampire's drug started working through his body.

"What…" he trailed off and he relaxed completely, falling into a stupor. The teen grinned again and wormed out of the elder's arms, heading straight for the shower.

Once he was clean and dressed, Nero headed downstairs, frowning at the slight soreness in his lower body. He hadn't been downstairs for ten minutes before Lady stomped in, looking grouchier than usual. Suffice to say she was surprised to see Nero sitting in Dante's signature pose at the desk, normally the kid just lounged about on the couch unless the elder was out or he was working on some paperwork for something or another.

"Where's Dante?" the huntress asked looking around the shop to see if the elder was within sight.

"Upstairs." The teen replied, a small smirk on his face. "Can I help you with something?" Lady looked at him, confused for a moment.

"Is he still asleep? That lazy ass…" she started walking toward the stairs but stopped when Nero said.

"He won't be getting up."

"And why not?" bicolored eyes focused on him and the vampire realized that he really didn't want to tell the female the truth.

"He uh… got hit with some weird crap last night," Nero scratched at his nose, trying to will his cheeks to stop blushing. "but I already called Trish about it!" he said hurriedly "She said he'll be fine! He just needs to sleep it off!" the partial devil prayed that Lady would buy it.

Said huntress almost wanted to laugh at the poor teen, he didn't realize how bad of a liar he was, if only to stop tormenting the boy, she nodded at his weak explanation.

"Well, when he gets up, tell him I stopped by, and that he owes me big time for letting him off the hook on that mission earlier." With a casual wave of her hand, the woman turned and left the run down shop. She was nearly to her bike on the street when another person brushed by her, face down and walking hurriedly.

"Excuse you." Lady snapped but the other person didn't stop, she rolled her eyes and jabbed the key into her bike "People… seriously."

Nero wanted to sigh in relief when the rather infamous (at least around Devil May Cry) huntress left, trying to explain that he had intentionally injected Dante with his own vampire venom wasn't high on his list of things to do today. Sadly, life wasn't quite done with the white haired teen because Lady hadn't been gone for two minutes before the doors opened again. The vampire was about to assume that it was the female slayer but then realized that the doors had opened slowly, not shot open with a bang.

"Can I help you?" he asked without lowering his head from staring at the ceiling.

"Nero…" the teen's eyes widened at the sound of that voice and he looked down only to stare right into Kyrie's eyes.

"Kyrie…" he swallowed

"Oh Nero!" the redhead cried and threw her arms around the partial devil, nearly taking him out of the chair. Nero didn't quite know what to do about this and after a hesitant moment awkwardly put his arms back around his childhood friend. Though he wasn't hungry, not even in the slightest, Kyrie's carotid artery was pounding directly into his ear, the teen equated the sensation to smelling delicious food not long after a meal. His mouth began to water a little and against his will, his fangs slid out of their hiding places, this, of course, had to be when Dante walked unsteadily down the stairs.

A/N: Yes, once again I leave a cliffhanger, I told you that I love them! My meet went okay tonight, overall just meh… but I scraped my butt on the vault! It hurts! It feels like I got rugburn! Also, I've decided that my bf has made a game of seeing how embarrassed he can get me…

Till next time,

-Winged Element