After half an hour of waiting for Dante to return, with a stupid grin on his face, I sighed.
"Where the hell is he?" I asked, myself no longer noticing Nero staring at me across the table.
"You wanna go look for him?" he asked me, and I nodded without realising it.
"I mean, he could be lost, so we should go find him" I explained, trying to convince myself that it wasn't because I wanted to apologize even though I had no idea what I had done wrong. We left the cafe after paying for our drinks, well to be more precise I paid for the drinks. I looked first left then right.
"Guess we should retrace our steps" I said, trying to make it sound like we had lost a phone or something trivial like that, Nero nodded.
"Maybe we should split up, that way if I find his first I can kill him" Nero said, laughing.
"Don't kill him. He needs to apologize for leaving first then you can kill him." I said, giggling back. We parted ways, Nero went left and I went right, heading back to the park we had been in recently.
"moron, why'd he have to run off" I complained to myself, I walked as slow as I could hoping Nero would find him first that way I wouldn't have to face his questions again. But lady luck was not on my side, as I re-entered the park I saw a silver haired, red clad, Demon hunter sitting facing away from me on a bench.
"Hey you!" I shouted, running up to him and smacking him round the head.
"What the hell!" he complained, rubbing his head.
"Oh come on that didn't hurt" I said sitting next to him on the bench.
"Why did you leave?" I asked, not giving him chance to ask me anything first.
"You don't need me here" he said, matter-of-factly.
"Not true" I whispered.
"What'd ya say" he said, leaning closer.
"Nothing"
"So are you going to tell me what's wrong?" he asked me.
"Your not going to let it go are you?" I sighed, trying to think of how to put it without sounding stupid.
"Tell me" he said again, facing me.
"Well, he kissed me" I said, looking away.
"I know" Dante answered, I could see his eyes watching me carefully through my hair, which covered my face.
"I just, I thought. I don't love him anymore" I said, finally looking Dante in the eyes.
"You don't love him, that's all?" he smiled shaking his head.
"No that's not all!" I shouted suddenly angry but not knowing why, Dante backed up at my sudden outburst so I lowered my voice.
"I just mean that he turned out to be a total jerk, that's all" Dante nodded.
"Yeah he is a jerk, but that's not what I would have called him" he said smirking, I laughed.
"I know" I said still giggling.
"It actually feels good to get this off my chest" I leant back on the bench and lifted my head to the sky.
"Glad to hear it, but I'm still leaving" he said, taking me by surprise.
"You are, but why?" I looked back at him, his face was deadly serious.
"Because wherever I go demons follow and I would want your lovely city to be destroyed because of me" he gestured to the park we were in.
"This city is protected you don't need to worry about that" I said.
"You saw the guard towers, and besides this city is protected by a magical barrier, which stops evil coming in from outside" I pointed the sky where a green glint could be seen sparkling in the sun light.
"That may be, however..." I stopped him by standing and placing my hand over his mouth.
"It's not a problem, but if you still feel like you should leave go ahead, however you should remember I drove you here." I removed my hand and winked at him, spinning my keys on my finger.
"True" Dante answered, before reaching for the keys, I stepped back forcing him to stand.
"Ah ah ah, not so fast" I said, taking another three steps back.
"Give them to me" Dante warned, I knew the consequences of getting into this kind of playful fight with Dante but I wasn't going to give in, I was just as stubborn as him if not more.
"come and get them" I said, running off to the other side of the park, he followed slowly behind, but didn't run after me, making it easy for me to get around the outside and back to the gate we had entered through before he reached where I had been.
"Too slow!" I shouted, this triggered something though because he spun round and bolted towards me, faster than I was. I closed the gate again and ran back round the park but he caught up with me, and grabbed my wrist.
"Car keys" he said seriously, as I pulled away trying to escape.
"No way" I turned round, glaring at him.
"Car keys please" he said, grinning, I shook my head.
"Fine" Dante dragged back into the park.
"let me go" I complained, I looked around frantically for a way to escape, and just when I had given up hope I caught a glimpse of silver hair, running in our direction.
"Nero!" I shouted, catching the young man by surprise.
"oh hey!" he shouted back, picking up his pace, Dante merely shrugged his shoulders and pulled me closer, wrapping his free arm around my waist and trapping me completely.
"No escape" he whispered into my ear, causing me to blush.
"What's going on?" Nero asked, confused.
"Help me" I pleaded, struggling against Dante's superior strength.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt her" Dante said.
"Quite the opposite really"
"Come on old man why don't you fight me instead, much more of a challenge" Nero said trying to distract him.
"I'm not looking for a challenge" he said, smirking, that's when I got an idea.
"Let me go or I'll scream" I warned, noticing the royal guardsman standing nearby.
"You wouldn't" Dante answered also noticing the guard; I took a deep breath ready to scream.
"Fine" he said, quickly releasing his grasp. I stepped behind Nero who just looked at me, slightly annoyed that I was using him as a shield.
"Guess your staying then" I said, jangling my keys at him, he took a swipe at them but I pulled them away quickly.
"Move out of the way Nero" Dante said, stepping closer to us Nero stepped back which caused me to do so as well.
"You want to fight old man, bring it on!" Nero retorted, taking a swing at his older counterpart.
"Bad move kid!" Dante said, jumping back to dodge before charging forward again and striking Nero, however Nero blocked it with his free arm and grinned.
"You're losing your touch old man" he said, removing his other arm from its sling and swinging it at Dante, Nero's other arm was strange looking.
"Hey! You two we'll have none of that!" the guard nearby shouted, running in our direction, I smiled at the guard as he passed me, and he stopped in his tracks.
"Lady Kayla, nice to see you again" he said, bowing.
"Please take care of those two please" I answered, returning the bow.
"Yes of course" the guard answered, un-sheathing his sword and running off again.
"Stop fighting!" he shouted.
"Ok, ok I hear ya!" Dante shouted, throwing his hands up in surrender. Nero stood metres away from Dante, he nodded at the guard and placed his arm back in its sling.