After a long ass walk, Dante found himself entering the city. Looking around, he noticed that he appeared to be in the slums of the city. Everything looked relatively ramshackle. People were running around in tattered clothing, though a lot of them looked happy, and were shopping at the various stalls and vendors that were dotted along the street. The sound of business littered the street, bathing the atmosphere of the city in a light mood. The air smelled a little funny though, but Dante didn't take any notice of that.

He noticed a kid running around the streets, bumping into people and acting like it was an accident, before pulling something out of their pockets and running away. He paid no heed to the kids actions, maybe he was just really poor and had. 'Survival of the fittest.' Dante mused. If that kid can't live without some things then he's just going to take it anyway, no matter what anybody says. The kid was a weird looking one though, shorts and sunglasses. Weird hair too. 'Eh, whatever.' Dante's attention was quickly drawn to something else though.

He had his eye on something else. It was somebody by a stall selling fruits. And he thought she look stunning. Truly, this was the "jackpot" he had been searching for for a lot of the time he had spent alive. 'God, I can't let an opportunity like this go to waste now can I? Damn! She's a hottie!'

The girl in question was a younger looking one, she had black hair with a red highlight through the front. She had gorgeous blue eyes. Damn she had looks that could kill. 'That jacket she's wearing looks pretty wicked too if I do say so myself.' He thought. 'I am definitely going to go for that lovely looking girl, I just can't help myself!'

The girl bought a lemon from the vendor, which Dante thought to be a little odd, but did not care so much. 'I have to find out her name, perhaps just going up and talking to her would be a good idea, but I want to make sure she's not trouble first.' The girl walked off and Dante followed suit, making sure that she would not notice him. 'This isn't stalking' Dante told himself. 'I just have to find the right moment to swoon this lovely lady and make her mine.'

As Dante followed her around, the smell of something nasty invaded his senses even more, but as before, he paid it no mind as he was on a mission. It was a very important one too, well, at least as important as something can get to this silver-haired demon hunter. But while he was musing whether or not to just talk to her already, the kid from earlier bumped into her and took the lemon she had. 'Why would he take that? A little odd, but maybe this kid is just that desperate to swap spit with a lady or something I don't know.'

The kid booked it like a bat out of hell and the girl followed him. Whenever the kid stopped, she jumped up behind him a took their lemon back. Dante was too far away to hear whatever they were saying, but it looked like she was teasing him for taking the lemon. 'Heh, maybe she was having the same thoughts as me, great minds think alike I guess.' Dante mused to himself before cracking a grin. Though while he was watching them argue, what looked to be the kids friends came out from an alley, a lot of them had weapons too, and they all started arguing again. The girl looked like she had just about had enough of their shit and got ready to fight them, but then another girl sped by him and over to where they were and started yelling at them all. The girl had brown hair in a bowl cut. She grabbed the first kid by the ear and started berating him before pointing away. That seemed to do the trick as the whole gang scrambled and ran away.

The girls now two talked for a bit before the brown-hair started to panic and booked it to a track that had a car on it and hopped on. Now Dante had been inching up into separate alleyways before he was close enough to hear what the black-haired girl said now. But she just sighed and shook her head before forging on deeper into the city after wherever it was where she was going. And once again Dante got a wave of that smell from earlier, that disgusting, evil stench. But once again he ignored it in favor of watching the girl. 'Man, does she have a guitar too? This is just looking better and better isn't it?'

And once again, Dante was caught unawares as to the drone silently watching from above, gauging his every move, collecting data on who he was, or at least was trying to do so.

Inumuta sighed, thinking to himself. The rest of the four had left him to his own devices, so he was monitoring this strange man on his own. 'There is absolutely no information on this guy, he's like a living shadow, somebody who just does not exist. There are no records of him whatsoever. Even if he were to have just been born today there would be a birth certificate. He had no digital trace, nor any physical one. I have no idea who this guy is, but he could be dangerous, especially if he's such a perv, following girls around all the time.' He needed to find more information about this guy, but there was just none anywhere. Guess He would just have to resort to watching him for now, as that is all he can do.

Dante and the mysterious girl were steadily making their way through the city, they looked to be about halfway through it now. He believed that she was trying the get to that massive building in the center, it was as good a guess as any he supposed. This place wasn't too bad, they looked to be in a more middle class sector of the city, there were condos everywhere and people went about their day, though they seemed to ignore everybody else in favor of doing their own thing. Though as they got deeper into the place, the girl turned into a back alley. 'Damn, it's going to be hard to follow her through an alley, guess i'll just have to get smart now won't I?'

After she turned into the alley, Dante waited a minute and made sure nobody was looking before he turned the corner as well. He turned just as he saw the girl turn yet another corner which he quickly followed suit. But as soon as he turned, the girl turned around. 'SHIT, gotta dive for some boxes!' Dante quickly dived to the side behind some conveniently placed boxes. Now that he got a look at the alley way it looked to be behind a bunch of restaurants, no wonder these were here, probably trash or something.

Dante sat behind the boxes for a minute before he heard the girl turn around and start walking. Just as he peeked over the boxes, the girl gasped, he saw a hell pride in front of her. 'Oh no, this is bad, I should go help her, but that would turn out awkward afterwards.' Dante was promptly shut up as the girl pulled a blade out of her case that she had slung over her back. 'Maybe she can handle herself, yeah that would save me some trouble.'

Dante was shut up once again as the demon rushed over and TKO'ed her with a single punch. 'That plen went out the window real fast, I suppose I should jump in now.' Dante jumped over the boxes pulling Ebony and Ivory out from underneath his red blazer and shot the demon on steroids multiple times before it could go and finish off the girl.

"Hey you ugly mother fucker! Come get some! There's plenty more bullets where that came from!"

The hell pride now leaped over to him before Dante delivered an uppercut to the things jaw while he shot one of his pistols at the scythe the demon was wielding before it could slice him in two. It flew back from the punch and smashed into the wall and Dante shot it until he thought it would be dead. There wasn't a single trace left of the thing. "Damn, I should have realized sooner, that smell I was smelling was demon, and a whole lot of it too, I gotta find someplace safe for her."

"Well, that takes care of that, better take care of this girl now. I don't exactly know where to take her though, I've never been here before. But it's not like I can leave her here. Well, with me she goes then." Dante said to nobody in particular as he picked her up in a bridal carry. He started to make his way out of the alley they were both in, before someone decided to yell at him.

"Hey you! Let her go you big pervert! I'm not going to let you take advantage of her!"

This triggered Dante. He may be pushy and a douche sometimes, but if there was one thing that he absolutely did not do, was take advantage of a girl, especially not one as hot as this. So he turned around to look at who it was that was yelling at him, it was that brown haired girl from earlier.

"I'm no perv you know lady."

"Then explain why you're holding an unconscious girl in an alley then!"

"Look, i'm only going to explain this once, I happened to be passing by, when I noticed a demon attack her and knock her out, so I helped out and killed the demon, Now I was going to try to find someplace safe for her, got it?" Dante said in a very irritated tone.

"Oh, then why didn't you just say so?" Dante had to contain an irritated sigh at this question.

'She is going to be a handful, I can already tell that much'

"In any case, do you know anywhere I can bring her? I can't exactly just leave her here."

"Of course, you two can come back to my place! I won't be able to get to school today, but I'm always willing to help those in need!"

"Alright, lead the way then ms…"

"Oh, i'm sorry, I haven't introduced myself! I'm Mako, Mako Mankanshoku!"

"I'm Dante, let's go then, Don't want to be out here too long." 'At least not long enough for more demons to show up'

"Of course! Just follow me Dante!"

Dante followed Mako out of the alley, back down the street, and allllll the way back down into the slums. 'Oh well, better to get her to safety I guess.' He thought as he looked down at the girl he held in his arms. His heart stops just by looking at her. He then noticed a tag on the inside of her jacket, it had a name on it. 'Ryuko' he thought. 'That's a cute name.'

Mako led him down another alley in the slums of the city until she stopped at a building with a massive sign on top of it.

"Welcome to my home, the back alley clinic! Please, come on in!"

With that exclamation, Mako led them both inside. In there, he saw the pickpocketing kid from earlier, a pervy looking guy, and a sweet looking girl. 'What have I just gotten myself into' He thought before he steeled himself for the insanity that was likely to ensue. 'I certainly hope they aren't going to take our organs while we sleep, though with the look that guy is giving me, i'm not so sure i'm going to be that lucky. I can only hope I suppose.'

Yet another chapter for you guys. Just in case you were wondering, I am going to try to get out two chapter every weekend, 1,500 words minimum, 5,000 words maximum. I hope you all continue to enjoy my story, and as I said before, please criticize me, as well as praise me. Unless you have nothing to praise me for, then go right ahead and criticize me, i'll take everything into account as I write!