Chapter 4! Hope you enjoy this! Let me know!


Dante laid back on the bed, rubbing his now shirtless stomach. He looked at his bedroom window, not realizing that the sun was starting to set.

"Oh man I'm so full...I must of fallen asleep after I ate..." He looked over to the empty pizza trays on a large metal table. "I think I may of actually eaten too much for once... " He rolled himself off of the bed, and headed for the shower. As he entered it, he heard the sound of his door creaking open and then closing.

"What the?" Dante peeked outside the door's frame, only to see a beautiful brunette haired girl who appeared to be hawaiian, going through his coat pockets.

Dante stepped out into the room. "Looking for something sweetheart?"

The girl stopped what she was doing and stared at him like she had seen a ghost.

Dante looked himself over. He was now only wearing a tight pair of boxers. "Damn baby...I know I look good and all, but you are a little young for..."

"Vergil?" The small girl moved closer to him, reaching a hand up to the side of his face. "Is that really you? I thought you to be lost..."

Dante cocked an eye up. "Verge? Wait I think you have me con..."

Before he could answer, the girl jumped up, grabbing ahold of his neck, and began to hug him uncontrollably. Dante just kept his eyes open, not knowing what the hell this girl wanted.

Just then, the double door opened to reveial Yoichi standing in them. The two turned to look at him. "Fayth, what in the hell do you think that you are doing to our guest?"

The girl shot him an evil glare. "Now go...and take care of the little task I asked you to perform earlier..."

Fayth turned up towards Dante. "I will find you later Vergil...and then we will talk...I have much to tell you..." She released him, and walked away.

Dante put a hand up. "But I'm not..." He was too late, as the girl left.

Yoichi closed the doors behind her. "I am sorry for Fayth's rude behavior. She has a hard time controlling herself around desireable men..."

Dante smiled. "So you think I'm desireable then?"

Yoichi laughed. "As far as men go Dante, yes I really do..." He turned to leave. "After your shower, please join me in my office so that we might discuss the job that I have planned for you..."

Dante nodded. "No problem...I'll be there in a few.."

As Dante stepped into the hot shower, he couldn't help but wonder who the girl who had hugged him was. " Why did she think I was Verge?"

--Meanwhile--

Vergil stopped walking down the snow covered sidewalk to look back at Trish, who was seemingly mezmorized by something in one of the nearby store's display cases.

He turned around to join her. "What are you doing now? Unless Dante is in there, we should keep moving..."

Trish ignored him, staring at a display case of beautiful gems and diamonds. "God those are so pretty." She turned to Vergil. "Can't you just do what you did to the other window...I'll only take what I need..."

Vergil turned away. "Which is none of it..."

Trish's face suddenly lit up. "WAIT! Vergil! I remember now!"

Vergil turned suddenly. "What do you remember?"

"The expensive jewels reminded me of it. Dante was going to some mansion somewhere for the job I sent him on."

Vergil looked up, thinking. "A mansion you say? There is only one true manision in the area, and it's not too far from here...It is a good start if nothing else." He started trudging through the thick snow once more.

"Wait up Vergil!" Trish stumbled over the large snow banks ahead of her, trying to keep up.

--Meanwhile--

Dante got out of the shower, to find that a red and black kimono had been set out on his bed. He walked over to it and picked it up, examining it. "So I take it I'm supposed to wear this damn thing..." He put it on, and began to button it up. "Vergil would cream himself right now if he saw me in this...he's always trying to get me to wear one for him, but I don't see what all the rage is."

After it was buttoned up, he looked at himself in a full legnth mirror. "Damn...I have to say that I make this thing look good..." He ran a hand through his damp hair, pushing it back. "Wow...I could swear I was looking right at you Verge..." His face saddened, as he smoothed it back down. "But you aren't here, and you probabally don't even care where I am. Besides, you don't get back from that damn trip for another two days..."

Dante remembered the huge fight that he and his brother had right before Vergil had left. It was over something so menial, that he couldn't even remember what it was now, and it made him long to be in his twins arms. "God I miss you Verge...where ever you are..."

Dante left the room, shutting the doors behind him, and made his way to the office where he knew Yoichi was waiting for him.

As he entered the office, he was bathed in candlelight. Looking around the large room, he could of sworn he saw at least fifty candles burning all through out it. Dante shut the doors behind him, looking for his host. "Yoichi? Are you in here?"

"Dante!" Yoichi stood up from behind the bar. "Join me for a drink..." He crouched back down, as Dante made his way across the room to the bar.

"I was just looking for another bottle of the vodka that you favour..." He stood up holding a dark bottle. "And it just so happens that I have another..."

Dante smiled. "Sounds good." He watched as the man poured him a glass, and he nodded thanks.

"Did you get some sleep today then Dante?" Yoichi started to open his normal bottle of red wine.

Dante sipped his drink. "Yeah, I guess so. I don't remember falling asleep."

Yoichi laughed. "You must of needed it then..." He moved out from behind the bar. "Please join me by the fire Dante..."

Dante cocked an eye up, thinking to himself. "Is this dude hitting on me or am I just crazy? Oh well if he is, at least he gives me some attention..."

"Dante?" Yoichi was standing in the middle of the room looking back at him. "Are you coming?"

"Oh yeah...sorry..." Dante stood and followed Yoichi to the couch in front of the fireplace, sitting down next to him.

Yoichi looked him up and down. "That kimono really suits you Dante...you look much more handsome in it than I ever did...it is yours to keep.."

Dante looked at himself, smirking. "Yeah it does look ok...and thanks." All of a sudden a file was thrown into his lap. "What's this?"

Yoichi smiled. "That..." He put his hand on the file in Dante's lap. "...is your job."

Dante took another sip of his drink before setting it down, and opening the file. He studied the papers for several minutes while Yoichi studied his face.

"So...what do you think Dante?" Yoichi leaned into him slightly.

"I have only heard of this in kid's stories...are you telling me that it actually exists?"

Yoichi grinned at Dante. "That's exactly right. Imagine it..."

Dante's face grew serious. "What in the world would you want with it, even if it was, and I'm not saying it is, obtainable?"

Yoichi stood, walking over to one of the room's now dark windows. "To understand that, you must understand who, and what I am Dante..."

Dante looked confused. "What you are?"

Yoichi smiled. "If you haden't figured it out yet Dante, I am a vampire. One of the last of a dying breed."

Dante grabbed his throat. "Oh, well thats good to know I suppose."

Yoichi laughed outloud. "Don't worry. I won't be biting you anytime soon..."

Dante removed his hand. "Also good to know..." He stood and joined Yoichi at the darkened window. "If you are a vampire, then what in the world do you need with the blood stone?"

Yoichi sighed. "From researching your background, I came to find out that you, yourself, are not a full blooded demon Dante...and I cannot say as I am a full blooded vampire, thanks to my human father and vampire mother."

Dante looked out of the large window. "I've come to live with it, why can't you?"

Yoichi looked out of the window with him. "Because Dante...vampires are supposed to be immortal. Demons are not. Most vampires stop aging in thier late twenties, and continue thier lives in a state of youth and vitality. I unfortuantely do not have that luxury. I am now going on thirty-one, and if I do not complete my transformation soon, I will be doomed to die of old age, like a normal human being."

"What's wrong with that?" Dante crossed his arms.

Yoichi breathed deeply. "Imagine it Dante...being able to live forever, and to see things that we cannot even fathom now..." Yoichi sipped his wine. "I want to live forever, with my partner, and experience everything that the world has to offer with them." Yoichi turned to face Dante. "And I have chosen you, to be that partner."

Dante took a step back. "Whoa...hold on man...I have no intrest in becoming a demon vamire..." He made a face like he was disgusted. "Besides, I've tasted enough blood in my line of work, to tell you that I don't find the taste of it that pleasing..."

Yoichi stepped towards him, looking into his eyes seductively. "I think that after you hear me out, you will find that my plan not only benefits me, but you as well."

Dante was hypnotized momentarily by his eyes, before shaking his head. "I'll take the job Yoichi, but as far as we go, I already have someone."

"Ah yes...your older brother...the man whom you say has no respect for your talents, and does not appreciate you the way that I could..."

Dante thought for a moment of Vergil, whom he loved with all of his heart. "Look Yoichi...like I said, I'll get the stone, but thats all..." Dante walked back over to the table near the fireplace, and grabbed his drink.

Yoichi bowed. "As you wish Dante..."

"So how do I find this thing anyways?" Dante picked up the large file.

Yoichi moved towards the door. "Please follow me to my library. You will find everything that you will need to know there..."

Dante followed Yoichi out into the hallway, and around a corner. Yoichi opened the door for Dante, and he entered. His eyes lit up, facinated by what he saw. The room was filled with thousands of books and maps. Statues of knights, and dragons lined the room, and soft candlelight was flickering overhead from a large chandelier.

"Wow...neat stuff." He walked around touching some of the books. "Vergil would never leave this room if he saw it..."

Yoichi walked up behind Dante, snaking his hands around his back and up onto his chest, whispering into his ear. "Not even to hold you in his arms?"

Dante just stared forward. One part of him wanted to pull away, but the other was glad to feel the touch of anyone against him. Things between he and Vergil had not been the best as of late, and it had Dante feeling lonely, and unwanted.

Yoichi began to kiss the back of Dante's neck, running his toungue over it softly. "I bet you taste like the finest bottle of wine that's left on this planet Dante..."

At that comment, Dante jumped away from him. "Dammit Yoichi! Do you want me to do this job or not?"

Yoichi smiled. "I am sorry Dante...please forgive me..." He walked over to a large wooden table, and began to roll out several old maps, holding the edges down. "These will show you the location of the stone."

Dante walked around the table until he was across from Yoichi and started laughing. "That is a map of the lowest level of the underworld...no one, and I mean NO one goes there..." He put his hands on the table. "I mean even when my brother was the dark prince of the underworld, he never went there...and for good reason..."

Yoichi smiled wickedly at the yound twin. "You are extrememly smart Dante...something your brother does not give you enough credit for..." He walked over to a wooden box, and pulled out a cigar. He gestured for Dante to take one, but he shook his head. Yoichi cut off the tip, and struck a match against the table, puffing on it as smoke drifted up into the high ceiling. He shook the match out and discarded it into a nearby ashtray. "I just love a good cigar every now and then."

Dante coughed slightly. "Yeah...so does Vergil..."

Yoichi grabbed one of the smaller maps and sat himself in a small chair with a table in front on him. "Come Dante...there is something that I think you will find quite interesting..."

Dante walked over, and kneeled next to the table. He watched as Yoichi spread the small map out on it. Dante gasped at what he saw. "No way man...that's not possible...that has to be a misprint...Vergil would of told me about it..."

Yoichi cocked an eye up. "Would he of Dante?"

Dante nodded. "Yeah...I mean Verge and I don't keep secrets from eachother...at least I didn't think that we did." He looked back down at the map. "Maybe he doesn't even know about it..."

Yoichi shook his head. "Oh no Dante...he knows alright...I just recently came to realize it myself...I mean haven't you ever wondered why he started wearing a second pendant around his neck about five months ago, and why he never takes it off, or lets you touch it?"

Dante though back, tears staring to well in his eyes. "He did know...He's known all of this time, and never bothered to tell me? Why?"

"That would be a better question for him, wouldn't you think?" Yoichi took a puff of his cigar, blowing the smoke upwards into the air.

The two sat in silence for a moment. "We need that necklace Dante, in order to obtain the stone. It is the key to the final level of the underworld."

Dante sat back, using his arms to brace his back up. "My father always told Vergil and I about the seven levels of the underworld, telling us never to venture beyond the fourth, should we ever find ourselves there...But now you are telling me that there is an eighth?"

Yoichi nodded. "That is exactly right Dante...there are eight...and your brother is the key to opening it..."

Just then, the doors to the room flew open. A tall, buff man with a black goatee, and covered in tattoos ran in. "We have it Master Yoichi..."

Yoichi stood. "Excellent Verrine..." The man threw Yoichi a necklace, that he caught in his hand. "You see Dante...all things are possible..."

Dante stood in concern, turning to Verrine. "Where did you get that?"

This story is getting really involved like my other one..LOL But if you liked it, just let me know and I will write more of it! R&R! (I like to know whats going on in your heads...heheehhe)