Hooray chapter 5 uploaded at last. And thank you to my 3 reviewers for favings AND reviewing this fanfic. You guys are just plain awesome! Okay well kind of like chapter 3 this chapter might get a little dry. Why you ask? It's mainly because Dante and Soki are doing a lot of talking and so on and so forth. But I hope it proves to be interesting!
Thanks to you guys again and also to everyone else who's reading this! You guys are awesome *_*

Muninori growled when Mitsunari left the room. He snapped his angry gaze to Vergil who was standing still with his eyebrows knotted in frustration. He couldn't believe that Mitsunari was leaving the capture of Hideyasu in his hands! It just wasn't fair! 'I need to prove that I can do this on my own without blue boy getting in my way.'

Vergil looked to Muninori and frowned. "I warned you to stay out of my way." He placed his hand on Yamato's hilt. "You challenge me and report me to your leader. How childish."

Muninori sneered. "Coming from the loser who just got his ass kicked by Hideyasu." He then cackled. "For someone so mighty and powerful you're not very smart for losing to him." He stepped forward. "You may have had an upper hand on me during our battle, but" he laughed and turned around shaking his head as though it was the most hilarious thing that had happened, "Frois gave me a boost in my strength." He turned back to Vergil.

He closed his eyes and turned away. "I have no interest in listening to you talk." With that said, Vergil walked off leaving Muninori gaping like a fish.

Muninori growled and clenched his teeth. "Fucking bastard."

Once Soki had dragged Dante inside he lay him down on his futon gently and put Ebony and Ivory to the side along with Lamentation. He sat Dante up and removed the maroon jacket and threw it with his firearms. He looked over Dante's wounds and nodded to himself.

"Okay I think I know what to use." He stood up and walked to a wall with two sliding doors that were patterned with cherry blossoms branches. He slid one door open and looked on the shelves.

There were scrolls that he had collected the times he went to observe and clear out villages of Genma and the demons Mitsunari had planted. The scrolls were either valuable in their own sense or plain useless. Soki kept them tucked away so he would have something to analyse if he was planning to go to a different town or fort.

Tenkai would often send him missions to bring peace to a village or an infested area. Some of the missions he was given were lousy and others were a test for Soki. Either way it kept him busy and kept him in pocket.

Soki found what he was looking for among the scrolls; a scroll that contained information on various antidotes and remedies for treating minor and serious wounds. He pulled it out and shut the door. Walking back to Dante, Soki opened the scroll and began to read it over.

"Mmmm." He wandered off into thought and, eventually, found the ingredients for a herbal wound cream. It didn't appear hard to make and seemed like would only take an hour or two to make. He set the scroll down and reached for the various ingredients.

He turned when he heard grunting. Dante sat up and put his hand to his forehead. "That... was one hell of a party." His voice was hoarse and his eyes were still adjusting. He looked around and saw Soki gawking at him. "What now? Ugh did Vergil slice my face off or something?" He felt his face. "Phew," he sighed," still there and waiting for the ladies."

Soki rolled his eyes. "Glad to see you're awake. That wound on your shoulder looks serious. I'm just making something for it now."

Dante yawned. "Can't feel a thing." He looked at Soki again. "Vergil said he needed to take a demon... did he mean you? I knew it. You're a demon after all." He rolled and took hold of his guns and walked to Soki, Ivory pushed against his temple. "Tell me the truth, demon. What does my brother want with you?"

Soki slapped the gun away. "I don't know! And I told you I'm a human! People just call me the Blue Demon." He raised an eyebrow. "And I could say the same for you... where did you and this Vergil come from? Are you a demon? If you were a human you'd probably be half dead from the blood loss."

Dante smirked. "True." He brought his guns down to his sides and sighed. "The truth is Vergil and I are half demons. Our father was Sparda; a powerful demon who sealed off the gateway between the demon world and the human world." He put his hands behind his head. "And for a while Vergil has tried to open the gate once again to consume the human world."

"And that's how you came to be here?"

Dante shrugged. "No clue. We were sucked into this vortex... well I was, Vergil looked like he wanted to come through."

Soki took it all in and sat down at his table. "So you did come from another world? Or universe?" He had heard stories from Tenkai of isles beyond Japan.

"I guess you could assume that." Dante sat also, placing his guns on the table. "Before we came here we were having our usual family duel." He smirked. "Stabbed me right in the stomach, the asshole." He looked to Soki. "A normal human would die almost instantly from Yamato's blade. But me," he leaned back on his hands, "I'm not your everyday human as I said."

Soki raised an eyebrow. "You're more of a pain in the ass than most humans. And I thought Muninori talked too much."

Dante picked up the scroll and looked at it. "I don't like it when people talk more than me." He smirked and then made a face. He didn't have a clue what was written on the scroll. It wasn't the wrong way up or sideways... "What the hell is this shit?" He threw it back on the table. "Weird demon translations?"

Soki blinked and looked at Dante as though he had grown a second head. "It's a Japanese recipe..."

Dante grunted. "And why the hell do you have a Japanese recipe?"

Was this guy mentally retarded or something? Looks as though that jacket was compensating for something. "I'm... going to write a letter to someone." He stood up and walked back to the sliding doors to retrieve some parchment, a calligraphy brush and a bottle of black ink.

Dante shrugged. "Whatever." He looked around Soki's little hideout and noticed a small gourd; possibly full of alcohol. He stood up and walked to the gourd and picked it up. He could hear liquid slushing around in it. He grinned. Finally some alcohol! He walked back to the table and set himself down on the floor crossing his legs. "Hey, Soki, got any glasses?"

Soki sat back down and placed the parchment, ink and brush on the table. He looked at the gourd Dante held. "That's sake... it's really strong."

Dante smirked. "Good. Well? Got any glasses?" He watched as Soki stood up and walked to a low shelf and pulled two tiny bowl looking cups off the shelf and came back handing one to Dante. "Wow, you really think I can't handle this?" Challenge accepted.

It was Soki's turn to smirk. "On the contrary. Here allow me to pour that for you." He took the gourd and tipped it slightly, clear liquid pouring out of its spout into his and Dante's cups. He placed it back on the table and raised his cup to his mouth.

Dante raised an eyebrow at Soki and picked the small, delicate, cup up. "Cheers." He then skulled it quickly and coughed. "ARGH!"

Soki laughed and tried not to spill his sake all over the table. "Your face! Hahahahahahaha!" Soki raised his cup. "Priceless!" He then downed his own sake and sighed.

Dante growled. "You fucking bastard!"

Soki wiped his eyes and picked up the brush and dipped it into the ink, bringing it down onto the parchment to write a letter. He painted quietly in the candle light. Once he was finished he put the brush down and allowed the ink to dry.

Dante looked up. "You took your sweet time." He looked at the strange symbols on the parchment. "Who's it for?"

Soki flexed his fingers. "A monk at the Mt. Hiei temple." He smirked when Dante made a face. "His name is Tenkai. I've written if he could give us some answers about the Genma's sudden appearance."

"A monk? What good will that do?" Dante went to his futon and dropped down onto it putting his hands behind his head. "Cast a few exorcism spells and rid the evil?

Soki picked the letter up and rolled it securely and tied it neatly with a small piece of string. He walked to his broken door and looked down at the orange cat. "Take this to Tenkai, friend." He tied the letter loosely around the cat's neck and watched it bolt off into the night. He returned inside. "Tenkai is more than an exorcising monk." He scratched behind his head. "Hard to explain."

Dante closed his eyes and yawned. "Whatever." He then shifted a little on his futon. "So what makes you think this 'Tenkai' knows anything about these demons?"

Soki blew out the candle flame and lay down on his futon. "Tenkai was the one who
explained everything to me. At first I thought he was one of them. But after a while he explained who was behind the Genma and the cherry trees. He's powerful in his own rite and knows too much. Honestly he's older than he appears so that monk has seen quite a bit in his time." He closed his eyes and nestled under the blanket. "Hopefully Tenkai can give us some answers."

Dante drifted off a little. "I hope you're right about that, Soki." He pulled the blanket to his chest. "Well time for the sandman to do his work."

Soki lay on his back with his hands behind his head staring up into the darkness at his ceiling. If Tenkai didn't have the answers he was seeking then what was he to do? He couldn't fight them alone. 'I need a fallback plan if Tenkai doesn't have the answers.' He then sighed and closed his eyes; finally allowing sleep to envelop him for the second time in one night.

Don't you just want to punch Muninori in the face! I know I did when I was playing Onimusha and even know. Ugh that cackle. haha. So Dante is slowly starting to understand that he's in another country AND universe I guess you could say. But in any case Dante and Soki seemed to have sorted out some arguments and problems... for now haha. You know they won't stop fighting until they're satisfied.
Thanks to everyone who's reading and next chapter get ready to go to Mt. Hiei! Why! Because the chapter is going to be allllll around Tenkai and Arin! yaay. Well thanks again guys!

~SD