Nero woke up in a comfortable bed. He remembers that his apartment's bed is not that comfortable. In fact, whenever he's changing his position, it will make loud squeaky sounds that sometimes, he can't sleep because of that. He pressed his hands down to his bed. It was really softer and comfortable than before.

Nero sat up immediately after he realized he had moved to Dante's office. How could he forget that? He's pretty sure he hadn't drunk anything before walking down, right?

Nero stood up from his bed and left the room. The teen rushed down and saw the elder and Lucy eating a slice of pizza. As Dante saw him, he made a fake salute to the teen.

"Morning, kid." Dante greeted. He pointed a pizza box. "There's breakfast."

Nero looked at Dante in disbelief.

"Seriously, pizza, for breakfast?!" Nero almost yelled at Dante. Lucy laughed with his legs crossed at the sofa.

"If you may add, the lunch and dinner are also pizza." Lucy added. Nero's eyes widened more. It's not like he hated pizza or anything, but it really seems impossible that someone eats pizza as its daily meal.

"Got a problem with that, kid?" Dante asked Nero who rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, I have a problem with that." Nero answered back. "And stop calling me 'kid', Dante. I am not a kid."

"My house, my rules. And I like to eat pizza every day." Dante said. Lucy shook his head and continued watching the show. Nero took a slice and started eating it before he cleaned up the boxes. Lucy stood up and decided to help.

"Don't need your help, thank you anyway." Nero said in a polite tone as much as possible.

"I never told you that I'm doing this for you." Lucy answered. "I always clean his office before, but he kept on throwing trashes everywhere. It's kind of fun cleaning again, though."

They both continued cleaning the whole house while Dante's watching his TV and eating his pizza. Dante doesn't notice but he kept watching the white-haired teen with the light-pink haired one. Seeing the other demon hunter so happy with Mundus' son made him feel…

…Jealous?

Dante shook his head. He can't be. He can't be jealous! Besides, it's impossible that Lucy will like Nero. For all of the demons he knows, Lucy is one of the demons who can't feel love! Of course, Nero wouldn't like someone like Lucy! Can he?

Why not? Nero is good-looking. He had a built-body, well, not that built that could overpower his. (He's Dante, AFTER ALL. No one can overpower him. NO ONE.) The kid's quite a good fighter; he can protect anyone if he wants to. Also, even Dante doesn't want to admit it, Lucy seems kind of cute, like a girl. He's just the same age as Nero, after all. The elder had seen Lucy in a combat and the kid is really good at killing his own kind. Most of all, both of them are single. Lucy once said a name that Nero looks like a lot, except for the eyes. Lucy might fall for Nero, somehow…

Now that he had thought of it, something inside of the elder had been stabbed repeatedly. Nope, he's not jealous. He's definitely not. Then, why is he feeling so possessive about the young man?

Dante stood up, he walked towards the two and held Nero's left arm.

"What the—the hell is your problem, old man?" Nero said with a hint of annoyance in his tone. Dante glared at Lucy.

"If you want to clean this place up, let Lucy take the whole job." Dante said in a cold tone. Nero was looking at Dante, frozen. Of course, it was his first time seeing Dante who had lost his cool. Lucy sighed.

"I get it, Dante. I can hear your demon." Lucy walked back to his room. He stopped as he's going to walk upstairs. "Oh, by the way, does Lady tell you something?"

"About what?" Dante asked the kid. Pretty sure that Lady isn't bothering him that much these days. He heard Lucy laughed as if he heard something funny.

"What a cunning woman she is." He whispered to himself. He turned to Dante. "I paid half of your debts from her."

"Oh, you just—YOU JUST WHAT?!"

Dante's eyes were locked at Lucy. He knows his debt on Lady's is like a mountain. How come that this cross-dresser is able to pay for it?

"Well, let's say while you guys are having a fun time at Fortuna, I'm stuck here doing the local jobs. I exterminated demons from a quite big company while you're away. Now, they're giving me 25,000 every month as a token on what I did. Since I don't know what to do with it, I paid your debts to Lady."

Dante's mouth widened. He's got to be thankful for this kid, because Lady stopped bugging him about the debt and him accepting a mission. However, it made him think, if Lucy could own a damn house, why is he still living in his office?

"Why didn't you just pay it full?" Dante asked instead.

"Well, I'm finding it amusing when Lady's bugging you about your debt." Lucy answered.

"If you need me, I'm going to be in my room." Lucy said.

"I thought you don't want to get stuck in your room?"

"Well, my crafting kit is calling for me." He answered before they heard a locking sound. Dante sat down in his office chair. He always knows the hell's son had quite a hobby in crafting. He remembered the time where they're having a party at the Devil may cry and the kid's just standing at a corner, selling the things he crafted. He even made a chibi Dante made of polymer clay and gave it to him. Dante touched the handle of his Rebellion and held the keychain that Lucy gave him.

"Hey!"

Dante turned to Nero who's glaring at him. For a moment, the younger hunter turned sexier in Dante's eyes.

Oh wait, he's definitely not falling on that kid.

"What?" Dante asked the kid. The younger hunter was going to say something when the phone rang.

Thank you, phone! Dante couldn't help the thought as he answered the phone.

"Devil may cry." The elder greeted. He can hear growls of demons over the phone and the woman's hysterical screaming for help. Dante's eyebrows twitched.

"Somebody help me!" The woman screamed desperately over the phone. Dante took his pencil and a piece of paper.

"I would like to help, ma'am. Your address?" Dante tried to keep his cool while listening to the woman. The woman was crying desperately while telling the address. It was quite muffling that Dante couldn't hear clearly but he managed to understand it.

"Please help me before they—Aah!" Dante could hear the woman struggling but the demon had stabbed her. Dante immediately took his Rebellion and Ebony and Ivory in his holster. Nero looked at Dante with a questioning look in his face.

"What's the matter?" He asked the older man. Dante turned to him with a serious look in his face.

"Suit up, kid." Dante told him. "We've got a serious business going on."

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The two devil hunters are driving their way to the address. They had no choice though, the shop had only one bike and Lucy doesn't want to share his bike. As Dante's driving, Nero couldn't help but smell the scent of the older hunter as they're sitting at the red motor. The smell of strawberry and mint with the manly scent of Dante mixed in his nostrils. It was really pleasing, to be honest. The white-haired teen take a good look at the elder, his silky hair is flowing gracefully at the wind, its broad shoulders seems so comfortable and his hip on where he's clinging is really hard. Maybe because of the muscles built in it. The look if the elder who seems like he's enjoying the view while driving added more of his charm. Now he knows why Dante's a lady's man.

No, he's not attracted to Dante. He's just praising the old man, right? And he's pretty sure as hell he's not gay.

As they arrived at the house, Nero felt a cold shiver in his shoulders. Something is definitely wrong here, and you can see it from the outside. The garden bushes are cut down in a very bad way. And the walls are cracking. Nero held his Blue Rose, alarmed. He can sense something wrong in the house. Dante could feel it too; his hand is ready to take his Rebellion from his back as they walked inside the house.

The wall is painted with blood. The gory sight of the people lying dead on the floor made Nero uncomfortable. Surprisingly, Dante suddenly held his arm.

"Don't make too much noise, Nero." Dante warned. "They might attack us by surprise."

Nero knows what Dante meant. There might be some experiments from the Order that had escaped. And if it's an experimental one, maybe it will jump out from the dead body by surprise.

The teen want to stab himself from saying that. Surprisingly, he guessed right. From the dead bodies, it rose a demon, a new kind of demon. It was full of stitches and there's a hollow in its tummy where you can see the rotten liver and stomach. The arm is detangling from the stitch where you can see the muscles and veins. The eyeball is almost falling. Nero want to vomit from the sight. The demon started running its way to him when Dante suddenly shoot it using the Ebony.

"Thanks." Nero said.

"Keep your senses awake, kid." Dante told him. "There are still a lot of them."

The elder was right. The demons kept rising from the dead bodies of the victim and started attacking them. Nero smirked. He pulled one of the demons using his Devil Trigger and threw it at the other two who are running after him. Dante slashed one of them using his Royal Guard. He moved next to the Trickster and killed most of the demons and smirked at the kid.

"Show off." Nero whispered. He jumped mid-air and used his Devil Bringer and stabbed one of the demons. He pulled his Blue Rose and started shooting the demon around him. He used his Red Queen and stabbed the demons in his way. As all of the demons are killed, Dante clapped his hands.

"Wooh. Nice work." He said. "Where's Yamato?"

"I kind of left it at the shop." The teen explained.

"At least you can kill demons without the help of it."

"Are you saying I'm weak without it?"

"Not really." Dante walked out of the house. "Let's go, kid. If that Yamato is in the house, then Lucy must be talking to that damn sword right now, literally."

"He can do that?"

"He's Emperor of the hell's son, after all."

"Are you fucking serious?!" Nero exclaimed. He wonders why the hell's son is in the elder's care. Maybe they are… some kind of lovers?

No, it can't be. By the looks of it, Dante doesn't look like gay; he's the one who can make the guys gay. But, why is Lucy living with him, anyway?

The sound of engine reviving made Nero get back to his senses. Dante had the bored and irritated look in his face.

"Come on, kid. We won't get any payment from this, and Lucy might break the hell loose." He said. Nero groaned as he walked towards the bike and rode on the back. He just hated getting called 'kid'. But, somehow, it sounds pleasing when Dante says it.

That really gave him the creeps.

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As they went home, Dante was right. Lucy is now talking to Yamato.

"Are there any girls you like?" Lucy asked as if he hasn't felt their presence. The cross-dresser suddenly laughed.

"I wish I could be as cold-hearted like you, sometimes."

"Hey, Lucius!" Dante called the hell's son's first name. He walked towards the rack and placed his Rebellion there.

"What?"

"Stop asking my brother's favorite sword weird stuffs."

"Why?"

"Lucius Francesceine Klaine!" Dante had raised his voice like a father scolding his daughter. Lucy stood up and went back to his room.

"That's one of those moments where I said his name perfectly." Dante couldn't help but to say it. Nero placed his Red Queen and Blue Rose on the rack and sat down.

"What was that all about?" Nero couldn't help but asked. Dante shrugged.

"No idea, kid." He said as he took a bite from a slice of cold pizza. Nero sighed.

"You really like pizza, don't you?"

"Hell, if this thing is a person, I would marry this."

"Pizza-maniac old man…" Nero whispered to himself as he turned on the TV.

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Author's note: Ta-da! Another chappie! Yay! Oh well, if I'm going to make a sequel of the DMC 4, I should also think of new kind of demons, right? Ohoho… Oh, and about Lucy, I think I'll post him in chapter 4 or 5. Please review and tell me what you think! ^O^