Weeks passed and Lucy kept on going to the Order's base, hoping to find some more information about Duisternis for their sabotage plan and to spy on Kyrie and Lucas. Lately, he's been noticing that Lucas and Kyrie were often together and they will find a place where they will be together alone. He almost lost them, but, good thing his smell and senses were exceptional. And whenever he spots them, he could always feel that Kyrie's going to lose her virginity for a minute.

Lucy decided not to mind them for a day and just proceeded in finding a hidden place to take Anima outside his body to ransack Duisternis' office and see any clues hidden there. As soon as he found one, he looked around and let out Anima's pyre and it turned into the soul.

"Now, Anima, just do what we had planned, okay?" Lucy reminded her, Anima just nodded at him obediently. "I'll make sure that no one will enter the office in the mean time. Find any clues or any objects that could possibly be evidence if Argosax or father will be putting the world in damnation."

"Got it, crystal." Anima responded as she slowly opened the office's door and tiptoed her way in the whole room. As she felt safe, she started walking normally and looked around, adoring how pretty the crystal chandelier at the center of the room's ceiling. She slapped herself lightly as she realized she was distracted.

"Focus, Anima." She chanted to herself. First thing she thought where Duisternis will hide something is in his file cabinet. She quietly opened it and started moving the contents to see anything under those files but she tried her best not to change any orders of the files so that it will be less suspecting when she's going to fix them back. As soon as she found nothing, she immediately went to look under the rugs and carpets to find something. She felt hopeless for a minute, she sighed, feeling that she should really take a look at the table cabinet. Anima looked around, seeing if there are any cameras hidden. As she found nothing, she slowly made her way towards the table and sat down on the chair. Anima slowly opened the biggest one and started to find something suspicious. She found a small intricately-designed golden chest with an amethyst on the top of the lid. Her eyes narrowed, curious on what's inside the chest. Anima reached for it and slowly opened it. There it was a pendant with a shiny blood-colored gem in the middle of it. Anima eyed it curiously, and suddenly, she saw images of woman screaming and a man going psycho. It was scary for her; she backed out violently from the seat, causing a loud sound throughout the whole room. Anima stood up, taking up the chair and closed the drawer. She was going to walk her way towards the door when it made sounds of someone attempting to open it. She froze for a couple of seconds and then looked around, finding a place to hide. Lucy told her that Duisternis is a demon, simply saying that the man can see her. Anima ran behind the cabinet, hoping that she would not be seen. She heard the click of the door; it was making her heart palpitate. If she could, she would hyperventilate from nervousness. It was one of her weaknesses and she doesn't know how to deal with her nervousness.

"Ah, what a nice act you did, Riselle." She heard Duisternis speaking. He was walking towards his table followed by Lucy who's putting a honeyed smile in his face.

"I was only concerned of the possibilities that might happened while you're away, sir. I only did the right thing and nothing else." Lucy answered, knowing full well he's faking it. It seems Duisternis is still clueless about Lucy's plan and Anima's existence. Anima saw that Duisternis is oblivious to her presence; she used it to slowly move towards a huge, bushy office plant to hide. Lucy was giving him hand signs where to go secretly while distracting Duisternis. To their surprise as Anima was about to open the door quietly, Duisternis stood up, walking around, almost seeing Anima who found another place to hide.

"Praise the Lord, I almost got caught." Anima whispered quietly under her breath.

"I assume you want a reward for guarding my office in such time, Riselle?" Duisternis asked him, his voice is hinted with a little happiness. Lucy smiled back at him.

"Oh, no. I just want to make sure that there's nothing will be stolen in your office. I heard a rumor of a member lurking around, stealing objects." Lucy lied. He turned around, making Duisternis's table in front of the older man that is behind him. Anima started tiptoeing quietly to walk out of the room. She slowly opened it and dashed her way out, but she closed the door gently so that Duisternis will not think anything. After a few chatting, Lucy got out of the room and sighed in relief. He saw Anima looking at him as if she's waiting. Lucy smiled as he walked towards her.

"Let's go home." Lucy said. Anima smiled brightly at him as she nodded.

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Dante was walking all around the house, searching for Lucy and Anima. He's pretty sure that he has no idea if those two are going out or anything. Nero was reading a magazine, sitting comfortably at the couch. As Dante couldn't find them, he walked towards the teen.

"Have you seen Lucy and Anima?" He asked. Nero looked up and shot a weird look to the elder.

"You haven't notice the letter Anima placed on your bedroom table?" He asked back. Dante started to think, and shook his head. The teen sighed, not in the mood to explain anything at all.

"What happened?"

"Wait for them to come back. I'm reading." Nero answered lazily. He got back in reading, leaving Dante wondering where those two are. There was a knock on the door and Dante walked towards and opened it, revealing Anima and Lucy. They walked inside and take off their shoes and Anima started snooping around what Nero's reading. The white-haired teen let Anima read the magazine with him.

"So, where are you two?" Dante asked. Lucy showed him the pendant as an answer to his question.

"Anima sneaked in Duisternis' office and found this." He replied. Dante took it and studied the gem in it.

"I saw images while looking at it." Anima shuddered from the memory. "It was scary."

"What did you see?" Nero asked, concerned about the soul. He had observed that Anima is an easily scared type of soul. It was weird for him, though. Since ghosts scares people at some sort.

Anima turned around, going to answer Nero's question when Dante called the girl. Anima ran towards the arms of the elder hunter and sat on his lap. She rested her head on Dante's chest and started to close her eyes as she curled up. Dante wrapped his arms warmly around Anima. Nero looked at them with surprise and amusement. Few moments later, Anima was asleep. The younger hunter found it adorable.

"That's what he always do." Lucy suddenly whispered to Nero's ear. "He'll call Anima and let her sleep in that way whenever she's afraid."

Lucy walked upstairs to change clothes and take care of Leon. Nero moved closer to Dante slowly and just watched Anima. She's like Dante's adoptive child, Nero thought.

"She's adorable." Nero whispered with full of fondness as he's playing lightly with Anima's long hair. Dante did the same thing, only few inches away from Nero's hands. His lips were starting to form a smile. They look like a family, in that particular moment.

"I really think you're prepared to have a family." Nero teased in a soft tone, not wanting to wake Anima up. Dante, however, was objectifying that statement.

"No, never." He answered defensively. Nero shush him for his voice is slightly loud. Nero's eyebrows curled up in a slightly scolding manner and pointed the sleeping soul. Dante gets what he means; he just slightly shook his head in a bit of annoyance from his statement.

"Who's going to be it? Lady?" Nero continued. Dante almost burst out laughing on the floor. For him, it was really impossible to happen.

"With that wildcat? What the hell are you even thinking?" Dante answered back. Nero smiled sheepishly.

"What? She's pretty."

"She's a loan shark."

"It's originally your fault why you happened to have a mountain of debt to her."

"She's putting interests in my bill. If it was only excluded, I would have been free long time ago."

Anima moved her body, causing them to panic a little bit. Nero moved away a little, while Dante freed his arms apart, not knowing what to do. Anima stopped moving, keeping the position she had.

"Uncle Dante, stop teasing Big Brother Nero..." Anima started sleeptalking. "You're finding him cute that's why you're doing it... that's unfair..."

Both of them blushed. Nero turned around because of embarrassment. Dante just looked on Anima in disbelief; not knowing how those things had entered the mind of the girl.

"She's just... 14. Heard that's the time teens are in the crucial state of imagination." Dante cheered up, trying to lift up the atmosphere for the better. Nero made an uncomfortable smile, trying not to think of the sentence somehow Anima made.

"Well... I guess..." Nero agreed, hoping that it will somehow change the awkwardness. It was when after what Nero said, Dante stood up, and carrying Anima in a way a father would carry his sleeping daughter. Nero followed them to the attic. The teen looked around the room. It was really dark and the only thing that would light up the place is the windowpane and there are different sizes of boxes that can be found on both sides of the room.

"She's sleeping here?" Nero asked. Dante putted down Anima on the top of old bed foam. After that, he opened the curtain for the light to come in. The room became brighter. Dante walked towards Nero and tapped his shoulder.

"Let her sleep for a while." Dante whispered to Nero. He turned around and walked downstairs next to Dante.

"Let's just forget about this whole thing." Nero suddenly suggested. Implying what happened a couple of minutes ago. Dante looked at him and smiled.

"Yeah. Just as long you don't push me into marrying Lady and we're good." Dante answered. Nero giggled as he nodded. The elder held his fist up to which Nero made a fist bump.

Author's notes: OHMYGOD! I'm so sorry guys... TT^TT. I took so long to update this story I'm so sorry. I have a very few time left to write for this stuff when I was in my summer school. I am now writing this in regular classes. So... I'm so sorry about this... TT^TT

Oh, and another thing, I would like to thank HubrisP for suggesting ideas that I can put in my story ^O^. I really appreciate those.

I hope you still want to read this fanfiction even though I was on hiatus.