Counting Days

A/N : Haha! I'm doing it in parts now, done especially for the first reviewer! I decided to lengthen the story a bit, just to make it obvious. The chapters will directly continued with the before and after. If you spot the hint where, i will love you for the rest of my life! XDD

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Chapter Two : Days - Part One

He rested himself on Kat's bed, stretching his arms and letting it fall back to the comfy cushioned bed. Reading a so-not-interesting girl's comic book tire him out, and he doesn't even know why Kat asked him to read it.

He sighed, "I don't know why this... crap... is so interesting to you."

"It's called 'different tastes' between a guy and girl, brother," she calmly replied.

Bored and his expression was completely dull, Dante's eyes shifted to his sister who silently doing her homework on the medium-built coffee-table.

"Need some help there, lil' sis?" he asked, sitting up on the bed.

Kat snickered, raising her head, "Like you could do mathematics."

"Hey, i paid attention in class too, you know?" Dante countered, moving himself to sit opposite to Kat's.

And continued, "...Sometimes."

But she just shook her head, continuing her work. About Dante's help, she doesn't need it. And the big brother didn't mind about it.

Dante wondered about Kat's relationship with Vergil. They were so close in school, there wasn't a time where he haven't seen Kat without the blue guy. And why he was so interested about Vergil, really did creeping him out.

"So, how'd you met Vergil, Kat?" he asked, poking his finger on Kat's pencil case.

"Why are you suddenly so interested about him? You're so weird!" Kat joked, laughing a bit.

"Well, i have to know who's my cute lil' sis is going out with!"

She put her pen down and sighed, "Me and Vergil are the best of friends. Plus, he already had someone he liked."

Widening his eyes in shock, Dante became slightly eager to hear who it was, "Yeah? Who? Tell me! Is it someone i know?"

Kat then smiled light-heartedly, ignoring the problems of her homework, "Ask him, brother dearest. You're his friend, right?"

"I just talked to him this afternoon and you call this thing's friendship?"

- - - Six Days More - - -

Dante walked on the pavement of the streets, hands in his pockets while crunching on the candy he was eating.

"Yeah, it makes me stupid whenever i think about it..." he admitted.

His doctor sighed, pulling her chair close to Dante just so that this secret could only be kept between them.

"There was nothing special about your donor. He is a middle-aged man who had lost everything few years ago..."

"Whoa... Not what i was expecting..."

She chuckled, "Let's see, you expected him to be a lot younger?"

He raised an eyebrow in confusion, but decided to brush it off for now.

"Not really. So... what's his tragic reason?" he asked, scratching the back of his head.

"Hmm... He said he had nowhere to go but a wish to reunite with his family in heaven. Talking to him about continuing life just doesn't seem to get through... Instead of suicide, it's better to donate, right?"

"Maybe... By the looks of things, i guess he's not ready. "

Dante's doctor nodded her head and smiled, "Correct, i'm glad you understand."

His Gray eyes lowered down to the ground. His donor had a family once, he understands what it feels to lose everything he loved.

'Because i'll probably do the same too...' he thought.

A donor without a name, he cursed. Just how much mystery can this guy get?

School seemed really tiring to him these days, and as a precaution, he brought along his medicines. Just after he climbed up the closed gates of his school, he realized of how lonely he was without any friends. And the first one he has was someone he least expected.

"He's a nerd... so, probably he's in the library," Dante thought logically.

He walked and entered the silent library room, he finally understands how dull it was to be smart. Looking sideways of the slightly empty library room, Dante searched for a familiar white-haired Vergil.

Then he spotted the reading Vergil who was sitting far from plain sight. Dante whispered loudly, "Yo, Verge!"

Vergil looked up from his book, and curved a somehow happy smile, "Strange to see you in a library."

"Yeah, probably this is the first and the last. So, i was thinking," he said, sitting on an empty chair.

The black-haired quietly continued, "...Wanna grab something to eat?"

It was pretty amusing how Dante, the trouble-maker in school, suddenly respected the silence of library rules.

Vergil chuckled lightly, closing his book. He understood what Dante meant, and said, "By your definition of skipping school?"

Then he curved a grin, "Nice, you read me really well."

"What do you have in mind?" the white-haired asked amusingly, it was nice that Dante has his way of logical jokes.

He quickly replied, standing up from his seat, "Maaaany things! C'mon! Pack your stuff, we're getting out of here!"

0-0

Vergil gulped, "Just so you know, this is my first time rebelling like this..."

"See? That's why, sticking to your book makes your life boring," Dante said honestly, and added, "And i vaguely remember you said life's something about enjoying?"

"Yes, i did said that but..." Vergil wandered as he absently watched Dante throwing their bags out to the other side of the gate, and started to climb.

He jumped down to the ground, picking up his and Vergil's bag and smirked, "What're you waiting for?!"

The white-haired mentally slapped himself, and shook his head, "...You better be the one paying!"

0-0

On their way to a family restaurant for lunch, Dante 'accidentally' pick a fight with a group of gangsters to which the fight was amazingly short. He single-handedly defeated all of them while Vergil, instead of helping or running away, just stood on his place... heedless as he wasn't the type to be afraid of trivial things.

When they arrived at the restaurant, Dante had ordered twice the amount of meals for himself while Vergil had chosen a rather normal set instead.

Finally settling on a table, Vergil asked, "Exactly how large your stomach can be?"

"Like a huge barrel, i could use some exercise later on," Dante replied, gobbling down his burger.

"And you ordered these everytime you eat in a fast-food family restaurant?" the white-haired pointed to the burgers and a bucket of fried chicken piling in front of them.

"Nope, i was never allowed to eat them. I had to rebel once in awhile," Dante stated, moving on to his next badge of burger.

"...I see, never thought a bad-ass like you had an eating disorder," Vergil expressionlessly said, eating his share of burger.

It felt like there was an arrow piercing through his metal body. Vergil had seen right through him!

"Shut up."

0-0

It was early night and the both of them had spent their afternoon racing, wrestling, shooting and battling in the arcade. And on top of that, they've reached the highest score those games could give.

Dante stretched his arms up to the air, "Fun in the arcade!"

They were walking side-by-side in the city on their way back.

"Yeah, i'm having a pretty good day so far," Vergil said, smilingly.

"Thanks by the way, Verge. Oh yeah, lemme walk you home," Dante offered.

Above everything else, Vergil declined the black-haired's offer.

Shaking his head as he continued to smile sadly, "It's fine. You can just walk me to school anyway, i can go home there."

The atmosphere then grew tense and very awkward. It was just a walk home, what's so bad about that? Then, a clever thought passed his mind.

"Ah, i see... You're afraid that your parents knew about me befriending you?" Dante spoke, turning his head to face his new friend.

"Sorry, Dante," he apologised.

"I deserved it."

It was quite between them halfway to school, when Vergil broke the silence, "By sensing your 'logical mind aura', you are anticipating me to tell you about my life."

Then the black-haired whistled, "You're a genius, Vergil."

He lightly chuckled, wondering which story he could tell, "Let's see... I could only tell you a few things for now."

Dante nodded his head, "Privatised lifestyle, i get it. But i'm listening."

"When i was very young, i found out that i'm the sole heir to my grandparents' fortune. I decided to use them for future use, now... I don't know why i don't think like that any more."

The black-haired widened his eyes, "What, you've used all of them already?"

Vergil laughed heartedly, shaking his head, "Nope!"

He continued, "I gave some to charity, but the wealth keeps growing... One thing for sure, i haven't touched even a single penny when i started high-school. Somehow i feel that i might leave someday soon..."

They arrived at the closed school gates. Halting his steps, Dante asked, "You're sick?"

Vergil chuckled, "Nah, it's just a passing instinct. You wouldn't know, right?"

- - - Five Days More - - -

"Oh? You invited Vergil for dinner later?" Eva smiled happily, flipping out the pancakes.

Dante groaned, sitting on his usual seat on the table beside Kat who was already eaten her share of pancakes. He hated whenever his mother got deliriously happy like this.

And replied, drinking his morning tea, "Yeah, he told me his parents didn't mind him staying out late tonight."

She chuckled, laying off the cooked pancakes on a plate and served them straight for Dante.

"You should just honestly tell me you're having a sleep-over, honey!"

He accidentally spurted out his tea, there was this 'eeeewww' look on Kat's face. Nearly choked, he quickly wiped his mouth, "Where exactly are you pointing at, mom?!"

"Aww... it's just that this is the first time you'll bring a friend over," she 'innocently' said.

Eva decided to give up when Dante gave her a silent reply, though there were few streaks of blushes appearing on his cheeks. He gobbled down his pancakes with maple syrup when Kat left for school. It became his daily routine to go to school later than his sister, just so that he can get to talk to his mother.

Dante's eyes wandered to the beautiful necklace on his mother's neck, and asked, "Mom, are you sure you wanna give up yours and dad's necklaces?"

"Why? It doesn't have any values to us any more, Dante..." Eva calmly explained, drinking her cup of coffee.

Finishing his pancakes, he said again, "But you guys love them..."

With that Eva smiled, bringing a hand to caress Dante's cheek, "Dante... Listen, seeing you alive is more valuable to us than money or diamonds."

0-0

Lunch in school, the bench where they first met became their meeting spot. When Vergil arrived, he noticed the slightly disturbed expression on Dante's face and sat near him.

"You're so sullen today, Dante," the white-haired pointed, looking at the empty field.

Dante sighed, brushing his hair to the back, "...I don't wanna talk about it."

"You don't have to. Kat told me..."

He vexed, "Looks like she always gives you an update of Sparda's family life..."

Vergil then frowned, "Now, don't get mad on her. Kat felt the same way as you do, that's why i know what's happening."

The black-haired closed his eyes, "...Guess you don't know what it's for."

There was a moment of silence between them before Vergil replied.

"I don't want to be so nosy to ask you."

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