The Son Of Dante

Before Naruto could say anything the elevator came to a halt. He realized that it had actually brought them to the entrance of the room where they met the dark knight.

"Come" Dante urged Naruto as he walked towards the door unconcerned.

Naruto stared at Dante's back as he followed behind him, for some reason he felt that Dante's back looked heavy. Maybe it was just his imagination.

"Aren't you afraid of it being a trap?" Naruto immediately asked when he saw Dante reaching for the door handle. He could still remember what happened the last time they entered that room.

"Don't be a chicken now kid. Nobody likes a chicken"

A chicken?!

Naruto looked at Dante with his mouth wide open like a fish out of water not knowing what to say. Him a chicken?

How dare him?

Naruto opened his mouth to curse at Dante but he had already opened the door and walked into the room.

Not wanting to let him off Naruto hurriedly followed after him. Naruto saw Dante standing in front of the mirror where Nelo and appeared from previously. Without wasting a second Naruto said with a displeased tone.

"Dante, take it back. I am not a chicken!"

"Geez kid, can you not cluck so loudly?" Dante asked nonchalantly as he picked his ear with his pinky finger.

" You.." Naruto face turned red in anger and embarrassment.

Dante ignored the teen that looked like he was going to explode at any second and focused on the panel with the same sub insignia as the guiding light on it beside the mirror.

"That should be it"

Dante inserted the guiding light into the wall panel and a loud cranking sound echoed in the bedroom. The wall broke down into pieces to reveal a door behind it, but Dante didn't rush to open it. Instead he turned to naruto who had now calmed down and said. "Let's take a break"

"Thank goodness. My feet hurts" Naruto sighed in relief and quickly sat down on the ground with his back rested against the bed wooden frame. Dante shook his head at him. He had almost forgotten that Naruto wasn't like him who could go on for days without rest. He had forgotten this fact and only realized how tired the kid was after they left the tunnel. But because Naruto was so eager to prove himself that he didn't say anything.

Dante laughed inwardly at the teen now sprawled all over the floor before he settled down on the bed.

They entertained a few minutes of silence before Naruto looked at Dante and asked a question that has been bugging him.

"You seem really concerned about this Mundus guy, but you have never spoken about him before"

Maybe it was just his imagination but Dante seemed to sense up whenever that name was mentioned. It was really suspicious.

Dante was quiet for a few seconds, silently contemplating before he sighed and said with an heavy voice. "Because I hope that I would never have to"

"Why?" Naruto asked, now more puzzled than before.

Dante sighed dejectedly, remembering his dark past. Memories of a time long past slowly surface in his mind.

Naruto watched Dante face go through different type of dark expression. Realizing that Dante was having difficulty because of his question Naruto opened his mouth to stop him but it was already too late, the words had already left Dante's mouth.

"I lost my family to Mundus. I watched him kill my mother and eat her heart right in front of me."

Naruto's expression darkened when he heard that. If he could he would turn back time and stop himself from ever asking that question.

Someone who never had something could never know the pain of losing it. Where as the person who had that something would know the value, therefore, they would experience a lot of pain when they lost it. That was the case of him and Dante.

For Naruto who had never known his parents, at most he would be sad and depressed but at the end of the day they were nothing but strangers to him since he never got to know them. But Dante was the opposite of him, worst yet he watched his own mother die before his eyes.

"I am sorry to hear that. I should never have asked"

"It's alright." Dante waved him off before he turned to look at his reflection in the mirror with a mysterious smile on his face. "I thought I would never get the chance to make Mundus pay for what he did to me. But Trish mysterious appearance was a blessing in disguise."

"Speaking of Trish..." Naruto frowned as he looked outside the window and into the horizon. "Where do you think she is?"

Dante followed naruto's gaze to stare at the horizon, then he shrugged and said. "I can't say. But she better not think of skipping my payments"

Even if she looked like his mother and also provided him with a chance to get his revenge there was no way he would work for free, after all, he had bills to pay and debts to settle.

Naruto laughed at Dante. For a moment Dante's image seemed to overlap with someone they were both familiar with, and Naruto was quick to point that out. "You sound like lady"

"Must have rubbed off on me" Dante shrugged not taking offense to his words. He has known lady for a few years now and the two of them tend to interact a lot even though they are not dating. It wasn't strange for them to unknowingly pick up each other's habit.

"No kidding" Naruto laughed trying his hardest to get his laughter under control.

The two of them talked for a few more minutes before Naruto eventually drifted off to sleep on the cold floor. His fatigue from all the running and fighting had finally catching up to him.

Dante watched him sleep for a few minutes before turning to stare out the window at the horizon.

'I hope you are during fine, wherever you are, Vergil.'

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