Vergil's OneShots (DMC Fanfiction)

Couple Days 2

A/N: I could not resist writing another chapter about the small things in life. Warning: This chapter is quite (really) long, so take your time reading :) Don't forget to vote and comment!

[Couple Days - 2]

"Breakfast." Riko announced, unable to sound happy and upbeat about the meal because she simply had no energy to spare being lively. In fact, lifelessness was the closest word to describe her feelings now.

"Salad again?" Her boyfriend asked with a frown, looking up from his bowl. "When will we get some meat again? At least a hotdog?"

"I told you; no meat until I get my usual weight range back again." Riko sighed heavily as she plopped down on the chair beside her boyfriend. She knew it was the diet making her tired and grumpy, but Riko forced herself to accept fate as she stabbed in irritation at the vegetables in the bowl. "I weighed myself yesterday, and I've lost only 2 kg. We still have 8 more to go."

"I don't have to lose my weight with you, do I? I am satisfied with my weight." He answered, frowning unhappily at his greens, but stabbing at them with the same amount of happiness that Riko had –which was close to none. Having salad was a terrible way to start their weekend morning, but Riko had to grit her teeth.

They were currently in the middle of her diet program, because Riko had checked herself on the weighing scale recently and realised that her weight had climbed very much beyond anything she had seen before. The weight of a woman was never supposed to be revealed, but the number she had seen on the scale had been a 6 and 5. The most terrifying thing was that the bigger number had been on the tens' value.

The root cause of her terrifying weight gain had been easy to guess; her boyfriend.

Though they had been dating for 5 years now, and she was more or less used to his meat-filled diet enough to watch her own weight while she shared her meals with him, she had lost track of her diet recently –particularly after their extremely scrumptious dinner that she had prepared to celebrate his coming back from his business trip. Riko had been on the way to becoming a curvy woman (not that she had anything against them), and that was something she could not imagine for herself if she wanted to continue walking beside her very fit and handsome boyfriend in public.

She knew it was bad to have expectations of people of only certain body shapes being able to walk proudly beside her boyfriend, but it was still the expectation she imposed on herself nevertheless. Riko would not let anyone call her Vergil's girlfriend if she was fat and unable to keep up with her boyfriend's charms.

And thus, the diet program had start, which involved heavily cutting calories, and then actively burning the fats that she had accumulated. And because Riko didn't like to do anything alone in the house, her boyfriend had been forced to join in her green diet, which of course elicited much complains from the almost-carnivorous man at every meal.

"No, if I have to diet, you have to diet with me. This is your show of support." Riko warned.

"But I don't even support-" Her boyfriend's rising protest was wisely silenced off by himself when he caught sight of the deadly glare that Riko gave him. He was partially to blame for her weight-consciousness as well; the man was always saying that she was gaining weight, always saying her that she might get fat –as if the reason for her weight getting so out of hand wasn't because of her suiting his diet in the first place.

"Okay, I will support you, but you must not complain." He changed his words wisely, stabbing into another piece of lettuce and looking at it suspiciously as if it was poisonous. "The women in demon hunting are able to keep their weight not only because of the jobs they get. Everyone has to take a test to be a qualified demon hunter, and there is a standard set of exercise that trainees follow to get their weight and stamina to the required level."