Only In Your Eyes

by thatredheadedchick

Rhiley has gone through so much in her life and what happens when He comes along? Will it get better or worse? VinXOC Rated M for later chapters "Complete" "Under Construction"

1. Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I do not own final fantasy, however much I wish I did and therefore don't own any character. The only ones I own are Rhiley, Raihiko and LoLo owns Rayne. I also co- own Aka and her gang with her as well. Therefore I make no profit off any of my writings

Name: Rhiley Sanders

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Looks: short black hair, black eyes, kinda gothic-like clothing, about 5ft 4, kinda has a 'fuck you' look about her all the time.

Weapon: Scythe called Red Death

Attitude: Very passive aggressive, has her own style of doing things, rarely let's people get close.

Likes: night time, being alone, Materia, Raihiko, and her big shinny sword.

Dislikes: loud noises, sunlight, those who are hyper, and pink.

Bio: Rhiley used to be the leader of a gang called Aka Hitomi, in sector 4 slums, back in the day. I suppose she's a lot like Vincent in a way, except without the demonic inner half. She was killed, wasn't meant to come back, but did. If that makes any sense at all. But she has no recollection of how she came back to life. She sorta remembered things from her past, but only veigly.

Name: Raihiko

Age: 3

Gender: Female

Looks: little black, fuzzy, furry, creature with big red eyes.

When you piss her off, she turns into a big black demon with dragon-like wings

Weapon: Claws, fangs and tail

Attitude: She's Skitzo. One moment she wants to curl up on your lap, the next she wants to eat your face off.

Likes: fish

Dislikes: Reno

Bio: Rhiley found her after her mother had been killed and just couldn't shake her off. So, here she is now. She's very protective of Rhiley and won't let anyone get too close that mean her harm. She rarely lets other people even touch her.

I have always been an orphan. Never really had a home. I've always wanted to get out and explore, find new things, them sort of things, but instead I was left for dead in Sector 2. No family, no friends, no home. I stole to survive, but who didn't in those days? The day of the SOLDIER's. They made life a living hell. But I'm not one to cry over spilt milk.

I was about to die after a few months on my own, only being 5 years old, but as I held onto that last strand of life, a woman by the name of Aka Hitome of the Hitome Gang in sector 4 took me in. I was the first recruit in that group. Sure there were others, but they were friends of hers.

As our gang grew, we became well known. Everyone feared us. And soon I became her right hand man- er- woman.

I was 13 when I met her. Rayne Collins. Boy did she ever have a background. Her mother dying of an overdose, and that ain't even a little bit of it. But Aka saw something in her. She saw the makings of greatness, though honestly, at first, I had no idea what it was.

But as the years passed, I was surprised to find myself quite close with her. She was like my little sister. As soon as we took her in, Aka immediately assigned me to teaching her how to use a ketana, as that was the weapon she fancied. I myself preferred a scythe.

After a few more years, she was working her way up in the gang, even surpassing me, though I would always be the right-hand woman, I didn't mind this. Actually I was quite happy for her.

Then one day everything went horribly wrong. Reno came into Aka's office as she and I planned where to strike next, and told us about ShinRa's plan to eliminate all the gangs in Sector 4 in order to get rid of our gang. That's when Aka brought Rayne in and told the both of us we should go with Reno and become a SOLDIER or a Turk in order to escape this terrible fate, but the both of us refused. She had been like a mother to the both of us and we were NOT going to just up and leave her. We were going to stick with her until the very end.

Unfortunately it didn't work that way.

I watched as Aka, the woman I knew to be the strongest, fall to the blade of the one they called Sephiroth. I was glad that Rayne was not there to see it. I knew what she would do. She wasn't the most rational when upset.

I found Rayne and I got us the hell out of there.

As soon as we had gotten to the elevator to the platform, a man named Reeve and a boy named Cloud had stopped us. They had no intentions on letting us up. Fortunately Reno was there to save us.

So, there we were. We were hiding in the near by forest, waiting for Reno, waiting to find out what we were going to do with our lives.

Quite honestly, I never felt so helpless, so scared, and so angry all at the same time in my entire life. I was shaking. I wanted to puke. I could go on, but I won't.

"What do you think we should do?" she asked.

"We're going to wait here until Reno gets back." I said. She sighed as she sat down.

She looked so unsure of herself. I wanted to comfort her, but I didn't know how.

I wanted to kill Sephiroth. I wanted to make him pay. I wanted to make ShinRa pay. I wanted revenge. But I wasn't thinking strait at this moment, so who knows what I really wanted?

After a while, Rayne finally helped me to calm down. I still hated those people though. Mainly Sephiroth. But if she had seen what I had, she'd feel the same way. I was now scared for the both of us.

When I asked her what we were going to do with ourselves, she told me to ask Reno.

Few moments later he was there, telling us we should be a Turk or in SOLDIER, but fuck that shit. There was NO WAY in hell I would ever become what I hate.

So he gave us 200 Gil, which I wasn't real happy about taking, but gave 100 to Rayne and kept 100.

So after that we said our good byes and headed...well, we had no idea where to go, actually. As soon as we got out of that forest, we hit the roads, and decided to ride with a man named Errol.

"So, where you girls headed?" he asked.

"Kalm." I said before Ray could say anything.

"Ah I c. Well, you're in luck. I gotta get there to see my little girl. What did you two say your names were?" he asked. I looked at Rayne with a look that said to not speak and she understood.

"My name's Tala and this is Rei." I said and the rest of the way to Kalm was silent.

After our little ride, we said our good byes, and Rayne and I went looking for someplace to stay, with no luck. At all.

"Well, this just couldn't get any fucking worse, can it?" I growled and then we suddenly heard a crash of thunder and it started to pour down rain.

"Me and my big fucking mouth." I growled. Rayne gave me the "look" and I apologized for swearing.

"So now what?" I asked.

"I was just about to ask you the same thing." she countered and I mumbled as I started walking and she hurried to catch up.

After a while of walking, we came across a Chocobo farm called Sunset Farms.

"Better than nothing." I mumbled and she agreed.

We ran into the barn and saw all kinds of Chocobos. They were really cute. Anyways, she and I climbed up to the loft and we made ourselves a bed in the hay. Then we laid down and fell asleep.

The next morning I awoke to someone giggling. I opened my eyes to see two little girls, twins, smiling at Rayne and I.

"Daddy! They're awake!" the one on the left called.

"Bring 'em down then." a man boomed.

I did not like the sound of that. This was not good.

Rayne slowly opened her eyes and jumped at the sight of the two little girls.

"Come on! Come meet daddy!" the one on the right said happily.

Rayne and I exchanged glances and we slowly got down from the loft and came face to face with a big, muscular, old guy.

"So you two decided to sleep in the loft, eh?" he asked.

"Sorry we didn't have anywhere else, and it was raining hard and thundering." Rayne said truthfully.

"Why didn't you just come up and knock on the door?" the man asked and Rayne and I just looked at each other.

From then on we worked at that chocobo farm. Not really for money, just for a roof over our heads and a good meal. It really wasn't that bad.

We learned the twins were Tara and Sara and the farmer, whose wife just passed into the life stream, was Jerry. They were such nice people. But then one day, our biggest fear became a reality.

We were working in the loft, throwing hay down to the ground level so we could put it in the chocobo nests, when two Turks, a man with long black hair, and a woman with blonde hair came into the barn.

"Excuse us for the interruption, but we're looking for two girls by the name's of Rayne and Rhiley of a Sector 4 slums gang." said the black haired man. My heart sank.

"Sorry sir, we have no idea who those people are." I said as Rayne and I continued to throw hay down.

"If you see them, do contact Shinra immediately. It was heard that they were located in this area." said the man.

"Sorry, we haven't seen a new face in these parts in years." said Rayne and the guy dug around inside his pocket and pulled out a card.

"Here's our number. I'll leave it right here." he said as he put it on the little table with the chocobo shampoos on it.

"Alright. Bye now." I said and when the door shut I let out a sigh as I sat down in the hay.

"Rayne, this isn't good. How the hell did they find out we were here?" I questioned.

"I don't know. I just hope they don't come back." she said as she continued to throw hay.

The next day wasn't all that great either. Reno and some bald guy came, but since we saw them before they saw us, we hitailed it into the barn.

By this time Jerry and the girls knew all about us, since after all, he demanded to know why Turks came over yesterday. He completely understood everything, which was a very good thing for us. So there we were hiding in the loft, when the door opened to reveal Reno. Just Reno.

"Hello?" He called.

"Reno?" I asked and he looked up and sighed.

"There's my two girls. Come on down. Me and Rude ain't gonna take you in." he said and I let out a relieved sigh as Rayne and I came out of our hiding spots. Then we both quickly ran to Reno and hugged him.

"Listen. Cloud, Reeve, and I haven't said a thing to ShinRa about you two." he said and we looked at him funny, but then we remembered those two SOLDIER.

"Now, Rude and I are going to go back to ShinRa and say we found nothing. Meanwhile, I want you guys to be more careful. Tseng and Elena were tipped off that a chocobo farmer just recently took in two ragged girls from a place unknown." he said.

Ragged?!" Rayne almost screamed. I glared.

"Yea. That's what I said." he said with a laugh.

"What about that bastard that killed Aka?!" I growled.

"Sephiroth? I-"

"RENO!" cried the bald man, Rude, as he ran in.

"The President is in need of our assistance. Now!" he cried and Reno looked worried.

"Take this. I'll keep in contact." he said as he shoved his phone into Rayne's hands and ran off with Rude before we could say anything.

We just kinda shot a confused look in the direction they ran off in.

The next day we found out what had happened.

President ShinRa had been killed after Sephiroth had lost what sanity he had left. Oh was I ever bummed...NOT!! I was having my own little party with Rayne, until Reno had to spoil the moment by telling us that his son had taken over. DAMN HIM FOR HAVING A SON! Needless to say, I was in a foul mood for about a week towards EVERYONE. And that was when I realized that we couldn't stay here and endanger these people any longer. So, Rayne and I took off without a word. Just a note explaining our leave and that we may or may not meet again.

"You know, Reno was telling me the other day about how he knows a group of people we'd be safe with, who are just as mad at ShinRa as we are." Rayne said to me one day as we walked down a road.

"I doubt if that's even possible." I grumbled but I figured it may not hurt to have more people behind us.

"Hey, call Reno up and tell him we're interested." I said and she did so and the next thing we knew we were in Edge at a bar called 7th Heaven.

"This? This is AVALANCHE headquarters?" I asked, disbelievingly.

"Yep. This is it. Give 'em a little credit, will ya?" Reno said as he opened the door and let Rayne and I go in first.

It was empty, other than the bartender, a girl about our age, and a man with blonde hair who seemed veigly familiar.

"Tifa, Cloud, you have company." Reno said smoothly as he pushed us forward.

Cloud...That name...

"YOU!" I growled at Cloud as I quickly pulled my Scythe out.

"You're a SOLDIER!" I growled as I went to charge him, but Reno stopped me.

"Hey hey hey! Not so fast! He's an ex-SOLDIER now." Reno said and I still glared at him, but put my Scythe back on my back.

"So these two are the famous gang members that escaped Sector 4 quarantines. Interesting." said a dark, mysterious voice. We all looked at a corner to see a man I had never noticed was in here.

"What of it?" I sneered.

"I see the ware and tear of running hasn't chipped your ego." he said calmly as he got up and left.

"Who the hell is he?" I asked and Rayne jabbed me in the side with her elbow.

"Ow! All I said was hell!" I said and she glared at me. I sighed.

"That's Vincent Valentine. An ex-Turk, as it were." Reno explained. I let out a low growl.

"So. You're telling me that we're going to be staying with a bunch of ex-enemies?! NOT. INTERESTED." I about yelled as I stormed out the door and Rayne ran after me.

"Rhiley!" She cried.

"What?" I snapped and she looked taken back.

"We need people on our side. Ex- enemies or not. Listen, we need someplace safe to stay. Can we just give them a chance?" she asked.

"How could you possibly give them a chance?! They killed the one person that actually gave a shit about our lives!" I snapped a bit hastily. Then I sighed as she looked at me with big eyes.

"Fine. I'll give them ONE chance. And ONE chance only. After that, we trust NOONE." I mumbled and she smiled as she quickly hugged me.

From then on we were staying with the people of AVALANCHE. There were actually more than I thought. There was Tifa, Cloud, Vincent, Barrett, Yuffie, Cid, Cait Sith, Red VIII, and two little kids by the names of Marlene and Denzil. They were all very nice to us.

I actually grew fond of Vincent the most, but it wasn't like I loved him or anything. He just intrigued me. How someone could be so mysterious, so dark, it made me curious of how close he would actually let anyone get at all.

Rayne would say otherwise though. She'd say that I had feelings for him. Of course not! I refused to get close with anyone after Aka Hitome died. I would just end up getting hurt. Again.

But one day my fears became a reality. It was about 6 months later when I realized how close I had gotten with these people. They were family to me, I'll admit, but I didn't need these people getting hurt over us like Aka's gang had. There was no way in hell I would EVER let anything like that EVER again. So, it was night time when I broke the news to Rayne.

"Rayne, let's leave this place. I'm tired of being in one place at one time." I said secretly as we lay in bed that night.

"But where would we go?" she asked.

"I heard Neibleheim's a nice place." I said and we both agreed to it.

We both also agreed it was too dangerous to just go out un prepared, with Turks and such out there, and yes, still looking for us, so we snuck into Cloud's room and stole a pair of his baggy pants, which fit Rayne perfectly, and I got her one of his hoodie's and she made a perfect guy! It was kinda scary, actually... So we were off.

"You know, Rayne, I really want to avoid them as much as possible." I said.

"Why?" she asked with a surprised look on her face.

"I just don't want to come in contact with anyone. Please?" I pleaded and after a sigh she agreed to it. It hurt me to see her like this, seeing as how much she's grown attached to these people, but I knew that losing them forever to the life stream would hurt her way worse than this. I knew she didn't understand, but I knew that she would thank me one day...

So while in Neibleheim, we were exploring around when we found Tifa and Yuffie, obviously looking for us.

"Come on, let's get out of here." I whispered to her and we ran down the road until we go out of the city.

We were running towards the old ShinRa manner, cause I figured it'd be abandoned, but as we were running, we ran right into Vincent Valentine.

"Ah, I was looking for you two." he said and I tried to turn and run, but I ran into a brick wall. Or so I thought. That's what it felt like, anyways... I looked up to see some creature with wings, claws and bright yellow eyes, baring his teeth at me.

"Who the fuck are you?!" I questioned.

"Rhi! Don't swear!"

"Sorry, Ray." I apologized.

"Come on, you two are coming with me." Vincent said.

"The hell we are!" I cried as I grabbed Rayne's wrist and tried to run, except I was stopped by a pair of strong arms around my waist, and before I knew it, I was over Vinny's shoulder.

"RAY! RUN FOR IT!" I yelled and she didn't second guess me. She ran for it.

"Ray! Come back here!" Vinny yelled after her, but she ignored his calls.

"Chaos! Grab her!" Vinny yelled to the demon thing and in seconds, she was over the demon's shoulder.

"And why do I have to pick up a 19 year old boy, Valentine?" the demon asked and Vinny only chuckled. We were both taken to the manor where I guess what Vinny's new place, and were set down in a nice little sitting room.

"Whooooooah...Vinny, you live here?" I asked as I forgot about him grabbing me, and my reasons for avoiding everyone in the first place.

"Yes, I do." he said. He had finally gotten used to me calling him Vinny, since I've called him that since the day we met.

"Alright, Rayne, off with the hoodie." he said and she sighed.

"Do I have to?" she whined.

"Yes." he said bluntly.

"Fine..." she sighed as she took off the hoodie and threw it at Vincent.

"Happy now?" she grumbled.

"Nope. Take off the pants as well, Cloud's been looking for those." and she took them off and, after taking her hair tie out of the pocket, she threw them to Vinny. Then she put her hair up and looked normal...not a guy anyways...

"Was it so hard?" Vinny asked and she chuckled. "Sit down while I call everyone else." Vinny commanded and she did so with a sigh.

She sat next to me and we listened as he called Tifa, Cloud and Cid. The demon, Chaos I think Vinny called him, I noticed, was staring at Ray the entire time.

"Take a picture, it'll last longer." she said in a bored tone and I sorta chuckled.

"What?" he inquired, confused.

"You're staring at me. If you take a picture, it'll last longer than a mental image." she said and he growled at her.

"CHAOS!" Vinny shouted at him and he looked at him with an annoyed look on his face.

"Yes, Valentine? What is it?" he asked mockingly.

"Leave them alone. They'll beat your ass to Edge and back." he said bluntly and I smiled at Chaos.

"What can a couple of wimpy girls do to me? I'm a powerful demon of destruction born from the very life stream itself. A mere mortal could not compare to me." he chuckled and Ray had an evil smirk on her face with that glint in her eye I knew from anywhere and I kinda felt bad for Chaos at this point...poor guy don't know what's coming to him... And from the look on Vinny's face, he knew what was coming to Chaos as well. He had discovered what happens when she has that look in her eye one night at the bar when some drunk was coming on to her.

"Really? You know, that really turns me on. A big strong demon like yourself..." she said in a low, seductive voice as she stood up and started running her hand over his chest and along his jaw line and Chaos smirked as he wrapped an arm around her hips.

"Really?" he asked as he pulled her closer. "Yea... Really..." she started and then she lift her knee, which made contact with his crotch.

"Not really. Pervert." she stated and I burst into laughter while Vinny had trouble keeping a strait face as Chaos squatted on the ground in intense pain.

"You...Bitch." he managed to choke out.

"That's Miss Bitch to you." She stated proudly. Suddenly the door burst open to reveal a flabbergasted Yuffie, a worried looking Tifa, a pissed off Cloud and a scared looking Reno. I sorta just looked at the ground...Oh look, a penny...

"Why did you guys just leave like that? We were worried sick about you!" Cloud about yelled at us.

"I- We had our reasons." I grumbled as Rayne looked away as well.

"You had your reasons." she corrected.

"Listen. I don't want you guys getting hurt because of us. Aka took us in and became a mother figure I never had and now she's dead and it's all because I wasn't strong enough to save her. I DO NOT want the same thing to happen to you people. You're all too good to us." I growled and then I walked out into the rain and thunder, despite everyone calling me back. I jumped on top of the roof and I held my legs tight to my chest as I let all my tears out.

That's when Raihiko, my little...pet as it were, jumped out of my coat and hugged my leg with her little stubby arms. "It's ok, Raihiko. They just don't understand all that's happened. They don't KNOW. Period. And it hurts." I said as I rubbed her little head.