As I sat there with my Raiko hugging my leg, I heard a window open but I didn't care at this moment in time. "Hey Rhi, don't cry, come on!" I heard Ray say in a caring voice. "They don't understand, Rayne. They don't understand what it's like." I cried. "I know they don't, but Rhi, they're the closest thing to a family we've got." she pointed out. "I suddenly felt a great anger welling inside of me. "Who needs them?" I snapped. "We've got each other and Raiko. We don't need anyone else!" I growled and she hugged me tightly as I let everything out ten fold.

After my little venting session on the roof, we went back into the house to see Reno and Vincent lookin' worried. "Everyone else is downstairs" Vincent told us. "Right, come on Rhiley" Ray said and I nodded as I held her hand and Raiko, only thing was Raiko reeeeeeally doesnt like Reno so when she saw him she attacked him,
"AGH! SHIT! RHILEY GET YOUR CRAZY ASS PET OFF ME!" he cried and I laughed. "Raiko come here sweetie!" answering to her mistresses voice, Raiko stopped attacking Reno and scrambled back up my arm and onto my shoulder and suddenly a rather loud ohhhhh could be herd from the room were we just in,
"YUFFIE TOUCH MY MATERIA AND DIE!" Ray yelled rather loudly and Vincent twitched a t the loudness of her voice as it being right next to his ear. "Ray, as much as I understand you don't want Yuffie to touch your materia if you have to yell please don't do so beside me." Vincent grimaced "Oops sorry Vince" she said sheepishly and then Reno's oh so annoying ring tone echoed through the room. When he answered it was hard not to laugh. He sounded so business like and proper. But when you know the real Reno this is the most hilarious thing you'll ever see. It kills him to be so uptight. When he hung up he sighed and turned to us. "Sorry girls duty calls. I gotta fly the boss man to Wutai" after that he left the house and I let out a growl. "Stupid ShinRa bastard. I hope he dies." I growled, not realizing I let my thoughts slip past my lips. "Down girl. I don't need this Rhiley at the moment" Ray groaned. "Sorry Ray..." I apologized as I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths and when I opened them again I was the nice Rhiley, calm and laid back. "Better now?" she asked and I let out another sigh. "Much! Thanks Ray." I said with a smiled. "Damn I will never understand how you're the only one who can do that." came a voice came from the doorway, we turned around and there stood Cloud leaning against the door frame. "Oh hey Cloud!" I greeted him with a smile. "Hey you two. You gave us a real scare you know? We thought some one had got to you." he said with a look on his face that told us he wasn't kidding around.
"Yeah well we're both at fault for that. I didn't want to stay in Edge any longer and well Rhi had her reasons for not telling you guys we were leaving." Ray clarified. "Yeahhh and I'm not disclosing them either." I grumbled. "Suit yourselves. Anyway Ray you do realize you left Yuffie alone with your materia""Yeah I realize and if she touches it I'll break her hand." she said that last bit just loud enough for her to hear. "Ohh scary!" Yuffie yelled back. "You seem to be in a hurting people kind of mood today Ray" Cloud stated and she seemed to think about this for a moment. "No I'm not really I just had to hurt people." she stated referring to the Chaos incident that took place earlier. "Is that why Chaos was squatting on the floor when we came in?" he asked and she nodded. "Uh huh. He was mean to me and Ray-Ray so she kicked him in the balls" I chirped happily. Vincent shook his head while Cloud flinched, obviously feeling the pain Chaos felt in his own forbidden zone. "We should go back downstairs. Everyone is waiting" Vincent stated and Ray I nodded and went back downstairs into the room our stuff was in and flopped down on one of the black leather couches. "Ray-Ray..." Yuffie started with the puppy look on her face. "No." she snapped. "What?" she asked in an innocent tone. "No you cannot have any of my materia!" she snapped again. Yuffie looked heart broken. "Awe come on Ray-Ray!" she cried out. "No Yuffie" she grumbled. Yuffie pouted but stopped complaining as soon as Vincent and Cloud came into the room. We all sat down and discussed different things. I still refused to give up my reasons for not telling anyone where we were going and soon enough they gave up asking. In the end it was decided that Rayne and I would stay in Vinny's house with him and if we needed to leave we had to tell him where we were going to avoid another fiasco like this one tonight. After dinner, which Tifa had cooked, Rayne and I were sitting around when Chaos came back into the room and started staring at her again. "What is it now?" she asked through gritted teeth. "Just wondering how old you actually are..." he inquired. "23 alright!" she snapped at him. He gave her a confused look. "You're sure?" he asked and she looked like she wanted to kill him. "No. I'm not. I don't know how old I really am." she grumbled. "Well considering Valentine is at least 63 I can't be too careful and with a name like Ray. Well..."
"Well what?" she snapped at him. She was getting very pissed off and I could tell from the vibes she gave off. "Well you dress like a 19 year old boy and you have a name like Ray so I was just wondering if you were a lesbian?" He asked in a casual manner and I could tell that drove her off the edge. She snapped. "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME? I'M GUNNA FCKING KILL YOU!!" and with that said she lunged over the couch at him only to be caught by Vincent. "What's going on down here?" he looked at Me while holding Ray back from tearing Chaos limb from limb. "Choas called Ray a lesbian." I stated as if it was a reoccurring thing. "Really? Then maybe I should let her go." he said as he loosened his grip. "YES! LET ME GO! I'LL TEAR THE BASTARD LIMB FROM LIMB!" She cried out and he tightened the grip again. "On second thoughts maybe not." he more thought that said and threw her over his shoulder and carried her up the stairs into the room designated for her and I. She kicked and flailed all the way but he wasn't letting go. After a few he came down and sent me up to calm her down since he couldn't.

"Who the hell does that chauvinistic pig of a demon think he is?!" she growled as she tightened her death grip on the pillow she was hugging. "Yea, he's an ass, but what do you expect? He IS a demon after all." I stated as I petted Raiko on the head as she smile and made little random noises. Ray sighed. "He's not worth it anyways." she mumbled and Raiko jumped from my bed, over to Rayne's and curled up into a ball on her lag and made little squeaking-like noise to help cheer her up. And it sorta worked. I could see her smile wanting to pop through, but when she didn't pet her, Raiko jumped up and did her little dance and acted stupid, which made Rayne laugh. I couldn't help but laugh either.

It was about midnight-thirty when we both finally decided to call it a night, but I just couldn't sleep for some reason. As I sat on the windowsill of our room with Raiko sitting on my lap, curled up and asleep, I thought about today's events. Maybe I could give these people a chance. MAYBE. Very big maybe. I mean we've only known these people a few monthes and I feel like I've known them my whole life. I couldn't explain it. I just didn't want to get hurt again and there was no way possible for Rayne, or anyone else for that matter to understand. I let out a sigh as I watched the rain and lighting fight outside. The rain has always calmed my nerves. It was so peaceful sitting there listening to it in the silence.

It was about 2AM when I decided to go to bed. The next morning I awoke to a head butt from Raiko, telling me she was hungry NOW. "RAIKO! Please! I'm trying to sleep." I grumbled as I pulled the blankets over my head. She let out a deep growl letting me know she was about to change and destroy everything in sight and I sighed and got up. "You are a spoiled little creature, you know that?" I asked as I got dressed and she ran up my arm and sat on my shoulder.

I walked down to the kitchen where I saw Rayne and Chaos sitting across from each other, glaring daggers at each other as they ate their breakfast. I sighed as I sat down and Raiko jumped onto the table and walked over to Chaos' full plate of food and gobbled all the food down. He didn't even notice. I couldn't help but laugh. I wasn't really hungry, so I just sat there and watched the glaring contest. It was kinda funny actually. Rayne ate, but never took her eyes away from him. Chaos went to go take a bite of his food and when he realized it was gone, boy was he ever pissed. "Errrr...Keep that BEAST away from my food." he growled as he pointed at Raiko who just growled at him. Then he got up and made himself some more. That's when Rayne finally realized I was in the room. "Oh hey Rhi. When'd you get here?" she asked. "Bout a half hour ago." I stated in a bored manner as Vinny walked into the room. "What's all the commotion about?" he asked as he sat down next to me. "Raiko ate Chaos' food." I stated bluntly as if it were the most common thing in the entire universe. I heard Chaos Grumble obscenities to himself as he sat down and the glaring contest continued. "Has this been going on all morning?" I asked. "Ever since the moment they stepped into the kitchen." he said with a sigh.

Once Rayne and I had finished, we left the kitchen and decided to explore the house, which took longer than we thought. The manor was HUGE. We found rooms not even Vincent knew existed, so we had a lot of fun taking the white covers down. At one point I had tied one around my neck and made a super hero pose. "Rhi that's an awesome idea! We can be super heros for the day!" Rayne stated happily and the idea seemed to cheer her up. "Alright but where can we get decorations for our capes?" I asked in a contemplative manner. Hmmmmmmmmmmm...VINCNET!!" she practically deafened me with her loudness. He appeared from one of the adjoining rooms, half expecting one of us to be hurt. "What? Rhi saw a bug?" he asked and I glared at him. "Ha, ha not funny." I grumbled with an anime vein on my forehead. "Where can we get paint, glitter and felt?" Rayne asked, trying to change the subject. "In a craft shop in town would be my guess...why?" he asked as he raised an eyebrow in a suspicious manner. "We're going to be super Rhi and super Ray for the purpose of todays entertainment!" she said with a peace sign and he sighed. "You have money for all of this?" he asked. "Uh huh." we both said in unison. "Then try not to get lost." he grumbled in defeat. We cheered and high five each other and ran out of the house, into town. We found a crafts shop and bought all the things to make our capes even more super and raced back to the house. When we got back, Chaos was sitting on the roof so Ray decided to see how good at dodging he was. She picked up a massive rock that was laying on the ground and threw it at his head. "HEY ASSHOLE DODGE THIS!" She cried and he turned to where the rock was flying and his reflexes were too slow so the rock hit him smack dab in the middle of his forehead "HELL YEAH 3 POINTS YOU DIRTY WHORE!" she cried out and I kinda stepped a couple inches away from her. "IM GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU! YOU FUCKING BITCH!" he cried out in rage as she grabbed my hand and ran into the house laughing. We couldn't run upstairs because he'd be waiting for us so we ran down a flight of stairs hidden to anyone who might be casually passing by. But I stopped. "Ray I don't wanna go down there." I stated simply. "Why not?" she asked as she continued down the steps. I did not get a good aura from this place. "I have a bad feeling about it." I stated as I reluctantly followed her, looking around, waiting for something to pop out at us at any second. "Come on there's nothing down there." she sated and oh, how very wrong she was. We ran down the stairs and found ourselves in a room full of test tubes, cages and weird operating tables. "Uhhhh Ray? What were you saying about there being nothing down here? I think this is an 'I told you so' moment..." I stated as we cautiously looked around. "I think I was very wrong..." she said in a barely audible whisper as she backed up and straight into a table with a lot of dusty old files on it. She picked one up and went to open it. "Ray I know what your thinking and don't you dare." I said, thinking we were intruding on something we shouldn't have been. "Alright fine I wont open them here." she stated as she picked up all the files and I was about to protest, but she ignored me as she shoved them in her bag and then we went back upstairs and locked ourselves in our room so we could make our super hero capes in peace. Once we were done we put them on and ran around the house making 'whoosh' noises until Vincent told us to stop before he threw our capes in the bin. This was around 6:30 that evening, so we decided to order in Chinese food and watch horror movies until late. That was when I decided to go to bed.

Rayne's P.O.V.

I took out the files I'd hidden and decided to read over them. I never thought I'd find out what I did (AN: Basically all about Vinny and Chaos since it is the ShinRa manor) I knew what had happened to Vincent but I never knew to what extent and suddenly I felt so bad for him, but if he could move on with his life and learn to smile again then he didn't need me to feel sorry for him. And as for Chaos, well, I didn't hate him as much anymore, but he still got on my nerves. Stupid chauvinistic demon.

Around 1:30 I had read all the files relating to Vincent and Chaos "I need to get some air and sort all this information out in my head!" I climbed out the window and pulled myself up on to the roof only to find Vincent sitting there as well. "I know you took the files." he stated simply. "H-huh?" I asked, unable to believe this and was also kind of afraid he was going to yell at me. "The files in the lab. I know you took them." he stated again. "How?" I asked, unable to think of how he could possibly know. "I saw them in your bag earlier when you were decorating your cape." He stated. Ah. That's how. "Ah I see. Are you mad?" I asked in a regretful tone and he shook his head. "That was a long time ago. Ive put all that behind me now." he state d and I smiled. "Good for you."I said with a smile. We stayed on the roof for an hour and Vincent told me a lot about his past as an ex-Turk and about ShinRa, Jenova and Chaos. By the end of it all I still hated Chaos, but I also felt I understood him a little more. "Vinny I'm gunna go to bed now. Rhi'll kill me if I leave the window open for too long." I stated matter-of-factly and he chuckled. "Then by all means, go. I don't need you two shouting at each other. I know how seriously you both take things." he stated and like that I laughed and gave him a quick hug before I climbed back in the window, shut it, changed into my P.Js and climbed into bed information still swirling around inside my mind.