A/N: Hoorah! Tis my first FF7 story I made… featuring an original character that I just randomly put in here. Sometimes, I can think of good fanfics if I stick an original character in there. :shrugs: Yeah. Sometimes.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the following FF7 characters in this story. However, I do own Anna.

Eyes of a Demon

Chapter 1

"Why do I have to clean this?"

"Shut up and keep cleaning!"

"Alright alright!"

Cid grunted and continued reading the newspaper on his bed. Anna, who was in the middle of the room, was busy cleaning her robotic left arm… under Cid's command. It had to be annoying to clean the stupid thing for thirty minutes straight. Cid wanted it to be spotless. 'You know… he could just clean it for me.' Anna thought angerly to herself. 'Or is he just nervous about touching another girl… oh wait, ugh. What the heck. The guy's a total flirter if you ask me. Che.' Anna sighed mentally and continued her cleaning.

"Is it still raining?" Cid grunted again as he looked up from his paper.

"I would think so." Anna replied, still quite annoyed at him.

AVALANCHE, including Anna, had been searching for a place to crash for a couple days. Sleeping outside for practically a week was not good for them and Anna, considering that her robotic limbs were not suitable for the outside, especially in the rain. Anna really wanted a new "skin" to put over her robot parts, but where the heck would she get one? Just rip it off of someone's arms and legs? Hah… no. Although, she really wanted to rip's Cid's skin off really bad. He had been bugging her ever since they entered the hotel.

"Hah! I'm finally finished!" Anna happily chanted as she made her way to Cid. "You see?"

She held up her arm for Cid to inspect. And without looking at it, Cid responded flatly,

"I still see spots."

Anna growled and folded her arms across her chest.

"Well, I don't see any. So, I'm done," and at that, she made her way to a corner in the room and sat down there.

Tifa, who had been watching the two of them argue, finally spoke up.

"C'mon, Cid, be nice."

"Tch. I don't have to," he replied as he made his way inside the covers of the bed and turned away from her.

Anna sat up and groaned.

"Geez! You know, this isn't your room! That's Yuffie's bed!"

Cid didn't respond. Only the sound of his fake snoring was heard. Yuffie had decided to explore the big hotel they were staying at. Cid just came in to order Anna to clean her robot parts. She started to head towards the door.

"Tifa? I'm going to look around."

"Okay, just be back before it gets late."

Anna nodded and left the room as she closed the door silently behind her. Members of AVALANCHE were obviously staying in different rooms. Cloud chose who should stay with whom. Obviously, the girls with the girls and boys with the boys. Red XIII was staying with the boys, since he… technically is a boy. oO; Cloud had gotten a special room with only one bed. He just wanted to be alone for a little while.

After wandering the long hallways, she finally heard laughing coming from room G47, the room which was being occupied by Red, Vincent, Barret, and Cid… who was still sleeping back in the other room. Anna finally stopped in front of G47 as she heard giggling and yelling. She was surprised that the rooms near it weren't complaining. Finally, as she knocked on the door a few times, loud thumping noises were heard coming towards the door. The door suddenly sprung open as Barret came rushing out, shaking Anna's shoulders rapidly.

"GET THIS CRAZY GIRL AWAY FROM US!" he yelled in Anna's ear.

She blinked a few times before she pointed inside the room.

"I… is Yuffie in there?"

"DAMN RIGHT SH'IS!" Barret then pushed Anna inside.

Yuffie, who was happily jumping up and down on the beds, whacked Red on the head with a bunch of pillows. Vincent, who was quite far away from the over excited girl, was sitting near the window. Anna stepped in and waved slowly.

"Eh… Yuffie?" she said slowly.

Yuffie automatically stopped what she was doing and tackled Anna to the ground.

"Anna! My bestest buddy! Whatcha doin' here?"

"Uh… I was just looking for you…?" she lied.

"Ooh! Really!"

"Pleeeaaaassseee," Barret begged to Anna. "Get this monster out of here! An' go get that damn Cid!"

Anna responded with a nod and dragged Yuffie, who was clinging to her leg, out of the room. 'Geez, it's like she has no off button!' Anna thought to herself as she sighed loudly. She couldn't really stand hyper people, but she was used to Yuffie's hyperness. Anna had been with AVALANCHE for quite some time now… and it was an accomplishment for her to get used to everyone, especially Yuffie.

"I'm going… I'm going…"

After practically pushing Cid off of the bed, he finally left the girl's bedroom and headed for his own. As Cid made it to his own room, Barret greeted the half-asleep Cid with a whack in the head with his huge fist. Cid suddenly decided to wake up.

"OW! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!"

"YOU MORON! LEAVIN' US WIT DAT DEVIL!"

"Will you guys PLEASE be quiet!"

The two arguing boys turned their heads toward Red XIII, who was sitting right in front of them, wagging his brightly lit tail around.

"Focus on getting a lot of rest for tonight."

"What? Are we leaving tomorrow?" Cid asked.

"I don't know."

Silence filled the air at that. Usually, Cloud would have told everyone when they were to depart. Something was obviously bugging him and no one knew why. He usually didn't like to talk about what was wrong, so, no one even tried. Except… maybe Tifa would, but she decided that Cloud needed a little space for a while. Maybe she would talk to him the next morning.

Vincent, who had been awfully quiet ever since they entered the hotel, was examining the weather outside. Apparently, it had gotten worse. The sky was a dark black color, but turned a gray-ish color whenever lightning lit up in the sky. Raindrops were falling down fast and made a lot of noise whenever it hit the glass window. The trees in the surrounding area were moving brutally to the wind's forceful blows as branches fell out of the trees and landed on the ground with a loud thud. This annoyed Vincent for some reason. He sensed that this storm wasn't going to end anytime soon. Not only that, but something else was annoying him… but he didn't know exactly what…

"Vincent?" Vincent turned around, only to spot Red sitting on the floor, wagging his tail around. "It's time for rest."

"I'm not tired right now."

"I think you are."

Vincent had to admit that he was kind of tired. Sleeping outdoors definitely was uncomfortable, especially since he had to sleep next to the two most loudest snorers ever: Barret and Cid. And, what do you know, he was stuck with them again. He sighed and turned to stare out the window, resuming his inspection of the weather.

"…. The weather hasn't been getting better," he said as Red walked up to Vincent and looked outside also.

"Yeah. We'll probably be stuck here for some time," with a slight pause, he turned his head to Cid and Barret who were now sleeping in their own beds. "… best not tell those sleepyheads or else we'll never be able to sleep with their racket."

Vincent gave out a soft 'heh' to himself at that.

As Red yawned, he stretched out his arms and legs then laid on the ground next to Vincent's feet.

"Talk tomorrow," he finally said as he closed his one eye.

After a few moments, Vincent made his way toward his bed and stared up at the plain ceiling, still deep in thought.

A/N: End of Chapter 1! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Please leave ze review!