Because my old chapter eight got violent too quickly, I completely redid it. I realy liked the description of the action in the old chapter eight though, so I'm probably going to add something similar to it later on.(way later, if I ever finish this thing)

This revision is a hundred times milder, and more closely related to the original plan I had for chapter 8. I took off the old chapter nine, and was going to wait until I finished the new one, but it's taking way too long. bows a hundred times over, and falls swirly eyed. Forgive me?

Disclaimer: Do you really think I own Kenshin? Well maybe in my dreams, but I'm afraid that in reality it's just not the case. After all, Noubihiro Watsuki is not blonde with green eyes, nor is he American, or a young college student in the United States. Wouldn't you agree? I repeat R&R!

A Situation

Oro?" he stated in confusion and the girl seeming to understand brightened before continuing her sentence.

"It's the restaurant across the street! My friends and me had a reservation for Alois' birthday! It was only for five, but Saada-san is a good friend of mine and she won't mind if there's an extra person!"

Liam thought the invitation was very kind, but he couldn't possibly agree to it. After all, he had just met Ariel, and didn't think it would be right to impose on her and her friends during the celebration. "Ah...sessha...sessha doesn't know if that would be a good idea. I..."

"Its the least I could do for ruining your lunch." She was persistent.

"Well I-" his stomach growled in hunger and he blushed in embarrassment as he saw the girl stifle a giggle.

"It sounds like you're a little hungry," she paused for a moment, "but if you have class or something..." Her voice sounded very distant, and somehow Liam didn't feel that it fit her. Perhaps he would agree to her invitation after all.

"Iie, kurasu ja nai yo," he responded calmly and truthfully. He could tell she had relaxed some, so he continued. "Besides," putting his hand on his stomach, "I am little hungry."

Liam saw Ariel brighten, and he had a feeling that this spirit was much closer to her true nature. He didn't know how he knew, but he did. Perhaps it was because of their meeting earlier. Whatever the case, Liam saw his companion go a little ahead of him.

"Oro" He stated, and before long the girl turned and gestured for him to follow her.

Soon after leaving the college the two people arrived at the Akabeko, and the manager who had spoken to Don, Kali, Alois and Cathyrn earlier was there to address them.

"Welcome to the Akabeko!" He exclaimed with a cheerful tone, and not bothering for them to respond, headed towards the main dining hall. "Let me show you to a table."

Ariel knew that the man was just doing his job, but he was leading them away from their destination, trying not to be rude by just disappearing she spoke in a slight protest.

"Ah sumimasen, sir " she stated, but the man did not respond. Thinking he didn't hear her, Ariel spoke again a little louder, "Sir..."

The man stopped momentarily, but didn't turn around, and Ariel continued, " We're actually meeting some friends of ours in the reservation quarters. Do you know which room Cheveyo Donovan is in?" she asked innocently and saw their escort frown some at the name. Ariel knew that Donovan was a magnet for trouble at times, and as she saw the manager's face, she had a feeling that he had once again made his mark for trouble manifest, but she wasn't sure how he had done it.

"You're friends with him?" she heard her escort ask, with some disapproval in his voice, and Ariel looked at him with a confused look on her face.

"Hai." she whispered, Then thinking about Donovans's love for fighting and gambling, she frowned herself before continuing. "Mou! What did he do this time? Did he break into another brawl?"

"No, not yet," the dark haired man stated, " but he owes a big dept to the restaurant."

Ariel frowned, it wasn't gambling or breaking into fights, but it was still something, and hadn't Donovan told her he paid those weeks ago. She had even given him some more money to borrow, but now that she thought about it, she should have known better then to trust such an irresponsible baka.

"Mou!" Ariel exclaimed again, "You mean he STILL hasn't paid that?" and their escort shook his head. "Wait until I get my hands on that guys I'll..." her mumbled voice faded out, as there was some ruckus in the main dining hall.

"Huh? What's that?" she said as she heard the noise, and the manager turned towards the direction of the ruckus before seemingly forgetting the people he was with. He headed towards the main hall.

Ariel had decided to allow her curiosity to take over, and follow him, forgetting about her red headed companion. However, before she could take more then five steps, a strong hand grasped the upper part of her arm, and she yelped. The girl turned her head and saw her red haired companion with a serious look on his face.

"What was that for?" She said with slight irritation, but once she saw the concerned look on his face her irritation dropped to a mild curiosity. "Sedgewick- san?"

The man let go of his companion arms and turned towards her slightly. "It could be dangerous, that it could," he stated simply, "So, it's better that you stay here."

"Eh?" Ariel questioned. Her friend had disappeared around the corner and the girl became aware that she had been left to stand in the hall alone. Somewhat irritated the girl stomped her foot and headed to where she had seen her companion disappear off too. "What does he think I am, a porcelain doll!" She mumbled, as she ignored what her friend had said and rounded the corner. There she saw the dark haired manager giving two men and invitation out the door, and them reluctantly complying. However, she was not much interested in this. She wanted to find Sedgewick-san, so she easily walked by the manager and his guests. A litttle ways away she saw her red haired companion looking suspiciousy at some men in the far corner of the restaurant. The atmosphere around them was thick with silent tension, and Ariel almost wished she had stayed back at the entrance. For this tension was suffocating. However, being the naturally curious girl that she was, Ariel ignored her discomfort and stepped closer to the crimson haired man. She saw him tense immensly as he turned towards her.

"Ariel- Dono," he stated simply, when there was no answer he continued speaking, "It would have been better if you stayed back at the entrance."

Ariel put her hands on her hips and huffed stubbornly as she heard him. "Mou! Why is that?"

Liam didn't say anything, but seemed to rather reluctantly turn away from the scene where the two men seemed to be about ready to attack eachother. When the tension seemed to lesson just a smidgen he turned away rather reluctantly and walked towards her while shrugging his shoulders. "Iie," he said simply, "it's nothing." With one of his half smiles, the man walked past her. "Now wheres this-"

Before the red haired man could finish his sentence, he seemed to freeze momentarily. He then grabbed Ariel's arm and roughly pulled her towards the floor.

"Liam!" Ariel squawked as her friend yanked her down towards the tile floor rather ruthlessly. She wanted to pound his head a thousand times over for being so rough; however, the sound of shattering glass and a gun firing off supressed all such thoughts. Instead, Ariel looked towards the direction where the sound had come from and saw a splash of sake creeping down the wall ever so slowly, and large, jagged pieces of glass scattering to the floor in all directions.There was a hole that had to be made by a gun where her head had been. She did not realize that her friend had pulled her into a shielding embrace, and continued staring at the area where her head had been in shock. She heard cursing from the man who had greeted them on there way in the restaurant as he seemed to stomp towards the two in the back of the room.

When Ariel looked over her friends shoulder she saw the two men in what appeared to be an intense brawl. There was a small gun on the floor, and they seemed to have lost a ll semblance of sanity as they attacked each other. Ariel saw the dark haired man, or Augustine, as his name tag stated try to break up the fight. He had grabbed someone from behind and appeared to be doing what she knew as a type of Judo hold. Unfortunately the man he was holding seemed to know some kind of way to break out of it, and Augustine was soon empty handed.

"Damn it!" Augustine exclaimed as he attempted to try and restrain the man again. He really needed someone to call security, and if Saada was around, she'd be the perfect canidate. The man made as good as a look as he possibly could without letting his "victim" go, and soon saw her step in the room. There was a gasp of horror in her eyes as she saw what was going on. Augustine caught sighed of her and exclaimed in a some what tired voice. "Don't just stand there, call security!"

"On it sir!" the woman jumped before she hurriedly walked towards the telephone.

Meanwhile the manager was still struggling, and Liam finally decided to help the younger man. He walked over to the scene, and despite his smll size managed to pull one of the men away from eachother. Shortly thereafter the person that Liam had managed to capture was able to break away, and hit the man in his jaw. Ariel froze in worry momentarily as she saw her friend stumble backwards and hurried towards him.

"Kenshin!" she cried out unconciously as she made her way towards the scene. The red headed man momentarily lost his concentration and looked at the girl running towards him in surprise. He did not notice his previous captive throwing a punch towards him agin, until almost too late, and had to be warned by Ariel once agin. With her warning fresh in his mind, Liam ducked and managed to block the attack. Since he was small however, it didn't seem have as much effect as it would have had otherwise. Once Augustine had gotten back on his feet he had managed to knock one of the men out. Using his wooden sword, Liam himself managed to knock the other person out with ease.

"Sedgewick-san?" The girl's high voice was rleieved as she reached the two men. She bowed politely towards the manager and then hurried to her friend's side. She remebered that before he was knocked out cold, the man whom Liam had been attacking managed to get in a few hits and grasped his wrist as she reached him.

"Are you all right?" the girl asked desperately and Liam said he was before she loosened her grip on his wrist. However she was not ready to let go just yet.

"I'm glad," Ariel responded and them turned towards the manager and asked him the same thing. He said he was just fine and Ariel nodded before Saada joined the trio. There were two men that Ariel hadn't recognized behind her, and they quickly pushed past and gathered up the figures on the floor. When she looked up she saw her old friend and confident looking at her with a curious look.

"Uh oh." Ariel thought to her self as the woman looked her over. The woman put her hands together and lifted them to her bosom. (Bust)

"So good to see you again, Ariel-chan," The woman stated in a much too sweet tone. She looked over the two in front of her carefully, and smiled. Ariel shuffled uncomfortably under her older friend's penetrating gaze. "Is this man a sweetheart that you never told me about?"

"Oro!"

Ariel became quite red, and shook her head vigorously as her friend continued to mutter a string of 'oro's' besides her. They both had become a little more interested in the floor then there surroundings, and did not look at the woman's face, which was now full of pure amusement. Saada was about to play on her little tease when there was a ringing from the restaurant entrance.

"Oh what do you know?" The woman stated, "another customer."

The woman began to walk towards the front of the entrance, but then turned back towards Ariel and smiled, "Talk to you later Ariel-chan!"

As the woman disappeared Ariel gave an audible sigh of relief, and saw as the Manager left and followed Saada's example. When there was no one else around, and nothing else to do, Ariel sighed and began walking towards the entrance of the restaurant.

"Well I guess thats about it, " she stated cheerfully, before facing Liam, "time to finally make an appearence at Alois' party."

Ariel and Liam brushed passed Saada, but remembering that taking Liam to the reservation qaurters would require permission she stopped in her tracks, and called for the woman in charge of the qaurters.

"Oh Saada!" she exclaimed and the brown haired woman quickly turned towards her.

"Hmm?"

"I'm sorry, but I needed to ask your permission for Liam to be with us in the reservation quarters, he-"

"Oh sure, go ahead." Saada said without a moment's hesitation."Bye now."

As she saw the woamn bounce towards another table with some customers following behind, Ariel lowered her head and growled in irritation. "She wasn't even listening."

Nonetheless, the two walked towards the quarters. They paused for a moment looking for a sign that would show them there and Saada bustled by a few more times before stopping and speaking out.

"You're still here!" she said as she shoved the two people towards a hallway a little ways a head of them."Whats all this dawdling about, get to that party!" The two looked at the woman briefly, before seeing her pointing towards the hall, and quickened their pace. They didn't notice her smile of approval and amusement.

"Those two would look so nice together." she chuckled, "Now if only I could get them together."

The wheels of matchmaking started turning in Saada's mind and slowly but surely she grinned like a chesire cat. "If they don't do it themselves," she stated, her smile wider, "Operation cupid will go in session."

The woman cracked her knuckles as she thought of all the ways she could "accidently," get them to bump into each other, but before she could really get into the plans, work once again called her back to the real world.

"Waitress!" the new customers called, and Saada turned towards the area where a young man with big blue eyes, a woman with blue eyes, and another with red eyes and hair tied in a ponytale sat. There was a strange atmosphere around them that really bothered her, but she couldn't keep them waiting. So, instead of worrying about trivial things that could harm her job security, she stepped over to the trio.

) To be continued

Well here's the complete revision of chapter eight of reincarnate. Quite different then the original, wouldn't you say? Oh well, it's just a chapter to throw in something a little different and get some more people to meet up. There's probably a lot more I could do to it, but I am SO tired of typing it! (This chapter! Not the story! This chapter went through like 5 different COMPLETE revisions and ideas! Oi) Hopefully I'll get away from the restaurant next chapter, and REALLY get this story rolling.If I don't, the chapter after that will surely do it.