"Ahh…" Kagome let out her breath of air as she sunk into the warm water. Sango let her hair out of her pony tail and let it float around her before she went under. Ashley wrapped her arms around her naked body, unsure of the whole idea of being naked in a river with two guys that were standing watch in the forest.

"Jay, just get in already!" Ashley turned towards her.

Jalynn stuck her tongue out as she got off of a big rock and hid behind it.

Sango looked over at where she disappeared, "Is she ok?"
"Yeah, she just doesn't like the idea of bathing with other people. She says it creeps her out because they can see her."

Kagome raised a brow, "Really? Is she uncomfortable with people seeing her?"

Ashley nodded.

"Why?" Shippo asked as he swam in a circle.

Ashley looked back at the rock, "Some of it, she'd have to tell you. What I can tell you, though, is that she has a lot of stretch marks on her because she lost a lot of weight in a short amount of time."

Sango looked at Ashley, "How much did she weigh?"

Ashley shrugged, "Over two hundred pounds."
"Really?" Kagome asked, shocked.

"Yeah."
Shippo stopped swimming as they heard a small splash of water.

"Don't worry, she'll be over there."

Shippo looked at Ashley, "What happened that made her lose so much weight?"
The three curious beings looked at her, "She was in a coma for four months from a car accident. She just got out of it about three months ago. Her mom was skeptic when I mentioned this trip, but Jay persuaded her to let her go."

"Oh wow," Kagome looked over at the rock, Jalynn was poking her head out. "Hey, Jay, come join us!"

Jalynn was nervous, but she decided to join them. They understood the stretch marks. She over heard Ashley tell them what had happened. Hopefully they wouldn't say anything about the scars on her.

"Hey," Jalynn made her way to them, "this river is pretty warm."

"Yeah, it is," Sango laid her head backwards and her hair twirled around.

The girls and Shippo laughed.

"So how long have you known each other?" Ashley asked.

"Hmm…" Sango, Kagome, and Shippo all looked at each other.

"Well, we met-" Kagome began but Shippo interrupted her.

"Hey, Kagome, what's that?" he pointed up stream

Everyone in the water looked as they saw large objects floating towards them.

Ashley's eyes widened, "It looks like mini ice burgs…" they all looked at each other.

"Eek!" Sango stood up and her hair covered her boobs. "The water got cold!"

Kagome put her hand over to where Sango was, "Uh… I think we need to get out."
Jalynn looked at them as they all got up, "Well, the water over here is very warm."

Shippo swam to her, "It is warm!"

Ashley stepped over to her friend, "Ew! Jay!"

"What?"

Ashley ran out of the water, "Why didn't you warn us that you were going to pee?"

Kagome was grossed out, "Ew!" she ran out of the river with Sango and Shippo behind her.

Jalynn was shocked, "Ash! Why'd you say something like that?! That's so gross! I'd go behind a bush!" She got up and ran after them, not realizing that she was walking on top of the shallow part of the water.

The small female group and Shippo got dressed as they watched the ice float past them.

They looked at one another when they heard a rustling in the bushes; Jalynn screamed and put her top on faster.

Ashley looked at the bush scared, but didn't scream. Sango got a bit annoyed and grabbed her Heriakotsu and slammed it into the bush.

A loud "OW" escapes the bush as Miroku fell out.

Sango was angry, "You Letcher!" She glared at him and stormed closer "I ought to run you into the ground."

Another rustling sound came from another bush Kagome glared "SIT BOY"

A cry of pain escaped the bush, Kagome got mad "Inuyasha not you too! You're both perverts!"

Inuyasha growled "What do you expect! We heard you guys scream so we came to investigate!"

Miroku grinned, "Ah, yes that's what we are doing, investigating."

Inuyasha glared at him, "Well at least that's what I was doing."

Miroku looked at the fully dressed ladies and mumbled, "I was too late anyway."

Sango glared at him, "What was that!"

Miroku sweat dropped, "Nothing! Nothing!"

They heard another rustling in the bushes Jalynn cried a little, "It's gonna eat me!"

Ashley got more scared as a dark creature sprouted from under the shade of the trees it looked like a huge bear.

Ashley squeaked and turned into her fox form.

Shippo freaked out and hid behind Kagome.

Inuyasha jumped up, "I'll show him!"

He brought out Tetsussiga and sliced through the demon, only it came closer. Inuyasha's eyes grew, "What the?"

The demon sliced at Inuyasha's clothes "Oh that's just great!" Inuyasha gave out an aggravated sigh "How the hell do I kill something that I can't slice through?"

Miroku stood up "Let me give it a try Inuyasha," He stood up and held a sutra in his hands and blessed it then threw it at the enemy. It went straight through it. Miroku sweat dropped, "It must be some sort of ghost or something, but I would have thought that my powers would have purified it."

Jalynn squeaked, "Ghost!" She passed out.

Ashley felt like maybe she should give it a try. She ran over and kicked the thing and it disappeared. Ashley was a bit shocked that it worked.

Inuyasha was angry, "What the hell! I can't slice through it but you just kick the thing and its dead." He growled and sulked.

Miroku sighed, "Well it seems our friend has extraordinary powers of her own."

Ashley looked a little confused; she didn't really know how to fight.

Miroku smiled at her, "Maybe she could teach me a few things."

Ashley scooted away from him and Sango yelled, "Knock it off Miroku!"

He sighed as Inuyasha said, "Well, we better get a move on."

Jalynn looked around, "Where's Jaws?"

The backpack came bounding out from some bushes. She caught her bag and carried it as they started walking in the direction of the well. They had been walking for a while when they felt an ominous presence, "Be prepared everyone." said Miroku, wind tunnel ready.

Sango got into her pose along with Kagome and Inuyasha.

Jalynn hid behind Ashley and Ashley made a dorky pose to fit in.

The sky went black and Ashley gagged, "I hate the rain."

Miroku looked at the sky, "It's not rain, look."

The sky was filled with demons, Jalynn and Ashley started to cry with each other "We don't wanna get eaten again!"

Inuyasha growled, "Will you two quit blubbering and fight! I guarantee if you don't fight you will be demon food."

Jalynn cried more and Kagome glared at Inuyasha, "Inuyasha stop it! You're scaring them!"

A huge shadowed thing came out of nowhere. Miroku sweat dropped, "Oh just great we have another one of those things after us."

Sango looked at it, "No, wait Miroku, it looks like it's going to help us."

The shadow looked up at the sky and huge spikes grew out of its fists as it started to swat the demons. Demons that were dead or nearly dead rained down and Ashley and Jalynn were soaked in demon body parts. "Why us?!"

A half dead demon started chasing after Jalynn and Inuyasha jumped at the chance to kill something. "Damn it!" He yelled, who does this guy think he is, stealing my chance for some practice?!"

Sango threw her Heriakotsu up into the air and killed some demons. Miroku unleashed his wind tunnel and Kagome shot her arrows into the cloud of demons.

Inuyasha jumped over the shadow and into the sky using his wind scar.

The sky cleared and the shadow disappeared, everyone looked around and saw that the shadow was gone.

Shippo kicked a demons head, "Serves you right."

Miroku scratched his head, "These shadow things are getting kind of creepy."

They continued their journey and traveled deeper and deeper into the forest.

Jalynn looked around, "You know this place is big enough it would be easy to get lost…"

Ashley called, "Jay Hurry up!"

Jalynn ran after the group, seeing as she was the farthest one behind.