Toshiro walked ahead of the group as Ichigo tried running ahead of him.

Ichigo puffed, "Geez Toshiro, you're a lot faster at walking now. What gives?"

Toshiro shrugged, "Is it that I'm faster or that you can't keep up? And it is Captain Hitsugaya, idiot."

Ichigo glared, "Why you little pip squeak!"

"Calm down Ichigo," came Rukia's voice, "Save your energy for finding us a way out of here."

Orihime looked at the tall trees and the maze went on and on forever. "Guys I think we're lost."

"We are not!" Ichigo said angrily.

Uryu nodded, "Orihime is right Ichigo. We are lost. We have passed that same rock at least 10 times."

They all stared at a rock and saw that it did look familiar.

Rangiku giggled, "And that's where Orihime had the rash."

Orihime blushed a little.

Chad looked up "We are lost."

Renji laughed, "Ichigo you moron if we would have went with dog boy we could have been out of here by now."

Ichigo sweat dropped and punched Renji, "If you don't like following me fine, go find your dog boy."

Renji growled, "It would be better than following you, you idiot."

Rukia got annoyed, "Will the both of you just shut up and focus on getting out of here!"

Rangiku sighed, "I wish there was some way we could find those others, they could help us out."

Ichigo growled, "So what does everyone here hate me as their leader!"

Uryu smirked, "All in favor of dropping Ichigo as their leader say I."

Everyone said I except Toshiro.

Rangiku looked at him strangely as Ichigo hugged him. Toshiro growled "Get off of me you perv!"

"Ew! I am not a perv!" Ichigo let go of the still short captain.

Rangiku raised a brow, "So why didn't you want to get rid of Ichigo Captain?"

"Because it doesn't matter who leads us. The result will be the same, if it hadn't been for Ichigo fighting with the guy with ears we could have at least had some kind of heading. They know this area better than we do and they know where they are heading. We on the other hand have no idea."

"That is true." said Rangiku thinking about the situation.

Ichigo growled, "So it's my fault!"

Uryu "That's the understatement of the century."

Ichigo glared at him, "Well I happen to know that you guys were fighting with those people from the start! I chose not to go with them because we would only fight all the time."

"That is also true." said Rangiku thinking about the situation some more.

"So we're stuck either way," said Orihime, a bit sad.

Rukia sighed, "I'm afraid so."

Ichigo sighed, "So if I'm not the leader which one of you lame brains is gonna take charge."

Renji grinned, "That would be me."

Uryu pushed up his glasses, "You know nothing of navigational skills. I think I am the best suited."

Kon popped out of the bag and growled, "Ok why am I half frozen?! Which one of you did this to me? I'll show you!"

Toshiro sweat dropped, "Oh you were in there? Well serves you right."

Kon growled "You had no right! Just look at me! I'm frozen from the waist down and now the ladies will hate me!" he cried a little "It's cruel and unusual punishment, why would you break a poor stuffed animals heart?"

Toshiro shrugged "It was an accident."

"An ACCIDENT!" Kon cried in anger. "You call this an accident!" Kon started fuming "If I was 5 feet taller I would turn you into a popsicle you moron!"

Rukia sighed, "Calm down Kon, it's not that big of a deal."

Kon growled, "I think the leader of the group should be someone who doesn't have accidents."

Orihime blushed and turned away. Ichigo saw her turn and raised a brow.

Rangiku thought about it, "The person best suited to lead, is probably Chad."

Everyone gawked; Chad spoke softly, "Why do you say that?"

Rangiku smiled, "Well you did find the water after all and you seem to know a lot about the outdoors."

Chad shyly said, "My Grandpa taught me everything I know about the outdoors."

"That's… neat," Ichigo scratched his back, knowing the fact that Chad's grandpa was more like a father to him.

"Yeah…" Chad looked at the canopy of leaves above them and saw a lot of clouds. "Looks like it's gonna rain."

The others looked at the sky.

"We better get going then." Toshiro said.

Chad nodded as he led the group into a forward direction. A few minutes had passed when Orihime said, "The clouds are gone…"

The group stopped and observed the sky.

Uryu pushed up his glasses, "This place has some odd weather."

"Yeah, it does," Renji agreed.

Rangiku looked around, "Where's Ichigo?"

Orihime looked around as well. He was no where to be seen.

Then, there was a rustling in the bushes. Rukia was closest, so she grabbed a stick and whacked at whatever was in the brush.

"Ow! What the hell was that for?!" Ichigo came out of the shadows, rubbing his head.

Rukia sweat dropped, then straightened up, "Found him." She dropped the stick and scooted away from him.

"Where were you Ichigo?" Orihime asked.

Ichigo scratched his head, "Uh… Well… You see…"

Toshiro snorted, "Where you going to the bathroom?"

Ichigo went red, "NO!"

Rangiku giggled, "Yes you where!"

"No I wasn't!"

Renji smirked, "Then why is your face red?"

Ichigo got angry, "Can't a guy relieve himself without being questioned?!" he stormed ahead of everyone.

Chad sighed as he followed.

"I was just wondering where he was… I didn't mean to upset him," Orihime felt bad.

Rukia rubbed Orihime's shoulder, "It's ok. He's just angry because he's not leader any more."
Rangiku agreed with Rukia as the group followed.

Orihime saw some beautiful wild flowers as they walked, and she stopped to smell them. "Oh Rangiku these flowers smell so nice." She picked a couple and put one behind Rangiku's ear one behind Rukia's and one behind her own.

They continued along until they saw these large bees. They had no idea they belonged to Naraku.

Orihime batted at one of the bees, "Leave me alone! Ahh!" she squealed.

Uryu squealed too as the bees followed him as well, "No! Not bees I can't get stung by a bee!" He started running from them.

Ichigo and Renji laughed at Uryu's squealing because it sounded like a girl. Renji snorted, "It's just a couple of bugs, you just kill them." He swatted one between his palms, "See, not that hard to kill."

The other bugs started to charge after Renji and Renji ran "You stupid bugs!" He dropped out of his Gigai, "Ha let's see you sting me now!"

The bees started to sting the gigai like mad.

Toshiro grabbed one and froze it in his hands, "It seems like these are no ordinary bugs they are much larger and more vicious."

Rukia, Orihime, and Uryu all hid behind a big rock, "Why don't you freeze them all for us?" pleaded Orihime.

Uryu piped up, "Yes! Please!"

Toshiro sighed, as he watched Renji's gigai body get stung.

"What about you, nature boy!" Ichigo said as he saw Chad on the ground with sticks rubbing them together. He smacked his face, "I'm glad you have found your childhood Chad, but this is seriously not the time." He grabbed a stick and smiled "Guess you guys shouldn't have let him be leader huh?"

Chad looked up and sighed continuing to rub the sticks together.

Ichigo swatted at the bees and they came after him. Ichigo darted between Rangiku and Toshiro and the bees started after them too.

Toshiro growled, "Damn it Ichigo! You pissed them off; don't make them come after us!"

Toshiro and Rangiku also abandon their Gigai's and watched Ichigo get chased.

Kon jumped out of the backpack his tail the only thing still frozen "Alright I'll show you Mr. Smarty-pants!" He kicks Toshiro's gigai and says "Serves you right you jerk!"

"Kon!" cried Rukia, Orihime, and Uryu as the bees charged after him.

Kon freaked, day dreaming 'Goodbye cruel world I will no longer see these beautiful breasts anymore.' He envisioned himself on his back with a flower in hand.

The bees started to drag off Kon. Kon opened his eyes "I'm flying! Goodbye all! Good luck. Goodbye beautiful breasts, I'm going to a better place."

"Kon, you idiot!" Cried Rukia, "Those bugs are trying to take u away.

Kon spazzed and hit the bugs. They dropped him and he landed on the ground.

Kon looked at Chad, "What are you just sitting around there for! You're no help!"

Chad looked a little annoyed this time and rubbed the sticks together harder. A small blaze of fire appeared.

Ichigo stared at him, "Oh so that's what you were doing. Well if you wanted to burn the bugs, it's gonna take a lot more fire bud, nice try though."

Chad huffed and took Ichigo's shirt.

Ichigo freaked out, "Hey what the hell, what are you doing! Chad, this is no time for coming out of the closet!"

Rukia giggled, "He's gonna make you a target."

"Shut up!" cried Ichigo as the bugs started coming after him.

Chad started to wave the shirt up and down over the little blaze. It started to blow smoke all over.

Everyone began to cough as the bees started dropping, Rukia was amazed, "Wow Chad! You're killing them."

"No," said Chad "I'm putting them to sleep."

Uryu sighed and cowered, "I wish you would have just killed them."

Soon all the bees had dropped off to sleep and they walked on.

Uryu walked watching the bees warily, "I really hate bees."

Ichigo sniffed his shirt, "Geez, I smell like a bonfire." He made a face.