Water surrounded Jalynn, thrusting her further down, choking her. She held her breath, not wanting to scream. She knew that if that were to happen, she would surly be done for. She also knew she couldn't go without air for too long. She could already feel her lungs screaming, climbing out of her chest. She flailed her arms and felt herself being thrown against a rock. Her breath finally came out and she gasped in some water from the impact. Immediately she panicked. Flailing more, she swam towards the surface, the light. Jalynn! You're such a dweeb! She yelled at herself mentally as she surfaced for a brief moment, long enough to catch her breath. Then the water dragged her under again. It seemed mocking as she was carried further down. The pull seemed to be getting faster and heavier. She surfaced again and this time kept her head up. "EEGH!" she gasped for air again and screamed, "HELP!"

Toshiro heard a sound, "There!" He saw Jalynn's head bobbing in the water then saw… "Oh no…"

Ichigo grumbled, "Of course."

"HANG ON JALYNN!" Toshiro rushed towards her.

Jalynn gasped and flailed, "Hold on! TO what?" she then heard the sound and her heart sank. "Waterfall…" she whispered the word, and then started to scream. The water sped up as she neared the edge, "HELP!"

Ichigo flash stepped towards Jalynn as well. Both of the males were almost to her, their hands out stretched to get her.

Jalynn reached for both of them, but an undercurrent grabbed her and sucked her under once again.

"DAMN IT!" Ichigo huffed, annoyed.

Toshiro scanned the water, "She…"

Jalynn flailed under the water and hit her arm against a rock. She let out a scream from fear and pain and she started to choke on the water. Suddenly, a small blue glow started to shine in her necklace. "AH!" Her head popped out of the water and she screamed as she tumbled over the edge of the waterfall. The blue glow intensified and a crackling sound erupted around Jalynn and large puffs of snow started to form around her, "EEEEKK!" She out stretched her arms as she flipped in the air and headed face first towards the water. Snow appeared below her and her eyes grew as she fell into the fluffy abyss.

Orihime huffed as she got to the safe edge of the waterfall, "Wow! I didn't know you could make the waterfall and lake turn to snow!" she looked at Toshiro.

"Good thinking Toshiro."

Toshiro veened and glared at Ichigo, "It's Captain Hitsugaya." He then looked at the snow and blinked.

Ichigo grabbed Orihime and his body and shunopped to the bottom of the waterfall to the bank.

Rangiku appeared next to Toshiro with his and her's gigai's, "You didn't do that, did you Captain?"

Uryu appeared and looked at them as Toshiro answered, "No… I didn't"

Chad grunted and jumped off the edge of the cliff and into the snow.

Uryu jumped as well, but glided down gently and landed on the grass, "The question now, where is she?"

Rukia frowned, "That is a good question…"

Ichigo went prowling around the snow, "Yo! Jalynn, where'd you go?"

"EEEEKKK!" Jalynn shot out of the snow and clung to Ichigo, "IT'S COOOLLLLDDD!"

"Hey! Get off!" Ichigo stumbled and fell into the snow and both of them disappeared.

Orihime blinked, "That looks like fun!" She ran towards the snow and then stopped when Ichigo came back up, "AH! SNOW DOWN MY SHIRT!"

Rangiku burst out laughing and so did Rukia.

"The… snow…" Orihime flailed, "Jalynn's going to drown!"

Ichigo shook some snow off of his shirt, "How can she drown when-"

"Look." Uryu pointed, eyes wide.

"Find her!" Toshiro shunopped down the cliff towards the others. The snow and ice were starting to melt… fast.

Rangiku joined the search party after putting the two gigai's by Orihime and Chad. Rukia got into the air and looked down, "What's going on? Captain Hitsugaya, I thought your zanpakto would be able to keep this snow for a lot longer than this?"

Toshiro didn't acknowledge Rukia's comment and searched the surface of the snow, "Where is she…?"

Jalynn shivered and then gasped as the snow around her turned to water. She flailed some more and surfaced. The sound of a waterfall rang in her ears and she could hear voices. The necklace stopped glowing and she blinked the water from her eyes. Her teeth chattered slightly.

"Jay!" Rangiku pointed to her, "Captain, she's in the middle of the lake!"

Toshiro suddenly appeared in front of Jalynn, "EEK!" she flailed then realized who it was, "Don't scare me like that!"

Toshiro grabbed her and pulled her out of the water, "You need to be more careful." He shunopped to Orihime and realized a bruise forming on Jalynn's arm, "What happened there?" he sat her down onto her feet.

Jalynn wabbled and fell to the ground, "Uh… oh. I think I ran into a rock when I was sucked under by one of the currents." She looked at the forming bruise then the lake. All of it was water now, "By the way, never make water into snow again… I think I would've survived if it was just water… I can swim."

Toshiro blinked and Orihime looked from Jalynn to Toshiro.

"Heh… you should be thankful. He did that to make sure you didn't get hurt. Plus, snow's fluffier than water so chances of getting hurt are slim." Ichigo dug a finger in his ear as he got back into his body.

Jalynn frowned and grabbed some snow that was on the bank and threw it at Ichigo, "It's cold though. I don't like cold stuff."

Toshiro's jaw locked slightly and he turned away and looked at the sky, "We'll camp here tonight."

"Captain?" Rangiku watched him as he disappeared into the trees. Everyone became silent.

Jalynn then blinked, "Was it something I said?"

Rukia shrugged. Rangiku sighed, "Well, we better start getting supplies…" she then looked at the lake, "You boys go find supplies!" she smiled and waved.

"What? Why us?" Renji glared at her.

Rangiku stretched, "Because, us girls are going to bathe in the lake!"

Renji's eye twitched, "What?"

"That sounds good actually… maybe it'll warm me up." Jalynn stood, "Do as Rangiku says or I'll put my cold hands on you!" she threatened him.

Ichigo rolled his eyes, "You can't bathe if we don't leave." He grinned.

Renji chuckled, "Yeah." He sat down on the ground.

All of the girls frowned. Jalynn then shrugged, "Suit yourselves!" She grabbed the edge of her shirt and started to lift it up.

"YAY!" Rangiku started to take her shirt off too.

Ichigo and Renji both flailed, "WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING!"

"Come on…" Chad and Uryu grabbed Renji and Ichigo and dragged them into the forest.

Jalynn stopped and waited for them to disappear into the forest and she put her shirt back down while Rangiku, Rukia, and Orihime undressed. "I'll stand guard…" She took a few steps when Rangiku grabbed her.

"You're joining us!" Rangiku giggled and proceeded to take her shirt off.

Jalynn quickly got out of Rangiku's clutches, "I can undress myself." She sounded like a snot.

Rangiku stopped and blinked, "Sorry… I didn't mean to offend you or anything." She turned around, wondering why Jalynn had suddenly went into a sour mood.

A sigh escaped Jalynn's mouth, "Sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you like that. I just… get uncomfortable when people see me naked."

Orihime got into the water and looked at her, "It's okay, we won't look at you if you don't want us to."

"No, it's not that. I just…" Jalynn looked at the ground as Rukia and Rangiku got into the water as well. She looked up and into the forest. Her eyes then ventured to a rock that was near the water a little ways down, "I'll be in the water in a few." She headed to the rock.

Rangiku blinked, "I wonder what's made her uncomfortable with her body…"

Rukia shrugged, "She might just not like it when people see her naked. Either she's bashful or shy. Maybe even embarrassed, but I don't know what she has to be embarrassed about. She's pretty and has bigger breasts than me." She stuck her tongue out and looked at the rock Jalynn had disappeared behind.

Jalynn quickly took her clothes off and ran into the water, hiding all of her body except her head. She swam over to where the other three were, "Sorry, again." She looked at the water as she sat in the shallowness of it.

"So… we're curious. Why don't you like it when others see your body? Well, if it's a guy, it's understandable," Rukia waved a hand, "But other than that. We're girls too, we don't judge and we don't really pay attention, seeing as we hide ourselves." She then frowned.

"Let's go deeper!" Rangiku stood, showing her naked body to the world. She giggled and ran to the deeper water and jumped into it.

Orihime smiled and joined her, only she kept her body hidden.

"Rangiku's another story, but other than that." Rukia looked at Jalynn, "You can tell us anything, just so you know." She smiled and swam away from her as she joined the other two.

Jalynn sat there, her knees up to her chin. She looked down and flatted her legs as she leaned forward. Her back came out of the water, revealing a large and disfigured scar. She sighed and ran her finger across her torso where part of the scar was located at. "They are nice…" She looked at the three who were splashing each other and having fun, "and… they seem understanding. Maybe I can tell them." She slowly started to make her way towards the others. She glanced down when she felt a coldness against her chest. Her necklace glistened as it thudded against her skin. "Weird…" She shrugged that off and joined the others.

"Hey!" Orihime giggled as water splashed her face.

Rangiku smiled, then saw Jalynn, "You feeling a little better?" She smiled at her.

Jalynn shrugged, "I could be better. So, the reason why-"

Rangiku jumped at Jalynn and hugged her, "You're too adorable!"

"EEHH!" Jalynn flailed. She was sure that Rangiku could feel her skin on her back.

"Let go of her Rangiku," Rukia pried her off, "Let her get acquainted with your flightiness before you do that."

Rangiku pouted, "Oh, fine." She splashed Rukia.

Rukia moved her head so the side of it got wet, "Plus, she was trying to say something."

"What were you going to tell us?" Orihime smiled at her.

Jalynn shifted slightly, "Well, the reason why I don't like being seen when I'm naked is… well…" She didn't feel like saying she had a huge scar that covered most of her back and part of her torso and she started to suddenly chicken out on telling them why she didn't like being seen, "I just find it awkward." She looked down and started to twirl the water with her pointer finger.

"Oh…" Rukia blinked, "Well, you can go back over there if you want to. We don't want you to feel uncomfortable."

Orihime nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, we won't pressure you into doing something you don't want to do," Rangiku blinked at her, "Even though we all like your company." She smiled and gently splashed Jalynn.

Jalynn blinked as water dripped from her eyelashes. She then giggled and splashed Rangiku back, "Hey, I'm going to go in deeper. I like to swim around. It feels nice."

"Oh! That's a good idea!" Rangiku grabbed Orihime and Rukia, "We'll join you!"

The girls all giggled and started to swim around. Jalynn took a deep breath and dove under the water. Her eyes opened and she swam towards the bottom of the lake. Her eyes drifted to her necklace, though. It was glowing slightly. Curiosity clung at the edge of her brain as Jalynn surfaced and took her necklace off. "Huh… weird…" It had stopped glowing. She put it back on and as she was tying it, she saw something near the edge of the water. She froze when she realized it was someone looking at them. Quickly, she looked away, then glanced back over and saw that the person hadn't moved.

"Marco…" Orihime had her eyes shut and her arms out stretched.

Rukia and Rangiku both giggled as they said, "Polo!"

Jalynn swam up to Rukia, "Uh… not to alarm you, but there's someone on the other side of the lake watching us." Her eyes were huge and fearful.

Rukia glanced around, "Where? Is it one of the guys?"

Rangiku swam up to them, "What are you two talking about?" She smiled as she whispered with them.

"Someone's watching us." Rukia glanced around a bit more.

Rangiku frowned, "Who?"

"I don't know… I saw the outline of a body. I think it's a guy, over by the edge of the lake over there…" She pointed inconspicuously to the area.

Rangiku made a face, then smiled, "Then let's swim towards whoever it is. We can surprise attack them, they won't see it coming."

"Uh…" Jalynn blinked at her suggestion.

Orihime opened her eyes and saw the other three talking in a group. She swam up to them, "Are we done playing?"

Rangiku smiled, "We're going to go to the other side of the lake."

"I don't think that's a good idea," Jalynn looked scared.

Orihime blinked, "What's on the other side of the lake?"

"Jalynn saw someone watching us," Rukia informed her of what they had been discussing while she had been swimming around.

Orihime gasped and ducked under the water so that her eyes and nose were showing.

"It'll be fine. Rukia and I are shinigamis. We have awesome fighting skills. And if it's one of the guys, we'll kill them," Rangiku smiled, "Come on!" She grabbed Orihime and started to drag her.

Rukia sighed, "We have to make this inconspicuous, so come on…"

"Ugh… I should've kept my mouth shut…" Jalynn followed them, fear stabbed at her as they got closer to the other side of the lake.