Naraku eyed the contestants closely as he paced along the deck of the boat
that was ferrying his guests to the tropical island they would spend the next
39 days on; or however long before they were voted off. His crimson eyes fell
upon Kikyo; he smirked at the longing look he could
see reflected in her eyes.
He
then allowed his eyes to roam over the rest of the cast. A few new participants
had arrived during the brief wait on the mainland. There still remained one
missing participate, a man by the name of Hiko.
However, if he did not want Shishio to become
impatient with him he needed to head for the island as soon as possible.
"You
were all selected to participate in this season of Survivor. You will be filmed
during the duration of your stay on the tropical island you will be living on.
I wouldn't do anything you wouldn't want your family to see." Naraku let his gaze linger upon Kagome, checking out her
womanly attributes with a seductive leer. "Of course, if you want ratings to go
up I encourage all sorts of activity."
Inuyasha noticed where the gaze of the host landed upon and a snarl emerged
from his lips. Naraku quickly averted his gaze away
from Kagome and let them rest upon Sango as he
watched in amusement as she blatantly ignored the man with shoulder length
brown hair and hoop earrings that was desperately trying to gain her attention.
The
host looked over his shoulder as the island came into view from afar. He
squinted his red eyes to gage the distance before turning back to the
contestants. "In approximately three minutes you will jump from this ship and
swim to the island."
"What
about our luxury item?" Inuyasha demanded, not happy
with the prospect of swimming with his sword at his side.
"I
will land shortly afterwards upon the island and deliver your luxury item. As
you swim to shore you will pass several crates floating in the water. I
encourage you all to haul at least one crate with you to shore. The items
inside may aid you as you make your shelter and cook your meals." Naraku explained. He looked down at his watch; time was
ticking by slowly.
Kenshin cleared his throat and wrapped his left arm around Kaoru's shoulder.
He pulled her closer to him in a brief hug, effectively inching her closer to
him and farther away from Aoshi who happened to be
sitting on the other side of the bench the trio shared. "Sessha
wonders when we will find out which tribe we are in."
Naraku lifted his gaze from his wristwatch to look at the red haired sword
fighter. He noticed the lavender eyes of the contestant were flecked with
golden specs. Perhaps it would be best to not reveal the tribes until they
reached the island. The red haired man would not appreciate being separated
from his honey. He especially wouldn't appreciate her being in the same group
as the man he was trying to inch her away from.
"Once
we have reached the island I will inform you of your tribal heritage." Naraku answered. "Now stand along the edge of the deck.
When I count to three you will dive into the water and swim for shore. Remember
to collect a crate if you want to have a chance at surviving."
Sesshoumaru peered down at the churning ocean water. He looked at his long, white,
fluffy tail. Water would make his fur look pitiful. He glared at Naraku for a moment before mapping out the path he would
take to the island. He could pick up a crate as he used his ki
to create a red cloud to fly upon. It had been a long time since he had
utilized his magic. Naraku was obviously a demon, so
surely there wouldn't be a problem.
"One, two, three!" Naraku counted off;
everyone jumped off the ship into the blue waves below. Everyone
except Sesshoumaru, who calmly floated above the
waves and Kagome, who found herself being caught in midair before reaching the
water. She looked back at the one who caught her and smiled at Sesshoumaru.
She
shook her head at him, "I think we may get disqualified for this," she informed
him. Sesshoumaru ignored her and swooped the two of
them towards two crates that floated near to one another. He dived down and
slung Kagome over his shoulder to free up his hands. He then pulled up both
crates and shortly landed upon the island with his packages.
Kouga was swimming faster than he thought possible. That crazy woman, Misao was after his tail again. He looked back over his
shoulder briefly and almost sunk below the ocean surface because he stopped
swimming momentarily in relief. It would seem that she was chasing after some
tall human male with ebon hair and pale blue eyes.
"Kouga! You owe me! You better haul up my crate to
the island," Ayame shouted at him as she struggled to
swim next to the wolf demon who had tricked her into making a fool of herself on this horrible island retreat.
Kouga groaned; he lost one psycho only to find the original. He valiantly
made every effort to ignore the nagging that followed him from the red haired
woman. His gaze happened to notice a red cloud of ki
flying quickly past him. His eyes narrowed as he recognized his dear Kagome in
the arms of that cocky, arrogant, white haired prick. He was about to shout,
but someone else beat him in articulation.
"What
the hell are you doing?" Inuyasha shouted as Sesshoumaru flew past with his Kagome in tow. Inuyasha had intended
on offering Kagome a ride upon his back to swim to shore. But, he decided
against it knowing that Kagome would be too stubborn to accept such a
suggestion.
Sesshoumaru ignored the protests of his brother as he landed upon the shore and
carefully set Kagome upon the sand. They both turned to watch their companions
swim to shore, sopping wet while the two of them remained bone-dry.
Kenshin smiled at Kaoru as they swam side by side, each pulling a crate beside
them. He had slowed his pace a bit to swim in even pace with his long-time
girlfriend. She grinned back at him. At that moment he knew that their decision
to participate in this crazy scheme to win money for the dojo would end up
being a very positive experience. He looked straight ahead once again, and
noticed Aoshi Shinomori
swimming quickly past him with Misao chasing after
him.
"Looks like our friend has some incentive to reach the island as if
Hell's hounds were nipping at his heels." Kaoru commented, noticing Aoshi swimming so fast that he would shame an Olympian. She
expected to hear Kenshin join her in a good laugh at
the vision, but he remained oddly silent.
"Kenshin? Is everything okay?" Kaoru
asked, a bit out of breath. She was growing weary of swimming. It was not an
activity she performed often. Sitting in a hot tub, she was an expert at, but
swimming in shark infested waters, she was not so familiar. Shark infested waters?
"Kenshin." Kaoru spoke in a quiet
voice, noting a pair of dorsal fins a little too close for comfort. Kenshin allowed his unhappy thoughts about a certain Aoshi to evade his thoughts as he moved his vision to where
Kaoru was looking.
"Swim
Kaoru, don't look that way. Just forget about them," he coaxed, keeping his
voice calm. Knowing Kaoru she would freak out and he would have to swim them
both to shore. He glanced all around and the only shark he could see was the
one that had captured Kaoru's attention.
"Kenshin! There's a freaking shark
over near you and Kaoru!" Sanosuke shouted as he
moved to swim as fast as possible towards the island. Upon hearing his words, Kikyo and Tomoe began to scream, causing Kaoru to panic.
Kaoru
started to hyperventilate as the shark came faster and faster. Then a second
dorsal fin appeared in her line of sight. "Kenshin,
they are coming closer to us." She whimpered quietly. Kenshin
had moved her to the inside of their path, putting his body between her and the
approaching sharks.
"It's
going to be okay, baby. We're almost there and if they keep coming I will
protect you with me life." Kenshin vowed; his
lavender eyes turning completely golden.
"What
the hell? Who is that?" Sanosuke shouted as he
finally reached the sandy floor of the ocean before the island. He waited for
Kaoru and Kenshin to come closer to help them.
Someone appeared to be holding onto the shark. Was it a shark wrangler?
Hiko stood tall upon the shark that he had passed by earlier while swimming
towards the ship. He was only a little late, was it really so difficult to wait
for him before leaving port? This pair of sharks, a male and female,
happened to be swimming by him so he recruited them into giving him a lift. He
noticed a familiar face in the crowd in the sea. His old apprentice, Kenshin Himura was swimming next
to a beautiful young lady.
Sanosuke waved his hand towards Sango who was
watching the scene with no less interest than everyone else did. A man was
riding on a pair of sharks? She shook her head, trying to ignore the odd scene
and ran towards Sanosuke and helped him relieve his
friends of their cargo as they hurriedly made their way to shore.
Kenshin and Koaru stood hunched over, trying to
catch their breath. "Never let me swim that far away from everyone else." Kaoru
gasped, turning her head towards Kenshin. He nodded
mutely, not willing to let her know that the reason they swam so far away from
the crowd was because he veered her as far away from Aoshi
as possible. Speaking of the man, who should bother them now?
"Kaoru,
are you all right?" Aoshi asked in his calm, soft
voice as he laid a cool hand upon Kaoru's bare shoulder. Her button up shirt
had slipped off her shoulder with the weight of the water from her swim,
revealing an electric blue bikini top. Kaoru nodded and tried to smile a
wavering smile.
Kenshin reached across Kaoru, knocking off Aoshi's
hand in the process to pull back up her shirtsleeve. He redirected his
attention to the man who couldn't be anyone other than his old master. "Master Hiko." Kenshin muttered as the
man slipped beneath the water and then stood upon the sandy beach with the
shark raised above his head.
The
taller, massively muscled man with long raven colored hair tossed the shark
back into the water. His strength was unreal. Enishi
snorted at the show of brute strength. "That's not as impressive as you would
like to think," the white haired man declared as he pushed his blue glasses up
higher on the bridge of his nose.
Inuyasha turned his back to the scenes behind him. He could care less what
those humans did; he just wanted Kagome to be separated from his brother. He
did not trust Sesshoumaru's behavior. The older
brother arched an amused brow at his younger sibling's obvious show of jealousy
as he snatched Kagome away and sat upon one of the wooden crates and pulled
Kagome along with him, setting her upon his lap.
"Kagome,
don't run off with Sesshoumaru again. Remember its
you and me in this game. We're going to win and use the money to get married." Inuyasha whispered as he ran his fingers through her dry
silky hair. Kagome shifted uncomfortably upon his lab. He was wet and now her
shorts were no longer dry.
Naraku walked towards the couple and roughly pulled Kagome out of the young
man's lap. He then turned to face the entire cast for the game. He noted that Hiko had managed to find his own means of transportation. "Congratulations
on making it to the island. After seeing some of the ways you reached this
island I feel it is important to clarify a few rules." He turned his attention
to Sesshoumaru. "There will be no flying on this
island." He couldn't have them catching sight of the other side of the island
and the dealings that were happening there.
"Second
off, it is time to divide into tribes. I want all the women to stand over
there." Naraku pointed towards a row of coconut
trees. "The men will stand there," he pointed close to the shoreline and the
men moved to that area.
Naraku looked up and down each rank of contestants. He raised hand to motion
for his assistant, Kagura to approach him. She held
out both hands, each full of bandanas. One hand held red bandanas and the other
held black. Naraku took the set of red from her
hands. "In honor of staying on a Pacific Island with a Hispanic history the
tribal names are also Spanish. If I call
your name, come to me and collect your tribal marking, you will become a member
of the tribe Amore."
After
a few moments, nine names had been called. "The remaining ten, your marking
will be black you are of the tribe Morte." Naraku answered. He looked at the faces of all the
individuals, smirking at the angry glances he was receiving. "I suggest that
you start on building your shelters. Amore will remain on this side of the
island. Follow me Morte. And there is to be no
interaction between the tribes."
Kagome
watched as all her friends filed away from her, following Naraku.
She looked down at the blood red bandana that she held fisted in her grip. She
felt so alone at the moment. A friendly hand landed upon the small of her back
and she allowed herself to be guided towards an alcove of trees. Long silvery,
white hair brushed against her bare arms as she had wrapped her tee shirt
around her waist. Long silvery, hair that was finer in texture than what she
was used to.
"We
have moved all the crates closer to where we have decided to establish camp. We're
going to open the crates and discover what supplies are at our disposal." Sesshoumaru told her as he led her to stand beside the only
other human woman that seemed decent in their Amore tribe.
Kagome
smiled briefly at Kaoru, noticing that the other woman mirrored her
predicament. "I don't think Kenshin was very happy
with his arrangement." Kaoru confided, as her eyes drifted to land upon the
well-muscled chest of Aoshi Shinomori
as he removed his shirt to wipe the sweat from his face. She felt a shiver of
excitement run down her spine at the image. She then noticed all the various
scars that were littered upon the flesh of his chest.
"Aoshi?" Kaoru whispered as she ran to him, without
thinking. She reached up her hand to innocently run across the scared flesh. He
stilled in his movements upon hearing her whisper his name and was now frozen
as her tender hand caressed his scared torso. Aoshi
frowned down upon her and placed his hand over hers to stop her movements. "I
have had a violent past."
Kaoru
swallowed thickly as she finally processed that she was tenderly caressing the
chest of one that was not her Kenshin! She tried to retract her hand, but it was firmly
within the strong grasp of Aoshi Shinomori.
He released her hand and watched as it fell to her side and as she bowed her
head in embarrassment. "Forgive me, I sometimes get carried away," she admitted
sheepishly.
Aoshi offered a small lift of the corner of his lips. "Worry not, Kaoru, it
only means that you care."
Kagome
scanned the rest of her tribe. It consisted of herself, Sesshoumaru,
Kaoru, Aoshi, Saito, Miroku,
Enishi, Ayame, Bankotsu, and Megumi.
Kagome
pulled upon Sesshoumaru's sleeve. He was still
wearing his long sleeved shirt. Everyone else was stripping down to his or her
swimsuits and yet he remained fully clothed. She frowned slightly at herself as
her mind wondered if his body could compare to that of Aoshi
standing not far away. She gestured towards Bankotsu
once gaining the dog-demon's attention.
Sesshoumaru felt her eyes upon him, imagining his anatomy. Then he focused on the
gesture she made towards the man from the plane. Golden eyes narrowed at the
exotic dancer. At least he had the decency to keep his shorts on. Sesshoumaru feared what the sight of a naked man wandering
about camp would do to his Kagome.
Kagome and Inuyasha had told him tales of the winner
from the first Survivor who walked around butt naked all the time in camp.
Sesshoumaru faced Kagome again and leaned down to whisper in her ear. "He will not
be walking around letting all his glory hang out, this
Sesshoumaru promises you that." Sesshoumaru
stood to his full height and then decided to test and see Kagome's reaction to
his bare chest. He shrugged out of his white sleeved button up; reveling in the
small gasp of surprise that came from Kagome's lips. "Shall we see what's in
this crate?" He asked as he flexed his claws and swiped at the bindings
fastening the wooden crate.
"Wait!"
Kagome told him before he could remove the covering of the crate after
unsealing its ties. Sesshoumaru's golden eyes locked
upon her eyes in a silent question. "We need to establish our alliance as soon
as possible." Kagome explained, she was not about to lose this game because of
a little lust on her part.
Sesshoumaru furrowed his brows thoughtfully as he allowed his tail to move towards
the area of Kagome's lower back. He used his furry appendage to pet her
absently as he scanned their options. Satisfied with his decision, he began to
open the crate. "We will ally with the woman you spoke with earlier and the man
she is with."
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TBC
