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