Chapter 7

Month: September

Spear fishing turned out to be something Hiro was really good at. Unlike K he'd got into the water and stood like the hunter, spear at the ready. He found the tip guided over the water slowly, following the fish in its travel made it easier to stab it through. Although at first, each time he lifted the weapon the fish fell off the speared end. But in time Hiro quickly learned to reach into the water and grab the fish with his bare hand.

K on the other hand had learned to climb the coconut trees. Awarded with many cuts to his chest, legs and arms in the process, he eventually found a technique that worked. He had nothing but determination and decided he looked like a frog climbing a tree. But it had worked and now they had coconut water that was drinkable.

Now with momentary gratitude for their good luck, they felt a little more at ease on their island. With meat in their bellies, instead of just lousy coconut, each man felt more relaxed. As long as there was food, water and the shelter, things where not so bad they decided.

Sadly though, not a single sign of help was spotted or heard. Had everyone given up?

It seemed that way, Hiro thought as he leaned over to pull up his line of stringed fish from the water—the string begin made of sapling rope. He climbed up onto the rocks and looked over at what K was doing, he was setting one his new traps. The shirtless blond looked over and waved, Hiro smiled and waved back, holding up his catch more prominently, showing off just a little.

"Woohoo! Hiro you're the man." K gave his praise and Hiro smiled satisfied with that.

Also shirtless the redhead said, "I'm going to go clean these and cook them before they go bad."

That was the only problem in such a hot and humid environment, food spoiled quickly. What they caught had to be eaten right away. But they also discovered that they could smoke the fish, drying it out so it kept much longer. If they had tons of salt they could salt cure the fish too but that would require evaporating ocean water. It could be done; the salt would be left behind if they had something to collect the ocean water in. Having food on the premises was an attraction for animals or bugs though. Food left unattended also proved more than once, that camp could be trashed and food devoured before even they got to it. Everything in itself was a lesson of survival.

Once, Hiro found a big bird drinking from one of their coconut shells at camp. It was beautiful, all red with yellow and blue feathers on its back and tail, a white beak and sharp claws. It was a Macaw. Sipping the water the bird would tip its head back to swallow, it was very cool. The bird had given him a speculative look before it flew off back into the jungle forest.

But a few times snakes made their way into their camp and they'd simply ran from them, neither brave enough yet to try and kill it. So far they'd only seen one variety of snakes, bright green ones that mostly lived in the trees.

Cleaning the fish, Hiro decided, was a disgusting task. He never knew he had it in him to deal with it. But they had no choice. He did this at the waters edge, which kept any rotting matter away from camp, but they kept the heads as bait for the crab traps. Finished, he started back to camp with his fish skewered on a stick for cooking when he spotted K returning too. Hiro took a moment to observe how much thinner K was, but also how all this hard labour accentuated his muscles. He knew they both lost weight and gained some muscle but Hiro had to admit K was looking exotically good. The American's pale skin was now tanned golden brown. But at least they weren't prone to facial hair and neither had grown beards. To his surprise, Hiro felt a twitch in his pants. Oh god he needed some alone time later, he thought forcing himself to look away from K's abs and stare at the dead fish. In seconds his erection faded.

"I hope that trap works, the last two fell apart and the buggers got away," K said when Hiro was in ear shot.

"I think you secured this one better, it took more time to make but I think it's the best one so far," Hiro explained honestly. He set the stick of fish on the Y branches, which became a cooking spit.

K sat down and drank some water, sitting comfortably on the pile of leaves which was their bed. "That's an amazing catch Hiro; you definitely have the knack for fishing."

"Thanks buddy; your crabbing skills are improving too."

K chuckled dryly, "A hungry man doesn't complain and does what he can."

"How about we go check on those bananas tomorrow?" asked Hiro.

"Haha, so a hungry man does dare to complain," K offered with amusement.

Hiro made a face, "Surely you want something different…"

"Damn straight."

They laughed.

"How about we make a day of it, take some of the smoked fish wish us and explore the island. It might take a few days maybe, want to?" K asked, lying back with his arms behind his head.

It was something Hiro wanted to do awhile ago, "Sure why not. I'm curious how big this island is."

"Yeah me too, but I'm pretty sure we're alone here. The island can't be tha...tha…"

Hiro looked up as K started to stammer, "What is it?"

"WAAAAAA!"

As if stung by a bee, K leapt out of the shelter and danced around the beach. Quickly he started undoing his pants.

"What's the matter!" Hiro clamoured, not sure if he should laugh or worry that K had gone mad.

"Something crawled up my pant leg!" K shouted.

Hiro watched K tear out of his pants, whipping them to the ground and shivering with willies. "Did it bite you?" Hiro asked.

"No…"

He couldn't help it, the redhead laughed deeply and in complete hysterics. That had to be the funniest thing he'd ever seen K do. But they both stopped short as a furry spider raced from K's pants and across the beach.

"I told you," K said and pointed to the intruding beast on the run.

Hiro calmed down, so something really did crawl up his trousers. But he still shook with mirth.

"Just wait until something crawls up your pants man…just wait," K expressed indignantly. But K was a good sport and soon he was laughing at himself. "I guess that was pretty funny, want me to do a belly dance now?"

Hiro laughed out loud again, "Hell no you crazy ass, put your pants back on or I'm going to turn to stone."

The blond guffawed. "Just for that, I'm not going to put them back on."

"Suit yourself," said Hiro.

"Actually it's kind of nice without pants," K mentioned, "No one around to see me right?"

"If you think I'm going to join you like that you are crazy." Hiro looked at K drolly as he stood there in his boxer briefs. But K only grinned mischievously and came at him, Hiro gasped as he pushed him down.

"What are you so bashful about eh?" K teased as he sat on top of Hiro's legs and began to undo his pants.

Hiro furrowed his brows in mock fury. "You're going to have to fight me over it!" he said struggling and laughing, enjoying the moment of fun.

As K got the pants half way down but Hiro used both his bare feet to knock K on his ass. He almost giggled at the look of surprise on K's face. But without giving the blond a chance to retaliate, Hiro lunged at K in his boxers, pants bunched around his ankles. K grunted as Hiro landed on him and pinned his arms down.

"You wanna wrestle hmm? Think you can take me on?" K bragged excitedly and bucked Hiro off and over his head. He tried to scramble up but Hiro was faster and put him into a headlock. K wasn't going to get stopped by that puny act, he played dirty pool and reaching behind him, he tickled Hiro's ribs.

"You cheater!" cried Hiro and let go to laugh over the ultimate torture that was tickling. He scowled and stood up, pulling up his pants and zipping not buttoning. He watched K get up to and they circled each other with fierce looks on their faces, "Come big boy," Hiro coaxed.

"That's right I'm bigger than you, in all ways I bet," K bragged just trying to provoke Hiro to attack him. He snickered when Hiro's eyes went to his crotch, K winked at him.

Flustered for a moment, Hiro replied, "You're a pervert…but you know what they say?"

"Enlighten me," K said.

"The bigger they are the smaller you know..." Hiro muttered and wiggled his pinkie finger, "…tiny."

"I'll show you tiny," K roared and bent to pick up the redhead, in one swoop he tossed Hiro over his shoulder.

"I'm sorry!" Hiro howled his voice still pitched with amusement.

"How's the view from up there…tiny?" K asked and laughed as he marched towards the water.

"No! Aww K put me down!"

"Sure, just a minute," the blonde sang.

A few moments later Hiro landed in the water with a splash. It was shallow but still deep enough not to hurt when he landed.

But now he was mad.

Hiro stood up and with all his frustrated anger over everything, chased after K who was headed back to shore. Gaining more speed as the water got shallower he dove headlong into the American, tackling him like an NFL quarterback.

Down they went crashing into the shallow surf.

"Fuck Hiroshi…" K groaned, turning over to get his face out of the sand and water. He hadn't expected that sort of response from Hiro. But Hiro had the look of fury in his eyes, cold and gleaming. He looked ready to punch him K noticed and flinched when Hiro flung himself at him once more. Instead of getting punched, Hiro embraced him urgently. Both lying in the surf, the water washing over their legs repetitively, Hiro held onto K like a vice.

Then he began to cry.

K, stunned by this, didn't know what to do. Hiro hung onto him and cried with torment, his face buried under his chin. It was as if all their play triggered some emotion. K slowly hugged Hiro back, wrapping his arms around the smaller man and simply let him get it out of his system. It brought a lump to his throat though, being reminded of how alone they were, how stranded. And truly how terrifying that crash was, the loss of their friends, K felt really sorry for Hiro at the moment.

They had nothing to prove out here. There was no one to talk to but each other, and moments of pain couldn't be held in forever. The wilderness was humbling at most, making one realize how vulnerable they were, how weak. Even K had too to admit how scary it could be out here sometimes, the idea that they'd never be rescued or if something bad happened to one of them on this damn island.

Everything they knew vanished, all the hustle and bustle, the luxury, the whirlwind of fame and money.

Gone…

"I know Hiro, I know…" K smoothed a hand over Hiro's wet hair.

Hiro pulled back and with wet grey eyes he studied K's face sadly. Wordlessly they watched each other, neither letting go. It was so comforting to hold onto to someone, for just a moment feeling secure in another person's arms.

Ever so slowly heads came closer and wet lips met. They kissed. It was so soft and needy, warm and hasty but it was fleeting and K pulled back first. He blinked with sudden bewilderment, both of them speechless for a moment. But Hiro pushed himself off quickly and without a word began to head back to camp.

K touched his lips with a wet hand and looked after Hiro who had left him there. He sat there in the surf, wondering what the hell just happened. But he got up and slowly walked back to camp too. He sat down and Hiro handed him banana leaf with cooked fish on it.

"It's a little overcooked but it's still good," Hiro said lightly.

K watched Hiro carefully for a moment but he took the food. "Thanks," he said.

And without another word they ate the fish in complete silence.

A/N: As you have noticed I have put the Month of the year at the beginning of the chapters. This is because I do intend to completely alter K and Hiro's life with a lengthy stay on this island. But I put the months there so I can skip a few months in the story without confusing you, and make the story move along. But as I mentioned, after they become survial experts, thats when the fun starts :P But I wanted to also challenge myself to try and write a story where the human mind is changed, perspectives are changed by having to live in the wild for so long. K and Hiro will be pretty much be the same but can you imagine what this experience would do to you?

Reviewers:

the2evils: --glomps-- WOW you read them all...how cool It's too bad AFF is completely fudged up at the moment. All my stories on there are gone. I contemplated on putting my stories all on Gurabite..hmm I might. But THANK YOU so much, I very happy that you enjoy my writing

GreenEyedFloozy: Yes! I have read or heard of something like this too. The island is holding them captive. It will be a topic of royal debate for Hiro in the future chappies you'll see. But you make a GREAT point and I kind of used this logic a little in the future chapters :P

Dejichan4444: Haha glad you can see the romance, it will grow And as for rescue soon. Oh no, they will be stranded for awhile. It'll be like they don't want to leave XD YAY --hugs-- I'm so glad you are enjoying the story!

Kimika: Thanks for the lovely comments hun and for the fav. Wow two years eh? Well it was cute and fluffy and all that yummy stuff. And no worries about a plot, it'll come to you when you least expect it Yup --big thumbs up-- for HiroxK hehe.