Disclaimer: Mark: Nope, you guessed it, they don't own RENT or affiliated characters. Do they own Inu Yasha?

Sesshomaru: No, the vile humans own not Inu Yasha, nor me nor Sengoku Jidai, nor anything remotely related to me. But, do they own Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Bable fish: No. Hey! I'm not supposed to talk! Oh well, only Mark can hear me. Do they own anything really?

Ethan: Once upon a time I owned a shoelace, but Kiara stole it. I wonder if she still has it.

Kiara: (defensively) No! We were five years old! Why would I keep it? It's not like I have some obsession with shoelaces, and have a big knot of assorted ones hidden in my closet!

Ethan: Okay... this disclaimer is officially over.

The RENT-tachi (group) had been traveling through the forest for 7 hours when they heard a shrill nasal voice shout "Get back here Rin!"

No sooner had they heard the shout a small girl around the age of eight came tumbling through the bushes and slammed into Mimi.

"Oh sorry Miss, I wasn't expecting you there."

Just then, a small green toad-like creature walked up to the girl, "Don't run off like, Rin. If you continue this reckless behavior, Sesshomaru-sama will punish me."

With that, Rin responded "Sorry Jaken-sama," with a cute little pout, and began to scamper off.

"Hey! Kid! Get back here!" Roger shouted "No one bumps into my girlfriend..." Mimi looked away, a confused-looking Rin, began to walk back "...without me assuring that they're okay," he finished with a smile. When she came over and had assured Roger that she was alright, he began tousled up her hair "Aw, you're so cute!" Everyone was a little bewildered as to why Roger's paternal instincts suddenly began to kick in, but a lot strange things seemed to occur in feudal Japan. Mimi smiled at Roger.

"Aw" she thought, "he wants to have kids. Too bad."

As Roger stood there with the little girl, Rin, in his arms, a tall, ethereal creature appeared out of seemingly nowhere. He closed his hand around Roger's wrist and held it in a bone crushing grip. "Who are you?" the elflike creature said in deadly calm voice. "And what are you doing to my puppy?"

Roger confusedly and ouchingly looked at the "elf" and innocently answers "Just playing."

He was also going to ask what he meant by puppy when Maureen suddenly screamed like a crazy fan girl. "Ohmigosh!! It's Legolas!" she rushed forward and grabbed the man's hand and shook it violently. "I'm like your biggest fan! Can I have you autograph!? Can I have your address!? Can I have your underwear!?" But she quickly shut up after catching Joanne's glare at the underwear comment.

Mark, who was watching the entire incident with a confused expression on his face, felt he must add to the confusion by spilling his brain through his mouth "Fluffy!" he screamed.

All heads turned to Mark in even utterer confusion. Ignoring this he continued. "You're the Lord of the Western Lands of Kyushu! You're Inu- Yasha's older brother, you have a useless sword, an anger problem and really lame attacks like 'Toxic Flower Claw' and 'Whip of Light'."

"He's Inu Yasha's brother? Mark, how do you know this?" Joanne inquired.

"Yes, human," Sesshomaru enquired, "How do you know this?"

"Well see, we're from the future, I read it in the history
books." Mark lied, poorly.

"From the future, like Inu Yasha's wench Kagome?" Mark nodded.

"So, explain what's going on to us." Roger demanded.

"Oh it's simple, really. See deep breath Inu-Yasha was sealed
for 50 years by a priestess named Kikyo but was then released by Kagome, some chick from our time and now they're looking for the broken pieces of the Shikon jewel. Fluffy here is Inu's older half brother. His real name's Sesshomaru, he's a pure blood demon unlike Inu who's only half demon. Both Inu and Fluffy really want to kill each other. Hoping to exploit their hatred for each other the evil bad guy Naraku made a deal with Fluffy to kill Inu and if He succeeded, Naraku would give Fluffy a new arm to replace the one Inu had severed in their last battle. But Fluffy failed and now he wants to kill Naraku." He took another breath. "Come to think of it ... Hey Collins, didn't you say that the guy who sent us was called Naraku? I wonder if they're related..."

"You were sent by Naraku?" Sesshomaru enquired.

"Yes, is that bad?" Collins questioned.

"Yeah, he's evil." Mark answered nonchalantly. Turning to Sesshomaru, he asked "So what are you doing?"

"I'm on my way to kill Inu Yasha." He responded.

"Well, we have no mission now. Can we come with you?" Mimi asked.

Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed, "No," he said coldly and turned to go. But he suddenly paused debating in his head, "Bigger tachi are more intimidating, are they not. I guess I could use them around. Plus, the vile creatures might provide me with comic relief." He turned around to meet Mimi's puppy dog expression. "Fine, you may come. Just, don't do anything stupid.

"Too late for him," Benny thought about The Man. Benny found himself thinking about The Man a lot lately. Do we smell slash? "No you don't!" Benny tried to assure the authors, but we're not fooled, we know we do.

They continued on for a little while until it began to grow dark. "Sesshomaru-sama, I'm tired," Rin said with another puppy dog expression. Sesshomaru decided it was time to stop, and ordered everyone to rest. They set up camp (Naraku gave the humans tents so they wouldn't die), and lit fires. Collins caught Angel up on what was happening, while Mark walked around camp, filming the scenery, but no people. Roger and Mimi watched Rin while Sesshomaru surveyed the surrounding land.

A lost maiden from the nearest, yet still far off village saw the smoke and wandered up to camp. Mark spotted the beauty and decided to catch her on film. But as soon as the camera was on her, she collapsed. "Maybe the camera is cursed," Mark thought with an evil grin. Sesshomaru witnessed the whole ordeal.

"Put down that contraption!" He said as he drew one of the swords a his waist.

"Ooo! Tenseiga!" Mark said in awe.

Sesshomaru lifted the sword high and brought it down on Mark's camera. Both the souls that had been trapped in the camera flew out upon contact with the magic sword. The camera then shattered into thousands of pieces, but reassembled itself a second later. Mark gawked at his now no longer cursed camera. "What'd you do?" he asked.

The object you hold in front of your face all the time was possessed by a mononoke (evil spirit). I merely preformed and exorcism it with my Tenseiga." Sesshomaru paused and looked at Mark's face. He hadn't really seen him without the camera before, but now that he saw him without it he had to stop to admire the strong face with features that you'd never find in Japan in this period in history. That chiseled jaw line, those light pink li-

"Cool!" Mark replied, looking up from the camera to Sesshomaru. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Sesshomaru blinked then his eyes narrowed once again. "I'm the lord of the western lands I can look at whoever I want, whenever I want, however I want."

"Okay, okay, just asking, didn't mean to offend. Well, um, thanks for fixing my camera." Mark brought the camera to his eye and began filming again. Was it his imagination or was Fluffy really sexy when viewed through the camera? His tall slender form, that long flowing silver hair, those golden eyes, his blue-

"Get that thin out of face, human." Sesshomaru said trying to sound like his usual stern self but Mark noticed a softness in his voice.

Mark smiled, "'Kay Fluffy." He put the camera down. "I guess I'll go to bed now. G'night."

The next morning:

Mark woke up with smile still on his face though he didn't know why. Sesshomaru was already up pacing around camp. When Mark found him he smiled more, and once again he wouldn't admit to himself why. After a little while everyone was up and camp was down. And they trudged on to find Inu Yasha.

After a wile Rin grew tired, but just then a two headed dragon named Aun appeared and Rin climbed on his back, but Rin didn't want to be separated from her new friends, and motioned for Mimi and Roger to climb aboard behind her. "Yay, we get to ride a dragon!" Roger exclaimed.

After another few hours, the skinny, weak Mark grew tired as well. "I'm not used to doing stuff all day," he stated tiredly, "my legs hurt." Suddenly Sesshomaru felt bad for the weakling, something he'd never felt before. Sesshomaru turned into his true demon form, a gigantic white dog with a blue moon crescent on the forehead and red stripes around the mouth. He signaled for Mark to climb onto his back.

As they continued on, Maureen grew tired as well. "Joanne, I'm tired. Carry me!" she whined.

Joanne gave her a "You must be kidding," look. Maureen continued whining, finally Sesshomaru couldn't take it anymore, and let her climb on board too. Mark was about to get off so as no to put too much strain on his Fluffy (wait his Fluffy? When did that happen?) but Fluffy growled.

"Silly human," he thought "I'd never make my Marky walk. Wait my Marky? When did that happen?" Sesshomaru (Fluffy) was utterly confused. He had never given an affectionate nickname to a human before. He had never given an affectionate nickname period. What was it about this foreign time traveler that captivated him so? Fluffy was determined to find out.

Authors' note: We promise there will be more romance next chapter. To our one reader/reviewer: WE LOVE YOU! Any comments/suggestions/criticisms/even flames are welocome!