Kindling

Madara came to with a toe poking him in the side (avoiding his broken ribs, huh, that was thoughtful), he groaned deeply (fuck this hurt) and the light over him changed (they were blocking the sun from his face now too, weird) until someone spoke “Are you going to wake up Uchiha-sama?” (huh, not one of his clan then) he groaned again, honestly not able to gather the energy to respond better than that. A sigh over him and the sound of cloth and metal moving, a hand on his forehead (he should probably be worried about eye stealers shouldn’t he?) and cool chakra sliding through him in an almost orgasmic rush; “Well, you’re rather badly off aren’t you.” Another sigh “I suppose I’ll have to patch you up; brother will never forgive me if I don’t will he.” Madara whimpered as the hand vanished, it was so lovely and cool and wonderful and please come back! “Good lord, hold still, I’m not carrying you with your armor on, or mine for that matter. Give me a moment” to words didn’t penetrate the painful haze over his mind or the twisting ache in his body spiking as hands moved over him “Shhh, hush now, just a moment, shhh, easy Uchiha, damn it, why are you in so much pain anyway? Shhh, easy bright hawk, almost done now. Ahh, there that’s the last of it, give me a moment to store it and I’ll take a look at you.”

Madara clung to the soft words, the way the voice got gentler as it went, and hands smoothed down what little skin was unmarred in a comforting caress. And then the chakra was back overwhelming his mind with the cool rise of power over his skin and drowning out the soft words he could still hear dimly- talking about his wounds?- and letting his mind float on the sudden change of sensation; going from searing pain to the cool floating was overwhelming almost to the point of a new kind of pain. Time twisted out of his grasp, flickering in fort of him like a sliver-red fish – except, maybe that was something else, were his eyes open? He blinked and he saw a flash of red and white and then a hand pressed over his eyes coaxing then shut “None of that bright hawk, I don’t know what they did to your eyes but that can’t comfortable, I need to take care of your chest first though. Fuck this sucks, why are you so cute when you can’t yell?” there was a change in the chakra and then sweet relief swept over him and his mind was swept away, the pain still an echoing sound outside the sudden protection around his mind, he knew distantly that it would hurt later- knew that it did still hurt- but be could hardly care with the presence wrapped around him.

“There, that’ll do for now, let’s get you somewhere less exposed, I’d rather not patch you up and then loose you when someone else comes along and distracts me. fuck you’re heavy, why do you have to have so much muscle? Yes, I know, that silly weapon of yours- I have it too, don’t move Uchiha, you’ll hurt yourself- but still. On the other hand it does mean your ass is fantastic. I’m so glad you’re not going to remember this” there was a pause and Madara whined, fright slipping past the protective mind wrapped around him- what if they were gone? What if he was alone? Madara hated to be alone and was so often- “shit, easy bright hawk, I’m right here, not leaving you alone, you’re alright – or well, you will be, but I’ll be right here until you feel better.”