Warning: yaoi, may be swearing, incest

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha

Random quote:

"Sometimes… when I laugh…I pee a little." –Amelia, my older sister. (yes, there are more of me, unfortunately)

Sesshomaru gently carried the unconscious Inuyasha into the water until he was about waist deep in it. Then, he started to slowly clean the hanyou's wounds.

Sesshomaru's POV

I cleaned my brother's, no, half-brother's wounds as carefully as I could manage. The blood had clotted leaving ugly red marks all over his perfect skin. Just looking at it made me angrier than I've been in a long time. Naraku is going to pay for this, dearly.

As I was thinking of ways to slowly kill Naraku and washing Inuyasha's wounds he began to moan. He seemed to be having some kind of nightmare. The moon was high in the sky as I carried him out of the water and to the river bank. Moonlight doesn't seem to be as much a part of him as it is me. No, he's more a child of the sun, it fits.

I dressed him in the top part of my kimono. I'm taller so it went down to about his mid-thigh. I left him lying at the base of a nearby tree off the bank wrapped in my bowa while I walked around sensing for any threats. He was still in heat and that would attract other demons. In his current state he couldn't fight them off by himself and he might end up worse than he is now. I would not stand for that in the slightest.

For some reason a voice in the back of my mind is telling me I could take care of that easily. I push that out of my mind. Although the idea doesn't disgust me as much as it probably should I don't think he feels like that toward me.

After the search for any other demons comes up fruitless I can make my way back to watch over my brother. I make my way back to find the hanyou whimpering in his sleep. I suppose that nightmare has intensified by the look of fear marring his features.

For some reason I feel the need to comfort him. I kneel down and lightly stroke his hair. This seems to quiet him and he leans into my touch. I sit next to him and take him in my arms leaning against the tree.

No one can get you now, brother. Not while I'm here.

Inuyasha's POV

I don't want to wake up. Ever. It's warm here and for some reason I feel safe. But I'm starting to hurt. Everywhere, it seems. Then the pain in my lower stomach that I was feeling yesterday comes back with a vengeance. I gasp, biting my lip in pain, and open my eyes.

How the hell did I get here? I remember this pain and running away from the others. Then my meeting with Naraku…I must have passed out.

The pain finally subsides and I notice that I'm leaning against someone. Immediately I tense. It doesn't smell like Naraku, it's more familiar, but who? Then it hits me and I turn my head slowly to confirm.

Sesshomaru.

Now I notice the river and my damp hair, along with my change in clothes. How the hell did he find me? Why would he help me?

He looks so peaceful when he's asleep. Wait, where did that come from? I should probably be fighting for my life right now, but instead I'm wrapped in his arms. (A/N: he's got both arms in this fic, get over it)

Normal POV

Sesshomaru felt Inuyasha stir in his arms and slowly opened his eyes. The look on the hanyou's face was priceless, Sesshomaru almost smiled. Almost. He could tell that Inuyasha had figured out what had happened. Suddenly the half-breed clutched his stomach and rolled away from his brother. A barely audible moan escaped his lips as the pain subside after a few moments.

"Are you alright, Inuyasha?" asked Sesshomaru. Inuyasha turned around in surprise. His brother, one of the most feared of youkai, who had fought with him on several occasions, had just asked about his health?

Inuyasha, not knowing how to deal with this previously undiscovered side of his older brother answered with sarcasm. "Do I look like I'm alight?"

"You don't look so bad, considering what you've gone been through."

Inuyasha's eyes darkened at the mention of 'what he'd been through.' Sesshomaru just looked at him not fazed by the death glare his little brother was giving him. After a few minutes of a pointless stare down that Inuyasha was losing, Sesshomaru stood.

"Where're you going?" Inuyasha asked in a not too friendly tone.

"I'm going to find something to eat, care to join me?" Inuyasha nodded and they sped off into the forest, quickly tracking down a herd of deer. As they were finishing their meal, Inuyasha thought he heard something. Knowing his brother had better hearing than himself he turned to Sesshomaru.

"Your friends are looking for you," Sesshomaru answered the unspoken question. "Go, I have to return to Rin." Inuyasha nodded and sped off in the direction of the now louder voices. Sesshomaru mentally told himself to check on him later as he returned to camp.