Pein paced across the room. Itachi would be home any minute now, and he had to break the news. Oh, he didn't want to do this. He belonged with Itachi. When he was around the young man he felt whole and warm, Itachi's candle-like love radiating everywhere into everything. Itachi was special, and you'd have to be an idiot to give that up. And Itachi needed Pein, too, at least Pein liked to think so. Itachi leaned on Pein for comfort and support, and Pein was more than happy to give it to him.
And when they made love, oh! the way the world fell into place! Everything was right when they were merging together in body like they already had in soul. No one could ever ask for anything more than to have Itachi's beautiful body underneath them and moving with them the way it did. Itachi was naturally quiet in the bedroom, but his few mewls and whimpers were heaven's beckons. He was perfect, and so was the relationship he had cultivated with Pein.
Except…
Pein shook his head. He couldn't afford to think about this anymore. This was for Itachi. If the rival gangs ever tracked Pein down like they had Kakuzu, then they would kill Itachi in the same brutal and torturous way they had killed his member's little girl. Pein wasn't willing to risk Itachi's life, he just couldn't be. The door opened, and Pein steeled himself. He took a deep breath, breathing in Itachi's scent and trying to use pain to etch it into his mind so he could never forget. He turned.
"Itachi," he said, and Itachi paused in taking off his shoes. He obviously heard Pein's tone. "I'm leaving."
Itachi's eyes slowly widened as he discovered what Pein meant. He looked like someone who had just lost everything but was still so in shock they didn't realize it yet. Pein took advantage of that and stepped forward, tilting Itachi's chin up and just barely brushing their lips together, letting himself just hang on the moment as thin as a spider's thread. Then he pulled back and smiled sweetly down at his stunned lover, his eyes swimming in tears.
"Goodbye, Itachi," he said. Then he slipped out the door and was gone from that place, from that person that he loved so truly dearly.
Out in the parking lot, he heard sudden loud, screamed sobs coming from the apartment complex and smiled again with all the pain of an eternity in his soul. He let his fingertips dance lightly across his lips where he could still feel their lingering kiss. Then he got in his car and drove far, far away, leaving behind those echoing, terrible cries.