Insane

Hooray! Welcome to a follow-up to 'Desire'. Recently I have felt the urge to do more Pein x Itachi, so here it is. Fluff alert.

Enjoy….

Pein was insane; he had realized this many times and had been reminded of it in many ways. His foremost reminder was Uchiha Itachi. Itachi was also insane; how could anyone who had killed their entire family not be? But this made all the difference to Pein. Because they were both crazy they could understand each other.

Itachi knew that when Pein was on top of the statue, surveying Ame, it wasn't the Pein who loved him; it was the Pein who was their leader. Just as Pein knew that when Itachi was manic and pushed him away, it wasn't personal and it wasn't done to be cruel, it was just that Itachi had problems with being emotionally attached to people and every now and then he needed to leave him, to make sure he was still independent, even though he would always come back and cling to Pein again, returning to their bed to snuggle under the blankets, claiming that he was cold. But when Itachi came back Pein would smile in the darkness, holding the teen and knowing that in reality Itachi had been over-warm and that Pein had been the cold one, just as Itachi would be there for Pein when he came down from the statue, needing to be reminded that he was human, not the God of Amegakure.

But they loved each other, truly, madly, deeply. They needed each other to survive, healing each other's hearts and giving support.

So when Itachi was manic, or recovering from mania, Pein never sent him out on long missions, keeping him at the base and helping him calm down, the Uchiha would sit on his lap while he did paperwork, helping Pein by using his extremely bright mind to better complete the convoluted forms, and generally being the most beautiful thing in the Akatsuki Leader's office. And when Pein needed human contact, to be warm and needed, Itachi stayed with him, dragging him to their bed and stripping off their cloaks, tucking Pein into bed and opening the window, letting in the cool breeze, before climbing into bed himself, being Pein's warmth and holding his body to the world of the living while his mind wandered far away. So when Pein started moving again, and his hands went from being inert to roaming Itachi's body, the Uchiha would smile slightly, an expression so small and so quick that even Pein had never seen it. And Pein would wonder what he had done right to have earned the most beautiful lover in the world.

Sometimes Itachi would have nightmares, visions of his past would come back to haunt him in hallucinations that would seem more than real, specters of the acts he committed as an ANBU officer and of what he had done in Akatsuki. The older Uchiha would cling to Pein even harder, terrified of his past, of the numbering of the dead. But Pein was there and he woke Itachi from his fitful slumber, gathering Itachi into his arms, the Uchiha would be calm again. And even though he hated to see his lover suffer, Pein would smile, because it felt wonderful to be needed.

Other times Pein would stay away from Itachi, hidden somewhere in the base, dreading seeing the ex-Konoha ninja. Because each time he switched bodies he was afraid that Itachi would leave him, appalled by the change in his physical appearance. But Pein's appearance never bothered Itachi, and each time Pein 'changed' the Uchiha would track him through the base until he finally found his commander, usually on top of the statue, and Itachi would go to him and show him that he still loved him, whatever form he might take.

Someone else would have called them insane, but no one in Akatsuki dared, most of them were just as crazy anyway.

End chapter
Again dedicated to TehGlompingKitsune45, I read 'teh punishment' XD it was awesome!! (and vereh smexeh)

So, I've decided to make this a drabble collection instead of just a one-shot, good for me i suppose...?

Well R&R, if you please!

Flamers can go to hell and kiss Zabuza's ass.