Elements
He is one of the few people who knew that Itachi's primary chakra-type was Water.
When Pein found out he was understandably surprised but in some ways vindicated, he had always wondered why he and Itachi had always seemed to go together, agreeing in opinions and tastes and habits. Before he found out he had always thought that Itachi was fire-oriented, as most of the people in his family were. Afterwards he realized that fire was Itachi's secondary chakra type, some time later he found out that Itachi had a third chakra affinity: earth. He was understandingly baffled as to how someone with such contrary chakra affinities could be so calm. Sure, he himself could access all six chakra types, but that's just because of the Rinnegan.
Once he worked up the courage and asked Itachi, the Sharingan master just looked at him for a while, and he didn't know what it was in those eyes but Pein had the distinct feeling of being judged. And then Itachi had smiled slightly, just a nearly-nonexistent quirk of the lips and answered his question.
"It balances me actually…"
One of Pein's eyebrows rose to meet his hairline. Itachi's eyes laughed at him.
"It's like a cycle, the fire hardens the earth, the earth dams the water, and the water puts out the fire." Itachi's eyes had taken on a distant quality, Pein would have guessed Itachi's eyes were unfocused but it was so hard to tell when his eyes were so dark, Iris against Pupil and he couldn't tell where one ended and the other began.
"They go on like that and it balances me, I gain a piece of insight from each one, and sometimes the balance is reversed and I see things in an entirely new way. The water soaks through the earth, the earth puts out the fire, the fire dries up the water. It just depends." Those eyes were clear again, back in the present, they were focused on Pein once again, and the Akatsuki's leader could only sit and stare at his love. In a way it was one of the most nonsensical things he had ever heard, it also put things in place in such a way that, for once, he completely understood his lover. And he was amazed by what he found, thinking of things that had happened and things that Itachi had done, he realized how delicate the balance really was. It made him happy, because he realized just how much Itachi needed him, Pein smiled. He had been so afraid, Itachi had seemed like such a self-sufficient creature, like he could just discard Pein and find someone new, but the raven-haired Uchiha had told him this, this thing that was equivalent to baring his soul.
So Pein smiled and Itachi's eyes laughed at him, and Pein knew he really had someone special.
Ack! So short! But at least it's something, I haven't written anything for awhile so I'm just getting back into the swing of things.
Anyway, this is based on the fact that I found a site that claimed Itachi's primary chakra affinity was water, so I just took it and ran with it, it is also based on the fact that I think that each chakra type has certain personality traits associated with it, which would explain how Itachi would be unbalanced if he really did have an affinity to water, fire and earth.
As everyone is probably aware Pein and Itachi are painfully OOC, but bear with me, if I used their real characters I don't think this story would have come so far.
I also recently tried to learn to tap dance but the studio turned me away, they said that dancing like Ruby Keeler had gone out of style sixty years ago…(cries).
R&R, please!
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