"SHUT UP." Pein groaned, still in his sleeping position.
"Sir Leader! Seriously!!" Hidan slapped Pein's ass at his attempt to get his boss up.
"Stop fucking screaming! I've got enough of a splitting headache as it is! Who the hell is screaming and WHY."
"Something's wrong with Mother!! Seriously!!" Pein looked up groggily to see Hidan leaping up and down like a toddler, pointing to the corner of the room. Hidan was right. Something WAS wrong with the Uchiha Boy.
Itachi was curled up facing the wall. Kisame was panicking. Konan was screaming.
Pein looked closer. Blood was dribbling down Itachi's hand onto the already disgusting carpet. Itachi was muttering something, but Pein couldn't hear because of his fiancé's screaming.
"KONAN. SHUT UP." Pein barked sharply.
"B-but Itachi… He's…" She shivered.
"He's gone crazy. That's all. He simply hurt himself with a knife or something. Who was the first one up?" Pein sat up and looked around to see Deidara and Zetsu still sleeping.
"I was the first one to notice." Kakuzu raised his had sympathetically.
"He's not responding to anything. I'm getting really scared. What's wrong with him?" Kisame's beady eyes darted from one Akatsuki to the other, sweat forming at his brow.
"And what did you notice?"
"Itachi was trembling. I think he was crying, earlier. Now he's just hurting himself, poor Emo." Kakuzu shook his head as if ashamed to be a comrade of the Uchiha.
"I don't want to." Itachi sat up and whipped his eyes.
"You don't want to what, Itachi?" Kisame hugged his lover close. Both shinobi were trembling.
"I just don't want to. Kisame? Is that you?" Itachi looked around dazed. "Were are we? Konan? Are you alright? You look like someone just died."
"Itachi? What is up with you?" Pein was sitting up, fully awake now.
"I don't understand what you mean. Nothing's up with me. Shouldn't we be getting ready for the festival? Come on. You guys are lazy." Itachi pulled away from the Mist nin who was completely confused.
"Um… yeah… I guess so… Are you sure you're okay?" Pein was just as confused as Kisame.
"Yes. I probably just had a bad dream. That's all. Lets go." Itachi wiped the blood off of his hand.
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I'm just as weirded out as you are, don't worry. I'll get around to what happened to him later, in case you care. Please review!! I want creative criticism!!