Humans Are Worse Than Dogs

"Actually, you can choose not to become dogs." Lin's voice made Yamanaka Feng's eyes light up again.

But like a lightbulb about to burn out, that brief flicker was merely a final flash before he met his fate.

"You can choose another animal. As long as Sasuke or Sarada likes it, it doesn't have to be a dog." Lin smiled and stood up.

Her sandals slapped against the floor, and the dog leash was pulled taut. The dog was no longer useful, so she needed to take him back to the basement.

"You can think it over carefully here..." Lin opened the basement door again and walked inside.

"Uchiha Itachi, I don't want to become a dog." Yamanaka Feng turned his head and said solemnly, "If you have any better ideas, bring them out quickly. Don't get lost in this false world..."

"Unless there is no other choice, I will not choose that..."

But Uchiha Itachi truly had no solution. After seeing what he looked like, and then seeing Obito's condition, he increasingly felt that this was not the future—not the future he had hoped for.

Konoha appeared to be at peace. Everyone seemed to have found their place, and everything seemed to have gotten better. Yet the better everything became for everyone except him, the more wrong it felt.

He had just been considering how people became animals or corpses. When he saw Lin's sinister smile, he had nearly begun denying himself. But when he turned back and looked at Yamanaka Feng, he found that this Root ninja was even more resolute than he was.

Or perhaps, in this world, Yamanaka Feng had always been more resolute than him. Much of the talking, negotiating, and thinking here had been done by Yamanaka Feng.

From the moment Sarada appeared, he