Be My Lapdog!

That figure stood half a step behind her, looking down at her curled up on the ground. A smile slowly tugged at his lips.

"Making a deal with Danzo was asking a tiger for its skin. This was always how it would end!"

"Brainless fool!"

Yakushi Nonō whipped her head around.

Moonlight spilled through a gap at the mouth of the alley and fell across the figure's face.

Black hair, black eyes, and a mocking half-smile.

Uchiha Yongye.

Her pupils contracted. Instinctively, she shrank back, her back striking the wall. Her ashen fingers left several gray marks on it.

Shock churned in her eyes for a moment, then gave way to something more complicated.

Her eyes darted twice. She pressed her lips together, then relaxed them.

"That Man in Black just now was you!"

"You used a Sharingan Genjutsu. No wonder you took me down in an instant!"

Yongye leaned against the alley wall, hands in his pockets, looking down at her.

"Correct."

He nodded, his smile widening.

"You're a fool overall, but you do have a little wit."

At that, Yakushi Nonō's face darkened. A cold snort escaped her throat.

"Stealing a fellow Uchiha's Sharingan? You're the real genius. I could never compare!"

Yongye looked at her, his smile unchanged.

"One compliment, and you show your true colors again. Like I said, you really are a fool!"

He spoke without hurry, drawing out every word in a lazy drawl.

"And not just stupid. You're rotten, too!"

"Who dug out Shisui Uchiha's eyes?"

"Me?"

Yakushi Nonō lowered her head.

Her lips moved, closed, then moved again.

"I was forced to."

"If I refused, Danzo would have killed... every orphan at the Orphanage!"

"Danzo has no humanity. If he says he'll do it, he will."

Yongye watched her with a cold,