My name is Shisui Uchiha.
I will most likely be dead and gone before anyone can read this.
But they exist.
Mer-people, or whatever...they exist. They do.
I met one. Well, not met. I saw it. I swear.
This is not a joke, please believe me. I want people to know the truth.
They're after me because I know.
I have evidence. A lot of evidence. A lot more than scientists, or doctors, or the fucking government.
I know it all.
I have it all.
And even after I'm gone, I want somebody to know that they existed.
He existed.
If you read this and know where I live, go to the coast and tell them to go. To leave. They will understand you. Just tell them that people will come and they will harm them. Bring the key to this diary kept in my bedside drawer and hold it up on the plateu like cliff above the water. You'll see them come to the shore. Approach them slowly with your palms raised, keeping the key in sight. Tell them I sent you, and tell them to leave and never come back.
Enclosed is every picture I took, every video, every spear head that he showed me. Everything! I don't want his sacrifice to go to waste.
You can call it all fake, but I want him to live on.
I want to live on.
I don't want to die.
That was the last diary entry Shisui ever wrote. It was kept in his journal beneath his mattress and writen in a way that suggested urgency. Inside, there were several bits and pieces of what is assumed to be spears, all consisting of bone and sediment, some containing traces of fish found in the area. There are contraband photographs, videos, and recordings of what seems to be high-pitched and rapid examples of a dolphin's echolocation. They appear to be legitimate through the simple fact that he posessed at the time of photography no capability of fradulating such evidence. This evidence has been captured by the U.S. Government and Homeland Security for safekeeping lest such accusations be leaked to the public. Shisui himself was captured and interrogated as to the wherabouts of the mermaids he proported to be real. After failing to comply with the interrogators several times and attempting to escape, a bribe was attempted for him to keep this information silent.
He refused the bribe and threatened to leak everything if released. In return, he was promptly dealt with. His last words, which are most worrying for those behind the apprehension and eradication of the evidence of amphibious humans, were, "Others know."
The search is currently on for whoever "others" denotes, and they, when found, are scheduled for immediate execution or appeasement by financial or material means.
The prime suspect is thought to be Shisui's little sister, Kimsong Uchiha, who went missing shortly after Shisui Uchiha was detained, along with the key to the confiscated journal. She is still missing two years later.
The investigation showed no live traces of humanoid life in the waters near their home West of Cape Disappointment, Washington, though evidence was found through abandoned spear heads and a single corpse showing signs of aquatic influence on genetics. This was confiscated and assumed to be the singular being Shisui Uchiha wrote of in previous entries, the hypothesis being pulled from what appears to be a necklace around the aquatic individual's neck matching the necklace that Shisui Uchiha wore at the time of is not thought to be coincidence, as one entry states "...as a peace offering, I brought him the other necklace that came with the one I bought the other day. I guess we're friends because he allowed me to put it on his neck only after I showed him the one on mine..." (Page 8, lines 12-13)
There is no current estimate on how many citizens may or may not know of Shisui Uchiha's findings. There is speculation that it is a bluff and there is no evidence that has been released to the public.
Shisui Uchiha's death has been released as suicide by drowning to the public, and a closed-casket funeral was held. His death has been questioned by the public, but never speculated on to the point of threat of discovery. Until the U.S. Government has reason to fear the revelation of amphibious beings, with Shisui Uchiha's death, is in danger of being revealed, it is surmised the secret is safe.
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A/N: Written before my birthday dinner at Thai Palace.
After watching the documentary on Animal Planet about mermaids (Which I believe in wholeheartedly), I formed the idea in my head. It was intended to be longer and include his diary entries, but I've decided against it, as I have much more to work on. If enough people respond with reviews saying they want more, I will probably begin writing it, but until then, it is an idea in my head.
Any questions about the story, I will be sure to respond to~ Feel free to PM me!
-The Mythological Nakano