Still with this and I'm still going. Thanks for reviewing! I hope that I can finish this with maybe 10-15 chapters so I've got a ways to go. But, as Naruto says, Believe it! Enjoy.

DISCLAIMER: Kishimoto owns this awesome series and it is not I

WARNING: AU, OOC, mentions of violence, abuse, and mental breakdown

PAIRINGS: None (Not everyone loves romance)

NOTE: In some people's reviews, they were thinking that Sasuke or Itachi were Shadow. I'm not sure if either of them will be, but as a hint, Shadow is quite anti-social.

Entry 2 31 July 1997

Today, I heard the older kids saying two words: superior and inferior. When I got home, I asked the nice lady next door about it. She said they were opposites: superior was the higher person and inferior was the lower person. I want to be the superior for once. I've seen the older boys do it. They do that with animals. Maybe I should try that.

Animals? What does that have to do with being superior? Naruto thought as he flipped to the next entry. This entry was different from all the others before it. Attached to the short, scrawny, entry was a photograph taken using a disposable camera.

The blonde couldn't help but look away in disgust. The legs of a mouse had been ripped out of their sockets showing the tendon. Blood was pooling out of several stab marks in the side and the eyes, oh yuck!

Naruto quickly covered the macabre image with his sleeve and started reading the entry while trying to get that gruesome image out of his mind.

16 August 1997

So this is what superior feels like. It feels so good, and yet, it felt so awful. I don't know why, but it did. It still felt good though. I liked HER reaction when she saw it.

Yeah, his mom's reaction when she saw a dead mouse, gross! Naruto thought as he flipped to the next page. What he saw was another cheap picture, this time a spider with its legs ripped out and the guts spilling. The blonde quickly flipped to the next page without bothering to read the entry only to find another mangled image of an insect. He kept flipping the pages until he stopped at a short entry this time accompanied with a less disturbing picture.

The picture itself was drawn instead of photographed. Although the picture was drawn with the skill of a seven-year-old, it was clear enough to know what it was. There were tubes, each labeled as a different type of liquid. Written in scrawny handwriting at the bottom of each tube were:

Sand, sake, water, milk, and vodka

Below that was a chart of timings from fifteen to twenty seconds. In the first column was a list of the names of small animals ranging from insects to mice. It took Naruto only a moment to realize what all the chicken scratch and chart was about. Shadow was timing how fast those animals drowned in different things!

This guy really is psychotic! Naruto thought as he slammed the old diary shut before dashing out of the attic and down the stairs. All those macabre-like images were making his stomach churn along with the undigested ramen he ate.

-X-

After spewing out his lunch, Naruto weakly climbed back up the ladder. Despite all the horrible images of mangled animals, he still wanted to read it. It's not like Shadow was into mangling people, or was he?

Flipping through until he found the first entry after the one with the stats of drowning times.

9 March 1998

It's my birthday today, but THEY didn't seem to care. The teacher was nice enough to give me a cookie, but then that bully took it during lunch. Then this nice girl gave me her ribbon. I thought it was nice of her since no one gave me a present. I've seen other kids on their birthdays. They bring cupcakes for their friends and their friends give them balloons.

It was nice of that girl to give me a present, but she's moving tomorrow. That's always my life, the nice people leave.

So his birthday's on March 9, thought Naruto after reading the entry. Hm, maybe I can find his name somewhere. And I know the right person to do it.

-X-

"You want me do what?" a girl with pink hair asked in surprise.

"Can you please find someone's name by birthday, Sakura?" Naruto asked clasping his hands together.

"And why do you want me to do this, Naruto?" Sakura said putting her hands on her hips. "Sure, I can find someone's name by birthday, but millions of people might have the same birthday. If you give me other information such as this person's age, gender, anything like that, I'll find it."

"This person is sixteen, lived in Japan, born on March 9, and died last year," the blonde recited from a piece of paper he brought with him. He knew he was going to forget, anyway.

"Okay, I'll try."

Opening her laptop, Sakura hacked into a database of people's names in a flash. She typed in all the information Naruto told her and searched.

The teen gasped. There were no mentions of Shadow's name! No deceased sixteen-year-old was listed in the largest name database on the Web!

"Are you sure you got the right information, Naruto?" Sakura inquired turning her head to look at Naruto.

"I'm sure!" Naruto replied. "I even double-checked!

"Well, if you can get the right information, come back and maybe I'll be able to help you," Sakura replied closing her laptop before walking away leaving Naruto racking his brains about the results.

This can't be! How can Shadow not be listed in the database? Unless… Naruto thought. There was no official record of him.

TBC…

Well, hoped you enjoy it. Review kudasai. I'll be a man and suck up flames too. Oh, by the way, guess who else's birthday is on March 9 (Hint: This person worked on the anime)