Fourth chapter coming up! Let's see how long I can keep up on this since exams are coming up and I need to study! Plus, I've got a test and presentation tomorrow, a project due the next day, and another project next week. Enjoy.
DISCLAIMER: Don't own
WARNING: AU, mentions of violence and mental breakdown
Entry 4Naruto didn't want to read anymore. He didn't want to hear all the gory details of Shadow's next killing nor the words of his corrupt mind. He slammed the diary shut and ran out of the attic. The blonde heard his mom calling for him, anyway. Maybe dinner would get his mind off of the old pages.
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After a nice dinner, Naruto couldn't concentrate on his homework. His mind lingered back to the diary on the dust-covered floor of the attic. He didn't want to read the details of Shadow's next killings, but his father told him that it would touch him. Well, it couldn't hurt to read a little more, could it?
Jotting down one last thing for the essay he had to do, Naruto walked back upstairs to the attic where the old diary of Shadow was. Sitting cross-legged, Naruto turned to where he left off after the murder of Shadow's parents.
24 March 1999This entry was accompanied with two newspaper clippings. Naruto read the clippings.
At around 5 pm, a man and a woman, both 40 years old, were found dead in their home. The woman had been strangled with a towel and the man had been stabbed in the back with a fruit knife. Witnesses show that they saw a boy run out of the house, but no one could identify him since he was wearing a large jacket with the hood up. If anyone finds anyone suspicious call your local precinct immediately.
Within the article, the words "strangled" and "stabbed" were circled and "dead" was underlined in red. The blonde assumed that it was Shadow's way of showing his victory.
"So that was his first appearance in the media," Naruto thought as he started reading the second article.
This morning, four 9-year-old boys were found in an alley dead. Both had been stabbed with a knife, which killed them instantly. The handprints on the boys' clothes suggest that they were murdered by the same person as the incident on March 9, though police still can't identify the prints. Police are still investigating on the two incidences. Until then, stay alert of anything suspicious.
Underneath the article was an entry by Shadow.
They shouldn't have hit me like that.
Naruto could agree on Shadow's note, but did he have to resort to killing? "This guy has his line of reasoning messed up…"
The blonde flipped to the next page and read the next entry, which didn't contain an article this time, but an ordinary entry.
1 May 1999Well, now that I'm done with THEM, I can go back to living on my own. It still felt good when I killed those boys for bullying me every day.
"So those dead boys were those bullies that he hated." Naruto thought it over and thought that maybe, it wouldn't be so bad to finish reading the diary. Flipping to the next page, the blonde started reading again.
TBC…I'll stop there for now. I've got a plotline that I have to follow so I need to. Review kudasai!