Well, here it is! I hope you enjoy.
DISCLAIMER: Not mine
WARNING: AU, OOC, mentions of violence and mental breakdown
Entry 6For the next several years, Shadow continued to murder people without any specific preference. By the time those entries were past, Naruto had researched a lot on serial killers, something he rarely did in his free time.
Like Shadow, serial killers normally come from abusive families. Most tend to murder to have a feeling of superiority with "cooling" breaks in between. However, most serial killers seemed to be motivated by lust, while Shadow was only out to kill people who dared try to harm him. He seemed to have two of the three characteristics of future serial killers (Killing animals, starting fires), but whether he had the third one (bedwetting after of age), Naruto couldn't tell.
When Naruto returned to the attic, he was surprised to find that he was almost done reading the diary. For someone who doesn't normally read in his free time, this was quite an achievement. Then again, this was no ordinary book. Flipping to the next page, Naruto started reading the last few pages.
11 May 2006I've become a monster, a wild animal so paranoid they kill anything that gets near them. Out of all the killings I've done, only 15 of them were reported. I want to stop, but I can't. It's as if my body is now reacting automatically, and my mind seems to want to kill more.
Why didn't I stop before?
Once again, there was no article indicating any of his killings. Then again, most of the killings weren't reported. However, the blonde noticed that his father had clipped in one other article concerning Shadow. Pulling it out, Naruto started reading his blue eyes widening at the contents it possessed.
11 May 2006Around midnight, a 13-year-old boy was found lying dead in an alley next to the corner store. He was killed instantly with a stab in the abdomen by a switchblade. Next to him was a 12-year-old badly beaten and hanging onto a wallet. Interviews with the boy suggest that the 13-year-old's death was Shadow's doing, but whether he beat the 12-year-old, no one knows.
"Shadow doesn't normally beat up people," says Sergeant Morino Ibiki, "he kills them and goes. If this is indeed the work of Shadow, this is new."
The 12-year-old is currently confined in Tokyo General Hospital recovering from three cracked ribs, a broken arm, and numerous cuts and bruises. Police are still investigating this next Shadow case and it may be a while before they figure it out.
This particular case had struck a personal blow to Naruto as well as nearly the whole class. The twelve-year-old, Gaara, had taken a walk when an upperclassman jumped him, beaten him, and would have raped him had he not have been killed by Shadow. The redhead was injured for a week, and when he fully recovered from the incident, he was bombarded with questions about Shadow. He said he couldn't see Shadow's face, but he saw long, dark hair before he passed out.
The incident had the whole class excited about what Shadow really looked like. Some said that Shadow was a girl; others claim that Shadow was homeless, but no one knows. However, one question kept the class gossiping: why did Shadow not kill Gaara? After all, the redhead couldn't get up, which made him an easy target for a serial killer. If Shadow had the opportunity, why didn't he take it?
That year, Naruto only thought that since the police were coming, or someone heard the commotion, Shadow didn't have the time to finish of Gaara, but now, after reading all the entries about the serial killer being abused by everyone, he finally realized why Shadow spared a boy's life.
"It's because he wanted to help, and because he didn't do anything to him."
-X-
12 June 2006Well, I guess that's the end of the line for me. Thank goodness. I knew I wouldn't be able to survive. I stabbed someone in the back for trying to hit on me, and suddenly, the police came out of nowhere and grabbed me from behind. I got dragged to the police station and was questioned.
I was silent at first, but then, the pressure got down so much I blurted out everything including the murders not reported. After that, I was locked up in a cell, which is where I am now. The walls are cold, and so is floor. There's not much light to see, and I can only hope that I'll live.
Wedged between the pages was another article left by Naruto's father. Pulling the old paper out, the blonde read it squinting to read the faded-out letters.
11 June 2006The serial killer, Shadow, was caught after murdering a homeless man. The police caught him and brought him to the Yamata-Chuo Precinct. It turns out that Shadow was a short, 16-year-old boy who was homeless. He didn't say much about his past except for that he killed some people.
After about 2 hours of silence, he confessed to murdering and hiding 17 other people. He only said one thing that was rendered useless by the police. He said, "I only killed out of self-defense."
Shadow wouldn't tell the authorities his real name or where he came from, but what we do know is that his name is not mentioned on any records at all. He will be tried on 15 June.
"So this is when he was caught," Naruto thought as he scanned the article with deep interest. Still, that didn't explain when he died. There must have been something else.
Naruto flipped to the next page, but it was blank. He tried the next several pages, but those were also blank. He flipped to the end, but nothing. Didn't his father say that the diary had the truth? Then the blonde realized stupidly that he had missed a page. Laughing sheepishly to himself, he found the right page and read.
15 June 2006This is driving me crazy. Everyone here wants to abuse me. I can't take it anymore. I just want to die. Before I do, I told a book that I didn't want to say my name. Well, I guess I do now. I'll tell it everything since it'll be the only one that'll want to know.
I was conceded in an open field, which is why there's no record of me. My parents died on the streets, and THEY found me. After being abused, I killed THEM. After I started murdering, I only murdered people who tried to get near me and try to do the same things THEY did. Then, things got out of hand, and they caught me.
I still remember my mom. She often said that I reminded her of winter. She was amazed as to how well I could stand the cold and blend in.
I hope that whoever reads this knows my name.
My name is…Naruto squinted at the shaky handwriting. There was a bloodstain on the name. However, Naruto could read it clearly. It was a single kanji character. The strokes form two shaky boxes stacked on top of each other with a tick mark on top. The blonde knew the kanji all too well. It meant the exact opposite of what everyone Shadow seemed to them.
White…Then, after he wrote this, he died.
Not a serial killer, but melted like snow... Owari
Well, I hope you enjoyed this! I'm working on another Naruto fic, so be ready! Until then, ja ne!