Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni: Nan Demo-Hen

Prologue

Whatever you love and want
Or whoever it is
Do not let it make your sanity wilt
Or Tragedy happens

-Frederica Bernkastel

MION POV

I woke up early, got showered and dressed up in my school uniform. Another new yet usual day at school with a newcomer to the village I live in.

His name is Keiichi Maebara, a brown haired boy who is kind and hot-blooded.

I walked to the direction of the school, where we usually meet, with my friend Rena Ryugū... A mysterious yet a good friend of mine.

"Good morning Kei-Chan~! How ya doing?" I greeted him.

"Felt good, like usual. How about you?" He replied warmly.

"Oh, I felt GREAT Kei-Chan! Look how much I growed!" I teased him with my chest, which is big which is mainly a perverted man's target.

"You're being too big. Rena on the other hand is in the correct size..."

"Wha- Mine is better? Really, Really?" Are her first words I heard from her today.

I chuckled at the cuteness of her behavior.

And we walked to school safely... Or so that we thought...

When we were about to enter our classroom, Kei-Chan went in first, and he tripped on a tripwire which made a whole toolbox above him fall on his head.

He instantly got sent to the ground with Rena tending after him.

"Keiichi-Kun! A-Are you OK!?"

I chuckled, before hearing another laughter, a loud one.

"OHOHOHO! How's that for not being able to focus for God knows how many time it is!?" It came from a little girl with short blonde hair, her name is Satoko Hojō.

She has an older brother named Satoshi who disappeared mysteriously a year ago. Nobody knew where he went.

Then I heard a cheerful voice saying "Mii~ Don't worry Keiichi-San! That'll heal up pretty soon, Nipah~!"

The little girl with long purple hair, and she is the shrine maiden of the Oyashiro Shrine... Her name is Furude Rika, everyone respected her.

"Satoko! You're going too far this time! Keiichi-Kun might've got a major concussion from that!" Rena yelled out crying cutely with Keiichi in her arms.

It almost looked like we were watching a very anti-climatic drama.

I sighed joyfully.

"Well, Rena... Rika-Chan is right! He can heal up from that!"

Silence.

This is odd, usually she answered.

"Oh yeah... Tomorrow's Watanagashi... Today's club meeting will be dodgeball everyone!" I yelled to Rika, Satoko, Rena and Kei-Chan.

"What's Watanagashi?" Keiichi asked.

"Oh yeah, you're new here... Well it's a festival... To worship Oyashiro-Sama!"

"I've heard of that name... Is he some sort of... This land's god?"

"Mii~ That's correct!" Rika gave a thumbs up.

Rena however... She was silent throughout our conversation. I decided to shrug it off. She must've been still tired from her treasure hunting in the scrapyard yesterday.

A few hours later... Club activity

The whole club is in the field, team A consists of me, Rika and Satoko who became the keeper.

Team B consists of Kei-Chan, Rena, and my twin sister Shion, who coincidentally came just in time to fill in the position as the team's keeper.

As the match started with the ball being in Satoko's hand first, she passed it to me, before I threw a non-serious shot at Kei-Chan, which he easily catched.

"You're being serious aren't you!?" He asked.

"I'm about to!" I replied.

He then jumped into the air and made a power throw which I dodged and Satoko caught it, with her whole strength she threw it back at Kei-Chan who is still frozen due to the recoil.

The ball is flying right to his chest, if it hits he gets eliminated.

I grinned as I pumped my fist, confident that it might hit.

However suddenly...

*BLAM*

Out of the blue, Rena stepped in, and the ball hits her straight in the head shielding Kei-Chan. Rena was sent straight to the ground as a result.

Kei-Chan caught the ball that was going upwards after getting a head-on collision with Rena earlier, he then threw it at Rika which hits her stomach, and it ricocheted to my position, hitting me in my legs, eliminating me too.

Score one for Team B.

Throughout the next 3 rounds it has been the same. Rena shielding Kei-Chan from the ball and getting her head hit repeatedly.

The end score is 1-3... Team B wins.

"OK we lost Kei-Chan, what are your orders for us today? Punishment game, remember?"

"Let's see..." He put a finger on his chin, thinking.

After he looked at Rena's figure lying on the ground after all those, he then snapped his fingers.

"All of you, help me with taking her back to her home... Fast."

"What, why?" I asked.

"I think she had a concussion, we should get her home."

I didn't know he was this selfless!

We all complied, and with our combined efforts we managed to bring her unconscious body to her home.

"What happened to her?" A man, who looks to be in his 40s... Asked. She's Rena's father.

"She got a concussion, she fell and hit her head on a rock." Kei-Chan lied.

"What!? Bring her in now!"

As Keiichi took her body inside, I looked at the sky in wonder.

"Is this year's Watanagashi will go peacefully?"

-To Be Continued