Higurashi: Passion Breaks Curse

Chapter 1

Reborn Hope

A/N. Alright, so I've never made a story about something like Higurashi, but damnit I just love the show and fan content (and yes some fanfics). So I wanted to come up with a story that would be interesting (Hopefully).

So of course there are going to be things unexplained and such cause to be honest, I'd rather have everything a surprise, but I will say that if any of you have played Higurashi Daybreak (an old PS game) Then you will surely get some of the references to characters/weapons/powers etc. Anyways, hope you enjoy.

No more can we stand to watch as this village is doomed by a curse of an unforgiving soul. No more shall we let this spirit linger onto the innocent who thrive. But no longer can we continue on, as we have been embraced by the spirit itself. In my last breath, I pass a part of this spirit to you, Keiichi Maebara. May you protect our goddess with your will and courage...may you bring the light that this dark, cruel path needs...let this next Hinamizawa be their's, and your last...


Keiichi woke up in a shock, sweating and panting from what he thought a nightmare, now woken up from into the real world. Well by that, his bedroom. He held his head, running his fingers into his hair, "Jeez, what kind of dream was that?" He asked himself. Of course it was something he didn't know the answer to, shaking it off as just a weird dream. He looked around, calming down as he got up from the futon and going over to the window. He opened it up, peering outside of his house.

Hinamizawa, such a peaceful place that he and his family moved to weeks ago. It would be any surprise that things like curses and deaths occurred here. It was one of those good days, a bright day out with the birds tweeting around, the sun bright onto the village. He peered over to look at the time. Apparently it was already 7:30AM. He sighed to himself as he closed the window, wandering over to open the door. He could already smell the delicious scent of breakfast from here. "Oh how I wonder what mom must be making right now" He thought to himself as he opened the door.

Before he took another step however, he felt something odd from not outside of him, but inside. It felt weird to him, almost like it was in his soul or something like that. "Or maybe I'm just super hungry. Yeah, that's it." Considering this, he rushed downstairs, going into the living room. On the table was breakfast; iso soup, grilled fish, some pickled vegetables and a small salad, a typical balanced breakfast in Japan.

His mother came in to greet him, "Morning Keiichi. Slept well I see?" He thought about his answer a bit. "Did I?" Last he remembered, we woke up as a sweating mess from an odd dream. He shook it off anyhow with a simple answer. "Yeah I guess" As he dug into the fish first.


As he left the house, Keiichi went onto the usual path he took to school. Well to be more precise, where he met Rena about halfway, considering she's always waiting for him. Not that it's creepy or anything, it's just Rena stuff after all. To be fair, Rena was the type of person to seem weird at first glance. I mean just look at all of the weird stuff she thought was cute. At this point, she'd find a corpse adorable.

Though as he thought to himself, he looked over to where Rena was usually waiting for him. But there was something odd...something out of place to him. Rena wasn't there at all. "That's odd..." He thought, "She's never 'not' here. Is she late? Or maybe for once she took my advice and slept in?" Keiichi stood there a bit, almost dumbstruck as he rubbed his chin.

The worst case scenario would be that Mion had a mischievous plan, and had her and the others with her to make something terrible to use on him. He shuddered at the thought of that. Or maybe she was hiding in the bushes, ready to scare him. Well that wouldn't be true, because first off she wasn't that type of person to him, and second she'd just look too cute to be scared of. Give her a butcher's knife and she's be even more funnier looking.

As he continued on his journey to school, his luck just turns out even worse than before. He had completely forgot that there was road work being occurred onto the path, which probably explained the absence of the ginger not waiting here in the first place. It seemed he had no other choice but to take a detour into the path leading through the forest. He didn't usually go through this area at all, the only two he knew went through that path was Satoko and Rika. Either way, he had no other choice, and made his way to this 'detour'.


The sound of cicadas could be heard throughout the forest as we continued walking through. He could tell he was already late, sighing to himself as to imagine the scolding he will get from Mion. "Jeez, Mion's gonna kill me" he thought. On the other hand, it was nice to take this path for once, it really brings out the peaceful look of the village after all. Hell, maybe he should take it more often and tease Rena that he's abandoned her just to see her cute reactions. "Yeah, great idea Keiichi."

"~Hmm, hmm, hmm~"

"Eh?" He heard the voice of a little girl humming nearby, though the voice didn't sound familiar. He looked over to where the noise was coming from, a figure crouched at the grass looking at flowers. We went over to the figure to get a closer look at her. At first he almost mistaken this girl for Rika, but her appearance seemed unique. For instance, She was wearing to what seemed to him a shrine maiden outfit, with red long, split trousers, a white kimono jacket, and a pair of long, pink furisode-like sleeves. She also had long, violet hair.

For some reason, Keiichi couldn't help but get a feeling that her appearance reminded her of Rika for a second, with the hair and cute sounds that is. Before he could do anything else, the girl turned around, looking straight at him with curiosity as he got a better look at her. She had purple eyes that matched well with her hair and...horns!? For some reason, this girl had dark purple horns on her head, though took note that the left side was slightly chipped. Yep, this was it. Keiichi was fully dumbstruck in amazement. He was seeing a little girl with demon horns.

The girl then spoke, giving a bright smile as she said, "Ah, it's only Keiichi, he must be looking at these lovely flowers." She giggled to herself a bit.

Keiichi stood there, shook by what he heard. What did she say? She sounded like he couldn't see her or something. But wait...how does she know his name? And why did she act like she wasn't there to him? He gave a bit of a glance at her, and asked, "H-How do you know my name...?"

She stopped, soon realised what he said. Her face turned to a pale shocked expression, falling back a bit as she kept her gaze right at him. He too himself must have been surprised, since he didn't expect this reaction. He got an uneasy feel from her as well. "Y-You can S-See me?" She asked, stuttering at her words. Now Keiichi was not just freaked out, but completely curious about this little girl. It was just one question he had in particular...

"Who are you?" he asked her. He waited patiently for her to compose herself before saying anything else. Then she answered, "I suppose that since you can see me, it's only fair that I tell you right now. My name is Hanyuu Furude."

Hold the phone! Was he hearing something wrong, or did he hear that she's some relative of Rika? Now he knew why this girl reminded him of her so much. "Hold on" he said, "You're telling me that you're Rika's cousin or something?"

She stood there twiddling her thumbs, almost as if embarrassed. "Hau...well not really. I'm more like her 100 year old grandma."

"Whaaaa!?" That was all he could reply with from hearing that. "B-But y-you're...you know, young! How on earth can you be her grandma!?"

Hanyuu gave a soft sigh, as she put her hands together and stood in one place. Keiichi kept looking, confused as to what she was attempting to do. Was she gonna use some sort of ritualistic spell or something? He didn't know. Instead, she made herself translucent, almost like a ghost to be exact. He was amazed, yet at the same time shocked at this girl's ability. She then spoke, "That's because I've been dead for over 100 years"

Now it was his turn to compose himself before he said anything else. But what was in front of him and told to him, is that this girl name Hanyuu is a 100 year old ghost and past relative of his friend. Missing arms and crazy people didn't even come close to what this was at this point. "So, are you a spirit that looks over Rika or something?" He asked, uncertain.

"Well in a way, yes" She replied.

"Huh, then I guess you're also the spirit that curses people and kills them?"

At this reaction, the little spirit looked as if she was hurt from those words, turning her face into a puffed-cheek blush at him. "Hauuu! Don't say it like that! I would never do those things!"

He'd flinch back, surprised at her reaction. Welp, you did it now Keiichi, you pissed off a loli spirit. He'd attempt to diffuse the situation, putting his hands up defensively. "Hey now I didn't mean it like that, I was only joking. Besides I doubt someone like you would do things like that, right?" She calmed down, though a noticeable light blush would still be visible. He'd wipe the sweat off his brow, sighing in relief. For a second there, he though he was going to be the next sacrifice or something, "Anyway, so where is Rika then?"

Hanyuu answered, "She's sick today, so she wont be in. That's why I wandered a bit by myself today and ended up seeing you here."

"Huh? Rika's sick? But that barely happens." Which was exactly true. Almost every time, Rika was there at school with him and the others, playing their games and making all sorts of mischief. For her to be ill was one of the rarest sights. Though while Keiichi thought this, Hanyuu knew the real answer...

But for now, Keiichi had another question that he wanted answered. "Alright, so if you follow round Rika or something, then does that mean you're apart of her or something?"

Hanyuu answered the question easily, "Of course, wherever she is I can sense her there. That is how strong our bond is." Now this was getting interesting to him. So all this time, Rika has had this spirit by her side, and not a single person knows of this. Well, except him now of course. Suddenly, Hanyuu went up to him with her own curious face, raising a hand to his chest. He looked at her with confusion and unease, just what was she going to do now? "Now it's my turn for questions" She said, touching his chest.

All of a sudden the two of them got an unusual spark from the inside of them, both flinching back from each other. Something just happened, something remarkable yet not understandable. Keiichi was the first to ask, "W-What the hell was that!? Did you feel it too?"

Hanyuu looked at him, then back down to her hand. She then said, "Y-Yes...I did. This feeling...can you feel it too?"

Keiichi touched where she last put her hand on his chest, still having that odd feeling as she was at the moment. "Y-Yeah, it's almost like..."

They looked at each other and in unison spoke, "We're bonded?"

She rubbed her head, trying to think of how this could possibly be true. Then she had an idea. Without saying anything, she began to hover off of her feet, as if she could fly. Keiichi just looked in astonishment. She can fly too!? All of a sudden, she dissipated out of his sight. "Wha!?", He looked around in a panic, trying to find where the little spirit had gone to. "I mean, where could she have gone?" He thought to himself, as he stood back up.

"Don't worry, I'm still here"

He jumped at the reply, kind of shocked. That was definitely her voice, but it came from...his head? She then reappeared in front of the dumbfound boy, as he looked back to her in awe. "It's true...you somehow have a spirit soul that connects us."

He gave her a confused look, he had no idea what she said just then. "A...spirit soul?" He asked. She nodded, replying to his question, "That's right, a spirit soul. It's what keeps me and Rika together. Though for some reason you have one too. This has never happened in other worlds..."

"Other worlds?" He asked.

She quickly covered her mouth with her hands, "It's nothing important."

He gave her a concerned look, but decided to leave it for now since he had other important things to think about, like school and how late he was...wait...

"Oh crap! I just realised I'm late for school!" Keiichi was about to go running straight off into the direction of the school, until he suddenly stopped. He almost forgot, what about Hanyuu? How and when was he going to deal with this? He looked at her and asked her, "Um, wanna come with me?" Without a second thought, she nodded, disappearing to where he guessed was in his head or something. He continued the journey to school, running as fast as he could. Meanwhile, Hanyuu thought to herself; "This is such a new experience. Keiichi Maebera, able to bond with me through an unknown spirit...maybe this could be the world we've been looking for, or maybe it wont. Either way for now, the best way to be sure is to learn more about this Keiichi. Don't worry Rika, maybe this time...maybe...


End of Chapter 1

Apologies if the chapter seemed short, but it was pretty much a prologue or such of how it's starting off as.

For the second chapter will be of course seeing more of the other characters and such.

Hope you enjoyed and have a good day/night.