Disclaimer: I do not own When They Cry Higurashi no Naku Koroni, it belongs to its original creator.
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When They Cry Higurashi no Naku Koroni
Tachiagari-hen
Hyakunenmai no Hatsukoi
Prologue "Reminiscent"
"Okaa-san," A little girl dressed in white one piece dress called gently as she sat in the lap of a woman dressed in white gi and red hakama who sat on the tatami. The little girl leaned back onto the woman's chest, enjoying the comfort as she awaited the response
"Nani?" The woman responded in a calm soothing voice as she gently patted the young girl's hair.
"When was your first love?" The little girl asked as she looked up at her mother as her mother smiled at her.
Then the mother looked straight out the open door into the back yard while the warm and yet cool wind blew through her long hair as she answered her daughter.
"It was a long time ago…" The woman answered as cicadas cried. "Sono mugen no ryugagetsu naka de."
To be continued…
Completed: January 6, 2009
Edited: February 7, 2009
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Author's Note: I have always wanted to write a fan fiction about one of the worlds not actually shown in the story after I played the Higurashi no Naku Koroni Matsuri Kakera Asobi (PS2 version of Higurashi game, which has Miotsukoshi hen, the true ending to Higurashi). But what actually pushed me into doing it and deciding the type of story is reading a Higurashi manga, which kind of talked about the first cycle before any repeats and how Rika first fell in love with Keiichi. It was drawn by someone else, but the story is approved by Ryukishi, meaning the story is canonical. (This also means that Rika and Keiichi are the official pairing, check out Mysteries of When They Cry forum to find out about the detail.) As a result of reading that manga, I became really touched and thus decided to write my version as how I felt the very first world is like. Well, hopefully you will enjoy this.
Translation (These are only approximate translation)s:
[Tachiagari-hen] means "The Beginning Arc"
[Hyakunenmai no Hatsukoi] means "First love from hundred years ago"
[Okaa-san] means "mother".
[Tatami] is the floor tile in Japanese houses that is actually made of straw, if I remember correctly.
[Nani] means "what".
[Sono mugen no ryugagetsu naka de.] means literally "In that eternal June." I don't think I have to explain the meaning of this term to Higurashi fans, do I?
