A crossover with:

Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro And Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, (I don't own either)

My favorite manga and my favorite anime!

If you haven't seen both of these series before, exit out of this fanfic immediately and watch/read them right now!

(Read Neuro, watch Higurashi)

Assuming that you have seen both of these series before, I shall now begin!

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"Behold and rejoice, Yako, for we are going on a vacation!"

"Really?" Yako asked, warily. After all, she remebered all too well what had happened to her all the other times Neuro had dragged her along on a 'vacation', and she wasn't really looking forward to being up tied to a tree, surrounded by toxic gas, while Neuro gleefully fanned the worst of the fumes her way. However, she knew better then to argue with him. Experience had taught her that there was absolutely no way she could avoid whatever terrible abuse was headed her way.

"That sounds great, Neuro" she sighed.

Moments later, she found herself tied to the roof of an old, rickety car with a glass of sulphuric acid precariously resting on her stomach.

"Neuro, don't you think this is going a bit too far? I was even being understanding this time!"
Neuro didn't answer, but instead sat in the passenger seat and instructed Godai, or 'Slave #2' as Neuro called him, to drive down the roughest, bumpiest road possible. Yako didn't even bother trying to protest, that is, until they started to drive through the mountains.

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They arrived at a city called Okinomiya several hours later.

'Somehow, I managed to make it all the way here safely…" Yako said, exhausted. Neuro grabbed the glass of acid from her hand and poured it over her head. "WAAAAH! IT BURNS!"

"This is not our destination. But I suppose that a slug like you would not understand that."
"You never even told me where we're going!" Yako shouted as she rinsed her head with a yard hose. "And why'd we stop here if this isn't where we're headed?"
"To get supplies, of course."
"Supplies? What for?"
"For our camping trip, obviously!" Neuro grinned.

"Camping?"
Neuro pulled out a laptop, and pointed to a shifty looking website that described their destination which was apparently not only a ghost town, but also an alien landing site and…

"Haunted camping grounds?" Yako read. "Neuro, this website looks…" Fake, she wanted to say, but didn't dare.

"According to this, there was a great disaster there twenty-something years ago, and ever since then, people are said to disappear inside the mountains and never come back out."

"Is that so?"

Neuro looked hurt. "Don't you want to go?" He asked in a sweet voice as he pressed a knifelike finger into Yako's neck.

"I'M GOING!" She shrieked, and he released her.

"Excellent. Now what shall I pack?"

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A few hours later and they were on their way once again. It was supposed to be a short, hour long drive through the mountains, but somewhere along the way, Godai took a wrong turn and three hours later, they realized that they were totally lost.

"Neuro, my cell phone suddenly stopped working." Yako nervously called as a strange fog began to surround them.

Godai was also getting nervous. "Screw this! Let's pull over till the fog clears up."

Neuro's demonic grin widened as he caught a whiff of something tasty in the fog ahead of them. "Keep driving, worm. There is a mystery lying ahead"

Of course. Yako sighed. That's just what I need, more psychotic killers.

She laughed, and was immediately surprised at how weak and frightened it had sounded. What was wrong with her? She had seen murderers, mutants, and maniacs, and now she was getting rattled because of a little fog. But it wasn't the fog, not really- it was something else, something that surrounded them. There was a sense of foreboding, of alienation, coupled with a strange, inexplicable feeling that they just didn't belong here.

A few meters to their right, hidden behind the fog and the underbrush, was a sign that read 'Welcome to Hinamizawa'

It went past them, unseen.

Whatever dark feelings Yako had on their ride through the fog instantly dissipated once they got out of the forest and arrived at the small village of Hinamizawa. The town was beautiful. Old buildings lined the streets, so well preserved that she could have sworn that they were built yesterday. It looked, honestly and truly, like a postcard.

So much for haunted campgrounds. She chuckled. Neuro would be disappointed, but maybe she could have an actual vacation for once.

"Hey, Neuro…" She froze. Neuro was smiling. No, not just smiling, grinning. Grinning demonically. And that was never, ever a good sign.

"Neuro? What is it?" She tentatively asked.

"Mysteries! Not just one- there are countless mysteries surrounding this place- they are mostly stale, but there is a fresh one brewing as we speak!" His grin widened. He looked around the peaceful village like a kid in a candy store. "And also…" He inhaled deeply. "This place- it's air has some of the freshest miasma I have had since I left the demon world!"

"Miasma?!" Yako gasped. Miasma was basically the demon world equivalent of oxygen, but the human equivalent of toxic gas.

'Is… Is he loosing it?' Yako thought, worried. The air here certainly didn't smell dangerous- in fact, it was the cleanest air she had ever smelled. Her thoughts were interrupted, however, as they were approached by a group of children on their bikes.

"Hi there strangers!" A girl with green hair pulled up into a ponytail shouted out to them. "What brings you to Hinamizawa?"

'Green hair, huh? I guess even tiny villages like this one have heard of hair dye'. Yako thought to herself.

"Hello!" Neuro answered back, in the happiest, most innocent voice he could muster. "Sensei and I seem to have gotten lost. Could you possibly point us in the direction of the nearest hotel?

The green haired girl looked at them quizzically. "We don't have a hotel here. There's probably one at Okinomiya. It's just an hours drive down that road that you just came off of."

"Is that so? I'm afraid that's impossible, you see, our car seems to have broken down." As if on cue, both the front tires suddenly jumped out of their place and rolled down the hill.

"MY CAR!" Godai shouted, but he was soon silenced by a swift, well hidden blow to the kneecaps.

"So, as you can see, we have no choice but to wait here until the replacement parts can be shipped in."

"You guys have got some rotten luck." The blond girl laughed.

"Do we ever…" Yako mumbled.

"My name's Mion!" The green haired girl said. "and these are my friends, Rena, Satoko, Rika, and Keiichi"

How cute. Yako thought. It wasn't just the village, the villagers themselves seemed friendly and innocent too. That is, until…

"Why the hell do you have to list me last, huh, Mion?!" The only boy in the group shouted. "I call gender discrimination!"

The blond girl, Satoko, laughed. "I don't know if I'd call it gender discrimination, Keiichi, since you look better in a dress then most of us do!"

"That is totally untrue!" He shouted back at her, flustered. "I'm not even in the same category as you guys! Satoko, just yesterday, when you were dressed as a French maid, I thought my heart was going to explode!"

"That's in the past now!" She shouted

"Auu… Satoko's adowable when she's mad!" Rena said, foaming at the mouth a little. "I want to see Satoko in panda ears again!"

"But Keiichi would look cute as a panda too, ni-pa!" Rika smiled gently.

What the Hell? Yako blanched. "These kids… look too young to be indulging in that sort of play…"

Mion grinned mischievously. "Allright, it's decided! Let's have a game battle right now, the looser has to dress as a panda and a maid!"

"Allright!" The rest of the group shouted in unison.

Mion tuned to Yako and Neuro. "You guys care to join?"

Yako laughed nervously "That's all right…" and turned to leave, only to find Neuro grinning demonically in her path.

"Sensei would be delighted to join you! After all, she is renowned around the world not only as a famous high school detective, but also a master of all forms of games."

Yako twitched nervously, as she found herself face to face with the demonic grin of not only Neuro, but the entire Hinamizawa Games Club as well.

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End of the First Chapter!