Becoming Higurashi
Jessylane318
Souta groaned when he awoke, blinking back the tears in his eyes. Everything hurt. He struggled to breathe, feeling a crushing weight against his chest. He blinked and shoved, running on instincts. What had happened? All he remembered was his sister moping about in the dusty well house and then taking that awful rosary she never let down…
Oh, but then he had fallen, and she had fallen with him.
The weight pressed back on him, forcing a burning sensation in his chest. He wheezed and tried to dig his knuckles in what he hoped was his sister's arm.
"Ugh…" moaned a voice, and he felt her shift, pressing against his abdomen and into his bladder.
"Oww, get off me you fat ass!" he wheezed out, feeling an elbow dig into his thigh.
He heard a quick intake of breath and felt his sister scrambling away. Standing up she boxed his ears.
"Don't swear at me! It was your fault for falling."
"Whatever," he mumbled, trying to sit up in the crowded space. They were at the bottom of the well, that might have comfortably fit one adult, but pressed the two of them right next to each other. He had seen the green light before everything had gone dark. He looked up and found Kagome chewing on her lip, clearly disturbed.
"What's wrong?"
She gave him a heated glare.
"You idiot, look what you've done? The roof's gone! We're in the feudal era!"
He blinked and looked up, surprised to find that the roof was indeed gone, as was the ladder and wood. The well had strange vines growing thickly against it, carpeting the stones. He felt a pit of fear and something else well up inside him.
"I don't understand, how did we get here? You've jumped in a thousand times and the well hasn't responded, why did it do it this time? It's been months since it closed, it shouldn't just randomly-"
"I know," interrupted his sister, who rolled her eyes in annoyance. He hated it when she did that. "We need to get out of here though, maybe we can find InuYasha and Sango. Or even Kaede would be good right about now."
He stared up at the good ten-foot climb and then at his sister.
"But there's no rope…"
She gave him a strange look before sighing huffily. He crossed his arms in disdain. What did she expect, him to climb up the stones? The crevices were small, and he doubted seriously if his fingers could fit, much less his shoes.
When she grabbed the vines and started pulling her way up though, he found himself staring incredulously. They were seriously going to climb on these vines that could snap any minute? This was the kind of stuff that caused people to sprain their ankle. And if they were in the past, didn't people die from things like that?
No wonder she used to come home cut up and broken. He was beginning to feel a bit of pity for InuYasha…
"Well are you coming?" she asked, nearly halfway up the wall. She smirked down at him, and he had the mind to tell her that those ugly granny panties were showing, because that would wipe the smirk right off, but he swallowed it and pulled himself up as well.
"This is so stupid," he grumbled, trying not to wince when he grabbed a particularly thorny vine that cut into his hands. "They couldn't just put a ladder up, no wonder people died in their thirties, they all do things backwards!"
Pulling himself over the rim, with Kagome's help, he suddenly felt himself looking out at the large meadow where his family's shrine should have stood. Where the guest house for worship should have stood was instead forest, and he felt the pit in his stomach grow. What had they gotten themselves into?
Looking over the rim of the well, he stared down into the depths and wondered if maybe they should jump back in and hope they made it back?
"Come on Souta," called Kagome, and he looked up to see she was a few feet ahead and walking down a path that seemed well traveled. "You can come meet my friends!"
She didn't pause to wait for him, and he stumbled down the pathway after her and into the forest.
