Here is Chapter 1 of my first Higurashi fanfic.

I hope you will like it. Please leave some reviews, especially about some grammar faults if you find them ;-) My English isn't that good, so I need more help with that, then anything else. And of course, I want to read your opinion about my stories.

So start reading!

It would be strange if I could say it was just a day as any other when it happen. But it wasn't. Not that it was a horrible day or anything, far from it. My friend and I where on our way to huge Anime Convention. Wait, wait… no, even telling you how and when it happened right now isn't appropriate. What's the use of telling a story without knowing the people who are in it first? So let me introduce myself first.

My real name is Hyde Parker, but I like to call myself Hideyoshi, just because it has my first name in it, kind of, and the anime Buzzer Beater is my favourite anime. I even got the same type of hair, but my hair is brown and not blue. I'm 17 years old. I am studying Japanese when I'm not at school or watching anime, most fans do it right? As you might have guessed I'm kind of a Otaku (die hard anime lover) I used to read all kinds of comics when I was little, like the Marvel Comics for example. But now only manga. My other hobby's include cosplaying, researching old myths and legends and baking cakes an pies. My parents died when I was young so I'm living with my grandmother, a noxious old witch but with a hard of pure gold. I don't have many friends and only one of them also likes manga and anime. She's the one I talked about before, my friend who went with me to Hinamizawa. Her name is June Collins, but I always call her Junko as a shortened version of her real name. She is the same age as me and she's the one who helps me study Japanese. She got really long blond hair, which she always has in braids. Her other hobby's except watching anime include playing games like chess or shogi and DDR. I'm in love with her, she knows that, but she sees me only as a close friend.

So now you know who you are reading about, I can finally start the story. Like I said, us two where on our way to an Anime Convention. A three day event with lots of stuff to do, I hope you know how such conventions are, that saves me the time explaining everything. We we're going on a 4 hour trip with the train. As always I was trying to get some sleep. I'm not really a morning person, so waking up at 5 in the morning to catch the train is not really my cup of tea. June was just reading a very old Japanese manga I never heard of myself. I was starring out of the window and tried to close my eyes a little bit. But then the train started shaking. Not much at first but after a couple of minutes it really got annoying. Even June put down her manga and looked frustrated. "Should go and ask what's happening?" I asked her. She nodded. I stood up and just when I reached for the door of our compartment the train fell down. I know it sounds strange but that was how it felt, like an elevator that goes down a little bit too fast. I didn't know what was happening, at the moment I thought that the train. The next thing I remember is falling on top of June, I was so scared at that moment I closed my eyes. The moment I opened them is was sitting again in my seat, my luggage right beside me. I saw June sitting in front of me with her eyes closed, sleeping. I sighed, I was so happy I just fell asleep and dreamed about what just happened. So I thought. When I looked around the compartment it looked different. You might have guessed it, but at this moment we already got stuck in the anime, and if you haven't guessed it, sorry for spoiling it then. And when I said it looked different, I don't mean it looked like an anime with all the bright colours and large head, eyes and stuff. Or maybe it did looked like that. I mean, I looked around, and it was strange. June looked the same as before but something was different about her. It's like when you see something back from you childhood, it is just as you remember it but it looks different, bet you just can't think of what is. At that moment I wasn't thinking to much about it, but then June opened her eyes screaming. "You… me… the train…" she stumbled. I looked at her with my eyes frowned and said: "What are you talking about." She took a quick look around and relaxed again. "Ow nothing, just a bad dream I think." I gave a little smile and tried again to get some sleep. I saw June looking through her luggage for a new manga to read. She quickly found one and started reading.

About half an hour nothing strange happened. It was still a 2 hours before we got at our destination. We stopped at another station at a large city for a couple of minutes. A lot of people where boarding the train. Luckily we had a first class ticket for a cabin, and also for free. June's mother works is manager of this big industrial plant in our home town, so sometimes she gets free stuff from other company's, like first class train tickets. So we thought we had the whole compartment for ourselves. Just when the train started moving again three people entered the compartment. Two parents and their son. They said all other cabins where full so they were asking if they could sit here. Obviously we said yes, especially because we thought there son was a cosplayer. "Nice outfit." I said to him.

"Indeed," June said "It almost looks real."

He smiled. "Thanks… you look good too."

"Stop it right there boy, this girl is mine!" I said. We laughed until June poked me a bit too hard in the ribs.

"He's just kidding, I'm nobody's girl." "Haha, well, I'm Maebara Keiichi. Nice to meet you."

"Sure you are." I said "Then just call me Hideyoshi and she's Junko."

He looked at us like we said something strange but then he smiled. Junko asked him where he and his parents where going.

"Duh! Of course the same place we are going, Junko. The next stop of this train is also the last stop."

When I interrupted her she gave me this strange look only women can give. All you men reading this know that look. The only way of looking in the world that let women win every argument.

"So, as I was asking. Where are you and your parents going to?"

"We are going to our new house in Hinamizawa." I laughed.

"Off course, I could have guessed."

Again June gave me this look before she said: "Would you please excuse us for the moment?"

She pulled my arm and signalled with her head to follow her. We went out of the compartment and in to the small walkway. "So what was that all about." I asked.

"Wait, have you really didn't noticed it?" I frowned my eyebrows.

"Allright then, just listen closely what I say. Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore."

"I don't see where you're going, we don't even live in Kansas."

"You don't have to see anything you idiot. Let's try this then: If you can understand me know you are even more stupid then I thought."

"What are you talking about? Off course I can understand you, but why are you speaking English?" And again she gave me that look, I'm starting to think she invented that look.

But again, this is one of those strange differences I still can't understand. June told me that the moment Keiichi entered the compartment I begun to speak Japanese to him. And even more fluent then normal. It's strange, English is my birth language, but at that moment it became Japanese, like it always was Japanese. I could still understand English but it sounded like a foreign language to me. I just couldn't comprehend what was happening. The only stupid thing I could think of to say was if we where still going to the convention. It took a while until it hit me. A giant grin formed on my face. "We are in Higurashi!" I screamed.

"Shut up! I know! Isn't it cool!"

"But when, and how?"

"I don't know, maybe that train accident I dreamt about has something to do with it."

"You also dreamt it? Me too!"

"No, this can't be. I must still be dreaming."

"That would me I'm dreaming too! And it is impossible for two people to have the same dream at the same time."

"But this is so cool!" Then we stopped talking. I looked June straight in to her eyes. "So, we really are in an other world. So we really are sitting in a train with THE Keiichi Maebara. So, we really are on our way to Hinamizawa." She nodded. Slowly I took my wallet out of my pocket and looked at my ID. I showed it to her.

"Abe Hideyoshi, even my identity became Japanese. What about yours?"

"I got my ID in my backpack." She turned away from me and stared through the window in to the sky. "What's the problem." I asked her.

"Nothing" she said. "Only… Higurashi is a game and anime series. It isn't real. Just a story made up by some guy in Japan."

"Your right, it isn't possible, but it happened either way. So we're going to make the best of it. Besides, we got a bigger problem ahead."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we know we are in Higurashi. We both have finished the series, and I have played 2 games as well, so we know what is going to happen. That's not going to a problem. Thinking how we got here, can be postponed. But our biggest problem is, what should we do now? We are in a train with Keiichi on our way to Hinamizawa. So, what are we going to when we get there?"

"Your right, we don't have a place to live."

"That's just one problem we got at the moment."

"What are we going to do then?"

"Don't know. I'm still shocked about everything."

"Me too." After that we went back in to the compartment. Silently we looked at each other, loving it because the our biggest wish just became reality, but as every human on earth, we feared because we faced the unknown. At that moment we didn't even care in what anime we where. Because if we did, we remembered the lesser fun parts of Higurashi. The only thing we thought about was what was going to happen next.