Here's Chapter 3. Yet again I do not own Higurashi blah blah Ryukushi07 anyway here is the next chapter.

I woke up and headed off to school. I reached for the door but looked first to see if something was there. I saw nothing so I opened up the door and walked in to see everyone sitting there waiting for me. Keiichi walked over to me along with everyone else.

"Hey Kyoko good morning, you pretty late Chie is almost here" He put his hand on my head and rubbed it roughly. My eyes opened wide. I felt a pain in my neck and slapped his hand off my head.

"I'm sorry Keiichi; I'm just not feeling well today." I walked over to my desk and sat down remembering the cold hands of Keiichi that wrapped around my throat and the constant apologizing of the little demon girl. Maybe if I talk to Rika she could help me I thought. I've heard she's like a prophet in this village and can tell the future and stuff like that. Lunch break came. I walked over to Rika and asked to speak to her.

"Hey Rika I have heard about your "powers" and was wondering if you could help me" I felt stupid I was asking a 9 year old to help me with my mental problems.

"What is it you want to know?" I was stunned she sounded interested

"Well I've had bad nightmares with a demon girl and blood and death." I looked down and away from Rika. She looked even more interested and her eyes were wide open.

"Tell me Kyoko about all your dreams. I need to know." Rika was being very serious about it all. I explained to her about the girl with the purple hair and the murders in my dreams.

"Kyoko how would you feel if those worlds weren't dreams but really happened in previous lives?"

"I wouldn't be able to believe that."

"Please remember those worlds." Rika was begging now and she was starting to sort of creep me out

"Please Kyoko you need to remember, please." Rika said this and left

RIKA'S POV

"Rika was the demon she talked about me?" Hanyuu was sad when Kyoko said that

"Yes Hanyuu but she just doesn't understand so don't take it personally" I sat and my seat and talked to Hanyuu about what Kyoko told me

"So she is able to remember." Hanyuu still was depressed "Don't think that means that she will make a miracle, Rika you can't keep getting your hopes up, this girl has caused nothing but sadness in previous worlds so this world may not be any different"

"I KNOW THAT!" I yelled and everyone looked at me. I always have to control my anger when near Hanyuu. Just because they can't hear her doesn't mean they can't hear me. I was so angry at Hanyuu to talk down to a girl I have met very few times but she is still a close friend and for Hanyuu to speak of her has if she is already crazy.

"Hauauauau…" Hanyuu was crying now

"I'll have to punish you later…I wonder what I will eat kimchii and maybe some of that wine I found in the main house."

"Hauauauau please Rika no." Hanyuu was begging and jumping up and down

KYOKO'S POV

I hope Rika is okay. It is odd for her to yell out in class like that…..

*POUND* *POUND*

I heard jumping for a slight second and looked around and saw no one up from their seat. Then again

*POUND* *POUND*

I was sure it was a little kid jumping and assumed it was a little kid kicking the wall of the school. I blew it off has that and went back to listening to Chie talk. School ended and we all met up for club activity.

"Hey did you guys hear that banging on the walls earlier?" I asked in a joking manner

"No we didn't hear anything." Mion said.

"Yea that never happened, your head must be screwy" Satako said "Now let's get on with the game."

….. Really none of them heard anything that's impossible it was so loud. I thought that I was just going crazy and I sat down to play.

"Today we will play Old Maid and the punishment game is you have to put on the girl's school swimsuit and the kitty ears and tail." Mion passed out the cards and we played. Unfortunately I lost and I put on the outfit

"Now Kyoko you have to wear it all the way home Nipah~" Rika smiled.

"Auauauau Kyoko your so cute." Rena looked insane

"WHAT! I have to walk home dressed like this." I was stunned but went along with it. I walked home and we all talked on the way. Rena tried to grab me several times and take me home. We luckily didn't pass by many people. We talked about the upcoming Cotton Drifting Festival that would actually come this weekend.

"Really I can't wait for that it will be so fun." I was excited for it.

"Oh sorry about this sis but I won't be able to come to the festival with you guys." Shion apparently had something that she had to do. It was sad that we couldn't spend the Festival with Shion. I slept again but another nightmare about Keiichi. I remember this one even more

"Keiichi you have a friend here to visit!" Keiichi's dad yelled and led me to his room. I walked in

"Good Evening Keiichi." I smiled and he returned a fake one to me.

"Good Evening."

"Mion and Rena told me to come visit you." I looked at him "They told me you haven't been feeling well lately. So I came to help you feel better." I opened the lunch box I was carrying. "See I brought little cakes and stuff also some ohagi and little sausages. I thought we could share them with each other." I smiled and I started eating. It was odd Keiichi kept poking his food before he ate it and he chewed it slowly like he was ready to spit it out at any moment.

"Keiichi I didn't put anything in the food I'm not like Rena and Mion." I laughed but he gave me a look of fear.

"You mean Rena…and Mion put something in my food purposely…" Keiichi was very scared

"Yeah but it was just a little pebble like the size of your fingernail." Keiichi's face was now scaring me. It was a face of pure insanity.

"So that's what they told you…. It was just a pebble." His face was very creepy and I was slowly getting closer to him.

"You know what, I think you helped them to try and kill me… What is it you put in the food Kyoko? I'm sure you ate the ones with no poison." I was hurt by his comment. He then picked up the food I made for him and threw it at me. I could feel the icing from the cake hit my face and the stickiness of the ohagi. I then felt a strong force on my arms has I was sitting there blocking the onslaught of food. He kicked me. I took my arms away and I saw Keiichi holding the lunch box and then he bashed me in the head with it. I could feel a trickle of blood run down my face and drip onto my leg. I stood up and rubbed Keiichi's face.

"Keiichi please stop." Then the dream ended like last time. Keiichi's cold hands crushing my neck until it snapped.

I got dressed and spent the day with the club. Night finally came around and the Cotton Drifting Festival was beginning.

"Alright now it's time to start the battle of 6 evils."

"The what?" Me and Keiichi both questioned

"We all play the games has if they were our club games and we all compete to see who is the best." Rena explained. We played games and two people walked up to us. One was a muscular man with a hat and glasses who looked to be about early 30's and a woman with long blonde hair and was carrying around a bag and looked at most her mid 20's. Mion noticed

"Oh hey Mr. Tomitake." Mion and the rest ran over to talk to him. I guess they all know him. I noticed the woman just standing there listening so I went to talk to her.

"Oh hello there I'm guessing your one of Jirou's friends too. " She smiled

"No I just saw all them come over. My name is Kyoko. Aren't you the nurse from the Irie Clinic Ms. Takano right?"

"Yes I'm the nurse." We chatted a little and got into a conversation about the god of Hinimizawa Oyashiro. She seemed to know a lot so I told her about my symptoms and she only said one thing to me

"The curse of Oyashiro" I was scared to hear such words

"What is the curse?"

"The curse is that Oyashiro will strike down all those who break his rules."

"What are the rules?" I was really scared now.

"The rules are… No one is to leave the village ever, No one is to disrespect Oyashiro, No one is to destroy the home of Oyashiro and finally No one is to come into this village ever." The last one was the one that really got me. Did this mean this plague of nightmares, and those weird sounds were made by Oyashiro.

"You know if you want to see Oyashiro I can take you." Takano got serious "Me and Jirou were planning on breaking into the ritual tool shrine. Want to come?"

"Oh um sure I guess." We left during Rika's dance and broke inside. Tomitake waited outside has me and Takano went inside.

"Wow, this is amazing look at all these brutal weapons. Did you know that in the olden times of when this village was called Onigafuchi they would torture victims on these and then slice them open sending their intestines down the river. That's where the Cotton Drifting Festival actually orginates. It used to be called the Intestine Drifting Festival due to Wata meaning both intestine and cotton which is where the term originates. My how I would love to see that Festival go on in modern times. He he he" Takano giggled but all she was doing was freaking me out.

"Hey guys Rika's dance is ending we gotta go." Tomitake yelled quietly into the shrine. Me and Takano rushed out of the shrine.

"Well this was interesting and I would like to speak more about this later Ms. Takano."

"Oh please call me Miyo and also come and see me whenever you feel ill I'll be sure to give you an injection. Remember we never met tonight." I waved goodbye to them and rejoined my friends. We played games some more and then we headed home. I got home and went to sleep. I had a happy day and had so much fun yet the dread of the night still haunted me.

So there's Chapter 3 please review it would be much apprectiated thanks.