Found But Not Lost

Disclaimer: I don't own Higurashi

Everyone gathered in the classroom after school to participate in the days Club activities. Keiichi was forced to wear a rather frilly maid outfit, the end result of Hanyuu's victory at Zombie Tag, and hating every second of it. The maid outfit was a generous donation from Dr. Irie, who still prayed that he would one day be successful in getting Satoko or Rika to wear them.

Another reason for Keiichi's agitation was mostly caused by the fact that he was quickly losing the club game. The game for today…A board game. A game solely decided completely on luck, and by the looks of how he was playing, Lady Luck must have been going through menopause and taking it out on him.

"GAHAHA!!! Kei-chan…What's wrong surely you're not worried about such a childish game such as this." Mion happily gloated to him, who by the way was dominating the game.

"Shut up Mion! You know that this is all decided by luck! It's not my fault that my luck today is total CRAP!" Keiichi retorted angrily.

"Well…It was nice knowing you Kei-chan." Mion said as she made her final move. She rolled the dice and moved her piece to the final destination on the board. Mion had won the game and Keiichi…was in dead last.

"GAHAHA!! Get ready Kei-chan…I have something that's gonna push you to the limits. You have to…CLEAN MY LOCKER!" At the mere mention of Mion's locker everyone else froze in complete and utter fear. Few dared to dread to the horror that was know as Mion's locker.

Keiichi was given the proper tools in which he would use to clean out her locker. Aside from cleaning her locker he was also ordered to organize out all the things in her locker and to get rid of all the trash.

With the tools in hand he slowly approached the locker, still in his maid outfit. As he got closer to the locker and stopped abruptly. "Guys…I think I heard something growl…"

"Well…Good luck Kei-chan. And if that's not cleaned by tomorrow there's gonna be hell to pay." Mion said as she left the classroom alongside her sister. Satoko, Rika, and Hanyuu dashed out of the room so quickly Keiichi didn't have anytime to say anything.

There was only one person who stayed with Keiichi a little longer was Rena. Keiichi felt more hopeful. "Rena! You'll stay with me right? You'll help me won't you?" Keiichi desperately pleaded to Rena.

Rena walked over to him and placed an arm on his shoulder. "I'll always cherish the time we spent together." Rena said with tears in her eyes. She then ran out of the classroom overdramatically, leaving Keiichi by himself. "...Crap…"

Keiichi walked over to his locker and pulled out his baseball bat. "..Never know what Mion's got stored in there." Keiichi slowly approached the locker and thrust it open.

Out of nowhere a tentacle thrust out and tried to grab him. "GAH!!" Keiichi screamed as he attacked the tentacle with his baseball bat. After a few direct hits the tentacle lied motionless on the floor. Keiichi poked at it with his bat and the tentacle retracted back into the locker.

"Okay...WHAT THE HELL IS MION KEEPING IN THERE!?!?"

Keiichi walked home by himself later that day. It had taken him a couple hours to get Mion's locker perfectly clean and organized. His entire being ached from the chore of cleaning out Mion's locker.

By the time he got home it was pretty late in the evening, not exactly dark yet but the sun was soon beginning its descent into darkness. Keiichi figured that this was a good as time as any. He approached the phone and called the number, Keiichi has been preparing himself for this moment for quite a while. Rena picked up the phone on the receiving end.

"Keiichi-kun?" Rena answered. "Hi Rena, It's me…I called because I wanted to ask you something…Are you free tomorrow?"

Rena took a moment to answer. "I don't have anything planned yet Keiichi-kun."

"In that case, since tomorrows the weekend…did you want to go out somewhere?"

"Sure Keiichi-kun. Should I tell Mion and the others where to meet us?"

"No. I meant just the two of us going out. You know…a date"

Rena took a moment to answer. "A-A-A d-d-date…OF COURSE!!!"

Keiichi was surprised by Rena's eagerness. "Umm…okay I'll meet you by Angel Mort at about noon, that sound okay?"

"Yes it does Keiichi-kun!" Rena said as she hung up the phone overeagerly. "Finally, my first date with Keiichi-kun!!"

The next morning, Rena was beside herself with giddiness. She got dressed into her usual outfit. When she was fully dressed and ready to leave, she noticed that it was still three hours till noon. Rena didn't want to wait any longer than she had to.

Rena left her house and got on her bike and rode to town. She made it to Angel Mort still with plenty of time to kill before Keiichi would show up. She decided to kill some time at the library. Rena found a book that looked pretty interesting. She sat down at a table and began reading.

Soon after, Rena heard the sounds of numerous books falling. Rena got up and searched for the source of the noise. She soon found the nurse Miyo Takano on the floor with several notebooks scattered across the floor.

Rena immediately helped Takano to her feet. "Are you okay?" Rena asked as she picked up Takano's notebooks. "Yeah…Sorry I lost my footing and tripped. Guess I was carrying too much." Rena noticed the covers of the notebooks all had the title Hinamizawa Syndrome in big bold letters.

"Here you go" Rena said as she handed Takano some of her notebooks. "Do you want me to help you carry some?" Takano took the notebooks Rena had given her. "Sure, thank you very much Rena-chan."

Rena and Takano found a table where they could place the notebooks. Rena and Takano then sat down at the table. Rena's curiosity was peaked, she finally spoke to Takano. "What are all of these notebooks for Takano-san?

"Oh this…This is for my grandfather's research. He believed that there was a disease unique to Hinamizawa. He called this disease Hinamizawa Syndrome. If you want you can read some of the notes while we're here.

Rena took up the offer and began reading through the notes. She read the symptoms of the disease. Paranoia, Mistrust, and…Suicide…

"Is this true?...Will the victim of this virus really claw out their throat?"

"Well…This is all still in the theory stage...But yes…that's the final stage of Hinamizawa Syndrome…" Takano said with a rather uncaring tone.

Rena looked at the clock and noticed that it was an hour to noon. "Oh! I'm sorry Takano-san but I have somewhere I have to be." Rena said as she ran out of the library with all haste.

Rena got on her bike and hurried to over to Angel Mort. Keiichi stood there waiting. "I'm sorry Keiichi-kun! Have you been waiting long? Am I late?" Rena asked out of breath.

"No your not late, I just got here early and I've only been waiting for about 5 minutes. So where did you want to go first?"

"Not really sure Keiichi-kun. What did you have in mind?"

"I was thinking we could go to the arcade and then go over and see a movie later."

Rena nodded her head. "That sounds great Keiichi-kun."

Rena and Keiichi got onto their bikes and made their way to the arcade. They got off their bikes and as Rena and Keiichi entered the arcade, Rena made a quick motion and grabbed onto Keiichi's hand. They then walked into the arcade fingers intertwined.

Keiichi and Rena played a majority of the games together. Other games that were made for single players Keiichi played by himself to show off his gaming skills to Rena, who was rather impressed. Keiichi noticed that Rena had her eye on a particular toy in the crank catching game. Yet another opportunity for Keiichi to display his skills. Within his first try Keiichi was able to successfully get the toy for Rena.

"Thank you Keiichi-kun!!" Rena said hugging the toy.

"Hey Rena...The movies gonna start in about 30 minutes, you wanna head on over there?"

"Sure Keiichi-kun"

Rena and Keiichi quickly made their way to the movie theater. Keiichi bought the tickets and snacks on the way to the theater they already decided what they wanted to watch.

As they sat down in the theater the room soon turned dark and the screen lit up. Both Keiichi and Rena have wanted to see this movie for quite some time. The screen showed a decimated city that was utterly destroyed. On the ground was a boy in a school uniform. The boy had blue hair and stared off into the distance. A girl with pink hair approached the boy. All she could say was "Gomenasai". She then summoned a large weapon. The boy stared deeply at the girl. "An angel?" The girl placed the tip of her weapon onto the boy's chest, ready to kill him at any moment. The girl leaned over to him and kissed him.

"We are the only ones in this world. If we were to look into each others forever, Will my world be the only world in her eyes? Will her world be the only world in my eyes? Everything of mine is hers. Everything of hers is mine."

Rena and Keiichi walked out of the theater once the movie was finished. Keiichi stretched his arms out. "That was sooo AWESOME!! Right Rena?" Rena nodded. "Yes it was a really good movie. Especially the part with the hacking and slashing!"

Rena was filled with such joy being her with Keiichi. Then it happened...Rena looked to her side and saw a horrifying sight. Keiichi on the floor scratching with all strength at his throat.

"Keiichi-kun!!! What are you doing!?!? STOP!!!" Rena yelled as she tried to stop Keiichi from digging too deep into his throat. Rena wrapped her arms around Keiichi in the hope of separating his neck from his arms. This was success full for the most part, but Keiichi then began to claw at Rena's back as though he would be able to get back to scratching his neck. Rena could feel Keiichi tear at her back and let out a cry of pain.

Rena did the first thing that came to her mind. She leaned over to Keiichi and kissed him. This seemed to work, Keiichi calmed down and stopped clawing.

Rena looked at Keiichi, who was now unconscious. "What's going on!?!?!?"

Author Notes: So how was that huh? Props to anyone who knows what Keiichi and Rena were watching in the theater.