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When They Cry Higurashi no Naku Koroni

Tachiagari-hen

Hyakunenmai no Hatsukoi

Chapter 1 "When We First Met"

Furude Rika slowly woke up as she yawned.

It had been two years since her parents both passed away and ever since then, Rika had resided here in this small warehouse within the boundary of Furude Jinja. And about a year ago Hojo Satoko joined her after the murder of her aunt and the so called disappearance of her brother Satoshi, making the number of people in this house three.

Slowly, Rika got up from her futon as she readied herself for the day.

"Satoko, asa nano desu." Rika said to her roommate as she slowly shook her trying to her wake her up.

Satoko slowly opened her eyes and very soon after began to ready herself for the day as Rika prepared Rika.

And as she prepared the meal, she looked out the window and watched as the sun came.

"It is like any other day." Rika said with a smile as she enjoyed the happiness of living with her friend.

Later on that day…

"Ohayo, Rika-chan." The class representative, Sonozaki Mion greeted Rika as another girl who looked exactly like her also walked up to her as they entered the classroom.

"Ohayo, Rika-chama." The younger twin, Sonozaki Shion followed suit as she stopped next to her sister. "Soshite, Satoko mo."

"Good morning, Shion." Rika replied as a girl with short hair walked to up to her seat behind the Sonozaki twin.

"Morning, Rika-chan." The girl greeted the young shrine maiden as the other greeted her as well

"Ohayo Rena." Rika replied as she put up a pure innocent smile on her face followed with a small nipa sound at end

"Ooo, omoshikaieri." Rena's eyes flashed as those words came out and as soon as it happened the class knew that this meant trouble.

"Rika, how many times have we talked about not doing that in front of Rena." Satoko said as both Shion and Mion tried their best to stop Rena from approaching the Furude miko.

"Demo, korei wa omoishiroye nano desu." Rika replied as she tried to play innocent by placing one of her finger on her lips.

"Rika, this is not going to work on me." Satoko said as a sweat drop formed on her head.

Then as the rousiness continued, suddenly the classroom door opened and the teacher Chie came in.

Quickly, the chaos disappeared and everyone returned to their seats. Seeing this, Chie-sensei nodded in delight as she began the class.

"Before we began, I will like to introduce a new friend to you all." Chie then turned towards the door and said, "Please enter."

At the sound of her voice, the door to the classroom opened up and a young man, or perhaps a boy to be precise, wearing plain white shirt and black pants walked into the classroom.

The boy attracted everyone's attention as he entered and they all watched as he stopped right next to the podium, eagerly waiting to find out who the boy was.

Immediately after he came to the front of the class, Chiea started to write on the blackboard and when she was done, she urged the boy to introduce himself to the class.

"I'm Maebara Keiichi. I just transferred from Tokyo. Pleased to meet you all." The introduction was quick and shortly after, the teacher assigned him to seat in the corner of the classroom.

As he began to walk towards, his eyes carefully surveyed everyone in the class, especially the older kids. However, his eyes stopped as it fell on Rika.

Rika watched him like the others as he walked passed her, but something stirred in her. Something told her that this boy was special. And as they looked straight into each other's eyes, there was something in him that attracted her as well, while she looked into the windows of his soul.

Soon afterwards, Keiichi took the seat assigned to him and class continued. Something bothered him, or to be more exact, someone. So ease that uneasiness, he looked at the girl whom had attracted his attention. Just as he looked at her, he noticed that she was looking back at him as well, but their gaze quickly returned to curriculum thinking that maybe it was just paranoia or something like that.

A month later…

"Keiichi, are you staying for club activity later?" Rika asked as she stood next to Keiichi's seat and watched as he packed up his bag.

"Of course." Keiichi answered without any hesitation.

Over the last month, Keiichi had grown close to all of his classmates, especially with Rena, Mion, Shion, Satoko, and Rika. However, despite all this, Keiichi became closer to Rika than the others, as if something had attracted them towards each other. But regardless, both felt that this level of relationship was good enough for now.

"Let's go then." Then Rika, with happy smile, took hold of Keiichi's hand and led him where their friends awaited them.

To be continued…

Completed: January 31, 2009

1st Edited: February 9, 2009

2nd Edited: February 20, 2009

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Author's Notes: I wanted to set up everything as much as possible like the original story while having the story development I want, so this is what I came up with. I certainly hope the feeling originally I intended for is there, after all, this is a romance drama. Anyway, in a couple of the scene, I actually used settings from the live action version instead of the anime since I believe that it would be a nice change for once. Another thing is that I have set Rika's age to be 12, which is the best estimate they have on the web. Anyway, hopefully you will all enjoy this story.

Translation:

[Jinja] means shrine, usually referring to Shinto shrines.

["Satoko, asa nano desu."] means "Satoko, it is morning already."

[Ohayo] means Good morning in Japanese.

[nipa] is a sound Rika likes to make, it has no literal meaning.

["Ooo, omoshikaieri."] means "I want to take it home." If you have never heard of it, go back and watch Higurashi anime again.

["Demo, korei wa omoishiroye nano desu."] menas "But it is so interesting."