Hello again, it's Abyss the Hedeghog(Don't ask, I wasn't myself when thinking about nickname). This time it's Higurashi/School Days crossover, but kept in rather lighthearted way. Do not worry, no kills should ensure... For now.

I recommend reading first twelve chapters of "Casper's School Days"(You can find it in School Days archive) in order to be sure what's going on.

Other than that, enjoy. :)

The name's Casper.

I'm a freshman in Sakakino Gakuen, school that had already gained the reputation of at least slightly suspicious. Why? Oh, maybe because the fact that deranged psycho murderer armed with a chainsaw killed at least three people. Two of her friends by pushing the victim from train platform and stabbing the victim with kitchen knife respectively, than some unlucky nurse got in a range of her chainsaw. Now the mentioned murderer is dead.

I know it, since I'm the one who almost died as her fourth victim... It turned out however... That now I'm the murderer.

Oh yeah, by my own hands I necksnapped the psycho. Funny thing, you know? After that I'd got so many nightmares that it's almost impossible to count... But everything went absurdly smooth. Police questioned me, sure, but they easily let me go after just a few general questions...

But I shouldn't think about it. Now, it's summer holiday's time... Now I should enjoy my free time along with my beautiful girlfriend.

Her name is Saionji Sekai. Funny, don't you agree? I'm in love with the "world"... Oh, sorry, I'm airheaded today. Anyway, she has many, many flaws, but so do everyone. There's no thing as "perfect". The only thing that matters is we're in love and we'll do everything for each other... Even if it means some unpleasant consequences.

We're sitting in some rusty bus, going into village called Hinamizawa. I know this place, it's infamous because of "Hinamizawa Syndrome", virus that causes the victim to act paranoid and violent, which later results in suicide by clawing your own throat. Lovely. Thankfully, cure was finally invented and applied cleanly to all infected. Now Hinamizawa is just an another rural village in the middle of nowhere. So, why do we go there? Oh, I've recently found out that Sekai has some relatives there. To add to the funniness, they appear to rule this village along with two others so-called "Grand Families of Hinamizawa", Furudes and Kimiyoshis. I don't remember their surname, but I do believe it was something on "S". Besides this, Hinamizawa used to be named "Onigafuchi", roughly translated to "Demon Village". I do believe it has something to do with Hinamizawa Syndrome... But now it's meaningless.

The bus rides at snail-pace. Sweet Alastor, it's actually even worse then our homely and almost-decayed Ikarus buses and it's quite an achievement. Thankfully, there was a possibility to open a window, because we would boil ourselves here.

Sekai is sleeping, with her head on my chest. Her trademark ahoge was standing around in almost adorable way. Eh, I will never get used to this thing. When asked about its origin, Saionji said something like "I have it since my birth". Is this even possible? I don't care, however, since there is literally no way of cutting that thing off. Gah, forget about it.

Finally, we're at the right place. After waking Sekai up, we're exiting the bus just to find ourselves on little, old-fashioned bus stop. The nearest buildings are pretty far from us, but I do believe a little walk in a sun can be very healthly.

"So, where should we go?" I ask her as she's the person more oriented in local geography. She ponders for a little while, then takes her cellphone.

"Gimme a moment, I call aunt Akane that we're here." She answers with this irritating cheerful smile of hers. There's something both atrocious and wonderful in her expressions... Oh well.

"Do as you will." I respond, sitting on bus stop's bench. It's very quiet here, only birds and occassional cars broke this silence... The air is clear, much healthier than this in city. It makes me feel wonder about everything that happened in the past...

Body of Natsumi Koizumi, still visible. Her eyes are lifeless, her neck - twisted. She looks into me... But I only shrug my arms. I do the right thing and I do believe everybody will agree with me... Though she left the mark, just to keep her remembered. Wide, but shallow scar, going through all of my chest. Got hit by a chainsaw and lived to tell the tale.

But looks like I'm getting carried away once again. Compose yourself, Casper, you're now on holidays.

"Hey, good news!" Sekai says, waking me up from these nightmares. "Mion and Shion are nearby, along with their club. They can pick us up and show us the village."

"Wait, what?" I ask, confused. Sekai laughs lightly.

"Oh, sorry, you don't know about them, do you? My two cousins, twins Mion and Shion, are living here. Mion is a Leader of local Games Club made of... seven members, students in local school. It's actually an interesting case, as there's only one class in the whole school, where kids from twelve to sixteen attend simultaneously."

"I see... So where are they?"

"Gimme a moment, I'll contact with Shion. She should has her cellphone with her." Sekai phones once again, giving me another moment of pondering about various events. Has she ever been here? There is a possibility, but considering her lack of knowledge about local geography, it could had been some time ago.

Given that Hinamizawa doesn't seem to have any characteristical landmarks... Another car passes by. This one is pretty old, I do believe it's some Mitsubishi from 80's. It's driven by some older man that appears to be in his mid or late fifties. He's got a cigarette in his mouth and looks as someone delighted by his life. He's somewhat distinctive, but I cannot tell why's that... I think some refreshing music will be the best solution in order to avoid unnecessary thinking.

A mind consumed with anger

From the womb I was insane

I cannot help but hate you now

Can't breathe cannot think straight

Like a wounded beast I long for your death

A vision of you dying is forming in my head

I look down on the things you stand for a believe

I crave control of subjects

I will take you to the final extreme

I want to kill you

Take away your life

In torture as you die

I want to kill you

Your death I want to feel

Create your corpse in murder fantasies

Oh yeah, tons of hatred and anger are the thing that, I do believe, can allow me to relax. Isn't it ironic? Suddenly, Sekai pokes me.

"Kreator again, huh?" She asks with sly smile. "You really need to listen to some other music.

"I listen to other music." I answer defensively. "Within Temptation, Powerman 5000, Sabaton..."

"All of them are metal bands, you know?" She's certainly amused.

"Also Scatman John." I say with slightly less enthusiasm. She seems surprised.

"Really? No, seriously?" She asks.

"Yeah. Before these four bands, there was this guy. I loved his songs. They were so peaceful, full of life and such... Then, some accidents happened..." I stopped for a short while to look at my left hand, marked with three scars. "And world finally showed its true face. Sometimes, when I'm depressed or something, Scatman's the only thing that can make me at least slightly better... Too bad he's not with us anymore."

"You know, when I was about eight, there was a big boom on his last album, "The Best of Scatman John"." Sekai says after a short while. "I used to listen to it and dance around the room..." She laughs with slight embarassment in her voice. I smile slightly.

"Yeah... Scatman was the man... No, he still is a man. In one of my upcoming stories, I shall include him living in Heavens, in his own World of Scat where people would go to listen to him and to acknowledge important lessons..." I murmur. "Ack, getting carried away, once again."

"It's okay." Saionji says with gentle smile and sits next to me. We' re hugging each other. Yeah, we're happy. We're, paraphrasing one butler, one hell of a couple.

"By the way, what about these Club thing?" I ask her when we finally separate.

"Oh, Shion said that they can go here. They should be soon... Oh, there they are!" Sekai says, while looking at the road. Truly, there are some people approaching from there. They're apparently teenagers as ourselves, though I can see one or two younger kids. Interestingly, there's only one guy in this group, surrounded by girls. Textbook harem, I would say... I would, but they're definitely friends, talking and laughing to each other. They're something that I do believe is called "Nakama".

Now that they're close enough, I can describe them slightly more properly. First of the girls that appears to lead the whole group, has long green hair tied in a ponytail(Resembling Ishida-san so, so much), exceptionally large chest and green eyes. She's wearing yellow shirt, jeans, white blouse tied to her waist and white sneakers. Her twin sister is much more girly-ish, with long straight her with yellow ribbon in it, cream sleeveless striped shirt, black mix of miniskirt and pencil skirt and white heels. Another girl, slightly shorter than mentioned two has short, bright brown hair and deep, blue eyes. She's wearing long white dress with purple ribbon tie, long boots and something that I can call a white beret. There's also two smaller girls: One with short blond hair and red-ish eyes, dressed in pink sleeveless shirt, jeans shorts and sneakers, second with long dark hair and purple eyes, dressed in green dress and white sandals. Finally, there's an only guy in this group, with short brown hair and eyes of an undetermined color, partially blue, partially violet. He's wearing black shirt with red, sleeveless vest on it, green shorts and blue shorts. Generally speaking, this vest looks ridiculously...

However, given that I wear my "badass" black leather long jacket and my trademark wide-brimmed hat, along with black garment, I shouldn't be the one to critize one's clothes.

"Hey, Mion!" Sekai shouts, waving her hand and smiling cheerfully. The group notices us and wave back. I pull out the earphones and turn off the MP-3 player. "Murder Fantasies" isn't exactly the best song for meeting new people.

We've been introduced to each other. Mion is the girl with a ponytail, so her twin sister must be Shion. Girl with beret is named Rena, blonde - Satoko and dark-haired - Rika. The guy introduced himself as Keiichi. Of course, me trying to be polite, some bows must ensue. Let's just say they were very surprised by this actions.

"Wow, there's no need to do things like that!" Mion said when I reffered to her as "Sonozaki-san". "I mean, I'm not older or something..."

"I just want to fulfill minimal rules of savoir-vivre." I explain, but actually it made me smile.

Now we're strolling through the village. Mion is constantly asking Sekai about "her boyfriend". Too bad that mentioned boyfriend is few meters further. Shion, on the other hand, seems to be more refined than her twin sister and I'm glad to see that. Rena and Keiichi, for a change, were asking me about various things such as nationality(It isn't hard to tell that I'm not Japanese), interests and so on. Both of them are actually quite likeable, though I think Keiichi's personality is more like my type. Rika and Satoko are a few steps before us. Well, at least they're not laughing at my trench coat... Thankfully, clouds managed to cover the sun, so there's more likely that I will not boil myself in the sun. Sorry, but badassness is before common sense.

"So, now you're here we can add you to our Club!" Mion's voice wakes me up from pondering. What club? Suddenly, I remind myself of Sekai's words. She was saying something about Games Club or whatever it is called.

"Oh, thanks, but..." I start, but Saionji interrupts me.

"We'll be glad to join." Yeah, here goes. I shrug my arms. If it's okay for her, I shall adapt to her actions.

"You know the rules, right?"

"Right..." I can tell she has no clue about mentioned rules and Mion's diabolical smile only makes me sure.

"Then... Race, people!" Suddenly, all of them accelerate and start to run. Wha...?

"H-Hey! Not fair!" Sekai shouts as she starts running along with the others. Intrestingly, Shion doesn't join them.

"Aren't you a part of this Club thing?" I ask.

"Only a honorary member." She responds with slight smile. "Thankfully, Onee isn't as cruel for me as for the others."

"Would you mind if I assist you? I don't feel like for running."

"And what about Sekai?"

"Come on, running in this?" I say jokingly, looking at my trench coat. "Besides, I'm pretty sure they're gonna talk a lot about "her boyfriend" and I wouldn't like to listen it." She smiles in answer.

"Okay then. Be warned, however, that the loser in so-called "punishment games" is... Well, punished, usually by doing or wearing something embarassing."

"I shall endure such thing."

"You know, with attitude like this, you'll give Kei-chan some time to rest." She says.

"You mean he used to lose everything?"

"From what Onee told me, yes. Once he was forced to wear ballerina's outfit." Shion giggles softly. "She's already preparing "swan trunks" for him."

"Swan trunks?" I repeat bluntly.

"Yes, with false swan's head and neck attached to it."

"Good Alastor, that's surely ludicrous. She must like him a lot." I say sarcastically.

"Actually, she does like him." Wait, what? "She has a crush on him. Sadly, Onee is too shy and tomboyish to admit her feelings and Kei-chan apparently hasn't notice it... But keep it a secret, okay? She would give me a run for my money for it." She laughs gently. I wonder why such gorgeous girl is still a single. Attractive both physically and mentally, gentle and refined, almost like a princess... Oh well, world can be cruel and hard to understand sometimes.

"You know, Sekai claims to be a pretty good shipper." I answer with slight anxiety.

"Really? If that's true, maybe we can pair these two!" She seems very happy with such a cliffhanger. I, slightly less. "Our three should meet in order to discuss it. Hey, what do you think about meeting tomorrow? We can talk about it in my apartment in Okinomiya."

"Don't you live here, in Sonozaki estate?" I ask, surprised.

"It's hard to explain this..." She seems slightly sadder than before.

"I see, I won't touch this topic again."

"Thank you. Kasai can pick you up to Okinomiya."

"Excuse me, who?"

"Oh, my... Well, bodyguard." She seems embarassed by this fact.

"You've got a bodyguard." It's more like statement than question, but I'm too surprised to add question mark. She looks at me in order to see if I'm laughing or something. Nope, nothing.

"Yeah."

"Bodyguard... Okay, you're from the family that controls Hinamizawa, okay... But, seriously, bodyguard?"

"What can I say? He was assigned by my current Sonozaki family clan to keep an eye on me."

"So, I assume he will be wearing a black suit and shades?" She finally smiles.

"Perfect description, I'd say." We're both bursting out laughing.

"It's incredible how different you are from your sister." I say after a while. "So, the myth about two totally different twins's personalities is true."

"It seems so." I've noticed that we're in front of white building that appears to be some kind of clinic.

"Just to make sure, where this race headed?" I ask confused.

"Probably to Hinamizawa School. It's about one kilometre from here, going east, by this road." She responds, pointing at the horizon.

"One kilometre, you say... I think I'll pass." I say without enthusiasm. "May I ask you why are you heading to this place?"

"Oh, I'm visiting my boyfriend."

"I do believe you want me to stay here or you don't mind assisting you?"

"If you want, you can stay in corridor."

We enter the clinic. It's supsiociously empty here, with only one person on corridor besides us. She appears to be a nurse, assuming from her outfit. She has long blond eyes, but something in her face tells me that this is the woman who's hiding many mysteries...

"Oh, hello, Shion-san." She says, noticing us. "Is that a friend of yours?"

"He's a boyfriend of our cousin." Green-haired girl explains. I bow officially.

"Wala Casper, pleased to make your acquaintance..." I say, stopping with realization that I don't know nurse's name.

"Takano Miyo." Woman introduced herself. "May I ask, why are you with Shion-san instead of your girlfriend? Just curiosity." She smiles, but, man, this smile gives creeps.

"It's a long story. Let's just say I'm not used to running when someone tells me to." I say after a short while.

"I see. So you've been invited to Mion-san's Games Club?"

"I prefer phrase "Forced to join", but let's call it that way." I say, allowing myself to smile. Takano-san smiles too, but again, her smile is the last thing I would like to see in the dark.

"Oh, Shion-san, I'm afraid that Irie-sensei is absent." She says to my companion.

"It's okay, I know the route." She answers. "Could you please wait here for a moment? I'll be back soon." She asks me.

"Will do." I answer, taking a sit on chair nearby. She smiles and walks away, disappearing in one of the rooms. Suddenly, my cellphone rings. It's probably Sekai.

"Casper speaking. Oh, hi. I'm in the local clinic, don't worry. No, I'm okay, no one tried to kill me or something. You're overreacting, woman. Yeah. Okay. Oh, I do believe along with Shion we can make it to there. And one more thing. Whatnot Mion is preparing, I will not wear it, got it? You say she'll force me to do so? Tell her that I really want to see it. Yeah, okay. Love you too. Bye." I hang up. Sweet Alastor, Sonozaki Mion really is persistent. Suddenly, some familiar presence announces itself in my mind.

Stratoavis. The last person I would like to see now.

"Hope I doesn't disturb you?" He asks with slight smile.

"As usual, you do. Go on though, what's this time?" I respond without enthusiasm.

"You should know that here, in Hinamizawa, there's an interesting being..."

"If you talk about Syndrome, give up already. I don't want to get a headache." I respond with growl. He just smiles mockingly.

"I'm not talking about the parasite, you dummy. I'm talking about..." His eyes flash with strange sparkle. "God." Complete silence.

"What "God"?" I ask bluntly.

"God means God, is there something hard to understand?" My evil twin chuckles. "However, we're talking about local deity."

"You've made a contact with some supernatural being? You do realize how absurdal is this?"

"What can I say... Her name's simply Shrine God, or Oyashiro-sama. You can ask this Furude girl about more info."

"Why her?"

"Because she's the one that keeps contact with Shrine God. Stratoavis, over and out."

Interesting... Maybe these holidays here won't be so boring...