AN: after looking over and over my story...and trying to over come writers block along with countless other things in life I realized that the MC for this story...my one lonely story... was named Syne...and I also realized my account name that others see had Syne in it...stupid me stupid stupid stupid! Akari's character in this was not my personality at all. I'm not representing my self, I just see Akari in Harvest Moon as kinda sad and depressed, having to fake a smile and thinking at the same time "oh sh!t, now what am I supposed to do?" it's just how I see her character in the games and it's how I am representing her in this story, K? AND I WILL SAY THIS ONCE FOR THIS STORY! I DON'T OWN HARVEST MOON, Natsume owns it ...I wish I did...it's be all sorts of skrewy if i did though haha!

I sighed as I looked at the sky and stretched towards the clouded expanse. The wind picked up my hair, short as it was, and blew it as if trying to take it along.

The wind brought with it the smell of manure, looking to my right I took a peek into the old barn that came with the new land. An almost unusable coop stood beside it and the broken down old house that I just stepped out of too. The house had holes in the roof and walls, just as the coop and barn did, it was amazing it hasn't fallen down yet, looked as if it should.

I turned away from the ancient shelters and turned my attention to the small field of half grown crops and small cherry orchard. Walking towards it to try and mend a bit of the mishap with my new hand-me-down watering can, I wondered who had possibly taken care of them before I came here.

My heavy leaky tool reminded me that I had a debt to pay to the mayor, Hamilton, I believe his name is. Finn chimed in just then as if reading my thoughts.

"Nothing comes free...and it's not like five thousand gold is much." his high pitched voice said from about a foot above my head.

He zipped in and then back out of the money pouch I kept at my hip.

"Ok, at this point it is a lot." he sighed "LOOK! Those turnips look ready to harvest! Let's sell them!"

I shot a glare at him for reminding me that I have no money, as I walked over to the newly watered field.

Three turnips, as big as my head. I stuffed them into my pockets for temporary storage. As if like magic they fit. After harvesting, I moved onto weeding.

Remembering what Finn told me earlier about the Harvest Goddess, I started my way up the path northwest of my new home.

Winding my way up the dirt path, I came to a broken bridge that crossed a river that came from a waterfall to the right. A man, no a boy, a few years younger than myself, stood contemplating it, tilting his head from one side to another.

"Hey! Are you ok?" I called walking closer.

"Huh? Oh, yea I'm fine. It's just that the bridge is down and now I have to fix it. Boss might be angry if I don't." he said, a bit dismayed, then suddenly left out a chuckle "Then again, he's too lazy to be able to come yell at me if I didn't."

Smiling, he closed the distance between us further. I made me want to back away as he invaded my personal space but I stubbornly held my ground. He held out his hand for me too shake.

"I don't believe I've seen you before. Are you new?" He asked, the sun making his hair yellower.

"Yea, just moved in. The broken down farm just south of here is mine now." I said kindly. Finn broke my concentration when he murmured something along the lines of "Of course you're new! No one here knows you!"

It's good that I'm the only one who can see and hear him, makes it easier to ignore him at times.

"Is there anything I can do...err?" I asked but fell short as I realized I didn't know his name.

"Bo. My name is Bo. And yours is?"

"Akari." I answered.

"Well, Akari, there is something you could do for me." something in his eyes flashed, and he gave me a rather creepy grin. It made me want to back away again. "My toolbox is with the mayor. He should be in Harmonica Town. Could you go grab it for me?"

"Sure." I said rather uncertain." See 'ya in a bit."

"I'll be waiting." something in his voice told me he'd do more that that, as I turned and left the way I came.

"He's a creep." Finn's voice came from the left of my head this time.

I looked over to his small form. It was beginning to amaze me how de wasn't upside down, seeing as his head was bigger than his body. Maybe twice so.

"Yea, he was." I said and the creeped-out emotions I felt could be heard in my voice.

"And you tried being nice to him." retorted the sprite, drawing out the word 'you.'

"I was always told 'keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.'" I replied.

"And what about rapists? How close does a rapist need to be?" Finn said meanly. I just glared at him.

As I passed by the house I dropped off the turnips into the shipping bin. I stood by it and looked down the dirt path to the fork in the road, one way went east, the other west.

"Finn, do you have any clue on which way Harmonica Town is?" I asked crossing my arms and furrowed my brow.

"Err..." he closed his eyes and tilted his head down.

"Why don't you just look at your map?" an unfamiliar voice said.

A guy, a bit older than me, walked up the path from the east.

"Hamilton did give you one when you moved, didn't he?" he said.

A clueless look crossed my face for a second until I remembered. In my pocket, I put the map in my pocket.

I muttered thanks to the stranger and dug my hand into my pants pocket, reaching for the map. When opened it revealed more things than I thought it would.

I looked closely at it and found that there were some buildings, mostly shops I'd assume, bolded out more than others, with given names near them.

What I wasn't expecting it to show, were the people, who they are and where they stood that moment.

I found myself and looked next to it. The map had 'Toby' scrawled under a head that looked relatively similar to the man who stood next to me.

"Toby?" I said, trying the name more than asking it as I looked up at him.

"Huh?" he said, surprised, his eyes opened and were a flashy golden colour that went well with his toe-head hair.

" You're Toby, right?" this time I asked.

"Yes, but how did you know?" Toby answered.

"Lucky guess." I didn't really think he would believe me if I told him about the map.

"Anyway, thanks." I said again and walked off, west to the town.

Pastel, the town. Harmonica Town was pastel.

Coming across the bridge, the first building I saw was labeled 'Town Hall' in nice big letters. A mayor would normally be in the town hall right?

Upon entering, I saw I right. The short plump middle aged man wore an out of era blue suit. I was Mayor Hamilton, his silver hair in his very odd do.

"Mayor Hamilton?" I called as I came in.

"Yes? Oh, Akari, it's you." stating the obvious first he continued, " You probably haven't met many of the towns folk yet. Why don't you go do that now?"

I was practically shoved out, to the street.

"Just cause he's busy doesn't mean he has to kick us out." Finn pouted.

I chuckled at the little sprite, but he was right, My esteem was still dropping a little when I stepped over into the camera shop that was to the right of the town hall.

It was now 14:00 hours. The towns people were quite nice if now off their rockers. I met Toby again at the Fishery, it was owned by either his uncle or his father, I couldn't remember.

I strode back over to the town hall to tell Hamilton that I did as he asked.

"Akari, I see you met the people in town now. "

'That's why I'm here again.' I thought to myself.

"Here why don't you take this to Bo. He should be trying to fix the bridge." Hamilton handed me Bo's toolbox.

I had no want to go back anywhere near Bo again but I decided I had to, to get to the Goddess.

As I walked back to the bridge my mind trailed off to how one were to attain a godhead, or why one would want it. That would be a lot of stress.