A/N: Hello and welcome back! I know I have a lot of unfinished stories, and I promise that I will get back to them, but I really needed something totally and completely different to keep me writing at all.

So here you have it; I wrote a Kingdom Hearts story based on the many wonderful plots of Harvest Moon! No, it's not technically a crossover. I'm using my own town and shops and of course the wonderful characters of Kingdom Hearts. But to anybody who has every played Harvest Moon, the similarities are going to be quite apparent.

I even took the time to really think through where everybody would fit in, so don't hate on me too much! I put a lot of time and thought into this one, guys. And it's your favorite pairing too!

Without further ado, here's The End of the Road.

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One

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"Yo, Roxas! You ready to go see the town yet?"

I nearly dropped the plate I was putting in the cupboard when my neighbor and only friend so far just marched into my house unannounced. It would take awhile to get used to that; in New York we had three deadbolts and two chains on our door. "I'm in the kitchen!" I called, setting the plate up on it's shelf and closing the cupboard.

"You're unpacking now? I thought we were going to go explore!" Hayner leaned against the door frame, watching me wind around the open boxes in the kitchen.

"I just wanted to get a jump start on it. I had to unpack the food my mom brought anyways, so I just kind of kept going."

He snorted, "C'mon, everyone is dying to meet you. I think the triplets might physically explode if you stay holed up in here any longer."

"Triplets...?"

"You need to see it to believe it, Rox," he smiled, nearly dragging me out the front door into the blinding sunlight of high noon.

It had been about six hours since I officially moved into my new house in Destiny Township, a small backwater community with almost no connection at all to the outside world. So far I've met my cousin Ventus, who owns a Cafe in the Town Square and my neighbor Hayner, who runs the farm next door.

Right, did I mention that I was going to be running my own farm here? When my grandfather passed away last year, he left me his entire farm in his will with the stipulation that if I accepted the land, I had to move to the town and run the farm; I couldn't sell it. After dropping out of college when I was twenty, my life really wasn't going anywhere so I decided to do it. I left New York and moved out here to take over Twilight Farm.

"Hayner, wait up!" I called, struggling to catch up with him. He moved quickly, with a purpose. I'd always just meandered around the city like a loser. "So whose house is that?" I asked once I caught up to him, motioning to the farm across the path from mine.

"That's Eternity Ranch. Believe me, you never want to go over there. The guy who runs it is a total jerk. He and I are rivals, and I'm guessing that you and him will be too. He hates anyone who might serve as competition to his farm."

I raised an eyebrow, "Competition...? Don't we just sell to the local market?"

"Typically, yes. But I heard that he has some crazy deals with the neighboring city that bring him in an assload of cash," Hayner explained as we walked down the dirt path that led into Town Square.

"But how does he get the produce to them? My dad told me that nobody out here drives or anything."

He nodded, "He's actually the only one that has a vehicle. It's an old, beat to hell pickup truck that he uses to run out to the city a couple times a week. It's about an hour's drive to get there."

"So... If anybody needed anything from the city, he could get it right?"

"Technically, yeah. But everyone is terrified to ask him."

I shot him a curious look, "How scary is this guy anyways?"

"He has tattoos. On his face. And I heard that he moved here because his brother was murdered or something. It really fucked him up."

I turned to look over my shoulder at the large ranch, wondering if the owner was really as bad as they all thought. Living in the city I had dealt with plenty of tragedy and murder and while it could really fuck you up, it didn't mean you were a horrible person yourself. My best friend growing up had been murdered by a drug dealer when he was only twenty one years old... but if anything, I was a better person for it. It knocked my senses back into me and helped me straighten myself out.

"Okay, so I guess we'll just hit up the stores as we pass by," Hayner said as the Town Square came into view, "We'll hit up Town Hall first, say hello to the mayor."

I gulped, "The mayor...?" Back at home I didn't even know who the mayor was, and now I was saying hello the the man who ran the entire town?

"Yo, Eraqus! Get your sorry ass out here and say hi to the newbie!" he hollered as we stepped inside, scaring the living shit out of me once again. Was this just his thing? Bursting into people's homes and/or places of work and screaming for them?

"Hayner, what did I tell you about-?!" an older man came thudding down the stairs, "Roxas!"

I waved to him awkwardly, "Hi, nice to meet you."

"You don't remember at all, do you? I remember your mother bringing you up here when you were just a toddler! Now what are you, twenty six, twenty seven?"

"Twenty five, actually," my face flushed a little as I was pulled into an awkward hug.

He beamed, "Same age as my daughter! You'll have to go see her down at the Cafe."

"Oh, she works with Ventus?"

"She's been helping run the place since your uncle owned it," he told me, looking rather mayorly in his suit and tie. It didn't make much sense for living in a rural farming community, but then again... not too much made sense in this place anyways.

Hayner started to look antsy, "All right, we've got the entire town to see before dinner at the cafe, so we'd better get a move on."

"Stop by any time to chat, Roxas! See you at the cafe!" Eraqus called as I was again dragged out of Town Hall and onto the dirt path.

"What did he mean, Hayner? I thought it was just you and your wife and I having dinner tonight," I lifted a brow curiously.

He shrugged, "Lots of people have dinner there. That's kind of what it's for?"

"Sure..." I mumbled, something about the whole situation seeming skeevy to me. Hayner was hiding something, and I was a little afraid to find out what.

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A/N: So I know it might feel abruptly cut off, and that's because I was writing the first chapter and it was crawling into like 5,000 words without a break. As you know if you've read my previous work, I like to keep each chapter to about 1,500 words so that I can update more frequently and keep my sanity. So I broke the first chapter up and I'm going to be posting a bunch of chapters right away! So yay! That's exciting! See you next chapter, which is coming right up!

Simply Rexene