Radiant Farmer
A/N: please take notes of the following.
"(…)" thoughts
"…" dialogues
Italic words (during a paragraph) Gray's thoughts… except for chapter 5 this is purely Claire's POV
Bold words emphasis
–- Change of POV/location.
This contains a few OCs. (original characters)
Expect very slow updates.
Animation of this series will be on November (finished or unfinished)
I do not own Harvest moon or any of the games associated with Natsume.
I will accept suggestions on grammar, spelling or diction. Thank you!!!
Most of the chapters are on Gray's POV. Except Chapter 5 it is mostly Claire's
And here Chapter 1
A blond haired boy with blue eyes was working for his grandfather at the workshop. He always wore a tan jacket and matching pants, he always wore a blue cap with UMA signed on it. He barely smiled and was always scolded by his grandfather, Saibara.
This time he was working on a brooch which used a glass design and silver frames. He pounded on the soft glass to make the rose effect.
"Gray, that's not right! Do it again!" scolded the boy's grandfather. Clearly mad at the boy for making the glass crack.
The blond looked at his work and it fell. "Ahh! Shit." Gray muttered. He got disappointed because he could not do his job correctly. And the old fart would shout at me then we would have a shout fight bla bla bla…
"Did I not tell you to be careful?" the old man said sarcastically. He was mad at his grandson for being so careless that he would shout at him after.
"I'm sorry for not being so perfect."
Gray has always been scolded by his Grandpa. Although he works his best it would simply seem like it was only crap to his old man.
"Keep this in mind you stupid boy. If you keep on making mistakes like that you will never be good!!!" Saibara lectured as he pointed at the broken glass.
"All you say is keep doing that and you will never be good! You don't even praise me for doing a good job!!!" Gray was officially pissed at his grandfather. 5 minutes had passed and it was 1pm and time for him to go back to the inn, but instead he went to the pond. When he arrived near the entrance, he saw a human figure and thought. What's that?? I should go check it out.
Gray went to the spring near the mines he saw a female figure entering the mines. A new girl here, in mineral town… in the mines… I wonder what she's doing here thought Gray.
Gray watched the girl mine and stared at her features. She has long blond hair, big blue eyes, slightly pale white skin and a pink checkered polo under her blue over alls.
Gray accidentally stepped on a stone that made a cracking sound; the girl was startled so she looked at the direction where the sounds came from.
Gray, who was shocked tried to hide behind the stones. Spying at the girl fascinated by the sight of her mining he watched as if he was stalking her.
The girl kept a watchful eye at the place where she heard the sounds. She looked around and then she said "hello is anybody there."… But there was no answer. So she took one stone and threw it at Gray's direction.
Gray seeing the stone evaded but let out a small gasp. Shocked at the site of the cracks on the stone the rock hit. C-C-Crap I'm fucking dead.
"Hello… anybody there… I hope it's not a r-r-rapist." The girl said frailly. She was afraid that the thing in the mine was a rapist.
WHAT!!! Do I look like a rapist?!? NEVER!!! Gray thought angrily. He clearly hated the label rapist.
Then the girl approached Gray and looked at him. Oh shit!!! she can see me Gray thought. He was filled with fright when the girl flashed her light upon Gray.
"Are you a rapist???" the girl asked. Trying to ready her if she needed to run away from Gray was actually a rapist.
"WHAT?!?" asked Gray sarcastically. "No way that's Impossible!!!" he continued.
"OK" the girl said. She can easily trust a guy if he said he's not a rapist. "My name's Claire." Claire continued.
Gray let out his never smiles face and looked at Claire the he finally said "the name's Gray, welcome to the boonies." He said to Claire.
Claire looked at him with confused eyes. "What's boonies." She asked not knowing what boonies means.
"Boonies is what I call this town… if you want the dictionary meaning then it means; the sticks, in the middle of nowhere. Usually associated with living out in the country. Or; A Podunk area of the state in which usually nothing, not even shit, happens." Gray answered. He seemed like he memorized the dictionary just in case somebody asks him the same question. "In the city there's so much things that happens… but here nothing." He continued
"I disagree there's loads of things to do here." She said then she told him "well me as a farmer, I got loads of things to do here." She then paused and continues "I always raise my crops, take care of my chickens, mine, and collect herbs and wildly growing fruits."
"Well that's what a farmer does, me as a blacksmith I have nothing to do." Gray said then he went from pissed mode to emo mode and said "I'm not good with people; I just don't fit in…"
"But Gray-" she said but was cut off when Gray started to speak.
"Well I think this town is like shit. I wanted to leave this place long time ago, but… my dear parents both passed away so I don't have any place to go to." Gray ranted. He loved his parents but they died in the end so he was forced to live at the town where his grandfather lives. "We think differently." He said.
"Oh" Claire answered not finding any loop hole so she can persuade him otherwise.
"I want to go back to the city… but I can't…" Gray said then he looked at the time "Fuck it's late I have to go…Damn… the inn might close" the blond boy left the mines without saying good bye.
But he heard Claire's voice say 'nice to meet you.'
The blond boy arrived at the inn but he only heard one topic… and it was about a new farmer.
He went to a brown haired boy and a brunette who was talking at the counter. "Hey what's the topic… is it about the new girl… Claire…" asked Gray.
"Well yeah Gray, it's about the new farmer. But it seems that only a few people have seen or talked to her…" said the brunette girl.
"Well she seems so busy that she hasn't even talked to one of us." The shy brown haired boy muttered
"Well I have talked to her" said Gray. (She hasn't seen or talked to anybody here but she seems so sociable… unlike me… an outcast.)
"Cliff do you want a drink?" asked the brunette.
"Sure Ann… thanks" Cliff said then he smiled at Ann shyly.
The blond who was thinking depressing thoughts walked towards his inn room then laid down and thought:
What's with this farmer, she doesn't socialize but is sociable, she is cheery and happy go lucky and she easily trusts a person. I think I'm just being shallow… I don't even know her well. The blond thought. He then took out a book from the library and read.
The brown haired boy entered the room. Cliff sat down on his bed he glanced at the serious blond. Out of his curiosity he asked "Gray what cha reading… you seem serious is that book interesting?"
"Yeah… It's just Mary's original novel…" replied the blond. He flipped a page and said "the title is 'Little footsteps in a farmer's life.' It's nice"
"Ok, Ann's telling me to read twilight or something… she wants me to have something to use her time for." Cliff said as he took a black book from the shelf.
End of chapter 1. –New Farmer-