The Summer Six: A Harvest Moon Fanfic
Hey there! This is my first HM fanfic, even though I have wanted to do one for a looongg time. The story mainly features six Harvest Moon: ToT characters, but of course, I'll be having plenty of others pop in.
Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. (Even though I totally wish I did!)
It was a beautiful spring day in Waffle Town, and the breeze was blowing gently through the trees. Today would have been considered a perfect day for farming, but the town's favorite farmer girl was concerned with something much different than planting crops or chopping wood.
"I'm bored!" Akari cried, whining to Gill. She was carrying papers around Town Hall, helping the mayor's son in exchange for some extra cash.
The blond haired boy rolled his eyes. "Well, you have work to do, and until you finish it, there's nothing you can do about it." He flipped to the next page in the book he was reading before taking his eyes off of the farmer girl.
Sighing, she placed the papers in the appropriate cabinet before running up to Gill with a sad puppy dog look on her face. "I put all of the papers away!" She whined. "Can we please think of something that we can do?" She inched her face closer to his, wearing her best pleading look.
Gill turned his head away from her before caving in. "Fine. Let's go." With that, he got up off of the chair, and headed out of town hall with Akari following behind him like an obedient little puppy. "So, do you have any ideas for how you wanted to waste my time, or were you expecting me to do you the honor of coming up with an activity?"
Akari was about to speak, but before any words came from her mouth, she had sprinted off into the middle of the square, where a boy with peachish-orange colored hair was standing. "CHASE!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, enveloping him in a huge bear hug. She had forgotten that before work, Chase always came up to the town square for whatever reason.
The cook laughed a bit. "Haha, it's nice to see you, too, Akari. You seem to be full of energy as always." With those words, he carefully moved Akari's arms off of him and began walking towards the lone bench in the western part of the square. "So, what are you doing off work so early? I thought that you were working part-time at Town Hall now."
Akari beamed. "I got really bored, so I begged Gill to do something with me, and he said yes!" She pointed to the blond haired boy, who was standing near Town Hall with an angry expression on his face. "COME HERE, GILL!" She called out, causing him to walk towards her, looking as if he was being tortured.
"I see that you have Chase to entertain you now, so it is evident that you don't need me," he said, looking as if he desperately wanted to get out of whatever Akari was planning.
"Nonsense!" She said, a stupid smile glued to her face. "It's like they say- the more the merrier, right?"
Gill muttered something under his breath before taking a seat on the bench. "So, what are you intending to do?" He said, looking at the farmer girl.
"Well...." She started, before drifting off into her own thoughts, racking her ideas for what she could do with Chase and Gill. All of a sudden, her face lit up. "I know! Summer is coming up, and there's never anything to do in Waffle Town in summer. So, why don't we do something fun every single day of summer?" A look of pride crossed her face as she looked back and forth between the two boys, daring them to say something bad about her plan.
"Actually, that doesn't sound half bad," Chase muttered, looking as if he was thinking her plan over. "But wouldn't things get old with just the three of us?"
Almost as if on cue, Maya ran into the square, clutching a small bag. "Chaseeee~," she called out in almost a sing-song way. "I baked some cookies, and I really want you to try them."
As Chase slowly backed away from the orange haired girl, Akari made her way over to her. "Maya! Want to be part of our summer plans? We're going to do something every single day!"
A big smile appeared across Maya's face. "Sure! What things are you going to do on those days?"
Akari hadn't thought about that. "Umm...I don't know yet. Maybe we should all head to the Soufflé Inn and think about it. I can always think better on a full stomach!" She was starting to get hungry, as Gill never allowed any lunch breaks when she worked at Town Hall. She looked over at Gill and Chase, the latter of which was still trying to avoid eating one of the dreadful cookies. "HEY GUYS, WE'RE HEADING TO THE INN TO THINK OF SUMMER PLANS. COME ON!" With that, she linked arms with Maya, and skipped off towards the inn.
The foursome from the square were all sitting around the table, enjoying a meal that Chase had cooked up while talking about some ideas for the summer which had included doing taxes (Gill's idea, everyone else practically threw their bread at him when they heard it), having a dance party (Akari's, no one else wanted a dance party that lasted all summer, and having Maya cook a meal for everyone (obviously no one agreed to this one).
Just before Akari was about to suggest having a wedding for her cat and dog, a blue haired boy wearing a fire print bandana walked in, arguing with a blond girl with her hair pulled back in a pony tail. "It's Luke and Kathy!" The farm girl called out, waving them over. "Maybe they can help us!" She beamed at them, and the two stopped arguing and each took a seat at the table.
"What were you guys arguing about, anyway?" Chase asked twirling one of his stray pieces of hair with his finger.
"Luke took my horse without asking me," Kathy muttered, shooting a glare at the blue haired boy. "He said that he wanted to have a 'horse adventure,' whatever that means." She did air quotes as she spoke the words "horse adventure."
Gill rolled his eyes at that comment. "Well, Akari here is looking for some summer plans, and for whatever reason, she must believe that you two are helpful in some way."
"We haven't been able to agree on anything!" Maya whined. "We all want to do some different things."
Just then, it hit Akari like a baseball flying at ninety miles per hour. "Let's all come up with some ideas, put them in a hat, and pull one out each day! Whatever we pull out is the thing we have to do that day!" She paused for a moment before continuing. "Well, there are twenty-eight days of summer, right? So, we each should come up with five ideas, and two of them just won't end up getting picked."
Everyone but Gill nodded in agreement. After Akari had passed them napkins to write their ideas on, everyone jotted down five things that they wanted to do. Once everyone had finished, Akari took the thirty napkins and put them in her rucksack.
"I want to draw the first one!" Maya shouted energetically, and reached into the sack before pulling out a napkin. "'Impressions of the people of Waffle Town,'" she read.
"Well, let's all meet in the town square tomorrow!" Akari said before getting up and running towards her farm. She couldn't wait for summer to start.
There's the intro chapter! Chapter one is coming soon (I hope) and there will be lots of fun things in it, and hopefully I'll get some of the other Waffle Town residents involved. All of the chapters will be told from the point of view of the person whose chosen activity is being done in that chapter, so next up is Gill! Why did he choose to do impressions? Stay tuned to find out~