Disclaimer: I don't own Harvest Moon or Rune Factory…
Life on the Mist Farm
First Week of Summer: Beach Daze
It was finally summer and to the citizens of Kardia, it means the beaches are open. Raguna decided to go out to the beach that day since he had to sew new crops anyway. He was able to find some swimming trunks and started to head out to the beach.
"Hey Raguna!" Mist yelled as Raguna started to turn around to face her.
"Hey Mi…" he couldn't finish his sentence as when he looked at her in a bikini, he turned into a very deep shade of red.
"Hey what's wrong you look like you swallowed a bug, oh are you burning up?"
"No… it's probably just the weather… it is summer after all…"
"I guess, but without all of that red, you do look pretty hot," which ended up causing both of them to blush. "I can't believe I just said that," she thought.
"I can't believe she just said that, wow… uh…" after a few seconds of looking embarrassed, Raguna finally said, "so you want to head to the beach before we bake?"
"That sounds good!"
"Alright let's go then!" She ran up to him grabbed his arm and the two of them walked together. While walking there he caught himself staring at her. "Wow, she looks… really… oh god…" he could swear he started to nosebleed a little bit, and the fact that she was grabbing his arm and was so close to him didn't help either. Mist started to stare at him at this point smiling at him, until she looked at the nosebleed.
"You're nose is bleeding Raguna! Are you okay?" Raguna stared at her in order to respond to her… except the way she was staring at him made him nosebleed faster that he originally was.
"Yeah… I'm okay… I just… uh… t-tripped this morning… yeah…" hopefully avoiding the fact that he was staring at her like that.
"Oh, I see, wellI hope it stops soon, otherwise the other girls might think you're a little bit of a pervert, but I know you're not like that!" which was lucky for Raguna since Mist was a little naïve.
"Oh, really, well let's hope… ha ha ha…"
By the time the both of them got there almost everyone in the village was in the beach in their swimsuits. Cecilia and Nicholas were both swimming together with Sabrina, Tori was reading her books, Melody was just drifting as if she was in her bath house, and Felicity was just sitting on the pier. Luckily for Raguna, he nosebleed stopped so he can finally start swimming with everyone.
"Hey Raguna, Mist!" Camus yelled from across the beach.
"Hey Camus! We'll be there in a sec!" and while both Mist and Raguna started running towards Camus, Zavier finally made it to the beach.
"All right now! Time to show Mist my impressive physique, then she'll be sure to fall for me!" even though his physique weaker than Raguna's, which he didn't like to admit at the time. "So now, Mist should be around here somewhere… ah there she is…" he couldn't help but stare at her… and then he fell over with a massive nosebleed. Rosetta followed behind him and saw him on the ground with the nosebleed.
"Pervert…" was the only thing Rosetta said to Zavier when she walked off towards the beach.
Back to Camus, Raguna and Mist, Camus decided on a great idea to do on the beach.
"What about a race to the water?" Camus suggested.
"A race? Heh, you're on!"
"Mist, you mind being the finishing point?"
"Sure!" Mist ran into part of the water to mark the finish. "Are you two ready?"
"Hey Raguna, they said you were tough, but you won't beat me."
"Well, I guess I have to prove why they say I'm though!" Mist waved her hands in order to signal the start and the two ran off.
Zavier on the other hand was able to recover.
"Man, what happened, one second I was just walking towards the beach, and then next I saw…" he just happened to stare at Mist again and then get knocked out with a huge nosebleed. Lady Ann was able to stop to find him on the ground.
"Zavier… geez, what am I going to do with you…" Lady Ann ended up picking him up and placing him to where her and Tori are sitting.
As for the race…
"Well who won?" both Raguna and Camus asked Mist.
"Well uh… you actually both got my hand at about the same time…"
"There has to be someone that touched your hand before the other."
"I'm sorry… I really couldn't tell, you guys were dead even."
Camus, a bit disappointed sighed and said, "oh well… you know, you're pretty good there Raguna, for a farm boy."
"You're not so bad yourself Camus."
"Well then, if you want a rematch, you know where to find me" After that Camus ran off to talk to Melody.
"So what now?" Raguna asked.
Just then Mei jumped out of the ocean with a fish in hand and landed near the both of them, nearly scaring Mist and Raguna. But then tripped and fell backwards causing the fish to slip out of her hands and back into the ocean.
"Hey Mei, did you catch that fish with your bare hands?" Mist asked.
"Yeah… until you guys scared it off…" Mei said.
"Well, technically it was you who scared us, and then you probably tripped in the sand…"
"…Well… who's asking! You two can't do any better!"
"But we don't know how to catch fish with our bare hands…" Raguna said.
"That sounds like a challenge there!" the three turned to face who said that to find Rosetta there.
"Rosetta? Don't tell me you know how to catch fish with your bare hands?"
"…actually no…" Rosetta said scratching her head, "But it seems like something fun!"
"I guess you have a point…" Raguna said reluctantly, "well then why don't we do it!"
"Yeah, it'll be fun!" Mist said.
And the two of them ran off and swam out to the middle of the ocean to hopefully catch some fish… which actually was harder than it looked. In many cases they ended up butting heads because they were chasing the same fish. At some point the sand underwater kicked up making them blind underwater. Raguna was trying to feel around for any fish around him and was able to grab something he thought was actually pretty big. He brought it to the surface after a small fight with it.
"I got one!" Raguna yelled with his eyes still closed. Unfortunately.
"Um Raguna…" He finally wiped his eye from the sand underwater to find that… "Um… Hi…" he ended up catching Mist. "This is kind of embarrassing…"
"WHA!" Raguna ended up turning red again. Unfortunately Rosetta heard a little commotion so she swam to the top to see what happened.
"Hey Raguna, did you catch something?" when Rosetta finally opened her eyes, Raguna was still holding on to Mist and he was still deep red. "Hehehe, Oh I think I know what happened here?"
"Wait Rosetta," Raguna said finally letting go of Mist, "It's not what it looks like!"
"Or so you say… I didn't know you were like that… you know, you're really cute when you're pouty red."
"Rosetta, it was an accident!" Mist said trying to defend Raguna.
"You guys are a really dirty couple aren't you?" which ended up turning Mist red and the both of them screaming.
"WE'RE NOT!"
About two hours of trying to catch fish, along with some verbal abuse from Rosetta, the four of them finally caught… something.
"Alright, this will do!" Mei gloatingly said, "How did you three do?"
"Well…" the three of them said together holding up very small salmons.
"oh well, we can't all be expert fish catchers."
"Well we don't exactly do this everyday!" the three of them yelled.
"Well where I come from, we could all catch fish with our bare hands, it helps us get in tune with the rivers and the oceans."
"…but we don't come from your villiage…"
"I guess that's true, oh well, time to hang this little one up, later!" She said running off.
"You know, she says she's older than she looks…" Raguna said throwing his small fish back into the ocean.
"I'm starting to question that…" Rosetta said throwing her fish back.
"I second that…" Mist said also throwing her fish back as the three of them sighed.
"Oh well, I'm going to head back." Rosetta said.
"But why? It's still pretty bright outside!" Mist told Rosetta.
"Well, I have to go do something at the shop and besides, I think I can escape without Lukas finding me."
"I guess, well later Rosetta."
"Later!" and with her gone, they're left without anything to do again.
"So… what now?" Raguna said, which left a bit of a smirk on Mist's face.
"How about this?" Raguna turned to face her to get a splash of water in his face. "tehe, I got you!"
"Oh really?" Raguna started to splash Mist a little bit also as she tried to run away and splash him again.
"I won't lose to you!"
"We'll see about that!" The two of them were going at it for a while continuously trying to splash the other. That is until…
"I've got you now! woah!"
"Mist are you alrig…" Mist ended up tripping landing on Raguna. Unbeknownst to them, Camus and Melody were walking near them while they were still on the ground.
"So Melody, I was just wondering if you have some time, if you want to hang out?"
"Camus you know I devote much of my time to the bath house."
"But still you have breaks don't you?"
"Well I do but… huh? Oh"
"Huh? What is… oh I see what's going on here." The both of them started to smirk as they say Mist and Raguna on the ground, eyes wide open, Mist on top of Raguna and their lips touching. "I didn't know you guys moved that fast!"
Both of them broke out of their 'kiss' and futilely tried to persuade them otherwise.
"It was an accident, I tripped and…" Mist was saying before getting cut off by Melody.
"And Raguna cushioned the fall and you were so thankful you kissed him!" Melody said with a fangirlish yell at the end.
"No! That's not what happened!"
"Or maybe you did it on purpose!"
"Melody, it wasn't like that." Raguna said trying to defend the both of them.
"Maybe you should teach Lukas one of these days, maybe he might actually win Rosetta's heart." Camus interjected.
"But we didn't kiss on purpose!" Raguna and Mist both said.
"Oh we understand, it was just an 'accident' right?" Melody said.
"No we…" but the two of them couldn't get a word in with Melody rambling on like that.
"Oh, you guys make such a cute couple!"
"But we're not!"
"Sure, I get it! We'll keep this secret to ourselves." Melody started to walk away giggling to herself.
"Well then, see you later you two!" Camus said also walking away with Melody leaving the two of them alone, blushing very hard, so much so that they couldn't look at each other without blushing.
"So… um…" Mist tried to speak to Raguna without being so embarrassed, "it's starting to get dark soon, do you want to go in now?"
"Yes, that would be good!" Raguna said rather quickly.
"Um… I… uh… do you… want to… I mean… do you want to walk home together?"
"Oh…" still very embarrassed he ended up saying, "I… uh… I was going to talk… to… um…" starting to look around for something, "talk to… ah Russel, I was gonna talk to Russel about something before leaving…"
"Oh… um… I guess that's okay… I have to stop by Rosetta's place before going home…"
"Yeah, I guess that's alright too…"
"Um…"
"Uh…" The both of them were too shy to speak to each other at this point so they said their good byes and headed to where they said they were going off to (though they ended up heading straight home when the other wasn't looking.
The next day, Raguna was working on the farm seeding his summer crops when Mist arrived on the farm as usual to check up on him. Though she was a bit hesitant today and was still blushing when she saw him. Raguna looked up noticing her and then looked back down blushing as well. There was a huge awkward silence between the two of them as the both of them tried to stare at each other but were too shy to look for longer periods of time. It was only when Raguna decided to take a break when they started to look at each other more comfortably. But even still, they were too shy to go though with actually speaking to each other until…
"Hey Raguna…" Mist finally said.
"Yeah Mist?"
"Um… about yesterday…"
"Y-yeah, what about it?"
"Um… I… a… well… I just wanted to say that… it was fun yesterday…"
"Yeah… it was fun!"
"So… um… Raguna… about that time… yesterday, when I tripped… and I…"
"A-and you…"
"Fell on you and… that… happened…"
"Oh… that…"
"Um… that 'kiss' was accidental…"
"Yeah, I kind of figured as much…"
"Well… I mean it wasn't bad or something like that..."
"I guess given the circumstances… it could have happened to anyone… I mean, Rosetta or Mei or someone else could have…"
"Y-y-yeah, that's right, it could have happened to anyone else!"
"Except this time it just happened to us." Raguna somehow didn't realize that he started to get closer to Mist and Mist didn't realize that he was getting closer. The both of them blushed ferociously and when they finally did notice each other, they immediately turned their heads to the side.
"I mean it's not like you're an unattractive person," Mist said, obviously not catching her words, "I-I think that you look really cute…"
"I guess, and you're really pretty too, I mean, at least that's how I think…" Raguna said, also not paying attention to what he was saying.
The both of them at this point really didn't know what they were saying OR doing, as if they were being controlled by a magical force as they began to approach each other closer and were looking at each other intimately.
"The thing is," the both of them said getting closer to each other, "I…" they soon got closer and closer to each other until they started to feel each other's breath. Then Raguna put his hand on Mist's cheek, Mist wrapped her arms around Raguna, they closed their eyes, and finally went into a deep kiss. They were like this for roughly five seconds until they finally realized what they were doing. When they did, they shot their eyes open and broke the kiss making them reinvent the color red.
"Raguna, I'm sorry, I didn't mean…"
"No… Mist I…"
They were going back and forth telling the other that they were sorry that they kissed each other until they turned their heads towards the city to find the last person they wanted to see…
"R-r-r-rosetta?" the both of them yelled.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Rosetta said with a devilish look on her face.
"Rosetta," Mist asked timidly, "exactly how long have you been there?"
"Long enough to see you two lovers kissing each other," and Raguna and Mist's faces turned from tomato red to pale gloomy color.
They turned to face each other gloomily telling each other, "we're never going to hear the end of this are we?"