Ness parked in front of the entrance to the pumpkin patch. He wasn't alone though. He had his right-hand man, and totally not obvious boyfriend, Lucas in the passenger's seat, and his best friends in the two seats behind them-Toon Link and Popo. Ness turned the car off and turned around to look at Toon Link and Popo. "Y'all ready?" Ness asked. Toon Link and Popo exchanged glances and had the same idea. They looked back at Ness.

"Listen, I don't exactly like the idea of third-wheeling for you two," Popo started. This caused Ness to throw up a "WHAT! You're crazy" type of look. "Uh-huh, wipe that face off your…...face…..ok I'm out." Popo, having successfully unsuccessfully made an insult….or maybe it was meant to be a joke, left the car. Toon Link groaned.

"Way to ruin it, Popo. Alright, what we were trying to say before Popo butchered it," Toon Link said. Popo, from outside the door, stuck up his middle finger. Toon Link did the same toward him, just without looking directly at him. "What we meant was that we are going to allow you lovebirds to relax on this 'totally not meant to be a date'...date.

"WHAAAAAAAAT! A date!? Pffffft I would never date such a handsome, brave, dominant…..big—" Lucas was cut off by Ness putting his hand over his mouth.

"Just…...just shush. You're not helping our situation," Ness said.

"Ok." Toon Link grinned a "gotcha" grin. He then simply got out of the car and joined Popo in leaving. Lucas and Ness watched as they paid the man at the entrance to enter. "They're totally plotting something."

"Of course they are." Ness looked at Lucas and grabbed his chin, Lucas's absolutely favorite thing Ness does that isn't rated-r. Ness leaned in and pecked Lucas's lips. "Now then, shall we get started? You don't wanna be late to the apple picking." Lucas giggled cutely.

"I'd love to." The two boys left the car and started toward the entrance. They bought their tickets and made their way toward the first thing Ness wanted to do. It was simple. All that it entailed was picking a pumpkin or squash. They walked over to the corner of this sector and looked through the smaller pumpkins. Lucas chuckled as he grabbed a pretty normal looking pumpkin and showed it to Ness. "LOOKIE!" Ness raised an eyebrow, confused as to why a very simple and boring pumpkin would get him so happy.

"Uhh, what about it?"

"It's cute!" The only thing Ness found cute about the pumpkin was how small it was compared to the rest of the others.

"Uhm…..it's more…..basic." Lucas lowered the pumpkin and held a blank face.

"Yeah, and I'm a blond-haired, blue-eyed, gay bottom."

"Touche." Ness scanned over the other pumpkins and found one that caught his fancy. He grabbed a pretty large pumpkin and surprised himself by being able to hold it with minimal problems. Ness waddled over to the counter with a familiar man-Byleth-standing behind it. Ness placed the large pumpkin on the counter, causing a small tremor. Lucas skipped over and placed his smaller one next to Ness's. Byleth looked at the boys from between the pumpkins.

"Wow, Ness, are you overcompensating for something," Byleth laughed. Lucas grinned.

"Trust me, teach, he's not overcompensating for anything." Byleth's smile disappeared. He looked between the two boy's faces and saw the same look. Byleth clapped.

"Ok then, I'll just move on, uhhhhhh."

"Umm, teach, the pumpkins," Ness reminded Byleth.

"Oh, r-right, I knew that." Byleth cleared his throat. Not really destroying the thoughts of his two troublesome, and strangely always involved with something, students partaking in….unholy acts. "So, these uh….these cost…...oh forget it. They're on the house. Just…..just please get out of here so I can focus."

"Oh?" Ness smugly said. He rested his head in his palm, with his arm on the counter. "Is our esteemed teach thinking of Lucas and I doing the do? That's very naughty of you teach."

"If you don't leave right now both of the pumpkins will cost $1000."

"Welp, let's go, Luke." Ness grabbed Lucas's collar and dragged them off.

"TAKE CARE OF MY PUMPKIN TEACH!" Lucas called out. Byleth rolled his eyes and moved the pumpkins from the countertop and placed them on the floor, in preparation for the boys to come back and pick them up.

The boys continued walking through the pumpkin patch, setting their eyes on a small booth that was selling bags of popcorn. "You're not really doing much to hide our relationship," Lucas said.

"You're one to talk," Ness responded. The two of them stopped at the booth and bought a bag of popcorn each from the vendor…..which they also knew. Ken Masters. He was actually heating up the popcorn with his own flames of "chi" as he called it, but the boys just thought he was able to shoot regular fire. They paid for the popcorn and turned away.

"Hey, boys…" Ken started. They turned their heads, with Lucas's mouth full of popcorn. "There's a special fireworks show that's being played for you later, so watch out for that."

"Why—" As Lucas said that a piece of popcorn fell out of his mouth. Ness placed a hand on Lucas's shoulder and stepped forward.

"Why?" Ness asked in Lucas's stead.

"I don't know. I was just paid to tell you that," Ken said. Ness, still very confused as to why a whole fireworks show would be played for them, turned to Lucas.

"This must be what those two a plotting." Lucas swallowed the rest of the popcorn in his mouth.

"Can we go apple picking now?" Lucas excitedly asked. Ness saw the excitement and eagerness in Lucas's eyes, causing a lighthearted and happy chuckle to come out of him.

"Fine fine, let's go."

"YAY!"

The boys made it to the apple picking section of the pumpkin patch. There were loads of trees with red delicious apples grown on them. Lucas was practically hopping as he and Ness were getting their apple baskets. They then started toward the furthest and most full tree. Even during their walk, Lucas was hopping excitedly. "You're really pumped for this."

"OF COURSE I AM! I love apples." Ness always loved how easily pleased Lucas was. He also knew there was an ulterior reason why Lucas was so pumped up to pick apples. They made it over to the tree that had caught their attention for the loads of apples growing from it. Lucas looked at Ness with the smirk Ness knew was coming. Ness playfully rolled his eyes before kneeling down. "YES!" Lucas climbed on Ness's shoulders so when Ness stood up Lucas was able to reach for the apples. Lucas looked down with a thankful smile.

"Whatever, just…..just grab the apples already."

"Oh come on, you know you enjoy being right between my legs," Lucas winked. Ness grew a faint blush before looking away with a smirk.

"Just hurry it up." Lucas chuckled as he reached up to grab a few of the smaller apples. He placed them in his basket, his smile only growing as he grabbed more and more.

"Ok Nessy, I'm done." Lucas jumped off of Ness's shoulders and excitedly showed off his basket. Ness looked in and found Lucas's small apples. Ness looked up at Lucas's proud face.

"Why am I not surprised by these?" Lucas's proud face disappeared.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Ness playfully stuck out his tongue before looking up at the tree. "So…..are you gonna help me get up there?"

"Hell no. You're heavy?" Ness crossed his arms before looking back at Lucas. Lucas flamboyantly walked away, leaving Ness to pick the apples without any help. Ness climbed up the tree and had to pick the apples carefully or else he'd fall. Ness was able to successfully do it. He slid down the tree and walked over to the counter near the entrance to the apple picking section, where Lucas was calmly eating an apple. Ness placed the basket on the counter.

"Thanks for the help."

"Yeah, no problem."

They traveled through the pumpkin patch. They stayed away from the attractions they weren't intrigued by. Eventually, they made it to the wagon travel. They weren't alone though. Paula and Ana were also there. This only made the boys know that there was definitely a deeper plot. Paula and Ana played like they didn't know the boys were also in the line for the wagon. Ana leaned toward Paula. "They're here," she softly and quietly said. Paula giggled.

"Good, tell TL and Popo it's time," she said. Ness saw the two girls chatting. He turned toward Lucas.

"Why do we always fall for their traps?" Ness asked.

"I dunno…..I just wanna ride the wagon," Lucas happily pointed at the large wagon.

"Nevermind, I know why." The line climbed onto the wagon. This was finally when Ana and Paula sat next to the boys.

"Surprised to see you here," Paula said, crossing her feet. Ness glared at her with an unamused face. He leaned his head in slightly as his head turned slightly determined and angered.

"We will not fall for your traps again Paula. We're done being your playthings." Paula laughed.

"You say that, but you know damn well Lucas is too dull to realize when he's walking into my trap." Ness peered back at Lucas and saw him completely distracted by the night sky and the dark atmosphere. Ness sighed.

"Ok, fair enough, but you won't fool me." Paula smugly crossed her arms.

"Right. Not like you've fallen for every trap I've set. Oh, wait….you have. Ana, why has he always fallen for my traps?"

"He loves LUKEY!" Ana happily said.

"I…." Ness stopped himself from saying the rest of what he was going to say, which was something that was a lie.

"You what?" Paula's smile grew slicker. "You don't love him? Ok fine, I'll just tell Lukey there. HEY, LUCAS!" Lucas was broken from his trance and looked at Paula.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Ness doesn't—" Paula stopped talking when Ness covered her mouth. Ness looked back and nervously chuckled.

"D-don't worry about it, Luke," Ness convinced.

"Uhh….ok." Ness turned back toward Paula, removed his hand, and saw Paula's snarky grin.

"Don't even dare."

"You love him," Paula and Ana quietly sang.

"Just…...shut up."

"Hehe. Don't worry Ness. This trap is a good one," Paula said. Ness rolled his eyes. He grabbed Lucas's arm, confusing him a bit.

"Let's go, we're changing seats." Lucas didn't attempt to fight back and allowed Ness to control him. They sat in a different seat. This, however, inadvertently put them right in the crosshairs of Paula's trap. The girls giggled, knowing that their masterful planning was about to be shown full force.

About halfway through the ride, two random people who sat opposite Ness and Lucas "got into a fight". He stood up and took the "fight" to another level. Lucas was too distracted by the night sky to really realize it. The "fight" started getting closer toward the boys. Ness started shoving Lucas. "Hey….Luke…" Ness broke Lucas out of his trance, but it was too late. The fighters rammed into the boys, knocking them out of the wagon and into the wheat fields. The wagon then quickly sped up, leaving the boys alone. They stood up and Ness growled. "DAMN IIIIIIIIT!"

"Oooo…." Ness looked down at Lucas and saw him picking up a little snail. Lucas stood up with a smile and showed off the snail. "LOOKIE, it's a tiny snail." Ness loved seeing Lucas so pleased with the literal tiniest things. Ness smacked his gums before grabbing the snail and putting it back on the ground.

"We have bigger things….literally...to worry about."

"Oh come oooon…...How many times have we been stranded in the middle of…..whatever?"

"Too many to count."

"Exactly, so why not have a little fun with it. And plus, when's the next time we'll get to be in the middle of wheat fields." Ness crossed his arms.

"This is behind our school…..which is a mile away from your house," Ness blankly said. Lucas scoffed off Ness's logic.

"So?"

"Can we just…..just go please?" Ness grabbed Lucas's hand in a way that showed he was scared. He was also shooting his head around, confirming his freight. Lucas patted Ness's hand.

"Are you scared Nessy?" Lucas asked. Ness leered at him.

"NO! I-I'm not scared." Lucas tilted his head in disbelief. A small crunching noise came from the wheat. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Lucas just gave Ness a certain look making Ness growl as he looked back at Lucas. "Oh shut up." Lucas giggled.

"Ok Ness, let's get out." Ness shakily nodded before turning around and leading Lucas toward where he thought the exit was. After a while, more crunching noises came from the wheat. This caused Ness to jump into the air. While in the air he was expecting Lucas to catch him…..but he didn't. Ness fell back onto the ground.

"HEY!" Ness yelled as he looked up at an unamused Lucas.

"What? You wanted me to catch you?"

"YES!"

"Pfft, whatever." Ness groaned as he stood up.

"I hate you."

"Thanks!"

During the entire walk through the wheat fields, Ness was gripping onto Lucas's star-struck body. Little did the boys know, however, they were walking into phase 2 of their trap. All Paula wanted to accomplish with pushing the boys off the wagon was to give her and the others a chance to put up the final preparations. The boys felt like they were walking in circles. It didn't really help that every stem of wheat looked exactly like the other. "You know, Ness, this is exactly how horror movies start. Is this Children of the Corn?"

"SHUT UP!"

"Oh, you were scared shitless of that movie. My bad," Lucas winked, showing he purposely brought up the scariest movie to Ness. A loud crow yelled through the field, causing Ness to jump and retreat behind Lucas. "Pussy."

"Oh my god, just shut up. If you don't, you're gonna regret it later."

"Oh please, we both know once we get home you're going to take a hot bath then fall asleep in the bath and I would have to get you out, dry you, and put you in bed and then you'll wake up and yell at me for fuck all reason." Ness just stared at Lucas with wide eyes.

"I…..ok fine. Just shut up." Lucas giggled as he continued leading Ness through the wheat fields. Eventually, they made it back to the snail that Lucas had picked up. Lucas gasped loudly. "SNAILIE!" Lucas ran forward and picked it up. "I've missed you!" Lucas rubbed the slimy snail up against his cheek.

"Lucas?"

"I should've never left you."

"Lucas?"

"I love you Snailie."

"Lucas?"

"Wanna come home with me?"

"LUCAS!" Lucas looked behind him and saw a scared and angry Ness.

"What?"

"Don't you know what this means?" Lucas stood up, a little confused.

"Boney gets a friend?"

"Well….first things first, Boney would probably eat that little thing…." Lucas gasped as he covered the snail as to protect it from a nonexistent Boney. "And second things second, it means we're going around in goddamned CIRCLES!" Lucas looked around and hummed an "I guess we are." Ness rolled his eyes.

"Snailie, do you know the way out of here?" The snail obviously didn't respond, but Lucas took the unchanged look as a yes anyway. He placed the snail on the ground and it started slowly moving in a certain direction. "YOU HEARD SNAILIE! IT'S THAT-A WAY!" Lucas picked the snail back up and marched in the direction the snail started toward.

"My God…." Ness facepalmed. "I'm gonna be stuck in here forever."

"NESSY HURRY UP!"

"Coming!" Ness ran up, deciding it was best to go along with it, for the main reason of being able to get a PS5 from Lucas.

The snail's unspoken directions did indeed lead them to the exit of the wheat fields. Ness just stared at the exit with wide eyes. "What the fuck."

"SEEE, I never doubted you for a second Snailie," Lucas happily said as he placed the snail on his shoulder. He looked at Ness with a smirk. "Boom, and you thought I was crazy."

"You were talking to a snail, how else am I supposed to think." The two boys walked back into the main pumpkin patch to find it creepily void of life. This only frightened Ness more. He retreated a little behind Lucas. That was when a very high pitched screech sounded from behind them. Ness jumped as he screamed loudly as Lucas slowly turned around. Ness's fright-filled scream wasn't justified as he quickly found out that the screech was for the shooting of a firework. He saw the fireworks explode in the air and shot out some small green lights. "Oh…..ok then."

"Jeez, so much for not being scared."

"Buzz off." Another firework shot up into the air and exploded to show a word. The word was Nesscas. Ness's face grew blank once more that day. Lucas was just amazed by the fireworks. Another firework shot up and showed what was clearly meant to be Ness and Lucas kissing.

"WOOOOOOW! Look Nessy it's us!" Lucas excitedly pointed toward the firework that had already started to dissipate.

"Yeah…...I can see that." Lucas giggled cutely. Ness looked at him and admired his playfulness. They soon heard clapping from behind them. When the boys turned around they found the entire pumpkin patch clapping as they looked at the boys. The person who was clearly leading the group was, to neither boys' surprise, Paula.

"Was this entire damn pumpkin patch a plot?"

"Not the entire pumpkin patch….but yes, the entire pumpkin patch," Paula answered. Ness growled as he walked toward Paula. He stopped right in front of Paula and angrily pointed at her.

"Paula…...I swear to God I'll—"

"NESSY!" Lucas yelled. Ness looked back and watched Lucas walk forward. He stopped a little behind Ness. "Stop being rude, we still had fun right?"

"Not at all! We chose pumpkins, I got used to pick apples…."

"But we were able to calmly walk around, right?"

"I-I guess…." Ness looked down at Paula's feet.

"And we were able to just chill out and have some quality time alone, right?"

"Y-yeah…."

"See, it may not have been real…..but we still had fun. And plus, I'm surprised you didn't realize it was fake. There's no way in H e double hockey sticks Byleth and Ken make good vendors." This earned a chuckle from Ness.

"Yeah, I guess you're right Luke." Ness looked up at Paula's face. "What did you want with this anyway?"

"You to finally show everyone your relationship with Lucas." Ness looked back at Lucas and saw him holding the snail to his nose. Lucas was also happily talking to it with a baby voice. Lucas giggled, causing a smile to come from Ness as he turned back around.

"That's all?"

"Yes, that's all!" Popo butted in. Ness flicked his forehead.

"Fuck off."

"Ok."

"Yes, that's all, Ness. Just confirm what everyone here already knows." Ness loudly sighed. He looked back at Lucas, who was still calmly chatting with the snail. Ness fully turned around and stepped forward.

"Lucas?" Ness questioned. Lucas lowered his hand but wasn't able to get a good look at Ness before Ness leaned in to kiss Lucas. Lucas instantly melted into the kiss by wrapping his arms up around Ness's neck. This did allow the snail to move onto Ness's shoulder and witness his new human friend be kissed by the stranger he now stood on. After a bit, Ness backed his head away and smirked. "You get better every time, Luke." Lucas giggled.

"Snailie likes you." Ness looked at his shoulder and saw the snail slightly rub against his chin. He sighed before looking back at Lucas.

"He is kinda cute."

"SEE!" Ness lied, but the last thing he wanted to do was disappoint Lucas right after such a tender kiss. Lucas grabbed the snail and placed it back on his shoulder. Ness looked at the large group of fake pumpkin patch attendees.

"There, happy now—" Ness stopped himself when he saw that everyone was holding cameras. They all quickly hid them behind their backs and smiled a fake innocence. "My God, I want to beat the fu—"

"NESSY!" Ness peered back, "Not in front of Snailie." Ness rolled his eyes and looked back at the group.

"Can we leave now?"

"But Nessy, we still haven't done all of the things here."

"Yeah, you should be able to at least do everything we made for you two," Paula smirked, showing that her plan still wasn't fully realized just yet.

"Ok, but no pictures, got it?" Ness questioned. Paula rolled her eyes.

"Fiiiiiine." Ness grabbed Lucas's hand triumphantly and walked off. Paula turned to her group and giggled.

"Grab your cameras people, we're about to have some damn fun!" Paula and the rest of the group quietly cheered.