I got several requests for a TobyxAkari oneshot, so here it is!

Disclaimer: I do not own Harvest Moon

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It was cold out; I mean really, really, really cold. The kind of cold that you either had to be totally insane or desperately hungry in order to go outside.

Sadly, the new farmer Akari fell into the 'desperately hungry' category. Well, it was more like she was 'desperately broke', but either way, it all ended up in her being so close to starvation that she had to go outside and fish for dinner.

Now, Akari had absolutely no idea how to fish. Ok, she got the gist of it: throw a fishing pole into the water, wait for a bite, pull out of water, and repeat until you have enough fish to eat and a few extras to sell that will give you the proper amount of money to go buy some 'cocktails' at the bar. But, Akari thought that there had to be something that she was missing when it came to fishing.

And there was.

Patience.

After about ten minutes of sitting next to an almost-frozen pond, she gave up.

"What the hell? Freaking fish, bite!" The brunette screamed, which caused most of the fish that were there to swim away.

All…

…But one.

One poor little fish just sat there, tail flapping, spaced out, not expecting an extremely angry farmer to jump into the water shouting, "You are mine, FISHIE!"

Alas, that was what happened. Akari splashed around, creating such a ruckus that most of the villagers awoke from their sweet dreams of waffles, decided that it must've been that crazy farmer, and went back to sleep.

So, Akari finally caught said fish, and was happy for a good minute. Until, that is, she noticed that the water was colder than the air and it felt like there was something biting her toe.

Also, she suddenly remembered that she couldn't swim.

There she was, flailing about, shrieking loud enough to be heard in Mineral Town, and only one person stepped up to help her.

Ok, he literally didn't step up. He simply extended his fishing pole far enough that she could grab on, and then – literally, may I add once more – reeled her in. Then, the mystery savior was revealed to be none other than local relaxed-guy and fisherman Toby.

You could say that it was love at basically-first sight for Akari. And it was. For her. When he smiled at her and handed her a jacket before leading her to his house and cooking her up a fish soup ('It's better than it sounds!'), her heart just melted.

Though, as she was contemplating her newfound love, she couldn't help but consider one thing:

If he was outside in that cold…does that make him desperately hungry or insane?

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I hope you liked this! Sorry this was shorter than the others…but…I dunno. I'm tired again, and…yea. Tomorrow's my friends' b-day, so I promised to write her an EvexRay oneshot, and then I got a request to write that…so…yea, tomorrow's pairing is EvexRay! Just telling ya'll!

Also – please review!