Chapter one: Forget-me-Not Village

Disclaimer: First off the obvious statements that I don't own Harvest Moon and would never try to make a profit from any of my fanfictions without getting a hold of the proper owners and getting permissions, and since the odds of that happening are only a wee above zilch, look for my published original works someday (shameless plug).

Second off, I've only played Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition for the PS2, and honestly haven't gotten that far, and probably never will because I don't actually OWN the game, so this is based more off of a little hearsay, and a lot of just plain BSing around and having fun with the plot.

Lastly I don't usually post my works, the works I put enough effort that I would dare post, are usually in one document and a few chapters down. I do have one other fic here though, Project 2.o, which is a DBZ series, actually the chapters uploaded currently need to be updated as I've further corrected them since. So beg pardon if there are any errors in these, I've only hastily eyed them for obvious eyesores.

Without further Ado (well maybe just a little more):

My mind instantly went to the darkness behind my eyelids as I heard the loud rapping at my door-

"nnhm!"

Pressing my face deeper into my pillows, I prayed it was for my roommate, not me. Sadly the noise didn't go away, the rapping returned, louder this time, my roommate obviously must have been gone.

"Jack- JACK!... DOOM!" The voice called from behind the door, most obviously for me.

Grumbling, I finally stirred pulling my face away from the black pillows beneath my head, letting the little handmade pillow that was on top of it fall to the ground. I looked around my room and was confused that all my stuff was packed, the room completely bare. Opening my eyes wide it all came back. The farm, my father- Takakura!

"COMING!"

Reaching quickly for my blue robes, I tied them and maneuvered between my bed and desk to the door, opening it I was greeted by the aged, emotionless face of my father's best friend, Takakura.

"You ready?"

"Why would I be ready it's only- 7 o'clock? I haven't even had my shower yet…" I sighed, realizing 7 o'clock was soon to be considered sleeping late, grumbling I closed the door behind Takakura, "My stuff's all packed or I'd try and make you more comfortable, my bedding goes in the bag besides the bed if you want me out of here faster, I'll go take my shower, pack my shower gear, and my bedding if you haven't already, and we can go in about 20 minutes."

Grabbing the last unpacked set of clothes in my closet, a white denim, long sleeved shirt, and white jeans, the briefs atop the shelf taken from the dresser the night before, all else was packed now. He took off the white denim bandana he wore, and stuffed it into the pockets of his shirt, then took his shower. Half an hour later we were on the road and well on our way out of 'The City'- well on our way to "my" new farm.

"Well Jack, welcome to Forget-me-Not valley. The farm is right up here; do you need to be shown around it first?"

"Sure, which building is what and such, then can we hit the, ah- town? Check out the local colors and whatnot."

Takakura grunted in the affirmative. Showing me my little house where I set my bags, the fields, the bird-less coop, the fenced off area for the animals, and finally into the stable- "Holy cow, I have a cow!"

Takakura nodded and showed me over closer to her, it obviously being a she. "She'll need a name I suppose. She recently gave birth so she'll give fresh milk too."

"Name… name… ffutS?"

"ffutS? I suppose that's a good enough name, what's it mean?"

"It's Stuff backwards." Looking over at the cow I lightly hugged it around the neck and started baby talking at it, "You like it, don't you ffutS?"

It moo'ed in response, a rather pleasant moo, leading me to turn to Takakura and smile as if she'd just said yes. Takakura seemed rather unphased, "Well, while we're naming things, this farm'll need a name too."

I took a moment to thing, looking up at the ceiling and seeing the light leek in reminded me a bit of the stars at night- "Cygnis."

Takakura grunted, "Well, Jack, shall we go show you around to the townsfolk?"

"I told you before, well I guess Jack is fine from you, but I want to be called Doom, it's my pen name."

Walking out to town I was shown around, I've got a lot of people to get to know, starting tomorrow with luck. Well, I'll have something to writing in the new Diary father got me with the farm. Well, heading back to the farm late in the evening, we- Takakura and I, were pounced upon by a pair of rather adorable puppies-

"Inu!- err- dogs, eheh."

Takakura grunted and expressed what might have been a frown- I really can't tell with him. "Well, I'm not much of a dog person, but I guess you could keep one of them."

I got down on my knees to take a better look at the two of them, to be honest I would have only wanted one anyway, so this worked out in my favor. The two dogs both came up to me, one with its ears pointed high in the sky, a bit aggressively leapt up at me, I nicely pushed it back and rubbed his head, scratching behind the ears. The other one had its ears flopping down; he carefully came up to me and sniffed my outstretched hand. Then took another step forward, and bent his head down, inviting me to scratch him behind the ears. I smiled and picked him up, "This one," I said decidedly, scratching his neck and moving back up along it to behind his ears.

Takakura took the other one into his arms, "I'll take this one into town and see if anyone can give it a good home. You'll want to name you're new puppy as well."

"A little to friendly for the name, but I don't care, you're Sesshie, my wittle fluffy," I looked down at him as I said it.

"After I get back I'll work on a dog house for him, and feel free to ask me any questions you have about farming."

"No prob."

I smirked as I set Sesshie down, "We gots to go to bed, dun we little guy, lots to do tomorrow." Turning with a sigh, "Jeaz, I haven't been to bed before ten, since before I WAS ten…"

Sitting down by my bed, I picked up the little diary, and opened it to the first page…

/Yo Diary,

Well, so much for the city, say hello to 'Doom no Jack' is now 'Doom the Farmer'. City life and college behind, crops and cows ahead, le sigh. Tomorrow marks the first of spring, and the beginning of a lot of work to make this farm work…

Summarizing the people I can of some of the people I met:

Takakura- humorless

Rock- like a hyper active one…

Muffy- Balloon for brains, but cute.

Ruby- nice enough lady.

Nami- HARK, I think either heaven or hell may have lost an angel O,O;

Wally and Family- o.o; wow, this family is into fitness?

Lumina- not much to say yet, a little cute, but see seems less mature for her age.

Vesta Farm and Family- hope that 'rival' nonsense was just a joke o.O

Celia- cute, and down to earth.

Carter and Flora- . I wonder what other kinds of "research" go on in that tent… Cater seems a wee bit too happy, but maybe I'll help them dig around if I find time…