Love is not Extinct

Halloween Special: Enchanted Corn Maze

Tsukishima leaned back in his chair at the beanbag toss booth, watching the throngs of children and parents making their way through the multiple games and activities set up at the Karasuno Sports Center. This was an annual event that the sports center had been running since it had opened nearly thirty years ago so it was very popular and always packed. And since the sports center was so kind to let their volleyball club use the facility free of charge, every year the members would help out with the festival.

Tsukishima found it very annoying. 

He watched the booth across from him as Yamaguchi led another round of the pumpkin walk, which the coach had been placed in charge of. Sitting on a stool dressed in an orange sweater with the face of a jack o'lantern on it and a pumpkin painted on one cheek, his friend smiled as he watched the group of people walk around in a circle stepping on paper pumpkins on the floor to the beat of the halloween song 'Monster Mash' that was playing from a phone attached to a small portable speaker.

When he stopped the music, Yamaguchi dunked his hand into a small plastic cauldron that was sitting on his lap, making a big show of moving his hand around to find just the right item before pulling out a small orange ping pong ball and reading the number aloud. This round a little girl dressed as a princess had her number chosen. She squealed in delight running over as Yamaguchi showed her the prizes she could pick from.

"Papa, I want to try this one!"

Tsukishima looked over to see a young girl who looked to be about his son's age holding the hand of a tall man with bright red hair that he wore spiked straight up. She wore a pink dress with a frilly skirt and a pair of wings on her back. She was pointing at Tsukishima's booth and with a nod her father let the girl pull him over.

"I would like to play this game please." She repeated the request to Tsukishima in a surprisingly respectful manner.

"That will be one ticket," Tsukishima said as he stood up, going over to them. The girl looked up at her father who smiled and pulled out a ticket from his pocket, handing it to her, and she in turn handed it to Tsukishima.

He smiled softly at the girl as he took the ticket, putting it in the bin under the table. "Which color do you want?" he asked, motioning to the bowls that had different colored bean bags in them.

"Pink please," she said, pointing to the bowl on the far right. Her father looked down at her with a knowing smile as Tsukishima grabbed the bowl with pink bean bags in it and dumped it on the table in front of her.

"You get six tries to get one of the bags into the top hole in Frankenstein's head. If you get at least one in you will get a prize."

"What if I get all six in?"

Tsuksihima raised a brow. She had asked the question so innocently but she looked completely serious and determined. A bit overconfident in herself, he thought as he looked from her to her father before shrugging. "If you can get all six in the head I'll let you get two prizes."

The girl beamed, looking up at her dad who nodded with a grin before she looked back, focusing on her target as Tsukishima sat back down in his chair to watch.

She didn't miss a single toss.

Impressed, he pulled out the little bucket for her to pick out one of the bouncy balls he and Haruhisa had bought for those who participated, then allowed her to pick two prizes from the larger prize box that the sports center had provided for him to give out to winners. She debated for a long moment before pulling out two woven bracelets. One was a pink color with a gold star on it, the other was a dark blue bracelet with a silver moon.