That next morning was somewhat awkward, as when Kuroo and Kenma woke up they were full on snuggling.

"S-sorry," Kenma apologized as they untangled their limbs.

"I-it's fine," Kuroo stuttered out.

The next night though, Kuroo slept underneath the covers next to Kenma again, and Kenma held no protest.

It quickly became a habit, of course, there were still many days where Akaashi would be in charge of warding off nightmares for the night.

Fast forward less than a week later and the living room is filled with its usual morning chatter amongst the house's occupants when Hinata charges into the house, returning from running the simple errand of buying a few things from the grocery store; he's practically vibrating from excitement.

Hinata runs up to Bokuto and Kuroo not being able to contain himself, "B-Bokuto-san, Kuroo-san! There's a carnival in town! I heard people talking about it while I was doing the errands! We have to go!" he shouts out enthusiastically.

"Are you sure we'll be allowed to? Like― we all have chores to do, so I dunno if that'll be allowed," Kuroo says.

"Er well, now that I think about it, I'm not sure if we'll be allowed... but you gotta convince Kenma-san and Akaashi-san to let us go!" begs Hinata, like a child.

Before Bokuto and Kuroo can agree to somehow getting Akaashi and Kenma to give them a day off, Suga takes care of it for them.

"That sounds like a great idea, Hinata. Kenma's barely gone outside all summer, this would be a great opportunity for him to finally get some sun! I'm sure Akaashi would agree." Suga smiles.

As it turns out, Akaashi does agree. At first Kenma refuses to go, "I'd rather be inside my own home where I'm safe and around people I can trust; rather than outside in a crowded area with strangers," he claims. However, with Akaashi on Suga's side, two motherly figures are more persuasive than one― plus with the added help of Kuroo and Hinata― they manage to get Kenma to drag himself away from his computer.

Kenma rolls up the long cream colored sleeves of his thin shirt past his elbows as he makes his way down the stairs, Kuroo, Bokuto, Akaashi, Hinata, Kageyama, and Yachi all waiting for him. As he joins them Akaashi looks over one more time to Suga and the six other familiars who wanted to stay behind, "are you sure you'll all be fine without us?"

Suga nods chirpily. "Don't worry; we've got it covered." With that, the party of seven make their way to the carnival, Hinata and Kageyama speeding ahead while Yachi struggles to catch up to the two of them as she calls out, "s-slow down, y-you might fall!"

Kenma sees Kuroo leans towards Bokuto. "How much you wanna bet Chibi-chan's gonna trip within the next 15 seconds?" he snickers.

As if on cue, Hinata's foot catches against a rock; his toes teeter back and forth as he struggles to balance himself, but it's in vain, as Kageyama isn't paying attention to what's in front of him whatsoever and runs straight into Hinata. Kenma finches as he looks up from his phone just in time to see the both of them fall with a loud thump.

Yachi lets out a squeak of panic as she runs up to them to see if they're okay, but of course, Hinata and Kageyama are both fine and pop back up and onto their feet like nothing happened.

Bokuto pats Hinata and Kageyama on the back with too much force as he, Kuroo, Kenma, and Akaashi catch up to the three younger familiars. "Nice job taking the fall like some real champs," he commends.

Once at the carnival the three young familiars break off into their own group, the plan is that everyone will regroup in five hours to watch the circus show.

Kenma and his group start walking to the first attraction Bokuto spots; which is a stand where if you can knock down the cups you won a prize. The prizes, of course, feature a large owl plushie. The stand is warded with charms to prevent anyone from cheating.

Just as Kenma pulls out his phone to entertain himself while Bokuto gets ready to throw the ball, Kuroo snatches the phone out of his hand and holds it above his head. "Tsk tsk tsk, Kenma. We came here to have a fun time; just stay off your phone for a few minutes and you'll see." Kuroo slides Kenma's phone into the pocket of his navy blue jeans.

Kenma frowns. "If someone barfs on me because they were on a rollercoaster it'll be all your fault."

"Oh come on," Kuroo snickers, " don't you trust me?" He blinks down innocently at Kenma's unimpressed face.

Kenma's reply gets drowned out by Bokuto's whoop of victory.

Kenma turns his head to Bokuto and sees Bokuto giving Akaashi the owl plushie he won, Bokuto looks very pleased with himself and Akaashi's own face holds a smile. Kuroo's eyes, however, are on something else a little off in the distance.

Kuroo's eyes hold a mischievous glint that raise Kenma with suspicion. "I know exactly where we should go next," Kuroo grins.

Kuroo leads the way as he weaves through other people, giving Kenma and the others no time to question him. "Here we are," Kuroo says as Kenma lays his eyes the attraction; it's a magic roller coaster, one with no tracks.

"No way," Kenma and Akaashi both refuse in unison.

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That being said, Kenma truly doesn't know how the four of them ended up on a magic roller coaster free falling from the clouds. Kenma is sure of one thing though; Kuroo will pay for dragging him into this one way or another. Kenma looks over to Akaashi, who doesn't seem to be having a blast either, but Bokuto— and of course Kuroo— are both ecstatic.

The roller coaster suddenly jerks to the right and dances through green rings of fire before lurching downward again, still so high up that the entire carnival only looks as big as Kenma's hand.

By the time the ride is over and Kenma and the others are at last safely on the ground once again Kenma's wind whipped hair is a disaster— which is to be expected after riding such a crazy thing— what's funny though is that even though Akaashi and Kuroo's hair both met with the same treatment, Bokuto's hair seems almost completely unchanged.

After their appearances are fixed so it doesn't look like they had been swept up by a tornado Akaashi suggests a ride; the flying tea cups— they're like spinning tea cups except less spinning and more gentle flying that you can direct around for a set amount of time.

After a cheerful Dryad who works for the carnival explains the simple navigation controls they're off; Kenma finds it's quite nice being able to gently glide around the air as opposed to uncontrollably rocketing through the air.

"This is boring," Kuroo complains as he rests his chin the edge of the large tea cup, eyes downcast towards the carnival below.

"Right, how could I forget, it's only fun if it feels like you're speeding towards your death," Kenma sarcastically quips.

"What can I say, I'm a daredevil," Kuroo says with fake resignation while Bokuto dangles half his body out of the cup.

"Bokuto, it's best to stop hanging out of the cup," Akaashi advises.

Next they head to a darkly lit tent where they sit down along with others while hidden shadow puppeteers use magic to tell a fantastical tale of old, the tragedy of a demon king and his loyal knight who betrayed him.

The shadows flicker and literally jump from one wall to the next, bringing the story they tell to life as a speaker nowhere to be found narrates from all sides of the tent.

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Several carnival attractions of varying intensities later, Kenma and his group are re-joining with Hinata, Kageyama, and Yachi in front of the large multicolored circus tent set in the center of the carnival.

Yachi looks as if her soul has been sucked from her body; there's no doubt that Hinata and Kageyama somehow goaded Yachi onto some extreme ride, a decision which Yachi proceeded to regret immediately.

After waiting a few minutes for Yachi to revitalize herself, the entire group enters the tent, there are already a good bit of human and humanoid creatures sitting so they take their own seats.

The rest of the seats in the circus fill up rather quickly and soon the lights begin to dim and the chatter dies out as the show gets ready to begin. Before the lights can dim down all the way Kenma's eyes spot a man down the aisle of seats who's strangely recognizable, but at the same time also unfamiliar. Kenma's brows furrow and the man catches him staring, and though Kenma's eyes flicker away for only a few moments the man is completely gone when his eyes return, and it's not long before the tent is too dark for Kenma to try and scan the crowd in hopes of finding him.

Who was that man, and why was he strangely familiar? Perhaps it was just Kenma's mind playing tricks on him? He doesn't have much time to ponder the subject further because three bright spotlights turn on before centering themselves on stage.

A royal blue colored smoke swirls onto the stage and a woman wearing a featureless black mask and a navy blue yukata steps forth from the smoke; the show has begun.