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Day 03: Winter Wonderland

Tanaka was stumped.

He wanted to carry out his boys to something interesting and special but for the life of him; he didn't know where he could take eight healthy teenage males who have a tendency to break out in fights. He drove his car to the stoplight, where the light was on red.

"Midtown Illuminations!" a shout took him out of his thoughts. "Come to the Midtown Illuminations!"

A bulb went off in Tanaka-san's head. The illuminations were the perfect place for them. Still, he mentally slapped himself for forgetting these events. He was Japanese, he should've been ashamed. It would be a great idea to take his boys there, a walk through the Omotesando would be great for the simplicity or if he wanted his boys to see the "ye olde European style" Christmas light up, he could bring them to the Marunouchi Illuminations or…

"Shit, there's a lot to choose from." He gasped out. "And if I tell them this, they'll want to go to all of them."

So, he decided to fully plan his outing when he reached home and could plan better with research.

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Upon reaching home, Tanaka noticed that the boys were in their room, playing that MMORPG game that they're so addicted to. He always found it odd, that these basketball idiots could be so into something else, another game, that's not related to the sport in any shape or form. He had wanted to greet them, to tell them that he's home but when he heard the fervent screams of "kill that bastard!" and "recover, I'm dying! I'm dying!", he knew that he couldn't disturb them.

But whatever, he could make his plans in peace without any of them breathing down his neck in curiosity.

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Tanaka and his boys were getting ready to go out, as the landlord had finalized everything the previous day.

The man could hear the shuffling and the footfalls from upstairs and knew that his boys were eager to go. He had settled on going to the Midtown Illuminations, with the Starlight Garden being the last stop.

He was already dressed in his red sweater —with "Santa" printed on―and was waiting in the living room for the others. A couple minutes and he heard loud footfalls coming down the stairs and immediately he knew that they've arrived.

Shouichi and Yukio led the pack in their white sweaters with red Christmas patterns. However, theirs had words printed on as well ―Shouichi had "Dancer" while Yukio had "Prancer". Behind them were Tatsuya and Shuuzou's sweaters had "Comet" and "Cupid", Kazunari and Kotarou were "Dunder" and "Blixem" and lastly, Shige and Tetsuya were "Dasher" and "Vixen".

Tanaka couldn't help but chuckle, since this idea was Shige and Kotarou's. Since there were eight of them, the two boys decided that they'll all wear matching sweaters but with Santa's reindeer names on them. Add to that, Tanaka's sweater had "Santa" on it.

"Everyone's ready!" Kotarou chirped.

Tanaka grinned. "Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now Prancer and Vixen!" the landlord started, deepening his voice to sound like Santa in the movies. "On Comet! On Cupid! On Dunder and Blixem!"

"Hai!" the eight chirped in unison before dashing out the front door and into the yard. How funny it was when it was Tanaka who had to car keys. When the man had reached to the car, he could see the boys bouncing in their seats, eager to reach the Tokyo Midtown Illuminations.

"Tanaka-san, don't even think of driving in the speed limit." Tetsuya started.

"You want me to speed and kill us off?"

"I want you to get us there quickly."

"Impatient, aren't we?"

"I'm not impatient." The light-blue haired teen quipped. "I'm just restlessly eager."

"Isn't that the same thing?" Tanaka laughed.

"No…I'm…we…" he stuttered. He then looked to the others for help. "Guys! Help me out here!"

"We're all just eager." They deadpanned.

"Traitors." He hissed.

Without any further ado, and before they start bickering over something petty, Tanaka drove off to the Roppongi area.

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Tokyo Midtown is a large complex area which consists of numbers of facilities such as shops, restaurants, cafés, museums, hotel, offices, residences, gardens etc. It's located in the Roppongi area and holds the annual winter illumination event at Tokyo Midtown called Midtown Christmas. It is one of the most popular winter events attended in the season and it's held from early November to Christmas day.

Tanaka had deliberately drove through the Roppongi Hills for his boys to see some of the street side illuminations. He turned on Keyakizaka Street one of the biggest Christmas Markets in Tokyo. The illuminations here have been one of the most popular spots in Tokyo to visit at this time of year, and visitors both local and foreign flock here every year.

As Tanaka drove down the 400m stretch of street, his boys "oh"ed and "awe"ed at the sight, the trees that lined the streets were decorated with over thousands of LED lights which displays cool colours with the "Snow and blue" theme. It was a beautiful sight to behold, almost reminding the eight boys of snow accumulating on the trees.

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Tanaka parked nearby the famous Tokyo Tower, sighing a relief that he was lucky enough to get a space. Quickly, the ecstatic boys exited from the car and looked around in eagerness.

"Let's go there!"

"No there!"

"Bastards please! We're gonna to go to where that giant Christmas tree is!"

"No way! I wanna see what lies over there!"

"Boys…" Tanaka sternly said to avoid conflict from breaking out. "…I know where I'm taking you so there's no need to fight."

"But I want to…!"

"You're not going anywhere else. Am I clear?"

"Hai…"

"Alright boys, let's go~!"

Tanaka walked off with his eight boys trotting behind him like a little ducklings with people snapping pictures of them thanks to the writings on their sweaters.

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Finally reaching the Grass Square of Tokyo Midtown, the eight boys were left in awe, especially Tatsuya who's lived in America ever since he was a little boy. Seeing such splendour was enough to leave him breathless.

There were already a crowd there, but that didn't faze them. It was the spectacular light-up show called Starlight Garden. This time, the theme was "The Universe", which featured thousands of lights. As they inched closer to it, they realized that the lights really reminded them of a universe.

The blue LED lights covered the lawn leaving only couple spots of black here and there, while the while lights crisscrossed to create an effect of a constellation. Their eyes trailed to the left and saw what seemed to be a planet with rings―probably referring to Saturn― using the same blue and white coloured lights. It really expressed the movement of outer space and addition to that; there were what seemed to be millions of bubbles floating around the area, giving it an even more out-of-this-world look.

"Can I see something?" Shuuzou asked a random spectator who held a brochure. Reluctantly, the stranger lent the power forward the paper, and he started to read aloud. "Starlight Garden is the biggest highlight of the event featuring approximately 190,000 LED lights with over 100 balloon lights…" he trailed off as he couldn't believe it even though he was standing before it.

"Shit…190,000 LED lights?" Kotarou said, staring at the illumination slack-jawed. "Who's paying for all that electricity?"

"Our parents." Yukio deadpanned.

"…moreover, a special effect will be added by using approximately 450,000 soap bubble blown around the Starlight Garden and makes the scenery even more spectacular and dreamy." Shuuzou ended and handed the brochure back to its owner.

The eight looked at each other with shock and Tanaka was pleased. The look of genuine awe and amazement on their faces was a pleasant sight, sometimes Tanaka forgetting that they were ordinary teenage boys given how mature they behaved sometimes.

"Let's take a picture!" Kazunari screeched. "I have to save this as a tangible memory!"

Without needing to be told anything more, they huddled together while Tanaka took the picture, or rather, pictures. They took a million and one photos in normal poses with normal smiles, and another million and one photos with crazy poses and faces.

After that photo session was done, the boys asked random strangers to take their pictures with Tanaka as there's no way "Santa" wouldn't have a photo with his "reindeers".

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When they reached home, they were beat and half of them had fell asleep on the way. They were exhausted, as after they left the Starlight Garden, they visited other areas as well, like the Yebisu Garden, Marunouchi Illumination, Shinjuku Minami Lumi and Terrace City Illuminations, just to name a few. And then after that, they ate at a nearby restaurant.

Given all that outing, naturally, the boys would have been tired.

So, after struggling with their bodies up the staircase and tucking them in bed, Tanaka retired for the night, knowing that come tomorrow, they would be up and running again.

Thank you for reading! The Illuminations used are real events held in Japan every winter, with the same amount of LED lights mentioned. And, in regards to the reindeers' name "Dunder" and "Blixem", the traditional names were used, which meant "Thunder and Lightning". Rudolph was excluded because he wasn't an original reindeer.