Drabble time! Taking a small break from writing chapters and such, I've decided to do a little Tomadashi here. Inspiration from a story I've recently just read "Complicated". It's beautiful.
Anyway, enjoy. (Taken place before Graduation.)
Tadashi was just finished with his sketches of Baymax when Callaghan had chosen him to guide a new student, giving tours and such. Tadashi was happy he was selected out of, like, 100,000 students.
"This student will be coming this Friday and will be at the entrance to unpack some boxes, "Callaghan explained to Tadashi. "And if she needs any help, you know that's your signal to be a gentleman." And he winked as he chuckles to himself.
Wait, she?
Tadashi gives a nervous chuckle. "Wait, she? What's her name?" His heart started pounding.
Callaghan slapped his back. "Don't worry; I know you'll be doing great things with her once she gets here. And if you want to know more about her, ask her name or questions or what. You'll have to meet her if you want to her."
"Um, yes Professor. Anything else?"
The professor began to walk towards the door. "Well…she's a bit, how do you say…anti-social? And don't let her have the first punch. Just duck." he teased.
Tadashi knew that he wasn't good with Anti-social people. They always clam up, or shut the door in front of his face. They don't seek for passion, or compassion, or even friendship. And he said the same thing to Wasabi and Fred after he spoken with Callaghan.
"I'm not good with Anti-social people!" he exclaimed as he paces back and forth. "They always clam up, or shut the door in front of my face. They don't seek for passion, or compassion, or even friendship!"
Fred pulled him over and pushes him down on a stool. "Dashy man. You're totally waaay over thinking this!" he said lazily he pats his shoulder.
Wasabi stands next to him. "For once, Fred's right. You're making a too big of a deal over this." he agrees.
"Thanks, 'Sabi!" He raises his hand in front of Wasabi, who was crossing his arms.
"Nope, it's bad enough you gave me a stupid, permanent nickname. I'm not gonna high-5 you man."
Fred puts his hand down and sticks out his tongue. "Hater."
Tadashi stands in between the two "Best Friends" and puts his hands up. "Okay, okay. You guys are totally right." He shrugged and rolls his eyes.
"But if it's a girl you're talking to, then you've good to have what I like to call…'Suavity'." Fred says as he licks his finger and wipes it on his eyebrow.
Wasabi was impressed with this vocabulary Fred used. "Hm, it's about time you say something about that at right timing." Wasabi replies to Fred. "And it's pretty impressive for a guy who can't spell 'practice' to say such vocabulary like that!"
Fred nods. "Yeah, I learned that from Tadashi."
Wasabi narrows a brow at Tadashi. "Since when do you say stuff like tha-?"
"ANYWAY," Tadashi interrupted sheepishly. "I think I should be me." He walked away, heading to his lad room.
He peered at a clock high up on the wall, as he passes by. He knew what time it was.
Time to pull Hiro out of trouble again.
"I was think'n, Dash." Hiro said as they entered the Café after a long ride home of silence between him and his angered brother. "Since we don't spend a lot of time together, I was think'n we could hang out at the arcade at Time Square on this Friday."
Tadashi actually liked that idea. It would be a good excuse to-no. It wasn't. He had to help someone transition into the College.
"As cool as that sounds, I can't." Tadashi responded sadly as he went up stairs.
Hiro frowned. Tadashi never said no to ant activities that included bonding with family. "But…you like Time Square. It's your favorite place that's a square and fun. Especially at night!" Hiro recalls what his brother's favorite was.
It's true. Time Square in San Fransokyo was a big place that blared large anime ads on tall buildings at night, and neon everywhere to make that place more colorful at night. It the full moon that hovers over the whole city was beautiful. He even took a picture of it and pin it on the wall where there was a huge collection of other photos. And it was full of games, diners, and rinks-
"SHUT UP!" Tadashi yelled as he slapped his forehead.
Hiro tilted his head. "What was that?" he asked stupidly.
Tadashi sighed deeply. "Ugh, it's just me. My mind is convincing myself to hang out with you, but…I have something important on Friday that I have to do. I wish I didn't have to go. But I do." He rubbed his eyes and went upstairs. As soon as he went upstairs, he changed into his and lay on top of his bed.
As soon as Hiro went enters the room, he reveals something Tadashi had never realized before.
"You do realize tomorrow is Friday, right?"
Tadashi automatically sat up. "What!?" he exclaimed. "I thought today was Wednesday!"
Hiro raises a brow. "No? Tomorrow is Friday, so today must be Thursday."
Tadashi plops back on the bed by falling backwards. He moaned on his bed. Well, by this maybe he should realize that it's not a big deal. He closes his eye lids, but he remains conscious. His body refuses to rest. And his mind was still overwhelmed. What a great way to start a good night sleep.
He hesitated to ride on his moped today.
It was Friday.
He stares at the red moped. He sighs deeply before turning it on. He presses on the peddle, and exits the garage and heads to his college. After a slow ride, not only by hesitation to go but also by traffic, he reaches to his college early. At a time that doesn't seem like a 'new student' would do on the first day. What, is she really going to be at the SFIT at 6:30am, on a FRIDAY? Like in the-
He notices a girl by a truck that was unpacking boxes.
UN…believable.
This was a little ironic for a guy like him to "predict" something that can actually turn out to be true, but hey. The sooner the better. I hope, he thought to himself. He braces himself, takes a minute, and then walks towards the truck. He walks to the side of the truck where the girl was on the opposite side. He first wanted to calm down first, and reminds himself, "its okay. You're overreacting on this. She won't hurt you. She won't do anything bad."
"UGH!"
He blinks as he heard on the other side, where he can hear the girl straining of what could possibly heavy for someone, maybe, short like her?
"NGH!"
It sounds a little…difficult for the girl-
"NGH!"
To be there by herself, straining-
"OOF!"
Maybe…hurting herself?
"UGH! God! These loads are heavy…"
Well. That was all he needed to hear.
He slowly walks around and peers over on the other side to peek over to see the back side of the girl. She seems to be wearing a short, black, leather jacket. She was wearing leggings with holes, and underneath that legging was another layer of blue leggings. And jogging shoes. She also had short hair. She turns around and sees Tadashi starring at her. She arches her eyebrows.
"Looking for something?" she asked him annoyed. "What are you doing here at this time?"
He blinked. "Me?" he asked.
She glares at him. "Well, yeah? There's no one else here except me, you and Bob."
"B-Bob?" he stammered.
"The driver." she replied as she pops her gum in between her teeth. It sounds rather like a snap than a pop.
Her face was…pretty. She had purple eye shadow with makeup, pink lip gloss, and a purple streak on one of the strands of her hair that was across her face. She suddenly snaps her fingers in his face that broke the spell of …starring.
"Hello? Gawk much? Go away." She turns away on her heel and looks down at the box.
He blinked again. "Um, I'm-I'm actually here to give you the tour."
She looks up and turns back to him. "Oh," she said flatly. She looks at him and crosses her arms.
He looked down, not wanting to see the angry expression on her face any longer. "Err, what's-what's your name." He winces, feeling embarrassed.
She nodded slowly. "What's what's my name…"she repeated.
He looks up. "I'm uh-"
"Don't ask for anything else, I don't like giving people information about me or anything personal." she blows her gum into a bubble and pulls it in and pops it in between her teeth again. "I'm not a people-person as you can see."
Yep. "Wait, even just asking your name is personal?" She nods. "Well, then just let me introduce myself. I'm-" She puts her hand up. "I don't care. Don't wanna know, Y'know?" She leans against the truck.
"I'm Tadashi Hamada!" He chirped, even though she would get annoyed. He gives her a nervous smile, as the girl looks up and gives him an icy stare. She shrugs and turns on her heels. "Help me."
She lifts up a box, but it was so big, she couldn't see in front of herself. Tadashi looks down and sees her legs starting to shake. They were shaking so much, every move her knees would hit each other. He was going to take the box out of her hands, but then she just dropped it in front of her two feet. He flinched back as the box hit the ground. "Be careful." he mumbled to her. He looked at her face expression. She looked tired.
Wait. That's not make-up. There are bags underneath her eyes. Was she-
"I said HELP me, what were you doing? Staring more?" she asked him in an irritated tone as she crosses her arms again. "I'm not interesting."
He gulped saying the first thing that popped into his head. "I can read you like a book." He picked up the box blushing a little. When he picked up the box, over the box he can see the girl looking up at him. Like as if she just saw that just really catches her attention. She was starring at him with big (curious) eyes, like if she was so shocked that she can only stare.
He smiled. "Where do you think your lab is?" He was kind of enjoying her face expression until she looked away, turning on her heel again. "Um, on the third floor." Her tone didn't have as much anger as she had before.
Tadashi walked towards to the entrance door with the box in his arms. "Come. Open the door for me and I'll show you where your lab is."
"But you don't know where my assigned lab is."
"Well, if your lab is on the third floor, then you would be sharing a big room with other robotic enthusiasts and such." he explained to her. He nods his head towards the door as she walks to the door and opens it for him. "Thanks now come on. I'll show you."
Once they enters the lab, Honey Lemon was going around the room with a big, black ball (which Tadashi keeps on forgetting what it was called because she was talking so fast.) and places it in a little hole to keep the ball in place. She looks up and gives him a big, warm smile. "Hi Tada-" She gasps. "OH MY GOODNESS!"
She runs towards the new girl and wraps her arms around her. The girl was so shocked.
Tadashi and the new student said Honey Lemon's name at the same time, but one said her nickname while the other said her real name.
"Honey le-" "Aiko."
After Honey Lemon hugged the girl, Tadashi and her stared at each other with their eyebrows arched again.
"Honey Lemon?" she asked him.
"Aiko?" Tadashi asked her, but then he smiled and snapped his fingers. "OH, you're calling her by her real name (1)!" he exclaimed.
"I don't see where you get Honey Lemon from Aiko." She looks at Honey Lemon. "You know this guy?"
Tadashi looked at Honey Lemon. "You know her?"
Honey Lemon looked up and shrugged with a beaming face. "Yeah, I know you both! Hey, a girl can have more than one friend!" she walked towards her big ball as Tadashi and her walked behind.
"I understand that you've might've met this guy, crashing into him in the college and stuff, but-"she began but than Tadashi cut her off. "But how did you meet her?"
Honey Lemon faced them with a smile still stuck on her face. "Guys, don't' be so anxious about this. Allow me to explain. I met her… (She knows that the student doesn't like Honey Lemon mentioning her name to 'strangers'.) When I was little. So we became the cutest best friends in the world and all! Until-"
She does a dramatic sigh. "-she LEFT ME! But I visited her in the weekends sometime ever since! It's been going on for quite a while." She laughs as she turned her back on them.
The two students were standing there abandon, until-
"What happened to the box you were holding earlier?"
Tadashi looked down at his empty arms. Yeah, where DID it go?
He tapped his chin to think. Then he makes a goofy face at her and said, "It suddenly DISAPPEAR-"
She cut him off by slapping him across his face. "Don't you ever make that idiotic face at me? EVER again!"
It took an hour, but all of the boxes were taken to her corner of the lab (There really is no door there, huh?). There was about 30 boxes they have taken up there. Although, she felt a little pathetic pushing the box into the elevator and pushing it though the hallways, maybe throughout campus! But this wasn't her idea, it was Tadashi's. And he promised not to laugh when's she's pushing the box on the floor. Well, she said swear but there can be an exception. Tadashi tried really hard not to laugh. He was holding his breath, he was staring to turn red. But once in a while, when she's not in the room, he would snicker.
Once they were done, the new student (We have to get to a point when she reveals her name or something!) slouched on her spinning chair. Tadashi slouches against the wall
"UUUUUUUUUUUUUGH! I'm so beat. I'm also glad that we're done." she moans, stretching her limbs. She suddenly stands up and cracks her knuckles. "And now I gotta take care of my business." She walks out of the lab as Tadashi shook his head, not wanting to know exactly what she meant by "Taking care of business".
He turns his head as he glances at a desk with stapled papers. Hm? What's that? Probably her…résumé !
He walks towards the folded papers. Finally, a name! He reaches out his hands to grab it until-
"HEEEEEEY!"
He turns around alerted, afraid that she would scream at him. Except, that it wasn't a she, it was Fred. Just Fred.
He sighs, relieved as he let his shoulders relax. "What's up?" he asked.
"I just wanna say HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" He points at him as he jumps with his legs open and a wide smile.
"But my birthday isn't until 3 months."
"Oh." He frowned as he put his legs back together and put his arms down and exit's the room. "NEVERMIND!" he yelled over his shoulder.
Tadashi turns back to the résumé-
"Hey!"
He turns back again fearfully, but then sighs again. Fred.
"Are you sure it's not your Birthday?" he asked with a goofy smile as he pointed at him.
Tadashi gave him a fake smile. "Yeah, I'm sure."
"Okay.' Fred exit's the room again.
Tadashi turns back at the résumé, and flipped the first page-
"HEEY!"
Tadashi wasn't falling for it this time. "Fred!"
Fred was smiling again. "Are you sure, sure, sure!?"
He rolls his eyes. "Yes, I'm sure."
"OKAY! Wink wink my friend!" he said like as if he was lying as he winks at him.
Tadashi was getting annoyed. "Y'know what? Say Happy Birthday to Francesca!" But he didn't knew a Francesca. Nether did Fred.
"OKAAY!" He runs into the hallway. But Tadashi waited for him to come back, he was tired of turning back. And like he had predicted, Fred came back with an uncomfortable look on his face. Tadashi groaned as he rolled his eyes. "WHAT?" he asked in a unkind tone.
"Who's Fran-"
"I don't know! FIND ONE!" He roared as Fred scattered out of the lab like a fleeing rat.
That should keep him busy. he. He walked back to the résumé and looked at the first page. San Fransokyo Institute of Technology blah blah blah…Skill; engineering? Interesting. 17? Did she flunk or something? Hmmmm…where's her name?
It wasn't until he got to the bottom and found her name;
Leiko Tanaka? I've heard that before! I did, I…I don't remember. Think, Dashy think!
He winces as he try to hack a single thing about Leiko Tanaka.
When did I heard it, when did I heard it, when did I heard it…
He opens his eyes as the memory comes to him like a whack on his head.
"Yes, you do! And like it or not, I'm gonna be your best friend !"
"Leiko Tanaka."
"Tadashi Hamada!"
Leiko Tanaka.
Leiko Tanaka.
Leiko.
Tadashi blinked. He looked back at the form. Then, he heard a voice that made him shivered,
"Hey."
This time, when he turned around it was…her! Leiko Tanaka! He stared at her, he was shocked but she didn't notice. "There was a kid in the halls that asked if my name was Francesca. I was like, 'What? Who do you think I am?" She looks up at the ceiling and shrugs with a confused expression. As she was talking, Tadashi was nodding as he listened to her voice.
Tadashi needed a way to get a better look on her face. Then he had an idea.
"Hey," he said to her sheepishly as she sat down on her wheelie chair. "Um, I think your make up is getting…messed up?"
She frowns. "All of it?" She asked curiously. He nodded like crazy. He extends her hands out in front of him. "Tissue." Tadashi was shocked that she knew he had a tissue. "How did you know I had a tissue?" he asked as he reaches into his back pocket and took out a tissue.
She shrugs. "Don't all dorks have one?"
He rolls his eyes at her insult as he hands her one. She walks towards a sink and rinses her tissue. Tadashi waits patiently. She came back rather quick. And he gasps as she looks at him with her face with no make up.
The make-up was disguising herself so that he wouldn't have realize that earlier. Huh, it really is amazing what make-up can do.
He makes silent gasp and felt the air trapped inside his lungs.
"Well? Is it all off?"
He stared more.
"What?"
CLIFFHANGER! Sorry to leave you off here, but hey; I felt like the story was getting too long and this isn't much of a cliffhanger.
Anyway, one simple note;
(1) yup. Just her real name, but not from the movie but from the manga. She looks so different. I was like, "What. Happened. To. Honey Lemon."
But stay tune! (One more chapter to go!) Cos there's more coming right at ya! (If this catchphrase annoys anybody, let me know.)
