A/N: A dramatic start to what is hopefully going to be a very funny and lighthearted story.

Summary: Parent AU where Tadashi finds himself thrown into parenthood when his parents die and leave him with his baby brother.

Chapter Summary: A brief prologue centering around Tadashi, as he starts out for the first time at raising his little brother.

10 years from present day:

Monitors from the hospital could be heard beeping from all around, as the young man who heard them sucked in a deep breath and finally brough himself to look down at the heavy weight in his arms. Finally releasing the breath he had been holding, he looked a little closer at the small, blue bundle in his still shaking arms. It was the bundle that had been with him and his parents in the accident, when their car was left beyond repair and their family torn completely. It was a bundle that he was seeing for the first time since he had awoken for the first time in days.

It wasn't terribly heavy in reality, fairly light actually, but in the young man's current state of mind and physical being, it was the heaviest bundle in the world. Arms shaking, he reached up to the top of it with a heavily bandaged hand and knocked part of the blue wrapping away, revealing a tuft of dark black hair sticking out the top. Being slightly uncovered now, the rest of the bundle began to squirm in the other's arms, further knocking the blue away from it.

"Hiro... Calm down." Tadashi muttered, as a set of deep brown eyes glance up gaze to the older male's bloodshot ones.

The little boy was soon revealed to his brother. Sleepy, confused, and yet still very happy to see his older sibling, much to Tadashi's comfort. Upon seeing the older male's eyes soften, Hiro began to smile softly at his older brother, a small act that was soon returned by the older boy, who then gently brought the little one up so he could kiss Hiro's small head. In response to the kiss, Hiro cooed, as all small children did, and snuggled into his brother's hold, making Tadashi feel that not only could he relax a little more, but that he was trusted. Even though Hiro was only a small baby and didn't quitet know his brother or situation yet.

"It'll be okay, Hiro... Even if it's just us now..." Tadashi whispered, feeling his eyes become blury at the thought of having to raise his brother while still hardly being old enough to take care of his ownself.

Both their father and mother had left them both behind earlier that week, when an accident had occured and took both of their lives instantly. Hiro was unharmed, and while Tadashi had the option to leave along with his parents and leave the baby behind, having been all but thrown through the windshield of the car when the accident happened. However, he fought and clung to his life long enough to become stable, and now found himself weakly holding his brother/ward. However, he knee that by making this choice, he would never get to live the life of a normal teenager without a care in the world. Still, he wasn't regretting his choice to stay yet. He chose to stay with this special little boy.

That special little boy, as well as his little brother; Hiro Hamada.

"Its just going to be us for a long while, Hiro... But we'll be alright... I promise." The older brother whispered, gently tucking the boy's blanket under his chin and holding him a little more protectively.

"Bwo!"

Tadashi grunted in pain as he was rudely awoken from his rather uneasy sleep by Hiro, his three year old brother, who was using his sippy-cup as a hammer to hit his brother in the head with. Usually, Tadashi would have been mad, but since it had awoken him from reliving the worst week of his life, then he really didn't care. Sitting up, he grabbed the sippy cup and then lifted his little brother up.

"Hiro, it's 1 in the morning." Tadashi muttered, bringing the little one in close to his chest before leaning into the fluffy pillows that were on his bed. "What do you nee-?"

Tadashi cut himself off and looked down at his lap as he watched his little brother idly curl up like a cat and then promptly fell asleep once more. Huffing, Tadashi marked this up on his mental chalkboard as the 19th time that Hiro had awoken him out of a sound sleep just so he could sleep on his brother's bed.

"Kid, you know I love you, but this is starring to be way to much." Tadashi huffed as he laid back further onto his bed, watching as his cat-like younger brother slept. "And just because that's cute, it doesn't mean that I'm not annoyed."

Knowing that the other probably hadn't heard him, Tadashi pulled his covers up to his little brother's form, which was up to his own knees, and then promptly shut his eyes, trying to get some sleep despite already feeling the cold of his bedroom begin to touch his skin. Like the 18 times before this, he found that this was just something that he would have to put up with for the night. As long as Hiro was sleeping, then he didn't mind.

"It'll be okay... Isn't it always okay...?" He muttered, opening his eyes just to glance up at his digital clock to check the time.

It was only 1:09 in the morning, and he sighed heavily as he shut his eyes once more and tried to get some sleep. It came difficult to him though, knowing that he still had a while to get more sleep, and a while to dream more of that horrible dream.