The Neglected Garden
By: HiroAngelLight
Summary: Eleven years ago, after the deaths of their parents, Tadashi blamed Hiro as the cause of their parents' deaths and left Hiro alone in the orphanage. Not only it broke Hiro's heart, but their relationship as well. But when Hiro needs to stay in Tadashi's house to avoid the juvenile prison, can they fix their broken relationship after years of losing contact to each other?
Adopted from Adazula.
Hiro is 16. Tadashi and Honey are 27.
Disclaimer: I don't own Big Hero 6.
Warning: Beware of typos and bad grammar. English is NOT my main language. I have this bad habit of not realizing my mistakes in my stories until days or even months after publishing the story.
Note: *I have decided to post this fic here temporarily to see if anyone likes it. Warning: this is an angsty fic. So, if you don't like it, you can stop reading it and leave.*
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Hiro felt the familiar cool handcuffs lock around her wrist before she was shoved roughly into the police car. Being arrested again for betting on bot fights.
"I thought she was a boy with her hood up and the way she was dressed during the bot fight," One cop said.
"It's a pity that kids these days are being criminals," The other cop said.
"Tell me about it. This one is no exception," His partner had said. Hiro could only grumble in response as the car pulls out from the alley she was in before the ambush of cops.
"I can hear you," she grumbled at the two. But they just shrugged and kept on talking as if Hiro wasn't there to hear them chat about her and her choices.
Before she knew it, she was standing before the judge to hear what he has to say about her fate just twelve hours later without sleep.
" Let's see. Arrested five times for betting on bot fights previously. Broke her parole terms more than once. All have been either paroled or dismissed. How does the defendant plea this time?" He asked impatiently as he puts down her file.
She grumbled the familiar words in the courtroom, "Not guilty."
Her lawyer straightened himself and said confidently, " Your honor. She is a minor and has no previous violent arrests. We are asking for leniency your honor."
"Yes, she has no prior violent arrest. But she has convictions and broke her parole terms before." The prosecutor said sharply. "Who knows what she will do next time."
"She just found out that she might have a relapse with her condition." Her lawyer said. Hiro growled at him in response. She hated that he just played the health card for sympathy.
"This is just an attempt for leniency!" The prosecutor scoffed.
The judge silenced the woman, "I will decide things from here, Mrs. Delany." He he turned to Hiro, "Young lady. You need to get your act together for both you and your aunt's sake. Which is why you will be asked to move to a suburban area for the duration of the summer by the end of this week. Hopefully three months of not being able to go bot fighting will knock some sense into your mind. If you get arrested again both here or in your designated area, you will be sentenced to jail for rebellion. I wish you for the best. This meeting is adjourned."
"I highly doubt that." Hiro heard the prosecutor snorted as she gathers her papers and left.
The judge knocked his gavel and everyone moved to leave the courtroom while Aunt Cass came up to the front.
"Are you ok?" She asked her niece out of worry.
"I'm fine," She shrugged.
"Then what were you thinking!? And is that another piercing!?" Her Aunt shouted to Hiro's new additions.
Hiro had a small ring in her mouth that she got last night, but it wasn't the first. An ear cuff on her right ear and several lobe piercings on each ear. All of them were pretty small, but noticeable.
" It's nothing," She shrugged.
"It is something to me. Oh, sweetie. What am I going to do with you?" Aunt Cass groaned as she hugged her niece.
"Sorry about the piercing and the fact that we have to move," Hiro genuinely apologized.
"No. I have a business to run. I can't just shut the place down and move," Aunt Cass groaned in frustration.
"So what are we going to do?" She asked as they both leave the courtroom.
"Well, I found a way to send you to a suburban area," Aunt Cass said. "But I know if you're not going to like it."
"What are you talking about?"
"I got into contact with Tadashi," Aunt Cass confessed.
Hiro looked at her aunt and said the one thought in her mind, " No!" She walked ahead of Aunt Cass, just wanting to go home now more than anything so she could ignore her aunt.
"Give this a chance, Hiro. He wants to help."
"Gee. Maybe he should have offered to help thirteen years ago," Hiro scoffed.
"You two were in difficult positions at the time. It was the adoption agency's fault. Things have changed since then." Cass tried to convince her niece.
"You are not doing this to me!" Hiro snapped as she turned around to face her aunt.
"Yes, I can and I will. This will be good for you and besides this is our only option."
Without saying anything else, Hiro stomped away and only thought about one thing, to go home and pretended that her life was not about to be ruined by seeing her brother again.
-oOo-
Hiro tossed and turned in her sleep. She had been trying to sleep to make up for the lack of it when she was behind the bars. But nevertheless, she woke up in her huge but messy room and heard some people talking downstairs. It sounded like Aunt Cass and her lawyer, Errol. Hiro would make jokes about them by saying Casserole when she was little. Now, whenever she heard them talking, they were just talking about Hiro and her troubles.
She went over to the stairs and sat on one of them as she listened to their talk.
"I'm glad we could work out the deal. I was so worried that Hiro was going to be sent to juvenile prison this time," She heard Aunt Cass said.
"We're not out of the woods. She has to cooperate and be serious about it this time." Errol stated. "It's a good thing that her brother is living in a suburban area."
"I'm worried about her. She used to be such a happy and brilliant little girl. She built her first hover board when she was eight! Now she barely talks to me. She's constantly in trouble. I don't know what to do with her anymore. Especially when we found out about the….," she could hear aunt choked.
Hiro felt her heart ached when she heard about this. She never asked to hurt her aunt like this, but she did and she couldn't change that.
"Cass, I know this is hard for you, but it's harder on her. All we can do right now is to make sure she will be safe and out of trouble," Errol told her, trying to comfort the crying woman.
"I know. I just want her to happy again. I just want that little girl again," Cass said between her cry.
"I don't think you can, Aunt Cass," Hiro mumbled to herself as she went back to her room and laid down on her bed. "How can I revive someone who's already dead inside?"
-oOo-
Hiro stood at the door of the train, waiting for her aunt. After a few moments, Aunt Cass came back in time to give her some gummy bears as a snack for the trip along with a goodbye hug before the train door closed and the train started to pull out of the station.
As Cass disappeared from her sight, Hiro could remember the words she said before they left for the train station earlier that morning.
"Hiro.," Cass began, "I know you've been angry and sad for such a long time. You didn't deserve all those things that had happened to you. But you are more than what life has thrown at you and I hope that you will be able to overcome your inner demons and will be happy again. Please give you brother a chance before you make any decisions on how you feel about him. Make sure you eat well and take your medications. Always remember that I love you so much, okay?"
Hiro put that thought aside as she looked out the window and took a nap as San Fransokyo disappeared from her vision and her journey began against her own will.
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Author's Note: This is the story I adopted from Adazula with the same title. The first three chapters are originally from Adazula, but have gone through some editing from me. I really love this story and decided to adopt it so this story would be completed. Basically, this story is about how the Hamada siblings will fix their broken relationship after losing contact to each other. Especially when young Tadashi blamed little Hiro as the cause of their parents' death. Let's see how I will finish this story~