I've decided to make a chapter series of Tadashi's and Hiro's childhood/ Brother moments.

Enjoy.

"He's sleeping again, mommy!" the young 7 year old Tadashi pointed out at the infant that constantly fell asleep while watching an educational color show Tadashi keeps on forgetting. Tadashi presses his face against the bars of the crib as the baby flinch his weird small fingers. Tadashi finds it strange for a baby like him to be moving his fingers while he's thinking. He wonders if he does that too.

"Don't worry, he'll wake up again," his father told him as he patted Tadashi's shoulder. "And I got a present for you."

Tadashi's lit up as he looked up to his father with sparkling eyes and a surprised expression. "Really!? What did you get!?"

The mother was in the kitchen over hearing the two "men" have a conversation. She chuckled to herself, feeling happy to have a nice family.

"I got you this!"

"GASP, NO WAY!"

Curiosity comes to her as she decided to walk into the room and see the present given to her son. As she enters the living room, Tadashi was jumping on the sofa and jumping off and runs around the room, in random orders. She said he get really excited over the littlest things.

But he was grateful. And it was a beautiful gift.

"Now, now. I just vacuumed the sofa and floor. Calm down and show me your gift." the mother said as she grabbed the energetic boy off his feet and then put him on the sofa lying on his back.

He held up a cap with Japanese symbols. "This!" he exclaimed as he stared at it like it was the best thing in the world. She thought that maybe her little man would always get too excited over every little thing and doesn't have too much expectations. But he was so grateful.

And it was a beautiful gift.

It looked more like the letter S overlapping the letter F (1) than Japanese symbols. It was dark navy blue with yellow symbols and outlined with the color orange.

"This cap was signed by one of the San Fransokyo Ninjas! I wish we can live in San Fransokyo than here. Mommy, daddy, when will we visit Aunt Cass again? She lives in San Fransokyo." Tadashi sadly frowns the last word.

-::_::-

Hiro started to crawl about 2 months ago and he couldn't stop fallowing Tadashi.

At first, he thought that he was worshiping him. But then it got a little annoying. He fallowed him everywhere in the small house. The bathroom, living room, the stairs (up and down), his room. And his little closet too where he builds his little robots. He plans on making one that does his homework, a highly intelligent one.

But then he gave up easily.

One day, Tadashi walked out of the bathroom, a little surprised that Hiro wasn't there waiting for him. He blinked a couple of times.

"HIRO!" he shouted cupping around his mouth to make him sound louder. "HIRO! Little bro!?" he looked all around the hallways. "A , iya(2)!" he uttered in Japanese.

"What's wrong?" his father called from the bottom of the stairs.

"Huh?"

"I heard you say something. Is everything okay?"

"Uh…" he turned his head to the open door of his room. He looked back to his father and said, "Just a second, Father!"

He ran into his room and scanned carefully. He slowly turned his head to all corners of the room. The only place left was his closet. (Not the closet!) He carefully tip-toed to the room in the back of the room, imitating the children's anime in the shows. He slowly opened the door and gasped.

"HIRO!"

The parents downstairs perked once they've heard their son screeched in a high pitch voice.

"Uh oh…" the mother uttered as she went upstairs and ran into the room. She saw a boy violently threw a piece of a robotic arm at the baby's face. The baby cried next to the broken pieces.

"Tadashi! That is enough!" she scowled at her firstborn son, not knowing he can be violent inside. He was always polite and careful and now he's the opposite.

…

It turned out, he knew what he was doing.

He was putting together a robot or something.

And it was incredible. And shocking. And something unforgettable.

His parents took him to a specialist and found out that his baby brother was a prodigy(**). Then here comes the bad part. They paid more attention to him than their firstborn son.

So then this was the time to finally realize to find friends. No, it wouldn't be easy to find permanent friendship, like a friend who would be there always when you're alone or sad. But yeah, he knew every single face in the grade so choosing a face to see everyday shouldn't be so bad.

No.

Everyone had their own thing and their own group members. He spent one day for each group to hang out with everyday, but when he was with them, they didn't pay attention o him. He rarely spoke and they did the same back with him(3). He never felt so…rejected. And this was everyday.

Oh. Right. There was mom and dad. But they were busy. Like always. Ever since Hiro.

But anyway, he can't blame him. If he was a super smart baby then he's a super smart baby. There's nothing a 6 year old can do.

"Why are you talking to me?"

He looked at the girl who he barely spoken to. She was a trouble maker and never saw her face because she was too busy getting a time-out. And besides, she was just as lonely as he was, he bet.

"I dunno, but I know that you are lonely, and in need of a friend." he said trying to not show that he's afraid of her.

"But…" her face felt hot a little. "I don't need a friend."

"Yes you do. And like it or not, I'm gonna be your best friend!" he held out his hand enthusiastically with a bright smile on his face to show friendliness.

The girl hesitated, but reaches out her hand and shook it with his. "I'm Leiko Tanaka."

"Tadashi Hamada!" he shouted, very excited to have a best friend now. "Let's play tag!"

She blinked. "What?"

"Let's play tag, best friend!"

"Ummmmm," she looked down at her feet. "I dunno how to play that…" she said sheepishly.

He gasped. "What!? But it's so fun! You don't know how to play that game!"

She shook her head in reply.

"How…why!"

"Because…I don't have any friends…so everybody plays tag, but I don't."

Tadashi felt passionate, and caring for the sad classmate, so he hugged her tightly. She was so shocked, and she thought that the little boy liked her. She didn't hug him back though.

As soon as he stopped hugging, he let her go and encourages her to cheer up.

"Don't worry, Leiko! I'm gonna teach you!"

He explains the whole game of tag, the base and running and such. The game really caught up to Leiko's attention. She smiled for the first time as soon as he was done explaining the rules. And they played.

Leiko was very fast, so Tadashi had to come up with a plan to "blend in" with the crowded playground so that he can sneak up on her and tag her. But he was always the one who was "it" the longest.

But that didn't matter. Even if it was just him and her playing the game, it was the greatest fun he had in forever.

(1)This was mostly written in my point of view. I've notice this when I was (trying!) to draw Tadashi's hat.

(**)I've notice this in many fan fictions when they come to one point when they mention he was a prodigy.

(3) This was written based on my childhood experience.

Anyway, keep reviewing guys! There'll be more!