Disclaimer: I don't own Tiger & Bunny. This is merely for fun.

A/N: Since response was relatively positive I'm starting a new story to take up some free time now that other stories will be wrapping up :3. This is my first full length Tiger & Bunny story so I'm really excited for the new adventure. Enjoy!

"Kotestu, are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure! What kind of question is that?!"

Barnaby can tell that he's upset Kotetsu with that response. It's not what he was probably expecting, being practically insulted like that.

"I don't know…sometimes you just think before you speak. Or don't think things through…."

He feels a little hypocritical saying that with what he just said and yet, somehow, like always, Kotetsu seems to understand and his face softens before he takes the blonde in his arms. It's warm and comforting and the closest feeling he's ever had to feeling at home since he was a child.

"Bunny, do you really think I'd do something like this without thinking it through?"

He can almost hear the amusement in Kotetsu's voice, like already this will be a story they'll laugh about later over beers or something.

"….No…"

"I'm still waiting for an answer by the way."

Barnaby smiles into the other man's shoulder and wraps his arms around his back. Like he'd really have to think about it.

"Yes."

The second Barnaby opens his eyes he knows he's in a hospital. He doesn't have his glasses on, but even through the garish blur he can tell it's a hospital. Nothing else is that white, or smells that clean. The shrill beeping of the contraptions he's obviously hooked up to are a dead giveaway too. God how he hates them, always has, but right now they make his head throb in rhyme with their beeping and his heartbeat.

God he hates hospitals too. Why is he here?

The blonde's head lulls to the side heavily and he makes out a brown and green blob hovering in what he assumes is a chair in the corner.

"Kotetsu…"

"Ah! Bunny! You're awake!" The blob rushes forward and drapes its weight across him over the bed in a desperate hug. "Thank goodness you're ok! I was so worried!"

"Gah! What are you doing old man?! Get off me!"

Kotetsu stops instantly and pulls away from Barnaby slowly. "Bunny…." He says quietly and Barnaby tsks through his teeth.

"Tsk! Bunny…I've told you a thousand times, my name is Barnaby. Stop calling me Bunny!"

At this distance Barnaby can see Kotetsu's face and expects a look of hurt on the old man's face when he says that, he always does. But the look on Kotetsu's face is more wounded than hurt, like he's stabbed the man in the chest. What was that about?

"Look, can you just get me my doctor so I can get out of here please? I wanna go home." Barnaby says while gently pushes Kotetsu away in an effort to swoosh him.

There is a definite pause, a hesitation in the older man before he does what he's told and leaves to find Barnaby's doctor.

'That was strange.' The rookie hero thinks, assuming that getting Kotetsu off and away from him wouldn't have been that easy. It normally never was. 'Maybe he feels guilty over me being here? Why am I here anyway? Something must have happened on a job, but I can't remember anything? Maybe that's it.'

As he rationalizes his thoughts Barnaby pats around the end table for his glasses. He finds them easily enough and puts them on with a small furrow. 'These aren't my glasses. These are round. Where are my glasses? Did they get broken and these are replacements?'

"Ah, Mr. Brooks, I see that you've returned to us. I'm Dr. Gramm. How are you feeling?"

Despite the nagging feeling about his glasses and trip to the hospital, Barnaby is quick to bring his attention to the doctor who saunters in.

"Fine. My head hurts though."

"Hmm…yes, I would suspect so with the fall you took." She tells him, using a small light to inspect his pupils carefully. So he had been in an accident at work.

"Can I go home now?" Barnaby asks suddenly once she's done and the young doctor chuckles a little.

"Ah yes, your partner warned us about your aversion to hospitals." She says, looking back over her shoulder at Kotetsu who has returned with her into the room. "Let's just do some quick neurological test to see if you have any issues with that headache and we'll go from there ok?" She tells him while making a few more notes before sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Ok,"

"What's your name?"

"Barnaby Brooks Jr."

'This is stupid.' He thinks as he begrudgingly, finding these test trivial at best.

"Good. When and where were you born?"

"Sternbild City, October 31st 1953."

'I just want to go home and sleep.' He whines internally as he spouts more answers.

"Good. What's today's date?"

"Thursday November 12th 1978."

Barnaby can tell instantly by the look on their faces that he got that one wrong. 'What? Have I been out for more than a day?' "What old man?" He asks not liking the pale flush that Kotetsu's face just took.

"Mr. Brooks, its March 18th 1984. This is your husband Kotetsu Kaburagi." Dr. Gramm says gently, seeming to mistakenly take the nickname for a complete lack of recognition. "You seem to be suffering from retrograde amnesia caused your fall. We'll need some times to run some tests, get our barring on how serious this is, and…M-Mr. Brooks? Mr. Brooks! I need a cart in here!"

"Bunny!"

If Barnaby had been himself he would have told Kotetsu not to shout in hospitals, that it wasn't that serious, and that he merely just fainted.

I know the first chapter is short but hopefully it's a good start.

Reviews are, as always, welcome and appreciated! Also lots of feedback now and in future chapters. I want to make sure I do the series justice while I'm writing this fic!