Neglected Garden.

A story by: Adazula

Story description: Tadashi and Hiro separated and went on their own ways after the death of their parents. This in turn put their relationship into turmoil and they lose contact over the number of years. With Hiro at sixteen and Tadashi now twenty-seven, they now have to mend their broken relationship. Whether they like it or not. For better or for worse. Female Hiro.


Hiro feels the familiar cool handcuffs lock around her wrist before she is shoved roughly into the back of the squad car. Being arrested again for gambling 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 these days. Kids now these days are being career 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 grumbles at the two. But they just shrug and keep talking as though Hiro wasn't here 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 and no sleep.

" Let's see…. Arrested five times for gambling 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 grumbles the familiar words in the courtroom, " Not guilty."

Her lawyer straightens himself and says confidently, " Your honor. She is minor and has no previous violent arrests. She also is no flight risk. 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 the next time around?"

" She just found out that she might have a relapse with her condition." Her lawyer said. Hiro growls at him in response. She hates that he just played the health card for sympathy.

" This is just an attempt for leniency!" The prosecutor scoffed.

The judge silences the woman" I will decide things from here Ms. Delany." He said before he turns 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 are arrested again both here or in your designated area, you will be sentenced to jail for contempt. I wish you the best. This meeting is adjourned."

" I highly doubt that." Hiro hears the prosecutor snort as she gathers her papers and leaves..

The judge knocks his gavel and everyone moves about to leave the courtroom while Hiro's Aunt comes 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 shouts to Hiro's new additions.

Hiro has a small ring in her mouth that she got last night, but it wasn't the first. She has a nose stud. An ear cuff on her right ear and several lobe piercings on each ear. All pretty small, but pretty noticeable.

" It's nothing." She shrugged.

" It's something to me. Oh sweetie. What am I going to do with you?" She groans as she hugs her niece.

" Sorry about the piercing and the fact that we have to move." Hiro genuinely apologizes.

" I have a business to run. I can't just shut the place down and move." Her Aunt says 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." Her Aunt said. " But I don't know if you're going to like it."

" What are you talking about?"

" I got into contact with Tadashi." She confessed.

Hiro looks at her Aunt and says the one thought on her mind, " No." Before pacing ahead of her just wanting to go home now more than anything to ignore her Aunt.

" Give this a chance. He wants to help."

" Gee. Maybe he should have offered thirteen years ago." Hiro scoffed.

" You guys were in difficult positions at the time. It was the adoption agency's fault. Things have changed since." Cass tries to convince her niece.

" You are not doing this to me!"

" Yes I can and I will. This will be good for you and besides this is our only option."

Hiro stomps away and only thinks about one thing. Is to just go home and pretend that her life is not about to be ruined by seeing her brother again.


Hiro tosses and turns in her sleep. She has been trying to sleep to make up for the lack of it when she was in a jail cell. But nevertheless she wakes up in her huge but very cluttered room and hears some talking downstairs. It sounds like Cass and her lawyer, Errol. Hiro would make jokes about them by saying Casserole when she was little. Now whenever she hears them, they're just talking about Hiro and her troubles.

She goes over to the stairs and sits on them as she listens in on their chat.

" I'm glad we could work out the deal. I was so worried that Hiro was going to be sent to juvenile hall this time." She heard Cass.

" We're not out of the woods. She has to cooperate and be serious about it this time." Errol states. " It's a good thing 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 hoverboard 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. It especially when we found about the…." She could hear aunt choke.

Hiro feels her heart ached when she hears this. She never asked to hurt her aunt like this, but she did and she can't change that.

" Cass I know this hard on you, but it's harder in her. All we can do right now is make sure she will be safe and out of trouble." Errol tells her.

" I know. I just want her to happy again. I just want that little girl again." Cass says.

" I don't think you can Cass." Hiro says to herself as she falls asleep on the stairs. " How can I revive someone that's already dead inside?"


Hiro stands at the door of the train waiting for her Aunt. Cass comes in time to give her some gummy bears as a snack for the trip along with a hug goodbye before the train door closes and the train starts to pull out of the station.

As Cass disappears from her sight, Hiro could remember the words she said before the left for the train station earlier that morning.

" Hiro." Cass began. " I know you're angry and sad for such a long time. You didn't deserve what has happened. But you are more than what life has thrown at you and I hope that in time you can 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 you're taking your medications. I love you so much."

Hiro puts that thought aside as she looks out the window and takes a nap as San Fransokyo disappears from her vision and her journey begins against her own will.


This is inspired by When Marnie Was There and another movie that I won't mention yet because it will give so much of it away. Such a fantastic film by Studio Ghibli. Check it out if you want. I recommend it. If you haven't heard of Studio Ghibli. Check their movies out. They are some of the best fantasy anime you will ever see. Especially Spirited Way.

This is once again a test chapter to see how people feel about this. This is the second story I am doing on a female Hiro. Check out my previous one, Mask of White.

Tell me what you think. This will be revised a bit later on if I decide to go through with this.