Oh my gosh! Hello!
I'm so excited to have another story to be posting on Fanfiction! I haven't been on here for quite some time and have really missed it. Sure, I'm writing stories all the time, but I never really post any of them because I either lose inspiration or just don't find myself liking it and put it aside to re-write later on.
Sadly enough, this is the first story that I have finished in years (not counting the one-shot I wrote). Yeah, depressing isn't it? On the bright side though, I finished this one! And yes, I already have this entire story written and will be posting weekly (every Friday). I tend to feel more comfortable writing my stories first before posting them so if I want to change something or edit something in later on, I can do that freely without angering anybody. The only problem that tends to come along with that, however, is the fact that it does take me a long time to write the whole story so you probably won't be seeing another story on here for a while unless I decide to write a one-shot.
I don't really mind though. It not only allows me to write at my own pace, but it also saves you guys from having to wait an agonizing amount of time for the next chapter or even from having to worry about me abandoning it. So there. Remember that this story will not be put on hold or discontinued, it will continue to be updated once a week for as many weeks as it runs for!
Anyways, I'm going off topic here. Point is, I'm so happy to be back! I really hope you guys like this story! Feel free to leave your thoughts in a review or even PM me if you want! Like I said, I've already written the entire story so I will not change anything, but still feel free to give me your ideas or thoughts on what may happen. I love hearing what you guys have to say! Also, if you notice any huge grammar mistakes (not small stuff like forgetting a comma or something), please PM me and let me know and I'll try to fix it! Thank you and have fun reading!
Disclaimer: I do not own Big Hero 6 or any of it's characters. I do, however, own my character, Alex, so XP.
Hiro sighed to himself as he strolled down the streets of San Fransokyo, his hands shoved deep into the pockets of his blue hooded jacket, looking for something to do to fill up his oddly free schedule for the day. He's been walking around for a little less than an hour already, but has yet to find anything interesting to occupy his time. He could easily just go back to the nerd lab and work on one of the projects he had started, but he just wasn't in that type of mood today.
In an attempt at curing his boredom, he tried calling Gogo, Wasabi, and Fred to see if they wanted to catch a movie or head over to the arcade for a little while, but they all seemed busy with something or another. And he knew for a fact that Honey and Tadashi were out of the question considering what had occurred to make him leave the café in the first place.
~Flashback~
"Hey Aunt Cass," Hiro called out as he walked into the kitchen where his aunt was glazing a couple dozen doughnuts with winter designs.
She looked up from her work to smile at the 15-year-old who started half-heartedly inspecting the confectionary treats was working on for the past hour or so. She quickly checked the front counter through the large opening in the wall to make sure nobody was waiting to pay before she replied to her nephew, "Good morning Hiro! Or should I say good afternoon. It is one o-clock in the afternoon after all. You really should work on your sleeping habits or you're going to throw your entire sleeping schedule off."
He chuckled at his aunt's concern, "Don't worry Aunt Cass, it's not like I stay up until three A.M. every morning. I just had a project that kept me up all night. I had to finish the layout for it so I could start working on it this weekend, so I figured I might as well whack it out in one night and get it out of the way."
"Well at least you were doing something productive instead of sitting in front of the TV playing video games," she rambled, grabbing a towel to wipe at the the small sheen of sweat that's accumulated on her forehead.
"Hey," Hiro retorted, "it's not like I do that often. By the way, when are they coming to fix the AC?"
"I have no idea hun," she sighed as she grabbed the blue bag of icing, "all I know is that we're lucky it's winter and people are looking for a warm place to relax. Me on the other hand, I could go for a little air conditioning right now. I'm sweating like crazy back here."
"Are you sure you don't need any help? I don't mind staying here and working today," he reminded her with sincere look. He hated to see his aunt over work herself for the sake of the café. He knows she loved this café with all of her heart, but he knows that she still gets a little stressed with it sometimes.
"Oh no, don't worry about me! It's not even that busy today. Go, enjoy your free time while it lasts," she brushed him off without even looking up from the snowflake she just frosted onto a glazed, jelly-filled doughnut.
"Alright," he said hesitantly, but brushed it off. "Hey, have you seen Tadashi?"
"Tadashi?" she said, finally lifting her head to look him in the eyes. "Oh! Yes, he's sitting at table eight with Honey. They've been talking for a couple of hours now I believe."
Hiro looked out the service window in confusion, thinking that Tadashi has gone out for the day, but sure enough, there sat his brother and one of his good friends at a small table near the window chatting away. One of them must have said something hilarious because they both suddenly burst into a fit of laughter.
Curious as to why the rest of the group wasn't here, Hiro walked out of the kitchen and made his way over to their table to see where everybody else was.
When he arrived, both of the table's occupants looked up at him with smiles plastered on their flushed faces.
"Oh, hello Hiro!" Honey chirped happily.
"Hey," he said cautiously at her tone of voice. Honey is known to be quite optimistic and bubbly, but she seems even more so than usual today.
"Is there something you need?" Tadashi asked giving him a stern, pleading look. Hiro didn't necessarily understand why his brother seemed to want him to leave, so he didn't pay much mind to it as he continued on.
"Nah, I was just wondering where everybody else was. Were they all busy or something?" he asked taking a seat next to his brother.
Tadashi rolled his eyes at his little brother, wondering how a single person could be so clueless towards a situation. He turned to the onyx haired boy and mumbled, "We were kind of hoping for some alone time so we didn't really invite anybody else."
"Why? Did Fred say something to piss you off again? He can have his moments, but he means no harm." Hiro said in complete oblivion.
At this point, Tadashi just stared at Hiro while Honey held a hand to her mouth to hide her giggling.
Well, Tadashi thought, he may be a genius at robotics, but he's definitely lacking in other areas.
"It has nothing to do with anybody else Hiro," Tadashi said with a forced smile, "we'd just like some alone time. So if you wouldn't mind." He trailed off, shooing him away like a cat.
Everything then seemed to click for Hiro as he stood up quickly shouting out, "Oh! Are you two on a date?"
Tadashi just sighed and stood up before forcing his little brother away from their table.
"Really?" was all he said when they got far enough away from the table that Honey couldn't hear them.
"Heh heh, whoops. Didn't mean for that to come out so loudly," Hiro admitted sheepishly. He had to admit, that definitely wasn't one of his brightest moments.
"Yeah, yeah. Why don't you go do something outside the house today. It may be cold, but that doesn't mean you have to be stuck here all day. Why don't you go bowling or something," he suggested to the younger boy.
"Well," Hiro said thoughtfully before a slight smirk made its way onto his face, "I guess I could do that. I wonder if GoGo, Wasabi, and Fred want to go. You know, considering you've abandoned not just me, but everybody else as well."
"Hey! I'm not abandoning you or anybody else and you know it," he said sending a playful glare.
The still smirking boy put his hands up to surrender, "Yeah, yeah, I know. You just want some alone time with your precious Honey-bear."
"Goodbye Bonehead!" Tadashi said, lightly shoving Hiro towards the exit.
As the café door closed behind him, Hiro just smiled to himself before making his way down the sidewalk to god-knows-where.
~Flashback End~
This left Hiro where he is now, walking around aimlessly without a clue as to where he could go. As he was walking however, he remembered something important.
He couldn't go anywhere even if he tried. He forgot his wallet at home when Tadashi rushed him out the door. That's just terrific.
Hiro was then pulled out of his thoughts by someone crashing right into him, resulting in both of them sprawled out on the floor with all of the other person's belongings scattered around them.
Rubbing his head from where it came into contact with the concrete, Hiro sat up slowly and turned to glare at the person who ran into him. He figured that if this person had enough force behind their step to leave him on the floor nursing a bruised cranium, then they were probably somebody that he did not want to pick a fight with. With this being said, he kept his frustration towards what just happened to himself as he picked himself off of the floor and brushed off his clothes.
When he looked over at the culprit however, he was surprised to see that it wasn't a six-foot tall brute with piercings on his eyelids and tattooed tears running down his face. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Instead was a small girl, about his age, with dirty blond hair. He noticed that she did in fact have a piercing on her face, but it was nothing more than a small, diamond stud on the right side of her nose. While Hiro has never really been one for face piercings, he had to admit that this one seemed to suit her quite well.
As she continued to pick up the items that fell out of her duffel bag, she began apologizing profusely for bumping into him.
"I'm so sorry! I swear, sometimes I'm just in such a hurry that I don't even pay attention to what's in front of me," she apologized panic-stricken.
"Oh," Hiro spurted, finally coming out of his small daze, "it's fine. Don't worry about it."
"Are you sure?" she asked, finally standing up and throwing her bag over her shoulder. She stared at him with her large, light blue eyes before continuing, "You're not hurt or anything, right?"
"No, I'm fine. I swear," Hiro assured with a tight smile. It's not often that Hiro talks to people his age, and in the few instances when he has, even when he was younger, it always ended with them calling him a geek or a nerd and/or beating him up. This is the reason that he loves everybody from the nerd lab so much. They don't make fun of him for doing what he loves and being himself.
"Oh, thank god!" she sighed in relief. "I don't know what I would have done if you got hurt. The nearest hospital is pretty far away and I failed first aid class about two times before finally passing so that's out of the question."
Hiro listened to her as she stood there and rambled. To most people, this would probably be annoying to listen to, but for some reason, Hiro kind of found it endearing.
"I never introduced myself, did I? Sorry, I'm Alex," she said placing her hand out for me to shake.
He chuckled lightly before taking her hand and introducing himself, "Hiro; and really, it's not a big deal. No harm no foul right?"
"Haha! Yeah," she laughed. Her eyes then traveled down to the SFIT shirt he had on underneath his jacket with wide eyes, "You go to SFIT? Wow! You look really young for your age."
Hiro subconsciously tensed before he explained his situation to her. This is usually when the onslaught comes, "Actually, I'm only 15. I graduated from high school when I was 12 and got into SFIT when I was around 13."
He stared at her, watching her face carefully for any signs of what was to come. However, her eyes just widened before a dazzling smile made its way onto her face.
"Really? That's so cool! Man I wish I were that smart," she said as she looked at him in admiration.
Nobody's ever given Hiro that type of look before. Sure, Aunt Cass is always gushing over how smart her "little man" is, but nobody has ever really looked up to him before.
Hiro's tense posture immediately loosened up. With a new sense of pride swelling up inside his chest, he replied with a smile of his own, "Yeah, I guess it is."
"Well, I really need to get going Hiro, but maybe we can meet up again some time to talk or something," she said with a hopeful look in her eyes.
Hiro immediately jumped at the idea and quickly agreed with a nod of the head, "Yeah! That sounds awesome."
"Okay, hold on a second," she said as she began rummaging through her bag. "Here we go!" she said as she pulled out a pen. She then surprised Hiro by grabbing his arm and rolling up his sleeve.
"What are you doing?" he asked confusedly.
She just ignored him and began to write something on his wrist. When she was done she pulled away and slipped the pen back in her bag before smiling at him again.
"There's my number. Text me whenever you want to get together okay?" she said rolling on the balls of her feet.
"A-alright," Hiro replied with a small blush on his cheeks. Despite the cold weather, he noticed how warm and flushed he began to feel. He thought that maybe he was getting a classic winter cold, but decided to just ignore for now. He'll just ask Baymax to scan him later.
"Talk to you later then!" she called out as she began running in the direction she was heading to begin with.
Hiro stood there in a small stupor before he looked down at the numbers now decorating his wrist.
What just happened?