Through The Times We Spent Alone
By: HiroAngelLight
Summary: All these years, Tadashi always feels lonely. Wishing every night that he's not an only child. But what he finds in the attic one day makes him furious to his own parents. What does he find?
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 on my stories until days or even months after publishing the story.
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It should be a day where he could just lay down and sleep all day. But that Saturday, Hiro had to go to help with the upcoming new-students orientation in SFIT. He was appointed as one of the organizers for that event by the school dean, Professor Callaghan. As one of the best students there, he couldn't help but should be ready for things like that. Especially when he was one of the two youngest students there.
He put his backpack on one of his shoulders and walked downstairs. He saw his mother who was putting down their breakfast on the table. He smiled and greeted her, "Good morning, mom!"
She looked up and gave him a bright smile, "Good morning, Hiro! Your breakfast is ready. Want me to pour down the chocolate sauce?"
"Yes, please!"
She giggled and poured the chocolate sauce over his pancakes. He sat on his chair and put his backpack on the chair next to him. They ate their breakfast in silence. They didn't want to talk while munching their food. They could choke.
He stared at his mother. The woman who raised him since he was a baby alone for years. Yes, she was his adoptive mother, not his birth mother. She adopted him when his parents put him up for adoption, just right after he was born. He found out about this fact four years ago when he was ten.
He accidentally found his adoption paper on a bookshelf in her room. He was really shocked when he found out he was just an adopted son. No wonder his mother always looked sad when he asked about who his father was. She was never married, so he didn't have a father. He was hurt, but he demanded for the truth from her after all.
Even though she was as shocked as he was back then, she told him about the truth. Apparently, his parents were Tomeo and Maemi Hamada. They put him up on adoption because they didn't want to have another child at that time and even if they had another one, they wanted a daughter. She tried to convince them to take care of him since he was also their child. But they didn't. They still put him on adoption, not even wanting to hold him for once nor giving him a name.
Knowing that, she immediately adopted him as her own son. She wasn't married, but she wanted to have a child, and she couldn't let her nephew live in orphanage, so she chose to adopt him. She could get him so easily because she, Kasumi Takachiho, known as Cass, was Maemi's little sister. She raised him as her own son since then. And she gave him a name 'Hiro', meant 'generous', so he would grow up as a generous person despite on how bad other people would treat him. Such a beautiful name she gave to him.
After hearing her story, Hiro didn't really know what to feel about his parents. He might be mad, but they were his birth parents and he couldn't bring himself enough to hate them. And he felt grateful that she adopted him, letting him live a good life with the love and care he never got from his parents. Even though Cass was actually his aunt and not his mother, he didn't care. He still called her 'mom'. Of course, it made Cass really happy.
He remembered she said his parents had another son, so he asked about him. His mother said he had an older brother who was four years older than him. His name was Tadashi Hamada. She didn't know how much he had grown since they already moved out from the house she knew. But when he was little, his older brother was a nice kid. Even though he was still little, he cared a lot for others.
And he also loved robots, just like him.
Since that day, Hiro asked his mother to make another part of room for Tadashi. He said one day, Tadashi might sleep there, even just on weekend. His room in the attic was big enough for two beds. He pleaded and pleaded until she gave up and granted his wish. There was a part in his room he never used, so they put another single bed, a desk, a wardrobe, and a bookshelf there with a divider to separate their part of room.
When they were done, Hiro hugged her tight and thanked her for everything. Cass said she would do anything to make him happy. With just saying that, Hiro already felt happy. He made a promise in his heart to always do good things that would make her proud. She wasn't his birth mother, but she would always be his mother no matter what.
"By the way, what's for dinner tonight?" Hiro asked after he finished the last bite of his pancakes. Cass hummed, "I don't know. What do you want for dinner?"
"Can we have your special spicy chicken wings? I'm craving for that right now," he said with a grin.
"Oh, yeah. Tomorrow is Sunday. At least you wouldn't have to worry about the effect after that," she chuckled.
"Yup! Ah, I better go now. Being an organizer means I shouldn't be late, even just for preparation."
Hiro stood up and put his backpack on his shoulders. "Wait, Hiro. I made your lunch earlier," she rose up from her sit and took a bento from the kitchen table. "Here you go," she said as she gave the bento to him.
Hiro smiled at her. He always loved the food she made for him. They were always delicious. "Thanks, mom. See you later!" Hiro said and walked downstairs after giving her a kiss on her cheek.
"Be careful on the way, sweetie!"
"I will!"
He went outside and closed the door behind him. He sighed and looked up to the clear sky above. He wondered what his big brother was doing right now. He knew he never met him even just once. But he really missed him. He really wanted to meet him, hug him, and make up with the things they had missed for their entire life.
'I hope I'll get to meet with you someday, big brother.'
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Author's Note: Yup, this is from Hiro's point of view! And I want to tell you, I still don't know if I should make them meet each other or not. But maybe I won't to avoid another unfinished multiple chapter stories to finish, lol. So I'll just leave it here for now~
Until next time~
