Two years later
Saturdays are a good day for Tadashi. He can sleep in and work on whatever he wanted to do during the day. It's 11:30am and Tadashi is alone in the house as his aunt had to leave for after an expected call. He is old enough and trusted to not do anything reckless unlike Hiro would. He was working on a toy sized robot, nothing programed to do anything specific but just general active robot. He was having trouble, but he will not give up just yet. He hears the door from the entrance to their living room open as he kept working. Aunt Cass came in with Hiro behind her wearing his blue soccer uniform. He was sad. His light paled face brought out the light red eyes he had. "Why couldn't I stay longer Auntie."
"Well Hiro, I can't just leave you alone all sick. What do think would happen if I couldn't pick you up after the call."
"I could've got worse."
"And we don't want that to happen would we?"
Hiro shakes his head. He remembered when he almost had a mini heart attack a year ago after making himself exhausted at the school playground. Although Hiro can still enjoy running around and having fun, he has limits. His body needs rest, and since he's still very young it's difficult to control a child who is full of energy. Life can get very boring for Hiro Hamada. His aunt want to get his medicine and helped him take it. She smiles and kisses him on the nose. "Rest up baby." He kicks off his shoes and drags himself to the center of the room to sit and watch the t.v. Tadashi left on for background noise. He stares at the science channel bored, having seen the episode before when he was brought home from school once after getting the flu. He turns to his older brother who is still working on his project. He gets up to go to his brother to get a closer look. "Whatcha doing nii-san."
"I'm building a robot." Tadashi replies not looking at his brother.
Hiro's face lights up with excitement after hearing what his older brother said. "Whoa! Can it talk? Is it one of those fighting robots on the t.v? Wow I bet it can do what you ask it to do." Question after question Tadashi finally tells him, "Quiet bro, No I don't think it can do any of those things yet. I'm still trying to make it move." Hiro calms down and observes the rest of his work. "How long will it take 'till you finish?"
"Not for a while." Hiro frowns and lost hope. He didn't want to wait very long for the product to be done. Tadashi notices Hiro's disappointment and smiles at him. "Unless," Hiro looks up. "I teach you how to make robots that way we can finish it together." Again, Hiro lights up with joys and is excited. "Really! Awesome. And as I help you it can be done faster."
Tadashi shows him what has done and what needs to be connected to what. Hiro is paying very close attention to whatever he tells him is determined to remember what he learned. Tadashi was patient with his brother as he was still new to the process. He didn't mind Hiro's mistakes and would help him if he needed help. He also didn't mind his little brother's side comments on what kind of robots they could build together. Some were out if Tadashi's comfort zone but if it was Hiro's idea that's up to him. Satisfied, he throws in the finishing touch and now they're ready to test it. Tadashi grabs his control and pushes a button to start the robot. Nothing happened. Curious, Tadashi did it again but got the same result. Nothing. By now it was sunset. Tadashi was still trying to figure out why the robot wasn't working. He finally gave up. "I don't think I can do this."
"Oh come on nii-san we're so close." Hiro said quietly.
"We're far from close. I can't get it to power on. I checked the batteries, it's fine. I checked the wires and it's in place. I don't know what else to do." As his older brother kept complaining, Hiro looked at the robot and decided to check for himself. He switched some wires and added a chip and closed it. Hiro slowly grabs the remote and turns the robot on. The red light appeared. Hiro stood still. "Nii-san," he grabs his brother's attention, "look." Tadashi freezes and sees the robot functioning. Hiro uses the arrow buttons to move it around. It's going in every direction it's supposed to go. Tadashi takes the remote from Hiro and tries it out for himself. Its actually working, he thought. Hiro jumps with rejoice. "We did it nii-san! We built a robot!" "Ya, we built a robot!" The two brothers danced around and kept playing with the robot. Aunt Cass had to come in to check on the commotion they were causing. They showed her the final results of the robot and she cheered for her nephews. She hugs them and then tickles Hiro as Tadashi ran from her after the hug knowing she would have done that. She was very proud of them and encouraged them to continue working hard. Throughout their dinner and night, they talked of future possible inventions that could come up now that the boys found that their interests in science and robotics have grown. Tadashi had finally had something he could do with his brother.
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