We Are Family
By: HiroAngelLight
Summary: Hiro lives alone since his aunt's death. When there are three mysterious people inside the house, he still can deal with it. But the thing is, the three people have the same faces! Just who the hell are they?!
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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Chapter 2 of 4
Around half an hour later, Hiro's eyes flickered open. He saw the living room's ceiling. And there was a cold washcloth on his forehead. Moreover, he was lying on the couch. How did he get there?
Hiro chuckled, "Oh, wow. I just had a really weird dream. There were three unknown people inside the house and worse of all, they had the same faces. I don't know whether it was just a weird dream or a nightmare."
"What if I say it wasn't a dream?" someone asked.
Hiro turned his head to the right and saw one the three people sitting on the couch across him. Hiro groaned. Did he really just saw the guy sitting there? Or were his eyes deceiving him right now? He groaned again as he sat up and the cold washcloth fell down to his hand.
"Okay, so you're real?" Hiro asked, narrowing his eyes. The guy shrugged, "Well, considering that I'm actually sitting across you, yes, I'm real."
"How about the other two?"
"I don't know. Maybe they are, or not," he said. And Hiro responded that statement with a grunt and annoyed face. "Okay, okay. They're real, too."
Then Hiro heard some footsteps from behind him. "You shouldn't annoy him, Kazu. He was really shocked, you know," another guy said. Hiro turned his head and yup, the other two were also real.
"Yeah. Unless you want our little Hiro to hate you," the woman said. Then something hit Hiro and he snapped at them, "Hey! I'm not little! I'm fourteen already!"
The three people winced and the woman put her hands up in defence and said, "Okay, okay, not little." Hiro scowled.
The other guy who was standing beside the woman sighed, "Alright, we will tell you everything later. I guess we should eat our dinner first before we starve to dead."
While the other guy and woman nodded in agreement, Hiro stared at them in suspicious. "You didn't poison my food, right?" Hiro asked. "I want to answer you with a 'no'. But since the one who cooked dinner was Mizu there, I kinda doubt it," the guy, who was called Kazu, said.
"Hey! I didn't put any poison in my cooking!" the woman, Mizu, exclaimed. "Although, I was actually planning about that to your food, Kazu."
Kazu looked at her, deadpanned, "Now the truth has been revealed. I wonder if I can still feel safe to eat your cooking from now on."
"I was just kidding, you know!"
"Alright, alright, stop it already," the one, who Hiro still didn't know his name, tried to stop Mizu and Kazu's quarrel while chuckling at the them. "Dashi, you should defend me!" Mizu said. "No, you should be on my side after hearing her horrible plan earlier," Kazu told the guy.
'So, the last guy's name was Dashi? Huh. Okay,' Hiro thought.
"I'm not on your side, or your side," Dashi stated as he pointed to Mizu then to Kazu. "Let's just eat our dinner, or…, I will kick you two out and eat the air outside," Dashi said as his kind face turned into a darker face. It looked kinda scary though. Even Kazu and Mizu gulped and looking a bit scared.
"Okay," the two finally said in unison. Hearing that, the kind face was back to Dashi's face and he nodded, "Good."
So, they walked toward the dining table and took a seat. Hiro looked at the food Mizu cooked for them. They were having chicken katsu rice bowl, vegetables salad of shredded carrot, reddish, and cabbage, miso soup, and cold ice tea. They started eating their meals. Hiro ate his and he could say it was delicious.
But something made Hiro felt uneasy. Well, it wasn't his fault to feel that way when he was eating his food while there were two guys with the same faces sitting across him and eating their food as if nothing bugged them. He glanced to his left, where the woman who also had the same face with the two guys was sitting. It felt really weird. And unknown to him, the other three noticed his uneasiness.
When they had finished their dinner and all the dirty dishes had been washed clean, they gathered up in the living room again. Dashi, Kazu, Mizu were sitting across him. Looking at them was still weird for him. Not only he didn't know who they were and how they could get in the house. But, well…
"I know you've been wondering about us and some other things," Dashi started, "But I assure you, we're not bad people."
"Okay. So, explain, now," Hiro demanded them.
Dashi nodded. "Okay, maybe some introduction will be a good start. My name is Tadashi. This guy is Kazuya. And this girl is Mizuki. We're your older siblings, Hiro," Dashi said as he introduced himself and the other two.
Wait, older sibling?
"Uh, wait. Older siblings? As far as I remember, I don't have a sibling. Maybe you three got the wrong person."
"Then, can you explain how we could get in this house if we're not your siblings?" Kazuya asked.
Hiro shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know. Maybe you sneaked in through an open window."
"No, Hiro. We have spare keys. Aunt Cass gave each of us one spare key so we could go into the house if you're not home by the time we arrive here," Mizuki explained with a light chuckle.
"Yup. Which was why we could go in. You weren't here when we arrived. So we decided to use the spare key," Tadashi added.
Another thing hit Hiro, "Wait a minute, did you just say Aunt Cass gave you spare keys?"
All of them nodded. "How did you know about Aunt Cass? And if you really are my older siblings, then where were you all these years?!" Hiro asked, looking a bit furious at them. Suddenly, their faces looked sad. Melancholic?
"We were adopted by dad's relatives. And we lived out of town since then," Mizuki answered sadly.
Kazuya nodded, "Yeah. We actually didn't want to be taken away and leave you behind. But they insisted and since we were only seven that time, we couldn't do anything."
"Gladly, you were adopted by Aunt Cass and we felt relieved when we heard the news. We didn't want you to end up in orphanage," Tadashi added. "A week ago, we got a letter from Aunt Cass through her lawyer. Telling us about how she wouldn't live long, and you would be all alone when she died. She asked if one of us would want to take your guardianship because she didn't want you to get sent to orphanage by the social workers. And of course, we wouldn't let that happen. It took a while, but we went here all together and decided to live here with you."
"Then, who's my legal guardian now?"
"Me, of course," Tadashi grinned, albeit looking proud. Kazuya and Mizuki frowned. "This guy defeated us. I actually wanted to take that guardianship," Kazuya told Hiro as he pointed his thumb toward Tadashi.
Mizuki pouted, "Yeah. I also wanted to take your guardianship. But he did it so fast. And he said because he's the oldest one, so he has the right to take your guardianship."
Tadashi only grinned at them. While the other two only frowned, again. They looked really disappointed somehow.
"Actually, I'm still wondering about something. Why do you guys have the same faces? Are all of you…, triplets? No offense."
"None taken," Kazuya said. "Yeah, we are triplets. Identical triplets, if I must say," Tadashi said.
Mizuki groaned and complained, "I wish I could have a different face from these two. I'm a girl for God's sake! Sometimes I don't want to see my own reflection on the mirror because of that."
"Well, to be honest, the face similarity is really terrifying," Hiro remarked, making an expression of both amazed and a bit scared. The triplet siblings only sighed.
"Anyway, I can't wait to go to your high school on your first day!" Mizuki exclaimed cheerfully.
Hiro raised his brow in confusion, "What?"
"Oh, yeah. You're fourteen now. You'll be in high school soon!" Tadashi said.
"Hmm. I wonder which school you'll be going into," Kazuya added. "I just hope his high school mates won't be terrified to see us." And thus made them sighed exasperatedly.
In his mind, Hiro was torn between correcting them, or just let them with their conclusion. "What about you guys? How old are you? And are you still in high school or already in college?" Hiro asked.
"We're eighteen. No, we had graduated from high school and tomorrow all of us started our college in SFIT," Tadashi told him.
"SFIT? What major?"
"Yeah. I go to robotics engineering major. Kazuya goes to mechanical engineering and industrial design major. While Mizuki goes to chemical engineering major."
At this, Hiro smirked, "So, all of you are nerds." They wanted to protest. But they didn't after seeing how mischievous Hiro's face was. The look on Hiro's face was really suspicious to them. 'Something bad is definitely in his mind!' they shouted in their minds.
"By the way, where are you guys going to sleep?"
"I sleep in Aunt Cass' room. She told us in the letter that we could use her room. Better than leaving it out cold. While Tadashi and Kazuya shared a room in the guest room," Mizuki told him.
Hiro nodded. "Okay. Well, the guest room has two single beds so yeah, you two can share a room. Oh, one last thing, which one is older?"
"Tadashi is. I'm the second. And Mizuki is the youngest," Kazuya said. "Where is your room? There are only two rooms here."
"You haven't seen the third floor then?"
"Wait, isn't that the attic?" Mizuki asked in confusion.
"Yup. I asked Aunt Cass to let me have the attic as my room. I like a room with bigger space," Hiro explained. Then he got up and said, "I'm going to my room now. I want to take a shower before I go to sleep. You three shouldn't sleep late. Tomorrow will be your first day, right?"
All of them nodded in agreement.
"Okay, then. Good night, Hiro."
"Night, kid."
"Sweet dreams, little brother!"
"Good night, big bros and sist."
With that, Hiro walked away to his room. The older triplet siblings were still wondering about what made Hiro looked so mischievous earlier. On the other hand, Hiro was really looking forward for tomorrow to come.
'This would be fun,' he thought with a smirk on his face. Something would definitely happen tomorrow. And what would that be?
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Author's Note: Okay, I'm sure you all know how Tadashi looks like. So, if you're wondering about Kazuya and Mizuki, don't worry. There will be a part where I describe how both of them look like in the next chapter. And…., why do you think Hiro grinned at them mischievously like that? Until next time~
