A/N: I'm so sorry it's taken so long for me to update! I've been swamped with school and etc. lately, so I haven't had much time to write. Anywho~I hope you guys like this chapter! I don't own Big Hero 6, enjoy!


Year One

"No, I'm sorry." Naomi sighed, running her fingers through her hair as she spoke on the phone. "I was just fired from my job, I can't pay the bill right now."

"Well, I'm sorry ma'am, but we're going to have to cut your power." Their electrical provider stated, neither having pity nor letting it sound like he did.

"No! Please, I can pay it soon! I just need to get back on my feet." Mrs. Hamada groaned, shaking her head in worry. "We just finished paying off our hospital bill from when we had our son."

"I'm sorry ma'am, it's not my decision. The power will be off by tomorrow unless you can pay."

The electrical provider then hung up on Naomi, leaving her in shock and fear.

"Shit…" she moaned, looking through the bills on the kitchen table. She worked out the money she owed all together in her head and worried herself even farther. "How the hell am I going to pay all of this? I don't even have a job now…"

Naomi soon heard the baby start to fuss yet again. She groaned loudly wanting to hit her head against the table.

"The baby's fussing again!" Kyo screeched from their bedroom. "Damn it, Naomi, either you shut him up or I will!"

"Yeah, how about you try for once?" she screeched back, annoyed, as she stepped into Tadashi's room, her husband walking in soon after.

In one of his hands he held empty bottle that was once full of sake; the other had a lit cigarette.

"Get the hell out of my way if you want the baby to shut his damn mouth!" Kyo growled, pushing his wife out of the room.

Naomi tripped on her way out of the room and therefore wasn't able to see her husband walk over to the baby with an angry scowl on his face.

He began to scream at the poor child.

"Shut the hell up you piece of shit!" Kyo screeched, his angry and drunk voice was loud and menacing. "You'd better close your mouth or I will!"

Tadashi only cried worse as his father yelled at him. He, himself, had just began to talk, and obviously could not fight back. He could only whine, "Daddy…" as his father continued to scream.

"Shut your damn mouth!"

"Kyo, stop it!" Naomi yelled, getting on her feet and rushing to Tadashi's old and barely standing crib.

Kyo just pushed her away angrily, making her fall again, before turning back to the wailing baby.

"Shut up!" the father howled once again.

Tadashi continued to cry and whine.

Kyo then threw the sake bottle angrily in the corner, before he let his hand slap the baby's head.

Naomi cried, "Stop it, Kyo!" but he wasn't going to.

As Tadashi continued to cry, Kyo hit him again. And again, until he finally moved his burning cigarette down and pushed it against the baby's soft and delicate skin.

Tadashi's tiny, brown eyes widened a bit before he howled in pain. It stung, it burned! Why would his daddy do this to him?

"No!" Tadashi cried, trying to flail his tiny arms. "Daddy!"

The poor baby didn't know many words yet, but used most of the ones he did. "Stop! No! Daddy!"

Naomi's eyes widened as she saw what her husband had done. "Kyo, get the hell out of here!"

"Make him shut the hell up, damn it!" Kyo screeched, after finally pulling away the cigarette.

"Fine!" Naomi screeched. "Just leave!"

Kyo stomped away, as Naomi rushed to her wailing child.

"Oh, baby." She whispered, wiping a freshly fallen tear from her own face while many continued to fall down Tadashi's.

Mrs. Hamada then took the baby in her arms and didn't bother to acknowledge the cigarette burn. She wouldn't begin to know how to treat it anyway.

"Hush, baby." She groaned, holding the sobbing baby in his arms. "Hush now."

Tadashi still wasn't happy. He could smell the disgusting and pungent scent of cigarette ashes on his burn wound and didn't like it. But then it connected in his mind that if he didn't stop crying, he may get burned again. So he soon let the whining subside, as the tears continued to fall.

Naomi sighed in relief, before placing the one-year old back into his crib. He grasped tightly onto a teddy bear his Aunt Cass had given him and continued to cry, though didn't dare make a sound.

Naomi made her way into her and Kyo's bedroom, where her husband was already opening another bottle of sake.

She groaned. "You know, that shit isn't cheap."

"Whatever," he growled, before taking a slug of his beverage. "What did the electricity guy say?"

"The power's going off tomorrow since we can't pay our bill." Naomi sighed, picking at her cheap nail polish before anger suddenly hit her. "And you know what, it's probably your fault."

"Excuse me?" Kyo asked, surprisingly clear for someone who had just finished off another bottle of sake.

"You spend all of our money on your stupid drinks and cigarettes!" she yelled, backing away from her taller and stronger husband. Maybe she should've thought twice before starting a fight with him, but there was no going back now. "If you had straightened up and gotten a job, we wouldn't be in this mess!"

"Well, you didn't have to go and get pregnant at eighteen, did you?" Kyo sneered, slurring his words.

"What?" Naomi was in an outrage.

"You should've used birth control, bitch!"

"You should've used protection, idiot!" Mrs. Hamada's fists were raised, ready to beat her husband to bruises, though she lowered them as soon as she heard her cellphone ring.

She cleared her throat and blew out a deep breath, before picking up the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey, sis!" Cass beamed, while she sat in her bedroom at home. She was still only thirteen after all. "What's up?"

"Oh, hey Cass." Naomi sighed, glad it wasn't someone else she owed money to. "Not much. You?"

"About the same, actually. So its Tadashi's first birthday today, right?"

Naomi shook her head in grief. She knew someone would call and make a big deal about it. "Yeah, it is."

"Aw!" Cass was beaming as she flopped back onto her bed, her kitten Mochi hopping onto her stomach. "We should totally celebrate! We have a party down in Mom's café and I can make the cake and cookies and-"

"Cass." Naomi had to interrupt. She hated to disappoint her little sister, though the last thing she had time for right now was a birthday party for her one year old. "We're a bit busy right now, actually. We don't really have time for a party."

"Oh." The little sister was suddenly knocked off of her happiness high as she sighed and petted Mochi, disappointed. "Are you sure? It's not like it would cost anything."

"Sorry, Cass. Maybe next year."

"Okay…I'll talk to you later, then."

"'Kay, bye."

"Bye, sis."

Cass sadly turned off her phone, tossing it on the pastel sheets beside her, before picking up Mochi and dangling the little animal above her face.

"She's always so busy, huh Mochi?"

The kitten mewed in response, though he was most likely asking for food.

"I wonder if she needs help taking care of the baby…" Cass wondered aloud, standing and tugging on her hoodie. "I doubt she'll mind if I stop by. I can just get Mom to take me."

Cass then hopped down the stairs, Mochi following in tow.

"Mom?" she called, hoping the café wasn't too busy.

The little sister then looked up to see many people standing in line, waiting for their coffee and pastries.

"Ah, Cass!" her mother sighed happily, seeing her daughter. "Just who I needed."

"Mom, can you-"

"Come on, Cass, I need you to help with this line." Her mother smiled. "Then it won't take as long."

"Oh, okay." She sighed, before putting on an apron. Naomi and Tadashi would just have to wait.

Meanwhile, back at the Hamada residence, Naomi and Kyo were still fighting over the bills.

"You selfish idiot!" Naomi screeched, forgetting again about her baby. "If you ever helped, then our lives wouldn't be falling apart like this!"

"Well, if you could keep a job, maybe we wouldn't have to live in this pile of trash you manage to call a house!"

It was true, their house could certainly be considered an eyesore. The white paint had far from began to chip off from both the outer and inner walls of said home; many of the windows were cracked if not broken, causing the home to be chilly when the outside weather was cold; their water barely ran from the faucets, and soon wouldn't, given that they couldn't pay their water bill anyway; and much of floorboard was damaged, this especially bad as it often left Tadashi with painful splinters if he ever managed to stand up on it.

"If you didn't waste all of our money on your bad habits then we could've bought a better house, or at least fixed this one!" Mrs. Hamada shook her head, wanting the fight to be over so she could just sleep.

Kyo groaned, noticing his wife's exhausted face. "Whatever. Go to sleep, you're probably just tired."

Naomi wanted to screech at her husband, yelling that she wasn't just tired and that it was his fault that she was upset. Though she was, in fact, very tired. She didn't have the energy to continue to fight and therefore decided it was high time she called it a night.

So, she gave in. "Okay. You're probably right."

"Good." Kyo sighed, relieved his wife was giving up so she would shut her mouth. He didn't want to deal with her nor reality at the moment. He just wanted to get lost in the nicotine swimming in his cigarette packet.

He grabbed his lighter with a sigh. "Cheers to bad habits."

All the while, Tadashi was finally able to go to sleep in the mess of tears he had cried. And Cass's mother was unfortunately too tired to take her to Naomi's after the café had closed.

"Rats." Cass sighed, exciting Mochi. She then giggled, before picking up her kitten. "Oh well. I'll find some way to go see my little baby nephew."


A/N: Ah, I hope this chapter wasn't too short! The next chapter will probably be more eventful. I hope you guys liked it! Please follow and review if you did! I love you guys!