A.N. Now, remember kiddies, Hiro is only eleven so yes, he does like to act his age sometimes ;)
Tadashi's P.O.V
"Sooo… how was it?"
"Hm?" Hiro stared out the car window, obviously lost in his thoughts.
Tadashi sighed as he focused his attention on the road. His first day hadn't been too bad. He'd found out that he had classes with a lot of his friends, juniors and seniors. Tadashi himself had skipped a grade but he had held onto connections from his original classmates, as well as created new ones in his new class. He mostly had classes with seniors, but he shared gym and lunch with his old friends. Tadashi would have rather spent that time working on his projects rather than eating lunch and playing games such as badminton, but two lunches and three gym classes were required per week, not to mention that he had to take a health class later on in the year. He didn't mind it though, considering he was preparing a new project to use to get into college, and he would need the information about health care to make it better.
But it didn't seem as though Hiro was having as good a time as he had on his first day of school, which worried Tadashi. He had hoped that Hiro would have been excited about the new school work or that he at least liked one of his teachers. But, at the moment, it seemed as if, even if he had, he wasn't in the mood to share. And Tadashi respected that. But he also couldn't let the matter just drop. If Hiro started the year off in a bad place, where would he end up by the time finals rolled around?
Tadashi glanced at Hiro, who had yet to move from his blank stare out the window.
He figured that if Hiro wanted to talk, he'd talk. But if things started to look bad, Tadashi promised himself that he would step in. After all, he had told his parents that he would always look after his little brother from the day that he was born…
Hiro's P.O.V
The moment that Tadashi parked Aunt Cass's car, Hiro stumbled out the door and grabbed his backpack from the trunk, immediately heading for the third floor of the café there after. As he walked through the café's door, a few of the regular customers greeted him kindly then continued on with their conversations. Hiro acknowledged them but hurriedly headed for the stairs, knowing that his aunt would come out any second and excitedly ask him how his day was. And Hiro really didn't want to talk about it.
But, as luck was not with him on that very day, Aunt Cass came bounding out of the baking room with a tray full of delicious smelling dishes.
"Oh hey honey! Oh my gosh! Tell me about your first day!" She squealed as she bounded over to Hiro, while trying to keep the food from falling off the tray.
"Oh, uh, h-hey, Aunt Cass!" Hiro squeaked as she nearly squished the life out of him in a large bear hug. "It, uh, was great! Yeah! Uh, don't you have to serve those?"
She gasped suddenly remembering that she had, indeed, a platter full of food, still waiting to be served to hungry customers. "Oh my gosh! You're right! You're right! Okay! I'm gonna make something special tonight and you can tell me all about it!"
Hiro nervously chuckled as his aunt almost collided with a customer just walking in the door, but breathed a sigh of relief when both managed to avoid each other. He turned on his heels and continued on with his objective to get to his room.
Hiro dropped his pack on the floor and flopped onto his bed, face first. Kicking his shoes off, he rolled over to face the ceiling. He couldn't stop thinking about the smile that Tommy kept giving him. It freaking him out and gave him a feeling of dread. And the way that the students keep whispering? He couldn't help but think it was about him… And the teachers! Oh, the teachers! Just had to make it worse! Every time they had a question, the called on him, hand raised or not. Every time! Did they want to make him suffer from the humiliation?
A knock interrupted his thoughts. Hiro raised his head up off the mattress and stared at his brother who stared back.
"The teachers." Said Hiro, with a complete seriousness to his voice and a blank stare on his face.
"What about 'em?"
"They're…" Hiro narrowed his eyes for the full effect then widened them for the look of complete discovery. "Evil. Completely. Evil." He quickly nodded his head once as to confirm the thought, then let his head drop back down to the mattress.
Tadashi burst out laughing and held his stomach as he sat down on the edge of Hiro's bed.
"Funny bonehead, but I doubt it."
Tadashi's P.O.V
"It's true." said Hiro, with full amazement in his voice as he stared at the ceiling with wide eyes in order to make his act all the more dramatic.
Tadashi chuckled as he laid out across Hiro's bed, propped up on his elbows.
"Oh yeah? Prove it."
Tadashi watched with a smile as Hiro turned his head to face him.
"They did this to me."
"Did what?"
"THIS!" Hiro yelled dramatically as he pulled the skin on his cheekbones down to make his eyes bigger and stuck out his tongue at his brother.
"Woah, that's so cool!" Tadashi said with mock excitement. "You've become a real boy! Your wish has come true!"
"Hey!"
Tadashi beamed with a smile, and laughed out loud.
Hiro gave a small, but genuine smile, and soon joined in with the laughter.
Later that night, after they had both finished their homework, the boys sat up in their room, silently paying attention to their own projects. Tadashi was working on the beginning plans of a new project, a prototype for a robot that could identify different types of illnesses and hopefully suggest a cure, though he wasn't having much luck. As he concentrated on the equations to make identification possible for the types of blood cells one had, he was disturbed by a quick yelp from across the room.
Looking up with a start, Tadashi watched as Hiro hopped around on one foot and flopped onto his bed while holding the other.
"Ow, stupid wrench doesn't have a grip…" He rubbed his foot in an act to make the pain subside, but Tadashi could see from where he was, that his foot was already starting to grow red and a little swollen where the tool had hit.
"I'll get you an ice pack." Tadashi said, jumping up from his seat on his bed. He went down to the second floor and filled a plastic bag with ice and wrapping it in a dish towel. He add a little amount of cold water so that the ice didn't poke at Hiro's foot too much and headed back upstairs.
"Here." Tadashi placed the cold bag onto Hiro's foot as Hiro looked up at him with a look of gratitude on his face.
"Thanks Tadashi."
Tadashi smiled at his brother. "It's late and we've got school tomorrow, why don't we get to sleep?" he suggested.
Hiro reluctantly nodded, and Tadashi pulled back the covers so that Hiro could climb in.
"Night Tadashi." Hiro said with a sudden tone of sleepiness in his voice.
"Night Hiro." Replied Tadashi, with a ruffle to his hair as he stood from the bed.
"No… touchie…" Hiro said almost fast asleep.
Tadashi picked up the wrench that Hiro had dropped on the floor and went to put it back on his desk. As he was about to hop into his own bed, Tadashi saw some of the blueprints and plans for what Hiro had been working on. He moved closer and studied the plans.
Was that… boots for the cat? Tadashi raised an eyebrow in confusion and curiosity. Rocket boots… for their cat… Mochi… the one who didn't even like the third floor due to how far away the ground was from the windows…
He had to admit, his brother had a crazy mind. Definitely not one of a normal eleven year old, that was for sure, but, the again, who else could be a child genius like Hiro could? He was one in a million, that was for sure.
Tadashi smiled and headed off to bed.
A.N. Ohmahgawd. I'm so tired guyz. So imam post this now and edit it later… wait… that might not be a good idea… naw, I'll let u guys let me know if theres any missin words and suck :P I shall come back tomorrow and revise but for now, imma post this so that I can ensnare ya'll in mah writing trap and make you read mah story! MUHAHAHA!
*cough* Sooo yeah, not much happening here but I thought it would be good to establish a little bit of where Hiro and Tadashi are in their brotherly relationship at this point in the story before everything goes dowwwn. Yeah. So. Hope you liked.
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