Hiro did his best not to smile as he walked down to the halls hearing about his story, yet he didn't make it obvious it was him. He couldn't help it the reviews, and follows he'd gotten were outstanding. His greatest reward at the moment was karmi walking around trying to tell people about how she was posting chapter 11 at the end of the week. Some of them listened, but most were meh about the whole thing. He felt happy the whole day, but then at the same time he felt guilt. He had caused this, and he was a hero, he had to make things right. At the end of the day after all of his classes were done he went to the lab, and thought maybe he was going to talk to his friends about it. Then he realized he could give it away, and he felt like he might of given a vibe the Skymaster was in love with gogo, which wasn't really true. Well okay maybe it was half true, but it wasn't something he wanted gogo to know, and if she found out he posted it for all the internet to hear, he wouldn't live for his 15th birthday. He walked into the lab to see them huddled around a screen, and talking. He saw it was his story on the screen.
Honey Lemon was twirling around, and positively beaming. "I love my new name!" she smiled
"Well brightness does fit you. It's like what they called very important women in the medieval days. It's also fair, if gogo is a queen, then it's only fair you are a brightness." Wasabi stated a tint of pink on his cheeks." hiro only grinned.
"So hiro what do you think of this person shipping you with Gogo?" fred asked
hiro only went red in the face, if anyone would interpret it that way, it would be fred."I don't know, I didn't really think they we're shipping us. I mean that would be weird, right. I mean our age gap is pretty big. It doesn't seem to be something they are going to elaborate on." Hiro said
"Didn't you just say you we're into me yesterday." gogo asked causing hiro's face to turn redder.
"No no, I said I thought Tadashi was into you, but not me." hiro replied
"So you don't think I'm attractive?" gogo asked
"No, no I'm just not into girls." hiro said
"So guys?" gogo asked
"no, no" hiro said his face now rivaling a ruby red tomato.
"You didn't let me finish. I meant I'm not into them at the moment. I have superhero stuff to worry about. That's my thing. I don't need a girlfriend. Tadashi didn't have one till he was 16." hiro said
"Did he tell you that he had one when he was 13. It didn't last long, but it was quite the story." Honey Lemon said
"Wait- he-What?" hiro asked
"Yeah he told me he felt bad because those were the days he couldn't watch out for you, and you got stuffed in a locker till the next morning one of those times. He was out most of the night partying, and collapsed that night not noticing you we're gone. After that he broke up with her, but decided to not tell you about it, he didn't want you to be mad." Honey Lemon replied
"How did you find out, and also. That's why I was in a locker for a whole day, and he didn't even notice! How could I be so blind." hiro groaned
"He told me when we went on our first date, and told me that if this relationship was going to keep going I had to accept that he was still going to protect you at all costs. I agreed of course." Honey Lemon said a tear coming out of her eye.
"Sorry, I didn't know much about you, but I knew you and tadashi were close." hiro said
"It's okay." honey Lemon replied
"Alright hiro, now back to you, and me. How do you feel with the way they ship me, and you?" gogo asked
"Well it's not a bad thing, is it?" hiro asked
"No not really, I just wanted to know what we thought or we were going to have to confront this writer, and demand they stop." Gogo said.
"It's fine." hiro said
The continued in the day talking about movies, and plans for the new villain unit. They ended late. It was around 7:30.
Hiro was walking home, when he saw karmi sitting on the steps. She seemed to be crying. She was typing out something on her phone, but didn't even look up. He approached her.
"Hey karmi, are you doing okay." hiro asked
"Go away hiro." she muttered.
"Why? What did I do to you?" hiro asked
Karmi rolled her eyes."Do I really need to answer that?"
"Maybe, if you want to." hiro said
"Well I don't it's just something super stupid that no one could possibly understand." karmi replied.
"I'm all ears." hiro said
Karmi looked up at hiro. It was obvious she had been crying. She sighed "All they talked about was this." she said pulling up his fanfic. "Why hiro does nobody talk about mine anymore, it's just in the past. I have 11 chapters, and this person has three. They like their names better, and some people are saying to change their names. I've been getting some terrible reviews, but that's not the worst thing. Some say that he deserves better than me. I mean now they want him with his teammate. Who can blame him, I mean he called her a queen." karmi sighed "I'm nothing, but an antisocial person who likes to dream." Karmi added.
Hiro looked at her. Now he felt worse, why was he doing this again? Right he wanted to cheer her up for being sad for something he caused. "Sorry." he muttered.
"What do you have to be sorry for hiro?" Karmi asked
"Well, if it makes you feel better a dream is a goal not written down." hiro said changing the subject quickly
"I guess." karmi said
"Sorry i'm no good at cheering people up." hiro said
"No kidding." karmi said
"Though whenever I was sad, I did have friends to comfort me." Hiro said
"Yeah, well I don't got that. Besides how did you even get friends?" karmi said
hiro looked at karmi with an eyebrow raised.
"Well didn't you have friends before SFIT or was is just you?" Karmi asked
Hiro looked at her sadly. "Just me, and Da-tadashi." hiro corrected himself.
"So you didn't have friends before this?" Karmi asked
Hiro shook his head, but said nothing.
"So did you get bullied, and had to give your lunch money or they's shove you against the lockers?" Karmi asked
"It sounds like you speak from experience." hiro said
"Well yeah I was young in high school. I skipped some grades, and got here when I was 16 so graduated early. People wanted homework done. I had to comply sometimes, or they might hurt me, or spread rumors." Karmi said
"Yikes, sounds like school was horrible to you." hiro stated
"Yeah it was, how about you." Karmi asked
Hiro eyes went wide from a quick flashback of his past years in high school. He never wanted to go back or remember it." They we're fine." hiro said.
Karmi looked at him questionably."Are you lying?" she asked
"N-No of course not." hiro replied
"Then did you get bullied in high school?" she asked
Hiro looked at her, "It wasn't at bad as yours." he said
"What do you mean by that?" she asked
"Well, I wasn't umm, actually maybe we can talk about something different." hiro said
"Actually let's keep talking about one thing we might have in common." Karmi urged
"Are you serious? We may be young for college, and geniuses, but our bullying was not the same." hiro said
"Then tell me what was different?" Karmi asked
"This isn't about me, this is about you Karmi." hiro said
"But, can't I know more about you before you know more about me?" karmi asked
hiro sighed, he kinda walked himself into this"Fine I was bullied, are you happy?" he said a-bit annoyed
"Why would I be happy, I'm not senseless." Karmi said
"Well we're not really trying to talk serious, ever." hiro said
"True, but tell me how was it?" karmi said
"Was what, being senseless?" hiro asked
"No being bullied." Karmi said
"Y'know, the usual, black eye's , and bruised arms." hiro muttered.
"That is pretty usual." karmi said
"I know." hiro said
"Well if we're being honest they did take my lunch, and shove it in my face." karmi said
"Bullies are the worst." hiro said
"Yeah when they took you pencil, and threw it across the room." karmi said
"Or poked you in the neck with it." hiro added.
"Or they tried to shove you in a locker." she said
"Or they locked you in a locker for a day with nothing, but a pair of gym shorts on., after they had beaten you up, and broke your arm. " hiro replied without thinking.
Karmi's eye's widened, but hiro seemed like he was now in a venting trance.
Or the time the picked you up, took you to the restroom, and drowned you in toilet water, and made you beg them to stop. You then had to admit how useless, and weak you were. Then they posted it on every group chat, and social media site. Or maybe had your brother get distracted on the night we were supposed to make cookies, and watch a movie at home. Or the time they got your brother drunk, and made him hurt you both emotionally, and physically. Not to mention brainwash him to make him hate you. Or when they played kickball and "accidentally" hit you directly in the face. Or the time they dragged you by the hair around the track after school. Or Wrote nerd in permanent marker across your forehead. Maybe the bullied thought it would be fun to force you to eat a mixture of rotten eggs, and fruit, and make you feel sick the whole day, then beat you up, and see if it came up. The worst part was it made you hate yourself, and y'now feel like ya didn't have a place. Then your brother found out after you were in a hospital bed, and you couldn't even do one thing right." hiro said a tear running down his face."You were just a worthless soul that couldn't do anything right." hiro sighed before realizing he had just vented to his rival all his personal problems that only one person knew, and that person was gone, and took the memories with him. Hiro's eyes went wide,"Oh shoot Karmi I am so sorry for venting, I was not thinking straight, this was supposed to be about you." hiro said frantically
"So you were bullied." she said softly.
He just looked at her sadly before sighing. "Yeah." he said
"Hiro, I don't think you're worthless." karmi said
"I don't either, i-it was a long time ago." hiro said
"So how did you get over all of it?" karmi asked
"I realized that it didn't matter what the world thought of me, it was what I thought of myself. I had a small family who loved me, and well I did distract myself. Bot-fighting wasn't only used for money." hiro said
"So just distract myself?" Karmi asked
"That, and don't care about what others think of you story thing. You aren't writing it for them, you're writing it for yourself, and it doesn't matter what anyone says, because it's your story to tell, not theirs. Do you like your story karmi?" hiro asked
"Well, yeah, why else would I be writing it?" karmi said
"So then don't care, you change what you want to change, but it's you story. If you want Captain Cutie to fall for you in your story, then do it. Though maybe take it slow, relationships don't just become perfect, and honestly Captain Cutie isn't perfect." Hiro said
"He is!" Karmi exclaimed
"Okay karmi, whatever you think." hiro replied. HE then heard his phone buzz, and play the gummy bear song at full blast. "I'm a gummy gummy gummy gummy gummy bear." his ringtone sang. HIro fumbled with his phone now his face a bit red while karmi smirked, and snickered.
"Hello?" he asked
"Hiro where are you, it's almost ten, and you aren't home!" his aunt said
"Sorry I was with Karmi, and-"
"Karmi is that a girl?" Aunt Cass asked
"Yeah, and she was all alone."hiro said
"Ooooo all alone, how cute!" his aunt squealed. Hiro pulled the phone away from him, and karmi was now giggling.
"Aaaanyways, I'll be home soon." hiro said slowly
"Okay, remember to wipe the lipstick off, or I'll have to-"
"Can'ttalkstatickayseeyalaterloveyoubye." hiro said quickly.
Karmi was now laughing her head off hiro looked at her unamused, but couldn't help but smile a-little.
"Do you always laugh at my mishaps." hiro muttered
"Nope, but you have to admit that was-"
"Bow china wow wow, that's what my baby says." Karmi's phone then rang, talk about karma.
Hiro snickered a-little
"Hello?" Karmi asked
"Karmi dear, your father, and I are getting worried, it's ten, and your siblings are in bed. Can you come home?" Her mom asked
"Yeah sorry, I was with a guy." Karmi said
"Oh is that so?" her mom asked
"Yeah, he wanted to help me with something." karmi said
"ohhh he could help you fix your lipstick." her mother said.
Karmi blushed, and hiro was snickering, before he burst out in a giggling fit. "T-t-the
K-k-k-arma w-w-wind h-h-has attacked."he giggled.
"Is that him laughing?" her mother asked.
"Yeah, he's being a dork." karmi said
"He sounds positively adorable, give him a hug for me. I'm glad you're making friends." her mom said.
"oh and maybe a-"
"Can'ttalkstatickayseeyalaterloveyoubye." karmi replied quickly hanging up.
hiro was still giggling, and on his back. He finally composed himself."Karma." he
sing-songed.
Karmi groaned, before smiling then giggling because hiro's giggling was contagious.
Once they both were composed, hiro looked at karmi."Our parents are so weird." he stated
"No kidding." she said "Well your aunt." she added
Hiro frowned.
"Sorry she stated, I'm not very social." Karmi said.
Hiro smiled at her."It's okay, I'm kinda just used to her being my, y'now, my motherly figure since my own didn't last too long." hiro stated
Karmi just smiled at him.
Then the both made faces, as they realized what they were doing."Blech." the both said gagging.
"Well see ya hiro said, I'm off. Hope you keep writing, my friend Fred still reads them." hiro said mentally facepalming, at what that entailed.
"Thx hiro." karmi said, and the two departed their separate ways.
(o-o)
Hiro got home, and went straight to the computer.
"Hiro that may be detrimental to your health. You need to wake up in 8 hours, and the recommended amount of sleep is 8 hours. From the few times that you have done what is keeping you neurotransmitter levels elevated, I would say it takes2-3 hours putting your sleeping hours down to a 6 or 5. I recommend you sleep, and continue your activities tomorrow." baymax said
"I can't Baymax, I have too many ideas, I can't just stop before I started, or I might forget." hiro replied.
"Hiro you have not been home all day, and from my scans you haven't eaten since 2 o'clock it is recommended you go eat something." Baymax said
"Okay, I guess I can do that." hiro said walking downstairs. He walked to the freezer, and reached to the back to grab one of the monsters he stashed from fred for late nights.
"Hiro Hamada, what do you think you are doing!" he heard a voice behind him that startled him, and made him screech. He turned to find his Aunt tapping her foot, and staring at him sternly. with a hand that told him to give her what he had just grabbed.
"I'm just getting a snack." hiro said
"Hiro hand it over, I've been waiting to see you take something from that secret compartment from the back of the fridge." she said
Hiro sighed, and handed over the monster. His aunts eyes grew wide. "Hiro, how many times have I told you not to drink this stuff, it's already stretching it with how many toppings you put on your ice cream, especially this late at night. I understand you are a college student, but Caffeine is going to ruin your brain, so please stay off of these. Actually hand it all over." she said
hiro reached in the fridge, and had pulled out a total of 30 bottles."I know you have one more in there." his aunt said
Hiro sighed, and pulled out his last monster along with several red-bull, and rockstars. She then walked to the fridge, and looked in the now empty compartment. Then she went back to the table, and did a count, and hiro handed over the bottle he snatched. She handed hiro an apple, and a peach. "Here these are more healthy." she said, and grabbed a garbage bag, and dumped hiro's energy drink collection in the bag, she tied it, and slung the heavy bag over her shoulder. It was heavy, but she didn't want hiro to have an energy rush like he did a few months ago.
Hiro sighed before he ate the fruit, returned to his room, and brushed his teeth before putting off his pajamas, and sitting in bed, and turning on his laptop, and starting his next chapter.
Chapter 4
Skymaster sat in his room. He stared at his friend the flying fury. Right now he was lovable bob The lawyer. Bob had solved many cases in the past, and was best friends with skymaster who's alter ego was Owen fabonyaki fergus mango the 2nd. He went by Owen, but he lived with Bob who was basically his guardian. The poor boy was an orphan at a young age, but through bob he learned to live through it. Since bob was rich, and was a lawyer it made sense he had money to buy a house.
Hiro chuckled at this masterpiece, and loved that he could make his own story, and no one would judge him. He absolutely loved the crazy name he gave himself. He then kept writing
Bob liked to think about his cases, and was looking through his files. "Owen you really should be getting to bed, it's late, and you my friend have to go to your classes. Owen smiled. It was nice to know that there was always someone watching out for you. Bob was the best adopted lawyer father he could ever have.
"I'm too busy, I can't fall asleep now, so much to think about." owen said
"Such as?" bob asked
"Well first Captain Cutie is my rival. I can't even seem to get a true girlfriend due to the fact my alter ego is cuter than me." owen replied.
'I thought your name was skymaster?" bob replied
"Well yeah, but it doesn't matter what people call me. It might annoy me that people call me that, but can't blame them, I am pretty cute." Skymaster replied winking. "Hey maybe I should see what KheartQT has written, I kinda find it interesting. I mean how much of this stuff could actually work, whoever this is must be an artist. " Owen stated.
"You speak the truth I do enjoy some Cutarmi." bob said
"Owen beamed, she's not my girlfriend, but I admit the ship is cute. Especially the fan art." he said"Though I don't know which is better the Speed Queen or the Beautiful karmi." he added.
"The choice is up to you owen." bob said
"I know, but right now I am downright confused." owen muttered "Can I just say I am in love with my job, I love saving the city, and working with my team. Besides am I not too young to get into relationships at the time?" owen asked.
"People can get married at young ages, and in this case many people would tell you to maybe wait, but there is no problem for you to get into relationships at this time. " bob stated.
"What if I don't want to." owen replied
"It is personal decision. No one can make you do what you don't want to do." bob said.
"Thanks buddy, you really are the best." owen beamed
"Anytime, well I suggest you get to bed before midnight." bob said
"Seriously, that's in just 3 minutes, I won't be asleep by then." owen muttered
"Maybe you will." bob stated
"Um, yeah, no you told me it takes twenty minutes for someone to fall asleep, I've been awake this whole time, sleep is the last thing on my mind." owen said
"Owen in order to save the city you need to be in good shape, and , you need to get rest. Also you wouldn't want detention to keep you from helping others." bob said
"You're right, I should get to bed." owen sighed "Love ya bob." owen added.
hiro then turned to baymax who was watching him intetensely."hiro are you ready for bed, it is almost midnight." baymax stated. "Almost buddy, just needed to say good night to you, and tell you that you mean the world to me, and not just because you help me when I'm a superhero. Baymax I love ya buddy." hiro said
"I am incapable of emotion, but for some unknown factor, I can say that I feel the same. I love you too hiro. So does Tadashi."baymax added before his screen lit up.
"Hey baymax, can you record something for hiro?" he heard a familiar voice said. His brother then was on the screen. Hi hiro, I know this is kinda stupid to think that I'll be gone, but I just had to make this for you. Hiro just like me you are going to do amazing things, you are just about ready for the showcase, and I'm so proud of you. Though it was hard at first, you didn't give up, and y'know mom, and dad would have been proud of you. Hiro thanks for being my supportive little brother, my Otouto who is a genius, and never stopped loving me. Even when I was a-bit, well a big jerk in the beginning. After mom, and dad died I realized we only had each other, and I'm sorry for blaming you at first. The thing is I love you Otouto, and I hope you can keep using your talents for good. I really hope you get in, because I couldn't stand to keep coming here when they pushed you out, though it's improbable that that will ever happen. Well that's it Hiro, I'm so proud of you, and I know you will just keep getting better. I hope I get to see it all." Tadashi finished leaving hiro who was now in tears.
"I love you too Nii-san." hiro sniffled then pulled out, and wrote the final sentence of his story.
"I love you too owen. Though I sometimes don't show it. I do with all my heart." bob said
and with that they both fell asleep.
Hiro sighed, and then read over his work before updating again. Then he moved his laptop to his backpack, and fell asleep, but not before thinking again
"What have I done with my life?"