This is the first Christmas that Tadashi won't be around.

Despite how joyous and upbeat the café's owner acted.

The customers can see through the act.

"Hiro! Come down honey, I need some help here!" Cass called her nephew

"Coming Aunt Cass!" Hiro replied as he went down to the café wearing an apron.

"Good Morning Sir, Ma'am! Welcome to Lucky Cat Café" Hiro greeted the new customers

Hiro, was the owner's nephew, and the only nephew left.

"What would you have sir?" Hiro politely asked as he smiled.

He jot down the orders.

Nothing but pity were the feeling that the customers, especially the regulars, were having towards the aunt and nephew duo.

Frankly they too missed Tadashi.

Ever since that bright boy died in that unfortunate blast, the customers could feel something missing in the café.

"Aunt Cass table five would like nine chocolate doughnuts and a glass of mocha coffee" Hiro called out to her aunt, "I'll get the coffee, please take care of the doughnuts!" Hiro immediately filled the cup with coffee and gave it to the person on table nine.

And as the day passes by, the aunt and nephew could forget something was missing in the café, but when they do remember…

"Tadashi! Please get the order of Table Ten!" Hiro shouted.

A moment later he realized that he just called out to his older brother. His eyes widened at this.

Everyone in the café stood and sat still when Hiro called out to his brother.

"R-right" Hiro gulped down the tears and went back to work.

"Th-thank you for your patronage, Come back again" Hiro said to the leaving customers.

He approached table ten with a pen and note in hand.

"S-sir, what would you like to have?"

Everything resumes with a heavy heart.


The busy day ended with a bang. Hiro's friends arrived and helped the café throughout the day.

The antics of Hiro's friends made the café lively again.

But it can never replace the antics Hiro had with his brother.


"Tadashi catch!" Hiro threw three plastic cups at his older brother.

"Hiro! We're here to help aunt Cass not play!" Tadashi rebuked his younger brother but still caught the cups flawlessly.

"Eh? Fine!"

Hiro filled a cup with cold water.

"Tadashi, catch!"

That only ended with Tadashi feeling the cool breeze like never before and drenched with water

"Hiro!" a glint appeared in Tadashi's eyes.

One messy chase later

"Boys!"

"Oh this is gonna be good"

"This is getting interesting"

"Poor boys"

The customers muttered to themselves as they watched the scene unfold.

"H-hey Aunt Cass!" Hiro greeted his aunt

"Are you both alright?" Cass asked as her hands eerily approached their ears, not that they're aware of that fact.

"Yeah" Hiro answered

"We're fine Aunt Cass"

"Then" she touched the edge of their ears, "What were you knuckleheads thinking!" she pulled their ears hard, very hard that their heads go with the force.

She let go of the ears and pointed at the mess they've made

"Look at the mess you made! You're going to clean it now!" Cass scolded her nephews as she got herself a doughnut started eating.

The customers started giggling at the faces the brothers were making.

"Yes Aunt Cass"


"Hiro! Honey dinner's ready" Cass called her nephew

A minute later, Hiro still hasn't shown up at the dining area.

"Hiro, honey! Please come here, dinner's getting cold" She looked around the house for Hiro.

Then she found Hiro at the staircase, looking at the pictures that were hung on the walls.

They contained photographs that Tadashi was in it.

There was a Christmas Photograph of Tadashi in only his pants and his Christmas sweater on the ground.

There was a photo of Tadashi with Hiro. The both of them were at the beach both holding a surf board.

"Hiro, honey?" Cass gently approached her nephew.

"Aunt Cass?" Hiro faced his aunt with tears flowing on his face

"Oh honey" Cass hugged his nephew tightly

"I just really miss him Aunt Cass, why did he have to die, why couldn't it have been someone else" Hiro stuttered

"Oh Hiro"

"Why couldn't it have been me? The world needs someone like Tadashi and not me an illegal troublemaker" Hiro's suicidal thoughts have manifested itself.

Cass's eyes widened at this.

When had Hiro given up to live?

When?!

Without another word, she slapped her nephew.

SLAP

"Perish that thought young man!" Cass shouted as tears started to stream from her eyes.

Hiro's eyes widened.

Aunt Cass never raised a hand against him or Tadashi

The most she had done was a pinch to the forearm and pulling of the ears.

"Aunt Cass"

"Perish that thought young man! What do you think Tadashi would feel if he heard you say that?!" Cass started

"Tadashi would take your death harder than you did! I know that for a fact that he would since he confided with me his feelings when your parents died!" Aunt Cass continued shouting

"Aunt Cass" Hiro muttered but he continued listening

"How do you think I would feel?!" Cass just opted to sob on Hiro's shoulders as she hugged him tightly instead of finishing her sentence

"I'm sorry Aunt Cass… I… I just really miss him" This time he too sobbed on his aunt's shoulders

"We both do Honey, we both do" Aunt Cass said

They just spent the Christmas night hugging and comforting each other.

This is just the just the start of the many sad Christmas nights they're going to have.