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Chapter 10: Memories

Tadashi stared at the screen in shock. He's never seen these footages before. The date stamp revealed that it was shot several years before their deaths. His parents were wearing lab coats and safety goggles. Atsuki had her long hair tied up in a bun. Hiruto was staring intensely at a piece of machinery he was working with while Atsuki watched over his shoulder. Sparks flew as metal hit metal, metal shavings falling as pieces were chipped away.

"Is this really ok, Hiruto?" Atsuki whispered, as though she feared someone would hear.

"We have no choice," Hiruto replied through grit teeth. "He's got Tadashi and Hiro under surveillance, he'll kill them if we don't do this."

Atsuki whimpered at the thought of her babies in danger. Hiruto lifted the metal piece he had been working on up, eyes gleaming from exhaustion. "It's done."

Suddenly, the room darkened. The door burst open. Flinching, Atsuki looked towards the figure standing at the door. The light behind him cast shadows over his face, but Tadashi could tell he was a strong and burly man. He was tall, and a smoking cigar hung in his mouth.

"Well, Hiruto," he growled. "What do we have?"

"I finished the chip like you asked," Hiruto answered coldly. He flung the chip towards the person at the door.

He brought up one big hand and caught the chip without a problem. Tadashi was almost surprised he didn't break it. The figure chuckled evilly. "Finally, Project New Life can begin without a problem." Looking at the Hamada's, he purred, "I must thank you two, without you I would've never gotten my way."

Tadashi had never seen his parents more furious. Atsuki's eyes were blazing in rage. "We gave you what you wanted," she spat. "Now let go of our sons!"

"Not yet, dear Atsuki," the figure chuckled. "I still have use for you two, and I plan to take advantage of whatever I got." Seeing the camera, he quickly reached over and covered the lenses. "Turn that off!" he bellowed. The screen turned black.

The room was silent. Everyone stared at the black screen in surprise.

"Were those your parents?" Honey Lemon asked quietly.

Too shocked to speak, Tadashi nodded.

"Whoa, dude! Your parents were, like, totally secret agents or something!" Fred bounced excitedly, until Gogo stepped on his foot. Then he was hopping, holding his injured toe.

"What did your parents do for a living anyways?" Wasabi wondered.

"Umm…" Tadashi frowned. For some reason, he couldn't think of it. Throughout his childhood, he and Hiro were always told that they were business people. Never had the thought occurred to him that they were lying. "I don't know…" he muttered, confused and dazed.

"Do you think the big guy is the one that did this to Hiro?" Gogo asked darkly, fury lighting in her eyes.

"Maybe…" Tadashi shook his head. "Sorry, guys… could you give me a minute?" He still couldn't wrap his head around what he just saw. Understanding, all his friends stood and slowly bustled out of the room, quietly closing the door behind them.

It was just Tadashi and Hiro in the room now. Hiro was still holding Tadashi's hand, refusing to let go. Smiling, Tadashi rested his chin in his palm as he stared at his baby brother's sleeping face. It was so full of innocence, so peaceful. Yet he would grow up with only an older brother in his life. No parents, because of some mystery man. Anger broke through Tadashi's confusion. Gently squeezing Hiro's hand, Tadashi closed his eyes and vowed he would find the one responsible for destroying their lives.

"Your parents looked like really nice people," Fred mumbled through a mouthful of food. While Tadashi was thinking, his friends had gone to the food court and brought back armfuls of food. They were having a makeshift picnic across Hiro's bed, seeing that the child was still holding onto Tadashi's hand. Tadashi was taking small bites out of a sandwich. Gogo was slurping a soda, Wasabi was crunching on an apple and Honey Lemon was sipping a cup of tea. Fred was eating everything within reach.

"They were," Tadashi recalled fondly. "I got more memories with them than Hiro did… they were great parents. Always away, but they always kept their promises." Looking at his hat, which was resting in his lap, he smiled. "I remember dad promised he would take me to my first baseball game when I was 7, but he was always gone and never had time. But he never broke his promise. Took me for my 9th birthday." Happiness swelled inside Tadashi like a balloon when he remembered that day. It was crowded, and all the people sitting in front of Tadashi were blocking his view. Noticing his son's struggle, Hiruto Hamada lifted Tadashi onto his shoulders to get a better view. It was a great sensation. He could see the whole field, lit up and stretched out before him. After the game ended, his dad took him to the souvenir store to look at the things. Tadashi immediately took a liking to a baseball cap several sizes too large for him.

He remembered his dad laughing and saying, "Let's see how long it'll take for you to grow into this, buddy." Then Hiro was born the next year.

"They sure looked mad at that mystery guy though," Wasabi said, remembering their expressions.

"Yeah, I've never seen them that mad before…" Tadashi pondered, half to himself. "Even that one time I left Hiro in the park alone…"

"Wait," Gogo looked at Tadashi with wide, disbelieving eyes. "You left Hiro alone at a park?"

"Ohh, story time! Story time!" Fred leaned back against his chair, ready for Tadashi to continue.

Tadashi sighed. "Well, when I was a kid, I didn't really like Hiro. I remember all my friends at school would complain about having younger siblings, and I didn't want to deal with the same thing. One winter, I was going to the park to meet some friends, and my mom made me take Hiro too. I really didn't want to, but she said she would ground me if I didn't. So I took Hiro with me, and my friends weren't happy when I greeted them with my little brother behind me…"

"How old were you guys?" Honey Lemon gasped.

"I was… 11, I think?" Tadashi said, scratching his head trying to remember. "Hiro just turned 1… Anyways, for the rest of the day, we were trying to find ways to ditch him… Now that I think about it, those guys were jerks. They kept telling me to tell him to leave us alone. They knew that whatever I told Hiro to do, he would listen. Finally, we got so tired of him tagging along, I told him to sit still on a park bench and not move. I told him if he listened, I would play with him that night."

Tadashi couldn't hold back a grimace as he thought of all the things he did when he was younger. His friends looked shocked at how cold hearted the younger Tadashi was.

"So, we spent the rest of the day walking around town, hanging out at arcades, running around at grocery markets, eating sweets…"

"I got home pretty late. I tried sneaking in quietly, but my mom caught me. But then," Tadashi swallowed. "She asked me where Hiro was."

"Oh no…" Wasabi groaned, slapping a hand to his face. "You didn't…"

Tadashi smiled sheepishly, feeling guilt boiling in his stomach. "I forgot about Hiro. My mom was super pissed, she yelled at me to go find him while she called my dad. So I ran back to the park." He sighed, then took a deep breath.

"The dummy hadn't moved an inch from when I left him. He listened to me and stayed on the bench for the whole day. When I found him, he was shivering and freezing, but he still didn't move. When he saw me," Tadashi swallowed, the guilt eating away at his words, "he smiled and said, 'Now you'll play with me tonight, right, Dashi?'"

His friends were glaring daggers at him. Obviously, they didn't like the younger Tadashi very much.

"I carried Hiro home after that. He was way too cold to move properly." Rubbing his neck nervously, Tadashi laughed. "After we got home, my mom almost screamed her voice out when she saw Hiro. He had a really high fever for a few weeks, and he couldn't move his arms and legs that well."

"Of course, my parents punished me… My punishment was I had to take care of Hiro while he was sick. Everyday after school for almost a month, it was go home and take care of Hiro. I had to make sure he ate his medicine, make sure he did the proper muscle exercises, keep him entertained, feed him, rub his back if he threw up… I guess that's how I got to be so overprotective…" Tadashi mused. "I was with him almost every second of the day for almost a month, and he obviously didn't blame me, heck the kid loved me to death. After that experience, I became a new person. I stopped hanging out with the people that told me to leave my baby brother behind. I found a new crowd to be with, and I made sure to spend time with Hiro everyday too."

"Aww…" Honey Lemon cooed. "That's the cutest thing I've ever heard! Well, except for when you left a one year old baby alone for a whole day…"

Tadashi grimaced. "To this day, I can't forgive myself for doing that," he mumbled. Just thinking about it now made him nauseous. Any stranger could've kidnapped him, or he could've been killed. But younger Tadashi had been too narrow minded to think of those things.

"Cheer up, Hamada," Gogo lightly thumped his back. "What's important is that you're here now. With him. And the kid still loves you to death." She looked at his hand as proof.

"Yeah," Tadashi laughed, "and unlike before, I love him right back."

"But, dang…" Wasabi glanced at Hiro in amazement. "Kid could talk when he was one? That's pretty early…"

"Hiro spoke his first words when he was… 5 months old? First steps at 2 months," Tadashi said proudly. "He was reading first grade level books at 7 months, saying full sentences at 8 months, able to understand and hold full conversations at 14 months, doing basic mathematics at 16 months-"

"O-kay, we get it, dude," Fred groaned. Wasabi had broken a dam.

The next few days were busy. While Tadashi dug through his aunt's things to find information on the apartment she had gotten for them, he had to balance it out with visiting Hiro as well. He was taking a temporary break from classes. His professors understood, and would email him any assignment that needed to be done. Quite truthfully, they weren't worried; they all knew how smart Tadashi Hamada was. His friends would also visit Hiro after their classes were over. With the knowledge that his friends were watching his baby brother, Tadashi could leave and keep looking for the apartment.

Tadashi also kept Baymax in Hiro's room. It was the first time he introduced the healthcare robot to his baby brother. As soon as Baymax inflated out of his case, Hiro loved him immediately. The child would giggle and call the healthcare companion "marshmallow man." Baymax also took care of Hiro while Tadashi was away. The robot would make sure Hiro was comfortable and made sure to pester nurses to do the correct medical procedures. The hospital had given up on arguing with the robot after one nurse almost fed Hiro peanuts. Baymax had stopped her before she could get the food near him.

Baymax also became attached to Mochi, or as he would call it, the "hairy baby." The fat cat stayed in the hospital with Hiro, finding it more comfortable to lounge around than to walk around with Tadashi.

Tadashi made sure to visit everyday, especially around noon and nighttime, when Hiro needed to take his medications. The child was as stubborn as ever, refusing to eat any form of medicine. Only Tadashi could coax him into swallowing the pills each day.

One day, while Tadashi was trying to get Hiro to eat the pills, he was caught off guard when Hiro looked at him and asked, "Is it true you didn't like me when we were little?"

Astonished, Tadashi stared back in surprise. "Who told you that?"

Hiro shrugged one shoulder, then looked down.

"You were awake, weren't you," Tadashi squinted at his little brother accusingly.

"I woke up and I heard my name, and I wanted to hear what was going on," the child said defensively.

Tadashi groaned. Normal children would wake up. Normal children wouldn't care if the adults stopped talking afterwards. Why does my brother have to be so darn smart?

"Is it true?" Hiro asked again, eyes wide.

"Yeah, it's true," Tadashi sighed. "You were the most annoying, trouble seeking bonehead growing up, you know that?"

"Was not!" Hiro huffed, pushing his lips out into a cute pout.

"There was that one time you saw all the kids riding bikes, and you wanted to try it too," Tadashi listed off.

"It looked fun!"

"You were three, Hiro. The rest of the kids were two or three years older than you."

The problem with having a genius baby brother: he thought he could do things older kids could do. Hiro was enrolled into kindergarten at age 3, while the rest of the kids were 5 or 6, normal kindergarten age. Several of his playmates learned how to ride a bike without training wheels one weekend. Seeing them through the window, Hiro pestered Tadashi to teach him how to ride one too. But Hiro was still only three, even if his brain wasn't.

Tadashi remembered taking Hiro to the park. The child was bouncing in excitement. However, before Tadashi even let him onto the bike, he had Hiro strapped up with wrist guards, kneepads, elbow pads and a helmet equipped with a chin guard. Tadashi remembered how ridiculous the child looked. He looked like he was drowning in biking equipment.

"Alright, you ready, buddy?" Tadashi had said. Hiro nodded excitedly, hands gripped tightly onto the handles. Tadashi slowly walked the bike into a forward motion while Hiro struggled to pedal.

"Let go, Dashi!" the child had insisted after a few minutes. So he did. Big mistake.

Hiro went straight at a tree. That was the marker for a steep hill. Before Tadashi could catch him, Hiro and the bike both crashed against the hard bark. The child fell and tumbled in the grass with the bike tumbling after him. Tadashi chased after his brother and the bike, worried when he reached the bottom and saw Hiro wasn't moving.

"Hiro?" he had asked worriedly. As soon as he touched him, Hiro jumped up and started crying. The damage done included bruises all over his body, one nasty cut across his cheek and a hurt ego. The cut, thankfully, didn't leave a scar, but Tadashi forced Hiro to wait a few more years before attempting bike riding again. By the time he was 5, he was the only third grader that didn't know how to ride a bike.

"Then there was that time you ate a peanut for a dare, even though you knew you were allergic."

Hiro looked down and mumbled something unintelligible. Tadashi caught the words "dollar" and "gummy bears."

Some kid in Hiro's third grade class told the child genius that if he ate a peanut, he would give him a dollar and a bag of gummy bears. Hiro was only 5 and didn't know any better, thinking it was a fair trade. The kid was mainly doing it for a good laugh. What he wasn't expecting was to see Hiro fall to the floor, clawing at his own throat and struggling to breath. Tadashi, luckily, was looking for Hiro and managed to stab the epipen into the child's arm before he suffocated. The older Hamada gave the kid hell for almost causing his younger brother to die. It had only been a year since the death of their parents, and he wasn't ready to lose Hiro, too. Tadashi harshly scolded the kid until he was in tears. After making sure the kid promised to never do anything so stupid again, Tadashi carried Hiro carefully back to the truck, where Aunt Cass was waiting. Of course, she freaked out and fussed over Hiro the whole ride, but by the time they got back home, he was back on his feet and racing Tadashi to the door again.

"And don't even get me started on that time we went to the pool-"

"Okay, I get it!" Hiro said loudly. He frowned as Tadashi laughed at his pouting baby brother.

"But," Tadashi said as he ruffled Hiro's hair, "you were still the best otouto in the world."

Hiro smiled, not even fussing over his hair being touched. "Thanks, nii-chan," he said as he grinned a gapped tooth grin.

"Don't think this gets you out of eating this pill, Hiro."

"Darn…"

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