Chapter 10
The past 2 months had been crazy in Hiro and Akari's opinion. It was a mix of emotions; happiness, worry, anger, and fear.
Hiro and Akari stared off into space, just thinking about what had happened in their lives for the past few months. Hiro, Akari, and their friends formed a superhero team, they saved Tadashi and a bunch of other hostages, Hiro and Akari were in near-death situations multiple times, and the original Baymax had sacrificed himself, but was rebuilt-Tadashi still didn't know that.
Hiro and Akari had gotten upset one day, because after Tadashi was found, the gang wanted to "temporarily" disband Big Hero 7. They had no choice but to reluctantly agree, because 2 teenagers and a robot could protect the town on their own. Everything went down-hill from there. But, they all agreed not to tell Tadashi about them being Big Hero 7.
What upset Hiro and Akari the most was their brother barely spending time with them anymore. At first they thought Tadashi was just catching up with his best friends, and they understood, so they left them be. But as the days rolled by, Tadashi would come home late saying he was out with his friends at a movie, or at a restaurant, and the worst thing was, Hiro and Akari were always left out of it. He promised every time he missed doing something with them he would make up for it another day, and ended up breaking that promise too.
Akari would just get more and more upset every time he broke a promise, because when they were all younger, he had told them, "Don't make a promise you can't keep," which made Akari think he was being hypocritical. And everything for them just got worse.
Whenever it was just them and Aunt Cass in the café or in the apartment-which was most of the time-Aunt Cass would talk about how lucky Tadashi was to have survived, or how he was acing all of his assignments, and she would scolded them when she saw that they had failed their tests. She had always told them that they should study more like Tadashi, and they should work harder like Tadashi, and they would get angry and storm up the stairs. They had confused her, because they hadn't acted like that before. She just thought it was a phase and they'd get over it, so she shook it off, and would continue through the rest of her day.
Whenever they were on campus, the 5 of them seemed to have a new inside joke every day, and Hiro and Akari never understood. They never hung out with Hiro and Akari; they barely even talked to Hiro and Akari. So they just gave up. They stopped trying to do things with their brother and their friends. They never gave Baymax to Tadashi, and they locked themselves in the garage for hours at a time with each other and Baymax.
They found themselves lonelier than they ever had been before, but didn't let it show to anyone but each other. They quickly found themselves bored of the garage, and kept themselves in their room when they weren't at school. Nobody seemed to worry about them either. No one asked if they were ok, no one asked if anything was wrong, no one seemed to care; no one except each other.
They just ended up not going to school altogether by the middle of the second month, and no one even noticed they were gone. Not even Tadashi. So it wasn't a shocker when Tadashi came home late one night, like he always did, and Akari and Hiro asked where he was, like they always did.
"Where have you been Tadashi?" Akari asked.
"Fred took us all to the arcade by the movie theater," Tadashi answered.
"Yesterday you said that you would help us clean the café for Aunt Cass after classes let out today," Hiro informed him.
"I forgot. I'm sorry, I'll help you tomorrow, I promise," Tadashi stated.
That had been the last straw for Akari. She let out a scream of anger and ran back up the stairs, with Hiro following, leaving Tadashi completely confused about why she was angry.
Hiro arrived at the top of the stairs to see Akari pacing across the floor, mumbling angrily, "47 times. This is the 47th time he's done that. He never keeps his promises anymore. I give up, I'm done."
"Done with what?" Hiro asked. Akari turned around.
"Tadashi. If he says 'I promise' one more time, I'm out of here. We've barely seen him in the last two months, and he's our brother!" she continued to speak quietly.
"Do you really think that will solve your problems?" Hiro asked.
"Possibly," Akari told him.
"We'll see about that," Hiro said and sat at his computer.
"Whatever," Akari said and fell face first into her pillow.
They both heard Tadashi walking up the stairs, but ignored him. they heard him put his moped helmet on the shelf , but didn't turn to face him.
"Hey, what was with the outburst downstairs?" Tadashi asked.
"None of your business," Akari mumbled.
"It sounded like it was my business," Tadashi told her.
"Stop pretending to care," she mumbled again.
"What do you mean?" Tadashi asked.
"Typical," Akari said loudly into her pillow.
"What's typical about me asking a question?" Tadashi asked.
"It's typical that you don't know what I mean," she glared.
"Why are you acting so different?" he asked, concerned.
"Really?! Now you notice our behavior?" Hiro shouted, joining the conversation.
"What are you talking about?" he asked Hiro.
"You haven't noticed our change in behavior in the past 2 months?" Hiro asked.
"Well…no. I've been busy," Tadashi admitted.
"With your friends," Akari finished for him.
"They're our friends Akari," Tadashi corrected.
"No. Not really. Because for the past 2 months, they've been YOUR friends Tadashi," Hiro retorted.
"You guys haven't been hanging out with us," Tadashi countered.
"Because you never bothered to ask," Akari shouted.
"I'll start asking then," Tadashi said.
"Sure you will," Hiro and Akari said sarcastically.
"Why do you doubt me?" Tadashi asked.
"Because you've barely acknowledged us in the past 2 months! How are we not going to doubt you?" Hiro asked angrily.
"Let's not forget all of the promises you've broken. I distinctly remember you telling us when we were younger 'don't keep a promise you can't keep,'" Akari stated matter-of-factly.
"Really, you still remember that?" Tadashi asked, and forced a laugh.
"Yeah and apparently you didn't," Akari told him coldly.
"So you're upset over something I said like, 8 years ago?" he asked.
"That's not the only reason," Hiro stated.
"What's the other reason then?" Tadashi asked.
"Stop asking me questions! Stop pretending to be concerned about Hiro and I!" Akari screamed.
"Why would you think I'm not concerned about you guys?" Tadashi asked.
"ARGGH!" Akari shouted in anger.
"What is your problem?" Tadashi asked sternly.
"You decide to start caring about us now?" Hiro asked.
"Yeah, because apparently 8 months ago, you didn't care about us when you ran into a burning building to save the person who started the fire," Akari muttered.
"In my defense I didn't know Callaghan started the fire then," Tadashi retorted.
"You still ran into the building, even after I told you that you would die, and you could have if you didn't run under the stage!" Akari screamed.
"So you're mad because I ran in to save someone's life 8 months ago?" Tadashi asked.
"OH MY GOD! How dense are you?!" Hiro and Akari both shouted.
"Excuse me?" Tadashi asked, offended.
"Professor Callaghan… was the one who started the fire! He's was the reason you weren't in our lives for 8 months!" she screamed, tears welling up in her eyes as she remembered that horrible day.
"I know that!" Tadashi told her.
"Did you know he didn't care when he found out you 'died?'" Akari asked angrily.
"What?!" he asked in disbelief.
"He said that it was your mistake you ran into the fire!" Hiro stated.
"That's not true!" Tadashi countered.
"Yes it is!" Akari shouted.
"When he told us that, do you know how hard that was on us?!" Hiro asked.
"That made us angrier than we already were when we found out he survived!" Akari shouted.
"He would never say that! I can't believe you two. How could you make up such a lie like that?" Tadashi asked angrily.
"IT WASN'T A LIE!" Hiro and Akari both shouted. The room was silent for about 10 seconds, and then Akari spoke up.
"If you really care about us like you do your friends, you wouldn't have practically ignored us for the past two months," Akari told him coldly as she looked dead in his eyes.
"You know what? Maybe I don't care! Maybe I purposely ran into that fire, and I then realized my mistake! Maybe I wanted to be kidnapped! Maybe I never wanted to be reunited with you two!" Tadashi screamed. Hiro and Akari were both extremely taken aback. Was that how he really felt? He instantly regretted what he said when he saw the tears flowing down his younger siblings' faces. When he tried to apologize, they looked at each other.
Hiro and Akari then stood up and ran down the stairs. They heard Tadashi running down the stairs behind him, but didn't stop running. Tadashi called their names many times, but they never turned around.
They all ran through the café, passing Aunt Cass, who was confused about why Hiro and Akari were being chased by Tadashi. Hiro and Akari picked up speed, running through the busiest streets of San Fransokyo, trying to lose their brother. Finally after running for about 15 minutes, they ran into an alley and lost their brother. They sat in the corner of the alley to catch their breath.
"What are we going to do now?" Akari panted.
"I don't know, but let's find somewhere to sleep tonight, and we'll figure it out in the morning," Hiro replied.
"Ok," Akari agreed.
They walked around the rundown part of San Fransokyo, and found an abandoned warehouse by the port to sleep in. Until the next morning, they only focused on sleep. When daylight came, they would focus on their next tactic, survival, because they we never going back.
It wasn't the best argument, but whatever, I tried. They've finally run away! I've honestly been waiting forever to do this chapter, and there's more that I can't wait to write in the future!
Also... It's MY BIRTHDAY! Happy 14th Birthday to me! I decided to post this chapter today because it's the beginning of Hiro and Akari's adventure, and it's my favorite one.
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~Krypie
