Plot Idea: Gummy Bears

Rating: T

Requested by: NeverGrowingUp

"Dashi, dashi! Can I have some?" Hiro pleaded beside him, the little six year old pointing excitedly at the colorful bag in his hand, gummy bears held inside while a couple were strewn on his desk from dropping them on accident. Tadashi has just smiled and complied, handing him one to try and ruffling his hair as the little one ate it, his eyes lighting up as he asked for another one.

That one, innocent little incident had been what started all this.

The transition had been rather slow, seeing as this started when Hiro was just six and it was going on even now, seven years later, but that didn't change the end result.

This was bad.

Tadashi sighed, stretching his arms above his head after dropping his bag beside the top of the stairs, tired after a long day of robotics. He loved his studies, he really did, and Baymax was coming along wonderfully, but he had been staying at the school late almost every night and he really just wanted a bit more rest tonight that he'd been getting there.

That said, the college student nearly dragged himself up the stairs on his way to bed, slipping off his shoes on the way and leaving his hat on one of the stair posts.

Aunt Cass would probably scold him for it later, but it would be the scolding where she just had a proud smile on her face the whole time, where she had to act like a mother but she just couldn't be happier about the reason she had to.

Finally Tadashi made it to his room, opening the door with his eyes barely open and just continuing to drag his feet over to his side of the room until he stepped on something. A couple little somethings that squished underneath him, along with the crinkling of a bag coming from under his toes.

Hiro, I've told you to keep this place clean while I'm out... he groaned in his head, almost not having enough energy to do it out loud.

He considered just ignoring it and going to sleep anyways, leaving it for the morning as well, but he knew that if Aunt Cass found his first trail and then came up here to see whatever this was, that scolding was going to lose it's warm tone.

So, he forced open his eyes. And what he saw almost jolted him awake.

In various piles around the room there were wrappers of gummy bear bags, said gummy bears being scarce and only a couple of them being scattered about, a certain small pile of them currently being under Tadashi's foot.

The piles got increasingly bigger the closer they were to the sides of Hiro's bed and finally, this bothered him the most, he noticed his little brother clad in bear pajamas, holding another 10 or so bags of the beloved treat to his chest while he looked almost knocked out...

Now, this wasn't a total surprise.

Tadashi had been coming home the last couple days and looking around to see Hiro with four, maybe five bags of the stuff with him at a time, sometimes unopened and sometimes empty. And while he always scolded him for eating so much of them, he'd just been too tired lately to really handle the situation.

But this, this was almost impossible for him to ignore.

There were so many bags strewn about that he almost couldn't walk without stepping on one, letting the small crinkles seem like bombs in the air as he tried to travel closer to his brother, who did not seem to be sleeping contently, even if he did look nearly peaceful. The only thing that let Tadashi know he wasn't feeling well was the way Hiro was currently curled up around his stomach, like he was trying to ease some discomfort. A big change to the way he was usually spread out on his back like a starfish, taking up his entire bed the entire night and only once or twice switching from that position only to do it again upside down.

The elder brother just took one look around the room before moving to wake the other up, not having to try hard for him to finally open his eyes, them having that glazed over look one could have when drunk. Thankfully, all the other signs of drunkenness were absent (that could have been a completely different situation for him to handle).

"Dashi?" Hiro murmured, obviously still out of it as Tadashi moved him onto his back, making the teenager groan.

"Hiro, how many gummy bears did you eat?" Tadashi asked accusingly, already knowing the answer which was much more than a thousand probably, but wanting to hear it come from the other's mouth.

"Um.. A couple." the other responded, making Tadashi grimace.

"No, you had a heck of a lot more than a couple. You had almost.." Tadashi paused and looked around at the bags, making a guesstimate in his head by counting one of the smaller piles and multiplying it by 10. "Almost 60 bags of gummy bears! Hiro, that isn't healthy!" All he got in response was another groan, not confirmation or denial, just discomfort coming from him. Tadashi just sighed, giving another grimace before he slid his brother up the bed so his head was on a pillow. "Does your stomach feel alright?" Tadashi finally asked, unable to ignore that he still wanted to help his baby brother feel better.

It's his fault it hurts in the first place, though.

Hiro gave a weak shake of his head, making Tadashi nod before he moved to pick up as many of the bags as he could, too tired to meticulously look for each gummy bear left on the ground. "I'll get you something for your stomach in a minute, ototo. But in return, you're back a bag a week limit. If you have any more than that, no more gummy bears for life." Tadashi announced, raising his voice at the end when he noticed Hiro was already nodding off again. The teenager just kept on sleeping.

You're gonna be the death of me, ya know that?

I hope you like it, NeverGrowingUp!

And before you guys panic about Hiro needing his stomach pumped or something, the bags aren't that big.

I've personally never seen a bag of gummy bears that held any more than about 20 of 'em. So, don't worry too much~

PS. Ozbert Fangirl and faisyah865, I will get to both of your request soon as well! I'm incapable of writing anything when not inspired though, so it may take me a couple days to get them written down. I love both of your ideas too, thank you for requesting~!