A/N
So it's kind of a shorter chapter then usual but I hope you guys enjoy it!
Tadashi grinned down at Hiro as he skipped alongside Tadashi; it was nice being able to spend time with just Hiro. Tadashi chuckled as he watched Hiro carefully jump over every crack in the sidewalk and asked,
"What are you doing buddy?"
"Fred says stepping on a crack can break your guardian's back!" Hiro exclaimed, making Tadashi start to laugh before freezing. The real expression was your mom's back but Tadashi couldn't bring himself to correct Hiro.
"Well…thank you for trying to keep my back from breaking," Tadashi said.
"You're welcome!" Hiro exclaimed. "I don't want my Dashi's back breaking!" Tadashi laughed and continued to walk; glad he decided to walk with Hiro instead of riding with Heathcliff.
Heathcliff offered to drive them when Tadashi realized he couldn't exactly drive Hiro on his moped, but Tadashi declined the offer. The park wasn't too far and it would be good for them to walk. When they arrived, the park was strangely deserted. Hiro though didn't seem to mind and ran over to the swings. He'd always been very shy and didn't like going to the park when their where a lot of kids around.
"Push me Dashi!" Hiro exclaimed, eyes light up in excitement. Grinning, Tadashi walked over to him and did as he asked, pushing Hiro higher and higher. Letting out an excited shout, Hiro jumped off of the swing and landed in the sand, laughing.
"Hiro!" Tadashi shouted, running over to his brother. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"I'm fine!" Hiro assured, laughing, "That was fun! Can we do that again?"
"No!" Tadashi exclaimed. "Hiro you shouldn't do that, you could have gotten hurt!"
Hiro huffed in annoyance and grumbled, "Fine…" Before grinning and running to play some more, excitedly calling Tadashi to follow. For the next hour Tadashi ran around the park with Hiro, and though Hiro seemed to have an abundance of energy still, Tadashi was starting to get tired. He wanted to sit down, but he knew Hiro didn't like playing by himself. Thankfully, a woman with a young boy arrived in the park and while the woman sat down on the bench, the boy ran over to the monkey bars and started playing on them. The young boy had blue hair, tan skin and bright blue eyes. Grinning, Tadashi kneeled down next to Hiro and said,
"Hey buddy why don't you go and say hi to him?"
"I'd rather play with you Dashi…" Hiro mumbled, moving closer to Tadashi.
"I'm getting kind of tired buddy," Tadashi admitted. "Besides, you might make a new friend."
"Okay…" Hiro nervously mumbled before slowly walking over to the boy. Grinning Tadashi sat down on a bench in the shade to watch. Before he reached the monkey bars, Hiro froze and started to back away nervously. The boy though spotted Hiro and dropped down and ran over to him, excitedly talking. After talking to Hiro for a minute, Hiro flashed a small smile and started following the boy.
"May I sit here?" A voice asked, startling Tadashi. He looked over at the woman who had brought the boy to the park. Her skin was much darker then the boys and she had dark brown curly hair and green eyes.
"Of yea of course," Tadashi said, scooting over so he wasn't in the middle of the bench. "I'm Tadashi."
"Hello I'm Hera." Hera said.
"Is that your son?" Tadashi asked.
"Yes, his name's Ezra."
"That's my brother Hiro playing with him."
"Your parents must appreciate you taking your brother to the park," Hera complimented. Tadashi felt his chest tighten as he mumbled,
"I-uh…I hope…they…they're not around anymore…"
"Oh, I'm so sorry," Hera whispered. "I shouldn't have assumed…"
"It's okay," Tadashi assured. "You didn't mean any harm."
"I still feel bad though…" Hera admitted.
"Don't worry about it," Tadashi assured. "How old is Ezra?"
"Umm….five….we think…" Hera mumbled.
"Think?" Tadashi asked, surprised.
"Well…we adopted him a year ago but the orphanage we adopted him from found him on their doorstep when he was very young. They think he's five but we're not entirely sure." She explained.
"Oh…that must be hard…"
"Not really," Hera assured. "We just celebrate his birthday on the day the orphanage found him and just assume he's five…until proven otherwise. The school insisted we wait to enroll him until this fall in any case."
"Hiro is five too. He'll also be starting school in the fall." Tadashi explained, grinning as Hiro ran off after Ezra. "…wow…I've never seen Hiro warm up to someone so quickly…"
Laughing, Hera explained, "I'm not surprised, Ezra just loves talking to people. He just has a way of making people feel comfortable around him."
"Hiro can be a chatterbox once he's comfortable with someone. He's usually pretty shy though so there are only a few people he's really comfortable with…none of them are his age though sadly…well…maybe he has one…" Tadashi added as he watched Hiro follow Ezra back up onto the monkey bars.
"I hope so," Hera agreed, smiling. "Kids need friends their own age." Over the next hour more children started coming into the park, but Hiro and Ezra stuck together. From where he was sitting, Tadashi could tell Hiro was starting to get nervous with so many kids playing on the playground. Ezra also seemed to notice this and moved to play in the less crowded grass area. After that Hiro stuck with Ezra like glue, and it seemed Ezra wasn't really interested in talking with any of the other kids.
Tadashi found that he enjoyed talking to Hera, she was easy to talk too and she listened to what Tadashi had to say. It was even more interesting hearing about her history; she was a pilot in the army and got an honorary discharge when she was injured in the line of duty.
"Things never got boring, that's for sure," Hera was saying with a fond smile. "I almost miss all the action…" Hera trained off when a phone went off and pulled her phone out of her purse saying, "Sorry but Ezra and I need to go."
"I understand. Hiro and I should probably head home too…"
"Is it alright if I grabbed your number?" Hera asked. "Knowing Ezra he'll want to see Hiro again."
"Yea of course," Tadashi said. Hera handed her Tadashi's phone and he entered his number in and sent himself a text with her phone.
"Great, thanks," Hero said, taking her phone back. "It was nice meeting you."
"And you as well." Tadashi returned, holding out his hand for Hera to take, which she did.
"Ezra! Time to go sweetie!" Hera called.
"But mom!" Ezra shouted, running over to her with Hiro trailing behind. "We were having fun!"
"Sorry sweetie but we need to go. I have a way to call Hiro's brother so you two can play together sometime if Hiro wants to okay?"
"Awesome!" Ezra exclaimed.
"Could we Dashi?" Hiro tentatively asked.
"Any time buddy," Tadashi assured, ruffling Hiro's hair.
"Come on now, say goodbye to Hiro." Hera said.
"Bye!" Ezra said, hugging Hiro. Hiro froze momentarily but awkwardly wrapped his arms around Ezra.
"Bye…" Hiro mumbled waving. Hera took Ezra's hand and started walking away, Ezra turning awkwardly to continue waving at Hiro until they were out of site.
"Looks like you made a friend," Tadashi said, taking Hiro's hand and starting to walk back to the mansion.
"I like him…" Hiro mumbled. "You meant it when you said we could play again right?"
"Of course buddy!" Tadashi exclaimed. Hiro's eyes lit up excitedly and he spent most of the walk home talking about Ezra and everything they did in great detail. Tadashi already knew for the most part what they did but listened to Hiro as he talked anyways. It was just so nice to see Hiro getting close to someone his age.
Once they got back to the mansion, Hiro excitedly ran up into the playroom where their partially reconstructed Lego City was. When they went inside, Fred was already in their playing a video game.
"Oh!" Hiro exclaimed, running over to where Fred was. "Can I play?"
"Uh, probably best that you don't," Fred said, quickly turning off the game. Tadashi glanced at the cover and noticed the 'M' rating for the game and quickly said,
"Come on Hiro, Lego is way more fun!"
"But that game looks awesome!" Hiro whined.
"I don't think you'll like it buddy," Tadashi said, sitting down by the Lego city, "besides our Lego citizens need our help after the devastation caused by the monster brothers!"
"But the governor was supposed to start rebuilding? Why didn't he?" Hiro gasped.
"Because he was an evil corrupt man using the situation to steal millions of dollars from the citizens!" Fred exclaimed, diving down next to Hiro. "Thankfully the construction man found out about what he was doing and brought him to justice!"
"Awesome!" Hiro exclaimed. "But now we must rebuild to save the Lego citizens!"
"This time with a superhero base," Tadashi added, grinning.
"Yes!" Hiro exclaimed.
"Maybe we should plan out everything we're going to add," Fred said.
"Hamada Bro's Inc. needs to be rebuilt!" Hiro exclaimed. "And everyone's homes! And the supermarket! Oh maybe we should build a nerd school!"
Tadashi chuckled and agreed, "Oh yea, a nerd school is a must!"
"There also needs to be a comic book store!" Fred added.
"Of just a book store," Tadashi suggested.
"Or both," Fred said, smirking causing Tadashi to roll his eyes, laughing. As they get to work building, Tadashi marveled at being able to spend time with the two men he loved most. Thinking back on it, Tadashi felt bad for neglecting them so much these past few weeks, well not anymore. Tadashi vowed that from now on he'd give them the attention they deserved. With that thought firmly in mind, he joined Fred and Hiro in rebuilding the magnificent Lego city.
End Notes
I may or may not be addicted to Star Wars Rebels. Anyways hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!