A/N: The final chapter is... finally here. Thanks for sticking around! I had a lot of fun writing this, and I might do more fairy tale!Tomadashi AUs in the future. (I'm personally thinking Beauty and the Beast next time around.) If it interests any of you, let me know in the reviews which adaptations you'd like to see! Thanks again!
"You know, we never did get to ask you your real name," Tadashi thought out loud, curled next to GoGo on the couch. She had done away with the dress (Honey Lemon's idea, she insisted) and was back in the comfort of a T-shirt and sweatpants.
"Oh, that," she said, rolling her eyes. "It's - "
"JOHN CENAAAA," the TV blared, flashing some wrestling program Hiro seemed particularly enamored with.
"Sorry, guys!" Hiro said, juggling the remote in his hands before turning down the volume. Mochi
"No, wait, keep it on! I love watching this crap," GoGo encouraged as she turned away from Tadashi and pulled her knees up to her chin.
Tadashi sighed and pulled his attention to the TV, fingers still laced around GoGo's. "So... your name's John Cena?"
"I wish! Nah, It's Leiko Tanaka. GoGo has a nice ring to it, though."
"Beats Naruto Uzumaki," he said, smirking at his brother.
"To be fair, Ichigo Kurasaki was my next option," Hiro protested.
"Who?" GoGo asked.
From the kitchen they heard barking, and Aunt Cass waltzed into the living room, hopping foot to foot as Baymax scampered around her.
"Well, guess we're gonna have to get used to a lot of shedding in this house," she sighed before smiling warmly. "Welcome back, GoGo."
...
Things definitely could have been worse. Sending three kids off to university certainly gave Aunt Cass bragging rights at the café (more so than her patrons could really stand). It came to no one's surprise that kid genius Hiro had gotten in on personal invitation and a scholarship, but the former mermaid's expertise in most academic fields (particularly marine biology and physics) sparked most people's curiosity.
"The fish stuff I can get behind, but physics?" Wasabi had asked, stunned.
"You don't think I read those guys' stupid textbooks while I was bored?" she scoffed. "I just wanted to fix Tadashi's stupid bike."
Honey Lemon decided to join that same year, deciding she needed a vacation and being able to fake most of her and GoGo's documents.
"You couldn't have done that before?" Wasabi seemed to be bursting with questions as of late.
"But what fun would that be?" the witch asked as if this were the most obvious thing.
The six, it seemed, had all fallen into their own little circle. It was a strange sensation for the mermaid to have so many people clamoring around her at once, voicing their concerns for her and constantly wanting to go out - even if they did virtually nothing, so long as it was together. She didn't mind, enjoyed it even. The Hamadas seemed to adjust to their independence just a bit differently. The older was growing accustomed to having his own life, his own friends without constant panic of his brother acting on his pyromania, whereas the younger ventured without guilt so long as his second mother Wasabi had some say in it.
"Guys, do you realize what this is?" Fred gasped. "We're like... a superhero group!"
"Please don't tell me you have a name plotted out," Wasabi mumbled.
"Ooh, a name sounds cute!" Honey Lemon squealed.
"I do, in fact!" Fred answered.
"Let's hear it," Tadashi said, grinning.
"Since there are six of us dudes and dudettes, I was thinking... Big Hero 6!"
The other five exchanged glances and shrugs with each other before coming to an agreement. "Nah, that's too stupid."
...
The changing of seasons had cooled the weather considerably, and so the beach received less visitors than it would have in the summer. On particularly empty days, GoGo would sit by the sparkling shore and recall her days with a tail, watching the sunlight filter through the surface. Occasionally she'd sing if she was in a good mood.
Sometimes Tadashi joined her, wordlessly watching the waves together.
"Do you miss it?" he asked once.
"A little," she admitted. "But I'm used to it."
"Because I was thinking..."
She flicked his forehead before he could finish. "Look here, dum-dum. No matter what, I don't regret what I did."
"Do you mean that?"
At his, GoGo gently grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him in, melding their lips together. It was the answer he always liked best.