Different Angles
Nicknames
Tadashi was actually the reason behind the nicknames. Fred just made them official.
"Hey, where's Tadashi?" Damon asked as he watched his best friends Aiko, Leiko and Fred take a seat in front of him. They all decided to go out to an all-you-can eat Asian restaurant to celebrate Tadashi's success in creating a personal health-care companion he called Baymax.
"He'll come eventually. He's always late," Aiko giggled, taking her phone out to take pictures of the food a waitress just set on the table.
"You started ordering without us?" Leiko asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Aw, man, you couldn't wait just a bit more?" Fred asked as he tried unlocking the tablet to make more orders.
"I thought you guys were gonna make me wait for half an hour again," Damon shrugged. "But if it makes you feel any better, I ordered your favorites, just in case." He picked up the little swirl of wasabi sitting on a little plate with his chopsticks. "Cantonese-style noodles for Aiko, general tao chicken for Leiko, phoenix rolls for Fred, and salmon roses for-"
"Me."
Unexpectedly, Damon screamed, startling the tables around him and dropping the chopsticks that were in his hands. To add more to his distress, the little piece of wasabi flew onto his shirt, staining it. He turned around to find the person who scared him unintentionally laughing his head off.
"Hey, calm down! Man, I didn't think that'd scare you," Tadashi grinned, taking a seat next to him.
"That wasn't funny!" Damon yelled, moving aside to make more room for him in the booth. He then looked down at his shirt and grimaced, "I spilled wasabi on my shirt because of you!"
At this, Fred perked up, "DUDE, WE SHOULD TOTALLY START CALLING YOU 'WASABI' FROM NOW ON!" Aiko, Leiko and Tadashi looked at each other with weird faces, wondering where that came from. Not too long after, they all laughed and nodded in agreement, while Wasabi just shook his head vigorously.
"You're gonna call me that for spilling wasabi on my shirt one time?!" Damon, now known as Wasabi, asked, his voice gradually getting higher as the question went on. "No."
"Too bad, it's already been decided," Leiko smirked, skillfully picking up a piece of general tao chicken with her chopsticks and popping it in her mouth.
"You don't have my permission!" Wasabi argued, attempting to wipe the stain off with his napkin.
"Don't need it," she said apathetically once she swallowed her food. She then turned to Fred, "What gave you the idea to give him a nickname, by the way?"
Fred shrugged, "Isn't that what friends do all the time?"
"Not really."
"Doesn't matter."
While Wasabi continued glaring at his friends, a waitress walked over to their table. She asked, "Would you like any more condiments?"
"Actually, I'd like some pickled gin-" Tadashi began.
"Wasabi, no ginger," Wasabi answered, cutting him off. "That'll be all."
"I told you guys to bundle up…" Aiko said as she placed a hot towel on each of her sick friends' foreheads. Wasabi (formerly known as Damon), Leiko, Fred and Tadashi were all lying across her living room, each covered in heaps of blankets. It was a cold winter's day yesterday, and they refused to wear anything warm like normal people would. They walked around downtown the whole day without a jacket, and they each woke up the day after the sleepover at Aiko's with a cold.
"The c-cold never bothered m-m-me before," Tadashi shivered, sinking deeper into his comforters.
"S-same here," Leiko said, teeth chattering.
Aiko just sighed, "I'll go make you guys some tea for your throat. How does chamomile sound?"
"Honey lemon, please," Tadashi managed to say.
"Sure."
With that, she left the room, and needless to say, it was a painfully freezing cold ten minutes for everyone while she was gone. She soon entered the room holding a tray of four cups and gave one to each of her friends.
After one sip, Fred threw his head back, "This is the best honey lemon tea I've ever tasted in my entire life."
Holding a hand to her chest at his sudden outburst, Aiko laughed, "Oh, thank you!"
"Woah, this is amazing," Wasabi said after taking a sip himself.
Tadashi joked, "We should start calling you 'Honey Lemon' from now on because of this."
"THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!" Fred exclaimed, straining his throat. He coughed and took another sip of the hot tea.
"He was kidding, Fred," Wasabi said, giving Tadashi a look.
"So? I like it! But not only because she makes great honey lemon tea, but she also always orders it whenever we all go out to eat! Man, why didn't I think of this before?"
"It's really okay, Freddie, I like being called Aiko…" the girl now known as Honey Lemon said as an attempt to change her friend's mind.
"Good job, Tadashi," Leiko said, turning to him. The sound of Wasabi and Honey Lemon trying to convince Fred to stop could be heard in the background.
"I didn't mean to!" he complained.
"Your suggestion for this tea just sparked a new nickname into Fred's brain," she said. "And did you really have to make that joke?"
"I didn't think he was gonna take it seriously…" Tadashi said quietly.
She rolled her eyes, "Yeah, well, you thought wrong. I just hope he doesn't give me one." She glared, "Don't give him any ideas."
"Hey, Leiko, where are you off to?" Tadashi asked as she zoomed right past him and the rest of their friends with her bike.
"In a hurry," she said loud enough for them to hear through the noisy engine. They all stopped walking towards the lab and watched as her figure became smaller and smaller the further she went.
When she was no longer in sight, Tadashi laughed, "That's Leiko for you. Always on the go-go."
"Wait!" Fred suddenly exclaimed, throwing a finger up in the air. "Leiko doesn't have a nickname yet, right?"
"Oh, no…" Wasabi facepalmed.
"Fred, I don't think Leiko would like one…" Honey Lemon said.
"Yeah, she really wouldn't!" Tadashi said somewhat scared to find out how she'd react to this because she'd definitely blame it all on him.
"From now onwards," Fred announced dramatically. "Leiko Tomago will be GoGo Tomago!"
"I hate you."
"I know."
"This is all your fault, Hamada," GoGo glared, clenching a fist and pulling up one of her sleeves threateningly.
Tadashi held out his hands up in defense, and laughed somewhat nervously, "Well, uh… They're really good ones, if you ask me."
"Hey wait, why don't you have a nickname?" Wasabi asked, crossing his arms.
"Fred doesn't have one either-" Tadashi started, but he unfortunately couldn't finish his sentence.
"I believe I've called the nickname Fredzilla," Fred answered.
"That can hardly be called a nickname!" the Hamada retorted.
"A nickname's a nickname, Tadashi, and while I actually kinda like mine, I agree; where's yours?" Honey Lemon asked.
"Actually, Tadashi does too have one!" Fred exclaimed, raising a finger up in the air. "I thought of it this morning, actually. But I don't think you'd like it very much…"
"Try me," Tadashi said.
"Mother Hen."
The room grew silent, until GoGo (surprisingly) burst out laughing, as well as Wasabi, Honey Lemon and Fred.
"Very funny, guys," Tadashi huffed.
"Want us to call you Henney to make it less obvious?" GoGo snickered, her comment setting Wasabi, Honey Lemon and Fred off again.
Tadashi just gave them all an annoyed look, but it faded after some time, and he soon found himself laughing along with them.
Tadashi smiled, "Fine… but that stays between the five of us, and the five of us only, got it?"
A/N: Wasabi's real name is unknown in the comics, so I decided to call him Damon cause that's his voice actor's name LOL. And Henney because Tadashi's voice actor is Daniel Henney and I love him. ;w; I have OmairaAndCairistionaTheSisters to thank for the request! And shout-out to bukalay for being the 400th reviewer! :D
A late-ish update on a Saturday because I got back from the Robotics Showcase only about an hour ago, and yes, I cried. No lie. ;A;
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