Chapter 6: Naked Art and Making Mistakes

Disclaimer: I do not own Big Hero 6 nor anything of its characters. All belongs to their rigthful owners from Disney Animated Studios©.

WARNING: Brief nudity.


"Breakfast time Anna!" Her mother, Anastasia called to her redheaded daughter from downstairs.

Annabelle yawned from her bed as she noticed how early it was. It's only 7:30 in the morning, on a Saturday! She groaned to herself as she slid out of bed, a drowsy look on her face. She slept on the wrong side of bed this morning and has a feeling she is not going to start this day off well like usual. She got up and went on over to the bathroom and got ready. She combed out her hair, hopped in the shower, clean up and get dress.

She wore a pink tank, with a jean jacket over it, jet blue skinny jeans and her hair pulled up in a bun. She puts on her thin, red glasses and walked on downstairs into the kitchen and greeted her parents. Her father, Aiko was reading the newspaper and holding up his mosaic coffee mug in his hand. Anna sat down, opposite from her father. Anna sighed as she waited, anxiously for her breakfast.

"How did you sleep Anna?" Anastasia asked.

"Oh, the usually. Though my back is a little stiff." She lied, her back was fine.

"Well, maybe coming home at a later time proves that you should come home sooner instead of hanging out inside limos and unknown strangers." Annabelle's mother was quite overprotective and very could point out something too obvious, to the annoyance of Anna and her welfare. Her daughter sighed at her comment.

"Unknown strangers?" Anna asked in a very vituperate tone. Her mother arched an eyebrow at her, as if she heard her curse for the first time.

"Yes, unknown strangers as we know of. You should tell your parents who you hand out with so we know you're in good hands."

"Why should I? So you can judge them and tell me I can't hang out with them because of how they look?" Anna's voice began to darken as she felt a bit of distrust from her astound parents. Aiko looked up at her in a way that made Anna stiffen. His face was alarming as she thought over her daughter's words.

"Now Annabelle," he began, "we want you to know that we're doing this for your own welfare. I don't want you thinking that we're gaining up on you. You need to tell us what you're doing, where you're going, who's with you, and when and how you are coming home. This is what parents do you know?" Annabelle sighed.

"Dad, I'm 18. I think it's that time where I could live on my own and stay up mostly all night." Anna pointed out, flatly. Her father gave Anna a grimace look as he felt a little upset from what Annabelle said.

"We just don't want you to get hurt and we care very much about your welfare, sweetheart." Aiko said.

"Well it's not my fault that I have friends now. I mean, I need to be more sociable. I'm tired of being alone and stuck up in a house all the time!" Her voice grew as she slouch back against her chair and showed a grim attitude towards her folks.

Anastasia didn't approve of her daughter's approach and ended the conversation. Aiko just didn't reply, and kept eyeing over the newspaper. Her parents want Annabelle to be happy, they sure do, but they also don't want Annabelle in any danger whatsoever. They went through a lot of problems during Anna's childhood that were regreting and promising all at once. Even when Annabelle had to be homeschooled during middle school, because they couldn't pay any of her school's tuition. That's why Annabelle was always lonely, she never even got the chance to have friends during her childhood because she was mostly homeschooled.

Whenever Annabelle and her family finished breakfast, she walked back upstairs to get her things before heading out. She had to go get Tadashi for the moment they been waiting for since yesterday. She told her parents last night about it and it was certain that they didn't approve of naked sculpting either. Even when they didn't refused or thought different otherwise, they wanted their daughter to be happy.

"Well, I'm about to be heading out now." Anna said, grabbing her brown handbag before kissing her mother and father on the cheek.

"Okay then, we hope that you have a good time and call us if there's any trouble." Anastasia said. Anna chuckled, nothing wrong is going to happen. Not unless Annabelle makes a fool of herself again and burns the cafe. She never thought of any trouble like that to happen, again.

"I will. Love you both, bye!" She waved goodbye to her parents before heading out the door. She watched and looked around at the traffic, passing by her street. She looked to the direction, down the hill and walked towards that direction, to the cafe.


A loud crash hit the floor of the Lucky Cat Cafe. Cass Hamada growled as she saw a huge mess, covering most of the enitre tiled floor. "HIRO!" She yelled with anger forming her face as her cheeks converted into a deep shade of red.

The young Asian boy, quivered at his aunt's roar as he quickly cleaned the entire mess of broken glasses and poured beverages on the floor with a mop and bucket. All he did was tried to dance with dirty dishes in his hand, listening to his favorite song he heard on the radio, but absolutely failed to since the floor was not stable for his feet to stand on since it was slippery wet.

"Don't ANYONE read hazard signs ANYMORE!?" Cass wailed in outrage.

As for Tadashi, who witness the entire incident, whispered over to Mochi, the house cat. Saying, "Never seen Aunt Cass ever so made before. Let's not give her a hard time today, alright buddy?" A soft 'meow' was heard by the chubby Chinese cat, meaning he understood completely before giving a quick yawn and takes a nap.

Moments later, the cafe was already opened and the traffic there was actually pretty big. Since there are two big events this week in town, and there are visitors from other places here to see it. As for the Hamada bros, they have a long break after their shift at the kitchen, they both were up in their rooms, relaxing. Tadashi remembered Annabelle is going to be here to take to her house to sketch him, so he had to get ready.

He took a shower, got dress wearing a white t-shirt, a gray cardigan sweater, black jeans and his minted green converse sneakers. He went over to his mirror and checked himself out. He made sure that his hair didn't have anything cowlicks nor split ends so he combed it over as if he was getting ready for a date or something.

Hiro watched his brother and rolled his eyes. "Dude, you're just going to a girl's house! You don't have to get all dressed up." Tadashi chuckled at his younger brother.

"Well, I don't want to go out there, looking any kind of way. I want to look presentable." He said as a matter of fact.

Hiro scoffed, he never understood what guys like Tadashi does to present towards women. This ladies' man should slow down a bit, she only know Anna for about 2 days, Hiro told himself as if he was telling Tadashi this directly. Tadashi finished geling his hair, he grabbed his iPhone and baseball cap and headed downstairs. He said goodbye to his younger brother and his aunt before leaving out the front door and waits outside to meet up with Annabelle.

He could see Anna's figure, coming down the hill, at a steady pace. He waved at her as she gotten closer to him. Then, she waved back. Whenever they met up, she asked if she would like to go inside real quick to something to wake her up a bit. He nodded then walked back inside the cafe with her. Anna asked if she would like some vanilla bean crème frappuccino. Cass smiled as she got it for her in seconds. She gave it to her and thanked her in advanced. Cass watched her nephew and his friend and gave them a catcall. Tadashi immediately turned around and noticed what she was doing. His face felt a flush of red, forming him, surely he was embarrassed by his aunt reaction, knowing her, this is going to look bad.

"You two are so cute! I need a picture of this!" Aunt Cass storms out of the room, to go grabbed a camera. Annabelle looked over at him with a surprised look. As for Tadashi, gave an awkward laughing.

"Um...that's my aunt for ya." He said, weary.

Annabelle giggled. "Oh...I see, very motherly of her. Just like my mom, wait until you meet her."

Tadashi gave a generous look as his aunt ran back and snapped a few out of the blue pictures in front of them. A heavy blur hit their eyes as snaps were shot, causing their eyes to dilated and blur out. The two felt dizzy and Cass had finished snapping pictures. She squealed before saying in muse, "I can't WAIT to put these on my scrapbook of childhood memories... You two look so cute together!" She ran off as Tadashi reminding her they were just friends, but she didn't get that because she was already gone.

Annabelle looked a bit uneasy before feeling a little stable again and walking out the door with Tadashi.


As they walked up the hill, Annabelle felt the butterflies in her stomach again as she was walking along side Tadashi. They only knew each other for 2 days, 2 DAYS, she doesn't have to get all nervous. This is a part of that world, where you have to find someone, sketch their naked bodies and get money for it. That's all it is. Come on Annabelle, get yourself together! You're going to do fine, this is what life is about. This what people were born, naked. Just stay calm and be cool... Her thought made Annabelle seem stable but still was having anxiety problems around Tadashi himself.

"Uh," Tadashi spoke, "I was wondering, how are your parents, are they nice?"

"Yes and very overprotective." Anna pointed out the last point in a very low tone.

Tadashi nodded. "Oh, and you said that one of your parents is French and the other is full Japanese."

"Yeah, my mother is French while my father is Japanese. I get most of the appearance of my mother while I have enthics of the Japanese language from my father."

"Wow, my mother and father are the same thing. My mom was American while my dad was Japanese. I get most of my features from my father."

Annabelle nodded as she smiled up at him and kept on walking. After a fullout conversation of their families, they were already up the hill. Her house was just around a bend, along the curve of where the hill intersections into another hill. Annabelle sighed in relief as she walked along the sidewalk towards her house. She stopped onto the porch, close to the door. Tadashi froze as well when she did.

"Now listen," Anna said, her voice in a sort of whisper, "my home is not as...complexed and domain as you think. We're not rich people, we are working on remodeling the house a bit until my father haves enough money to do so."

Tadashi smiled at her, humbly. "I promise, I will not judge your parents nor your wonderful victorian home." With that, Annabelle smiled at him before opening the front door and walks inside. Tadashi followed as he looked around her home. His eyes tried not to look a bit tense but he couldn't help the fact that their house was very, simple. Not a lot of furniture, not a lot of decor or pictures to have around the home. It was small and big at the same time. Anna's house is BIG. He wonders why there wasn't lot of diversity of decorations nor furniture to add on, but Tadashi promised to not judge, and he never breaks a promise.

As for Anna, she put her belongings down as she walked over to the dining room where their parents were still there. Anastasia looked a little surprised as she saw her daughter back here, thinking she would've been with her friends and neglecting her presences. She smiled a little as she asked her daughter what is she doing back here so early.

"I went to go get my friend, Tadashi and about to sketch his naked body for the Matsuri festival art―thing." Anna felt a bit nervous when she said she was going to sketch his naked body. Her mother and father stared at her which made her even more nervous. Are they not happy about this, she said to herself worried.

"Um, well..." Before Anastasia could begin her sentence, Tadashi slowly walked into the kitchen. Both parents eyed him. He waved generously smiling.

"Uh, hi. You're Annabelle's parents, right?" He asked nervously. Both parents nodded. Their faces were signs of bewilderness.

Anna chuckled nervously as she tried not to make things awkward for everyone. "Well, Tadashi meet my mother, Anastasia and my father, Aiko." The parents waved weary. Tadashi smiled and waved back.

"Um, so you're the friend Anna's been talking about?" Anastasia asked. Tadashi nodded. Then, Aiko scoffed as he sat up and eyed the young man up and down.

Both parents are actually shock to see Anna is friends with...him. He's a boy. She's sketching HIM NAKED. As if they would accept that, then Anna told them at the last minute before even introducing to him before. This was stunning, very stunning that Anna even managed to bring a GUY like HIM into their home like that. Before they knew it, Annabelle told them about the about doing this upstairs in her study room. The room where her drawings, artwork and art supplies are located. But before they even leave the dining room, Aiko stopped them in their tracks and stood up, walking towards Tadashi's direction.

Tadashi gulped a knot from his throat as he felt anxious and worried of Anna's father. What if he doesn't even like him? What if he thinks Anna is trying to have sex with him and his pretty much getting all suspicious about him?

"Tadashi, am I right?" He said looking dead straight at him. Tadashi, shaking with nervousness, lightly nodded.

"Yes?"

"You better not hurt this girl or I SWEAR."

"DDDAAADDDD..." Anna loudly whined as her face flustered red. Tadashi stood there in complete fear and then nods at the older man, the daughter of Annabelle. His face was as serious as his face when he makes a very encountered argument with his racist co-workers at his job.

"What?" He eyed over at his daughter, "I'm just making sure this MAN doesn't try to snag any tricks up his sleeve to try to―"

"THANK YOU VERY MUCH DAD BUT I DON'T THINK TADASHI HAS THE GUTS TO!" Anna grabs Tadashi's hand and charges upstairs as quickly as she could.

"Have fun you two!" Anastasia shouted from the kitchen before the two young adults were already up the stairs.


Annabelle groaned as she was standing along the hallway of the upstairs floor of her house. Tadashi, still with wide eyes, was frighten by Anna's father. Anna sighed as she told Tadashi this is what she meant by being overprotective and also embarrassing.

"That's alright," He said, easing down a bit, "Aunt Cass could be the same way. Especially with all those baby pictures of me and Hiro."

Annabelle then walked over to the study room door, she opened it and walked right through with Tadashi. Tadashi's eyes wondered throughout the room. This room looks so, colorful. There was splashes of paints all on the walls, there was piles of painting panels, stalked in their own little area, there's even a mini art studio on the other side of the room. This room could be a bedroom but rearranged into a full out art club in there. Tadashi smiled at the scene, knowing that Anna probably stunned him enough.

"Wow," he mused, "this is―this is..."

"Messy?" Anna joked as she walked over to her sketchpad she left on the desk and pulled it up in front of her. Tadashi was all lost in his own world as he admired the creativity around him, he never knew Anna was so artsy in a way to make this huge mess.

"No, this is magnificent! This looks like a real ART studio..." Annabelle giggled at his comment as she felt ever so flattered.

"Aw...thanks..." She said bashfully, "I try. Ever since we moved into this house when I was 7."

"You had this room since you was 7?" He asked in surprise.

She nodded. "I started my talent in art when I was really little, 3 or 4 to exact. Whenever my parents saw all the artwork I've been making since then, they insisted to having my own little art study room with all my artwork could settle in and hopefully one day, on display."

Tadashi caught his eye on one of Annabelle's drawings, a visual art piece of San Fransokyo. There was a drawn eye, reflecting it's pupil of the sight of the city, with sighted rainbow colors, splattered all over the panel. It looked like it was put there on purpose so it could look that way it was, but then again, it looked both horrible and lovely all at once. That what made it look very vivid and wonderful to see.

He grabbed the panel and showed it to her. "The most favorite piece of all time, this." He lift the piece up so Anna could see it. A huge change formed on Anna as she saw the picture, it made her face pale and her expression sadden. Tadashi noticed a put the panel back down. He frowned at her as her face began a dark grimace.

"Hey," he mentioned to her concernedly, "what's wrong? Don't you like the picture?"

Anna remembered that picture, that picture was suppose to become big and famous. She was going to show it to her professor and get a good grade on it but...what she did was very unbelieveable. Those memories hit her really hard...

...

Flashback

16 year old Annabelle was inside the high school's art room, painting the final touches on her art project. She was painting the city of San Fransokyo through an eye pupil as the colors were going to be mostly red, blue and gold, the main colors of the city's flag logo. It was going great, she had everything she needed. Her astound painting was on fleek and her pressure against the wonderful pencil was on light and gentle.

She couldn't stop now, even if it was passed 3:30, class ended 30 minutes before. She had to get this done, no doubt on herself being tardy on this project the next day and fail that lesson in art class. She had to finish this NOW.

Time went passed, little by little to get this done. She hope that she would be done before the sun began to set. So she kind of rushed a bit to get it done. At first, she was going well, inch by inch at a sped up pace. Boy, was she charging. Then...she kinda over did it, just a little.

Whenever she went to go over to get more paint, something bad happened. Something she was going to regret for the rest of her life. This project was big for her, it really was. She put SO much effort into this. She just couldn't mess it up, she just can't. When she came back to the art room and quickly got back into position. She went over towards the bottle of paint, with her jittery hands, she tried to grab it but instead, it tipped over towards the panel. Green paint splattered all over the picture, some dripping onto the floor.

Annabelle's eyes were literally coming off of her face because how wide there were. Her own painting, her very own painting, made by scratch, completely ruined. All that work, all of that effort put onto it, RUINED.

'NO.' She said to herself in shock. 'NO!' She kept repeating to herself. She tried to stable herself, she tried to calm herself and thought of something how to fix it. She thought of a way to maybe change the way it looked. Maybe trying to blend it, that's it. That's all it needs is to blend in so it could look and make sense and not something just got destroyed or something.

She tried to mix it with blue to make a aqua color, it still was part of the city's main colors but...it didn't work. The splatter of green and now unevenly dumped into blue and aqua. 'NO, NO! That's not what I wanted!' She thought, distressingly. 'Maybe add a little more red and yellow, or purple, even pink! YEAH! IT'LL WORK, IT'LL WORK!' As she was stressing over this, she began to rapidly put different colors onto the painting. From red, to orange, to mixing it with purple and pink and not DARING to put any black paint onto it at all. More intense dump of paint was being put down onto the panel, the more of a disaster it was becoming, and more of a mess she was making.

'NOOO!' That's it. She couldn't find any other way to fix this wonderful drawing. The colors that used to be painted perfectly on the frame, disappeared with disgusting dump of messy colors, splattering around the it. The eye pupil wasn't as detailed nor as realistic as if used to be. The city of San Fransokyo was pushed into a brick wall type of figure now that the paint, destorted the entire drawing. Anna couldn't believe what she just done. She was ready to finish, but then her stupidity came in and forcefully added too much pressure onto her hand and cause the paint to fall.

Annabelle was ready to have a temper-tantrum on this painting. She was ready to throw every bottle of paint all over the room, making a bigger mess as it is. She was ready to give up and forget about that grade in art and take the failing score of the course. She was ready to end her art career as it was and never touch a single paint brush again.

'No...no...NO...NOO! NOOOO! NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!' Her mind was having its own temper-tantrum and she began to spasm her hands onto every single paint bottle, opened, she could find. She throw all the brushes all over the place, causing more of her painting to destort. Paint spilling all over the area, bursting into tears, shouting as she had a nervous breakdown on her painting.

What's the big deal? She thought to herself as she felt the lighter side on the other side of her head, deep, deep down inside her, she probably would've let it go. That's so off for Anna, to go off like that. She really needed to stop and calm down. It's okay, accidents happen, don't have to hurt yourself for common incidents like that, she told herself constantly as she tried to keep the positive side of her afloat.

Then, she couldn't bare looking at her own disaster she made, she broke down and cried. She curled up into a ball and cried. She had paint all over her outfit, her face, even her hair had drips of paint all over it. She couldn't believe what she have done to herself, she ruined it and herself. 'That's it', she thought.

'I give up.'

She walked out of the room, with her panel in her hand, heading down in shame as she walked downstairs of the school stairwell. A few teachers took a glimpse at the girl as she walked down the hallway with an uneasy stare. The teachers there even thought she was a little...weird, not a very positive high school if the teacher thinks of the student in that way. Anna knew that for herself everyday when she comes into class. It even shows there that the students are more mature than the teachers, and that's not good for it's system if a child is going enroll.

She tried to get the thought of her picture out of her mind, though she was holding onto the panel, only showing the back of it on her side. She was ashamed of her and her artwork, a failure to her work and a disgrace to artists everywhere. She was fitted to art anyway, just a lesson learn there.

And that very next day, whenever she had to turn in her project, she didn't even bring the artwork in. She failed that project instantly. The teacher herself was pretty surprised that Annabelle didn't bring in her artwork, and she was surely hoping for something wonderful from her, other than it was pure disappointment.

Anna knew from that day on, she would never lay hands on painting again. Then when she started college, she was forced to and got the hang of it soon once again soon after, but never forgot that day. That day, she had broken the rule of art, but never knew it was good until someone compliments the beautiful artpiece. Annabelle didn't knew that then. One day though, she will know and become more of herself than blaming herself for the simplest mistakes.

End of Flashback

...

A hand, waved over her face as her eyes looked dull and gazed off. It was Tadashi's hand, trying to snap her out out of the daze. "ANNA?" Tadashi called her, the 3rd time in a row. Anna was blanked out, as her memories kept on repeating. Then when she heard Tadashi's voice for the final time, she savvy herself back into reality and looked up at him with wide eyes.

"OH sorry! I was...I was just..." She couldn't think of another way to explain herself so all she did was a sigh. Tadashi looked up at her, in worry. Is she alright, he thought to himself.

She bashfully looked down at that painting, then looked away as she tried not to gain anymore thoughts of that same day. Tadashi noticed the look on Anna's paled face, he thought maybe she was scared to do the sketch.

"You alright? Is it because of what we're about to do?" He asked.

Anna shook her head. "No, no. I was just looking over at that picture I made during high school. Hideous, isn't it?"

"HIDEOUS? Woah, this? This is more like...beautiful. I think this artwork is full of beauty of the city and with the eye right there, it makes it wild with the colors around it."

Anna blushed, flattered. "Wow, I'm flattered. You don't have to lie to me. Admit it's―"

"Wonderful!" Anna stared at him as if he lost a brain.

"Really? I mean, I messed it up when I was in high school for an art project. I didn't even turn the thing in."

"Why? You would've gotten a very good grade for this."

Anna shook her head again. "No, I wouldn't. I mean, I failed that project badly. I mean, I would've failed it anyway because of―"

"Artists makes mistakes Anna. Take it from me, inventors like me, I make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, don't blame yourself for something that's commonly happens to everyone." He explained, putting his hand gently onto Anna's shoulder. That made Anna feel better. In fact, she felt a lot better about herself and what she felt towards her painting. "You just gotta look a new angle..." He tilted his head as he examine the artwork.

He also said, "I think this artwork is beautiful. Just like a wonderful artist I know." Anna blushed, now she knows why Hiro always calls him a "ladies' man".

Then she thought twice about the picture. To be honest, she thought it actually looked nice for once. All these years, thinking artists have got to a lot of perfection towards their artwork, she realized how even a few things could happen, leading to mistakes. And hey, it happens. Anna smiled up at Tadashi, then saying thank you to his compliment.

He nodded and said, "No problem." This generous, sweetheart of a man smiled back at her.

She sighed as she felt more of a calm and friendly approach towards her new friend. Then, she knew it was that time. It was time to start that project, and now that she feels a whole lot better about her artpieces, she wasn't going to flip out when she would make a mistake.

"Alright, let's get ready now." Anna felt calm and prepared, but then again, she was nervous as hell. Not because of her artwork, but because of seeing this man, this man she thought was ever so kind, ever so generous, ever so cute (though she never admit it), only known each other for a couple of days. She never even saw a naked person before, besides herself. And this is a guy though, a man. She's going to see a few things that would probably take away her innocences. But hey, this is what artists have to do. They have to learn the true looks over art, nude art.

It's alright Anna, she said to herself once more, calmly, this is going to come and go just like that. Just focus and don't mes―try your best.


A while later, Annabelle was getting her pencils ready, and Tadashi, well, he was getting undress. He was pretty nervous as well, but he managed to stay calm as he unbutton his cardigan sweater. As for Anna, she was getting her pencils and paint ready. She grabbed her sketch pad and her panels settled down in a sitting, criss-cross position. Tadashi was behind a divider, getting undress. From where the sun was shining, the sunlight reflected onto the divider's shade wall. The shadow of Tadashi was shown, getting undress.

Anna tried not to flush red by the looks of it but it was too obvious and too daring. She could tell when Tadashi was about to pull down his pants at this point and taking off his hat. She could feel the weird anxiety kicking in. It was exciting then at the same thing, frighten.

Tadashi pokes his head out, along the other end of the divider. He had an important question to ask her.

"Um, hey uh Anna?"

Annabelle's eyes widen as she saw a glimpse of his bareness, as he naked broad shoulder were shown along with his ripped collar bone. This is when Anna flustered hard.

"Y-y-yes?"

Tadashi was quite nervous too, she noticed that. So she tried to smile at him so that he could see that she was cool with what's happening, nothing sexual upon this at all. Tadashi chuckled nervously and scratched his neck along with feeling a little embarrassed as well.

"Uh do you want me to...uh...cover―um―myself or...do you want―it―to uh...show?" Anna thought of that question hard. She noticed what he meant as she began to look disturbed.

"Well...um...whatever you think is comfortable for you, I...guess..." She said.

With that, Tadashi finished getting undress by pulling down his briefs and taking off his sneakers. He breathed in and then breathed out as he knew it was time. Annabelle was waiting patiently in her spot as she wasn't paying attention to Tadashi, coming out from behind the divider. She was finding a blank page for her sketch.

Whenever Tadashi walked out, he was completely nude. His bare light skin was shining from the sunlight, hitting around him. His muscle was broad and would look really intimidating if he began flexing. His bare chest was a exposing nothing but skin, no chest hair nor fur to be found. His complexed skin looks to be soft and tender. Though the only thing with an emit of another color is Tadashi's face. He very was bashful. The way he was just showing his body towards her, it was really embarrassing and disturbing.

As for Annabelle, she was speechless, absolutely blank. Her face was as pale but then again, glowing pink with jitters coming through her body. Her heart began to erupt and her stomach felt heavy. His...his body! Anna tensed as she mentally felt high-strung and excited.

This was weird for Anna, is she...nooo... Even her bra was clinging against her nipples as she saw the bareness of this stiff young man. No, no, no. It can't be like this? No, this is not like Annabelle. Well, maybe this is that time in a young woman's life when they see a hot, naked guy in their room. The way it was said, Annabelle was quite disgusted with herself.

"Anna?" Tadashi's voice was tense as well. "W-wh-why are you looking at me like that?"

"LIKE WHAT?!" She said in a very loud, uptight voice. Surely, she wasn't easy either.

"You're staring at me, it's kinda actually scaring me." He admitted giving her a touchy, scarce look.

"I-I-I-I'M SORRY! I―WELL I WAS JUST NOTICING HOW―MUCH YOUR BODY SEEM SO―BEAUTIFUL―I MEAN PERFECT―I MEAN―IT'SPERFECTFORMYSKETCHSINCEIAMDRAWINGYOURNUDITY!" Anna was literally screaming in panic. Tadashi's eyes were uneasy but he thought she was acting very funny and he laughed.

Annabelle saw him and made a 'what are you laughing at' face and pouted. "Stop it, it's not funny! I never saw ANY of this before, I'm still an innocent child." Anna confessed as she flushed red.

Tadashi chuckled as he gently covered himself with his baseball cap. "It's okay, I covered it okay?"

Annabelle sighed and nodded. "Okay, I-I'm okay now." Awkwardness filled the room. What now? They both thought. Annabelle then thinks of a few poses for Tadashi to do, he's the model of this project, she's the manipulator. She could tell him to pose any way she wanted him to do. The way she thought of it, made her blossom red again. STOP BEING DIRTY ANNA! She mentally slapped herself.

"OKAY!" Anna cheered immediately ending the awkward silence, "Our first objective is to find a pose for you to do...Let's see..." She poke the other end of her pencil against her chin as she looked up and thinks. Then, an idea hit her. "I got it," she said, "maybe have yourself posing like...THIS!"

She showed a pose on her iPhone of a figure, posing with him laying across the floor. Their arms going in opposite directions, one arm laying flat on the floor, while the other was raised up high in the sky. Their torso was sort of lifted up from the floor while the lower part of the body was still laying there. The figure's head was laying along on the ground while the neck was tensely still as the head lays there. It looked like the figure was trying to get up but didn't have the energy to and is relying on air and gravity to pull him back up.

Tadashi looked at it and smiled. "I think I could do that. Alright, I'll do it!"

Anna smiled up at him. "Okay, let's get started."

And with that, they began the project. Tadashi put himself down on the ground, still covering himself with his baseball cap and doing the pose as followed. Anna grabbed her sketch book and pencil and started drawing. She started off with sketching his figure first, she lightly sketch the shape of Tadashi in shapes and lines (easier to build out the body, creatively) before outlining the drawing of the body. This took about 30 minutes to a whole hour, since Annabelle takes her time with her artwork. Tadashi asked, in between it on how was her work going. Anna nodded and said it was going very well. Tadashi was glad of that she was doing well as he began to feel a little stiff. He tried not to move for Anna, but he was about to give out. She said she was almost done with the shade in and coloring. Tadashi felt so relief, but then again he was very impatient at this point. Very impatient and very tense.

A whole 10 minutes has pass, quietness filled the entire room. Nothing but a sound of pastels hitting the paper and shading. Tadashi yawned a few times as he began to grew a little bored. Then, finally, she was finish.

"I'M DONE!" Anna cheered, throwing her hands up in the air. Tadashi sighed heavily in full and utter easiness.

"FINALLY..." He mused before flopping his full body onto the ground. The way he laid there, made Anna...her nose...it was BLEEDING?

"Oh God." Anna hissed to herself as she felt drips of blood, hitting parts of her paper, dripping on the colored sketch. Goddamit, she ruined her picture AGAIN! Her heart sunk as she saw the mess she made. This is it, the same result of what happened to her other picture back in high school. Then she thought it over and remember all the things Tadashi reminded her. Everyone makes mistakes. Tadashi looked over at her and noticed her nose was bleeding. He freaked out.

"Oh my God, Annabelle! YOU OKAY? Y-y-your nose!" All he saw was a frozen Anna, deadly staring at her sketch. Tadashi began to worry, what if she messed up her painting? She's probably destort, he noted.

"Wait." Anna breathed as she thought of something. Look a new angle. Those words from Tadashi before, that gave her a great idea. She quickly grabbed a brush and a small cup of water. She pushed the brush right in that cup and pulled it back out. She quick dabbed the brush along the blood to make it fade into a dull red and then she let the watery blood run down the paper. The way the drawing turned out, it looks absolutely wonderful.

She noticed her nose was still bleed and she grabbed a napkin in her handbag and dabbed it on her nose before letting the blood soak in the napkin until the nosebleed stops. Tadashi went back over to her, after getting himself dressed back up and looked at the painting.

"Wow," he said astonished, "that's amazing!" Annabelle looked over at him, forming a smile.

"You really think so?" She asked. He nodded, grinning widely at her.

"I know so. You are breaking rules of art Anna." He joked, making her giggle.

She shrugged. "Hey, everyone makes mistakes. Though, most of them are meant to happen, you just gotta look a new angle." With those words, Tadashi felt proud of both her and himself for teaching her that mistakes are bond to happen, just need to admit and forget, even if they go completely wrong. Most of them though, go extremely well. Like Anna's artwork looking ever so unique and beautiful.


Annabelle and Tadashi headed downstairs, after cleaning up panels, brushes and pastel dust in the art studio. When they got down there, their parents were sitting in the living room. Anastasia was reading a book while Aiko was watching TV. They seem like they were just chilling.

Annabelle walked over to them and smiled at them as she showed her artwork. Her parents gazed at her masterpiece and complimented her work. She said thanks to them and ask if she could head back over to the cafe to meet up with her friends. At first, they looked a little hesitant, her parents. Then they sighed and told her yes.

Annabelle cheered in victory as she hugged them both and began to walk out of the living room. But before she could even walk out with her male friend, Aiko stopped them and asked Tadashi to come forward. His voice was a little heavy when he did and made Tadashi nervous again.

"Y-yes, sir?" Tadashi said.

"Did you treat my little angel nice?" He asked. Tadashi quickly nodded.

Annabelle groaned as her cheeks began to flush red again. Boy, she need to control her emotions and blood pressure. Then her mother noticed there was blood stains on Anna's shirt. She asked if was bleeding. That made Aiko suspicious on Tadashi and eyed him, severely. Tadashi gulped, sweat pouring down his forehead.

Annabelle panicked as she said, "NO! NO! Don't think like that! I just had a nosebleed!"

"HOW?" The parents said in unison.

"I-I-I..." This was too embarrassing to come clean and admit she was very attracted to Tadashi's naked body, then a bit scared if her father were struck Tadashi for thinking something completely different, in a negative way otherwise.

"Well, I accidentally ran into the wall, while running upstairs..." She lied.

Well, her parents knew her daughter was quite clumsy and she been involved suffering injuries for falling, triping, cutting herself while cooking, etc. recently. They showed amount of trust they had and through they body language, they fell for it. Anna was so glad of that and she sighed in relief softly.

"Thank you, now could you leave my best friend alone and let us leave please?" Tadashi's heart jumped when Anna mentioned, "best friend". They're best friends now? Already? Wow, that's something. Tadashi even gave her a dopey smile from that and Aiko let him go. But before they managed to leave out, Aiko had to tell thing one last thing before he leaves.

"Listen you," he began, his voice deep and flat, "I want you to know that if you guys get involved into a very serious relationship...treat her with care...GOT IT? I want her to be happy with the man she loves..." Tadashi nodded, nervously.

"Y-yes, sir. I will. I PROMISE." His voice was real shaky. Annabelle groaned in embarrassment as she felt her cheeks burning once again.

"Okay...We're leaving now..." Annabelle waved goodbye to her parents and heads out the door. Tadashi was still in shock with her father, sort of threaten him like that. Anna was pretty humiliated by all of this and looked away from her friend, flushing a blossom color of pink.

"I-I'm sorry about my parents. They're very―"

"It's okay, I-I think your parents are actually pretty nice." Tadashi admitted as in the back of his mind, he really was just flattering her and thought they were pretty creepy.

Anna looked at him with a sheepish smile. "R-really? You don't have to be so flattering, my parents are a terror sometimes."

Tadashi gave her an surprised look, realizing how a bit hurtful Anna's remark was. "I mean, you don't mean that. Your parents probably does that because they love you, they care about you." He knew because he used to have parents a long time ago. Boy, he wished there still here on this earth now.

"That's all you got," he continued, "and you shouldn't say those type of words about them. I myself would've been hard on the boy too, if my daughter unexpectedly brings in and told them that he's going flash his body for an art project. I would've thought something completely different." His rambling kind of made Annabelle chuckle. Tadashi frowned at her as he thought he was maybe it was funny to her.

"Like, they probably thought I was going to have sex with you?" She spurted out. Tadashi cheeks began to burn, sheepishly chuckling and scratching his arm.

"W-well, the way it sounded like...yes..." That's when Anna gasped and felt a panic form right through her.

"OH NO! They don't think I'm..."

"Woah, wait. What are you―"

Before Tadashi could even finished his sentence, Annabelle ran back into the house at the speed of light and heard loud, panicking shouts from the redhead girl. The young man just stood there, in confusion of what just happen but then, he just gave a chuckled. Oh Anna, hmph! That's all Tadashi could think of her as he chuckled, she's just...special.


A few minutes had passed and the gang from SFIT was already at the cafe with Hiro. Aunt Cass was dashes, all already the shop, giving everyone's order and multi-tasking as well. Hiro was telling his new friends about the showcase and how his presentation was going to be planned. He was going to make about a multiples of microbots as he could and then with his technology and engineer skills, he was going to transport all of it's nuclear energy from the neurotransmitter that will be control by the thoughts of the brain; teleopathically. It that case, he will need everyone to help him out with the invention whenever he's finished to transport them inside recycle bins to the exact night of the Expo.

His friends nodded in agreement. Honey then squeal at the thoughts of Hiro and his showcase and chanted about how many pictures she was going to take of him doing the actual presentation. Fred enthuse about how cool it would be if he could be able to control stuff with only his mind. Then it began to get awkward when he started explaining about when he would control people's bladder and how to control people's urination periods. Wasabi gagged at the thought of it and managed to change the subject. He wondered about Tadashi and where he was.

"I just realized," Wasabi said, "I haven't seen Tadashi all day today. I wonder where he is?"

Honey nodded, asking to herself the exact same question about Annabelle. She haven't seen her since yesterday.

"Same with Annabelle. I haven't seen her in since yesterday." Honey said in concerned.

GoGo snorted as she had a theory, "Maybe they're secretly dating already."

Nothing but laughter came out of the group, including Hiro who knew Tadashi was going to be hanging out with Anna all day today. He knew something was going on with those two, maybe they are dating? That's when Hiro immediately stopped laughing, realizing, his older brother is DATING.

Hiro really doesn't mind his brother hanging out with a few friends and all, especially since he is friends with his brother's friends already. It's just Hiro never knew Tadashi would go a little too far and gets a GIRLFRIEND, even when Hiro was suppose to have the girlfriend first. He remembered betting on his older sibling about who gets the girlfriend first, they bet on 20 bucks! And if Tadashi gets together with Anna, it's all over! He doesn't even―wait―his botfighting money, never mind. But still, it's unfair to Hiro that he was suppose to get the girlfriend first. He's not a nerd like his older brother, and so that means the cool guys gets the girl. And Hiro was a cool guy, in his opinion.

A moment had passed and the rest of the gang were about to head out to the garage to hang out, but before they even got up from their chairs, Annabelle and Tadashi walked in through the entrance. Everyone eyed them as if they just got caught doing something. Suspicious ran through each of them.

"Hey guys!" Annabelle beamed saying hello to everyone. Honey ran up to her first thing, and gave her a giant bear hug. Annabelle felt like she was going to fall apart because how strong that hug was, but she felt so happy today, she grabbed hold, hugging her back, respectively.

"Anna, Anna, Anna~! We were asking about you and Tadashi. Where were you guys anyway?" Honey asked.

"Well, remember what I told you about my nude sketch project I got to do?" Anna mentioned to them. They all nodded.

"Well, I finished it! LOOKIE!" She mused as she grabbed hold of her project in her head and there it was. The color sketch of Tadashi, naked, baseball cap covering his mid section, colors of faded red, dripping down the paper, intentionally. Everyone look surprised and astound by Annabelle's artwork. More or less, they were speechless.

"Do you guys like it?" Anna asked, a little nervous by how her new friends were acknowledging what they were seeing. Then silence from the gang was broken when Aunt Cass ran up to all of them and greeted the two who just came in.

"Oh sweetie, you're back!" Aunt Cass lit up when she saw Tadashi. "I was just about to call you, I need you to go back on shift to wash some dishes. There's a bit of an overload..." She trailed off and freezed just before she noticed Anna's painting when she looked over at her direction. She awed in amazment as she saw the wonderful picture.

"Oh my God! IS THAT―"

Annabelle nodded. "Yup, naked Tadashi, splashed with bloody red paint." Everyone at this point, began to enthuse about the picture and said it looked wonderful. Anna bashfully gave a bold bow before standing back up and saying, "thanks, I try."

As for everyone else, Tadashi had to go finished the dishes so he waved goodbye to Anna and everyone else and headed off to work. But before he could even head out, his aunt asked if anything good happened between the two today. And this was asked in front of the gang. The flutter of chuckles, snickering smirks and giggles were heard from the nerd squard and Anna making a very 'mortified' face. Tadashi redden as he shook his head.

"N-no, Aunt Cass... I was just doing what I had to do for Annabelle." Anna nodded, blushing a little around her cheeks.

"Yeah Ms. Cass, I only sketched naked Tadashi, he met my parents and convincingly made it out there, alive..." The gang stared at her as Aunt Cass shrugged and walked away saying, 'my little nephew is becoming a young man now...' to herself softly.

All Tadashi did was sigh and then walked off. Annabelle looked back, giving that calm look at the young man, walking away in the distance and disappeared in the stairwell. The face Anna was making was like she was captivated by him and what all that has happened today. She sighed in a way where she was forming some type of feeling for him. It was this feeling that she thought would never even compared to. Is she, attracted to him? Or maybe, she haves a crush on him? She doesn't even know because she barely even had crushes back in high school, she was too ambitous at that time to even think about love. But that's all in the pass, she wasn't feeling all of this until now.

She shrugged those feelings off and focused back onto her friends. They even knew something was going on with her. Besides, her being weird when she's around him, she's not being weird when she's around him now. Maybe she's used to him now, they thought. But that's for another day to talk about this. They all were about to go help Hiro with his project and needed all the help they could get. Anna followed the gang out the door before she looked back at that doorway through the storage room where Tadashi was last seen. Anna stared at it for a moment and smiled, then walking out and following the group to the garage.

Surely she was having the most amazing days of her life, and it only been 2 days... She can't wait to do more stuff with her friends and Tadashi, she just have to be herself and...look a new angle if she makes a mistake. All thanks to her best friend Tadashi, who's now somebody's new love interest for now.


To be continued...

I'm DONE... I think I'm either improving on my writing skills or I'm just getting soggier and soggier each word I type on here... Well, I don't know. I still can't for school to start, summer really sucked this year. Didn't go anywhere, rarely went swimming, coped up inside my house all day. Summer needs to end, NOW!

Don't get me wrong, I love summer vacation but it could get really depression in the end where you have nothing else to do. A lot of schools around my area is starting early so I'm like really jealous...and then blessed 'cause they get to start school early but whenever I begin school, they already have to finish up projects, homework and other crah crah school stuff. It's good, but then again it's bad.

Well, I'm done rambling now... Review time!

Tadashi and Annabelle, shipping it right now? If not, that's alright ~whispers~ I'll murder you in your sleep if you don't ship these mothafuqrs right now! JK JK!

Annabelle is forming feelings for Tadashi, I know they only know each other for about 2 days, but it's possible to form a crush on your 2 day old best friend, IT'S POSSIBLE! Next chapter, Tadashi gets it! I mean he gets it, BAD! This guy has a problem that is needed to be fixed by his own friends...If they give him the right advice. Don't trust Fred though, nor Hiro, not even GoGo...I mean, maybe her, if she's not in the mood. *SPOILER* Tadashi is not the only one to get pubscent moodswings... *hint hint*

Well, that's all I could say for now...Nice knowing ya, I'll see you guys later...!

Adios, my pets! .