The Neglected Garden
By: HiroAngelLight
Summary: Eleven years ago, after the deaths of their parents, Tadashi blamed Hiro as the cause of their parents' deaths and left Hiro alone in the orphanage. Not only it broke Hiro's heart, but their relationship as well. But when Hiro needs to stay in Tadashi's house to avoid the juvenile prison, can they fix their broken relationship after years of losing contact to each other?
Adopted from Adazula.
Hiro is 16. Tadashi and Honey are 27.
Disclaimer: I don't own Big Hero 6.
Warning: Beware of typos and bad grammar. English is NOT my main language. I have this bad habit of not realizing my mistakes in my stories until days or even months after publishing the story.
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Chapter 3
Hiro didn't hate alcohol nor did she get drunk many times, but she was not saying that it didn't help with calming down her nerves. She pulled out the canteen she's got hidden in her bag and took a quick gulp of it. It was sherry that she stole a week earlier from her Aunt's kitchen. Nothing too strong, but it got the job done. The taste was awful to her, but the feeling it gave her worth it.
She breathed a sigh of relief to the drink coursing through her body. She just had to be careful and thought where she should hide it so her brother wouldn't find out just by looking at her. She looked around the small room and decided to hide it between the folds of the spare covers along in the closet for now. She knew from experience to change locations every week. She didn't get caught by Aunt Cass previously, but came very close to teach her that lesson.
"Now where to hide you?" She mumbled to herself as she pulled out her medication bag. She didn't want to explain her need of them to her brother nor did she want him to think she was a druggie. She decided to hide those in her underwear drawer.
Her phone started to buzz inside her pocket and she pulled it out to find that her aunt was calling her.
"Hello," she answered.
"Hey, Sweetie. How are you doing?" her aunt asked.
"Okay, I guess. He took my piercings away though," She scoffed.
"Well maybe that was for the best."
She scowled, "Oh, great. Now you're agreeing with him. You should've adopted him."
"Hiro. I know you're angry about that, but please give him a chance. He's trying to be a good brother to you.
"Oh. Yeah. It's working out great since we didn't even speak to each for thirteen years."
"Look. These things will take time. Keep that in mind. I know things have been difficult for you. Believe me. It's been hard for me, too. At least try to have a good relationship with him. Do it for me, Hiro. Please?"
"Tch, fine!" Hiro said half-heartedly.
"I got to go, but call me tomorrow."
"I will. Bye," Hiro said before ending the call.
"Hiro!" She heard her brother called her, "Time for dinner."
She snorted as she slide the door open and headed toward the dining room to find her brother, his wife, and a familiar older woman sitting at the table. Hiro felt rage that she didn't show at the woman. That was the woman who adopted Tadashi. The adoption agency tried to convince her to take Hiro too in the effort to keep the siblings together, but she heard it clearly at the age of three that she didn't adopt a trouble maker like Hiro.
She slowly headed her way over to the low table and sat down on the cushion. The feeling of not having a chair with a back was unfamiliar and uncomfortable to Hiro. The same thing went for the stares that she had been getting right now.
The meal was silent except for people eating their bowl of rice and meat. Hiro never had a home dinner like this in a long time. It was usually hot wings or take out in her aunt's household since Aunt Cass was mostly busy running her café. She couldn't decide whether or not to like this.
"So, this is Hiromi," the old woman finally said as she clicked her tongue.
"Yeah. So?" Hiro responded, "And it's Hiro. Not Hiromi."
"What kind of girl wants to be Hiro?" She scoffed. "It's a boy's name."
"She prefers to be called Hiro, mom." Tadashi said. Hiro frowned when he called her mom. There was only one mom in her life and she's dead.
"So, you've been arrested for what? Drugs? Violence?" She asked the girl sharply.
Hiro glared at the woman. Already she's judging her.
"Betting on bot fights," She mumbled. She hated that this woman assumed the worst from her.
"I see," She said with a frown.
"Mom. Let's not get judgmental here. Hiro is my guest."
"I'm worried for you. You're going to be father soon and you have a criminal in your house," She told him as though Hiro wasn't here.
'Honey's pregnant?' Hiro thought for a second before turning her attention back to the woman she seriously wanted to punch right now, but she was trying to hold it.
"She needs to be here as part of a condition with the parole board," Tadashi told her. "Now we are not talking about this."
"I'm just saying that we have no idea what we're dealing with. She can put this family in danger," The woman nearly shouted.
"Well that is not your decision to make," Tadashi shouted at mom.
Hiro clenched her fist in anger as she continued to hear more of the argument. Honey looked over to the girl and noticed her shaking.
Hiro sat in her seat fitfully as she instantly had a flashback to when she was in the child welfare department at the age of three. Many people running around. Most of them were frantic.
"Are you sure no one will take her?" One guy said on the phone.
"Please consider this. She really needs a home," A woman begged to a couple.
"We have enough problems with our kids. I get that he's my brother, but we can't take on his kid. Find someone else," the man said sternly.
"I got off with the grandparents. They won't take her since they live in an elder's community and it doesn't allow kids. Plus also the health issues were taken into consideration," another man said out of frustration.
Hiro did nothing as she clutched onto her old teddy bear as she let the department people ran around like chickens. She looked over to her right and saw down the hall where her brother was smiling happily as he left with his new family.
"Don't go," she whimpered. "Please, don't leave me, nii-chan."
But her brother didn't notice her as he disappeared from her sight as though she didn't even matter.
She just continued to sit on the chair as more people come in to find a way to get rid of her off their list of problems until they eventually gave up and sent her to an orphanage.
She came back to reality to find the same brother who had forgotten about her continued to argue with the woman he called Mom.
Not being able to take it anymore, she boldly stood up as she slammed her hands on the table. Making everyone in the room turned their attention to her.
"Thank you for the lovely dinner. I'll go to my room," she grumbled before she stomped away out of the dining room.
She slided her bedroom door closed and collapsed on her floor bed, feeling the anger and frustration rising up in her. People constantly thought of her as a bad person. The worse part was that she didn't have anyone to defend her now. It was more like being fed to a bunch of wolves.
She pulled out an old picture out of her hoodie. It was a day at the zoo with her family before the accident. Everyone was happy. Hiro looked down at the little girl with the gap in her teeth and barely recognized her. She was dead as far as Hiro remembered.
She put away the picture and decided to go to sleep. Nothing much she could do in the middle of nowhere anyway. She pulled out her medication bag and was about to take out her pills when she heard some knockings on her door.
"Hiro," she heard Honey on the other side of door. "Can I come in?"
"What's the point?" She answered with a snort. She heard the door slide opened.
"Look. Lisa was just a bit overprotective on Tadashi. I hope you can understand about that," she said as she sat down beside Hiro's bed.
"A lot of people are. Especially when it comes to me," she grunted, not even wanting to face her sister-in-law.
"We know you're not a bad person, Hiro, But I want to understand you. Tadashi wants to understand you. That's why we stepped forward to help you," Honey told Hiro softly.
"Help me?!" Hiro asked in anger. "How is taking away my piercings helping me?! How is being interrogated and insulted by that mega bitch over there helping me?! I know I'm nothing good but you guys sure have a way with me already!"
"That's not true. We know you're a pretty smart girl. A genius in fact. We heard about your graduation from high school three years ago. That's really amazing," Honey tried to point out the positives.
"Why do you care about that anyway?" Hiro scoffed as though her achievements mean nothing to her. "I graduated early. People have done it before. It doesn't make me special or anything."
" Hiro..," Honey trailed before Hiro interjected her.
"Just go," she said. Hiro was trying her best to hold her anger. Honey was reluctant, but she decided to leave. She didn't want to make Hiro more angry and uncomfortable than she already was. Honey sighed.
"I'll see you in the morning. And good night," Honey said. She stood up and she slide the door closed. Leaving Hiro with some peace at last.
Hiro pulled out the medication bag. She then pulled out the tube of pills that she was looking for. 'Antidepressants. For Hiromi Hamada,' the label said.
Hiro sighed as she looked at the label before opening the tube and spilled out two pills. She gulped them down and had a gulp of sherry from her hiding place to flush them down her throat. She knew drinking her medicines with alcohol wasn't good. But she needed it and didn't really care anyway. She hided the sherry and her medication bag again.
The good thing was the pills calmed down her nerves and made her sleepy as soon as after she drank them. She laid down on her futon and covered her body with the blanket. A few minutes later, the pills were starting to have their effects inside her and slowly, she drifted to sleep.
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Author's Note: Okay, this is the last chapter from Adazula. Next chapters will be written by me.
Until next time~