The Neglected Garden

By: HiroAngelLight

Summary: Thirteen 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.

Female!Hiro

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.

-oOo-

Chapter 6

As dinner time came, Hiro's grumble became louder when she saw Tadashi walked into the dining room with an annoying wide smile on his face. A part of her wished she wouldn't have to see him again like this morning. Unfortunately, it would never come true since she's staying in his house. She tried to ignore his presence. But it seemed like Tadashi wouldn't let her anyway.

"So, how's your day today? I heard from Honey you took a walk today. Found something good?" he asked.

"It's fine," she replied shortly.

"You didn't answer the second one."

She snorted at him, "As if I will find something good in the middle of nowhere like this."

"This is just your first day here. I'm sure you will find something interesting at least."

Gladly, Honey came and put their dinner on the table so they could start eating. Hiro wanted to finish her dinner as soon as possible. She really didn't want to see him there. And she knew, Tadashi was trying to have a decent talk with her. Like he wanted to get to know her better after years of living separately.

Yeah. Living far away from each other for years. Without contacting each other. Well, Hiro did try to contact him when she found his number and address. But no letters came from Tadashi. And when she tried to call him, he picked up, only to get him shouted at her to never contacting him ever again.

How it hurt the little girl's heart.

Her expression was hardened without her knowing it. But Tadashi noticed it. He was worried so he asked her, "Hiro, is something wrong?"

"No," she said, still trying to finish her half-finished meal.

"Really? But your face said there is something wrong," Tadashi insisted.

"Tadashi," Honey whispered, tried to stop Tadashi for saying anything more. Tadashi looked at her, dumbfound, "What? It's true. I can feel something is wrong if her face is like that."

"Tadashi, please just stop. We're having dinner right now," Honey told him in a warning voice.

But Tadashi was being stubborn enough. "I just want to know if something is wrong, Honey. She's my sister and-"

SLAM!

The sound startled the couple. The teen across them was glaring at her bowl while gritting her teeth. Hiro put the chopsticks she used earlier harshly before she got up and left the room. The couple only stared with their gaped mouths. When Hiro was out of sight, Honey sighed and gave Tadashi an unimpressed look.

"Now, see what you've done."

"Honey, I only wanted to know if something is wrong. I was just worried about her," Tadashi explained.

"If you want to know, at least choose a better time. We're still eating our dinner. Now look. Hiro only ate half of her meal and left. What if she gets sick because of that?"

Tadashi brought his gaze down to Hiro's leftover. Honey was right. That was the second time Hiro didn't finish her meal. If it often happened, his sister would get sick. And of course, he didn't want that.

He sighed before biting his lower lip, "You're right. I'm sorry."

Honey put her hand on his shoulder, "Tadashi, I know you want to fix your relationship with her so bad. But don't push her too much like that. Give it a time. She's only been in here for two days. If you rush things, she might hate you more and she will never open up with you. Do you want that to happen?"

"No," he answered weakly.

"This will need time. And we still have two and half months of summer for that. If you want to have a talk with her, it's fine. Just choose the right time. And make sure you don't cross the boundary. She has set some walls up. If you try to cross the boundary, she might thicken the walls around her. Just show her that she can trust you for now, okay"

Her gentle advice melted his heart. She was right about that. It would need time. He shouldn't rush things if he wanted to fix his relationship with his dearest little sister. He knew Hiro hated him, and he wanted to change that.

Tadashi gripped Honey's hand on his shoulder and smiled, "Thanks, Honey. You're right. I shouldn't rush things. As much as I want to fix our relationship, but I don't want to make her hate me more than she does now. I-I just want her to trust me, that everything will be alright and better than the years back then."

"I know. And I'm sure you can do it. You won't give up on her, right?"

This time, his smile was brightened and full of determination.

"Of course I won't. I will never give up on her!"

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Hiro threw herself onto her futon and huffed heavily, trying to suppress her anger. She just wanted to finish her dinner as soon as possible in peace. Seemed like Tadashi couldn't just shut up and started being so annoying on her. Was it really hard for him to stop making her angry when all she wanted was for him to just leave her alone? He left her alone for years back then, so why couldn't he now?

She wanted to scream and let out her anger. But she didn't want to attract another attention from the couple. Especially from Tadashi. Her phone suddenly buzzed, letting her know there was an incoming call. She picked up her phone half-heartedly and saw her aunt calling her.

She sighed heavily before she answered the call.

"Hello."

"Hello, Hiro. How are you today? Have you eaten your dinner?" Aunt Cass voice came from the other side.

"It's fine. And yes."

"You don't sound good to me. Is something wrong?"

"Is something wrong? Yes! Everything is wrong since the day you decided to send me to this place!" Hiro said, nearly shouted at her.

"Hiro, Tadashi wants to help. Besides, we don't have a choice. If you don't stay there for the rest of this summer, you'll be sent to juvenile prison for sure. And I don't want that," Aunt Cass explained to her patiently, hoping her nephew would understand.

"I will stay wherever but his house! Aunt Cass, I really want to leave this place! I wouldn't mind to spend my summer living in a barn or a cave. Wherever is fine as long as I won't have to see him and his mega bitch!" she replied with harsher voice.

"Watch your language, young lady! And who's the other one? Tadashi's wife?" Aunt Cass warned her. Hiro just grumbled for that.

"No. Honey is fine. It's his adoptive mother," Hiro emphasized the word 'mother' to let her aunt know how much she hated that woman.

"What happened?"

"I know that woman hates me since the first time she saw me when she adopted Tadashi. But to actually insulting me on my first night here? Really, if it wasn't because of Tadashi, I would have punched her on the face!"

"Hiro, calm down. And please don't do that. It will only make things harder for you there." Hiro hated to admit it, but she agreed with her for this one. "What did she say to you?"

"She said that I'm a criminal and Tadashi shouldn't let me stay here because I might harm him and his family. Especially when he's going to be a father soon."

"Wait, Honey is pregnant?" Sounded like her aunt also didn't know about that.

"Apparently."

"That woman doesn't have the right to judge you like that. She doesn't even know you!"

"Well, everyone does that anyway," she shrugged.

Hiro could hear Aunt Cass sighed on the phone, "Hiro, listen. I know you hate this situation. I wouldn't send you to a place you hate, even staying in a place where people will constantly insult you. Trust me, I wouldn't. But you know I have to do this to save you from the juvenile prison. I don't want people to think about you even worse than now because of that. And you just have to be patient and stay there for a while without causing anymore problem that will consider them to put you in juvenile prison."

She rolled her eyes. For awhile, huh? It felt like forever for her.

"I know you won't harm them despite your unstable emotion. Don't let anger control you. You're not like what they said you are. If you feel angry, just leave and eat some chocolate or drink your medicines, okay?"

"I didn't bring any chocolate with me."

"Then I'll ask Tadashi for that. Just be good there. You can always call me if you want to talk. I'll hang up now. Don't forget to drink your medicines and get enough rest, okay sweetie?"

"Okay," she replied quietly.

"Good night, Hiro. I love you."

"Good night, Aunt Cass. I love you, too."

Aunt Cass hung up the call. Hiro put her phone beside her pillow and sighed. Even though Aunt Cass said she would only stay in that house for the rest of summer, which meant she still had two and half months left, it's still too long for her. She wasn't even sure if she could bear with it. Okay, Honey was fine. She wouldn't have to see Tadashi all day when he had to go to work, so that's fine, too. But it was a different story with Lisa.

For some reasons, Hiro knew that woman would do anything just to get rid of her. Hiro snorted at the thought. Of course she would leave that place if she could. They had mutual hatred toward each other after all. She just hoped that woman would stay away from her as long as she was staying there.

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Author's Note: Wow, I'm finally able to update this again. I wrote this like in three hours and I haven't edited this. So forgive me if you find some mistakes here. Oh and if you're wondering why chocolate and not gummy bears, it's because Hiro suffers from a major depression here and chocolate has an effect to calm down her stress level. Her medicines can help too, but it has a sleep effect after she drinks it.

Anyway, I will update this as soon as possible if I could. Until next time~