Second chapter :) This is so much fun, but I still got some homework left to do...

Anyways, I hope you like it.

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Tadashi's days always began the same. He made himself a cup of coffee and sat down in front of his computer. Every night he ran a search across the internet looking for anything connected to his brother. They were separated 13 years ago, but now, with 22 years, he's already one year considered old enough to care for his little brother.

The search came out empty again. Okay, almost empty. There was someone called EverydayHiro22 sometimes writing comments on something related to bot fighting. Tadashi already tried to trace the IP back but always came out finding some public library which were scattered across the town. This one was a dead end.

He groaned and stood up. Today he had to finish a paper due to tomorrow. He was doing his master at SFIT researching the healing abilities robots had, especially concerning mental health. Based on his research he was creating a robot to help people the best way possible. This one he called Baymax was slowly driving him crazy. Something just kept missing.

At least he got to see Wasabi and Honey Lemon again. They grew up in a foster home together and soon became friends. He even lived with Wasabi for a while until he got his inheritance. His parents weren't rich when they died but his share was enough to buy an apartment in a nice area. The other half belonged to his brother and he was not touching it.

Another reason to find him. There was a pretty close call, when he got the address of the foster home he went to, but it was closed down due to some dubious activities of the owner and when he wanted the files they told him they were destroyed in a fire a year ago.

So nothing left except for hoping Hiro would somehow turn up in a school or hospital or anywhere they had to save his name on a computer. Until then there wasn't much Tadashi could do.

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After some hours of writing and being almost satisfied with his work Tadashi got his jacket and soccer ball and went to a nearby park to meet up with his friends. It was raining a little bit, but it was still bearable. They just kicked a little when there were sirens in the distance.

Two boys, one large with a piercing, maybe 18 years old, and a shorter one came running out of a back alley. Both were soaked to the bone and the smaller one seemed to be carrying something like a little puppet. Just as he passed the smaller one slipped and Tadashi helped him up almost on reflex.

When he saw the face though, he was dumbstruck. It had an Asian touch to it and the boy had a huge gap between his front teeth. He looked like a mixture of his parents. Too surprised to do anything he watched the boy continuing to run away.

"Hiro!", he cried but it was already too late. Sirens drowned his cry and the boys already vanished in another back alley.

Tadashi didn't have time to dwell on it though, when two police officers appeared.

"Hey, we've lost two illegal bot fighters. Have you seen them?"

Tadashi shot Wasabi and Honey a warning look before he said: "No officer, we're sorry, but we've seen no one except us around this park, right guys?"

His friends shot him a questioning look but played along: "Right." They said in unison.

The officers seemed to buy it as they entered their car and drove away in the opposite direction.

"So Tadashi, care to explain why we just lied to a pair of police officers?!", Wasabi asked still nervous.

"Because… the shorter boy was my brother.", Tadashi answered, determination slowly filling his voice. Looks like it is time to finally start a bot fighting career. But first he had to build a bot and he knew just the person to help him with it.

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"Damn, we lost one of the main circuit boards, when running away." Hiro stomped on the ground. This just wasn't one of his good days. First thrown out of a library, than the rain and almost getting caught and some weird college guy bringing back memories he thought he had left stored away in the back of his head somewhere.

And now this. It would take them a lot of trading to get back the pieces to build a new board.

"Hiro calm down, we still got some savings left, to just buy the missing pieces in an hardware store. And with our winnings from today we can go to Aunt Cass's diner this evening. How does this sound.

"Yeah, fine." Was the only answer Fred got, but he knew that Hiro was excited. He just loved this diner, especially the pastries over there. Furthermore Aunt Cass's was one the few places they could go without being looked at strangely. She was always nice to the boys and often enough gave them a little extra to their order.

Fred stood up and got their jackets. The money they had left would still last them another month since they always got some left in case of emergency.

"Hiro, come on. Cass's only open so long"

"Coming!" There it was. Fred's favorite tooth-gapped grin. The one only Hiro could master.

"Okay, let's go."

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TBC