San: Kimyona masuku sa reta zu

Three: Strange Masked Figure

Light peaked in through the window of the Hamada brother's room, signaling that it was time for them to wake up. Hiro's eyes opened and closed and repeated as he tried opening his eyes to awaken himself and get started on the day.

The first thing he saw when he got his eyes to stay open was the color grey. He had just remembered what happened the night before as he was face to face with his brother's grey shirt.

Then he realized something.

Sometime in the night, Hiro had cuddled up to his brother's chest like he used to do when he was little.

This was so embarrassing. If Tadashi caught him in that position, he would never hear the end of it. The young prodigy started scooting away from his brother only to realize that he had scooted to far over and fell off the other side of the bed and landed with a thud. He didn't dare say 'ow' in fear of alerting Baymax and waking Tadashi up.

He was just lucky that Tadashi's side was always clean and that he didn't fall on anything pointy or back breaking. Hiro looked up on the bed to see his brother still asleep.

He sighed in relief, but instead of standing up, the genius got on all fours and crawled out from behind and around to Tadashi's side, where he reached upward for a cough drop off of his brothers night stand. He just liked eating cough drops even if he didn't need them.

"Well, now that I've gotten out of that embarrassing situation."

Hiro stood to triumphantly make his exit, but not before he felt a couple of arms wrap themselves around him.

"Oh no." The boy turned to see his brother's arms around him and his brother with a content smile on his face. "Ugh, seriously Tadashi?" He had to whisper or else risk waking his older brother up. "Ugh, this is really annoying."

He tried squirming from his brother's grip, but even when he was asleep, he was too strong for Hiro. He looked back and saw that Tadashi's smile had turned into a smirk.

"Ugh, come on, Tadashi, I have to go now."

He continued to struggle and evade his brother's grasp and he was still trying really hard to do so.

"But I don't want you to leave."

Hiro froze and stopped trying to evade his brother's grasp. He turned and saw the smirk still present and his brother's eyes slowly open. That's when Hiro realized.

"You were awake this whole time, weren't you?"

Tadashi's smirk spread even wider. Hiro groaned in frustration, knowing he wasn't going to win this. "Okay fine, move over." Tadashi moved over to the other side of his bed and let Hiro on. The older Hamada pulled his younger brother into his chest.

"Nii-chan?"

"Yeah Otouto?"

"Never do this again."

Tadashi smiled. "I can't make any promises."

The Lucky Cat café was closed on Sundays, so that meant that the two brothers could do whatever they wanted on their day off. Hiro opened the door of the café and walked in with some more parts for his showcase project. At first, it was hard to decide what to make for the showcase, but with Tadashi's help, Hiro was able to come up with a great idea that would wow everyone at the showcase.

He walked up the stairs up to the second floor and opened the door to his bedroom. He found his brother sitting on his bed and reading a book as he mostly did in his spare time. "Hey Otouto, watcha doing?"

"You know, just getting some parts for the showcase project." He put the bag on his bed and pulled out a notebook. "I already have a blueprint idea." Hiro opened the notebook to a specific page and gave it to his brother. Tadashi looked over the page while Hiro was waiting for a response. Tadashi spoke when he was done looking the page over.

"This might actually work." The older Hamada handed the notebook back to his brother. "That reminds me of when…never mind."

Hiro grew curious and raised an eyebrow. "Reminds you of what?"

"Nothing Hiro, it's not important."

"Tadashi?" Hiro had an eyebrow raised. Tadashi sighed.

"Okay fine, seeing your blueprint reminded me of when you were little and you used to come up with blueprints and you would show them to me and we would always build them together."

The room was silent as Hiro processed what his brother had just said. Hiro was the first to speak up. "I'd like to think it's important." Hiro mumbled.

"What was that?" Tadashi asked.

"You said it wasn't important. Of course it's important." Tadashi's eyes widened. "Of course it's important, but what I mean is, I miss when you were little and I miss those times from back then, and you've grown so much since then. You're fourteen and you've already graduated high school."

Tadashi sighed. Hiro walked over and sat next to his brother on his bed. "You know, just because I'm older doesn't mean we can't still do all that." Tadashi smiled. "I know Otouto." The older Hamada ruffled his brothers hair. "Do you need any help working on your project tonight?" Hiro smiled. "Maybe a little." "Alright well, let's get started." The Hamada brothers left and went downstairs to the garage and began inventing like the good old days.

The Lucky Cat café closed up for the night as it did every night with the last few customers gone and the lights of the city shinning and bright as always. Little did the Hamadas know however, that on a roof of a building near the café, there were two figures standing and watching.

One of the figures was tall and slender wearing black clothes and a long black coat accompanied by a black mask. The second figure was large and was wearing a robotic suit and a mask. The slender figure was staring intently at the building and watching it from afar, while the larger figure was a bit more distracted.

"When exactly are we going to start giving him the dreams?" The larger figure asked. The slender figure continued to stare for a second, then got up and answered.

"Soon. Just give it a little more time."

The skinny figure turned to the larger figure "It'll be alright, I know it will." The larger figure nodded. "Okay then, let's just give it a few more days."

The two figures attention was caught by movement on the ground below. The garage door was open and two figures were standing in the doorway and they seemed to be talking.

The figures squinted and saw a short figure with seemingly untamable hair and a tall figure with a cap on his head. The two seemed to be talking and laughing, but the two watching didn't know what they were talking about. The two figures on the ground stepped inside the garage after a few minutes and closed the garage door.

"Yeah, just give it a few more days." The darker clothed figure turned back to the other figure. "I sometimes wonder if doing this is wrong, but there's no turning back now." The larger figure stayed silent and nodded in understanding. The slender figure smiled underneath his mask.

"Come on, let's go get some rest. We've got a pretty big day tomorrow."

The two figures walked along the roof, heading off to their secret hideout. The slender figure took one last look at the café and smiled underneath the mask. The figure turned away and followed the other one in the dead of night, into the abandoned streets of San Fransokyo where their secrets would never be discovered.