Big Hero 7

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Marvel's Big Hero 6 comics, Disney's Big Hero 6 movie, or Disney's Big Hero 6 Bot Fight app game.

BE WARNED this story takes place during the movie and contains SPOILERS.

-Start Chapter-

It was a little past noon on the day of the showcase, and the group of Wasabi, Naruto, and Hiro where moving the last of Hiro's microbots towards the Robotics Lab where they would be stored until that evening when the showcase started. It had taken them multiple trips to get all the canisters over, but once night rolled around they would just have to wheel everything over to the showcase hall by hand. Thankfully with everyone's help they had made all the required microbots with enough time to relax before then.

Walking towards his lab the elder Hamada brother noticed a bent metal rod lying discarded on the floor. He had used it that morning when he woke Naruto from one of his meditation sessions in order for him to help move everything. The rod had been needed due to Naruto's sometimes violent reaction when he was broken from his trance.

It had all started a month ago when Hiro offhandedly asked if Naruto had tried meditation to clear his mind and regain his lost memories. The rest of the group had agreed that it was worth a try and coerced the energetic young man into trying the art calming his mind.

What followed was a group panic as Naruto fell into a trance the group had trouble waking him from. It wasn't until after five minutes of everyone yelling and GoGo trying to grab his arm, and was almost thrown across the room as a result, before Naruto woke up. It was agreed upon to use a stick or something to wake him from then on. Due to his advanced strength no one really wanted to have their arm broken. And Naruto himself still hadn't stopped apologizing to GoGo.

An hour after that incident the group had a conversation with the medical department, through Tadashi's connections, and the team had Naruto hooked up to every monitoring device they could get their hands on and he was back in his meditative trance. What they found out astounded them as Naruto seemed to put himself into a self controlled coma where his own body seemed to shut down all non essential functions until he decided to wake up. The medical marvel of being able to shut down one's body for an indefinite period of time amazed Tadashi so much that he was tiring himself out as he split all of his time between studying Naruto's meditation trance technique, and helping his younger brother prepare for the showcase.

But all those sleepless nights were about to pay off for Tadashi as he wheeled in the last canister of microbots behind Wasabi. Hiro was gonna ace the showcase and he could devote whatever time he didn't spend on Baymax to now studying Naruto's coma technique, and if it possibly had anything to due with his advanced healing rate. Who knows maybe he was storing energy inside himself that he could use later to heal himself.

*break*

The group were rolling canisters of microbots towards the stage, or carrying two in the case of Naruto. Since they had arrived early many of the displays weren't fully set up yet, so the team could move around easily. In fact the only groups that had their displays up were the big corporations like Krei Tech and HelioCorp.

Currently the group were trying to help Hiro calm his nerves, with varying degrees of success. It was after GoGo's comment about him needing to "woman up" that Honey cut into the conversation.

"It's okay to be nervous Hiro. GoGo and I were nervous during our demonstration for admittance into the institute," Honey said surprising many that not only was the dark haired tomboy nervous at one point, but that she and Honey were a team to get into SFIT.

"I wasn't nervous Honey, I was still trying to work out the problems with my end of the project," GoGo corrected her friend.

"I didn't know you two did your project together," Tadashi chimed in as Fred, Wasabi, and Hiro watched on with rapt attention. Naruto quirked an eyebrow in interest but otherwise didn't show any emotion, being that besides Hiro he was the newest of the group and therefore had knew the least about his friends.

"Oh! I thought I told you. Well I had made a working prototype for some electro-adhesion gel. Basically it was a gel that would stick to anything if you ran an electrical current through it. But I ran into a problem when I stopped running a current through it," Honey explained as her eyes drooped a little when she got to the end.

"What she means," GoGo cut in as Honey had gone silent, "Is that her gel was more like water than glue. So when she stopped running a current through it, the whole thing just splashed onto the ground and became useless. That's when she contacted me, and asked if I could make something to contain it. And that was my part of the project," GoGo finished with a prideful smile on her face.

"That sounds awesome," Hiro said as they reached the stage, and were now sitting around it. "So is it in beta testing now, and that's why I haven't heard of it yet?" Hiro asked.

"Well," Honey started as GoGo looked off to the side. "In order for the gel to properly cling to to any surface GoGo had to develop a flat plate of sorts that wouldn't interfere with the adhesion properties of the gel and render it useless. Basically she had to make something that would stick to something so it could stick to something else like a wall."

"So I developed a vacuum plate," GoGo interjected.

"And while the vacuum plate she developed to hold the gel did contain it after the current had stopped, since it used a vacuum seal it also stuck to any flat surface when it was turned on. Meaning we couldn't get the gel back without turning the plate off, or ripping the plate up. Which required a machine or someone with Naruto's strength," Honey finished as she hung her head.

GoGo looking at the slightly depressed faces of her friends, over her and Honey's little mishap and decided to finish the story. "On uneven surfaces where the plate couldn't form a seal it held the gel wonderfully, but like she said on any kind of flat surface you might as well have just used the vacuum plate. And while the gel and plate might have been considered failures we were able to show that the gel was a great adhesive and got Honey into the chemistry department like she wanted. My vacuum plate was good enough to get me entered into the engineering department. And none of the professors really commented on the problem we had. If anything they were ecstatic we were trying to work around the first one, with just the gel."

Hiro gave a low whistle as he looked between the two girls in appreciation of just how smart they were. "So do you still have the gel and plate, or is someone else working on them?"

"There in my lab, but after our showcase we were just too busy to work on them, and by the time we could we'd already moved to start on new projects," Honey answered as she pointed in the general direction of her lab.

"The moral of the story is to not worry Hiro, if we can get in on something that only work as it should have and nothing beyond, you'll get in no sweat," GoGo said as she gave a light tap to the younger boy's shoulder.

Giving a smile in thanks as he rubbed his arm, Hiro turned towards the rest of the group, "So, obviously I wouldn't have heard about GoGo or Honey's project, but I'm curious if you ever entered anything Tadashi?" Hiro said slyly as he looked towards his brother.

"No Hiro I didn't enter anything. Instead I just showed Callaghan what I had programed of Baymax's AI at that point and he let me in. I will however be entering Baymax when he's finished."

"So you got in without having to stand in front of a crowd of strangers?" Hiro said as he eyed his older brother.

"No Hiro, I haven't had to stand in front of a group of strangers, but I have had to give practical demonstrations to the different departments so that I can get funding and parts for Baymax. And compared to standing in front of the department heads this really is no sweat." Tadashi finished with a sweeping motion.

"Okay seriously between you and GoGo can we stop talking about sweat?" Hiro said as he moved backwards, as he tried to hide the worried expression on his face.

The "Told you he was nervous," comment from GoGo did not help.

"Here you go little buddy," Wasabi said as he placed some deodorant into Hiro's hand. "Don't hesitate to ask if you need anything else. I got everything you could need, breath mints, moist towelettes, and a fresh change of underwear."

"Wow, you're prepared Wasabi," Naruto called out.

"Yeah, man you should just be like me. I haven't done laundry in like six months," Fred stated from where he was sitting, ignoring the dumbfounded looks on everyone's faces. "One pair lasts me four days, I go front, I go back, I go inside out, then, I go front and back," Fred finished with a smile.

While everyone else had backed up from the lanky blond, Naruto had stood his ground and continued to look at him with more surprise than disgust. "And I thought my method of not wearing a shirt to save clothes was a bit much at times," Naruto offhandedly commented, as he unknowingly caused both Honey and GoGo to turn red.

"As well as make all the boys jealous of your physique at the same time," Tadashi said as he look at Naruto, who had the decency to blush. Shaking his head at the blonds antics, Tadashi turned towards his little brother and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Come on Hiro we still have time before the showcase starts and we need to go find Aunt Cass when she shows up," Tadashi said.

"You guys go ahead I'll stay here with the bots so no one messes with them," Naruto said as he moved to stand beside the canisters. "And don't let Krei Tech infect you with there new virus, or whatever it is," Naruto said as a final warning.

"It's not a virus Naruto, so don't worry about it," Tadashi said as the group began moving away.

"Yeah, but I have to agree with Naruto," Fred cut in, "With a name like VILE it has to be evil. Just like how all bad guys like to taunt the hero by naming their invention something obvious, but no one notices," Fred finished as he dropped the volume of his voice to try and sound more sinister.

Shaking his head at the antics of his friends Tadashi clued in the confused looking Hiro.

"Krei Tech announced that they were going to be showing off their new AI enhancement program at the showcase tonight. What Naruto and Fred are talking about is that they named it Virtual Intelligence Life-form Enhancement, or V.I.L.E. for short, and Fred think it's some ploy to make all robots subservient to them. Naruto just doesn't like Krei Tech for some reason, says they feel negative or something. Don't pay too much attention to it."

Hiro nodded along with his brothers suggestion, but couldn't help looking back at the blond that had stayed behind, who was now giving sideways glances towards the Krei Tech booth, and the man he recognized as Alistair Krei himself. Hopefully it really was nothing.

*break*

It had taken them a little longer to find Cass Hamada than they expected, and by the time they got back into the building through the growing crowd they had just enough time to catch their breaths before Hiro was being called backstage for his final prep. Honey took a group photo of all of them and Hiro was off.

"So Naruto," Fred said during the few minutes they had before Hiro would take the stage, "Has Krei revealed his VILE master plan to take over the world yet?"

Taking a breath, Naruto looked towards the others and began his telling what he saw, "Well they did a demo involving a dozen bots, and showed off that if one bot is infected with V.I.L.E. it can pass it to any other close by bots. Like a virus I might add, but they called it sharing," Naruto said as he let the last word slide out.

Tadashi while interested in the technology required to pass something between bots like that, at least looked saddened at the fact that how Naruto described it made it sound like a virus.

"After they showed off how compatible it was with other bots, there was a demonstration to show off that the bots had become physically stronger and more durable. The bots they used were really tiny and looked like all of them together could barely hold me up, let alone the car that four of them lifted by themselves," Naruto finished as he pointed to the back of the room where there was indeed a brand new car surrounded by the dozen tiny black and purple robots Naruto mentioned.

"Wow, can't say I don't want to see that now," Wasabi said as his eyes widened in shock.

"Yeah, I'll admit it was impressive, but as Krei himself put it their new program has a problem," Naruto answered back, while everyone else now looked more shocked that the leader of a massive company would admit to a fault in his new system.

"Don't look so surprised," Naruto stated calmly as he moved his eyes to the man himself, "Krei was planning to admit that his virus worked like a hive mind and that if you took out the lead bot, that was originally infected, all the others would fall. As he put it while his system is impressive it's not perfect, so he's going to need bright new inventors and engineers to work on it, and what better place to do just that then at the new building he's opening up in a few months," Naruto finished with a sneer.

"He's trying to personally recruit students before they graduate?" Honey asked. "But the school has a program to help students get a job after graduation."

"Yeah, apparently this new branch of his company hasn't been fully set up, so if students try to go through the usual channels at the school their application won't get sent to any of these ne jobs. So basically Krei's just bypassing the system and talking to students directly," Naruto stated, as he simplified the overly flowery words Krei had used.

"That sounds a little shady," Cass said from the side as she worriedly looked around at the students surrounding her.

"While it is legal, no one can say if these new jobs will be successful or not," Tadashi answered his aunt.

"If things don't go well for this new wing of Krei Tech it'll close and all the people who got work there will lose their jobs," GoGo said as she popped her chewing gum for emphasis at the end.

"Especially since according to the news Krei Tech has been struggling with money lately," Naruto said, "Anyone know why?"

"They lost a military contract a few months ago," Fred offhandedly answered Naruto's question. And in return he was greeted by everyone but Naruto staring at him. "What?"

"Nothing Fred," Wasabi said as he turned from the odd blond to the rest of the group, "Anyway all Krei Tech can do is talk and none of us are even seniors, so we don't even need to pay any attention to them," Wasabi finished making everyone calm down.

"Krei Tech is taking a big gamble with this but even with their financial trouble they are known to succeed in their ventures quite often," Tadashi offered as his final thoughts on the matter.

"Probably because they only show their successes," Naruto said before he quickly looked towards the stage, "Speaking of succeeding, Hiro's about to come out."

And while everyone looked at him in surprise it was only a few seconds later that the intercom announced Hiro onto the stage.

"How did you do that," Cass said as she looked Naruto.

"Luck, I think," was the only answer the amnesia suffering blond could give, as a nervous looking Hiro walked onto the stage.

But with a well timed smile from his friends Hiro shrugged off his trepidation and launched into a display of his microbots. And what a display it was. Not only did Hiro have the judges attention he had the entire halls attention as he showed off the dexterity of his new invention. A bunch of tiny robots that could join together and accomplish more than anyone of them alone could.

And just as soon as it started, it ended, with a loud cheer from the entire crowd that had formed around the stage. Hiro jumped off the stage and was greeted by his older brother as the two celebrated in their own way, before the rest of the group joined them. A congratulation from everyone and a pat on the back from Naruto, before Hiro was engulfed into a fierce hug by his aunt as the group was getting into full celebration mode. And then Krei showed up.

While Naruto had vocally given his opinion on Krei, he was mildly surprised that the millionaire only wanted to buy Hiro's microbots. Why Krei would only want to buy the invention and not the inventor Naruto couldn't fathom, but maybe Krei just wanted to own the invention and not have to worry about anything else. Like having a thirteen year old work for him. There was probably a law against that.

Naruto was broken from his thoughts as a chill ran up his spine when Professor Callaghan arrived. Ever since he had set his eyes on Krei today Naruto had been feeling uncomfortable, but with Krei and Callaghan standing beside each other it was all Naruto could do not to back away.

While Naruto had no idea what was going on with himself and would be hard pressed to explain it, he could just feel the negative emotions between these two men. And while the feeling lessened when Krei left, it was still noticeably there until Callaghan handed Hiro a sealed envelope, and took his own leave.

"Not to imply anything," Naruto said as he held his head, "But do Callaghan and Krei not like each other?" While the others looked at him in wonderment, it was actually Hiro who spoke up with his own concerns.

"Who cares," the young genius said as he shakily held the now opened envelope in his hands, "I got accepted."

And with another bone crushing hug from Cass and everyone else cheering, Naruto soon forgot his worries. Now was the time to celebrate a friends success, not worry about old wounds between others. Besides it was probably just his imagination. It's not like he could really sense the emotions and intents of others.

*break*

"Alright it's back to the cafe where dinner is on me," Cass said pointing at herself, while the others cheered. At least most of the others.

"You go on ahead Aunt Cass," Tadashi called out, "I'm going to talk with Hiro for a moment."

"And me being the lab's resident muscle, I need to stay and help with the clean up and heavy lifting," Naruto added on from the side.

"Oh, okay," Cass said before she flung herself into her nephews giving them a big hug, and telling them how proud she was.

Off to the side Honey Lemon and GoGo were having their own discussion with Naruto. "Now Naruto, even though you're helping out other students who know you're strong, they don't know how strong. So please don't show off too much," Honey pleaded with her fellow blond.

"Basically due the opposite of what you usually do, and think before you act," GoGo simplified.

"Right! I can do that GoGo, Honey," Naruto proclaimed as he pumped his fists.

"Honey?" Cass said drawing the attention back to her. "Oh! Your nickname is Honey," Cass laughed as she ran a hand through her hair. "I forgot for a minute and thought you two were dating."

While Naruto raised an eyebrow at the statement, and Honey turned an impressive shade of red that reminded him of another girl that he just couldn't remember. The biggest reaction came from GoGo, who puffed her cheeks from behind Naruto where no one could see her.

"Not that I would blame you, he is quite handsome," Cass said waving her hand between Naruto and Honey, who had turned an even deeper red. "Oh, listen to me sound like I'm back in school myself," Cass add trying to stifle a giggle with her hand. "Come on gang to the cafe."

While Cass had moved on from the strange mood created by the conversation, the rest had a bit more trouble. Hiro and Tadashi had already moved on so were spared from hearing their aunt call their friend handsome. Wasabi and Fred were both trying to keep from laughing. Naruto wasn't sure what to make of the situation, while Honey was still red in the face. And GoGo was annoyed at what Cass had implied, but wouldn't admit it to anyone.

Shaking his head and turning back towards the showcase hall Naruto waved to everyone as he headed back inside. When he entered his eyes caught site of a blue bucket that someone had been using earlier, and was reminded that he should go back and check on the microbot canisters. However before he could reach the back of the hall, where they had left the microbot, an alarm went off as smoke and flames could be seen coming out of a room off to the side.

Thinking quickly Naruto ran towards the nearest source of water he could find. Which happened to be an underwater bicycle test that was on display for the showcase. Luckily the giant fishbowl had already been loaded onto a wheeled base so it could be moved easier, and Naruto wouldn't have to lift it himself. While he could have easily lifted it, he was at least trying to be discreet. Although with all the people panicking he probably didn't need to.

However by the time Naruto had rolled the water tank over to the now fire engulfed side room, the fire had spread to the main hall itself. Not bothering with details at this point Naruto tipped the bowl and dowsed the flames that he could, before focusing on the ones that had spread.

Pulling his shirt up to protect himself from the encroaching smoke, Naruto bent and picked up a soaked piece of cloth from the floor with intent to do what he could. Wishing he could clone himself so he could work on multiple spots at once, Naruto began trying to smothers the flames he could. However before any miracles could happen, a familiar voice called out to Naruto.

Tadashi minus his ball cap was running through the flames. "Naruto!," he called out, "Everyone but us and Professor Callaghan are out and safe."

"Alright, we'll find him and then get out," Naruto answered back before he was interrupted, by his own instincts screaming at him.

With the sight of flames fast approaching them and little thought of anything else Naruto lunged forward and pushed Tadashi to the ground. The two were soon gone to the rest of the world as their forms were obscured by an explosion of smoke and fire.

*break

The fire had been put out and was now just a memory as Hiro, Cass, Fred, Wasabi, GoGo, and Honey Lemon sat quietly around a hospital bed where Naruto was laying down. While covered in bandages and burn salve, the blond man was not just alive but also awake. Like a phoenix, Naruto had walked out of burning building just as the fire trucks arrived.

But he didn't appear alone. Cradled in his arms was an unconscious and barely breathing but alive Tadashi. The paramedics were quick to rush the two of them to the nearest hospital as everyone else followed behind in Cass's truck. By the time they found Naruto he had already been tended to and assigned a room, where the others had decided to stay until they heard about Tadashi.

The uncomfortable silence was broken as one of the doctors came into the room with a forlorn look on her face. "Cass Hamada?" she asked looking towards the woman who gave a nod in response. " Would you prefer to have this discussion in private?" The doctor continued as she looked at the others spread around the room.

Cass could only gasp as tears started welling up in her eyes. Holding onto her chair for dear life the loving aunt could only shake her head no as she prayed for her nephew. Taking a deep breath the doctor lifted a clipboard as she began to read.

"Mr. Hamada is in a coma, and we don't know if he'll awaken. The explosion did a lot of damage to his internal organs and his brain." Taking another deep breath to prepare for the worst part, the doctor looked at the assembled group. All of them holding their breath or trying to hold back tears. "As of this moment we have given Tadashi Hamada three months to live."

The entire room was silent save for the sounds of crying from Cass as she fell to the ground.

-End Chapter-

Wow, okay sorry about the downer of an ending but I have my reasons for it. The majority of you wanted Naruto to save Tadashi, but those of you that didn't had very good reasons, that I myself was worried about. Mainly that if Tadashi lived it would lessen the blow on Hiro and would not cause him to go into the depression that he did. And I agree with that statement, but I also think that it's not impossible to make the two work together. So here was my attempt at saving Tadashi's life but still giving Hiro the trauma of losing his brother. And for those who are worried about Tadashi, all I can say is I have a plan.

Now this was an info heavy chapter that I hope will set the stage for future chapters. So onto the explanations.

Electro-adhesion gel is not a real thing YET. From my own research I've found that it has only been theoretically proven and has not been physically made. This sounded like something Honey would enjoy making and working with.

V.I.L.E. comes to us from the Disney Big Hero 6 Bot Fight App game. V.I.L.E just makes robots stronger, and in all honesty I just put this in so Naruto would have something to fight during the climax.

The game also introduces several other robotics companies including: Pyroclast Industries, Deep-Six Submersibles, BotaniComm, and HelioCorp. I used HelioCorp in this chapter but I don't know if I'll use them in future chapters.

In NeoNazo356's amazing review, they said they liked Fred helping Naruto, and hoped that Naruto didn't pick up on his weird habit of wearing his underwear / clothes. Funny they should mention that. Originally in chapter 2 I wrote about half a page on how Naruto was freeloading in the robotics department at SFIT and only got away with it because he's a lab rat. However because of this he didn't have a lot of money or clothes of his own, so to get the most out of his clothes, instead of wearing them backwards, Naruto would walk around the lab without a shirt. Of course Naruto would be oblivious to the fact Honey and GoGo were in the same room, and hilarity ensues. I took out the scene because it didn't fit with the rest of the chapter, and it was stupid. So I put it here instead.

Finally I hope I've done Fred justice. I was a little hesitant about what Disney has done to him, being that in the original comic mini-series the movie is "loosely" based on, Fred was one of my favorite characters of the team. The other was Honey, I'm happy with what they did with her, but I would have liked more bikini scenes like in the comic. But I'm not getting that in a Disney animated film am I.

As always thank you for reading.