Aunt Cass was getting worried it had been a whole 2 days and still not a call or text from her sister. It was Wednesday morning, and still nothing. She hoped she'd at least get something to let her know her sister was doing fine.
Maemi sighed she had been crying for several hours, but she was glad she had her husband to comfort her. The worst thing is that they had no surprise for tadashi. The surprise was dead, and they had been so enthusiastic about it. Maemi remembered the nights she had sung to her unborn child. She had always been speaking to it, and she never got to see it's face. That was her own fault. She had asked not to. She didn't want that image in her head, and neither did Tomeo. Today was the day she would leave, and have to give the news to the whole kingdom.
She wasn't ready for that.
The child began to sneeze. He had learned the other day how to do it. Sneezing on command was easy. He practiced again, and let out another sneeze. All he had to do was look at the light. HIs little eyes were sensitive. His plan was to get noticed, but no matter how hard he sneezed the freezer door stayed closed, he decided to just fall asleep again.
Tanna was one of the nurses, and today she had done a fairly good job heping with the surgery on a mans arm. Right now she had gone on break. She had been working since five in the morning, and boy she was tired. She had gone into the freezer to get her smoothie. though it was used for freezing different things she had to put it somewhere. She quietly opened the door, and walked to get out her smoothie.
He was sleeping peacefully till he heard footsteps. That was his way out. He looked at the light, and began to let out a bout of sneezes. "Please help me." he thought. The nurse seemed oblivious, so he tried to sneeze untill he couldn't breathe, and ended up coughing instead.
Tanna heard a few cough after she got over her small brain freeze, and realized it was coming from the corner in the freezer so walked over, and saw a little baby with little black messy hair, and brown eyes coughing his lungs out(not literally.) To her it seemed the baby was trying to cough. She then heard it stop, then he turned to the baby, and same in staring at the light, and letting out a sneeze. She picked up the box, and brought it outside. She couldn't carry a baby around, she had to do something, but right now the whole room with babies was full. There was no name on the little blue box. She grabbed some baby formula from the side of the room without getting noticed. Then she brought the baby, and the blanket out to the lounge, and sat next to the heater trying her best to warm the baby. It just tried to grab for the formula. She held it up to the babies mouth, and it drank it, but not as fast as expected. It seemed to be trying to savor it.
Tomeo, and Maemi had just made it out to the lunge, and were just filling out some papers at the front desk. After they were done Maemi asked
"What are we gonna tell Tadashi?"
"We'll just take him on a picnic, he loves that sort of stuff." Tomeo said
"But what about my sister, we can't just lie to her." Maemi said "I don't want to tell he's dead, he lived such a short life." she added
" I know sweetie we can think about it on the walk home." Tomeo said
He was drinking the formula peacefully when he hear a very familiar voice. He had heard it sing to him at night, and also tell him stories. She always refered herself as moomma. "Momma's gonna make sure you get read stories every night, and she's gonna love you. She can't wait for you to see tadashi." he remembered she had said that to him. The voice was getting farther away, they were going to leave him. He began to panic, so he began to sneeze again. But she wasn't turning around so he whimpered before he let out a full blown wail.
Tomeo and Maemi were almost out the door when they heard the most loudest wail from some child. Maemi was the queen, and she was gentle, and kind. She was willing to help the situation. They both turned around, and looked for the source, but it was gone. So they turned to leave, and it came back almost louder than before. They saw a nurse holding a almost newborn with some messy raven hair on his head. It seemed to be looking at them intently. The nurse was trying to shush him, but the baby had already stopped as soon as the king, and queen had turned around.
"What's going on." Tomeo asked
"This baby was being so quiet until he saw you two leaving. I don't know what happened, but-"
She was interrupted by a wail, as the baby was reaching for Maemi.
The nurse handed her the baby.
"What's his name?" Maemi asked as she sat down next to the heater
"I don't know, the poor child was in the freezer. I was just going to get my smoothie when the baby decided to go into a coughing fit." Nurse Tanna said
"What was a child doing in the freezer?" Tomeo asked
"I don't know I was only on break." Tanna said
Just then a doctor came running in.
"Tomeo, Maemi I forgot to give you this to fill ou-" The doctor stopped staring at the live baby in Maemi's arms.
"What?" Tomeo asked
"That's him." The doctor said
"What?" Maemi asked
"That's your baby, I thought he was dead. We checked his pulse, and everything. How?" the doctor asked.
"He was in the freezer, freezing to death he got my attention with sneezes and coughs." tanna replied
"Wait, this is my baby?" Maemi asked staring at the child in her arms as it snuggled next to her.
"Our baby" tomeo corrected.
"Yes I would know that tuft of black hair anywhere." the doctor replied. "Guess we don't need this anymore." he said ripping up a death certificate.
"So what are we going to name this little man, and also thanks so much for saving his life tanna." the doctor said
"Well, actually this little guy saved himself. If he hadn't been sneezing, and coughing I wouldn't have heard him." tanna replied "He's the real hero." she added
"I'd say we call him Tamaki, he's a true gem." Tomeo said
"Tamaki?" the doctor, and Maemi asked
"Yeah I've been thinking about it a lot, and it was my great grandfather's name." Tomeo added
"Hiro" maemi stated
"What!" Tomeo and the doctor asked
"Hiro, generous, and tolerant. Plus it works because he was his own little hiro." Maemi said
"No arguing there." Tomeo said "Hiro Hamada it is." Tomeo said
"Alright now that you guys have a name you are probably going to stay a little longer due to this little hiro." The doctor replied
Tomeo, and Maemi sighed in relief they had their own little hiro to thank for that.
