Author's Note: Mild violence in this chapter.

Chapter 8

Hiro woke with a bad headache. His eyes fluttered open as he tried to look around, but his vision was still blurry. He blinked several times and tried to bring his hands up to wipe his eyes but was unable to. The realization that he was constricted startled him. He opened his eyes as wide as he could. He was sitting in a chair outside and it was dark. In front of him was a wall. To his left was a wall. To his right looked like an alleyway. He was in an alley. Behind the stadium?

He heard a door slam behind him. Heavy footsteps padded the ground behind him. He kept his breathing steady. He heard the door open again, this time for a much longer period. He heard distant cries from a crowd. Still at the stadium. But several people were now exiting from the door behind the heavy footsteps.

"Hiro Hamada," Yama's voice thundered from behind him.

"Yama," Hiro replied. He dipped his head and looked up when Yama rounded him. A gang of men followed behind him with Abigail in tow. She was only restrained and it didn't look like they harmed her.

"Your little friend here says you're looking for me. But she couldn't tell us why," Yama said expecting Hiro to tell him.

"Yes. I needed to talk to you," Hiro said.

"Speak! Boy!" Yama said with a kick to Hiro's ribs.

Hiro leaned forward after the blow and gasped. Yama's heavy foot had knocked the wind from him.

"I need to talk to Jiro Akita!" Hiro said through gasps.

"You just said you needed to talk to me," Yama said.

"I knew you would know where to find Jiro," Hiro said.

"HA! You think talking to me would help you find Jiro. Why would I help a pest like you? You destroyed me that night years ago! I was leading the Inagura clan in those bot fights! But you came along one night and took everything away from me. The Inagura clan disowned me. Jiro threw me out of his home himself. Do you know how long it took for me to build up a name again?" Yama said.

He was full of rage. Rage that he took out on Hiro. He kicked him again in the ribs. This time Hiro heard an audible crack.

"You took everything from me!" Yama roared. His fist connected with Hiro's head.

By this time, Hiro fully regretted coming to this fight alone. He hadn't expected Yama to be so abusive, but he hadn't know the damage he had done to him years ago. There was no Tadashi here to rescue him and Abigail was restrained.

Yama's fist connected with Hiro's head again, this time splitting open the skin on Hiro's forehead. Blood seeped from the wound. Hiro could taste it as the blood dripped into his mouth. Tasted salty. He must have been sweating too.

Hiro's eye lids felt heavy. He heard the cry of sleep calling his name. His body went numb.

"-Ro!...Hiro!...stay with me!...almost there!"

Abigail sped through the streets as fast as she could, headed for Cass's café. Hiro was in her back seat slipping to unconscious.

"Don't fall asleep Hiro!" she cried.

Finally the street of the café came into view. Abigail stopped and jumped out. She pulled Hiro out of the back seat under his arms and carried him to the front door of the café. She pushed and the door opened.

"GOGO!" she cried from the doorway.

Gogo and Aunt Cass had fallen asleep on the couch watching an old scary movie when they heard the café door push open from downstairs. A voice called up to Gogo and she jumped up and raced down stairs. Cass followed her.

Gogo saw them before reaching the bottom and her heart sank at the sight of Abigail carrying Hiro's bloody body.

"Hiro!" she cried. "Cass! Get Baymax now!" Gogo ordered.

Cass froze on the stairs and turned and ran up to Hiro's room.

Gogo lifted Hiro from Abigail and carefully laid him down on the couch. She tried her best to hide the tears that threatened to leave her eyes but she couldn't help herself.

"You promised you would come back to me!" she cried.

She was about to pound on his chest when Abigail stopped her hand.

Abigail shook her head. "Don't. I think he has some broken ribs."

Gogo's lips trembled as she looked again at Hiro. Rage filled her from the inside.

"This is all your fault," she said in a very low voice to Abigail.

Cass and Baymax were making their way down the stairs. Cass was pulling Baymax's arm as fast as she could until they reached the couch. Baymax scanned Hiro and began to start the treatment.

Gogo stood aside to let Baymax work. She folded her arms across her chest.

I promise I'll come back to you, Hiro's promise rang through her head.

Yeah, you came back alright, injured, bleeding, and unconscious.

"Gogo?" Abigail called her from her thoughts.

Gogo spun around and punched Abigail in the cheek.

"Oww!" Abigail cried.

Baymax looked up from where he was working and scanned Abigail's body. "I suggest putting an ice pack on your cheek," he said.

"Don't advise her, Baymax. She did that to Hiro," Gogo said.

"I do not think she could inflict these types of injuries. She is not strong enough," Baymax said and returned to work on Hiro.

Abigail looked again at Gogo.

"Get out," Gogo said holding back her anger.

Abigail left without another word. Tears poured from her swollen eye as she jumped in her car and sped off. Gogo locked the café door then turned around to see if Baymax and Cass needed any help.

"Go rest," Cass said turning Gogo away from Hiro. "If anything changes, I'll let you know."

Gogo sighed and began to walk upstairs. It had never been this bad before. What has Hiro gotten himself into? It was a bad idea from the start to go in there alone. What was a team for if not for back up? The least their group could have done was follow them and wait in the car until the fight was over. If Hiro didn't come out, they could have somehow rescued him from the scene. Gogo was too blinded by her trust to have thought of that idea at the time. Now she cursed herself for letting her emotions get the better of her.

She grabbed her bag and headed back downstairs. She quietly slipped into Hiro's garage to not disturb Cass and Baymax. She lifted the garage door and closed it behind her. She stood on the sidewalk wondering what exactly it was that she was doing. Her heart was broken. She couldn't bear the thought of losing Hiro. They had already lost his brother.

She sighed and looked up. "Tadashi," she said to the sky. "What do I do?"