A/N: in which Hiro is so done with Tadashi's pathetic attempts at wooing girls. Also, BROTHERS
Scenario: AU where Gogo is the landlord's daughter of the apartment where Tadashi lives and when she comes over once to fix his heater, he begins to start breaking things to see her more.
"This is pathetic," says Hiro, staring at the small puddle slowly forming on the floor.
Tadashi looks up from the leaky pipe, walking over to the counter and grabbing a towel to dry his hands. He tucks his tools away before reaching for his phone, dialing and pressing it to his ear.
Hiro can pinpoint the exact moment the person on the other end picks up, because Tadashi straightens, resting one hand on his hip as he stares at the ceiling and grins. "Hey, GoGo? It's me, Tadashi. Um, I don't know if you have time, but we sort of have a situation—"
Hiro climbs onto the counter, crossing his arms and swinging his legs as he watches his brother with one eyebrow cocked. "Wow, I wonder how this is going to play out."
Tadashi holds up a finger, motioning for him to be quiet. "Yeah, it's nothing major, just a leaky pipe, but I'm not really sure—"
He blinks as the line presumably goes dead. Hiro holds back a snort, glancing at his watch, and begins counting.
Ten minutes later, they hear a knock on the door. Tadashi leaves the room to answer it, and he comes back with the landlord's daughter on his heels.
GoGo looks, as always, businesslike, with an edge of mild annoyance.
"Hey, GoGo," Hiro pipes up cheerily, exchanging a look with Tadashi over GoGo's head while GoGo crouches on their bathroom floor, inspecting the pipe.
"Hi, Hiro," mutters GoGo, cracking open her toolbox and yanking out a wrench. She pins her purple streak of hair behind her ear to keep it out of her face as she works, tapping along the pipework. "And you said you just…found it like this?"
It takes a while for Tadashi to register that she's speaking to him—he's too busy staring at her, a fond smile on his face. Hiro watches as his brother blinks dumbly and manages, "Uh, yeah. Just like that."
Hiro tries not to roll his eyes. His brother is an idiot.
GoGo's eyes narrow slightly. "Huh," she grunts.
It saddens Hiro to say that this is hardly the first time something like this has happened. First it was the heater. Then it was the sink, and then the hot water again, and now, the pipe. Hiro prays that Tadashi won't think of something stupid like the toilet next, because Hiro will die of enough embarrassment for the both of them. Genius though he may be, Tadashi Hamada is a lost cause when it comes to girls.
Meanwhile, GoGo is nothing if not efficient; she finishes after about a half-hour of tinkering and small talk (Tadashi: "Do you want some water or…something?" GoGo: "Fine, thanks." Tadashi: "Thanks for helping out." GoGo: "Pass me that bolt, will you?")
Afterwards, Tadashi walks her to their door and comes back with the stupidest smile on his face.
Hiro looks up from his bot (in thirty minutes of boredom, he has managed to think about five different capabilities he can add to this thing) and sighs, dropping his cheek against one hand. "Unbelievable."
"Hey," says Tadashi pointedly, refusing to have his good mood ruined. "Thirteen-year-olds don't get to judge."
"It's not even judgment at this point, it's a fact," declares Hiro, turning up his nose. "You have reached a whole new level of lame."
His air of superiority doesn't last for very long, because Tadashi reaches forward and grabs his ankles, dragging him off the counter. Hiro shouts as he dangles upside down from Tadashi's back, legs hooked over Tadashi's shoulder.
"What was that?" asks Tadashi, jiggling him a little as he parades Hiro through their living room.
"Put me down, Tadashi!" protests Hiro, half-laughing as he swings dizzily. Mochi watches them lazily from his perch on the sofa's arm.
"No can do, buddy. Not until you retract that hurtful statement," says Tadashi, spinning him in a circle.
Someone knocks on their door, and Hiro thinks that Tadashi's going to finally set him free, but Tadashi moves to answer it while still clutching Hiro's legs.
"I'll retract that statement when you finally man up and ask GoGo out," retorts Hiro, and that's as much of a defense as he can muster because the blood is starting to rush to his head.
And then he gets dropped on his head.
"Ow!" yelps Hiro at the same time Tadashi swings the door open and says, "GoGo?"
From his vantage point on the ground, Hiro can see GoGo standing in the doorway, one eyebrow raised. "I left my bag," she explains, blowing a bubble.
"Oh, shoot, right," says Tadashi, practically leaping over Hiro's prone body to go retrieve it, and Hiro sighs, because so much for helping a brother out. He pushes himself up on his elbows, turning to look at GoGo, who is leaning against their doorframe and staring after Tadashi in what can only be described as fond amusement.
Well that's a plot twist.
GoGo catches him looking and quickly pulls a face, as if to say, "What's up with your brother?"
Hiro shrugs before lying back down on the ground. He pushes his hair back from his forehead, staring at the ceiling fan as his mind tries to process this new information.
His brother and the landlord's daughter.
He can't believe it might actually happen.