Never Meant for You to Fix Yourself

"Hiro?"

Tadashi cautiously stepped into the room nervously anticipating an explosion. He was greeted by dead silence. Hiro's hospital bed was adjusted, propping him up into a semi-reclined seated position and he was staring blankly out the window to his hospital room. "Hiro?" Tadashi tried again, slowly approaching Hiro's hospital bed not really sure how to deal with the confrontation that was brewing in the air.

Hiro had regained consciousness not too long ago. What followed had been a flurry of activity. Tadashi had grabbed the button beside Hiro's bed to summon a nurse. A nurse had rushed into the room only to disappear the moment she realized Hiro was awake. Tadashi and Aunt Cass had been ushered out of the room only a few minutes later, doctors rushing in to reassess their patient. The time Tadashi spent waiting outside had been more agonizing than the time spent waiting for Hiro to wake up in the first place, his mind racing in an attempt to predict what was occurring behind the closed door to Hiro's hospital room. He couldn't come up with a scenario that ended well. Tadashi stepped back into the room the moment the last doctor left.

"Hey, knucklehead." Arriving at Hiro's side, Tadashi lightly flicked Hiro's forehead in a bid to get his attention. "I'm talking to you here."

"Go away." Hiro's said, the words monotone, devoid of life.

Hiro didn't even bother to move, fixated on the scene just outside his window. The reaction set Tadashi's heart aflutter with anxiety. Hiro's response could only mean one thing: He knew. "We'll figure this out." Tadashi said, watching Hiro carefully as he cautiously slipped into a chair. "These things aren't an exact science. I asked Baymax to do some research and there are cases where people regained full use of their…"

"I said, go away!" Hiro yelled, momentarily silencing the rest of Tadashi's words. Hiro had turned to face him, light amber eyes overflowing with the flames of heated anger. It would have been a terrifying sight to behold if not for the shadows of grief and despair that accompanied the rage. Hiro's reaction was completely normal.

'That depends on you.'

Not about to be scared off, Tadashi took a deep breath and tried again. "This isn't the end, Hiro. It's only the beginning. With the correct care and physiotherapy, there is no reason you shouldn't be able to live your life to the fullest. You can't give up before you even try. The medical field is continually advancing and it may only be a matter of time before they find a way to help your body repair the damage that's been done. Who knows, you may even be one of those that…"

"Stop it!" Hiro yelled, the bedding on his bed held firmly in clenched fists. "Stop trying to fix this! There is nothing you can do or say to make this better! What gives you the right to try, anyway?! You died! You ran into a burning building without so much as a second thought, without even considering where that left me! You left me broken and alone and I had to pick up the pieces without you! But I did it! I fixed it, taped the broken pieces of my heart together and continued on with my life and now you want to waltz into my life and resume the role of my caretaker? I'm sorry, bro…" the word was filled with anger and contempt carrying the weight of all of Hiro's pain and grief behind it, "but it's a little too late for that. I'm broken all over again and this time… this time there is nothing you, or I, or even Baymax..." Hiro glanced at the Healthcare companion that stood in the corner silently watching the altercation between the two brothers, processing it and filing it away for future use, "can do about it."

Hiro's words hurt, cutting deep into a wound that had only just begun to heal the moment Tadashi decided to forgive himself. There was a lot of truth in Hiro's words, a lot of hurt caused by one foolish mistake but as with any story, there was more to it than that.

'You wouldn't be you if you hadn't selflessly risked your life to save another and I wouldn't be me without you to teach me right from wrong.'

Tadashi may have foolishly run headlong into a burning building, to rescue someone that didn't need to be rescued but he'd done it with the best intentions and hadn't given up on life until the very last moment. He'd died fighting for what he believed in and he wasn't about to let brother do anything less. "I may have made a mistake but I died fighting, Hiro. Fighting for Callaghan's life, for my own and for what I believed in. I refused to be bound by circumstances beyond my control. I'm a Hamada and Hamada's fight to the very bitter end, no matter what life throws at them. I thought I taught you that."

I'm a Hamada and a Hamada fights to the very bitter end, come hell or high water. We fight for what is right and I will be damned before I let them take that from me. He taught me that…

"We can't all be you." Hiro's words were bitter. "Perfect, unobtainable and flawless. Some of us are merely human bound to existentialistic ideas your very existence defies. Yours are standards I cannot hope to live up to, even should I live a thousand years."

"You sell yourself short." Tadashi snapped, traces of anger and hurt creeping in despite his best efforts to keep them at bay. "You're so busy drowning in hurt and self-pity that you're blind to the sheer enormity of your own existence. Being your brother wasn't exactly easy for me either. Even though I'm considered to be intelligent, I'm nothing compared to you. I spend months working on a project and you pick it apart in mere minutes. I study for hours and you disprove the core theories my studies are based on shortly after reading my textbook. It all comes so easy to you, like breathing but instead of appreciating your gift, you squander it focusing on the things you don't have instead of the things you do."

Tadashi wanted to take back the words the moment they were out but it was too late. The bitter truth of his rant met the bitter truth in Hiro's, filling the air with residual emotional pain and despair. Two sides of a coin, a shared pain filled existence and a bag full of emotional issues they hadn't even begun to scratch the surface of. All laid bare in the heat of the moment and the way forward hung by a delicate thread that could swing them either way based simply on what happened next.

The outburst Tadashi was waiting for never happened and he was greeted by silence instead. Hiro turned away to focus once more on the scene outside the window. The silence with which he chose to respond effectively ending the argument and cutting Tadashi out.

Stalemate.

- BH6 - BH6 - BH6 –

A/N: In case you guys weren't following the pieces in italics: 1) Future Hiro's final words to Tadashi. 2) Future Hiro's response to Tadashi when they were discussing the reason Tadashi ran into the fire. 3) A piece take from Future Hiro's diary (From Chapter 46)

CrazyBlueOwl: There are 4 Big Hero 6 stories in your favorites list XD (Yes, you made me curious and I went to count). This is the only novel length one. The others are 4000 words and below and are all complete. This story is nearly done too. XD. Hope you enjoy what is left. I also hope your friend had a wonderful birthday.

Rosycat: Yeah, Fred came up with a really typically Fred answer to the problem at hand. Dramatic and full of flair. That's why Fred should never be put in charge. I'm surprised everyone saw the last chapter as a cool down as I did not perceive it that way but I agree, it was nice to have a more lighthearted moment and the discussion about the party did serve to alleviate some tension.

NotShort: I am deleting your second review as I do not feel that you were in any way rude. You have been amazing! I find it interesting that your theories are based on a different story. Almost as if the stories are somehow interlinked even though they aren't... Please accept my apologies for the delayed post... I am dealing with a lot right now and am struggling to get my life back onto an even keel but I'm hanging in there. I will try to provide more details regarding Hiro's injuries but don't want to go too far in depth with them as my medical knowledge is rather limited.

Dreamer: You are correct. The party discussion is a desperate attempt to ignore the situation at hand and a bid to clutch at straws in the hopes of achieving a better outcome than the one they fear. I fear though that I have confused you yet again. The only part Hiro did backwards was the actual act of going back to rescue Tadashi in the first place. Everything else was done in order based on the decision he made to rescue Tadashi in the first place. On a different note... I understand you vanishing. To be honest my own life has taken a rather dramatic turn that I have to deal with in the hopes of calming it down again. Please excuse the tone of my reply... I'm currently exhausted and highly stressed. Hope to hear from you soon... Till next time.

Guest: The party would be a very welcome distraction to everyone after everything they have been through. I'm not sure if I will manage to provide a concrete reply to your questions regarding Gerald and Krei as I felt that their capture was implied but I will see what I can do.

EclipseHeart185: Yeah, being a genius with a brother like Tadashi does have its benefits.