Ichi: Nii-chan e no okurimono

One: A Gift for Nii-chan

It was a considerably normal day in the huge town known as San Fransokyo. The streets were filled with people and were crowded as always. San Fransokyo was a hybrid crossover city between San Francisco and Tokyo, with many Japanese themed buildings filling the town.

Walking down the streets of the hybrid city was a boy with a fluffy bird's nest of hair and his signature outfit. Hiro Hamada was currently on a secret mission that he swore he wouldn't tell anyone about, especially not his older brother, Tadashi.

Just recently, Tadashi had taken him on a tour of his college, The San Fransokyo Institute of Technology, or SFIT, where he met some of his brother's friends and their awesome inventions. It was also the first time he was introduced to Tadashi's newest and coolest creation, Baymax, a healthcare robot programed to take care of the sick and injured.

Hiro was awed by everything he saw, and immediately decided he wanted to attend SFIT. And of course he wouldn't even want to attend SFIT in the first place if it hadn't been for his brother pushing him to do so. And that's what set him out on his current mission. He turned the corner of the block and opened the door to a shop that sold robot parts.

He was a regular there, so he knew where everything was and what parts to get for what robot. Usually the reason he would mostly go there was to find parts for new battle bots, but now that he found SFIT, he decided to put bot fighting behind him. Aside from finding parts for his showcase project, he also needed some parts for something else he was working on.

He started searching down one of the aisles for the right kind of circuitry, and then he started searching down another aisle for some metal that he could use. He was able to memorize every single detail from the blueprints he made for this project so he knew exactly what he needed. He had most of the parts, but he just needed the last few to get his project to work properly.

He walked up to the front counter and paid for the parts with fairly earned (sort of) bot fighting money. He walked out the door of the store and started walking back to his aunt's café. Hiro had confidence that this project would serve its intended purpose, and he smiled as he thought of what that purpose was.

Hiro happily strolled inside through the doors of the Lucky Cat café with a confident gap toothed smile and robot parts in a bag. He walked behind the counter past his Aunt Cass, who was too busy taking orders at the moment to acknowledge the young prodigy.

He happily walked up the stairs that led to the second floor of the building and trotted down the long hallway until he ended up in front of his room. He opened the door, only to see his brother sitting on his bed behind the paper screen reading some of his college books. The older brother looked up from his book to see his brother standing in the doorway with a huge smile and a shopping bag at his side.

"Watcha got there, knucklehead? Are those parts for the showcase?"

Hiros smile never faded. "You'll just have to wait and find out." Hiro started walking over to his bed.

"So, are you nervous about the showcase?" the oldest asked.

Hiro scoffed. "Me. Nervous. What are you talking about?"

Tadashi raised an eyebrow. "Don't get cocky now, otouto. That won't get you into SFIT."

"You mean nerd school?"

"Can't you for once just call it by its given name?"

"Nope."

Tadashi playfully rolled his eyes and then stood up from his bed. "Well, I've gotta get going. There are some things I still need to do with Baymax." Hiro frowned. "But nii-chan, it's Friday." "Relax knucklehead, I'll be back by dinner." Hiro sighed. "Okay fine, but if you're not back by dinner, than I'm gonna eat all your food, with Mochis help of course."

Tadashi smiled. "Okay, see you later otouto." And with that Tadashi left the room and was off to nerd school. Hiro was secretly glad that Tadashi was leaving for a little while. That meant that he could proceed with his secret mission without him interrupting and finding out what he was doing before it was ready. The young prodigy slipped out of his room, down the stairs that led into the café and down the stairs into the garage, where he could work on his projects in peace.

He pulled out a box that looked kind of old out from under a bunch of other old boxes. The reason he put the project in a box that seemingly had a bunch of old things inside it, is so that no one would even think twice about looking inside, thus being the perfect hiding spot for the project. He removed the project from the inside of the box and placed on the work table. It looked to be some sort of metal box.

Hiro has had some setbacks on the project before, and he knew that if he wanted to get this project done by tomorrow and start on his showcase project, then he would have to be up all night finishing it, because for Tadashi, it was worth it.

The young genius glanced at the clock.

11:59.

Almost midnight.

Hiro would soon be finished with the project, but he still needed some time.

"Hiro?"

The prodigy was startled by the voice. He let out a yelp and immediately covered his project with a small sheet and turned to face his older brother with a seemingly normal smile on his face. This of course, caused Tadashi to raise an eyebrow in suspicion.

"Hiro, what are you hiding?"

The boy continued to smile like there was nothing wrong. "What could possibly make you think I'm hiding something?"

"Uh, the fact that you just screamed like a little girl and hid that thing under a sheet."

Hiro pouted. "I did not scream like a little girl."

Tadashi had a wide grin on his face. "Yeah you did, I just heard you."

Hiro still stayed in a pouting position. "Not funny, Nii-chan."

Tadashi smiled and ruffled his younger brother's hair. "Hey, don't go touching my hair." The younger Hamada tried to remove his brother's hand, but it just couldn't be done. Tadashi was just too insistent on messing with his little brother.

Once his hand was removed, Tadashi scooped Hiro up in his arms and planted a wet kiss on his cheek.

"Eww Tadashi, gross."

The boy rubbed the kiss off of his cheek and rubbed it onto Tadashi's shirt. The older Hamada laughed and set his brother back down. "I just came down here to see how you were doing." Hiro pouted. "I was doing just fine until you showed up with your wet kisses."

Tadashi's smile couldn't be any bigger. "Well as long as you're doing alright, I guess I'll just leave you to it." Hiro smiled a bit nervously. "Yeah, just, leave me to it." Tadashi smiled as he walked up the stairs.

"See you later, otouto." As soon as Tadashi completely left, Hiro let out a sigh that he had been holding in. Trying to hide something from his nii-chan was exhausting. Hiro took off the sheet that was covering the box and began to work on it again.

"Hey. Hey, Tadashi. Hey Tada-nii, wake up."

The older boy was barley waking up one Saturday morning. He struggled to open his eyes, but when he got them to open completely, the first thing he saw was his fourteen year old otouto's huge gap toothed grin.

"Hiro?"

"Hey Tadashi, wake up, I have something to show you."

"Okay, okay, I'm getting up." The older Hamada put his feet on the floor and stretched his arms out with a huge yawn. "Just let me get some of Aunt Cass's coffee and I'll see what you have to show me." The young genius smiled smugly and held a cup in front of the older brother. "I already made you one, because trust me, your gonna want to be awake for this."

The older Hamada slowly drank the coffee, trying to wake himself up. After he was awakened a little, Tadashi spoke. "Okay, what do you want to show me?" Hiro's smug smile was still on his face. The young boy held out nicely rapped box with a card that read: For Tada-nii.

Tadashi looked at his brother with a raised eyebrow. "Is this a prank? Is something going to jump out at me when I open this?"

"Of course not, what do you think this is, The Boy who cried Wolf?"

"No, it's more like the boy who cried 'It's not a prank, I promise.'"

"Just open the box."

"Okay, but if it's a prank, I'm hunting you down."

The older Hamada removed the lid of the box and pulled out what was inside. He pulled out a nicely made red metal box with a screen attached to one of the sides. "If you don't mind me asking, what does it do?" Hiro smug smile only seemed to grow. "Glad you asked, Onii-chan."

The child genius took the box and faced the screen toward him. "See this?" Hiro asked, pointing at a small vent on the top of the box. "Well, just type a phrase on this touchscreen I installed, and…" Hiro punched in a phrase on the screen and then hit the send button. Out of the vent on top, came some smoke. The smoke hovered in the area above the box and started to form words.

The smoke was done transforming and easily spelled out: Thank you, Tadashi.

"Thank me? For what?" Hiros smug smile turned into a nervous one.

"You know, for pushing me to attend SFIT…and for always being there for me…and for being my big brother."

Tadashi had a genuine smile plastered on his face. "Thank you otouto, I love it." The older Hamada pulled his brother into a hug and let his head rest up against his chest. Surprisingly Hiro didn't object. He put his arms around his older brother and returned the hug. The embrace went on for a while, until Hiros arms slowly began to slip off of his brothers back.

Tadashi looked back at Hiro and realized that he had fallen asleep. Hiro had been up all night making it, Tadashi realized. He scooped his brother up and carried him over to his bed, where he tucked him underneath the blankets.

"Get some sleep, knucklehead."

The older Hamada kissed him on the cheek and ruffled his wild hair. As Tadashi lifted his hand, he heard his brother mumble in his sleep.

"No….touch…..hair."

Tadashi smiled. "Sleep well, otouto."