Four college students waking up late after a good night's sleep wasn't really the best formula for peaceful mornings. Honey Lemon, Gogo, Tadashi and Wasabi all had classes by nine, and it was currently a half hour past eight and the school was a fifteen minute drive. The guys took showers like they just ran through a garden sprinkler -and it's almost unbelievable because it's Wasabi we're tFour college students waking up late after a good night's sleep wasn't really the best formula for peaceful mornings. Honey Lemon, Gogo, Tadashi and Wasabi all had classes by nine, and it was currently a half hour past eight and the school was a fifteen minute drive. The guys took showers like they just ran through a garden sprinkler -and it's almost unbelievable because it's Wasabi we're talking about, but it was happening. The girls acted as fast as they can, between taking baths and applying make up. Hiro and Fred just watched them get frantic, and honestly speaking, they found it really amusing. They were even chuckling every time one of them passed in front of them like a zoo horse being set free into the wild.

Unlike the other four, they weren't in a hurry. Fred had no classes, the earliest game would be starting by three in the afternoon. Usually he'd stop by the lab by ten or eleven depending on his mood. Hiro could just come with him, so he had no problems too.

"I'm surprised they found clothes here," said Hiro.

"Oh, I let them borrow pajamas, and I asked Heathcliff to put their clothes in the wash so they have something to wear today," Fred explained.

"I don't have clothes though."

"I could give you my hand-me-downs. I think we have the same style, little dude." The male blonde casually offered.

"Please don't tell me it's a suave style like Tadashi's. I don't want to wear cardigans and jeans today," the younger male grumbled.

"Nah, just a red shirt with white long sleeves under it, plus cargo shorts. Much like the outfit you wore when we first met." He assured him, and a sigh of relief escaped Hiro. He could finally feel comfortable again. Being in Tadashi's clothes made him feel too much out of his skin.

"Do you have a hoodie too?" He asked.

"That is a naddah. Sorry, man. I'm not really a fan of hoodies."

Hiro pouted at that, but he guessed he just needed to make do with what he has.

"Hiro, what are you standing around for? Take a bath!" Tadashi ordered when he entered the kitchen, buttoning up his cardigan.

"I'll come by with Fred. I'm not in a hurry," answered the younger ravenette.

"Still, take a bath now. At least I know you cleaned yourself before leaving. You might forget or something," he pressed sternly.

"Oh come on, Tadashi. Of course I'll clean myself before going anywhere! I was not raised in a barn," he was raised in a super bacteria conscious labratory, but that was beyong the point, "Plus, I'm pretty sure Fred will remind me if I ever get lazy to do it."

The girls who were doing their make up on the kitchen table, Tadashi and even Wasabi who came from the outside all stopped what they were doing and gave Hiro a look he can't quite put his finger on, but it did consist of raised eyebrows and uncertain faces.

"To be honest," Hiro's head turned to Fred who was scratching his nape, "I do this thing called 'recycling.' You know where you use the same underwear for days. You go front, then back, then you flip it, then you go front and back again. I would like to formally invite you to join me, little man."

Hiro didn't know how to react really. Either he was amazed or disgusted, or both at the same time. His head turned back to the other college students who still had those expressions on.

The young ravenette could only force a laugh, "I'll have to decline for now, Fred. Maybe next time? So uh... I'll just take a bath now."

The male blonde didn't seem offended, "Next time, bro. I'll have Heathcliff deliver my hand-me-downs to your room."

"Please tell me those are washed," Wasabi groaned.

XxxxX

When Hiro was done taking a bath and changing, it was a few minutes past nine and everyone, save Fred who was enjoying breakfast, already left. The young man noticed that Baymax was nowhere to be seen too.

"They left with Baymax?" Hiro asked, worry evident in his voice, "They didn't shut him down, did they?"

"Don't worry little dude, they didn't. They took the bus to school so Baymax is free to roam. Also, his charger isn't here." He sipped on what seems to look like an expensive soup, "Sit down, Hiro. Let's eat."

The young ravenette smiled, "Thanks," as he approached the seat next to Fred and chowed down with him.

Their breakfast wasn't silent. It was far from it. Fred liked telling stories, especially superhero stories. Hiro wondered how he could know so much about them. It was as if he owned every comic book there was, especially those of Marvel. He also mentioned how it was a dream come true for him to become an actual hero himself, especially with his dream suit that breathes fire. That was the only time Hiro contributed to the conversation by suggesting updates and improvements like being able to adjust the temperature of the fire, being able to jump higher, adding more functions. Surprisingly, the blonde followed and he even added a few of his own ideas which the ravenette thought was brilliant. Both agreed to convince the others to make the suits again, because both believed San Fransokyo needed Big Hero 6.

"While we're at this topic, do you really want to know our origin story?" Fred asked before taking a sip from his coffee mug.

"Yeah!" Hiro answered, sounding more enthusiastic than he should have, "You guys always want to know my past, how I got my powers and the like. I kind of feel the same way. I mean, I'm really curious. Tadashi said it was for him, why? And who was this guy?"

"Calm down, little dude," the blonde chuckled as he placed a hand on the young ravenette's shoulder, "All will be revealed in due time, which is by lunch."

"I'm the one going to share first, right?" Hiro asked, not really as worried as he was before, but still a little concerned, "Do you have any ideas as to what they'll ask? Can you tell me?"

"I do, but I don't know, I don't like spoiling people."

"Aww, Come on, Fred. Just so I could prepare for it."

Hiro was absentmindedly giving the blonde puppy dog eyes, and Fred's heart was weak to those kind of faces. Who could say no to that? Plus, what could go wrong?

"Okay, okay. Honey Lemon wanted to ask who this girl was. What was her name- Cathy? Cathline? Kath-"

"Katherine?" Hiro's eyes were wide as he took in air he didn't seem to breathe out. He got tense and unmoving, which worried Fred. Was it a sensitive topic? Should they change it?

"Remember, Hiro, you don't need to tell us if you don't want to-"

"No, no. I'll tell," the young ravenette snapped out from his trance and somehow a melancholic smile appeared on his face as he brushed his hair back, overwhelmed by the topic maybe? "I-I just don't know where to start."

With that statement, Fred felt a spark. He immediately commended Honey Lemon for thinking of that idea. It seemed like they were going to get a lot of information about Hiro this time.

Suddenly, Fred's phone started buzzing in his pocket, "Excuse me," he grabbed it and picked up, only to find that it was Tadashi on the other line. "Tadashi, man, what's up? Shouldn't you be in class?"

"Professor Callaghan is absent today, which is odd, but anyway, my next class is not until one so I'm going to the lab. You guys can come now."

"Sure dude, be there in fifteen minutes." He ended the call and stood up, stretching his limbs, "Let's go, Hiro. Your big bro said we can go to the lab now."

Hiro snickered, standing up too, "Big bro, really? Tadashi and I are nowhere near brothers."

"I don't know about that dude. You have the same brown eyes and raven hair. Other than that, you guys have this natural comfortable brotherly connection even I, Wasabi, Gogo and Honey Lemon can feel."

The young ravenette only snorted, "Coincidence and your imaginations. Do you know how many people out there have brown eyes and black hair?"

"Hiro, don't forget what I told you earlier," Fred pointed one finger up to make a point and he had this smug grin on too, "Life is full of plot twists."

Hiro just raised an eyebrow. He was an experiment, he cries phosphor, he's barely human, and every technology around him follows his command if he tries hard enough. He has his own fair share of plot twists in his life that affected his view on how possible and impossible one thing is, and having the hero who saved you multiple times from villains as a long lost brother was something he just couldn't consider.

Or maybe...

XxxxX

"Hey." "Yo, dude."

Tadashi and Fred greeted each other as the blonde male and the young ravenette entered the lab. Hiro was silent as he kept his gaze on the ground while he held his chin.

"Hi, Hiro." Tadashi greeted again, but he was surprised to get no reply at all, but instead, the younger ravenette approached the healthcare companion who was beside Tadashi's table, kindly asked him to sit on the ground, and sat between his balloon legs himself.

"Uh..." the older ravenette didn't know what to think of it so he turned to Fred and silently asked what was happening.

"He's thinking."

Tadashi can see that much, "About what?"

"I'm not sure if it's the deal, ideas for our new and improved suits, or the high probability of the two of you being long lost brothers." The blonde looked up.

The older ravenette didn't know how to look at it, but it didn't seem worrying. He decided to let Hiro be while he focused on more pressing issues.

He still needed to update Baymax's coding, records, scanner- everything! And there was this issue with Aunt Cass.

Tadashi only noticed how his inbox and call history blew up with his Aunt's name before he called Fred. Her text started of with 'Where are you?' 'Are you on your way home?' Then it started to get more intimidating as it reached midnight, ''Tadashi Hamada, I swear to God, you are in big trouble! You better text me back when I wake up!' Then the last message really worried him, 'I'm going to the police if you don't text back by noon, mister.'

Of course, Tadashi texted her back, which she replied to immediately and said that she was going to give him a piece of her mind, and, oddly, that she wanted to meet Hiro.

He released a strained sigh, almost like a groan really. He only realized how bad it sounded when Hiro was staring at him with a concerned yet skeptical look, "You look stressed," he said.

"College does that," Tadashi plainly answered.

"More than usual," the younger pushed.

"Said the boy who was thinking his brains out just a few minutes ago," the older threw back, hoping that it would divert Hiro's attention away from his stress.

"Is it about Baymax?" But it didn't work, "I can help you, you know."

Tadashi's ears perked up at his offer, and he just looked at him wide eyed, "You can?"

"Uh, hello, technopath here. I understand technology language. I made the coding for the weapons you used to... save me." It was Hiro's own mistake to bring up yesterday's happening because immediately the atmosphere around himself fell.

The older ravenette stirred their conversation away from it, "You're going to code Baymax for me? I'm sorry, Hiro, but isn't that cheating.?

"They don't have to know-" the younger ravenette answered, but as soon as he saw the strict look on Tadashi's face, he took it back, "I-I mean, I could be like a new and improve software where you just type in the needed updates and I'll automatically code it."

"I'm not going to let you do that, Hiro. I'm not going to allow you to do all the work for me, much more if you see yourself as a software." Tadashi answered sternly, resuming to type the codes.

Hiro just turned away and pouted, "I just wanted to help."

The older ravenette stopped at that and sighed again. Was it him or was he getting softer when it came to Hiro? "Okay, okay. Maybe you can check if my codes have some mistakes and errors."

"But that would be too easy," the younger whined. "Can I add some features too?"

Tadashi sighed again, this time in defeat. It was official, he was getting soft, "Okay. Just one, and it has to be relevant to Baymax's healthcare function, okay?"

Hiro finally smiled and agreed to that deal. With that, the two of them started working. Tadashi typed away on his PC while Hiro just held Baymax's hand and sat there quietly, but you can tell that something was happening because a cyan screen was on Baymax's belly, showing every edit he was making.

Tadashi found it was amazing. It was unbelievable how Hiro could actually do all these things without the help of any other gadgets or device. Yeah, he knew Hiro could do all those stuff from the beginning, but this was the only time he saw him do it firsthand. He also knew that Hiro has been tinkering with Baymax behind his back a lot too, but now he was doing it with Tadashi's supervision. Did that mean he trusted him enough to show his powers? The older male couldn't help but smile.

He could get used to this.

XxxxX

It was a few minutes before lunch and everyone was at the lab, getting ready to leave for the bistro. They were just waiting for Tadashi and Hiro to finish Baymax's updates, or at least save it and have Baymax function normally despite it being unfinished.

"Done!" Announced Hiro, closing the cyan screen with just one gesture of the hand over Baymax's belly.

Tadashi groaned and slumped back on his chair. He was only halfway through. Hiro was finished with the editing and his own new feature, but he still had a long way to go. "Let me just stabilize his program-"

"Got you covered," the younger ravenette chirped as he held Baymax's hand again, and did something that made Baymax's eyes glow cyan for a split second. "There, stabalized."

The older ravenette checked the coding, and surprisingly it was.

Gogo whistled. She was very impressed. Honey Lemon straightened out her glasses because she has been staring too long. Wasabi tried to close his jaw that was hanging slightly open. Any robotics major would give for an assitant like with skill like that.

Tadashi stared at it, speechless and in awe. Hiro stood behind him and patted him -rather smacked him- on the back, earning a yelp from him.

"Hiro!" He shouted and glared at the young ravenette.

"Hey, we needed to wake Baymax up somehow."

And just like he said, Baymax's eyes opened and repeated his famous introduction.

"Now you know how Fred feels when you use him to activate that marshmallow nurse," Gogo snarked with a grin as she crossed her arms.

Tadashi wanted to make a remark, but he knew it was no use, she was speaking the truth. The blond male held no offence to it anyway, but at least now he should be more considerate. "Anyway, let's go to the bistro and eat, I'm starving."

"Me too." Hiro chimed in happily as he went Baymax's side, "Let's go bud, we're going to a bistro."

XxxxX

All seven were seated comfortably on a table as eavh of them, save Baymax, were choosing their orders.

"I don't get why the marshmallow has to sit with us. He's not even ordering." Gogo remarked. Baymax wasn't actually the smallest healthcare companion, and it was sitting on her, Honey Lemon's and Hiro's side. Luckily, the table and seats were accomodate all of them.

"Do you want him to stand and wait outside and possibly get stolen?" Hiro answered back. His statement easily made Tadashi decide that Baymax was staying.

"Shall I deflate to give you more room?" Baymax asked, and before any of the girls and Hiro could answer, Tadashi beat them to it.

"No! That decreases your power levels very quockly and we don't have your charger with us." Plus it was embarrassing for him to make his deflating sound in such a public place.

Although Tadashi didn't really need to worry. The bistro wasn't as busy as it usually was. It was only them and before there was only one. That's actually one the reasons why he and the gang liked this place a lot, quiet and peaceful- except for weekends.

"Anyway, finish deciding, guys?" Honey asked as she folded the menu in her hands. "I'm going to call a waitress."

Everyone folded their menus and nodded, except for Hiro who was still having a hard time to choose. She thought it was okay to call a server over.

Honey raised her hand and signalled for the waitress that always served them when they ate here. She forgot her name though.

"How about it little man, you have any ideas what we're going to ask today?" Wasabi asked.

Hiro's eyes were still on the menu, "Yeah, Fred told me."

"Oh, he did, huh," Gogo sent a small glare over to the blond who tensed up.

"Mhm-hmm, it helped a lot. I got to arrange my thoughts. I really have a lot to tell about her, and I mean a lot!" The excitement was obvious in his voice.

Honey was smiling, and she was sure everyone else was too. For once, Hiro was hyped to tell something about his past. At least not everything about his childhood was horrendous. For now though, she had to worry about what to remember the waitress' name. It would be rude if she didn't. It was in the tip of her tongue.

"Tell us about her whenever you're ready, Hiro." Tadashi said.

"Hiro?"

Everyone's head snap to the direction of the waitress who stared at the young ravenette boys with shock in her eyes.

Hiro turned his head casually, only to get the same reaction seeing the woman.

Honey finally remembered her name.

Hiro pushed himself up on the table, ran on it, and jumped on the waitress, tackling her into one big hug.

"KATHERINE!"

The time around the college students stopped as they watched the technopath and the waitress fall onto the tiled floor in a warm embrace.

XxxxX

I don't remember when the last time I updated was. ; 7 ; probably more than three months ago or something.

I'm so sorry.

But I kind of made up for it in this chapter right? -no-

Finally I get to introduce Katherine!

Also, Im sorry I cant reply to the reviews. But I read them all and I appreciate them :D Thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed this chapter!