Finding Hiro

Chapter 2

Tadashi told his friends about how Hiro no longer required go to school, so Honey being her cheerful self suggested bring him to the University. An idea he was first skeptical about until his friends reminded him that there would likely be cops and detectives all over campus to look through Callaghan's office for a clue to where he might have gone. He finally bid his friends good night before crawling back into bed. 

Instinctively pulled his little brother closer to him afraid that if he let go again, he might lose him once more.When he felt the sun straight into his eyes through the window, he flickered awake unaware he had even fallen asleep to begin with, it took him only a moment to realize he was the only one in bed! Had it all been a dream, had he only dreamed the cops had finally found his little brother?! Had Callaghan come in the night and took him back!? He rushed down from his bedroom to the kitchen in a frenzy. 

 "Aunt Cass! I can't find Hi..." There sitting at the table with an IPad in his hands, sat Hiro, Aunt Cass who had been cooking on the stove turn to her frantic nephew. 

 "Tadashi, relax, he woke up after Mochi decided to knock over a few empty mixing bowls." As she remixed the pancake mix.Hiro looked up from the IPad to his older brother, he could tell he had truly been frantic that he was missing again. When he had woken up with his brother's arms wrapped around him, he had felt more secure than he ever had with his "dad". He was pulled out of his thoughts when someone ruffled his hair, looking up once more he saw his older brother with a crooked smile. 

"Since you don't have school, wanna come to mine?" Hiro's eyes widened. 

 "Really?!...Really?" He had been so excited when he first heard it, but that would likely mean running into people who knew, his da...kidnapper, was he ready for that? 

 "Hiro, I'll be beside you all day, no one is going to think anything bad of you there." Tadashi answered as if reading Hiro's mind. Hiro looked deep into his big brother's dark brown eyes. 

 "You promise?" 

 "I promise." 

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 When they first arrived at the school Hiro refused to come out from behind him or let go of his pant leg. He was so worried people would judge him for not knowing the truth. Had it even been made public knowledge when he had first looked on the news feed, he hadn't seen anything. What if his da...What if Callaghan was still able to walk around the school? What if no one knew he had kidnapped him? At least that meant less people staring at him or asking questions. 

 "Hiro..." At some point, Tadashi had kneeled down in front of him. "...you need to breath." Hiro hadn't noticed that he had started hyperventilating. "The police are stationed here on campus there is no way he is gonna get you here." Hiro took a shaky breath before wrapping his arms around his brother's neck. Even if he was fourteen he didn't care and it didn't seem to bother Tadashi. Who simply lifted Hiro into his arms. "Hiro, do you wanna go home?" Hiro shook his head. His hair tickling Tadashi's neck."Do you wanna go to the Nerd lab and meet some of my friends?" There was a momentary pause before Hiro nodded. "Alright buddy that's what we'll do." 

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 "Heads up!" Was the first thing Hiro heard when Tadashi and him walked through the door to the lab. He peeked up from his brother's shoulder . He saw a shorter woman with a bike helmet looking at a wheel before throwing it back at the bike, returning immediately to it's original place. Tadashi placed him back on the ground allowing him to walk over to the bike. He ran his hand between the bike and the wheel. 

 "Whoa, Electo-mag suspension?" Hiro whispered astonished. 

 "Hey!" He turned to see the rider. Recognizing her voice from the video the night prior. She pulled off her helmet revealing, a rounder face Korean woman with black hair with purple streaks running through it. She popped her gum before continuing. "So your Hiro huh?" She seem to look him over. A quick smile curled on her lips. "Welcome to the Nerd lab." Before focusing on her bike again.