The Modern Four

Chapter 20

Later that night, Hiro snuck down to his lab, and sat down in front of his computer to start making Violet's supersuit. After about an hour of messing around with the technical side of things, he started to get hungry and headed upstairs, to the kitchen. Tadashi stood in the hallway, waiting.

"Detention? Really, Hiro? If Aunt Cass found out, she'd kill you." He whispered, crossing his arms.

Hiro shrugged, going over to the fridge and grabbing a soda. "Oh, whatever. It's not like she's gonna! Cause you're not gonna tell her, right?" HIro looked at his brother, raising an eyebrow.

Tadashi sighed. "Hiro..."

Hiro narrowed his eyes. "Tadashi? You're not gonna tell, right? "

Tadashi looked down, frowning and tugging at his ear. "I'm not gonna tell, no. I'm just disappointed in you. I mean, detention, rally? Gosh Hiro, why did you even get in trouble? I didn't think you were even a troublemaker!"

Hiro rolled his eyes, grabbing a bag of chips from the pantry. "Oh, I'm not. My science teacher was just being a huge-"

Tadashi rubbed his head, frowning. "No, no, I don't want to hear it. Just-I'm just disappointed in you." He sighed watching as his brother plopped down on their couch. Hiro rolled his eyes.

"What are you, my mom?" Tadashi frowned, looking down, and HIro sighed, knowing his choice in words weren't the best. Tadashi had always been sensitive when it came to their parents. Tadashi was eight when they died, and was very close with them, unlike Hiro, who was only four and could hardly recall more than what they looked like and the fact that they loved him. Hiro could tell by the look on his brothers face that he was upset, despite the fact he was trying to hide it.

"Sorry.." Hiro muttered, looking down.

Tadashi shook his head, sighing. "It's alright Hiro, you didn't know them that well.."

Hiro bit his lip, staring at the floor. After a minute of awkward silence, he looked up and at his brother's arm. "How's your arm doing?" He asked, not meeting Tadashi's eyes. Tadashi sighed, moving his arm a little and examining it.

"It's... doing alright. It hurts occasionally, but I'm getting used to it. It wasn't too terrible of a burn, looked worse than it actually was. Another week or so and I'll be as good as new." He smiled. Hiro nodded and went back to staring at his shoes. Tadashi frowned, and tapped his brother on the shoulder.

"So...how'd you get in trouble?" Tadashi asked, grinning a little.

Hiro smirked. "Well, in Biology class, my friends and I were talking and we may or may not have trashed talked my teacher. And he may or may not have heard us."

Tadashi couldn't help but laugh a little. "Oh, man, you're an idiot."

Hiro gave his brother a light punch in his arm. "Oh, shut up. At least i can say I've been in detention, unlike little goody two shoes Hamada over here."

"I've been in detention before, remember? Aunt Cass was so mad!"

Hiro blinked a couple times, trying to jog his memory. "Uh...the only time I remember aunt Cass being mad at you is when you accidentally sent Moochi running through the cafe after that robotic mouse we made that one time. But no, nothing about detention in my mind."

Tadashi laughed. "Oh man that mouse was a masterpiece. It was so worth getting grounded.

"Remember the look on Mrs. Ganesh's face? She was so horrified!" Hiro smirked, stuffing a few chips in his face, which were washed down by soda.

Tadashi smiled. "Good times, good times. But i can't believe don't remember my detention story! Dude, I can't believe you forgot this story. It's like my legacy at that school."

"You mean besides the fact that you're gonna be valedictorian?" Hiro laughed.

Tadashi nodded. "Me and Honey Lemon. But yeah, besides that."

"Anyways, what'd you get in trouble for? Studying too hard?" Hiro asked sarcastically. Tadashi rolled his eyes.

"No, I don't even think that's possible. Anyway, so it was sophomore chemistry class, and I was partnered up with Honey Lemon-this was before we were together. She absolutely loved chemistry, and I had a huge, huge crush on her. So, I really wanted to impress her with some amazing chemistry skills."

Hiro raised an eyebrow. "Chemistry has never been your strong suit." He commented, grinning at the thought of where this story could go.

"No, no it is not. How do you think I found out? So, I made a plan to do some big experiment the next time we stayed back to practice some experiments. That Wednesday was the day. Honey Lemon and I were staying back in Ms. Ursula's room-She's retired, I think, probably because of me, and her sister Ms. Morgana works there now- and Ms. Ursula stepped out of the room to do some things in her office. I took this as a chance to impress Honey with a cool reaction. When she had her back turned to me, I grabbed the two chemicals that I needed- or at least what I thought was the two chemicals, and combined them together in the vial. Which was on a Bunsen burner Well, it turned out that those chemicals had a much more...fiery reaction. I..well, the chemicals, when combined and heated up, well, they may or may not have caused a fire. And it may or may not have left a scorch mark. And I may or may not have- well, I did- get detention as a result. But you know, I did scorch a table, so I mean I left my mark on the school, at least." Tadashi couldn't help but laugh at himself, and Hiro joined in with his brother.

"Dude, that is so much better than my detention story!" Hiro grinned, patting his brothers back.

"That's for sure. You need to live up to my detention legacy, little bro."

A groggy aunt Cass emerged from her room to get a glass of water, and heard her two nephews talking. She blinked, picking up some of the conversation. She walked into the kitchen, squinting at the two boys. "What's this about detention?" She asked, rubbing her eyes.

The boys turned and gave each other looks, before looking at their aunt and in unision, said "Nothing, aunt Cass."

In her state of sleepiness, she shrugged, yawning. "Okay...be good boys. Love you." She wandered back to her room, without her water glass. When the brothers heard her door shut, they fell into another fit of laughter, and eventually went to bed.