A Horrific Surprise

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Cherry's POV

"Tadashi! Tadashi!" I call out as I use my new spare key to unlock the front door of the apartment above the bustling Lucky Cat and step in. He said he'd be along soon after his breakthrough in one of his classes, and that I should go to his place so we can watch a new movie this evening, but I took a detour to pick up Bella so he might be here already.

"Are you here?" I ask as I let the dog off the leash, but before I can say anything she falls silent and begins to stalk up the stairs slowly to Tadashi and Hiro's room.

In an instant I'm in Street Suvival Mode, sticking myself to the edge of the staircase and creeping up after looking round the kitchen and grabbing a metal pan to arm myself. Bella is a guard dog and an investigator, so if she's doing this in a place she's so familiar in there is something wrong - and it's in the brothers' room. Perhaps something's happened to Hiro. What if someone's done something to Tadashi's poor innocent little brother?

I reach the top of the stairs and notice that the door is fully closed. I grip the door handle, motion to Bella to leap at the same time as me, count silently to five, then...

"Stop right there!" I yell and bust the door open, and I hear another yell and look in the direction of the shout and see Hiro... at the desk... and on the computer is something that looks like...

"OH MY GOD!" I scream, and smash my hands over my eyes.
"CHERRY!" I hear around me and the sound of a zip, and I don't even want to think about it!
"Turn it off! Off! Whatever it is, turn it off for the love of God!"
"I've done it, I've done it, oh my God Cherry I'm so sorry!" I hear, and I've already started to try and get out of the room.

Unfortunately, Bella takes this as a sign of danger and I feel her paws pushing on my legs - and I start to fall down the stairs!

I yelp in surprise, causing Bella to bark loudly and Hiro to shout in panic.
Suddenly we all hear the door loudly click, and a male voice calling my name.
Tadashi!
Eyes still covered I stumble over the steps in more panic, causing Bella and Hiro to go off again, and I hear quick footsteps.
"No, Tadashi, don't look!" I shout blindly, and stumble again to fall into soft arms. My hands are taken away to look at Tadashi, who is staring in confusion. He looks up the stairs and I peer in the same direction, and next to the ajar door with the dog sniffing round and up his ankles stands Hiro looking really furtive in (thankfully zipped up) shorts and a graphic tee.

Tadashi raises his eyebrow, then curiously asks, "What just happened?"
Hiro and I instantly say, "Nothing," and my boyfriend's eyebrow rises higher and holds me up whilst he walks us both up the stairs.
"It's nothing really, 'Dashi - I just got home, and Bella freaked out at Mochi and," I gabble, but to no avail.
We pass Hiro and I can't even look at him without thinking about what he was doing... I shiver just thinking about it!

Tadashi looks around the room and everything looks the same, apart from the chair at the desk tipped over on he floor. Thankfully, the computer screen has been changed, but Tadashi goes over to pick the chair up and peers at the screen.
"Why is there another tab open? Hiro, what have you been doing?"

Hiro and I exchange panicked looks, and run to him.
As if in slowly motion, we jump at him at the same time he changes the tab onto... that.

Tadashi stares and reels back in shock with hands covering his mouth at the same time we two crash onto the floor in front of him, and he stares at his little brother with wide eyes.

"Hiro," he barely is able to stutter out, "I... how... but you're only fourteen!"
Hiro jumps up and clasps his hands behind his back as I get up and stand by Tadashi. "I'm sorry Tadashi, I thought... I thought you wouldn't be home for a while, so..."
"So what?!" his older brother almost explodes, holding back only by me squeezing his hand in still mild panic, "You decide to... to... you're only fourteen!"
"Didn't you do anything like this when-"
"No!" Tadashi waves his free hand around wildly, still a shocked look on his face, "I played videogames and worked on my homework and dreamed about girls asking me out, not girls doing... that!" He points to the computer screen, and Hiro goes to turn it off before I yell, "Don't touch anything! Go wash your hands, and change your clothes, and I'll find some baby wipes! Come on Tadashi, leave him to think!"

I drag the older Hamada downstairs to dig around the kitchen for baby wipes, whilst upstairs we hear Hiro close the door of the bathroom. We both sigh in staggered breaths, shocked at what we just witnessed.
It's silent for a good couple minutes, until I buck up the courage to say quietly to Tadashi,
"...That was too hardcore for a kid to search up."

Tadashi pulls out the baby wipes from a drawer, stares at the ground, breathes in deeply and hands me the wipes.
"I'll stay down here. I need to... not be with him right now."
I take the wipes. "Because that stuff hasn't been deleted yet?"
"No, because I don't want to break my brother's neck before he realises he needs to go to school instead of looking at stuff like... that."

I creep upstairs, looking back at my boyfriend who has taken to walking to and lying on the sofa staring up at the ceiling in spiritual contemplation, and meet Hiro just coming out of the bathroom in a new set of clothes.
I give him a hard look. "You've washed your hands?"
He holds them out in front of him. "Yes, I swear. Cherry... I'm sorry you had to-"
"Don't ever bring it up again, okay?" I warn in my firm voice, and he nods in misery.

I hand him the baby wipes, and he looks up at me mournfully. "Shall I wipe down the whole desk, even the parts I never even touched?"
I pat his shoulder, the pressure of my hand just so that he knows he needs to follow my orders.
"Wipe down everything in the whole room until your brother and I gather up the courage to come upstairs and discuss with you how dirty that porn you were watching was for someone of your age."

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