A few months have passed but my brain finally worked for this story! Finally we can get to a idea I had since the start of this story!

CH.7

The next day Hiro remained as quieter than usual. The weight of the past few days was feeling heavier than ever before. Nothing he thought about made him feel any better. There wasn't even anything at all that could brighten his mood. All he could do was lay around and sulk.

There was of course the doctors and nurses that came to check on him throughout the day, but he still did not want to talk with them. The fed up feeling of being stuck in a hospital made him feel less likely to talk to any of them. Even though they seemed to be nice and caring, he wanted nothing to do with them.

Hiro blinked slowly as his eyes shifted around. Despite laying in a bed for most of the day, he found his mind far to active to keep focus on one thing. He would stare at the window for less than a minute before looking over at the wall and then the television. He wondered for a second about maybe watching something. Maybe it would take his mind off of everything. Just maybe.

He reached halfway for the remote before he stopped. He still had no idea what he would watch. What could he watch that would really entertain him? Was there really anything? Would it really help him feel better, or would it just be a temporary distraction?

Hiro sighed as he lowered his arm, not wanting to put forth the effort anymore.

He closed his eyes, trying to find something to bring him ease and peace. But every thought in his mind was all connected in one jumbled mess.

He thought of Tadashi. Which lead him to think about the fire, and then to his arms. The thoughts of being alone for the rest of his life without his brother came after that.

Hiro winched as his chest tightened. The pain tightened around his heart, squeezing it harder and harder. The awful feeling of emptiness continued to linger inside of him. He tried to shut out the thoughts from his mind. He wanted all the pain and sadness to go away. He wished that everything would be okay even though he knew full well that could never again be the case.

The sound of the door opening thankfully was enough to pull him from his thoughts. Internally he sighed, happy that his thoughts were prevented from going any further. He knew the deeper he thought on it the worst he felt.

He turned his head and saw that it was one of the nurses. "Hello Hiro, you have some visitors to see you."

"Visitors?" Hiro thought. "Who could be visiting me? Aunt Cass just saw me yesterday so I don't know who else would want to see me…"

Hiro realized that the nurse was still looking at him. She was still waiting for an answer from him. While Hiro still did not feel the most talkative mood, there was a small bit of curiosity that he found inside of him.

"Who's here?"

"Friends," the nurse answered. "I'll send them in."

Before Hiro could try to figure out what 'friends' she could be talking about, he got his answer. Four people walked into the room. Four people that were older than him… that were Tadashi's age. It was the four friends of Tadashi.

Hiro sighed. "It just had to be them, didn't it?"

Go-Go, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, and Fred entered the room, each wearing a weary expression. Though through that they were trying to show a smile. All of them except for Go-Go, she was a bit too hard for Hiro to read.

"Hi Hiro," Honey Lemon said. She waved slightly, pushing a bit more of a smile.

Hiro frowned. "What are you guys doing here?"

"We came to see you of course," Honey Lemon replied. "We're sorry we couldn't see you sooner."

Hiro narrowed his eyes. He hardly knew Tadashi's friends. He only had properly met them the day that Tadashi sneakily took him to the campus instead of a bot fight. Then after that he only really was around them a few more times, one of which included the night of the presentation of his microbots.

That was that dreadful night…

Hiro blinked away the thoughts. Now was not the time to dwell on that night. Right now he just wanted to understand why they were there. It made no sense to him.

"Yeah, but why? Why did you guys come?" Hiro asked.

"Because, we were worried about you," Wasabi answered.

Hiro tried to resist the urge to roll his eyes. "Yeah right."

"We're telling the truth man," Fred answered. "We wanted to make sure you were doing all right and to make sure that you we're going to turn into a villain or anything."

Go-Go, who stood next to Fred, smacked him right in the arm. He yelped and looked to her to see her annoyed glare.

"Shut up," she grumbled to him. "We don't want to hear your comic book stuff."

"What?" Fred asked in an honest tone. "It's just something we should make sure of. You know tragic things like this are like the start of some peoples road to villainy. With a sad backstory and certain motivation-Ow!"

Go-Go smacked him again. "I said shut up. It's not going to help."

Fred sighed. "I thought it would help… or something."

Hiro one the other hand still was slightly confused why they would really come to see him. It made no sense why Tadashi's friends would see him. He wasn't their friend, and they weren't his.

"Hiro," Honey Lemon started again. "We only want to talk to you."

"Because you can't talk with Tadashi, right?" Hiro spat out.

The group's eyes widened, clear shock and surprise in their expressions. Hiro didn't care though. He really didn't want them to be there. They were not his friends. So why should they come to see him? He didn't want friends of his brother to come to talk to him. That didn't feel right and it only made him think of his brother again. Only more sadness and emptiness came from that.

"Uh Hiro no… That's not-" Honey Lemon started to say, he words fading from her voice.

"Come on little man… you know that's not the reason," Wasabi said.

"Then what is it?" Hiro asked not caring what the answer really was. "You can't talk to Tadashi anymore, so I'm his replacement. It's not like you actually care about me."

All of them looked more hurt than they did before. None of them had expected such harsh words from the young boy Hiro didn't notice though. He looked away to the window. These people were the last people he ever thought he would be talking to. And still he didn't want them to be there. He still didn't want anyone to keep trying to talk to him. After he had snapped at Aunt Cass he couldn't trust himself to be calm around anyone else. Even around the doctors he felt if they kept talking to him for too long he would end up feeling annoyed and angry.

He heard a couple of footsteps, but didn't turn his head back to see.

"Listen," Go-Go voice said. He could tell that there was a hint of anger to her tone. "We didn't have to come to see you. We didn't have to do anything. But we really are worried about you, that's why we're here."

"Sure…" Hiro muttered.

Go-Go let out a huff. "Fine, if that is how you're going to be, then I don't think I need to be here anymore."

"Go-Go wait," Honey Lemon started to say, but footsteps were heard leaving the room.

It was quiet after that. No one dared to speak a word. There wasn't even words that could be found to be said. Neither from the group nor Hiro. He still wasn't entirely sure what to make of the situation. Had they really come to see him… because they cared? Was that part really true? Had he just upset Go-Go for not believing her?

While Hiro did not turn back around to face the remaining three, he could tell they were still standing there. But now he wasn't sure what he should say. He started to wonder if he would just keep upsetting. So he decided to stay quiet, not wanting any of the others to storm out on him.

"I guess maybe we should head out," Wasabi finally said.

"Yeah," Fred replied. "I guess there isn't much else we can do."

A long sigh was heard from Honey Lemon. "I'm sorry Hiro. I hope you can feel better soon."

Without waiting to see if Hiro would even reply, the three of them walked out of the room. If Hiro had turned to look, he would have seen the sad and lowered heads of three. But he still chooses to face away, trying to process everything. Now that he was alone he tried to think on the situation a bit more. He let these thoughts come out more and tried to understand.

Maybe there was a part of him that wanted to believe them. Having friends to support and help him sounded nice. But he had never had anything like that before. Tadashi had been his only friend throughout his life. Without him, Hiro wasn't sure if having other friends could really work. Could he really have other friends? Ones that seemed to really care about him? Would they be as nice and caring as Tadashi, or is that just something only a brother can do?

Hiro sighed as he closed his eyes. "Maybe I shouldn't have said those things… I probably went too far."

His vision began to blur while he tried to restrain from letting out a small sob. He had been crying so much over the past few days, and he didn't want to do it anymore. He already felt so awful and sad inside, but he was tired of showing it. But he was just a young boy. He couldn't keep his emotions down even if he wanted too.

The tears came more as he thought over what he had just done. Not only was he upset that he snapped at someone again, but now he was worried he had messed it up. When he snapped at Aunt Cass, he knew he shouldn't have, but he also knew she would come back at some point. She was his aunt, she had to come check up on him, and he knew she cared enough to.

But Tadashi's friends, Hiro wasn't so sure about. They weren't close to him, so they didn't know him as well. Yet… they said they cared to come and see how he was doing.

Hiro grumbled in between one of his sobs. "Did I mess it up? A-Are they not going to come back now? All cause I told them that I thought they were using me as a replacement for Tadashi? Do they hate me now?"

Hiro finally turned around to face the other side of the room. But as he expected it was empty and the door was closed. He was all alone again. The sadness started to grow and eat away inside of him. He curled up and brought his knees up against his chest. Another sob escaped from him as he pushed his face into the bed sheet.

In the past few days all he had done was push away those who were reaching out to him. Those who said that they cared. He felt cold and alone now that he saw what he was doing. The cold was trying to encase him and consume him. If he kept it up, he was sure he would be frozen to the heart.

He didn't want that to happen. As much as he was upset by everything that had happened, he didn't want to lose more. His heart was already deeply wounded from losing Tadashi. Could his heart really take much more of this? He wasn't sure anymore. But one thing that he did know was that he wanted all of this to be over. He wanted to get out of the hospital. He feared it was one of the reasons that he felt more agitated than he normally would have. He could only hope it wouldn't be much longer until he would get to leave. He just had to try and wait and hope.

I am hoping by next chapter that I will have wrapped up the hospital section. I think I may just need one more for it. But I hope you have all been enjoying this so far. I try my best to do what I can.