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Chapter 4

Tadashi was blissfully asleep, dreaming of smiles with a gap in the front teeth and a brilliant brain. He was happy and content.

"Tadashi wake up."

"Five more minutes," Tadashi sleepily mumbled. He didn't want to wake up.

"Tadashi."

There was a hand shaking him. Grumbling, Tadashi sat up and stretched. Whatever he was sleeping on was uncomfortable. Pausing to remember his situation, he could only sigh. Airport chairs. Of course it was uncomfortable. Tadashi rubbed his eyes and looked around.

"What is -yawn- is it Hiro?" Tadashi asked.

Hiro pointed to the large windows. "Look, the blizzard broke."

Snapping wide awake, Tadashi looked outside. The sky was gray, but clear. There were already machines on the runways clearing the snow. No longer was the snow falling.

Something in Tadashi broke as Hiro smiled and said, "We can go home."

The next several hours was standing in lines to sort and coordinate flights. People were antsy to get home and the airport staff was trying their best to calm everyone.

"So," Hiro said, holding his new ticket. "My flight leaves in an hour. We're gonna start boarding in about fifteen minutes though. I gotta head over to my gate."

"Me too," Tadashi said.

Hiro rocked back and forth on his feet, hands in his pockets. "I guess this is goodbye then."

"Yeah," Tadashi swallowed tightly. He had exchanged contact information with Hiro, but it wasn't going to be the same. His throat constricted as he tried to the words out. 'Come on you idiot! At least tell him you like him!' That voice sounded a lot like Gogo.

Ultimately though, his words failed him.

"Bye Tadashi," Hiro said. "It was nice meeting you. See you online." He turned and waved, walking off into the crowd of people.

Tadashi felt his heart lurch as he made an abortive wave.

'Coward.'

"Tadashi!" Cass bounced toward her nephew, sweeping him into a hug. "It's good to have you back home safely."

Tadashi smiled at her weakly. Five hours later, Tadashi had landed safely in San Fransokyo. "Hi Aunt Cass," he said.

"Tadashi?" Cass asked, looking at him with concern. "What's wrong?"

"I think… I think I just let the best thing in my life walk out on me," Tadashi said. He couldn't stop thinking about Hiro.

"Oh sweetie," Cass said. She pulled Tadashi into a hug. "It'll be okay."

Tadashi wasn't sure if it would ever be.

-Eight Months Later-

Tadashi sent a reply to Hiro's latest email. Summer had been too crazy to travel, too many projects and his senior thesis that needed to work on. Tadashi was trying to graduate. But Christmas. Maybe Christmas he would travel and go meet up with Hiro. (And confess this time!) He just had to survive this semester and Tadashi would have his bachelor degree.

Of course that was dependent on getting Baymax up and running.

"Hey Tadashi," Wasabi called out. "You got a visitor."

Tadashi put down his tools. "Who is it?"

"He's cute!" Honey Lemon shouted from across the lab.

"He looks like a twig," Gogo said with a snap of her gum.

"Like a puppy!" Fred added.

Tadashi sighed and rolled his eyes fondly. His friends. He walked to the front lobby where all visitors were required to wait, unless they accidentally stumble across an active experiment.

"Can I he-" The words died in Tadashi's mouth as his throat went dry. There standing in the lobby was Hiro, crooked smile and all.

"Hey," Hiro said.

"Hiro! What are you doing here?" Tadashi said.

Hiro shrugged. "So I neglected to tell you that I had actually just finished graduating from CT that winter we met and I was on the hunt for a grad school. I was planning on going back to CT, but you made a good argument for SFIT... so here I am. So are you going to show me around?"

"Can I take you on a date," Tadashi blurted out before he could lose his nerve again.

Hiro smirked. "You better. I didn't move all the way to San Fransokyo on a whim, you know."

Tadashi grinned. He held out his hand. "Of course."

Hiro took his hand. "Alright, you might as well introduce me to your friends first. I do not want to get on Gogo's bad side."

"No one ever does."

The End!

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