It was a cool, golden autumn afternoon in a small park on the outskirts of a small city located in the north of Essex. The laughter of children were coming right from the games, couples of adolescents were talking and blushing sweetly, holding hands, while the elders were sitted in the park benches, talking about the past and all those beautiful memories from childhood. Everything was calm, as if the peace of that environment could never be broken by anything.
A tall young man was walking right below the blue-and-gold dyed sky, sighing softly, looking at the beams of light that were seeping through the branches and the leaves of the trees, which gradually went naked with each blow of the cold wind. He was ahandsome young man in his early twenties, with blue spiky hair, and whole-black eyes. His extremely tiny torso was hidden by a jacket that was closed up to the chest, while his long skinny legs were covered by a pair of grey jeans. A pair of small arms were clenched around his neck; a small japanese girl was sleeping on his back, breathing calmly, dreaming. She was wearing a helmet on her head. The boy, called Stuart Pot, walked slowly to avoid waking up the little girl, whose name was Noodle.
Many people regarded at him with curiosity, looking his eyes with curiosity, while some women directed him furtive signals of interest (completly unnoticed by the distracted boy). He turned his head slightly to ensure that Noodle was still sleeping. He felt how she was slipping a bit from him, so he stoped, and boosted a little bit the japanese child up, to make sure that she would not fall from his back.
"Hm?" Noodle muttered softly, moving her body a little bit on Stuart's back. "Hum... nanji desuka, 2D-san?" she asked rubbing one of her eyes, yawing. Her voice was serious and airy, like a boy's one.
"Oh, sorry Noodle, I woke y' up" 2D said with his goofy brittled voice, apologizing.
The little girl sat up further, finally awaken, and when she noticed that she was still on 2D's back, she moved forcefully to get off, as if she has burned with something.
"Oh-Oh, gomenasai!" she apologized frantically in japanese.
"H-Hey, calm down, or y'going to make me fall to the ground!" he said clumsily trying to keep balance, feeling Noodle's acicdental punchs on his sides and stomach.
"Sunimasen, shitsurei shimasu" she apologized, stoping her moves and remembering that 2D had no fucking idea of japanese language. She thought for a moment, as if she was concentrating in something. She made a noise in her mouth, kept quiet again, and then said "...Too long up?" clumsily in english, pointing to herself with one finger.
"Only two hour, 'luv, don'worry" he said calmly. Noodle felt a little more uncomfortable with that. "... and I fink that we have time yet, so you should better get comfortable on my back".
"Ahhhh, baka Murdoc-san!" She exclaimed angrily, holding 2D's neck when he started walking at the same speed again. "What that idiot doing?".
" I don'fink Russ would like to hear you talking like that, Noods" He said a bit surprised of her vocabulary.
"Not fair, Rus-san too" she murmured, sighing and shutting up to end the discution. Stuart said nothing, looking at his surroundings with the same slightly goofy expression, looking distantly for any change that he could discover on the way.
Both, 2D and Noodle, were walking around the park the whole afternoon, hours and hours taking the same route, going to the same games, looking at the same "signatures" that, surely, a few of other visitors would have wrote on the logs of the trees, like names circled in hearts, one or another nazi symbol, and even spots of blood, surely because of all those gang's fights when the park was dark. Noodle was tired of walking, so 2D lifted her on his back, as he used to do when Noodle was weak, and walked for another two hours longer.
"Hey Noods, look" he said, pointing with his eyes a falling flower bud; it was levitating slowly in the air, playfully and calmly. The girl turned her head toward the flower, looking at it without enthusiasm, and shrugged her shoulders. "It looks like a snowflake Do not you think?" he said with a sigh, looking at the bud without stoping.
The girl looked straight ahead again, when suddlenly...
"Abunai!" Noodle exclaimed suddenly... but it was late: 2D collided with a a person.
2D rubbed his forehead with his eyes closed, and when he opened the, he gasped frightened; the burly, bald man that he crashed accidentally was looking at him piercingly through his dark glasses. The worst thing was that he looked like one of those mobsters who used to get people in car's trunks in the movies.
"S-sorry!! I-I didn't want to hit'you" 2D apologized quickly while Noodle went down of his back to stare at the man warned, as if she was prepared to do anything if he had in planned attaking 2D.
The man and Noodle exchange glances for some time, untill he laughed hoearsely.
"Whatever" he finally said after looking at the girl for some time. He started to walk in the opposite way, kind of entertained with those two, and patted Noodle's head.
"Good boy you have, colleague" he said amusely to 2D, leaving the place. 2D exhaled, suddenly relieved, but a little bit angry because that man treated Noodle as a boy. Noodle was used to be confused with a boy often, so she didn't worry about that.
"2D-san no distraction, hit people" she said to him shaking her finger as saying "no", like teaching something to him. Stuart simply sighed scratching his head, closing his eyes for a short moment, when he suddenly felt something pulling his jacket's sleeve. He looked, and saw Noodle pointing to a distant tree.
A girl was huddled at the roots of a tree. Her shoulders were shaking as she was crying, hugging herself tightly, as her violet straight hair covered her face as she had her head slightly down. She didn't seem to be an indigent, and her clothes were tidy.
The people walking around looked at her confused but did not stop, stucked in their own conversations, talking on their celulars, not paying attention to a teenager who was bitterly crying against the roots of a tree.
2D didn't feel anything else but dismay. How could people act as if nothing was happening? So disheartened were them?
Noodle walked behind 2D, and pushed him forwards, stagger him a bit to almost lose his balance, while the japanese girl walked beside him to assist the adolescent.
"Y'okay, honey?" 2D asked, worried. Noodle looked at the girl with her ussual deadpan expression, approaching a little closer to her. The girl shook her head shaking, keeping her eyes closed. 2D knelt beside her, looking at her with the same concern.
"Are you in pain, or hurt?" He asked again. The stranger shook her head twice, terrified.
"Sick?" Asked Noodle, placing her hand on her shoulder. The girl shook her head once again, crying even harder.
"So...?" 2D asked again with the same smooth tone, worried and inquisitive. "We won'bite you, lady... trust me" he murmured, thinking that perhaps she was feeling harassed with their questions.
She took a breath, before calming down a bit. The tone of the two strangers let her barely know that they were not going to hurt her.
"I ... I'm lost ... I don't know who I am or where do I live, I don't remember anything about WHAT AM I" She moaned haltingly, broken and scared inside.
Noodle and 2D exchanged glances. Noodle's eyes grew even colder, and 2D understood why: Noodle arrived to the Kong Studios in a Fed-Ex's parcel, not-knowing anything of herself. This situation was similar in a few ways, so Noodle understanded why was that girl so damn frightened. After all, Noodle was surrounded by good people when she appeared for the first time and revealed that she didn't know anything about her past, but this girl was alone.
"No harm, we help you" murmured Noodle hoarsely, patting the teen's head with one of her little hands (making the stranger shake a little bit).
Noodle realized that the girl didn't open her eyes in the whole time, and that worried her even more. "your eyes ache?" She asked. The stranger calmed down a little more, and shook her head.
" No ... well ... yes ... but if I open my eyes ... I'll scare you. My right eye is sick" she said softly.
2D was rather confused by the situation, missunderstanding how could people lose theirselves so easily... he thinked so hard that, in the end, his head started to ache.
"We won'get scared, I promise 'luv" muttered 2D with some difficulty because of his migrane. He lowered his voice a little bit, just to say... "You know what? I have 'bad eyes' too. And believe 'mey', you'd be the one who'd'get scared" he said trying to comfort her with his angelical voice. Noodle remained in silent, keeping her little hand on the girl's head, thinking that it would confort her.
"Hey! I've an idea!" he said excited. "You open your eyes first, zo'dat you may see that we're not going to hurt you, or evn' get scared of your eyes, and if y'want, you can go away... if y'still here, we open ours to see you... yes?" he suggested almost in a childish tone, closing his eyes tightly. Noodle imitated him, closing her eyes.
2D waited with a goofy expression on his face. He heard how the stranger said something in low voice, as if she was surprised or "somefink" like that, and suddenly how Noodle said something else with the same surprised tone, but in japanese. But no matter what was happening outside the black of his closed eyes, he was going to keep his promise, so he stayed with his eyes tightly together.
"I'm... I'm ready" he heard at last from the strange girl.
2D opened his eyes and faced her at last, but he couldn't avoid a gesture of surprise when he finally "met" her. Her left eye was grey, large and almond, bordered by thick long lashes, but her right eye was completely black. Total darkness, a full pupil, a black hole, as 2Ds eyes; she looked like one of those old broken dolls that are used for all those terror movies: she had dark circles under her eyes, a rounded and thin nose, and small, thin peachy lips. Her skin was light and perfect as porcelain.
The girl was surprised of seeing another person with full black eyes too (and even more surprised with the fact that he had both eyes black), but when she noticed his expression, she looked down, frightened of scaring him. 2D remained silent, pensive, untill Noodle looked at him with the same empty expression. 2D capted this inmediatly, and said
"See, 'luv? We're not scared! ^^" He let out as if he had won a game or something, and then added "... and you?"
The girl thought for a moment before turning her eyes at them both, and finally shook her head. "Nope" She let out with a perfect and wide, innocent smile, just as 2D's goofy smile.
Noodle pulled her hand off from the teen's head, causing the stranger to look at her with a mild expression. The japanese girl took a few steps backwards when Stuart stood up, still smiling, stretching one of his large, wide hands to her.
"Take 'mey' hand" he said holding his hand outstretched towards her. The girl, despite of his warm tone, didn't move. She was now distrustful again, thinking twice on what to do.
"... Is it safe?" she asked timidly, looking a little bit scared. 2D got her insecure feeling, and nooded his head in agreement, trying to sound as confident as he could.
"C'mon on 'luv, we don'want you there, cold and alone" he said softly, smilling a bit more, looking at her with the same innocent but confident expression in his eyes.
The stranger didn't move. Noodle approach a little bit to her again, and flashed a wide, big smile saying phrases in japanese cheerfully (unfortunately unintelligible for her), as if she wished the stranger to join them and stand up.
The teen looked at her for a moment, and then 2D again...
And, taking an inner breath, she took his hand.
So... Hi all, this is the first story I've ever post here in FanFiction. Sorry if the text has a lot of errors, my english sucks, I must admit.
I hope you enjoy it! The story is rather cute and talks a lot of friendship, but I'll keep the band member's personality. So, don't worry, nobody will be in love with anyone, or have sex with anyone (except Murdoc with "his fans", Mudsy will be pretty lusty in this fic e.e).
Thank you, and see you soon! Bye bye n.n