Chapter .4.

Noodle's Guitar.

2D had now been watching Noodle for a full hour and 10 minuets. He'd given her some old magazines, drawing paper, a black marker pen and a box of Cornflakes to keep her occupied. As the little girl played with the items given to her by her "big brother", 2D sat on his bed and read a magazine. As he read to himself he could hear noodle talking to herself in Japanese. He quickly glanced away from his magazine and stared at the strange little girl, wondering what she was saying. He didn't ask, he just gave a small smile and went back to his reading.

"Hiku!" said a small voice

2D glanced away from his magazine again back to where Noodle was once sitting. She wasn't there. He glanced around the room until he saw her in the corner, pointing to the old guitar he kept in his room. He put down his magazine and made his way towards her.

"Guitar." he said as he kneeled down next to the dusty old instrument.

"Geetah?" she repeated in a thick Japanese accent.

"That's right." smiled 2D.

Noodle gave a small giggle as she yanked the guitar from it's stand.

"Noodle! Be careful darling don't break it."

Noodle wasn't breaking the instrument, she handled it with great care as she sat on the floor and gently laid the instrument over her crossed legs. To 2D's surprise, she was holding the guitar correctly. She seemed like she really knew what she was doing. Without warning she started playing Mary had a little lamb. 2D was totally taken back with the amazement of the child's musical abilities as the sound of gentle music filled the room.

"Hey kidder, that's really good." smiled 2D

"Mari-san no hitsuji. Hitsuji. Hitsuji, Mari-san no hitsuji. Kawaii ne?" Noodle sang.

2D couldn't stop smiling as Noodle played away on the guitar. She was really talented, a true musician and a great singing voice too. It suddenly occurred to 2D, that this girl could be the guitarist Murdoc had hired. No, It couldn't be. She was only a little girl....

"Face-ache!" yelled Murdoc as he burst into the room.

"Oh, you're back are you?" sighed 2D with a sarcastic tone.

"That little kid!" snapped Murdoc as he pointed to Noodle, who was still plucking away at the guitar. "She's the damn guitarist!"

"Yeah I know."

Noodle stopped playing and looked up at Murdoc.

"Geetah!" she smiled

Murdoc grabbed Noodle's arm and pulled her to her feet. The little girl struggled ad tried to escape Murdoc's grip. The more she struggled to get away, the harder Murdoc tugged on her arm.

"Onii-chan!" she whined as she held out her free arm towards 2D.

2D bolted forward and pulled Noodle away from Murdoc. Noodle quickly ran and hid behind her big brother.

"What are you doing?" asked 2D

"I'm taking her to the recording room!" snapped Murdoc "we need to rehearse!"

"Give her chance! She just got here!"

"She needs to practice for god's sake!"

"Give her a day or two to settle in and I'll teach her the song myself."

"You don't even know the bloody song!!!"

2D paused for a second…

"Hmm…you do have a point."

Whilst he was arguing with Murdoc, 2D could feel Noodle hugging his waist; clearly she was startled by all of the yelling. Poor thing…he thought. She doesn't understand a thing…2D reached down and gripped her hand tightly as if to reassure the frightened girl. His heart jumped as he felt her grip his hand too. He felt happy as Noodle clung to him, he really liked her and honest to god, he wanted to protect her.

"P-please Murdoc…" stammered 2D "Give her a week to get used to us…and I promise, you can teach both of us the new song…"

Murdoc's face turned scarlet red with rage. His clenched fists shook with anger.

"FINE!" he snapped

And on that note, he stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him. 2D and Noodle were left alone in the room. Noodle looked up at 2D with admiration. 2D couldn't believe he'd just stood up to Murdoc…the one person in his life he was ever truly afraid of. He didn't even notice how frightened he clearly was, all he cared about was Noodle.

He walked over to his bed and sat down. He rubbed his hand over his face and wiped the sweat away. Noodle joined him on the bed, still staring and him, she smiled. Noodle placed her hand on 2D's knee and rubbed it reassuringly. He glanced at her and smiled. Before she could even think, Noodle was pulled in for a hug. 2D hugged her tightly, so tightly in fact, she could actually feel his heart beating.

"Th-thank you Noodle" stammered 2D "You gave me a little bit of courage back there…"

2D felt so big. He loved this little girl for giving him the strength to voice out for once in his life. Noodle wrapped her arms around 2D's neck and hugged him back.

"Onii-chan…" sighed Noodle "daisuki…"

"I have no idea what you just said…but thank you…"

Well 4th Chapter's up! ^^

Sorry it took so long guys I'm piled under a mountain of Essays at the moment *cries*

Author's note: New Chapters may take longer nowadays. I'm currently writing a short Wolf's Rain fic in addition to this one so I'm busy busy busy! ^^

Plus not to mention there are some AMV's I wanna make 4 YouTube ^^

Seeya!