| ~*~*~ Sunlight shone from the high windows of 2D's basement room, hitting her bronze face as her dark eyelashes fluttered. She sat up and stretched, her arms far above her head. She knew she was awake far before 2D would ever even stir, but she didn't feel like lying still until the boy woke. She looked down at him, noting how skinny and sickly he looked. Maybe she should share some of her food with him, he never seemed to eat enough and he smoked and didn't take proper care of himself. Of course, Murdoc had the same problem, but Noodle was always a little afraid of Murdoc. He was a very strange man, and seemed to like not taking care of himself..and when Murdoc liked something, no one could talk him out of it. 2D just didn't seem to know any better than to neglect himself. Noodle moved her legs, and her attention was immediately drawn to something strange. Her feet were lumps far further down the sleeping bag than she remembered them being last night. She also felt curious in some places. She lifted the edge of her sleeping bag and peered down, startled to find two long, shapely bronze legs extending down her sleeping bag. She blinked and looked around for the owner of those legs, and then looked down at herself to find two breasts on her chest, and curves she'd never seen there before. She yanked out the collar of her nightie and looked down to find that the curves were, indeed, attached to her. "Nani!? Mou..." She screamed and leaped over onto 2D, stumbling and landing on him in this awkward long-limbed body she wasn't used to. He startled awake and almost fell off the bed. "2D-chan! 2D-chan!" she screamed, "Atashi.....onna! Shinjinai!" She continued repeating the word 'onna' and a string of Japanese that could barely be understood by even someone who spoke her language. 2D rolled over under her weight and almost fell off the bed, then ducked back and shrank against his headboard, staring at her with his deep black eyes widened in shock and fear. "Wha? Who're you?" he demanded, his head starting to throb under his unruly blue-purple hair. He was still exhausted, and wasn't prepared for some small-but-shapely beautiful asian girl crawling on him. What had happened last night? He couldn't remember taking home some pretty groupie, just letting Noodle stay with him, but here was this girl...and she wasn't anything like Noodle! In fact, she appeared to be about 10 years older and much more shapely and she even had a full head of thick, straight black hair instead of a weird mohawk. The girl continued chattering at him in Japanese or something while he stared at her blankly, trying to figure things out. When he realized that she wore a very-tight Powerpuff Girls nightgown, something clicked. "Wassa?" he muttered, slurring the words together in his sleepiness, "You aren't...?" "Noodle!" the girl said miserably, pointing to herself. 2D nodded and blinked and nodded again, "Noodle." she asserted again, and then started crying, asking over and over in Japanese what had happened. 2D didn't understand the words she said, but he understood she was afraid, and so took her gently in his arms and held her for a moment, just like he would have any other time Noodle was scared. She buried her face in his shoulder and cried out the confusion of a 10-year-old girl trapped in a woman's body she didn't understand. Finally she sat back and looked at him, then asked in sullen Japanese what they should do. 2D looked very serious, "Usually I'd say talk to Murdoc, he's smart, but since he's prob'ly hungover, we best talk wiv Russell." He crawled out of the bed and tossed Noodle his Fila sweater and another of his pyjama pants so she would be decent, and led her out of his room. Noodle walked awkwardly on legs she wasn't used to controlling, but seemed to get control over herself within a few yards down the hallway. She was glad she'd awakened this way in 2D's room rather than by herself or in one of the other boys' rooms. Russ would have freaked, thinking Del had done something weird, and Murdoc would have leered at her, thinking she was a girl he'd had for a 'sleepover' the night before. 2D was the only one who was slow enough to catch on that it was her...2D wasn't entirely stupid, but he didn't let his intelligence get in the way of seeing things for what they were. Murdoc or Russ would have refused to believe it. Like Russ was going to now. Noodle steeled herself for her oniichan (note: 'oniichan' is an affectionate way to say 'big brother') to not recognize her when he saw her. 2D knocked on the door and there was a grumble from inside. Noodle leaned forwards nervously, almost losing her balance, and then knocked again, "Gomenkudasai?" she asked quickly. "Errrum...ur...Noodle, c'min." Russel said softly, his voice cracking with tiredness. Noodle managed to make her strange fingers turn the knob, and walked in awkwardly, afraid of what Russ would say. |