This oneshot is based off a fanart of Marichat I saw on Deviantart by an amazing artist RakiBlueguy and the image of Chat holding Marinette in a comforting manner in the rain inspired me to write a story based off of it (Got permission from the artist). This idea may or may not be a teeny bit similar to the idea from part of a comic "Lady Marinette" and the part being "A City of Lies" section but I changed it up a whole lot so it isn't copying the idea exactly. I wanted to do my own twist on it. Anyways, You guys should go check out that drawing and comic x3
Disclaimer: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir do NOT belong to me (Oh don't I wish)
Devastating storm clouds filled the skies of Paris as harsh rain poured down from them like a house spout. Marinette however, did not care. She was pacing through the streets, without an umbrella. Her tears running down matching the rainwater. Her head hung low as she slowly strutted her way back to her home. Nothing mattered anymore. All that filled her mind was the constant flashback of her beloved rejecting her in the most worst way possible::
"Today's the day Tikki. Today's the day I'm going to finally talk to Adrien. No stuttering, no hesitation. Him and I are going to have a full one-on-one conversation perfectly!"
A blue bell eyes girl said triumphantly in her bedroom, giving her kwami a courageous grin. Tikki nuzzled her neck and said "I'm sure you will do fine, Marinette. You didn't practice for 3 hours straight staring at an Adrien poster for nothing!" The little kwami let out a giggle and Marinette blushed lightly, arching her brow and then giving her kwami a small pat.
"Oh, I hope it goes well" Marinette said, grabbing her pink satchel and black sweater.
"I'm rooting for you Mari" Tikki said sweetly, hiding in Marinette's satchel as per usual and Marinette scurried downstairs.
"Adieu, mom and dad!" Marinette spoke, giving both her mom and dad, who were preparing breakfast for themselves a kiss on the cheek.
"Have a nice day at school sweetie" Her mother said kindly. Marinette smiled and waved as she walked her way to school.
Arriving 20 minutes before classes started, Marinette went to her best friend Alya, who was hanging out with a concerned Nino to tell her about her plan to finally speak normally to Adrien.
"What do you mean Adrien gave you the cold shoulder?" Alya questioned her boyfriend and Nino sighed.
"I don't know what got into him, but when I said hello he just ignored me. Maybe he's a bad mood. I don't want to put him on the spot" he explained to Alya.
"Who's in a bad mood?" Marinette approached her best friend and Nino. Alya grabbed her shoulders and stared deep into her eyes.
"ADRIEN" she half whispered, letting her best friend go and Marinette arched her brow.
"Adrien's in a bad mood? Why...?" She sounded then concerned.
"We don't know why, but no one is talking to him. He even gave Chloe the cold shoulder. I'm planning on waiting until later to try and talk to him as my best friend" Nino explained, and Marinette's face was nothing but devastation.
"T-That's weird, Adrien is never mean to anybody. Not even Chloe! And today was the day I was going to talk to finally talk to him without any issues!" Marinette babbled out, not able to comprehend that the boy she worships could be cold shouldered like that.
"I don't suggest talking to him now, Mari. That boy is not in the mood for anybody" Alya said, patting her best friend's shoulder.
"No...maybe I can figure out what's wrong..." She said confidently, for once. And before Alya or Nino could stop her, she was already running inside the school building.
Her eyes scanned for blond hair, white shirt. She paced around with concern, making her way to the court yard of the school and her eyes lit up when she saw Adrien, who was sitting by the staircase.
His head was hung low, and his hands were crossed together, hanging between his legs.
"Adrien..." Marinette whispered to herself, her heart broke at the sight. He looked in pain, and even though this wasn't her initial plan, she was going to talk to him in an attempt to figure out why he's in the state he's in right now.
She slowly paced towards him and stood before him. He slowly lifted his head up and for the first time, his lime eyes sent her a shiver of fear down her spine, instead of electricity.
"A-Adrien" she squeaked out, her heart beginning to pound.
"A-Alya and Nino were saying that you weren't acting like you-yourself at all, towards anybody, and I wanted to see why b-because it's weird...a-and n-now I see you s-sitting here by yourself..." She continued and Adrien just let out a sigh.
"Look, Marinette...I don't want to take out anything on you or anybody else. I'm in a rare form, and I want to be left alone" he stated firmly, and Marinette took that as harsh.
"B-but, it's not good to k-"
"I said, I want to be left alone! I don't want to deal with you, or anybody right now!" He yelled, standing up quickly causing Marinette to erupt a gasp and back up in fear. Adrien grunted and he gently shoved her away as he stormed off.
Marinette's heart pounded beneath her chest from the event that just occurred. She shivered and shook.
"Mari?...are you okay?" Tikki peeked out from the satchel and Marinette let out a shaky sigh.
"Y-yeah Tikki, I'm fine" she let out, as tears started to stream down her face.
Marinette wiped away her tears and pretended to be fine when she went back to Nino and Alya, and she just explained that Adrien was tired. To leave him alone for the day and he'll be fine by tomorrow.
But that was far from the truth
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Marinette didn't care about the weather. She didn't care that she could become sick. She didn't care.
"I said, I want to be left alone! I don't want to deal with you, or anybody right now!" his harsh words echoed in her head.
"Mari! Please take cover. You're going to catch a bad cold!" Tikki exclaimed from within the satchel, which was surprisingly not getting soaked with the rain.
"Tikki, it's fine. I'm almost home..." Marinette moaned out weakly, her vision being altered from both the rain and her own tears, she shivered, her clothing was beyond soaked and her shoes as well.
"Marinette do you even know what part of Paris we're in?"
Marinette sniffled and sneezed when she couldn't quite recognize where she was, the pouring rain made it extremely difficult. Marinette suddenly sneezed again, followed by a croaking sob.
"H-he didn't have to be like that to me" she cried out, falling to her knees and crying in her hands. All she felt physically was cold, wetness. The hard rain drops poking at her externally. Like bullets. Bullets that don't impale you, bullets that feel like little rocks, being thrown at you. Cold rocks.
From a roof building afar, a certain black feline superhero was watching the city melancholically, ignoring the harsh rain. His eyes scanned the area suddenly widening when he saw a figure from afar in the middle of the street.
His superhero instincts were quick, he pulled out his stick and jumped down from building to building until he made his way down and his heart skipped a beat when he saw it was none other than Marinette Dupain-Cheng.
'Marinette? What is she doing out in the rain?!' Chat scurried to her and then impulsively held her, a loud gasp escaped her mouth.
"C-C-Chat?!" she yelped out, chattering her teeth from being terribly cold and whimpered.
"Mari...why are you crying?"
She gasped and whimpered. "D-don't worried about it"
"I don't want to see you cry..." He held her tightly and then without saying a another word, Chat extended his stick and he picked Marinette up bridal style and took her to her balcony.
"Get inside and dry up" he said, squatting down on her balcony fence.
"C-Chat N-Noir w-why d-"
He cut her off with a passionate kiss to the lips. Everything that pained her disappeared into oblivion and shock.
Her blue eyes were widened, not once did she blink but then he pulled away from the kiss.
"Go inside and get changes. I'll be back in about 20 minutes, and you're going to tell me why you were crying in the rain" he repeated, suddenly booping her nose with a finger, and her mind was going wild and she scurried down the hatch to her bedroom and locked it. She quickly changed into pajamas
Marinette was on her bed and her heart was pounding.
"TIKKI! DID YOU SEE THAT?!" she exclaimed nervously, a blush rising to her cheeks quickly.
"Mari, I saw!" Tikki flew out of the satchel and landed upon Marinette's right shoulder.
"W-why did he..." she pointed her index on her lips and more heat rushed to her face.
"Find out when he returns. At least he was concerned of why you were out in the rain. You could've gotten majorly sick!"
Marinette crossed her legs and sighed. Grabbing her head.
"Why did Chat kiss me?!" She exclaimed out, her breathing quickened and became heavier.
"Maybe he wanted to comfort you, he probably had an idea it was about something love related"
"That's ridiculous..." Marinette sighed, but she couldn't help but smile a small smile, but then she whimpered when she remembered why she was sobbing in the rain in the first place. It was cause of Adrien.
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Chat Noir made it back to the Agreste's place and he snuck in through his window and into Adrien's room.
"Plagg, detransform" Chat changed back into Adrien, Plagg suddenly erupting from his ring and landing in his palms.
Plagg groaned. "Ugh Adrien...what the heck was that for?"
Adrien sighed, leaning against the wall next to his window, sliding down and sitting on the floor. "She was crying, because of me.." He said slowly.
"Hold on just a moment, how are you so sure it was cause of you?"
"Cause I acted like a total jerk to her, and to everyone else at school. All Marinette wanted to do was comfort me and I blew her off. Ugh, if it wasn't for Ladybug I..." Adrien clenched his fist and then sniffled.
"Ladybug, all she does is...reject me and I'm so stupid to think that I actually had a chance with her"
"So that's why you were angry huh?"
Adrien sighed, and nodded shamefully. Plagg chuckled, "So you had to take it out on poor Marinette"
"Shut up Plagg, I feel horribly guilty."
"Is that why you kissed her?" Plagg smirked, and a blush crept upon Adrien's cheeks. "U-uh..."
"Hmmm?"
"I kissed her on impulse, Plagg. And speaking of which, it's time I go to her and ask her to tell me detail by detail of how Adrien Agreste made her feel" the blond boy stood up and sighed.
"Plagg, claws out!"
"WAIT CAN'T WE HAVE SOME CAMEM-" but before the black kwami finished, he was being sucked into Adrien's ring and Adrien transformed into his superhero persona.
Grabbing his stick, he noticed the rain stopped. Chat Noir climbed out of the window and made his way to Marinette's.
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Marinette was on her chair in front of her computer desk, sighing as she was deleting some pictures of Adrien.
"No use of being in love with a jerk..." She mumbled quietly and didn't hear a certain superhero sneak in through her window.
Marinette paused when she landed on one of her favorite pictures of Adrien, it was from the photoshoot at the park by the fountain, the same day Ladybug and Chat Noir fought Stormy Weather.
"Mmm..he's so cute in this one though" she murmured to herself and then she froze up when she heard a chuckle. Startled, she screamed and fell off her chair and blushed when she saw Chat standing in her room.
"Chat! W-what are you doing here?"
Chat extended his hand and helped her up. "Startled? I told you I'd be back" he said chivalrously.
His eyes then averted towards her computer screen and then widened.
Marinette blushed some more and turned off her monitor screen. "We're you looking at pictures of Agreste's son?..."
"N-no!...I-I was deleting some because I n-no longer like him..." Marinette's face turned even redder.
"You had feelings for Agreste's son...?" he spoke, guilt filling his voice.
"U-uh, n-no!" Marinette stuttered out, but the blush on her face said otherwise so she then covered her cheeks with her hands embarrassedly.
"Hey it's okay if you did, I'm not going to go telling anyone" Chat chuckled and gave Marinette a reassuring smile.
"Can I ask why you don't like him anymore though?"
Marinette sighed, removing her palms from her cherry colored cheeks and took a seat back in her rolling chair.
"I saw a side of him, that I didn't want to know...He appeared at school today and was just cold towards everyone. My friend Alya, his best friend Nino, to Chloe, and me..."
"E-explain cold"
"Well, when I got to school...they told me about his mood and it was also the same day I planned on talking to him for the first time without being weird or awkward and...I decided to try and approach him about it to try and help me and he just rudely told me to leave him be and he shoved me..." Marinette admitted, clutching her sides in an attempt to not tear up again.
Chat's heart broke. He didn't mean to hurt Marinette like that at all. 'Thanks a lot brain, you've really out sone it now' he yelled at himself mentally.
"H-hey, I'm sure he had a perfectly good reason to be in a bad mood" Chat explained, trying to comfort her and maybe justify his own actions.
"How do you know?..." Marinette sniffled and his heart sunk even more.
"Because I...I...I just know it" Chat murmured out and sighed, flopping to her bedroom floor and lowered his head.
"You're not the only one with love issues" Chat mumbled out darkly, catching Marinette by surprise.
"Love issues? But you're Chat Noir! What love issues can you possibly have? What girl is resisting you?" And after she said that, her face turned a crimson red.
"What did you say Mari?" He lifted his head up and gave her a smirk.
"I-I-I said what girl can resist you because you're a superhero!"
Chat's smirk faded and he sighed again, lowering his head and he mumbled out, "Ladybug..." which caused Marinette's mouth to extend widely open and her eyes were in shock.
"You're in love with Ladybug?..."
Chat then glanced up at the shocked blue eyed girl, pouted then nodded.
"W-well" she began but Chat cut her off by saying "She always rejects me, no matter how hard I try."
"M-maybe she doesn't realize how you feel or that she's rejecting you!.."
"Maybe, but I always try my best to show her in little ways that I care" his head sunk again and Marinette's heart shattered. She had no idea Chat felt that way about well...her
"Chat..." Marinette mumbled softly as she got off of her chair and kneeled in beside him.
"I'm sure Ladybug would realize if you...told her" she gave him a warm smile and his eyes twinkled.
He remained quiet.
Marinette bit her lip and mentally sighed.
"Im sorry, Chat" she said remorsefully and Chat's eyes widened and he looked at her deeply.
"Sorry for what? It's not your fault" he chuckled and lowered his head and she bit her lip some more. As much as she wanted to tell him the truth, she knew she couldn't.
"Anyways...um...I just wanted to thank you..." She mumbled softly and a blush rose to her cheeks.
"Why? Because I saved you from the chances of flu and hypothermia?"
Marinette nodded and a small giggle escaped her mouth.
"Yes, and for being here with me. I feel a whole lot better to be frank" her eyes averted towards the other way and the blush on her cheeks lightened up some more.
"Why don't you show me how thankful you are by letting me give you another kiss?"
and with that, her face turned completely crimson and she backed up a bit.
"W-WHY D-DID Y-YOU D-DO T-THAT A-ANYWAYS!?"
Chat chuckled at her adorable reaction. "What's the matter? 'Cat' got your tongue?" He teased, causing Marinette to cover her burned cheeks wth her palms again.
"Plus, it was the only thing that I thought of to calm you down" he smirked.
"Anyways, I was just kidding. I should be heading off though because it's getting late and I know you have school tomorrow. If you need anything else, you know which cat to call" he winked and stood up, helping Marinette up and when he did that, she grabbed his face and led his lips onto hers, catching him fully by surprise.
His eyes were wide and his cheeks were brightening up and she pulled away gently, barely whispering the words, "Thank you, kitty"
Chat pulled away nervously and chuckled. "No problem, heh. Well, stop worrying about this Adrien guy's bad 'cattitude' and what he said today, I'm sure tomorrow he'll apologize fully to you. I don't want to see you cry anymore, or be sulking in rain, okay?"
Marinette's blush was still prevalent and she nodded.
"Thank you again, Chat" She stammered out, avoiding his green eyes.
"See you tomorrow then" he waved, winked and gently left her bedroom through the window he entered through.
"Heheh.." Marinette giggled and smiled but then her face went pale.
"Tikki, what do you think he meant by 'See you tomorrow'?"
Tikki peeked out from Marinette's bed and giggled. "Probably he meant he'll come by tomorrow evening to see you"
"Yeah, heh. For a moment I thought he meant see me tomorrow as in that he admitted to me that he was Adrien, but that's impossible" Marinette chuckled and laid down in her bed.
Tikki giggled and laid herself on Marinette's pillow.
"I don't know, but anything could happen!"
"I doubt it."
"At least Chat helped you feel better"
Marinette smiled and nodded. "Yeah, he did heh..." But then her heart sank when she remembered how hurt Chat was because of Ladybug.
"But I didn't help him..."
"Mari, you can't control how Ladybug feels. If Ladybug doesn't feel for Chat, she doesn't feel for him"
"That's just it Tikki. I don't know what to feel anymore. After how Adrien was today, and how kind Chat was...I'm torn. Especially after those two kisses we shared...they were so unexpected...it's like i'm in love with Chat now" Marinette blushed at the memory of them. So quick they were, but so impulsive and warm. His kiss really did calm her down.
"Well, let's see what happens tomorrow. You shouldn't worry about it right now. You need sleep, and let's see if Adrien really does apologize"
Marinette smiled, "You're right Tikki. Goodnight" she kissed Tikki's forehead and Tikki nuzzled Marinette's hair and both of them fell asleep peacefully. Marinette ended up dreaming of a certain cat superhero that night.
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"Hey Marinette, I just wanted to apologize for how I acted yesterday..."
"Adrien?..."
Well that's all folks. My original idea for this one shot got completely changed and it may not stay a one shot. I'd like to see if it get's a lot of reviews and reads, and if so I just may continue it and make it a full blown story. But it not, this is the ending. Thank you for those who do read this and enjoy it. And thank you RakiBlueguy for allowing me to write this based off of your inspiring fanart.