Chapter 1:

A/N: I tried writing this story last year and let me just say that the last chapter was horrifically written and bloody disgraceful. I was going into the last stages of my school term and sort of rushed it. Then I had to hand my laptop into my school and I had basically no access to anything that I could write and upload on. So I had to wait for a long time to get my laptop back and now I'm here. I have changed somethings in the story as well as the title. I might do another story when I have finished butchering this one. Anyway here is the modified story. Please review if you can. It makes me a lot more confidant when writing.

HAPPY READING

Six Years Ago:-

"Hey", Adrien greeted Marinette. She stiffened and turned her back on him. Adrien looked down and walked forward putting up his umbrella. "I just wanted you to know that I was only trying to take the chewing gum off your seat, I swear. I've never been to school before, never had friends. It's all sort of new to me."

Adrien turned around in the pouring Parisian rain and held out the umbrella to her. Their eyes met and Marinette's mouth hung slightly open, noticing for the first time not only how attractive he was but also how kind and caring he was. She gazed in to the emerald green depths of his eyes and made a small inaudible gasp. He handed her the umbrella. Marinette stood there stunned at how wrong she had been to judge him so quickly. The moment was cut short as the umbrella abruptly closed around her. Adrien laughed at her, but not scornfully. It was a laugh that friends share. She was quick to join in.

"See you tomorrow" he said before walking to the waiting car already soaked to the bone.

"Uh-huh, see you to-tomor-row".

And in that moment although Marinette would have deigned it, Adrien's name was branded into a special place in her heart. A place that he would come to rule over the coming years.

Chat sat with his legs swinging over the side of the highest level on the Eiffel tower. He closed his eyes and listened to the world around him. The birds chirping far away, the tourists clicking their cameras at each other, the soft rustle of fabric behind him…. He suddenly sprang up and span pointing an accusing finger at Ladybug who had been sneaking up on him.

"You know that I'm the stealthy one in this partnership?" Chat grinned as he grabbed a startled Ladybugs hand and kissed it. He didn't tell her how she had almost caught him. "Not you!"

"You…your…. Argh. I hate you, you know that, right?" Ladybug said playfully as she flicked his nose when he kissed her hand.

Chat gasped dramatically and pretended to faint. "Your words wound me Princess. I don't think I'll ever recover…." And then he fell to the ground.

"Chat come on. Get up!" Ladybug kicked him not gently in the side. He didn't even grunt.

"I'll kick you harder" she threatened. Chats hand slowly raised up and beckoned her closer.

"What?" She asked harshly. Still the hand beckoned her. She went to a knee beside him "Yes Chat?"

"Kiss of life?" he asked hopefully.

Chats yelp of pain was heard all across Paris.

"You didn't have to kick me that fucking hard you realize?" Chat whined as he prodded his ribs. "It really hurts."

"I think I did have to kick you that fucking hard, you weren't getting up anytime soon" Ladybug tried not to laugh as Chat softly massaged his side. "I would have had to do patrol alone."

"It still hurts" Chat said wincing.

"Alright, enough complaining. Let's get on with patrol." She threw out her yoyo and swung away to the start of their route around the city. Chat followed behind her barely keeping up. She ran to the top of a building and then stopped to let him catch up.

"What wrong Chat?" She asked. He normally raced her along the track but he was slow today. "Is it your ribs? Look I'm sorry but you were asking for it."

"I know, I know. It's not that." He said.

"What then?" She asked concerned.

"It's nothing, I'm just tired"

"Well maybe we should take a break before finishing" Ladybug said wanting to make sure her partner was fine.

Chat sat down and with nothing else to do watched Ladybug. She sat there like a goddess, bathed in sunlight with a slight smile on her lips as she looked over Paris. His eyes drifted down her body and back up again.

"See something you like Chat?" Ladybug questioned. Chat felt his cheeks grow warm with a blush and he realized that he had been caught staring.

"S-sorry, Princess. I didn't mean to ummm… you know." Chat stuttered.

"Its fine. It's not like I haven't checked you out when we've been on patrol."

"I still shouldn't look at you like that. It isn't right, I'm sorry." He apologized again.

"Look, lets finish patrol and you can make it up to me next time we meet, ok?"

"Ok. Sorry" Chat said still feeling embarrassed.

They jumped and swung around the city until they were finally back at the Eiffel tower. They sat down near the top of the tower and fell into a comfortable silence. Just as the sun was going down Ladybug stood and looked down at Chat.

"I should probably go now. I'll meet you tomorrow for patrol?" She asked.

"It's a date." Said Chat.

"Oh shut up you stupid cat" Sighed Ladybug taking a swipe at him. Chat danced out of her reach before she connected. "Bye Kitten." And with that she turned and swung off to her house.

Adrien stood in his room. He couldn't stop thinking about Ladybug every time he tried to distract himself she just popped back into his mind. Her intoxicating beauty had left its mark on his mind and right now the only thing he could think about was her. He decided to go out and clear his mind. It was a clear cool night. Chat ran around the city trying to decide how he could take his mind off of Ladybug. He was looking down at the Louvre when he heard screams in the distance. As quick as he could he ran over to the sounds and found people scattered over the ground covered in blood. A girl ran to him yelling in a language he didn't understand. There was confusion everywhere. He didn't see the Akuma but he knew that this was one's work.

"Chat Noir! Chat Noir! Please help me!" All of the people were crying, screaming for his help but he couldn't. He had to go after the Akuma and hope that Ladybug showed up to help him. He heard more screams and followed on the roof tops. The Akuma stood in what seemed to be golden armor. It had a shield about as large as Chat and a viciously barbed spear for a weapon. It was going after more civilians so Chat distracted it. He jumped down behind it intending to daze it with a blow to the head. The Akuma turned lightning quick and slammed its shield into Chat slamming him into a building. He fell to the ground as the Akuma spoke in a deep gravelly voice.

"Ahhhh, Chat Noir. I am Gladiator. Have you come to surrender you miraculous?" The Akuma walked slowly to Chat.

Chat stood unsteadily on his feet and looked at the Akuma who was easily twice his height.

"I think you know that I didn't come here to surrender. I came to kick your gold plated ass!" Chat thought desperately, trying to think of a way to disable the Akuma. He sprang away as Gladiator stabbed where he had been just a moment before. This was going to be a tough fight.

Marinette heard screams and then saw Chat fly past her window with a massive Akuma following him closely. She quickly transformed and followed them. Chat was being tossed around like a toy by the Akuma. Chat jumped away only to be grabbed by the ankle and then slammed into the ground and flung into a building. She ran to him to help him up and then they rushed to meet the Akuma.

Gladiator was having a harder time fighting both of the superheroes but he was still putting up a better fight than most Akumas. The duo simultaneously attacked the Akuma Ladybug going for his upper body while Chat went low. Ladybug leaped toward the monster but was slammed aside by his shield. Chat blinded by worry failed to see the spear coming towards him with frightening speed. With Ladybug dazed Chat was at his mercy. Gladiator stabbed Chat through his back and then drove the spear down so hard that the point punched through into the ground. Ladybug heard a long drawn out scream of pain but didn't believe it was Chats. As Gladiator struggled to pull the spear from the ground and back through Chat, he summoned his Cataclysm and destroyed the spear. A dark purple butterfly flew out of the destroyed weapon. Ladybug quickly cleansed the Akuma and then ran to her partner. She repaired all of the damage that the Akuma had done with the lucky charm that she had summoned, a fire extinguisher, which had appeared to be completely useless. Chat lay on the ground gasping for breath. The Akuma victim was kneeling on the ground nearby.

"Get away from him, you monster!", She sobbed knowing that she was being unfair to the man. She took Chats head into her lap and then carefully lifted him up and took him to a nearby roof top. She lay him down and quickly checked him over. There didn't seem to be any damage that she could see.

"I'm fine Bugaboo, really. Don't be afraid." He smiled weakly at her. A hand reached up and caressed her cheek. She hugged him tightly and cried into his chest. He hugged her back from his horizontal position.

"I thought you had died. You know you don't come back if that happens. I can't heal death-" She broke off, the thought to horrible to voice. "You remember what happened to that man who got killed by an Akuma."

Chat did. The man's body, which had been shredded apart, had been pulled back together and he had looked normal. There hadn't even been a scratch on him. But the charm had only healed what was physical. The man had still been dead. "I'm not dead and the charm heals everything else so I should be fine."

"Well do you feel anything weird? Is there anything that might help you?" Ladybug was still worried.

Chat decided to put her mind at ease. "Well there is one thing that might help…"

"Yes, anything Chat."

He pulled her down so he could whisper into her ear. "Kiss of life." He asked hopefully for the second time that day.

His surprised squawk was heard all across Paris as she responded with a fervor that he least of all had expected.