Miraculous:
Obsessed with a Kiss
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Adrien looked at the screen again. He'd been doing it a lot since the Oblivo incident. He had been super thrilled when he saw the photo Alya had captured with her phone that day. His heart fluttered a little every time he looked at it on her blog. Unfortunately, it also dropped him to an abysmal abyss of sorrow. After all, it showed him that somehow in the period of about an hour, he had, as Cat Noir, managed to make Ladybug fall in love with him. That left one really simple but huge question on his mind.
HOW?!
Plagg of course was no help in the process. For one thing, the Kwami didn't really care that much about it. "It's no big deal." The obnoxious floating cat said. "I wouldn't worry about it too much. Now how about a snack?" He loved the little Kwami, but that really made him want to flick Plagg into a fish tank.
"I do wish Alya hadn't posted the news about Ladybug being in love with someone else though." He realized it was news and all, but still, that was pretty private information. Besides as he read the comments under her post, none of them were very helpful in answering his question. A few were people really wanted Ladybug and Cat Noir to get together (Yay Them) not Ladybug and some random guy, many were speculating about who the mysterious boy could be, and a few guys and one girl were saying it was them that Ladybug was in love with. Adrien was pretty sure they were all wrong. He did feel a little hypocritical about his thoughts too, since he'd been going over the comments hoping someone would have come up with a clue as to how he'd made Ladybug fall in love with him.
"Plagg, help me! I need to know!" He cried. Plagg made some unintelligible noise through a mouthful of cheese. "Ugh" Adrien replied and flopped back in his chair staring at the photo. He sat back up, clicked on it to save it, opened it in a photo processing software, enlarged it to the largest size he could without loosing the quality, and sent it to the large format printer in his father's workshop so he would have a nice poster sized print to hang in his room.
Adrien went to the workshop and made sure the photo was in the printer's que. After switching to a nice glossy stock, He started the print. As it was going, Nathalie peaked in.
"Oh Adrien, it's you." She commented. "Is that the photo from your classmates blog?" She asked when she saw the top of it appear.
"Yeah it is, Nathalie." He replied. "It's a great shot don't you think?" Nathalie was actually pretty torn about it if she were being honest with herself. She actually did think it was a great shot, and she was happy for the pair to a certain extent. However, being that she was the assistant to their enemy, and that she wanted him to win, which would likely lead to some kind of end to Ladybug and Cat Noir, it made her sad to look at it. Then there was the fact that if her boss won, Emilie would be back, and her own feelings for him would remain unrequited. Still there was no evidence that if he never got Emilie back that he would end up returning her feelings anyway. "Earth to Walter Mitty, come in Walter." Adrien called to her as she spaced out.
"Huh, what?" She asked. She didn't normally zone out like that making it rather embarrassing for her, but on rare occasions she would end up being caught in her own thoughts. "It's a lovely shot Adrien. I'm not sure it's poster worthy, but it is lovely." She finally responded. "I didn't know you were such a fan of them."
"How can you not be a fan of them." He stated. "They are real life super heroes, and Ladybug is beautiful."
"Ah, sounds like Cat Noir isn't the only one with a crush on Ladybug." She laughed a little. It was a rare sound for Adrien to hear, but it also sounded just a little sad to him.
"Maybe a little." He admitted.
"With the villain they fight, I hope you don't fully fall in love with her. You never know what could happen. I hate to see you end up heart broken or worse."
"Wow, Nathalie, that's really kind of a downer, but don't worry. My current feelings for her are enough, I don't need them to grow."
"That's good." She finished before leaving him to his poster. Once it had fully printed, Adrien hung it on a wall where he could see it clearly from his bed.
"I wonder if I should print another one for the main area." He asked Plagg. Plagg for his part just groaned.
A
"So you have no idea why Ladybug kissed Cat Noir?" He asked Nino during lunch. Since Marinette, Alya, Rose and Juleka would eventually join them, he wanted to grill Nino a little before they showed up. He really didn't want the girls in class going all goo goo eyed over him having a crush on Ladybug. He was certain Nino could keep the secret.
"Sorry Dude. Not a clue. I barely remember anything from when Alya and I were Oblivio. You could always ask Alya, I'm sure she's been looking into it a little, or at least into who the dude is that Ladybug has the hots for."
"Yeah I was wondering about that as well a little, but honestly I'm more interested in the Cat Noir angle. I mean they've know each other for so long with nothing, and then a hour without their memories, they fall in love."
"Are you two talking about Ladybug's boyfriend?" Chloe asked from behind them. It caused the pair to jump slightly in their seats. Sabrina was just behind her carrying both of their trays.
"Not really that part." Adrien admitted. Chloe sat down next to him. "More about the kiss she had with Cat Noir."
"Oh Adri-kins, I didn't realize you were such a romantic. Perhaps we could reenact the kiss together." She started making little kissy mouth movements.
"Um, no that's okay." He gently pushed her away. "I'm just trying to figure out why it happened. You know, I'm curious about it, but not enough to reenact it." Chloe hmphed and stood up just as Sabrina set down their trays and sat across from them at the table.
"Well at any rate, they both used their powers before they were hit right, so they probably spent a lot of time together in their normal forms. It's probably something so utterly lame like it turned out Cat Noir was the boy she was in love with." Chloe motioned to Sabrina to get up, "Come on Sabrina, it's time to go, the riff raff are coming this way." She nodded towards the girls who normally sat with Adrien and Nino. Sabrina sighed softly as she got up, grabbed the trays and followed Chloe to their usual table.
"Dude, you okay?" Nino asked Adrien, who seemed to have turned to stone before his eyes. "Bro, something is going to like fly in your mouth if you don't close it."
"What happened to him?" Alya asked when she saw Adrien's impression of a stone idle.
"Chloe." Nino remarked.
"Ah." She replied.
B
"like it turned out Cat Noir was the boy she was in love with." Chloe's voice kept playing through his head for the rest of the day. He'd never thought of that possibility. He'd excused himself and went into the bathroom trying to think about what he would have done with no memory. He'd try to get into this phone. He checked it and there had been a call to his father during the time that Oblivio was fighting Cat Noir and Ladybug. He also had a call from Marinette. She was probably trying to figure out where I was since I was missing and she's class president, he thought. He'd looked at his home screen, which had a photo of Ladybug on it, and the dozens of additional photos saved on his phone.
"Okay, so it would be obvious that I had a thing for her if anyone looked at my phone." He explained to Plagg.
"Or that you are just a pathetic fan boy." Plagg couldn't help himself. He was so tired of the relationship triangle, square, or whatever other geometric shape that made up Adrien's complicated but basically non-existent love life. If he could actually tell him who Ladybug was, Plagg would have shouted it in his ear to get past it all, but alas, he could not, so he was forced to suffer through it. He just ate additional Camembert cheese to make up for the annoyance.
"Thanks for your support Plagg." He griped. "Still if I was able to get into my phone, she probably could have gotten into hers right? Maybe she had a picture of the boy she was in love with on her phone too." He smiled. "It's really easy to get photos of me with all the modeling I do." Adrien frowned. "But then if she only knows me as a model, that would mean her feels for me are superficial right?" He asked.
"You're putting way too much thought into this Adrien. I think you just need to relax, eat some glorious Camembert and let your mind go blank for a while." Adrien sighed.
Plagg is right, I need to take a break from this, but I'm not eating that smelly cheese.
C
For more then two days the thoughts of that kiss and especially Chloe's comment had plagued Adrien's mind. The more he thought about it, the more it made sense, although he had to admit, that it could also be wishful thinking. The comment had come from Chloe after all, but Chloe tended to be fairly insightful to things that didn't involve her or people she disliked. In other words, she didn't have a horse in the race, so it didn't matter who won or something like that.
Generally an akuma attack was not a happy moment, however when one happened, he was ecstatic. It would give him a chance to talk to Ladybug, however, he would wait until after the battle was over before he tried. He didn't want to irritate her.
"Miraculous Ladybug!" She shouted as she tossed her lucky charm into the air. It exploded and started to fix all the damages done during the attack. She raised her arm to do a fist bump when Cat Noir stopped her.
"My Lady, can we please talk. It's important."
"I don't have time kitty, I'm about to change back soon."
"Then please go change, feed your Kwami and transform again." He begged. She frowned but agreed to it. Something about the desperation in his eyes convinced her. "Great, then meet me up on that roof there." He pointed towards the highest building in the area. "We should have plenty of privacy there."
Ladybug showed up quicker then Cat Noir thought she would and he was more nervous then he expected to be. He felt like he was about to do something extra stupid, but he really needed to talk to her.
"About the kiss we shared a couple days ago." He started.
"Cat Noir, I'm sorry, but I've told you before, I don't want to lead you on. There is someone I'm in love with." She frowned. She honestly had never wanted to lead him on in any way, it's why she was honest with him about being in love with someone already, it was also why she also couldn't admit to him that if the boy she loved wasn't in the picture, he did have a chance with her. What she didn't want was to give him false hope because she did have feelings for Adrien. Then came that stupid kiss. She was so angry at Alya for taking that photo and posting it.
"That's not really what this is about." He started. "I've been thinking about it for a while now, and I really wanted to know how I was able to get you to fall in love with me. Then when I was talking to my friend Nino about it," Stupid moment #1, he was giving her a little information about his real life. The moment he said the name, her eyes went wide with surprise. Did that mean she knew Nino? Outside of the akuma thing? If she did, then she might really know him in his everyday life, which meant, there was a good chance her feelings for him, if it was him, were based on the real him and not the model him or simply they weren't superficial.
"Cat Noir." She stated in a weak warning, obviously nervous.
"We were overheard by my other friend Chloe." Stupid moment #2. If she knew Nino, and if she knew Chloe, aside from being the cause of so many akumatizations, then she had all the information she needed to figure out who he was if she tried. After all, there were only two people who would willingly call Chloe a friend, and only one was a boy. Honestly, he was surprised her eyes hadn't popped out of her head with the additional shock in her expression. He had to wonder if she was in pain. "You see, she basically said, that we must have spent time together in our normal forms, so she figured that I must have become the boy you were in love with." Again her expression of shock changed to look even more painful then before. It was apparent that she'd never considered that possibility before that moment. The entire time he was talking to her, he'd had his ring pressed against his thigh to muffle the sound of its warning beep. He started to raise his arm.
"My Lady, are you in love with Adrien Agreste?" He asked flat out as he turned his hand to show her that his ring was still beeping. He had tried to time it so he changed back as he said the name. His timing had been off.
"Adrien Agreste?" She questioned looking at him her mouth hanging open a little. Finally the beeping stopped and his transformation ended.
Choose Your Own Ending:
Chapter 2 For Challenge Ending
Chapter 3 For Insightful Ending
Notes:
Actually, I'm betting if you made it this far, you'll probably read both endings, in which case, I'm curious to know which one you like the most.
Trying to decide how to list them, was a challenge too. I ended up with Insightful and Challenge, but I started with Sweet and Smart Ass.
Enjoy
Peace and Love
Oh, and don't worry, I'll be working on the Bonus chapter for Bluebell Eyes next.
