I AM TRASH
I CAN NOT DEAL
I'M SUPPOSED TO FINISH THINGS!
AND HERE I AM, WRITING AN ONESHOT ON MY NEWEST OBSESSION…
(Breathes in slowly) Well if you are a fan of Miraculous Ladybug, then this is your lucky day because I've decided to join a journey I can never turn back from…
I'm being over dramatic sorry… enjoy the oneshot! I've already written like a lot and scrapped it then made this, it might be better or worse but it's worth a shot.
I've only watched the Dub so sorry for any confusion there might be.
One Sentence.
That's all it took.
One measly sentence and all you ever thought had been disregarded and replaced with irrationality and lack of control… wait… no that would only be Adrien…
Currently he's dangling off a tree branch... by his foot. Honestly how could he be this clumsy, he's a cat for miraculous sake! But that wasn't the worst part, no, the worst part was that he was dangling in front of Marinette Dupain-Cheng and he was currently Chat Noir.
Maybe as Adrien he could slick past the hairy situation, but as Chat that wasn't going to happen. And Marinette was not entirely happy with Chat… more like livid.
To be fair on his part, this whole mess could be explained calmly.
That darn sentence started it all.
It was a pleasant evening of patrolling with Chats beloved Ladybug. The wonderful summer breeze danced in her hair as she swung from building to building and his wide curious green eyes danced watching her. His heart could only be overwhelmed by her and his thoughts were nothing but consumed with her. Whoever she is under that mask, he loves her.
But finding out who she is behind the mask is harder than he'd suspect it to be. All he needed was a hint-
"Hey Kitty something wrong?" The heroine called out behind her to him on the rooftop.
He smirked at her concern "It's nothing milady. Just admiring the night."
She placed her hand on her hip and observed the night herself as if she was only -noticing it now "I guess it is quite nice…" she said nonchalantly.
The blonde haired feline dipped down to sit and enjoy said evening and looked over to his lady "Why don't we take a small break and enjoy it milady?"
He was surprised she didn't order him to get up and continue their patrol and even more surprised that she sat next to him to actually did what he suggested.
"That sounds like a good idea." She sighed through her lips.
Her dazzling blue eyes watched the night sky, searching for some hidden stars in the skyline. The breeze swept up again and blew her pigtails in his direction.
'She smells sweet, like vanilla.' He noted
He couldn't help but notice every detail he could about her with the mask on. Like her eye lashes are long and full; making her blue eyes stand out more now that he had paid attention, or that not all her freckles were concealed by her mask and her lips are full and somehow always pulled into a small smile that she herself doesn't notice.
He wanted more to admire.
"Something the matter?" she asked catching him staring at her.
He smirked at her "Not at all milady. I'm just paw-sitively enriched by your beauty and living in the meow-ment."
She rolled her eyes on cue, she expected a pun or two sooner or later. But she wasn't convinced of his answer.
"Who do you think you're fooling Kitty?"
The blonde laughed slightly, almost sounding down. But even though she was sounding playful his features displayed emotions that were unlike him, almost desperate.
"Ladybug…" he sounded pleadingly
Her smile disappeared hearing his tone and nodded to hear what he had to say.
"Who are you?" he asked in a way she couldn't deny.
She held her breath unsure how to respond even though she had countlessly given the same answer to the same question, but something felt different to this time. She couldn't really grasp why he wanted to know the girl under the mask… why he always pesters her about her civilian life. She knew the flirting gave indication of his attraction towards her, but never would she have guessed he wanted to know Marinette as well as Ladybug.
Her thoughts delayed her answer and Chat was becoming worried from her silence.
"Well, that's something I can't say Chat…" she excused herself.
He sighed "I know"
"But…" she drawled out teasingly and his ears picked up eagerly.
"Just because I can't say who I am doesn't mean you can't look for me. I can't help it if you find out by yourself." She reasoned.
Chat smirked "So does that give me permission to follow you milady?"
"Oh dear Chat, you wouldn't keep up if that's the case" she playfully bantered.
She noticed how his green eyes sparkled with excitement by the challenge but she gave him something else to ponder on.
"But dear Chat-" she wiggled her finger in front of him
"I might be closer than you think, you just have to look." She winked
"What do you think I've been doing this whole time milady?" he groaned
She giggled and pushed herself back onto her feet, indicating it was time to continue patrol. Without warning she flung her magical yo-yo and swung off towards Notre Dame. He chuckled aloud as he pulled himself up and brought his baton out to follow.
"So the chase begins my lady."
The chase felt futile to say in the least. Adrien was so close to breaking at this point and it's only been two weeks since the spotted heroine gave him the challenge. He was currently exhausted, not only from his frantic attempts to follow Ladybug home but along with his schedule Natalie had so graciously filled up for him, (till today thankfully) and not to mention the amount of work he had to do to make sure his grades stayed flawless.
Thankfully today was Friday and Adrien could ease up on his civilian life. He arrived at school with his face trained to look like he wasn't tired, but his feet said differently as he was practically dragging them to class.
Once in class Nino immediately saw that his best friend was on the brink of collapsing, despite Adrien's façade he tried to display to everyone else.
"Dude, you look like a zombie." Nino joked.
Adrien took his seat and let his face fall on the desk with a drained moan in response to his best friend.
Nino laughed but sympathetically patted Adrien's back and then turned to face Alya, who was complaining to Marinette.
"It's so frustrating Marinette! Every time I'm close to figuring out who Ladybug is, it backfires! Whoever she is, she is a master of secrets." Alya frustratingly groaned.
The conversation reached Adrien's ears in interest, as he too is trying to figure out the mystery of Ladybug, so he kept listening attentively.
Marinette giggled at the blogger but tried to reassure her best friend, but what Marinette didn't know, was that what she was about to say next would cause an uproar in Adrien's life.
"I know this might not help Alya but she might be closer than you think, you just have to look."
Adrien's head flew up as fast as a bullet; his eyes were wide and in shock.
'What did she just say?!' he almost spoke aloud.
He quickly turned to face Marinette, who got startled by his previous action, and couldn't help but stare at her. He couldn't help to do so because she sounded exactly like Ladybug! Ladybug told him the exact same thing two weeks ago and Marinette's voice was identical to the masked heroine!
It could be a coincidence since a few people sound alike but it was so uncanny and the more he looked at Marinette, the more she looked like Ladybug from her hair colour to her eye colour.
'Has she always had freckles?' he asked himself in his head
Alya coughed awkwardly as Adrien had been staring for a bit and he internally yelled at himself for it but smoothly recovered, well… almost "Sorry Marinette I wanted to ask you something but I totally spaced! Sorry to bother." he chuckled at himself to seem convincing.
"Oh! Problem no! I mean NO PROBLEM! I-it's never a bother with you… Not that you're a bother other times! But um d-don't worry!" Marinette fumbled and probably slapped her head mentally.
With a smile he turned around and leaned his face into the desk trying to sort his thoughts out.
'Maybe I'm wrong, Ladybug does speak a bit more coherently' Adrien was reasoning in his head.
Although he does recall when Ladybug speaks to Adrien in his civilian form she isn't her usual graceful self… was Ladybug ever really graceful? In the beginning of their partnership she was a lot clumsier, and Marinette could fall over insects if she really tried.
Besides, Marinette might just be nervous around Adrien since she has no problems speaking to Chat Noir, she's even snarky and teasing with the cat hero!
The more Adrien reasoned the more he pictured Marinette in the Ladybug outfit and it seemed she fit the bill exactly.
But Adrien can't be calling Marinette out on a few hunches, so how would he confirm this for sure?
Adrien had a bad idea…
Even Plagg was against it and if he was against it you know it's a bad plan.
"Seriously kid this is a horrible idea. Why don't we both go clear our heads with some Camembert? Yeah?" Plagg suggested.
It was the end of the school day and Adrien has the afternoon off, but the blonde boy had quickly dismissed his driver and bodyguard to tell him he was with a friend and will call him later when he needed his ride home.
But was that what he was up to? Not even close.
He was in a bush.
By the School
Waiting for Marinette…
"I don't need to clear my head with stinky cheese, and I'll give you Camembert after this if that's what you're really after." Adrien hastily replied to his Kwami.
"No you doofus! I'm trying to get you to stop before Marinette calls the police on you." Plagg deadpanned.
Adrien only replied with an eye-roll and ignored the Kwami. Now all he had to do was to wait and put on the good ol' stealth mode… aka totally stalk her. It wasn't ideal for him, it really is the first time he's doing this so you can't exactly call him a creep.
While deep in thought he heard Alya's oh so familiar chatty voice which meant she was with Marinette. His eyes were glued to the door until the two females emerged and his breath felt a bit short. Did the idea of Marinette being Ladybug affect him this much? One could only imagine how he would react if said girl was in fact the masked spotted hero.
His ears zoned in onto the best friends conversation and tried ever so carefully not to be noticed.
"Are you sure you don't want company at the fabric store?" Alya asked.
Marinette shook her head "I'm sure, I want to go somewhere quiet to work on new designs afterwards in any case, I know you have to update the blog today anyway." Marinette rationalized.
Adrien groaned a bit inside, following her around isn't going to be easy today. Maybe at some point he could transform and watch her from the rooftops? His own thoughts convinced him that he's sounding creepier by the minute…
The girls waved each other off and Marinette started her journey to the fabric store. Once they were far enough away, Adrien began his pursuit.
He kept a reasonable distance and occasionally went behind a tree although he would receive some curious gazes. He decided he would pull out his phone and pretend to play Pokémon GO, he doesn't own the game due to his father's restrictions but nonetheless the onlookers figured he was playing.
He kept tailing Marinette the best he could as Adrien, but he sure did have trouble blending into the background, especially at the fact that his face is kinda plastered around Paris. Though the blonde had his reasons not to be Chat right now was the best option for now since following Marinette into stores would be easier to do as Adrien.
They were close to the store but he noticed Marinette had stopped to enjoy the view of a lone cherry blossom tree. He kept a good distance that he couldn't be spotted and that he could see her clearly.
She stood on her tippy toes to smell the lowest branch of the tree and sighed in delight. But what she did next was odd.
She opened her small pink sling on purse and started to talk to herself… very odd indeed but Adrien couldn't help but to try and angle his head to see what was in the purse. Perhaps a cell phone? Maybe it was on loud speaker and she was being cautious of pickpockets around here?
'Or maybe she's talking to her Kwami' his thoughts invaded suddenly.
"Plagg" he beckoned for the small feline.
Said small feline whipped out from his hiding place "This better be one of those moments where I get Camembert and we get to go home without getting arrested."
"Can you get cheese off your mind for a minute? I need a question answered."
The small Kwami frustratingly sighed and gestured for him to ask.
"Can you tell if the ladybug Kwami is near?" Adrien asked while looking at Marinette chatting away at her bag.
Plagg noticed Marinette's actions and raised a brow "I may grant powers kid but I'm not psychic or tele-whatever. But that does look suspicious…"
Adrien nodded and let the Kwami go back into his hiding place. Even though he didn't get the answer he hoped for, at least he wasn't the only one wary about Marinette's actions.
Suddenly Marinette closed the purse and proceeded to the fabric store. He decided to wait outside since the store was fairly small and there would be no way for Adrien to go undetected in there.
'Maybe it's a good time to transform?' Adrien thought
As if his Kwami was really telepathic he sprung out of his hiding place "Don't do it Adrien…" Plagg warned.
Adrien huffed "Since when have you stopped plans like this before, I thought you would encourage my rebellious side or whatever?"
Plagg usually doesn't get cautious and he really doesn't care what Adrien does with his powers, so he couldn't help but wonder if the little Kwami knows something he doesn't. Nevertheless Adrien was following his heart on this one.
"Plagg, Claws out!
Before the little feline got sucked into the silver ring, he could only groan and shake his head at his holder.
As the blonde model changed in his hiding spot he wasted no time using his baton to get into a lush tall tree to hide. It didn't take Marinette a long time to get the materials she wanted and she proceeded to where she was on to next.
Chat Noir kept a good distance, watching her closer than he did as Adrien thanks to his enhanced vision due to his Miraculous. With this in hand it was ironic that Marinette kept her purse close and thus showing no indication of a Kwami in her possession.
He was getting restless at the lack of progression… maybe there was nothing there to begin with and he wasted his time by being a creeper. The Cat hero sighed restlessly and was ready to give up.
Until he saw Marinette trip… over a flight of stairs…
He was going to leap towards her and save her, until… that it is that she already landed on her feet, and gracefully to top it off!
It was almost like it played in slow motion from when her feet betrayed her. As she fell she dropped what she was holding and her hands, almost as if it was natural, held her body up on the one step and let her body gently fall backwards letting her feet meet the next step she found and pulled her body aright again. The girl looked around and sighed in relief that no one witnessed her clumsy blunder. Too bad she didn't look up in the trees…
Adrien's mouth hung as if he dislocated his jaw and couldn't close it.
'Marinette the clumsy girl did that?!' he yelled internally.
He slapped himself in the head for considering leaving now. Marinette never showed signs of being athletically interested and the way she gracefully recovered like a gymnast reminded him of Ladybug.
She walked back up the stairs to get the abandoned bag of fabric and she opened her purse again, keeping her back to him and he couldn't see if she was talking to the pink bag.
If Adrien had any doubts now he completely left them behind and continued to watch over his classmate. She closed her purse again and hoped on a bus at the nearest stop. He thus jumped from building and followed her towards some place near the Seine he had never been to before.
Despite his lack of knowledge of the place, he didn't really care too much, because it was one of the most beautiful places he'd ever laid his eyes on.
Colours upon colours danced everywhere in his line of sight and a beautiful palace stood proudly in the distance. The flowers refused to leave his gaze and have altered his sights on another flower he was to follow.
Still though, his thoughts were only filled by the beauty of the botanical garden and if he slightly looked somewhere else he would see different greenhouses occupying more and various different flowers.
He shook his head slightly remembering he was following Marinette but temporarily lost sight of her. It wasn't too hard since the one greenhouse he found interest in must have caught Marinette's eyes as well since she was heading towards it.
He waited for her to enter and settle before he would stealthily come in too. As he did he had to hold a gasp that almost escaped is lips at the beauty of this certain greenhouse.
It was lush and green but that didn't intrigue him but it was the beautiful pond inside that held beautiful water flowers and lily pads. Some of the certain lilies were bright pink, sunny yellow, royal purple or royal blue, Adrien had to resist the urge to plop one out the pond and bestow it to Ladybug on his next meeting.
Which reminded him…
In the distance he saw Marinette on a bench under a smaller oak tree than the others around it as it looked to the youngest amongst the saplings but still had stern branches and was a very lush youngling compared to some of the other oaks.
He quietly climbed up the tree he was near and looked outside to see dusk settle in and no other people in the greenhouse which meant he could use the shadows and up his stealth if he wanted to be quiet and not get noticed.
He surprised himself how he almost ninja-ed his way into the tree Marinette was sitting under.
He used the shadows of the branched to blend in the lush tree whilst still having his eyes and ears on her. Once he was positioned he could easily see her sketching on her sketchpad and smiled in admiration of the clever and amazing designs she was working on. He wasn't the only one that noticed though.
"Wow Marinette these designs are your best yet!" a little sweet voice told the designer.
Adrien's neck almost snapped by trying to look for the holder of the voice but no luck was found.
"Thanks Tikki, but something's missing." Marinette replied to the one known as 'Tikki' who Adrien still couldn't spot.
He looked to Marinette and followed her gaze to her purse near her sketchpad and saw something small and red.
"What the…" the feline boy muttered
The little red dot shot out of the purse looking alarmed and giving Adrien a better look… at the… Kwami…
The green eyed boy's pupils constricted at the sight of what he had been searching for.
The Ladybug Kwami.
"Marinette I heard something" Tikki warned her holder.
Alarmed by Tikki's words by her warning of his position he was about to leap out of there but fate had another idea for him. It happened so fast and he couldn't control how his feet slipped against the bark and automatically disconnected, causing him to fall.
The fall was so quick and he couldn't comprehend that he didn't land on his face in the dirt but for reasons he can't explain his foot was caught by the lowest oak branch… which happened to be the closest one to where Marinette was sitting.
She was no longer sitting there which led his heart from thumping rapidly in fear of his lack of vision of her at the moment.
He didn't have to worry too much because she stepped into his line of vision with her arms crossed. He gulped when he focussed on her face whilst being upside down and her expression did make him very nervous.
For someone as pretty as Marinette, Adrien didn't realise that when her pretty features displayed anger he would feel immediate fear. Facing so many villains week after week, he usually never felt scared, yet Marinette make his heart thump harder than any Akuma could.
Her eyebrows were scrunched and her lips held a fearful scowl, but the coldness of her tone sent shivers up his spine.
"What in the world are you doing?" she almost yelled.
The blonde gulped "Ah… ha… um surprise?"
Her angry brows changed and the one rose in scepticism "Surprise? Really? That's what you got to say to me you creep?" she replied irritably.
His brain was running wild at everything he saw before slipping and how he is in fact looking straight at the girl he had been looking for who knows how long and yet his tongue refused to work. Seeing her Kwami, who was now in hiding, had confirmed everything and filled so many blank spaces. All he could think about is that he found his lady and he was determined to win her over whether she was Ladybug or Marinette.
He couldn't help himself as his Chat-ness took over with his confidence that clearly had no place to interfere at the moment.
"Well you could say the cat's got my tongue my Lady."
She would've rolled her eyes at him but his nickname for Ladybug startled her.
"I'm sorry, what did you call me?" she asked in a jittery tone.
He pressed himself up to detangle his foot and landed gracefully like a cat. He stood in front of her but slowly invaded her bubble by stepping in a bit closer.
"Ladybug it's not very ladylike making a gentleman run in circles, nor is sportsmanlike to get upset after defeating a challenge you thought I would never complete." Chat grinned triumphantly.
"I really have no idea what you're going on about you silly cat." she lied through her teeth.
"'Just because I can't say who I am doesn't mean you can't look for me. I can't help it if you find out by yourself'" he mimicked her in a terrible girl's voice "-Is that not what you said? If so, can you really be angry at me for finding you miladybug?" he continued.
Marinette was screaming internally, how could he have figured it out?
"W-wait a minute. How did you find out? I'd always lose you after patrol… " she'd blurted and then covered her mouth realising she admitted she was Ladybug.
He grinned wickedly at her "You should really pay attention to what you say in your civilian form Princess." He mocked using her other nickname.
Marinette felt a bit faint at the information he fed her. Pay attention to what she says in her civilian form? Does she know Chat in real life?
"You know me as Marinette? W-who are you?" she stumbled on her stammering words.
He smiled at her as if her was going to make fun of her "Well that's something I can't say, Ladybug" using her own previous words.
She looked at him irritably as he brought his baton out to leave and left her with the parting words.
"I might be closer than you think, you just have to look"
As he parted she groaned and huffed and yelled at herself in which TIkki came out from hiding to calm her holder down.
"So he knows who you are now, it's not the end of the world Marinette." Tikki tried to cam her down.
Marinette stopped her freaking out to only calmly breathe in and out. With a heated determined look on her face she looked towards the distance where she could still see Chat slightly.
"So the Chase begins dear Chat."
So yeeeah, was this bad? Idk… But it's done and I'm tired but happy this is out of my system.
Weird fact I read on Wikipedia that Adrien's dad actually does forbid Adrien from playing Pokémon Go…
And the botanical garden I mentioned is called the Jardin des Plantes. I just took a look at the pictures and my breath was taken away!
So for now this is an oneshot, I have so much to catch up on in my Fairy Tail fics and maybe after all that madness I can write more MLB.
Maybe if I get good response for this oneshot I might consider making this a two-shot. One chapter more won't hinder me… hopefully…
Any who! Thank you for reading!