Yass it's finally Ladrien June and I'm totally unprepared yayyy. I'm wanting to do one chapter a day for this using the Ladrien June prompts for each one, but school and life is pretty busy at the moment so I can't guarantee that's gonna happen. I will try to keep up though!

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The problem with akumas was that they always showed up at inconvenient times. Marinette had been right in the middle of helping her father in the bakery with a particularly large order of cupcakes when the reports of the latest one came filtering in from a breathless customer out the front. Marinette's ears pricked up and she stopped in her mixing. "Er... I gotta go!" She exclaimed, moving to dart out the kitchen, her latest bowl of batter lying forgotten. "I've just got to call Alya and make sure she doesn't put herself in any danger with the akuma or anything. You know how she is." She added at Tom's disappointed look, then ran out of there.

As soon as she reached her room, she transformed and stood on the railing of her balcony for a moment, scanning around to see if she could spot the akuma. There was no sign of anything being amiss, and for a moment she wondered if the customer she had heard was making things up. But then she saw a flash of light in the very distance. Not wasting any more time, she swung off to chase after it. She soon found the source of the light and landed nearby.

"Ah Ladybug." The akuma said as he noticed her. "Lovely of you to join me. Is your partner here? No matter, I'll introduce myself to you now anyway. I'm sure Chat Noir and I will make our acquaintance soon enough. I am The Modifyer." He said, with a sweeping bow. "I shall take your personality, your behaviour, your way of thinking and I shall melt it and reform it into something else entirely, so you will be like a different person. And then, I shall have your miraculous too, to gift to the one who gave me this ability."

Ladybug rolled her eyes. "That's if you can catch me."

"Oh, I have full confidence in my capabilities. The question is, do you?" He lifted his cane to point at her and a bright blue blast flew at Ladybug.

She dodged it easily and pulled out her yoyo, preparing to fight. Hopefully Chat Noir would get here soon. The Modifyer continued shooting at her and she swung her yoyo to deflect the blast, but gasped when the blue light simply absorbed into it and started spreading up her arm. Thinking quickly, she latched onto the nearest building with her yoyo and swung away from the akuma, even as he laughed and went in the opposite direction.

Ladybug stared in distress at the fading blue light, her mind going fuzzy. Oh no, no, no. This was not good.

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Ladybug hummed cheerfully to herself as she swung along, practically bouncing over the rooftops. It was such a lovely day, and she was on a Very Important Mission. She had to rescue the love of her life from the akuma and get him to safety. It was of Very High Importance. It wasn't long before she spotted a figure in the distance that seemed to be Adrien Agreste. Upon seeing him, a happy smile grew on her face and she swung down and landed close by. Without saying anything, she started walking towards him.

It was odd that he was walking all alone when he was usually driven to places by his driver, but she decided she wouldn't question it. It made it easier for her to woo him when he was by himself.

"Um... Ladybug?" Adrien asked as she approached.

"Um... Adrien." She mimicked, then giggled at her own hilarity. She was so funny!

"Is everything alright?" He tilted his head at her, looking adorably cute as he did so, like an adorably cute puppy.

She decided to tell him just that. "You look like an adorably cute puppy."

"Thank you?" His eyes scanned her face and she made sure to smile extra bright at him. However, her cheeriness only seemed to make him frown in concern so she quickly tried to put a more neutral face on, not sure why exactly he had looked like that when she was only being happy to see him. She'd hoped he would've been happy to see her too.

"But everything's fine. So fine!" She assured. Unable to help herself, the grin appeared back on her face and she reached forwards to boop his nose. "Boop." Then she did it again, just because she could. "So there's no need to look like a depresso espresso because allll the things are fine." She told him solemnly, then laughed again.

Adrien glanced around. "Is there an akuma?"

She gasped. "Oh my god, there is too!" How could she have forgotten? She wanted to facepalm, but she figured that would probably hurt, so she settled on a frustrated waving of her hands. She wasn't here to try flirt with Adrien - which was totally working, she could tell - she was here to make sure he was safe and then flirt with him later! She frowned at herself. What a disappointment she was so far! But that was gonna change, she decided.

"Well then," She said confidently. It was always good to seem confident when rescuing someone from dangerous situations. It helped them to remain calm. "Let's get you to safety then."

He looked at her in confusion. "Me? Is the akuma after me?"

" No , silly. But you need to be safe, don't you?" She loved him but boy was he dense sometimes. It was her job to keep him safe, didn't he know that?

"It's alright, really. I'm perfectly safe right here. Shouldn't you get back to the akuma? Chat Noir probably needs you."

Ladybug sighed. This was not how it was supposed to work out. She was supposed to sweep him off his feet as she carried him back to safety and he would be eternally grateful to her for rescuing him and all would be well, but he just wasn't cooperating. " No . Stop resisting the rescue." She huffed, and pouted at him.

"I'm no-" He cut himself off in surprise as she scooped him up.

With a wink, and a reassuring "don't worry!" Ladybug swung away, holding Adrien close to her to ensure he didn't fall.

They landed soon and she set him down very gently on the roof of the building she had chosen to be his safe tower. "There, you're safe now!" She announced, beaming up at him.

"Thank you." He murmured, a smile creeping onto his face.

She grinned even brighter when she saw that he was smiling, very pleased with herself. Mission accomplished . A successful rescue and he was happy. "You're extra pretty when you smile." She told him, because he deserved to know. The blush on his face made it all worth it.

Without paying any mind to the person hanging eagerly out the window opposite them and waving, she took Adrien's face in her hands and kissed him, leaving him breathless and dizzy when she pulled away. "Now," She said, pausing for dramatic effect. "Now I will vanquish the dreadful akuma that plagued you, so you no longer have to live in fear!" Her hands moved from his face to take both of his hands and squeeze them reassuringly.

"Uh..." Was all Adrien was able to say, his face still flaming. Ladybug leaned in close to him, and he almost thought she was going to kiss him again. "Fear no more, kind sir. Your Ladybug in shining supersuit will protect you no matter the cost." She whispered. Then she booped his nose again with another giggle, saluted him and took off.

Adrien stood there for a moment longer, cheeks burning and heart racing, before he transformed and followed after her.

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When Chat Noir caught up to Ladybug, he found her standing on a rooftop grumbling to herself about the akuma. "Hey, M'lady." He greeted her, and then, to see what she would say, he added, "What have you been up to?"

She stopped her grumbling, and her face lit up as her attention was pulled to him. "Oh, just rescuing the love of my life." She said brightly and he almost choked. The love of her life?

"The love of your life, huh? Why, Bugaboo, I thought that was me." He teased lightly.

"Umm no, you're not." She shrugged. He watched as her eyes then widened and she practically flung herself at him and reached up to pet his head gently, like how a small child would clumsily pat a dog. "But you're amazing too!" She assured, nodding vigorously to support her words, almost tearing up in worry that he would feel bad. "Best partner ever, I swear it."

He grinned at her. "Thanks, M'lady. I think you're pretty great too."

"Awww thank you!" She exclaimed, giggling. Then her face grew serious again. "There's an akuma." She said.

He nodded. "So I've heard. Shall we go then? Do you have any idea where the akumatized object could be?"

"No." She frowned as if she was trying to remember something. "I don't know where it is. But he was holding a biiiig stick, which was very bad. It makes lots of light and the light just melts into you so no touchy the lighty!" She told him sternly, wagging a finger at him.

He bit back an amused smile, getting the feeling that she wanted him to be serious for a second. "I won't" He promised.

"Good." She cooed then booped his nose with another little laugh."Ready for battle, my Chaton?"

"As ready as you are, M'lady."

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~ fin