A/n: Alright, I got a raging headache, let do this! *takes a swig of water* Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, favorited, followed or every just read that story, I was kind of surprised that so many people liked this after just the first chapter, then again it wouldn't be the first time I posted a Miraculous ladybug fanfic and it exploded.
FlameDragonHime and Rose Tiger- Thank you so much for letting me know that the story repeated itself. It must have happened when I copied and pasted the story from my Google Documents, hopefully it won't happen again, and like I said thank you for letting me know so quickly so I could correct the issue.
Zero1606- I'll try my best is all I can say. I do understand where you're coming from, your reading a fanfic and one of the characters falls in love for literally no reason just because the author wanted them to kiss already. I know the feeling so I'll try not to make you feel that way with this story.
Rin kagamae- *Blushes* T-Thank you. I'm actually surprised you feel so strongly about this after one chapter.
StormSilver- I try my best to finish what I started. There are a couple stories that I put on hiatus but thats moreso because of writers block and lack of interest due to the series or game entry they're based on are either dead or just uninterest me. Chapter will take a while as I want this story to be good and not rushed like how I felt with my last ladybug fanfic.
I own nothing!
"Girl are you sure you're feeling okay?" Alya asked her black (blue?) haired best friend.
Marinette let out a soft groan in response that was muffled by her bag, which at the moment was being substituted for a pillow.
"Hey Alya. Hey Marinette," Nino greeted as he entered the classroom. Nino was Alya's boyfriend and one of Marinette's closest friends. In fact it was because of Marinette that he had met Alya.
"Hey Nino," Alya greeted back while Marinette groaned in response.
"Hey what's up Marinette?" Nino asked. It wasn't normal for Marinette to be this tired.
Alya shrugged, "Rough night? She won't tell me. First thing she did when she got here way plop down in her seat and try to fall asleep."
Marinette, who was trying to do that just now let out third groan, this time out of agitation. Rough night was a understatement. The cat she smuggled into her house would not stop meowing and she couldn't figure out why. To make matters worse it's meowing wasn't quite but loud. Loud enough to wake her parents up. If took a while but she finally got the cat to hush up by raising the blinds to her window. Once she did the cat (with some help from Marinette) limped over towards the window and stared at the moon. It was weird but at the time Marinette was too tired to care.
'Maybe he was homesick?' Marinette thought to herself. After all he was, as far as she knew, a stray and was probably used to being outside and looking up at the moon.
"Ugh, look at her she all tired. She probably too poor to be able to afford coffee," Marinette heard a familiar voice bellowed out accompanied by a snicker.
Marinette made a sound like she was disgusted just by hear that obnoxious feminine voice. She didn't even need to look up to know who it belonged to. She, as well as everyone else, had been terrorized enough times by the person who beared this voice that she had had it forever stored into the crevices of her mind.
"Hey Marinette! How was your date with Nathaniel last night!" The holded of the voice mocked.
"Give her a break Chloe, she too tired to put up with the likes of you," Alya spat.
Chloe was the school bitch. She was one of the cruelest living human beings to have ever existed and acted horribly towards almost anyone she met, unless they could somehow benefit her somehow, which in that case she would put on a sickly sweet facade. Once that person was no longer of use to her however the mask would come off and she would treat just as she treated everyone else. Its because of these reasons and many more that almost nobody liked her, save for a few people. The only reason he hadn't been expelled due to student harassment was because her daddy was mayor and could easily pull the plug on the school's funding if they tried to discipline her. With how she treated people, if it wasn't for the fact that Chloe's father way mayor, she would have been kicked out of school a long time ago.
Sabrina, Chloe's crony, stepped up to Alya and used her arm to push her out of the way allowing the blonde to walk up towards Marinette. Sabrina took her arm away and walked past Alya, following Chloe as though she were a lost puppy.
Alya let out an angry growl and pushed the sleeve of her shift up, getting ready to punch a certain blonde right in probably fake nose. Nino grabbed her wrist as he could practically she the anger radiating off his girlfriend and did not want her to get expelled by doing something rash.
Chloe inspected the half asleep girl and smirked.
"Sabrina," Chloe said holding out her hand.
As though she had read Chloe's mind Sabrina starting through her bag before taking out a water bottle.
Chloe unscrewed the top and held it over the french-asia girl.
"Hey Marinette, wakey wakey," She said before pour the water on Marinette.
Marinette jolted away upon the ice cold water coming into contact with her being. She let out a small yelp and sat there in shock, as did everyone else, as Chloe finished pouring the drink on the poor teen before throwing the now empty bottle at her.
"Why you little!" Alya yelled getting ready to beat the living crap outta this girl only to be held back by Nino.
"Oops," Chloe said in a mock voice before laughing loudly and walking away, Sabrina following behind like always.
Once the blonde was out of arm's length Nino let Alya go as both rushed over to Marinette aid.
"Marinette, are you okay?" Alya asked in concern, slinging an arm over the best friends shoulders.
Marinette let out an exasperated sigh, "I'm fine," She muttered. She was honestly too drained to really be upset about having water poured all over her.
"I didn't know you and Nathaniel went on a date," Nino pointed out.
"It wasn't a date. I was just studying with him for midterms was all."
"Alone?" Nino asked glancing at Alya.
Alya grinned, "Sound like a date to me."
"It wasn't a date, just two friends studying," Marinette explained in a slightly embarrassed tone.
Marinette forgot about her current predicament and tiredness to send her 2 friends dirty looks. Her, Nino, Alya and Nathaniel had been friends since freshmen year and ever since Alya and Nino got together they've been trying to get Nathaniel and Marinette together so they could go on double dates and because they thought the two would make a cute couple. They also knew Nathaniel had a crush on Marinette. They knew Marinette would give him a shot of she knew about his crush on her but he wasn't exactly open when it came to stuff like this.
The bell rang, much to Marinette relief, as the teacher entered.
"Good morning everyone. Today we are going to be taking a look at the americanized version of the tale of Beauty and the Beast. Please get out your textbooks and turn to page 284."
The day dragged on slowly to the point where Marinette kept glancing at the clock waiting for the bell to ring signifying students could go to lunch and do whatever else they wanted. Of course with a certain someone scampering in Marinettes room she had other plans. She would take the cat to the vet, figure out what was wrong, go home and eat a quick lunch and make it back to school on time with a few minutes to spare. Simple.
When the bell rang Marinette was the first to dash out of the classroom. She sprinted down the hallway trying to dodge people best she could. It wasn't enough however as she ended up colliding with a teen who had been drawing while walking and didn't realize the running girl.
"Ah! I'm so sorry!" Marinette apologized as she scrambled to pick up the stuff she had caused the person to drop.
"It's fine Marinette," Said a certain red head.
The teen girl felt herself relax a little. It was just Nathaniel, he knew of her clumsiness, he'd forgive her, still she did feel kind of bad.
"Here Nathaniel and again I'm really sorry," Marinette said as she handed him his stuff.
"It's fine. Consider it payback for helping me study yesterday," Nathaniel said back shyly.
Marinette giggled and was about to leave when Nathaniel stopped her.
"Hey Marinette. We've known eachother for a while now and you've been such a good friend to me that I was wondering if you'd like to-"
"Look Nathaniel, I have something really important that I have to do. Can whatever it is wait until later?" Marinette asked.
"Oh uh...y-yeah sure, that's fine."
"Great. See ya!"She exclaimed before speeding off.
Once she was out of sight Alya and Nino came out of their hiding spots.
"Did it work?" Alya asked.
"She sped off before I could ask her," Nathaniel sighed dejectedly.
Nino placed a comforting hand on his friend's shoulder.
"It's okay, we'll get her next time."
Marinette burst through the bakery's door startling Sabine and the customer she's was helping. Upon realizing this Marinette smiled and waved awkwardly before dashing upstairs. The customer looked back at Sabine with a confused look to with Sabine responded with a good natured smile.
"Kids," She said as she handed the consumer their order.
When Marinette got to her room she immediately closed the door behind her and started looking for her stray. He had an injured leg so he couldn't have gotten that far.
"Here kitty,kitty,kitty. Where are you?" She said as she searched. She looked under her desk, behind her couch, even on her bed which you had to go up stairs to get to but he was nowhere to be seen. It was as if the stray had disappeared.
"Oh this is bad! What if he got out? If mom and dad see him-"
Marinette stopped mid sentence when she heard a sneeze come from her closest. Marinette let out a sigh of relief as she sauntered over and opened the door revealing her little stray covered in a pile of her clothes.
"There you are chaton, I was looking all over for you," She said as she picked the cat up.
The cat let out what seemed to be a mixture of both a hiss and growl but Marinette just ignored it, just happy she had found the cat and that nothing bad had happened to him. She placed him on the couch and walked back over to her closest.
"Before we leaving for the vet I better hang these back-"
She once again stopped mid sentence when she noticed something odd about the sleeves of the shirts, jackets and pairs of pants. The sleeves and pant legs of each were tied together.
"That's weird," Marinette mumbled as she looked at the knots, then the black cat who sat on her couch staring back her her and then back at the knots.
How had this happened? She found the black cat in the pile. Could it be possible that he could have tied the knots?
Marinette shook her head and smiled at the thought of the cat struggling to tied knots with its paws. It would be impossible. Not to mention cats don't know how to tie knots. They're cats. She concluded that that this had been her work. When getting ready for school she had tied sleeves of her shirts, jackets and pants legs together in her sleep deprived state….somehow….After all that was the only plausible explanation.
"I'll figure this out later," She said dropping the tied together clothes and picking a black sweatshirt from her closest.
She walked over to the cat and wrapped him in the sweatshirt (although due to the sounds on his grumbles she had a feeling he didn't like being swaddled like this). Once he was secure in her arms she booked in and ran out of the bakery before he mom could question anything. Once she turned the corner she stopped to take a breather.
"Meeeeeeooooowwww," The cat moaned. Clearly he didn't enjoy being jostled like that.
"Sorry kitty but I couldn't risk mom seeing you," Marinette said as she started walking towards the vets.
The cat let out a hiss to which Marinette rolled her eyes at.
"Relax. You're fine aren't you."
The cat just glared back at her and Marinette dropped the subject and tried to find her way to the vets.
"Now let's see, If I remember correctly it should be about a 5 minutes walk from here. I used to have a dog and my parents brought him to that vet. He was a good dog and-"
Marinette stopped when the cat did its best to shift its position so it was facing away from her. Clearly this kitty wasn't in the mood to talk.
When they got to the vets Marinette walked up to the front counter and spoke to the lady there.
"Hello, I know this is last minute but I was wondering if Doctor Martin was here and if she could possible squeeze me in?"
The woman at the front desk, who seemed to be an unenthusiastic university student let out a sigh and picked up her telephone and pressed a button.
"Doctor….there's some girl here to see you….wants to know if you can squeeze her appointment...hold on," The woman placed a hand on the part of the phone you talk into and, "What's your name?"
"Marinette Dupain-cheng."
"Says her name is Marinette…..alright….I'll let her know…..alright," The woman hung up, "Go sit over there, the doctor will he out shortly," The receptionist said before going back to the magazine she had been reading.
Marinette thanked the woman and sat down on the waiting benches. After about a minute or two a tall womans with glasses and black hair that was tied into a bun walked out one of the three doors off to the side.
"Marinette it's good to see you again," The woman said holding out her hand."
"It's good to see you again too doctor Martin," Marinette said as she transferred the cat to one arm so she could shake the doctor's hand.
"I'm guessing this little guy is my patient,"The doctor said looking down at the cat.
"Yeah this is my cat."
The doctor nodded and gestured Marinette to follow her into one of the rooms.
"What's his name?" She asked she she opened the door allowing the two to enter.
"His name? Its….Chaton!" Marinette blurted. That being the first thing that came to mind.
"Chaton?" The doctor asked giving Marinette a sceptical look. Even the cat dubbed Chaton was looking at her, although while the doctors look was one of confusion Chaton's was one of, "That's the stupidest name I've ever heard."
"I just really liked how it sounded and it stuck," Marinette defended.
The doctor shrugged, "You always were a unique one. So what seems to be the problem?" She asked while placing a fresh sheet of examination paper on the table.
"Its his leg. I think it may be broken," Marinette said, placing him on the table and unwrapping him.
"Well lets see. I'm gonna do a couple quick X-rays. I need you to put this on him and put this one on yourself," the doctor said handing Marinette a cat sized X-ray jacket and a human sized one. After slipping hers one and Chatons on (with some effort mind you), Doctor Martin proceeded to do the X-rays. After they were done and developed Doctor Martin clicked her tongue.
"I've got good new and bad news. Good new is that it is not a broken leg, bad news is that it is a fractured leg meaning that he will need some time to heal."
"How long exactly?" Marinette asked.
"Well, considering the size of the crack I'd say about...6 weeks."
The cat let out what could only be described as a whine. The doctor looked at Marinette and quirked an eyebrow.
"He's kind of grumpy."
The vet nodded and walked over to her computer and started typing.
"I'm going to prescribe your Chaton some pain killers. Give him one per day orally and try to not have him move around much."
Marinette nodded. The veterinarian printed out the prescription and handed it to the teen. Marinette took it, thanked the vet and let which 'Chaton.' After bringing him home she saw the time and realized that she literally had about 7 minutes to get back to school. Without even saying goodbye Marinette sprinted past her parents and out of the bakery.
"Alright class, now that your break is over let's continue our study in-"
Everyone jumped when Marinette burst threw the door, slamming it open.
"Marinette Dupain-Cheng! You're late!" The teacher barked.
"I'm sorry Madame but I can explain."
The teacher raised her hand silencing the girl.
"No need. This is your first time being late so I'll let you off with a warning. Just don't let it happen again."
Marinette nodded in understanding and muttered a 'thank you' before walking over to her seat and sitting down. Alia noticing her friends now saddened mood gave her a thumbs up with a grin. Marinette gave her a small smile in return. The rest of school when by uneventfully. When the bell finally rang Marinette was happy to go home and call it a day. However she had to pick up the medication for her stray first. After doing so she took a look at her phone. It was around 5:30, meaning the sun would be setting soon. Luckily for Marinette she got home at around 5:50.
"Welcome home Marinette," Sabine greeted.
"Hey sweetie," Tom said as he carried a stack of boxes into the kitchen.
"Hi maman, hi papa," Marinette replied.
"How was school?" Sabine asked.
"Tiring," Marinette sighed as she placed her coat, scarf and hat on the coat rack, "I'm going to go upstairs and sleep."
Sabine nodded, "Okay, we'll call you when dinners ready."
"Thanks maman," Marinette said before heading upstairs.
She entered her room and pulled out the prescription medication for the cat.
"Chaton? Where are you?" She called out.
She wasn't expecting a response. After all cats can't talk. So when she heard one she jumped ten feet into the air.
"It's about time you got here."
A/n: I'm going to end it there. Why? Because I've been working on this for a while and because I'm actually in school right now. The reason this took so long is, one I've been busy and two I had to do several rewrites of this because I wasn't satisfied with the end results. I can be a bit of a perfectionist at times, or so I've been told. Anyways, please let me know if you spot any errors and I can fix them quickly. A couple people last chapter let me know I accidentally posted the same chapter twice so I could fix it. Anyways see you guys later.