Last chapter guys!
"Guys, you won't believe this!" Alya said as she entered the classroom, an excited grin on her face that her best friend wasn't sure she could trust. She was gripping her phone tightly in her hand, which most likely meant that her 'big news' was about either Ladybug, Chat Noir, or both. From the look that Adrien shot his partner, it was safe to say that he had figured it out too.
"Well, let's hear it then," Nino encouraged, smiling.
The golden eyed girl slid into her seat next to Marinette and quickly typed in her password on her phone before scrolling through the Ladyblog when she unlocked it. When she found what she was looking for, her already wide smile widened even more as she turned the screen so her friends could see. "There's a chance that Ladynoir has become a thing!"
While Nino and Marinette just looked at the girl in confusion, Adrien froze completely; knowing what she meant. He was pretty sure that Marinette was going to kill him once she found out, but then again, it wasn't as if she didn't have any right to.
"Ladynoir?" The girl questioned for both her and the future DJ, blinking in surprise when Alya leaned a bit too close for comfort. It didn't help that the look on her best friend's face was a bit...scary, to say the least.
"Under which rock have you been living, girl?! Ladynoir as in, Ladybug and Chat Noir, together. Come on, everyone knows this!"
Marinette's eyes widened as her eyes locked on the blond boy seated in front of her, who was suspiciously trying his best not to look at her. "Wh-what?"
"Cool!" Nino cut in, completely oblivious to his friend's bewildered expression. "So they're finally together?"
"I think so!" Alya responded, with just as much enthusiasm as before.
"W-wait!" The startled hero cut in, her face almost as red as Nathanaël's hair. "Wh-what makes you s-say that?"
If Alya had picked up on her best friend's strange behavior, she didn't show it. "Well, for starters, Ladybug's been a lot more lenient towards Chat's flirting and has even started flirting back. They've also been spotted together a lot more times than before-"
"W-well, of course they're going to be together!" Marinette cut in again. "They're a team!"
The journalist raised an eyebrow and scrolled further down the Ladyblog, turning her phone to show her friend the most recent picture taken of the two heroes of Paris. It was a picture that she remembered all too well; as it didn't really help with making her blush fade.
It was a picture of Ladybug and Chat, the latter's arm wrapped around her waist and her actually leaning into him, her head placed on his shoulder as they sat on top of a random roof. At the time she had thought that nobody was watching, and while she at first had protested against her partner's pleas to just sit there with him and watch the city; she had ended up giving in.
And while it was true that there had been a change in their relationship, they weren't dating yet, although they were getting there. Both in civilian form and their hero forms. Seeing as both teens were relatively shy (and awkward, in Marinette's case) and they were still working around the fact that they had been fighting crime alongside each other for years now without knowing it, they had decided to take things slow.
The whole thing with her nearly destroying the city and his father's sudden decision to leave didn't really create a romantic setting either. And while both of them were trying their best to put those things behind them, it still wasn't really the best timing for a relationship.
But, because a certain kitty had gotten them into this mess, he was about to get them out of it.
Marinette's eyes narrowed as they landed on the squirming blond boy, his green eyes going anywhere but her. He was well aware of her stare and of what she was thinking at the moment. She had clearly warned him about what could happen if someone saw them, but he kept on insisting and had stated that he would do something about it if they were seen. It was time for him to make up to his promise.
...Although it was clear that he hadn't really expected for anyone to see them.
"W-we can't just jump to conclusions, you know?" Adrien finally cut in, looking slightly uncomfortable with Marinette's death stare locked on him.
He wasn't really willing to test if cats really had nine lives or not.
Nino frowned. "Dude, what are you saying? Weren't you the one who was the most set on the idea of Ladybug and Chat together?"
"Nino!" He hissed quietly, the color of his face matching the color Marinette's had been seconds before as his face flushed scarlet while he tried to avoid said girl's eyes. He was pretty sure that her death stare had turned into a look of surprise and amusement, and he was not ready for Ladybug's teasing. As funny as it may seem, it wasn't; the Reflekta incident proved that very well.
Knowing her, she and Plagg would never live this down.
"Oh really now?" Alya smirked, leaning her chin on her palm and keeping her eyes on Adrien, who was getting redder by the second.
Great, now he had Marinette, Plagg and Alya to worry about.
Luckily for him, the teacher walked in just at that moment, effectively cutting the conversation. He glanced behind him for a second and immediately wished he hadn't, the gleam in Marinette's blue eyes as she smiled a bit too sweetly at him had him shivering in his seat.
He was so screwed.
"So, if I get this straight, you've been wanting for us to get together for...how long now?"
"My Lady, please drop it," Chat groaned, his cheeks heating up as his partner simply smirked at him as they were running along the rooftops.
Ladybug shook her head, grinning widely at the expression on his face. "Oh no, Chaton, I'm just getting started. Just think of this as payback for all the teasing and flirting you threw at me, not to mention the times you made Marinette flustered-" her eyes widened and she cut herself off, but he had already caught on.
Chat smirked and glanced at her from the corner of his eyes as he jumped off a roof, just to land on another one. "So I made her flustered, did I?"
"You're not turning this on me, kitty," she glared at him, hoping that the redness of her cheeks could blend in with her mask. Her and her big mouth, she just had to say that, didn't she?
"What? I'm just asking a simple question. I didn't know I had that effect on my Princess, but, seeing as you know more about it; please enlighten me."
Her eyes widened and she picked up her pace, even if she knew he could easily catch up with her. "Not happening," she pulled out her yo-yo, but he grabbed her hand before she could throw it.
"Come on, I just want to know?" He grinned dangerously, and her face turned even redder.
"I will throw you off this roof if you don't stop talking."
"Alright, alright," he let go of her hands, but the smirk still stayed in place. "I won't push it...but maybe I should pay her a visit, you know, just to check up on her? A knight needs to know if his Princess is okay, you know?"
She stared at him. "You wouldn't."
"You sure about that?" He countered, smiling mischievously. "I know for a fact that she removed the pictures, so there shouldn't be any problem with me going, right?"
He was surprised when she met his smile with just as much confidence as he would expect from her. "Who knows?" She stated calmly. "Maybe she isn't even home, maybe she's on a date with a prince instead of a knight?"
"Is she now? I haven't heard anything about her having a boyfriend."
Ladybug looked up at him, a challenging glint in her bright blue eyes. "That's most likely because she's waiting for a certain boy in her class to finally ask her out."
"Hmm," Chat's hand went to her face, a clawed finger lifting her chin up slightly as a thoughtful look crossed his eyes. "He's taking too long, isn't he?"
"From what I've heard from her, yeah, he is." The hero shrugged, but stayed in place, not even having a reaction to her partner's touches. By now, it had become normal.
The blond hero tugged her just a little bit closer. "Maybe I should go and tell that Agreste kid to stop being so stupid and just ask her already before she gets too impatient and tired of waiting. With such a pretty face, she could get snatched away easily."
Ladybug's face flushed just a bit at the compliment and he smirked, but she caught him by surprise again by grabbing the hand that was holding her face and tugging him just a tad bit closer, dead set on not losing this little 'game' of theirs. "True, I've spotted Nathanaël looking at her from time to time."
"He has, huh?" Chat's eyes were lidded as he stared at her, and her eyes widened as he suddenly pulled her close enough so that the space between them was almost nonexistent. He leaned down, her breath catching in her throat as his face just inched closer and closer towards her. She couldn't believe it, was he really going to-
Just as his lips almost met hers, he changed directions and placed his lips at her ear. "Seems like Adrien needs to act quickly then," he whispered, before pulling away and continuing with their patrol, leaving her surprised and speechless.
After a few seconds of her not moving, Chat turned around, an innocent look on his face as he called. "My Lady, are you sure you're alright? You seem a bit flustered. I can handle patrol on my own if you need to go home, you know?"
Ladybug snapped out of it, a smirk on her face as she rolled her eyes and ran to catch up with him. He won this round, but she'd get him back for this.
He won't know what hit him.
"Seems like those two are finally making progress," Allegra muttered, staring at the computer screen with a soft smile on her lips.
"What?" Claude leaned over her to look at the article she was reading, his face very close to hers, making her face go red instantly as she tried to keep her cool. His eyes quickly scanned over the words, raising an eyebrow at the picture of their friends cuddling together in their hero forms. He pulled away and smiled. "Well, I'm pretty sure we've all been waiting for that to happen."
"No kidding," the blonde responded, being able to breath normally now that he had backed out of her personal space.
"But still..." he trailed off and Allegra looked up at him in question, only to yelp in surprise when he wrapped his arm around her in a side-hug. "Now that they've started to acknowledge their relationship, don't you think we should too?" He was wearing the goofy smile she had fallen in love with, although his blue eyes were dead serious.
"Wh-what?" She squeaked, her entire face red. Surely she must be dreaming, there was no way he had said what she thought he-
"You know, I've actually been waiting for you to make the first move, since you're always ranting about how it's cliché that the guy is always expected to ask the girl out first. But honestly, acting oblivious is getting a bit tiring."
Definitely dreaming. "C-Claude?"
"So...will you go out with me?" He asked quickly, and she was surprised to see that he was actually blushing. Not nearly as much as her, of course (because honestly, the amount of redness on her face was just ridiculous) but still enough to catch her off guard. It took her a few minutes before she realized that he had let go of her and was waiting for her response.
She blinked a couple of times, still in a state of mild shock before she nodded her head furiously. "S-sure! I'd l-love to!"
The smile he shot her when he heard her answer was enough to light up her entire day.
"It's about time," Allan commented, leaning against the door and watching the two. "Adrien's known us for like a month now and he already had you two figured out from the beginning, we were waiting for you two to get together." He grinned and put his headphones around his neck. "You should be ashamed though, the boy had a girl crushing on him himself and he didn't even realize that she was his crush until recently, but still he figured you two out faster than you did."
That little speech of his seemed to snap Allegra out of her trance and her eyes lit up with fire as she glared at him. "I swear, Allan, you're so dead."
He smirked, arms crossed as he leaned against the door. "Try to catch me, slowpoke." Sparks of electricity surrounded him before Mercury saluted at her and dashed off. The blonde growled and transformed herself before grabbing her flute and going after him.
Claude rolled his eyes and sighed, wondering if those two were ever going to get along. He knew for a fact that she wouldn't be able to catch up to them, so he mimicked their actions and transformed as well. Kid Mime quickly mimed a scooter before he tapped Melodie's shoulder and motioned for her to get on...with his help, since it was invisible to her.
"No fair! That's cheating!" Mercury complained when he noticed them catching up to him, before picking up speed.
Kid Mime smiled, even if those two always fought, he wouldn't have it any other way. It was just who they were.
It was normal.
Eh, something seems wrong with this ending, I don't like it! _
But I can't change it either because anything else I'd write would just be way worse :(
