Chapter 4

In the evening Adrien and Kagami went out with Mr. D'Argencourt and Mrs. Tomoe Tsurugi to a German restaurant in Berlin meeting all the other participants of the fencing tournament they finished a few hours ago.

Kagami stood together with her mother having a drink chatting together in their mother language followed by Mrs. Tsurugi pass her hand on Kagami's cheek expressing out something making the blue-haired girl blush.

"Arigato oka-san," Kagami said to her mother, which smiled at the young girl.

Adrien hung out together with the German fencing student Ulrich drinking a glass of Orange Juice, while the brunette drank one filled with coke.

"What do you think of Berlin?" Questioned the German descendant boy. "Did you like it?"

"It's interesting" Responded Adrien. "We couldn't see a lot at the moment, because our hotel was far away from the center and it didn't work out for Mr. D'Argencourt and Kagami's mother"

"Oh and what about Kagami?" Questioned Ulrich. "Did she had time?"

"She did, but her mother didn't want her to go out alone with me. She was afraid something would happen to us"

"Okay my mom is usually that worried too, but she got used to it and knows I'll be alright since I'm around my coach"
"I can't believe four years ago my father didn't even allow me to go to school or anyone else, cause he was afraid to lose me in an accident or somehow else"

"That's rough, buddy"

"Just as my mamam got back to our family every went back to normal. Things like going to school, visit the fencing academy or watch a movie I could go as long as my bodyguard would be present and drive me back and forth"
"At least everything is fine now," Ulrich said watching Adrien slurp the last bit of his juice away, then placed the glass on a tableau of a waiter, that just passed by.

"Hey those salmon rolls look delicious," Ulrich said watching another waiter pass by with a tablet filled with salmon rolls filled with white Cantadou, which the waiter exchanged on a table with another tableau, which was empty.

"They do indeed," Adrien said licking his lips as he observed a red-headed girl take one roll to eat it.

"Shall I get you one too?" Questioned Ulrich.

"No it's fine, I'll get one later. First I have to go to the restrooms. Excuse me"

"No problem" The blonde walked across the hall, where the various table stood with the variety of snacks and aperitifs the buffet had for the guests to eat. Adrien reached the corridor of the restrooms and the door opened at the side by itself, so that Adrien could walk in without doing anything more, then the Frenchman stopped in front of a urinal opening the zipper of his pants leaning closer to the plumbing fixture adjusting his boxers and pants there, afterward he started to pee.

"Ah I'm feeling much better now" Adrien sighed in relief continuing to pee. In the boys' restrooms entered someone, which walked to the urinals and stood right next to Adrien making him roll his eyes a little annoyed as he recognized the person next to him was Raiden Soto, the one who won the competition.

Adrien fixed his pants and closed the zipper, then walked off the urinal, which flushed by itself as the sensor sensed no one in front of it, then Raiden observed the boy stopping at the lavatories to wash his hands.

"Hey loser, you're ashamed of something?" Questioned the Japanese boy watching Adrien passing his hand under the soap dispenser, then it spouted out a white liquid which Adrien ribbed together with his hands while avoiding eye contact with the other fencing student. "How is it to be second place, must be great," Raiden said watching Adrien's face reflection on the mirror over the lavatories change from distressed into an angry one.

"You didn't deserve to win that prize Raiden. You cheated and you know it!" The blonde spits it out turning around to look at the raven-haired boy. "I felt how you grabbed me on my hand, even Ulrich and Parker from the third-place match saw it"

"Oh your fanboys you mean?" Questioned Raiden closing the opening of his pants leaving the urinal and making his way towards Adrien.

"They're not fanboys, they're two friends I made here."

"Interesting, that's why they believed your lie of me grabbing your arm when I didn't even touch you"

"Are you calling me a liar?" Questioned Adrien raising his left eyebrow.

"And you believe me I should trust your two friends about me having cheated at the match?"

"Maybe not them, but Kagami…..she was present at our last combat. She definitely saw it. Why don't we both ask her to confirm this story?" Adrien smirked at Raiden, which crossed his arms copying Adrien's facial expression.

"Tsurugi, right?"

"Yeah" Replied Adrien. "She told me about you. That you were skilled and very competitive"

"Oh she told me about it?" Asked Raiden surprised. "That sounds delightful"

"We saw you this morning sitting inside the bus, that's why I knew this"

"Too bad, I thought she had any interest in me"

"Why should she be interested in you. She told me, when she joined your fencing academy in Japan you were always making her life a hell, until she started to get better and defeat you"

"You know Adriàn"

"Adrien..." Corrected Adrien watching Raiden walk a the lavatories to wash his hands with soap.

"Whatever…...Kagami, you know….she's a very special girl. She's different from all the other girls I know from school. She's beautiful...she's strong...she's…."

"You sound like you have a crush on her"

"Crush?" Questioned Raiden. "I love this girl!" Raiden corrected making Adrien wrinkle his eyebrows annoyed with the boy.

"Too bad. I think she won't reciprocate if you would tell her how you feel now"

"We haven't seen us for two years, but she would be happy to know if I still haven't forgotten about her"

"You're sure about it?" Questioned Adrien making Raiden roll his eyes up perplexed at Adrien's question, then Raiden wide his eyes as he realized, what Adrien probably meant.

"You're in love with her too!" Raiden said loud. "That's why I saw you this morning looking at her like you had something for her!"

"Of course I am in love with her, I'm her….."

"You would never stand a chance in getting out with her" Raiden said. "You're weak"

"Weak?" Asked Adrien raising his eyebrow again, then wrinkled his eyebrows down again. "You're the weak one. You're trying to finish me off and therefore you cheated at the tournament and called me a liar"

Raiden punched Adrien on his face causing him to hit with his back on the lavatories. "Hey!" Shouted Adrien angry followed by Raiden pushing him down on the floor by his shoulder.

"Get up loser and fight like a man," Raiden said watching the blonde on the ground moving his head up to look at him with an evil smile. "Come"

At the entrance of the restrooms entered Ulrich followed by Parker, then both saw Adrien lying on the floor looking shocked and behind him stood Raiden, which had moved his head at the entrance.

"Uhm and that's how Karate works," Raiden said walking quickly off at the exit, which then blocked Ulrich to avoid the Japanese boy to pass by.

"Where are you going?" Questioned the German descendant boy.

"Dude, you're alright?" Asked the black-haired boy helping the blonde up.

"I'm fine" Responded Adrien passing his hand on his face, then Parker looked serious at Raiden along with Ulrich.

"Let him go Ulrich,"

"But..."

"Just do what I say Ulrich. Don't waste your time on that idiot"

Ulrich took his arm away keeping to glare at the raven-haired fencing champion, which adjusted the black dress shirt he wore and left the restroom without a word.

"What was he trying to do to you?" Asked Ulrich approaching the blonde buy. "I saw him entering into the restroom and asked Parker to come with me in case he would start any problems with you"

"He just wanted to piss me off. He called me a loser and I called him out about his cheating, he tried to bully me and in the end, he pushed me against the lavatories"

"We should tell it, someone,"

"No, it's alright. I only see him this day and then I won't see him until the next competition maybe,"

"Yeah and that time we all will kick him out quicker of the tournament than you can say Tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen," Ulrich said making Adrien and Parker look confused at the German boy.

"I only got Tch….tsch…..tsch" The Swede said making the German boy laugh. Adrien observed the two boys laughing and thought about, what Raiden said about Kagami.

Nathaniel Kurtzberg was at Juleka's and Luka's houseboat sitting at the outside of the boat together on the chair with Rose, while in front of him on the stage stood Juleka, Ivan and two other guys, which were two years older than the classmates of Nathaniel.

"Do you think I should call Lila now?" Questioned Nathaniel looking at the blonde girl.

"Aww you miss her so much Nathaniel, you're just like Juleka, when she was gone"

"I'm not talking about that..."

"Nathaniel you don't need to be embarrassed about it. That's very cute and Lila finds it so"

"No it's not that, it's just we usually talk between 9 or 10 am and on that time we're listening to Luka's band."

"Then I would suggest you speak to her now, so you don't have to leave the concert for it or disturb anyone"

"Good idea"
"Can I say hi to her too?"

"Of course Rose" Responded Nathaniel looking on his smartphone for Lila's name, then he pressed on her chat box afterward on the video call, to ring the Italian girl.

"She will be back this Sunday, finally I will see her again," Nathaniel told glad to his friend Rose.

"That's great Nath," Rose said pinching Nathaniel's cheek, much to his dismay.

"Rose…."

"You're a good boy, Nath,"

"Please stop doing this Rose" Nathaniel begged and Rose took her hand away from the redhead sitting there next to him waiting for Lila to attend the phone call.

"Hey Nathy….. and hey Rose. You're there too"

"Hi Lila!" Greeted Rose loud. "How are you doing?"

"Great and you"?

"Same. We're here to see Luka's band play for us"

"Awesome"

"They have an audition the next week and need to be prepared to show them, what they got," Told the French girl.

"That's cool, are only you and Nathaniel going to watch it?"

"No Marinette will be here too and Luka's mother"

"Great," Lila said, then Rose looked at the stage, Juleka waving her hand earning a nod from the blonde girl.

"I have to help Juleka, see you on Monday!" Rose said getting up from the chair to meet Juleka up on the stage.

"Hi Lila" Greeted Nathaniel. "Rose wanted to tell you hi"

"I saw," Lila said with a giggle. "How are you doing?"

"Feeling better than that other night" Responded Nathaniel changing from a happy face to a neutral.

"Oh baby you don't need to break your head about it. You gave your best"

"I know, but it was bad Lila. 160 people died"

"And 110 people survived. Baby, I know this should have gone differently. Try to stay positive"

"I know," Nathaniel said sadly. On the screen, Lila sank her head down sad, that she wasn't there by his side to help him with his sorrow about the death of the passengers on the last mission he was apart. Nathaniel noted, that Lila had her head down, then thought about, what he could ask her. "Wasn't Kagami's fencing competition today?"

"Oh yeah, it was" Responded Lila. "Kagami won the first prize and Adrien landed on the second place. Kagami believes the match was manipulated because Adrien's opponent had committed a foul and the referee didn't call him out"

"That was mean"

"Yes, it was" Lila agreed.

"Oh Rose had also shown it this morning the video, where Jagged Stone proposed Penny Rolling right in front of the audience.

"I sent it to her too. She loved it too"

"Rose loves almost everything that's romantic or cute"

"Yes she does. She even promised me, that you would do me the exact same proposal like Jagged did"

"If I could sing, had an amazing voice, charisma and all that Jagged or even Luka have I could do it, but I don't have it"

"I wouldn't even care, if your voice would be good or as irritating as my uncle Mario playing his accordion badly. I would love it anyway"

"I might do it differently than Jagged Stone. A different style"

"You're too sweet for this world Nathaniel, how did I deserve such a caring boyfriend?"
"Well...uh because you did" Replied Nathaniel with a pink face, then he shrieked as Luka had sat down next to the boy.

"How are you doing boy?" Asked Luka hitting the redhead on the back, then waved with his other hand at Lila. "Hey Lil,"

"Hey Luka, how are you feeling now?"

"Better" Responded Luka. "I feel like I have never been sick before"

"That's great"

"Nathaniel here is going to join us on stage and sing for us a little bit"

"What?!" Shouted Nathaniel looking up at the boy with the blue tips on his hair. Luka started to laugh, making Nathaniel groan as he realized Luka had just tricked him. "Ugh Luka..."

"Just kidding boy, only if you want to," The older boy said ruffling his hair.

"Good"

"Listen I gotta go down helping Nana make diner," Lila said making the tall boy chuckle.

"You helping to make diner?" Asked Luka making Lila shook her head.

"Well, I won't be close the over, if you're thinking about me setting the house or the food on fire. I will only help her with putting the table, making the salad…."

"What's for dinner?" Asked Nathaniel.

"Cannelonni!" Responded Lila. "You ate it once at my house, it was those rolls filled with meat sauce, which you had confused before with lasagne"

"Mmm," Nathaniel said licking his lips.

"Well you could count on me for the dinner, cause that sounds delicious" Juleka's brother told Nathaniel's girlfriend, which smiled at the friend.

"When I get back I invite you and Marinette to eat at my house"

"Sounds great" Agreed Luka looking down at Nathaniel.

"Goodbye Lila. I call you tomorrow again" The redhead said to the girlfriend.

"Of course you will," Lila said giggling along with Nathaniel. "See you tomorrow"

"Bye Lila," Nathaniel said waving at Lila watching the brunette place her hand in front of her lips kissing it to send Nathaniel an air kiss. Nathaniel smiled shyly at the girl, which then turned the phone off, then Nathaniel left the social app, then put his phone back in the pocket of his dress jacket.

Marinette sat down next to Nathaniel, then Luka held his hand out to Marinette watching her place her hand on his and Luka took it up closer to his face, so he could kiss it afterward Marinette turned red on her face and Luka made his way up to the stage and looked at the drummer, which was Ivan Bruel. He tipped together with the drum sticks counting to three, after that the band started to play the song.

Adrien stood together with Kagami inside the restaurant watching the other guests eating from the buffet. Kagami held in her hand a glass filled with a light orange dip and vegetable sticks in it. Kagami passed with an orange carrot stick inside the glass around pulling the stick out with a bit of dip on the top of it and took a bit of the vegetable, then chewed on it. Adrien stood there next to her quietly watching the girl eating. Kagami dipped the same carrot inside the dip again, then noted Adrien just standing there with his drink and eating nothing from the buffet.

"Adrien, what's going on?" Asked Kagami. "You have been acting strange since we left the tournament."

"What do you mean?" Questioned Adrien looking down at his girlfriend.

"You've been very quiet around me and you haven't eaten anything here. Is it because of the match?"

"I don't know, I'm just fed up, that Raiden got away with it and the referee didn't hand him out a card or anything"

"I know this won't make you feel better, but you should try to forget this." The blue-haired girl said placing her free hand on Adrien's shoulder. "Next year you will succeed"

"I will" The blonde promised making the Japanese girl smile, then Adrien looked down at the glass with the vegetables cut into sticks, as Kagami took out a cucumber stick with a bit of dip sauce on its end taking it closer to her mouth and before she placed the stick in her mouth, she smiled and moved the stick at Adrien, who smiled kindly at the girlfriend letting her place half of the cucumber inside his mouth for him to bite it off.

"Aww does your friend there need someone to feed him?" Questioned a voice making Adrien frown and look at the side to see Raiden Soto standing there with a smirk looking at the two Parisians.

"Nho" Mumbled Adrien while chewing the vegetable and swallowed it down. "No"

"I was just trying to motivate him," Told Kagami.

"The dip is really good," Adrien said dipping the shorter cucumber stick into Kagami's glass again to eat the rest of it.

"Yeah okay that's great," Raiden said getting closer to Kagami. "Hey the staff had just set up music out there at the veranda and several people are dancing together. Would you like to join me out there?"

"Really?" Questioned Adrien raising the left eyebrow, while Raiden frowned at the blonde.

"Is your name Kagami?"

"Hey there's no need to be rude," Asked Kagami crossing her arms.

"Pardon I didn't mean it that way"

"Yeah of course," Adrien said a little annoyed with the Japanese boy.

"And what do you say?" The raven-haired boy asked. "You're interested?"

"I would, but I might go later….with my boyfriend," Kagami said surprising the boy.

"Oh, you have a boyfriend?" Raiden asked surprised. "Who is he? I have never seen him before?"

"He's right in front of you" The Frenchman responded stepping forward closer to Raiden, which widen his eyes at the revelation.

"Whoa…..I…..it didn't seem to me like you two were together," Raiden said to Kagami, which smirked at his reaction. "You could have told me that before and I would have let him win"

"Too bad I thought you knew it"

"It's fine….no problem," Raiden said leaving the two alone. "I'm going to get myself a drink"

"Sure..." Kagami said befuddled, then looked up at Adrien, which watched Raiden leaving.

"I think now he got it," Adrien said with his eyebrows down as Kagami smirked at his behavior.

"Were you jealous?" Asked Kagami and Adrien looked down at her embarrassed.

"Uhm no why should I?" Asked the blonde making the girlfriend chuckle.

"The way you said, that you were my boyfriend sounded like that. Maybe that could just be my impression"

"I admit I was a little jealous. Sorry I didn't mean to shoo him off"

"It's alright," Kagami said looking along with Adrien at the outside, where other guests were dancing and later they recognized Armand D'Argencourt trying to dance with Kagami's mother, which made Adrien and Kagami chuckle.

"They're not doing it that bad" Adrien said earning a nod from the girlfriend.

"My mother seems to have fun too," Kagami said as she observed her mother smiling happily as the fencing teacher lead her on the dancefloor.

"Should we join them?" Offered Adrien bowing down at the girl holding his hand out for her.

"It would be my pleasure" Kagami answered placing her small hand on Adrien's then he walked with the girl out and near the drinks stood Raiden together with another Japanese descendant boy.

"How could you not know Kagami was dating him?" Asked the fencing partner of Raiden. "They appeared together last week at the teens magazine," Explained the boy from the same size as Raiden showing the boy the cover of the magazine with Adrien in the front of the cover in his fencing suit of his father's brand and next to him stood Kagami with her back leaned to Adrien's shoulder looking up at the blonde with a smile and the headline Gabriel is the new sponsor for the fencing suits for the D'Argencourt Academy. "Check it out Raid…."

Raiden snapped the magazine out of his friends' hand tearing the front page of the cover apart shrieking his friend at his sudden aggressive act.

"He will regret the day he took Kagami away from me" Raiden said glaring at the outside seeing Kagami with Adrien standing together in front of each other and Kagami had leaned her head under Adrien's chin while he had his arms around Kagami's back and his eyes looking down at the girl, which leaned on him in serenity.