A/N: Be prepared for lots of updates, I have four to do, and all before I leave on my trip, which is on the 25th.
Requested by the lovely Junsuina Yume (FFN pen name): "In which Ladybug gives Chat Noir a black scarf with a green paw embroidered signed Chat Noir but she accidentally signs it as Marinette inside the paw" I'm a sucker for scarves, so duh.
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~Enjoy!
"Me-ouch, my lady! Is that anyway to treat the birthday boy?" Chat Noir teased, dodging the flying boxes that came from the akuma-tized villain.
"It's your birthday?" Ladybug asked, hopping over his crouched form and landing a punch square in the villain's face. She grabbed the safety helmet from their head and tossed it to her partner. Chat caught it and quickly threw it down and rammed his staff into it, causing it to crumble and release the akuma.
"Not so fast, evil akuma! It's time to de-evilize!" Ladybug quickly caught and purified the butterfly before sending it on its way.
"Purr-fect work, as always, Bugaboo," Chat smile down at the red clad girl who rolled her eyes.
She led the way out of the construction site and to the rooftops of Paris.
"Chat, is it really your birthday?" She sighed as she sat on the edge of a building, gazing out over the sleepy city just barely awake at the early morning hour.
"Well, technically, what time is it? Six?" Chat narrowed his eyes as he joined Ladybug in sitting and observed the early Parisian sky. He then tilted his head towards Ladybug and gave a cheeky grin.
"So, do I get a birthday kiss?" He teased as Ladybug swatted him on the arm gently, shaking her head at him, what was she to do with her silly kitty?
"No, but I was thinking about bringing you your present. When do you want to meet?"
"Y-you got me a present?! Bugaboo, you really shouldn't have!" The boy clad in black looked shocked, touched and on the verge of tears. Ladybug smiled gently at him and shook her head.
"I did make you a present because I care about you, I just didn't know when your birthday was, but since I was making a classmate a present, I also decided to start yours. Chat, what's with the face?"
Chat Noir tackled his partner in a hug, one of the few she allowed him to give her and smiled, "Ladybug, you are literally the best friend anyone could have!"
Marinette wrapped the present up nice and neat for her Partner in Justice and set in on the desk, watching the time tick down to the meeting time they agreed on.
"What's with the face, Marinette?" Tikki asked, hovering inches from Marinette's nervous gaze.
"Well, do you think he'll like it? It is sort of cliche…" She fiddled with the excess wrapping paper that had fallen on her lap.
"Of course he'll love it, because you thought of him to make it!" Tikki laughed and hugged Marinette's cheek, "common, any longer and we'll keep that silly kitty of yours waiting."
Of course Tikki was right, Chat Noir was head over heels for the black scarf she had made, especially the ends where she had made green cat paws instead of keeping it black. He had excitedly thrown the scarf around his neck. All in all, a weight was lifted off Marinette's mind as he had strutted around the rooftop with the scarf.
And then, she got to school and saw the scarf Adrien was wearing. And all the walls she built up to keep Ladybug as far from her personal life as she could came crashing down.
"Marinette, did you see Adrien's scarf? He said he got it from an amazing friend of his!" Alya laughed, slinging her arm around the smaller girl's shoulders.
"Y-yeah, and I think I know the friend…"
Before Alya could ask Marinette what was up with the unclear response, the bell sounded and called all the students to class, drawing the girls into a conversation on English homework, but Adrien's scarf still gnawed at the back of her mind, he couldn't be, right? Just a coincidence.
Adrien hadn't noticed it when he was given the scarf, in fact, he hadn't noticed it until that morning on the car ride to school.
He had been fiddling with one of the green paws on the end of the scarf when he had noticed the shiny green thread in one of the.. would you call it a finger, maybe a claw… well, at the edge, embroidered with the shiny green to match the yarn was a loopy cursive signature reading "Marinette". Which only meant one thing: Marinette knew Ladybug. Maybe he could somehow ask her about it after classes, see what his lady was really like without him there.
Marinette had planned on cornering Adrien after class, big crush on him be darned! However, he had asked to speak to her first, so she didn't get the chance before Alya was shoving her out of the classroom with a thumbs up and a snickering Nino behind her.
Marinette regained her balance and followed Adrien to a secluded part of the school nervously, what would he want to talk about? Had he noticed her staring? He probably had and wanted to scold her about it.
"Marinette, did you see my new scarf? I got it from a… friend of mine for my birthday." Marinette gave him a quizzical look, why had he dragged her to a private location to talk about his scarf?
"I, uh, yeah, it's very nice, the black brings out your eyes and the green looks good with it. Why?"
"Well, I happened to notice something interesting in the paw," Adrien held up the paw in question, letting the black haired girl get a good look at her signature signing in it, oh no.
"I, uh, it's not, um, hehehe?" Marinette was in trouble, her confidence she had a moment ago withered up and died, leaving her a red and blubbering mess as she tried to craft a clever lie to hide her alter ego.
"Uh-huh, I thought you might, now I want to know: what's Ladybug really like as a person?" Adrien's demeanor seemed to shift gears and his eyes got shiny and his expression turned dreamy at the mention of Ladybug. Marinette blinked a couple of times before she laughed out loud, he had no idea.
Adrien stared in confusion as the small girl doubled over with laughter at the situation, whatever it was that was so funny completely lost to him.
"A-are you telling me you didn't piece it together? I figured it out this morning, you silly kitty!" She laughed, sliding down to sit on the floor and stare up at the boy with her incredibly blue eyes filled with amusement.
"H-how, I mean, I'm not, how did you know?!" Adrien stumbled, failing again to see the obvious hint in front of him, quite literally as he slid down and sat opposite of her.
"Take your time, I'll wait," she gave him a wink, something she only dared to give to Chat Noir and it finally dawned on him.
"My Lady?!"
