Chapter 5
Around the 23:27 Kagami woke up, then sat up on the bed and looked down at her husband, which slept peacefully on his back. Kagami smiled, then she got up on her feet picking up her smartphone to turn the flashlight on and walk towards the exit of the bedroom to the corridor, which had the lights of the corridor dimmed and Kagami turned her light off, then moved the corridor up, reaching the entrance to the bathroom to enter into it. Moments later Kagami was done with her business, then washed her hands at the lavatory, then held her hand with the wedding ring closer to her to look at the engraving with Adrien's name on it.
Adrien and Kagami sat together at a coffee shop, were the two here looking together at a card with the available drinks and foods for them to order.
"You know Kagami, I'm hungry" Adrien stated seeing the woman chuckle.
"To be honest, I'd like to eat something too" Kagami admitted. "I'm not very hungry, but I wouldn't mind eating,"
"Would you like pancakes?" Adrien asked making Kagami shrug her shoulders.
"You pick. I'll let you surprise me" Kagami answered earning a nod from you.
"And you'll be surprised" Adrien answered with a wink, then looked at the cart along with his girlfriend, which placed her arm around his leaning her head on his, followed by a short peck on his cheek. "Look, they've got Frozen Ice Tea with passion fruit flavor"
"That's your favorite flavor" Kagami mentioned earning a nod from the blonde.
"I wouldn't mind trying it out"
"It's hot outside, I think I'm going to take the mango iced tea" Kagami stated. "What sauce are they gonna put over the pancakes?"
"I thought about strawberry and chocolate"
"Strawberry would be different,"
"We can also ask for both?" Adrien suggested.
"Okay sounds good to me"
"Great, I'm going to give them our order," The blonde said giving Kagami a kiss on her face, then got up moving forwards to the reception, where a guest already stood giving his order.
Kagami checked the time on her smartphone, then placed the phone back in her jacket, then observed her boyfriend talk to the cashier, which noticed down on a notice block, what Adrien wanted for their table. A minute later Adrien brought the drinks to the table and sat down vice versa to the Japanese woman and handed her out the drink she wanted.
"He'll be giving the pancakes in three minutes," Adrien informed the blue-haired woman, which nodded and held her cup up in the air to clink their glasses before they would take a sip.
The minutes had passed and the waiter made his way towards the table to spot Adrien grab Kagami's hand for a kiss, then he noticed the man appear and he placed her hand gently down on the table.
"Kagami, today is a special day for me…..for us….It's the day we confessed to each other our feelings back in Japan, almost three years ago and I would like to ask you something very important:" Adrien stopped, then looked at the waiter, which placed with a kind smile in front of Kagami a plate with a small pile of pancakes, garnished with red and brown sauce and in the middle written in a Segoe script-like font the sentence Will you marry me?
Kagami widened her eyes in surprise at seeing the message on the pancake, then looked up at Adrien noticing he was gone from the chair but was on his left knee holding on his right hand an open box with a golden ring and an emerald-colored gemstone on it.
"I've been thinking about this for about a month, how I should ask you this question, then you asked me to come here with you and as I had always the ring here with me, in case I would find a spontaneous idea to propose you, which is the case now"
"I can't believe you had this idea right now. It's amazing"
"Thank you…..Will you say yes?" The blonde asked watching the woman nod and get off her chair to embrace her boyfriend.
"Yes, of course, I will!" The blue-haired woman answered making Adrien smile lovely at her acceptance, then he placed his arms around her closing his eyes followed by a few present guests applauding at the two.
Kagami held her hand with the ring, then gave the ring a peck and walked out of the bathroom, then looked at the other end of the corridor, where a door was open and she could hear the voice of her father-in-law. Kagami approached the room to hear better, what he was talking about.
"I believe lying was the best option I could do right now. How do you think she would have reacted, if I told her I used the miraculous to akumatize everyone in Paris to get me the miraculouses just to bring her back?"
"Akumatize?" Kagami whispered surprised at what she heard from the conversation. "How is this possible?" Kagami mumbled to herself, then approached closer to the door standing in front of a knight décor, which wielded a sword in front of him.
"Adrien was most of the times save from the akumatized citizens. That one time with our bodyguard would have almost ended in a disaster. The only villain I have somehow regret to have akumatized was Kagami, she almost killed my son on several occasions"
"Riposte…."Kagami spoke remembering seeing in the news how she was going behind Adrien to end his life.
"Most of the citizens have gotten over it now and so has your daughter, so far I know,"
Kagami moved back having one of her hair lock get stuck on one of the fingers of the knight, then she tried to remove it and caused the knight to fall down, shrieking Gabriel which saw the knight on the floor.
"Who's there!" Gabriel shouted from the inside shrieking Kagami, which ran along the corridor back into the bedroom of her husband, then she followed the side of the walls by touching on the wall following it to the side, where the bed was and Kagami got over Adrien back into the bed, then pulled the cover up, then leaned herself back on him closing her eyes to pretend she was asleep.
"What was that noise?" Adrien mumbled opening his eyes slowly, then noticed Kagami clinging on him with a strange facial expression, then he placed his hand on the wife's shoulder "Did you get scared by it?"
"A little" Kagami answered. "Can I ask you something?"
"Sure" Adrien answered, then someone knocked on their door, then got in turning the lights on, making Adrien growl at the intensity of the lights. "What's going on?" Adrien asked, then Gabriel appeared to see the couple lie in their bed normally afterward Adrien sat up looking at his father.
"One of the knights was dropped down on the floor and I wanted to ask if any of you was it or if we have to do it with a burglar"
"We just woke up now with that weird noise" Adrien answered while Kagami nodded quickly without any more questions.
"I better check it out" Gabriel mentioned watching Adrien get up from the bed.
"I'm coming with you, father" Adrien mentioned watching Gabriel shake his head.
"Stay here. I'll take the bodyguard, don't worry about us,"
"But we can help too, father" Adrien offered grabbing Kagami's hand seeing her nod.
"I appreciate your offer, but it's not necessary"
"Alright" Adrien responded neutral, then watched his father leave.
"That was close" Kagami replied falling down on her back, making Adrien tilt his head.
"Did I miss something?" Adrien asked seeing Kagami nod.
"Can I ask you something, before I tell you about, what happened?"
"Uh sure"
"Was your father Hawk Moth before?" Kagami asked making Adrien shake his head.
"No. I saw my father akumatized at my house. He couldn't be him,"
"Are you sure?" Kagami asked earning a nod from the blonde.
"You're talking to the predecessor of Jade Neko. I know, what I see and what I didn't see"
"So you saw Hawk Moth and your dad in the same place?" Kagami asked raising her left eyebrow.
"No….." Adrien answered. "But why are you asking that?"
"Before, I went to the bathroom and heard your father on the phone saying he had to lie to your mother if I understood the context right and he couldn't tell her he akumatized everyone in Paris to get the miraculous. That's what I heard"
"Are you sure, that's what he said?" Adrien asked earning a nod from Kagami, then he sighed at the story.
"But…..how"
"I wish I could have recorded him talking so I could show it to you. He even stated he regretted the part about Riposte haunting you through Paris"
"Really?...And what...But if he lied to mom, why did he do that in the first place? I thought he trusts her" Adrien asked looking sad at Kagami, which shrugged her shoulders.
"Maybe if he would tell her the truth she would misinterpret everything. You know she heard you complaining about the past, where he was cold and ignorant to you. Maybe if he didn't use his free time to go out to akumatize people maybe your relationship with your dad would be a little different…..That's at least what I think"
"What shall we do about this?" Adrien asked making Kagami shrug her shoulders again.
"I don't know. I just wanted to ask you this. It could have been, that you knew it, but you couldn't say it"
"No, I didn't know it. Well, I don't know, what I should do about it. He isn't harming anyone. But I'm not really fond of him lying to my mom because of what he did,"
"Maybe the best thing is to keep it silence, for now, until we find out more about it" The Japanese woman suggested.
"If there's more, we discuss it and confront him with it," Adrien suggested. "Currently the only plan I've got,"
"That's okay for now. Otherwise, I feel we shouldn't worry about his lies. If he screws up at some point, it's his fault"
"You're right" Adrien answered lying back on the mattress next to his wife. "It's the best thing I can do"
"Yeah" Kagami replied taking the bedcover to cover herself and the blonde, then she lied with her face towards the commode and Adrien moved closer to his wife placing his arms around her lying his face on her shoulder to take the big spoon position. "Night"
"Good night" Adrien wished closing his eyes with a smile on his face to pick up his sleep again.