(A/N: Okay so I have another account so that's the reason I have no favorite authors or favorite stories- they're all on my other account. I have a ton of them so yeah)
Miraculous Ladybug!
Marinette paced through her room as she started to freak out. Chat Noir. Luka. It made sense, right? The questions about Luka and the date, Chat knowing that the guy they were talking about was Luka! The evidence was too prominent to say the least.
Tikki, however, was not amused. As soon as she heard Marinette's fatal the words she had given the blackette the dumbest look known to man.
"Marinette. I do not think Chat Noir is Luka just because he knew his name. It could be legitimately anyone in your class."
"But Tikki, the evidence is irrefutable!" Marinette plopped down on her desk, pulled out a notebook and started scribbling down 'the evidence'. "Wait, you've seen Chat Noir before. Tell me if I'm right." Marinette's bluebell eyes stared the century old kwami down.
Tikki sighed. She could straight out tell her chosen that Chat Noir was Adrien, who Tikki was almost sure she still liked, or she could resist questioning and Marinette could go on thinking Luka was Chat. Tikki chose the unheard of third option: talk her out of it.
"Mari. You know I can't tell you that But please think Luka started coming to school a month ago. How long have you known Chat Noir?" Marinette's face scrunched up as she thought to herself. That did make sense. Luka had only just moved back to France from living with his dad in America, so it didn't make sense for Chat Noir to be someone who lived in America. But for some reason her gut was telling her that her theory was true.
She tapped her chin as she thought it out. Chat Noir hadn't really been himself since he gave her the rose. She thought maybe he had accepted that she just wanted to stay friends with him and somehow that made her realize her feelings for him. The fact that he would push away all his feelings for her just because she told him she'd like to stay friends. The fact that despite his desire to see her behind the mask he respected her want to keep it a secret. The fact that no matter what situation he could always make light of it and make it better for the duo, no matter what they were doing. And she hated to admit it but she loved him for that.
"What if..?" Her plan was slowly coming together in her head. "What if I do tests to Luka to see if he's Chat Noir?" She plopped down in her seat and pulled out a piece of lined paper and a pen and started to scribble something. "What do we know about Chat Noir?"
Tikki flew over and made herself comfortable in the crook between Marinette's neck and shoulder. If she was going to waste time thinking Luka was Chat then she might as well be comfortable. "Isn't he allergic to feathers?" The red kwami remembered the event with Mr Pigeon and the derby hat. Adrien and Chat sneezed at the feathers, if Marinette didn't remember that then there was something wrong with this woman.
Marinette scribbled that down. "He's a hopeless romantic, too. And he always smells like cheese, gross." She made a face at that and that made Tikki giggle, knowing that Plagg was the only reason he smelt like that.
"He has blonde hair and green eyes, also. Luka doesn't." Tikki noted.
Marinette didn't scribble that down, instead she tapped her chin. "Actually how do we know that he does have green eyes? I mean how do we know it's not because of his cat-themed suit?"
"Seriously, Marinette? What makes you think he doesn't have green eyes?" Tikki was exasperated at this point.
"I'm just saying," She said with a shrug,"we don't know it for sure. You know?" She paused and tapped her pen for awhile. "Okay, I'm putting green eyes question mark. Satisfied?"
Tikki sighed. "How about blonde hair? Luka's hair is blue." There. There was no possible way Marinette could turn that around. Absolutely impossible.
"Buuuut how do we know that the kwami magic doesn't allow him to show his blue hair?" Tikki spoke too soon. She groaned and flew in front of Marinette's face. "Okay, I know what you're going to say: but have past Chat Noir's had dye in their hair? Then you don't know, Tikki. If I got my hair dyed, I don't know, red then it wouldn't show in the transformation because then Paris would be like who do we know who recently got a red streak in her hair? Hmm! I wonder! And Paris isn't that oblivious and dense- I'll tell you that."
"Some Parisians are..." Tikki mumbled under her breath and she made her way to Marinette's bed. Marinette stayed at the desk and continued scribbling things down. Those things included: Blonde hair? Loves chouquettes. Flirty. Cocky. Taller than me. Messy hair. Likes cats?
The last one was a question mark because just because he dressed like a cat didn't mean he loved them or had one. She dressed as a ladybug but before getting her miraculous she was completely indifferent about them, maybe L-Chat was the same. She yawned and glanced at her alarm clock. It was already almost 10.
She would definitely get to the bottom of this the next morning.
Miraculous Ladybug!
A goofy grin was set on Chat's face as he used his baton to swing himself away from Marinette's house. He was so giddy right now that his face hurt from smiling.
She had said she was upset. Sure it had been about Luka getting in trouble but it was something. Now he had to set the second part of his plan. It included stalking a blue-haired woman stealer and finding out everything about this heart thief. AKA Luka Couffaine.
That's why Chat was now outside the Couffaine household looking through windows. Sure he had had to have a full conversation with Chloe and Sabrina to get the information but it was completely worth it for his Princess- no Queen. He found Juleka's room was dark and broody, he wasn't surprised. Mrs Couffaine was ahem doing something that Adrien thought he'd only see in incognito mode and finally, the last window on the top floor was revealed to be Luka's.
He didn't know what to expect. Part of him expected evil schematics to what he was planning to do with Marinette's love and affection, another part of him was expecting Luka to take off his mask and reveal an old guy from the future sent to ruin Adrien's life, starting with his love life. But what he didn't expect was what he saw.
The room was blue, a cerulean, and Luka was fussing with his guitar and writing things down on a piece of paper. He looked to be deep in thought and Chat studied it. Interesting. That was all he needed for today.
Now he knew that the evil teenager liked the color blue and music, so all he had to do was feed Marinette the wrong information tomorrow and the two would have complications and then boom broken up.
It was practically fool proof- What could possibly go wrong?
Miraculous Ladybug!
"Marinette!" Tikki nudged the young designer's face with her tiny nub things as the alarm clock blared in the background. "You clicked snooze 3 times already- you have to get up!"
Marinette turned over so she lied on her stomach, still sleepy. "One more snooze. Please."
"It's already 9:06 though." Hearing those words made Marinette sink even deeper into the bed.
"So that means I have 40 more minutes, so if you don't mind: I'm going to use them." With that she let out an inhuman snore and went back to sleep. School started at 9:45.
"But if you don't go early, how are you going to find out if Luka is Chat Noir?"
At that Marinette practically sprang out of bed, running towards the bathroom to get ready for school. It took 20 minutes to shower, to do her hair, and dress up. She barely found the bands so she had to make sure she didn't lose the ones she did find.
She took her list, her purse, and her books, and anything she would need and ran down the stairs.
"Woah," Tom laughed. "You're up before school starts. Does that mean hell froze over?" He let out a bit hearty chuckle and Marinette giggled in response.
"New year, new me." She said as she sat at the table, ready for breakfast. Sabine brought over a plate with scrambled eggs, bacon, and French toast, but as the French would call it: toast.
"Your father and I are going grocery shopping later, do you need anything?" Sabine asked sweetly, sitting across from her daughter.
"Actually, can I have some hair bands and I'm almost out of black thread too."
The family spoke about anything and everything and by the time she was done with her food it was 9:35 and twas marked the day Marinette left early for school.
Miraculous Ladybug!
"I'm glad you're doing better on the whole Marinette situation." Nino said his bag slung over his shoulder as they walked towards the entrance of school.
Adrien smiled, maybe even a mischievous glint in his eyes. "Yeah, you could I'm Luk-ing into more hobbies."
"That's great, man. I'm-" Nino stopped in his tracks and narrowed his eyes at Adrien. "Did you just say-"
"Marinette! Hey, hi. Hello." He interrupted Nino, smiling at Marinette as she walked towards the two of them. "Hi, Marinette. How'd you sleep? Are you feeling better? Did you get a filling breakfast? Need to copy my homework? Excited for school?" She raised an eyebrow and Adrien returned her confused look with a bright smile.
Nino, however, came to Adrien's rescue with an awkward laugh. "Sorry about my friend here, silly boy just discovered coffee for the first time." Marinette giggled at that and Adrien's smile only widened at the noise. "Is Alya coming or..? School's about to start."
"I'll text her, she's probably putting last touches on the Ladyblog or something."
Marinette pulled out her phone while Nino turned to Adrien and whispered fiercely under his breath. "Dude what did I tell you about Mari?" Before Adrien could answer Nino was already scolding him like a parent, even waggling his finger at the blonde model. "I said that she was finally happy, okay? The girl just got over you, man," Adrien's eyes widened and Nino continued his rant, not realizing his mistake. "Now if I see you flirting with her, or asking to hold her books like in the movies, I will be on your ass like frosting on cake? Understood? Alya will cut my dick off and hang it over a fireplace Mr. Krabs style and I wanted to keep it until I was at least 30. So do not mess this up for Mari, okay? Or me, man!" Adrien nodded, his mouth still shut tight. "Good."
At that moment Mari looked up from her phone with a pout. "Alya's sick apparently, she's got a cold."
"Aww that sucks." Nino already knew that. Benefits of being her boyfriend. The warning bell for school starting rang and the three began to walk to their homeroom class, chatting the whole way there. Adrien was completely quiet because his mind was reeling at the fact Marinette used to like him. What had he done to chase her away?
About ten minutes after class started Luka and Juleka came in late, both with passes. Usually Luka would sit with Kagami in the back, but noticing that Marinette was without a desk partner he slid into the seat next to her with a smirk. "If it isn't my second favorite pigtail girl." He whispered as he pulled out his notebook and pencil.
"And who's your Number One may I ask?" She asked slyly, crossing her arms and giving him an equally mischievous smirk.
"My before anyone else: Bubbles Utonium, of the superhero fighting group the Powerpuff Girls." That made her laugh out loud. He was a sucker for cartoons and anime which she really liked about him. The teacher cast her a warning stare and Marinette shrunk back into her seat, shutting her mouth. Luka just chuckled at her reaction.
After a few minutes Marinette whispered to Luka. "So you like superheroes, huh?" If he said he liked Ladybug then that meant he had to be Chat, right?
Not thinking much of it, he shrugged. "Yeah, they're alright. Especially Ladybug, she's so badass, y'know?" Interesting. It couldn't be a coincidence that he admired Ladybug. Marinette was about to ask him if he was a dog or cat person, to confirm it, but he continued. "Plus she does all the fighting herself. I was watching some of the fights on the Ladyblog and did you know he's been under Akuma control at least 3 times? Ladybug hasn't been under control ever. I mean, she deserves a way more helpful sidekick because Chat-"
"Ladybug isn't anything without Chat Noir." She interrupted, staring him down with her electric blue eyes. She could look intimidating when she wanted to, which Luka had to start remembering. "He helps her all the time, and even though it may not look like he's doing so much that-"
"Mari," He laughed like her defending Chat was a joke. "Ladybug can literally do the job without Chat. He sucks at his job. If anyone else was Chat then I bet you Paris would be a way safer-"
This was crazy! He had to be kidding. Marinette's voice got a bit louder as she got annoyed by Luka's wrong opinion of Chat Noir. Adrien started listening in. "You haven't even been here for an akuma- you've never been with Chat, or talked to him- so what do you know?" Adrien had been listening in on the entire conversation and was practically jumping up and down inside. Sure, he was listening to a guy diss his other half, but he was also listening to the love of his life defend and compliment his other half- and even better the couple was fighting. So that was why a very subtle smile graced the blonde's face while he heard them whisper-argue.
"There's a reason that there's a Ladyblog and not a Chat Noir blog."
"It's not like you can make a pun out of Chat Noir and Blog. If I was making a blog and knew Chat liked puns I'd name it the Kittycat Chat or just something dumb and cat related! Because that's what Chat would like! And you wouldn't know that because you know nothing about Chat."
Luka was silent for a second, then he crossed his arms and sunk into his seat. Scoffing his next few words. "You're acting like you know the guy, geez!"
Mari's eyes widened and she scratched the back of her head awkwardly. "Yeah w-well." She cleared her throat. Crap! Marinette was supposed to act like she barely knew the leather clad superhero. "He saved me a couple of times- he's my hero." Luka was looking at her suspiciously, she gave a shy smile in response and started paying attention to the teacher, avoiding the boy's gaze.
Maybe he wasn't Chat Noir. Why else would he blatantly insult the superhero?
Miraculous Ladybug!
Adrien was having most amazing day. After their argument it didn't seem like the two were still going out, but only Adrien knew that because of what he heard that morning. Nino hadn't heard it but then again the DJ had had headphones in and Adrien wanted to believe being Chat Noir had heightened some of his senses. Luka had been trying to talk to Marinette the whole day after the first period, but she would avoid him and walk with Adrien and Nino- another reason his day was going good.
For lunch Nino had gone to go see Alya and bring her notes from the first half of classes, so that left Adrien and Marinette alone eating lunch at a nearby diner cafe. Adrien was reeling, even though part of him felt like it was only to avoid Luka. "You're telling me you've never tried ratatouille?" Adrien mock gasped, holding his chest like he was having a heart attack.
Marinette laughed at his reaction, covering her face with the menu. What was up with her blushing? She had accepted a date with another guy. She was completely over the model. "I've only tried my parent's ratatouille. Are you telling me that doesn't count, Richboy?" she teased. From anyone else that would've annoyed him or made him want to defend himself as a nice guy but from her it made his heart do jumping jacks with that look she gave him.
"I'm sure your parents make amazing ratatouille but this is some amazing ratatouille." Adrien had come here many times after photoshoots and it had made them so much better.
"I'll try it, but if it's not as good as my parents' then you have to try it, deal?" She raised her fist for him to bump it, and looked at him expectantly. For some reason it reminded him of something. Something in the back of his head was telling him he's seen that facial expression and fist raised before, but he had no idea where.
He smiled back at her, bumping his fist on her extended one.
"Deal."
I know what you're thinking: THANK GOD! Mari doesn't think he's Chat Noir anymore! Well too bad, she does. Mama needs a juicy plot LOL. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I got it done relatively faster than I thought I would. So chances are the next one will be done in a week too.
DUPAIN-DANG OUT!
P.S- I got my profile name from a story called "What are friends for?" In case anyone makes those connections!