Chapter 11: The gift problems

"What are we doing?" Chat asked as he tried to peek at the window while Marinette is busy measuring the black fabric sitting at her window sill.

"Eek!" Marinette shrieked. She almost lost her balance but luckily Chat pushed her back gently before she really fell down. Once she had her balance, she quickly threw the fabric at the laundry basket and stood up facing the feline hero. "I told you not to visit me!" she whisper yell as she gritted her teeth. It was almost midnight, Marinette was glaring at the blonde hero, waiting for some answers.

"It's very very late, don't you have school tomorrow?" Marinette asked angrily as she attempted to close her window but unfortunately Chat Noir stopped her.

"Well, it's my nightly patrol and I promised my ladybug I'll do a full patrol on my own as-"

"Punishment?"

Chat quickly perked up and looked at her. He let a wide grin appear on his face. "Yeah, how do you know?"

"Uhh…wild guess?" Marinette replied with a shrug. "Good night Chat Noir!~" she sang happily as she slowly closed the window but the feline cat stopped her once more.

"Wait, what about that hoo-our 30 minute video game session I mean?" Chat said and cleared his throat. He was about to say hoodie but remembered he's Chat Noir and not Adrien.

Marinette blinked and stared at the boy for a few minutes. She clearly and almost heard him saying hoodie, this got her heart pumping in nervous but she shrugged it off and raised a brow at him. "That's just a onetime thing. Don't you have patrolling to do?" she asked.

"Marinette, let the boy play videogames with the queen of videogames pretty please?" Chat begged as he pouted making Marinette blushed and sighed hopelessly.

"Fine, just a 30 minute videogames and I'm off to bed." Marinette said as she walked to her computer and prepared the gaming equipments.

Chat Noir let himself in and sat at her comfy chair as she watched the girl prepare the game. He took a glance at the black fabric at the basket near him.

"Game's all set!" Marinette called before Chat reached it. He quickly ran towards her and sat at the chair beside the girl.

They were playing in silence. The only noise heard was the sound of the game, they are very concentrated indeed.

"So, you had any idea on the black fabric?" Marinette asked, still had her eyes on the screen.

Chat flinched and glanced at her. He gulped but decided to remain silent.

"I saw you slowly reaching it, what are you planning?"

"Umm…just black… you know?" Chat replied with a nervous chuckle. "I like black you see."

Marinette tried a combo as she pressed the buttons rapidly. "Really, that's it?—wait, I thought you like color green."

"Y-yeah-No way, I lost again!" Chat exclaimed, gawking at the screen. "It's the third time!" he then stared at Marinette who's grinning.

"Yeah you did!" Marinette said happily. "By the way, did Adrien Agreste tell you something?"

"A-adrien Agreste?" Chat repeated nervously.

"You know, famous model, the child of my favorite fashion designer, your friend." Marinette said in an obvious kind of tone.

"Oh…um…no? what's it about?" Chat said with a shrug as he gave an innocent look at the girl.
"Err…nothing, forget about it." Marinette said, waving her hand then faced her screen. "You wanna have a rematch? We still have 20 minutes."


"Marinettte!" Adrien cried like a little child as he ran to the classroom during lunch.

"Wha-wha-wha?" Marinette stuttered as she quickly let go of the black fabric she was sewing. There were not a lot of people in the classroom during lunch, there's only Mylene, Ivan, Alix, Marinette and Adrien are in the said room.

Marinette watched the boy ran towards her and sat beside her. As the boy sat, he looked at his three classmates before giving his attention to the girl. Adrien is sitting too close making the young lady blushed as a tomato.

"Hey Marinette, I've been slacking off lately." Adrien whispered putting his papers down the desk.

"Sl-Slacking off for w-what?" Marinette stuttered.

"Y'know, my ladybug gift, I've got nothing in mind for ideas!"

"Ohh…w-what am I going t-to do?" Marinette asked taking the fabric and attempting to continue sewing.

"Forget the hoodie first, help me think of words. Dialogs?"

Marinette gasped and stared dumb-founded at Adrien. "You know this is gift for my superhero, t-think of your own for a while." She said pouting and turned her attention to the fabric. Adrien blushed and gawked at the girl. After a minute or two, Marinette grew conscious of her words and quickly faced Adrien. "I-I'm sorry Adrien, I didn't mean to—"

Adrien looked down to the surface of the desk and began to fidget, she's still blushing a creepy smile curled in his lips. "I-it's fine, I understand, Chat Noir must be extremely stubborn to let you do that in peace huh?" he then noticed Marinette looking at him surprised. "No, I mean he told me about his nightly visits and games so…"

"Did you tell him that I play videogames?"

Adrien nodded.

"That's why he kept bugging me to play games last night, I didn't got much sleep…." She said with a yawn. "Anyway, I'll help with words as I sew so we both get our jobs done."

Adrien nodded shyly and took his pen from his pocket.

"Should I give her roses are red, violets are blue poem?" Adrien asked curiously, tapping his pen against his chin.

Marinette blushed and stopped her sewing. "Gee, I don't know…it might be cheesy—but I-I think she wouldn't mind."

"Yeah, she did say it's cheesy." Adrien muttered as he scratched his head.

Marinette flinched and stared at the boy and quickly resumed her sewing. "Wait." She exclaimed stopping what she's doing.

"What?"

"I'm making him a hoodie without knowing his measurements." She gasped. "I'm a terrible designer."

"What, no you're a great designer. Don't ever say that." Adrien complimented. "If you want, I'll measure myse—my friend Chat Noir for you."

"Really?" Marinette's eyes lit up in happiness. "I don't want to bother you but I don't want to ask him out of the blue."

"No, it's fine, no bother whatsoever." Adrien assured. "I can always tell him there's some clothes I want to give him and I need measurements."

"You'd do that, thank you."

"I'll give it to you tomorrow."

"Thank you again Adrien, so about the words…"

"Nah no need, just help think of puns…"

"Puns?"

"Yeah,"

"Did Chat Noir influenced you?"

"What-no.. of course not-well actually a little…"

"Note of advice, keep puns to a minimum." Marinette warned. "Just don't make her go crazy for reading puns!" she said freaking up, quickly grabbing Adrien's collar and pulled him closer to her face to give him her tensed up glare.

"O-okay."
"Promise me Adrien! Keep the cheesy puns and flirts to a minimum!"

"F-flirts?" Adrien repeated blushing.

"Eh?" Marinette blinked and let go of him after realizing what she's doing. "Oh I think Chat Noir influenced me, he's giving me puns and flirts as well in the past days ehehe." She said nervously as she put away her things. "Speaking of puns, maybe anything related to ladybugs or simply bugs?"

Adrien raised a brow.

"Like, umm...dear Ladybug, I hate to bug-ther you but I'm a fan of yours-eh, something like that." Marinette chuckled.

"Bug-ther...ohhh bother you." Adrien repeated and chuckled. "That's a good pun. are you a pun master perhaps?"

"N-no."


Dear Readers,

I love you! there's a lot of reviews, faves and follows and I couldn't help but squeal of joy ~~~~~ anyways...

Please be aware I'm not leaving you sitting like ducks waiting for this fanfic to I just need to find time to write and edit stuff. I appreciate that you're excited for the updates but yeah, I'm just finding some free time... and perhaps ideas on the way.

So don't be afraid, I'm not leaving you guys...remember season 2 is close by maybe next year so there's still fanfic hope xD besides Miraculous ladybug is my most favorite current fandom there's no way I'm leaving the fandom with a fabulous and handsome Chat Noir in the way o3o

So to the guest, who named Jerry, I appreciate your hype to reading this fanfic and I couldn't help but smile and wanted to reply to you so I'll reply in this, if you're reading thia, don't chu worry, I'm not leaving this fanfic to naught. let's say, I try to update twice or once a week...how's that? :) (idk if I can keep the promise tho) ;)

Again, I asked for patience, thank you 3

-det2x