From up above Marinette and Chloe watched in stunned silence as a bright green light swallowed up Adrien, then the next second Chat Noir held Rin's wrist in one hand, the other hand grasped his staff which had extended into either sides of the rocky walls that would've become a watery grave.
Below them, Rin looked up into Adrien's masked face she was shocked into silence. Now that he grasped her she should've used Bakudo 37 to save herself. Yet when her mind panicked despite her training, when she was helpless, here he was. He was a friend to her, and every bit as selfless as the friend she'd lost back home.
"Adrien," She finally spoke as she looked up at him.
"You revealed yourself, over me?"
"Well, I don't think Mamoru'd like me too much if he knew his great-grand nephew, or whatever I'd be to him, just let you become Soul reaper paste," Adrien joked.
Rin gave a soft grin and nodded a bit in agreement, "I see."
"Can you climb up?"
Rin nodded as she swung her other arm up and grasped his wrist with both hands, pulling herself up and onto his back then climbing a bit more still until she could wrap her arms around his neck, her legs were wrapped around his waist, tightly, her ankles locking her in place.
"Besides that Rin, I owe you my life… without you. I never would've made any of my friends, I don't think I need to tell you what they mean to me. It's because of you that I had a way to meet them. Hang on, this is gonna get scary. "
An anguished enraged bellowing roar up above them gave an indication of just how scary things were about to get as the Hulk like Akuma began to sprout scales and grew a spiked tail.
Marinette gained a determined look on her face, "I've had about enough of you. If the cat's out of the bag, then the bug's coming out too."
Chloe looked at Marinette in bewilderment.
Marinette kept her eyes on the Akuma as she called out, "Tikki, Spots on!"
Chloe didn't think her jaw would drop any further down but it did as she watched Marinette call out her transformation and be consumed by a bright pink light. When the light faded, Ladybug stood in Marinette's place.
'Ladybug is in my class? Oh my god! I've been bullying Ladybug! What kind of a monster am I? Adrikins is Chat Noir? I have both super heroes in my class?! Oh god I'm gonna need a therapist,' Chloe thought to herself.
Adrien's eyes widened and his jaw dropped as he heard the last bit Marinette had said before a blinding pink light radiated from the top of the cliff.
"Well, let's not keep Ladybug waiting," Rin stated.
Adrien glanced at Rin in shock before he realized something about the white haired girl on his back and voiced his revealation, "You knew the whole time?!"
Rin dead panned as she let out a slight groan at Adrien's naivety before responding, "It's not polite to keep a lady waiting, you know?"
Adrien blinked before nodding and let the baton free from the sides of the rocky ledge before flipping it so he could vault himself back up to join Ladybug and a visibly shaken Chloe who was laying on the ground, tucking her body impossibly tight together.
"Mari's L-la-ladybug…Adri Noir," Chloe whimpered.
Rin quirked an eyebrow before pinching the bridge of her nose in annoyance, 'I swear if I was ever this frail, please shoot me!'
She sensed the Akuma's move and dove, grasping the shell shocked girl within her arms and coming to a stop in a kneeling position, Chloe wrapped in her arms like a frightened child.
Rin stood with Chloe and raced off in the direction the rest of their classmates had headed.
The Akuma moved to follow them, only for Ladybug to swing in front, twist back and land a round house kick to the Akuma's head, the green skinned monster fell onto the ground, and yelled angrily as he charged at her, Chat Noir blocked him, using his baton as a staff to block the Akuma's attacks and deliver a few of his own.
'Let's finish this,' Ladybug thought to herself as she threw her yo-yo up into the air, she was stunned when a pair of scissors fell into her hands.
"What am I supposed to do with these?!"
"His hoodie," Rin stated, making Ladybug jump.
"What are you doing back here? How did you get here?"
"Long story. We had a secret Santa in class last year. He found out that I was his secret santa, and that hoodie he's wearing is what I gave him," Rin volunteered.
"So that would be where the Akuma's hiding… but he's definitely keeping Chat Noir busy I'm not sure I can get an opening.
"Well, for once, your lucky charm might only be good for the healing effect after," Rin suggested as she reached behind the back of her head to the barrette, and pressed on the large pearl at the center, she then clutched something in her hand as she took a battle stance.
"Get ready cause this is gonna be quick," Rin recommended.
Marinette blinked before demanding in a near angry voice, "Are you ever going to tell me who you really are?! It's clear you're not a Miraculous wielder, so just who are you?"
"When the time's right," Rin replied before charging towards the fight. Ladybug could now clearly see what Rin was clutching in her hand, a 3 ¼ inch bladed dagger.
Rin took a running leap at a tree stump, then jumped from it and up onto a rock formation just behind Justin and Chat Noir. She pushed off of the rocky ledge and landed on Justin's back, slicing the hoodie straight down the back and freeing the Akuma within. Rin jumped off Justin's back and caught Chat Noir as he was flung towards the rock formation.
"Uhh, nice catch?" he joked.
"I'm not into kittens," Rin shot back as she forced him to his feet.
"No more evil doing for you, little Akuma," Ladybug said as she began her sequence, caught the Akuma, and then freed it from her yo-yo.
"Bye bye little butterfly," Ladybug sweetly called to it as it flew off, pure white and cleansed.
She threw the pair of scissors up in the air calling for her miraculous ladybug.
Rin watched and safely tucked the dagger away back within the confines of its secret location within her barrette as the damage the akuma had inflicted to both Chat Noir and the bridge returned to normal, and the hoodie she'd had to shred was repaired without hint of what had happened.
Justin sat on the ground, rubbing his head as he glanced around, "huh? Wha-?"
Rin picked up the hoodie and on her knees in front of Justin, offering the hoodie to him. She looked hesitant before she spoke, "I think I owe you more of an explaination than what I gave earlier. I wasn't just giving you a line. It's true, it is me. It just wouldn't work and it's not because there's anything wrong with you. I mean when I first started at school, you were the one who showed me around and always said if I wanted to hang out with someone, just message you. If I'm honest it kinda scared me in a way but not because of anything you did wrong."
Justin blushed a little, glancing away before accepting the hoodie from Rin and gave a small sigh as he offered, "I could've been more considerate. I guess I like you so much I just got selfish. I shouldn't have."
Rin gave him a small smile and nodded, "We both had our part to play in this." She gently played with the pink woven bracelet on her left wrist.
Justin watched the motion before his shoulders sagged, "Someone special gave that to you, didn't they?"
Rin nodded, tears beginning to shine in her eyes.
"So he's back in Japan?"
Rin shook her head 'no' and took a shuttering deep breath before she croaked out, "No. And that's why I can't be with anyone… I loved him, I never told him. Before I could he died, I'm not over it."
Justin's eyes widened as he grasped Rin's chin between his pointer finger and thumb, making her look at him. His heart nearly broke when he saw that tears were cascading down her cheeks.
"Take as much time as you need. Can we be friends, til then?"
Rin gave a bright smile through her tears and nodded, "I'd like that."
'Man! I feel sorry for the guy. Not only is he after someone emotionally unavailable, he's after a girl whose old enough to be his great-great-great-grandmother,' Chat Noir thought to himself.
He then looked to Ladybug and cleared his throat, "Umm—I think we should talk. I'll drop by your place later tonight?"
Ladybug nodded before a beep of her miraculous gave her warning she wrapped her yo-yo around a tree branch before swinging away.
Chat Noir vaulted off before his miraculous wore off.
"I'm sorry I got so upset," Justin apologized.
"You had the courage to wear your heart on your sleeve, don't be sorry for that," Rin answered.