Sorry I didn't do this sooner, but I just want to keep balance with deviantart and FanFiction. It's not that I don't like writing this, believe me I really do, it's just that I need to keep variety in what I upload that's all... *shrugs* And besides, sometimes it's nice to see how excited you guys are for the next Chapter.

60 Followers!? In only 4 Chapters?! This story has become my most followed FanFic! :D Wow I am really surprised by you all! ^^ Thank you for your continuing support and hope that you all join in on the ride of this story with me! :D

On one final note before I get into the Chapter, I've already seen episode 15 and...OMG *screams and faints* I love it! *faints again* Now I actually have to change a few things that were going to happen in this Chapter so it corresponds with that episode! XD

Enjoy Chapter 5 of Revelations! ^^

Miraculous Ladybug (C) Thomas Astruc/Zagtoon

Chapter 5 – An Understanding

Marinette opened the latch from her ceiling door to her balcony, and then sounds of steps proceeded down the ladder and then landed softly onto the wooden floor.

Chat Noir smiled at Marinette before looking around, instantly seeing pictures of his secret identity plastered over all of her walls and her desktop screen. This caused an intense wave of a warm blush to come across his cheeks, but then guilt struck through him as he slowly began to realise how much she cared for him.

He was taken out of his guilt and shock when Marinette spoke almost insultingly towards him. "So, what do you want? You obviously have a reason as to why you're here in my room." She explained, arms folded and looking slightly away from the cat in disgust.

Chat Noir could feel how much his words and feelings for Ladybug hurt her, if only she knew the truth...and if only he did too. He sighed as he sat on the bed and looked down shyly but full of guilt and regret.

Marinette turned, she saw a saddened Chat Noir, she grew surprised as her eyes widened and her arms fell freely against her sides. She didn't expect to see Chat Noir in her room looking so down on her words. But then she quickly puffed a bit of air out of her mouth and turned away, as she realised that it was exactly the pain she was feeling.

She sighed, eventually feeling on the same emotional level as Chat. She turned and saw him with his heavy head hanging low and resting deeply within the palms of his hands.

"Okay, I'm sorry. Look, I've just been going through a lot lately..." She admitted, rubbing her arm nervously.

Chat looked up at Marinette, seeing the hurt in her blue eyes. He didn't like hurting her, even though if it was only being truly honest with her. He never really wanted to tell Marinette about his feelings towards Ladybug, he just felt so unsure around her, and when the thought came across his mind, he just felt like telling her wasn't going to lead anywhere good.

So he had kept it to himself, until Nino forcibly made him admit that he liked someone, but he didn't mention who for the sake of his secret identity. He wanted to punch Nino for that, but knowing all too well that it would just lead to further problems down the stream, so he held it in and decided that when it built up to a boiling point, he would scream to himself in his room.

He could tell just by looking her that his words had done much damage to her; he examined her room once again, and saw the desktop screen fade away, making him feel deep inside like he was fading away. He felt so regretful and remorseful that he wanted to apologise to her then and there, but nothing but confusion would take over Marinette's mind and questions would be shot at him, causing things to get worse.

There was no way he was leaving until he could apologise to her, or even help her in the least get through this pain. He couldn't help but feel like he had hurt himself deep down, as if he and Marinette shared a strong connection that they didn't know about.

"I see..." He replied, releasing his hands from his face and resting them on the bed, slouching a little. "I have to admit that I've been through pain today too, but it's probably not as bad as yours." He admitted.

Marinette pouted as she narrowed her eyebrows in feelings of being insulted, she turned away from him as she quickly realised that she did indeed have it bad. Adrien liked another girl that wasn't him; he didn't like Marinette in the same way that she liked him. Although there was never any confirmation that Adrien didn't like Marinette in that way, there was no way he would like both her and someone else. She felt like all this time she was being too optimistic and naive, never brave enough to show a simple sign to him.

Sobs were all that Chat could hear, he felt rock hard inside and wanted to cuddle her and assure her that things would turn out alright in the end, and how sorry he was for making her feel this way. Deep down, he felt like maybe this wasn't such a great idea, but he was willing to give it a try, regardless of his bad luck.

He stood up, gently touching Marinette's shoulder as he shed a few tears in remorse and deep regret, his frown never to be lifted with him seeing Marinette like this. It made his heart sink and shatter, he felt all too much for caring about Marinette now more than anything else. It wasn't like him, but seeing someone, especially a girl like this made him feel bad for them, especially if it was his fault in the first place. He was never the bad buy, and never wanted to be, all he wants to do is set things right so that everyone is happy.

Marinette closed her eyes tightly, but then she shuddered a little when she felt the cool touch of Chat's hands on her shoulders. She wanted to embrace him, but she didn't want to at the same time. She didn't really like him, and felt like this was an invitation for Chat to be flirty with her. She gently pushed his hands off her as she sniffled and then moved to her bed, clasping her hands together as she rested her body on the soft mattress.

"I'm only trying to help you." Chat assured her, approaching her bed and sitting on the far edge, as to keep his respectful distance.

The navy haired girl covered her face with her pillow, sobs and cries were all that was heard from underneath that pillow. She mumbled something but Chat couldn't make it out. While she was like this, Chat too yet another good look around her room, and saw just how much she really liked him, he had never realised before and should've known all those times Marinette was stuttering and being clumsy around him. Yet, something had come to mind about these photos, they weren't here last time he was in Marinette's room with the video game tournament.

He wondered if her crush on him was recent, or was it long term and she just hid the photos away when he came over? Either way, she liked Adrien, and he adored the fact that he did, but he was so heavy with guilt and regret that he couldn't feel the happiness in Marinette crushing on him. All his negative emotions came crashing down as she realised by seeing all the evidence around her room, he saw that she truly cared for him. It made his heart sink that she felt like this.

"And...I know that I don't know what's really going on but...I'm sorry." He said apologetically, trying to cover himself up reluctantly.

Marinette looked up and saw that Chat was looking at her pictures of Adrien stuck to her wall, she was starting to think that he knew what the problem was, but then again she doubted that Chat would understand the pain she was going through and what the root of her problem was.

"What would you know? And why apologise when it has nothing to do with you?" She asked, sitting up while rubbing her eyes.

He sighed, if only she knew the truth...he thought. "Look, I'm just saying that I'm here for you Princess when you need me." He said with an assuring smile, kneeling against her bed.

Rolling her eyes as she detected the flirtatious side of him coming out, she sighed and laid back down and turned away from the cat, making his cat ears drop a little in neglect.

"You don't understand..." She cried softly, crawling herself up into a ball as she wrapped her arms around her legs. "You don't understand the pain of knowing that someone you loved loves someone else!"

He now had every right and more freedom to say what he wanted around her. "Look, you never know...that person might like you back too." He said without even thinking, before quietly gasping and blushing slightly.

Marinette turned to face him, not noticing the shy and embarrassed look on his face. She glared at him, as she was beginning to think that Chat was only here to stalk her, even if she was fully aware that he was.

"How would you know!? You're just a pretty boy cat that jumps rooves and fights villains; you know nothing about what I'm going through!" She scoffed at him, crying still as she crossed her arms and stared at the ceiling, firmly pressing her lips together.

Although Chat liked that she complimented him on his looks, there was more negativity to outweigh that small compliment to make him look down and close his eyes tightly as he felt tears emerging. It hurt inside, with every word she said about him being worthless to her, he wanted to show her his true self more than ever, but could hear Plagg inside screaming no.

"I understand, I'm sorry I made you feel worse..."

Another quick sniffled in response before Marinette waved her hand at him. "Just go!" She cried, burying her head deeper into her pillow in tears.

Within seconds of her saying that, he left silently, but she knew the expression on his face when he left was pain and hurt from her mean words, but she couldn't help but insult him. She was at her all time low in her emotions and felt almost guilty she had to let it out on her crime fighting partner.

Marinette wished that cat shouldn't have shown up in the first place, it did nothing but make her feel worse about her situation. She didn't know what to do; she cared about Adrien too much to get over him soon. She wished summer break would come already so she wouldn't have to see his face for nearly a whole two months, and by the time her next year of schooling came around she would be fully over him and proud of herself.

Changing back into his normal self, Adrien fell into his bed, with Plagg sitting at Adrien's desk looking at the Ladybug blog. "I still don't know what you see in her, you don't even know who she really is!" He exclaimed.

With a grunt of annoyance, Adrien lifted his head a little and snapped at his kwami. "Can you not do that right now!?" He cried, before burying his face in his pillow, which was soon to become wet with his fallen tears.

Adrien didn't know what to feel, the only feelings he had were hurt, sadness and intense remorse for Marinette. It angered and frustrated him that he left Marinette in this state without even realising why up until he saw the obvious reason printed on every wall of her room.

Marinette liked Adrien, if only as Chat he could do something, but it was much too hard to do without revealing who he really was underneath the mask. But then he realised the possible outcome as Plagg began to say it to him, to make him realise if he did make that move what would happen.

"I don't think revealing who you really are, isn't going to make her feel better, she's in too much stress and negativity. And it's clear that she doesn't really like you as Chat Noir so I don't see any good out of that." Plagg explained, seeing Adrien sit up and stare out his window with teary green eyes.

The blonde teen sighed as he saw the sky was still a crisp and vibrant blue, if only his mood reflected the sky, then he would be as happy as the day that shone brightly and casted contrasting shadows throughout his bedroom.

"I know...I just don't know how to help her...or apologise to her as me now..." He said, looking down, remembering how protective Marinette's best friend was. "And with Alya around, I'm sure that I won't be able to be in Marinette's line of sight with her around." He explained, sitting on the edge of his bed and playing around with his ring.

Suddenly, an idea occurred to Plagg. He gasped with a widened smile as he flew up to his owner. "I have a brilliant idea!"

Adrien looked up at his kwami, seeing the optimism and excitement in his little black face made him widen his eyes a little in curiosity but yet still depressed because he knew that some of Plagg's ideas weren't the greatest.

"Turn up as Cat Noir and lead her away from Marinette. I'm sure that she'll leave Marinette alone because of her blog and all. So that'll give you the perfect opportunity to talk to Marinette formally and alone."

He was surprised at his kwami; he didn't expect Plagg to have such a smart idea in that tiny little mind of his. A smile grew across his lips as he stood up and headed over towards the window.

"Plagg, I never thought I'd say this before but you're a genius!" He complimented, with now a determined expression on his face.

Plagg discussed the rest of his idea to Adrien. He was definitely looking forward to apologising to Marinette tomorrow. If not, he would try it again on Friday, and he'd keep on trying until he had to think of something else.

So as Thursday morning arose, so did Adrien, feeling determined and confident more than ever to talk to Marinette. With a serious expression he got out of bed and got dressed.

Meanwhile, Marinette had not gotten much sleep, as her pillow was wet from her never ending tears and she stayed up until 1am crying and talking to herself about all the little things she did for him after all this time. She didn't know if she could face school today, all of her classes were with Adrien sitting directly in front of her, what was she to do?

But then her parents called out to her, saying that her breakfast was already made for her. It seems that she didn't have any choice, so she got up with a big yawn and stretched slowly before making her way downstairs for breakfast.

As she ate, she thought of how she could get through her first full day of knowing about the mystery girl Adrien liked, that more than likely wasn't her, in her books anyway. She hoped that Alya would be there every step of the way to support her and make her feel as comfortable as possible. Marinette knew how supportive and protective Alya was to her, they had been best friends for what seemed like eternity, so there was no way Alya was going to have Marinette feeling down under her watch.

On her way to school, sure enough was Alya with papers in her hands. Waving with a small smile as she approached the slumped and depressed navy haired girl, she wrapped her arm around her shoulder then pointed to the papers in her hand.

"I have a whole list of ways to stop thinking about 'him' and ways to distract you when 'he' is around." She explained, gesturing quotation marks around mentioning Adrien with her fingers. "Also, when you feel comfortable, i want to get down onto cracking who is this mystery girl he likes."

Seeing that Alya had all bases covered for her, she smiled brightly as she embraced her best friend, grateful that she was there for her when she needed her. Marinette could see going through the day with a breeze with Alya's assistance, she did not dare think if Alya were to fall sick and stay home, and then she would have no choice but to have the rushing thoughts of yesterday crash into her mind.

They arrived to school just before the bell rang, as to give enough time for Adrien and Nino to be already inside prepping for their first class. Marinette took in a deep breath before entering the classroom, and assurance from Alya that she was strong enough to do this.

With confidence within her, she walked into her classroom, immediately avoiding any possible eye contact with Adrien as she walked to her seat then looked out the window to further prevent eye contact with Adrien. She smiled as she was relieved that she had made it this far without even looking at him, but yet she could feel the presence of two emerald eyes looking at her.

Adrien looked at her, and could see that she was managing well, but when he turned to see Alya giving him the glare of death, he knew exactly why. Alya was in full swing for protecting Marinette from anymore hurtful words or actions from him and Nino, but especially him.

Class commenced and Adrien more than anything else wanted to look at Marinette and talk to her, but feeling the sting of Alya's glare on him made him shiver in fear of what she might do. He worried that she may make a scene just to get him out of class or warn him with a death sentence after class.

Although it didn't seem like much, now that Adrien was less tense than he was yesterday, but still full of hurt and regret, he could see that Marinette's crush on him really meant something to her. It made him sigh heavenly, and it was enough to make Nino notice and smirk at him.

"You thinking about someone?" He suggested, winking at him.

Adrien looked up and realised what Nino just asked him, he sighed because he was thinking about Marinette. He shook his head and gave a sheepish smile to his friend. While from the seats above, Marinette tried as hard as she could to avoid looking at Adrien at all costs, while Alya continuously glared at the two boys.

Once class had ended and first break had begun, Adrien decided to unleash Plagg's idea so that Marinette wouldn't have to suffer any longer like this, even if it had been only a day since she had known.

Hiding in the bathroom, Plagg flew out and saw the determined and confident expression on his owner's face, knowing all too well that it was because of his idea from the day before.

"I take it you want to take my idea into action?"

Adrien nodded. "I definitely do. Claws out!"

A plan of Plagg's Adrien accepts and is willing to try out? Man, is Plagg a genius or what? XD *sigh* well I do apologise again for not updating this sooner, I should really stick with a schedule...that and I should upload more things to DeviantART more often so that I can update this faster.

So how do you think the plan will unfold? Will Adrien get his chance to sort things out with Marinette? Will find out soon in Chapter 6! See you all then! ^^