I do not own these characters. This story is inspired by an anime/cartoon called Miraculous Ladybug, and you should definitely go watch it! :) It's the best show you won't regret it.

"Dude, what was that?" Nino sat down next to Adrien as he watched Alya guide a dazed Marinette to her chair.

"What was what?"

"You were staring at Mari?"

"I wasn't staring. I was dozing off and she was in my line of sight."

"But you complimented her hair."

"So? I compliment her all the time."

"Yeah on her designs, but not on her appearance bro. You starting to like her?"

Adrien looked up in surprise and quickly denied it. What was Nino thinking? He only had eyes for his Lady. Nino gave him a knowing look as the class began, and Adrien just looked at his paper and started drawing a ladybug on the corner of his page.

'Me like Marinette? What gave him that idea? All I did was compliment her hair, it looked nice down. The way it framed her face and how it slightly curled around her cheeks. She should wear it like that more often. What if Lady wore her hair down?'

As Adrien was distracted Mari tried to memorize how the light shone on his hair and absentmindedly drew a black cat in the corner of her page. She looked down to continue copying notes and began to wonder if her Chat would be feeling better tonight.

'Maybe I should get him a get well gift? I think I'll just make him a card.'

A few long hours later the bell rang for the end of school and Alya quickly went on her phone to see if anything had happened on her Ladyblog.

"I wish I had Ladybug's life. I hate going to school." Mari laughed and grabbed her best friend's arm.

"I thought she did go to school? Remember you found her history book? And school isn't that bad, it'll be over in a few months, then it's summer!"

"School isn't bad for you, you can stare at Adrien all day." Alya laughed and Mari quickly looked around them.

"SHHH! What if he heard you?" Alya kept laughing as they grabbed their umbrellas and stepped into the rain.

"Leave it up to us to forget umbrellas." Nino and Adrien sat outside the school doors hoping the rain would let up soon.

"Isn't Nathalie coming to pick you up?"

"No, Father is probably making her run around the house to prepare for the big meeting."

"What's the meeting for anyways?"

"I don't know. All he said was for me to stay out of the house."

"Ah man that sucks. Oh hey! Alya and Mari have umbrellas! Yo Alya!" Adrien watched as Nino talked to the girls, then he saw Mari blush and shake her head at Alya furiously. He chuckled at himself and began to walk over to them.

"Yo dude! Want to go to Mari's until the rain let's up? Alya insists." Alya grabbed Nino by the arm to have him share an umbrella with her and winked at Mari.

"Yeah, sounds good. Are you okay with that Marinette?" He stepped under her umbrella and she couldn't help but blush even more at how close they were.

"Y-yes of course!" She quickly put her head down and started walking ahead. "This way!"

She bounced down the stairs leaving behind Adrien in her excitement and continued walking. Alya sighed at her friend as she watched Adrien run to catch up to her. The whole way to the bakery, Alya was filling in Adrien on all the Ladybug drama that had happened while he was away, and Mari blushed the whole time and took secret glances at him.

"I can't wait to show you the video of her at my window! It was so cool!"

"I wonder where Chat Noir was though. Wasn't there an akuma attack that night? It was so cool how Ladybug was able to defeat her on her own!" Nino said as he jumped into a puddle.

"There was another attack?!" Adrien was shocked to hear this. He wasn't able to check the Ladyblog in New York, but he didn't think anything would happen while he was gone. He started to feel guilty as Nino told him about how scary the akuma was. Apparently, one of the teachers had gotten possessed after some students had picked on her, and she had covered the entire school in glue so no one could get out. Alya has been trying to figure out how Ladybug had been able to get in since then.

'Oh my Lady, are you alright?' Adrien was lost in his thoughts, and was about to cross the street to the bakery until he all of a sudden felt the rain begin to pour on him.

"What the-?" He looked at the umbrella that was at his feet and then looked up to see Marinette running into the street.

"Marinette!" Alya ran to her friend but was pulled back by Nino as a bus quickly drove by them. When it passed, Alya breathed a sigh of relief as she saw Marinette sitting on the sidewalk, holding a little black kitten. Then she ran after her yelling.

"ARE YOU INSANE? I knew you were crazy but running into the street like that?! What were you thinking?!" She sat next to Mari and quickly pulled her close. Nino stood next to them as Adrien knelt down to look at the kitten.

"I-I had to help that cat. He's soaking and lost, and h-he was in the street. I-I didn't mean to worry you, I just wanted to help him. I'm really sorry." Mari stood up and quickly brought the kitten inside the bakery. Adrien watched her back in shock. 'Did she just risk her life for a cat?' He smiled at the image of her sitting there cradling the kitten through the window. He walked in after Nino, thinking about how much like his Lady Mari was just then. The image of her flying in to save the day. A little black cat that was hurt. It was like how Lady was always helping him.

"Alya, can you go grab some towels?" Mari asked, soaked to the bone and shivering. Alya quickly ran to grab some and Nino took the kitten from her arms and told her to go change. Mari nodded and ran up the stairs.

"Dude, you good?"

"Yeah, I'm good." Adrien snapped out of his daze and sat next to Nino.

"You've been staring at her since she ran into the street."

"What? No I haven't!"

"Whatever you say man."

Alya ran back in with the towels and wrapped the kitten up.

"Why don't we all just go up to Mari's room? It's warmer up there, since you know, heat rises!" She ran up the stairs praising herself for her brilliant idea. Now she just had to think of a way to get Mari to talk to Adrien.

"Mari, you could have been seriously hurt!" Tikki flew around her in the bathroom trying to make sure there were no injuries.

"I'm sorry Tikki, I didn't think about it. I just saw the poor little kitten and I couldn't help it." She finished buttoning up her long pink pajama top and threw on some white pajama shorts that were on the ground.

"I know! I would have done the same! Just, after the bus had passed."

"Yeah I know, I'll try to be more careful from now, I'm sorry. Paris needs their Lady to be in her best health!" She laughed and walked out of the bathroom.

"What's so funny?"

Mari froze as she heard Adrien speak from her bed, she slowly turned and squeaked loudly, trying to hide behind Alya.

"Why is he in here!" She whispered nervously to her.

"I invited him! Now go sit next to him and talk! I'll take care of the kitten. And don't worry, I took down your posters of him." She winked and went back to drying off the kitten. Mari thought about how embarrassed she would have been if he had found them and hid her face.

"Are you going to keep the kitten?" Nino was sitting at her computer chair and rolled over to Alya.

"O-of course! Well, until I find his owner at least." She nervously sat next to Adrien and hid behind her pillow.

"You should name him Chat Noir." Adrien smirked at her and her heart beat loudly.

"HAhaha no way!"

"Why not? Do you not like him?" Adrien looked a bit sad as he said this and Mari quickly tried to cover up what she said.

"N-no! He's great! He helps Ladybug and protects Paris, H-he's super flirty!" Mari meant to say that "He's just super flirty", and that's why she doesn't want to name the kitten that, but Adrien smirked at what she said and leaned closer.

"So you like it when he flirts?" He smiled widely, enjoying his little secret.

Mari blushed more as he got closer to her and hugged the pillow to herself.

"What?! Noo I didn't mean—", Mari froze as she saw Nino trying to log in to her computer. "Eek!"

Adrien watched as she practically leaped over to push Nino away. He was confused and then he caught sight of what she was wearing. He watched as her long legs gracefully jumped over to her computer and realized that he's never seen her in shorts before. He wondered how smooth they would feel and what it would be like to have them wrapped around him. 'Where the hell did that come from? Stop it! She's not your Lady.' He shook the thought out of his head and tried to listen to what was happening.

"I just want to watch some videos, what's the matter?" Nino tried to look past Mari and at her computer.

"Haha uhm y-you see, t-the internet isn't w-working and-" Alya was about to tell Mari that the wifi was just fine, but then remembered that Mari's desktop was of Adrien. She immediately pushed Nino away from the computer which gave Mari the chance to quickly change the desktop background.

"Haha what, was your computer background of me?" He winked at Mari teasingly and rolled the chair back to the computer.

"N-no! It was of.. uhm-"

"Chat Noir!"

"Yeah!" Mari realized what Alya had said and face palmed. Thank god her kitty wasn't around or she would never hear the end of it. Little did she know, he was, and Adrien was blushing from hearing that and smirked.

"Maybe Chat should pay her a little visit tonight." He whispered.