Summary: There are so many classrooms in the school, but they had to choose that one, didn't they? From the "Awkward" promt.


Lack of Observation

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Personally, Tortoise blamed his luck.

Of course, of course he ended up in this situation.

The day had started of pretty well, he brought his homework, he didn't get caught not paying attention in class, he actually aced his chemistry test and he even managed to finish a project that was due in two days.

And the Akuma attacked.

Everyone soon started to evacuate the classroom, and he managed to sneak over to another empty class before letting Wayzz about of his bag.

He was too focused on transforming to notice that someone else had entered the room with the same intentions.

"Wayzz, transform me!"

"Trixx, transform me!"

And now, Tortoise and Rusé were both staring at each other in shock.

"N-Nino?" Tortoise stuttered.

"Nathaniel?!" Rusé whispered-shouted, "YOU'RE THE TURTLE HOLDER?!" he yelled.

"WELL, YOU'RE THE FOX HOLDER!" Tortoise yelled back.

"Ohmygodohmygod, this is not happening" Rusé said as he sat on the floor with his hands pulling out his hair. "No one was supposed to find out about this…"

"Is there even a rule for when this happens?" Tortoise asked as he ran his left arm over his red hair.

"I don't know!" Rusé exclaimed, "All I know is that. We. Are. Not. Supposed. To. Know. Who. We. Are" as he put emphasis in each word, his tail hit the floor.

"Well, is not that we made it on purpose…" Tortoise pointed out.

"True…" his teammate said.

An awkward silence filled the room as the heroes avoided eye contact, the only occasional sound coming from the battle outside. However, none of them moved.

"I can't believe it's you" Tortoise said after a while.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Rusé asked as he narrowed his eyes.

"Nothing bad!" Tortoise said as he help up his hands. "It's just that… we don't really talk to each other, as Nino and Nathaniel, but as the heroes of Paris…"

"We get along better" his teammate finished for him, understanding.

"Yeah"

The heavy silence fell on them again.

"It's kind of ridiculous" Rusé said. It was Tortoise's turn to narrow his eyes.

"What's ridiculous?"

"The whole situation! Here we are two members of Team Miraculous-"

"-Are we seriously calling ourselves that?-"

"-Who have been fighting together for a while now, making jokes and trying to convince Chat Noir to declare himself to Ladybug-"

"-Excuse me, that's only you and Royal Feather-"

"-And have strict instructions on our kwamis to don't reveal ourselves, which is apparently, one of the only things our kwamis have in common-"

"…."

"-and we are supposed to be careful about transforming, and I mean, I'm a fox! I should be even more careful-"

"-Rusé-"

"-And the kwamis don't seem to have a situation for this, at least Trixx doesn't-"

"RUSÉ!"

The fox hero stopped rambling to look at his teammate, who was pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Look, I know this is awkward-"

"Gee, you think?"

"But maybe, all we need to do is to take a deep breath, and stop panicking, and in my case, stop blaming bad luck" Tortoise finished. His partner gaped at him.

"What?" the turtle hero asked.

"Dude"

"What?" Tortoise repeated.

"Dude"

Rusé then did something that took the red-head by surprise: he started to laugh. Tortoise simply stared, suddenly afraid that his classmate had officially lost it.

"You- ha! You just sounded- ha-ha! Like a- a fortune cookie!" Rusé said between breaths as he continued to cackle.

Tortoise was stunned for a moment, before replaying what he just said.

"Oh"

In all honesty, he couldn't stop his incoming laughter either.

The moment was interrupted when a loud crash was heard outside of the classroom.

Rusé coughed.

"We should, err, go"

Tortoise nodded in agreement

"Yeah" he said as he walked over to the door.

"Hey, Nath?"

The hero cad in green turned around at the mention of his name.

"Mmm?"

"We should hang out after this, there is a lot to talk about" Rusé said. "Maybe we can finally have conversation that's not longer than a minute"

"Yeah, that would be cool, Nino" Tortoise replied with a smile.


Thought it would be fun to put these two in a situation like this, and I've been wanting to write something with either Nino or Nathaniel for a while.

Meaning of names:

Rusé = Smart (hey, if you're going to be a sly and tricky fox, you gotta be smart)