Adrien and Naia ate their lunch in silence and as quickly as they could and proceeded to excuse themselve for the remaining 40 minutes of their lunch hour, Naia stalked up to her room. Adrien paused only to assure Natalie that they would be in Naia's room until they had to return to school and would be down in time and then proceeded to join Naia in her room.
They didn't stick around for long, Naia paused only long enough to dump her bag on the ground, shove a couple of sweets in her pocket, grab her guitar and a floppy blue hat. She proceeded to transform and it was all Adrien could do to keep up with her as she ran over the rooftops.
Naia finally slowed her pace enough that Adrien could talk to her,
"Why did you do that to Chloe?"
She paused, "Adrien, I know you're as soft as a cinnamon roll but I need you to tell me. From what you've seen of Chloe interacting with anyone other than you and Ladybug, tell me objectively that she is not a bitch."
Adrien tried, he really did but the sad truth was that he couldn't argue with her in an effective manner,
"Yeah but you were still too harsh-"
"No I wasn't. This is no isolated event or a new development. As long as anyone can remember Chloe has been acting like her mother and it has got to stop. Confronting the problem is the first step towards solving it, that is universal."
The two heroes lapsed into silence. The minutes of running streched on and Cat Noir decided to break the tension,
"So where are we going anyway?"
"I am going to do what I always do when stressed. I'm a street performer and switching realities won't change that, you however are far too recognizable in both your identities. You are going to sit on the roof and watch and signal to me when it's time to go," The boy didn't argue.
Naia jumped between buildings and detransformed in the small gap. She made her way into the Place des Vosages. She walked to the centre fountain and placed her over sised floppy hat on her head, she laid out her guitar case and began tuning her guitar. It was almost perfect and then she began to pluck the strings in the intro of Laura Marano's miraculous theme cover. A few people had looked over but the real show started when she began to sing
"Another day, I don't know why
He looks my way and I get so shy
So insecure, all in myself
Till someone says they need my help"
People were starting to gather and she increased the intensity of her strums for the 'oh, oh, oh's to avoid singing them and making this tackier,
"Oh oh oh, oh yeah they'll never know,
Oh oh oh, cause I'm unstoppable,
Oh oh oh, and when it's time to go,
That's when I become...
Miraculous, simply the best,
Up to the test when things go wrong
Miraculous, yeah I got this,
I gotta confess, I feel so strong!"
The crowd as large as her voice was carrying, which was very. She looked up and saw a black clad hero smiling at her, bemused that she was singing what was clearly to him, a theme song. She smirked as she began to sing the next verse,
"I'm watching him, he looks at me
We know our names, not our identity
He's super cool, he's really fast
And he knows how, how to make me laugh"
She was grinning now, and money was making it's way into her guitar case. Cat Noir looked shocked, she was singing about him,
"Oh oh oh, he's got me spinning 'round.
Oh oh oh, my feet are off the ground.
Oh oh oh, and when it's time to go,
That's when I become..."
She reduced her strumming to once every 2 beats,
"Miraculous, simply the best,
Up to the test when things go wrong
Miraculous, yeah I got this,
I gotta confess, I feel so strong..."
Naia picked the pace back up and began to sing louder and louder until she was belting,
"Miraculous, simply the best,
Up to the test when things go wrong
Miraculous, yeah I got this,
I gotta confess, I feel so strong
Miraculous, simply the best,
Up to the test when things go wrong
Miraculous, yeah I got this,
I gotta confess, I feel so strong
Miraculous!"
She closed the song off with a prominent strum of each string and the audience she had collected began applauding and cheering. She bowed for a second before breaking into Anne Marie's '2002' because it hadn't been released yet.
15 minutes later she had played Smooth Criminal and Classic, both songs that had obviously come out already, along with an acoustic version of Brendon Urie's 'High Hopes' and, again already released, 'Helpless' from Hamilton (with the dialogue cut out).
Adrien had begun signaling from the rooftop, it was time to go. She stood up from the fountain edge and called out to the crowd as she stowed her earnings away in a pocket of the guitar case and packed up.
"I'm not leaving forever, I'm sure you'll catch me around town one of these days," queue the groans and moans of disappointment, " But that's it for today. I gotta get going. Goodbye!"
She jogged into the alley and surreptitiously transformed. She checked the time in her knife,
"We have 10 minutes before the Gorilla drives us back to school, aka, where we just were." the twosome ran along the rooftops to get back home in less than the five minutes it had taken them to get there but as they passed the Canal Saint-Martin, Nadia Chamack flagged them down. Naia had a feeling she knew what this was about.
"Hello Cat Noir, Lycanthria. My name I'm Nadia Chamack and I have proposition for you and Ladybug," Naia had to refrain from remarking, 'At least buy us dinner before something so bold' but kept what came out of her mouth to:
"What can we do for you Nadia?"
"I have just been offered a primetime slot for my new TV show, 'face to face' and I was hoping that I would be able to convince Paris' 2, now 3 superheroes to be our first guest stars." Nadia said with a hopeful edge to her tone.
Naia smiled, "If course Nadia, I'm sure Ladybug will love the chance to reassure the citizens of Paris and wouldn't mind answering a few questions about herself as long as they don't cross any lines regarding identity and decency."
When Naia and Adrien got back to school, they found that Naia was apparently now one of the most popular girls in school thanks to her little dressing down of Chloe's bitching. Nathaniel gave her the sketch that Chloe had been mocking, which was actually a hyper-detailed drawing of her shoulders and upwards, from the back. He had even drawn her circlet and the braids twisted around it.
Marinette walked in and straight up hugged her, Alya gave her a high five and Sabrina presented her with a completed folder of that morning's homework. To which Naia asked,
"Is this what Chloe has taught you? That for common decency, kindness or compassion you have to repay it in a material or intellectual manner? Because while I will accept your gift, I don't want someone else doing my homework because I did something long overdue. You're my friend Sabrina, and as your friend it is my job to help you understand that this is not necessary. "
By the end of the day Naia had left a lot of people thinking heavily about how they used their lives.