A cold breeze touched her lightly flustered cheeks when she watched Paris from a rooftop, deeply breathing in the cold air while blinking slowly.

Ladybug swallowed and waited in silence for the right moment to strike.

The right moment...

"Girl, did you spot him?" Rena spoke through the communicator. She crossed her arms when she looked around once more, and shook her head.

"No, nothing" she sighed, frowning behind her mask. He should've been here by now, but then again, she didn't know what he looked like. All she knew about was his name and some description she heard from the people who had seen him.

Chat Noir.

The worst criminal there was, working under Hawkmoth. She was assigned by the guardian to retrieve his Miraculous to weaken Hawkmoth's evil practices of akumatizing innocent victims in her beloved city.

She heard stories of him, but never faced him before. For some reason he always avoided facing the super heroes of Paris. None of them caught a glimpse of him before. Nothing.

But tonight was going to change. Ladybug and Rena Rouge were on patrol tonight and decided to change up their routine. They figured out after each time Cat Noir strikes there was a certain pattern to it. And tonight, they wanted to take the chance and strike back.

He always appeared at night. He would strike only once a week. He was known to be an assassin. There would always be one victim left alive to tell the tale.

His interest was never gold, or money, or whatever. He just went for the most random places to attack.

And no one could explain why.

"Rena.. We've been looking for over an hour.. I don't think he will strike tonight.." she muttered when looking up into the starry night sky.

"We can't give up now! It's still quite early!" Rena argued back through the communicator, which made Ladybug pout in return.

"Alright, fine, did you spot anything?" Ladybug countered, resting her palms on her hips as she stood at the edge of the rooftop, looking at the empty street beneath her.

"Nope, I would've told you if I did!" She cooed, making Ladybug roll her eyes in annoyance. With a sigh, she stepped backwards, and soon ran forwards, jumping onto another rooftop.

"I'm going to look around some more and go north. How about you head south and check in later?" Ladybug proposed.

"Alright, I'll check in with you in 30 minutes" Rena answered, ending their conversation there.

That's when she started jumping from roof to roof, letting her mind wonder while looking around. Thinking of what she would do when coming face to face with Chat Noir. She knew her Miraculous was the strongest alongside his, so she definitely had a chance. She knew all of it's powers and details from the great guardian. She knew all of it. However, knowing his reputation she wouldn't be able to face him alone. She didn't know what he looked like, hell, she didn't even know what else he was capable of.

And that's when something dark flashed right in the front of her, moving so quick in the darkness she couldn't tell it's shape at all, and stopped right there from moving when landing on top of a roof, standing still and looking around quickly. Being in the dark had it's disadvantages. She couldn't see anything besides the streetlights.

What the hell was that?!

She had to warn Rena. But before she could reach for her earpiece, she suddenly felt a strong grip around her wrists, locking them painfully in place behind her back as a hand covered her mouth as well. A hand? It actually looked more like a claw?

The adrenaline rushed through her veins as her panicky eyes tried to look behind her, but to no avail. She felt herself being pushed against a wall, and another warm body being pressed against her from behind to keep her from moving away.

"Not a sound, I don't like eyes prying on me" a male voice purred into her ear as she felt his warm breathing in the nape of her neck.

Her whole body froze, and she felt uneasy. She couldn't move at all now he that he had blocked her from moving any of her limbs. His hand quickly reached out to her earpiece and pulled it out. Once he did that, he easily pulled away from her, letting.. her go?

As confused and shaken up as she was, she quickly turned around as her back faced the wall and watched the dark figure stare at her with it's bright green eyes while holding onto her earpiece. Once she saw his cat ears and tail she immediately figured out who she was facing.

"Y-you're Chat Noir" she tried to say confidently, but failed miserably.

"I guess that cat is out of the bag" he commented back as he eyed her earpiece, soon looking over towards her yoyo, figuring out it was part of her weapon.

"So by the looks of it, you were looking for me?" He continued, looking over at her from head to toe. She simply gaped at him, wondering what he was planning to do.. but he only stared at her.

"What is it? Cat's got your tongue?" He added in a mocking tone once he noticed she was answering his question, adding another cat pun to the table. And by the looks of it he thought he was hilarious. She took a deep breath as remained in a distance, but placed her palm onto her yoyo. Chat Noir however didn't make any move to stop her.

"That's right" she answered eventually, slowly stepping forward, watching him as well "I need to stop you from causing any more harm to these innocent people" she continued sternly, frowning at him.

"So... You're here to arrest me?" He commented dryly, looking very bored by that and even rolled with his eyes, making her frown go even deeper "I was expecting something more... exciting? I mean, from seeing Paris's main superhero I was definitely expecting more" he answered, as he hid her earpiece somewhere onto his body.

"You can't hurt any more innocent victims, Chat Noir, you're especially with your Miraculous, these powers aren't meant for evil purposes, give it back to where it belongs!" She replied as she raised her voice in anger, making fists out of her hands.

Chat Noir kept looking unimpressed, crossing his arms as well "So, you want to take my Miraculous as well? That's sounds more exciting, so how about a deal? The winner of our fist fight will get the other's Miraculous, sounds fair?"

"Why in the hell would I ever agree to something like that?!" She growled, making Chat Noir grin in response. How annoying.

"Well then, this is goodbye" he replied, turning around, casually waving without looking back.

Wait that's it? Nothing? No killing? Was this the Chat Noir she heard the tales about of being a brute, not caring about anything, the assassin that had no mercy on anyone?!

"Where do you think you're going?" She grunted, raising her yoyo and immediately wrapping the wires around his body, narrowing her eyelids.

He didn't even flinch when she wrapped the yoyo around him, and soon turned his head to look over his shoulder, watching her through the corners of his eyes. Those bright green eyes. It was as if he was able to tell what was going through her mind. Especially by the fact that he looked so calm.

"You changed your mind?" He teased, grinning once more which just rubbed off on her in the wrong way. She quickly tugged on the wire of her yo-yo showing him that she wasn't there to play around.

"Stop joking around, I am going to take you to the police and take away your Miraculous" she said sternly as she stepped closer, making sure he was still in place.

Once she reached out to his ring she was quickly interrupted by him "CATACLYSM" and she quickly pulled away, stepping backwards while looking up at Chat Noir who turned around, cocking his head a little.

"You were saying?" He spoke, pissing her off completely.

"You know your transformation will only last 5 minutes now, don't you?" She replied as she watched his ring which was charged with the destructive energy.

"I do" he responded dryly, grinning at her.

"And you know you can't escape right now, right?" She reminded him, seeing the wire of her yo-yo still tightly around him.

"I second that" and from this point she figured he wasn't taking her seriously at all.

"So why the cocky behavior?!" She snapped, as he kept his cheshire grin plastered on his face.

"I know I can be pretty purr-suasive~" he replied, making her frown even deeper if that was possible.

"I'm serious" she replied dryly.

"So am I~" he teased back, lowering his eyelids, his cat like pupils only focussed on her facial features while leaning forwards.

"Especially with a purr-ty lady in the front of me" he purred to ladybug, making her look surprised.

Was he.. complimenting her..?

Even.. flirting..?

She quickly shook that thought out of her head as she tightened her grip on the wires of her yo-yo.

"You know that's not going to work" she commented, regaining her serious posture again as she narrowed her eyelids.

"I'm pawsitive it's going to work" he responded.

"For an assassin, you're awfully careless around a superhero"

And that made the look on his face change into a frown.

"There's more to the story than you think, Ladybug" he answered coldly, slowly trying to wriggle himself out of the wires of her yo-yo. But it didn't work as Ladybug remained her tight grip.

"Oh, do tell " she replied mockingly, watching him give up the fight with the wires with a sigh, soon holding his bright green eyes onto her.

"Not gonna tell, but.." he started off, stepping closer to ladybug, catching her off guard as he leaned in so close, their face's were just an inch apart from each other "I'm definitely liking what I'm seeing..so much so that I wouldn't mind repeating this with you~"

Ladybug didn't realize it, but.. she started blushing. Chat Noir noticed this as he moved even closer, his lips just a few millimeters away from hers. His hot breathing against hers, she couldn't help but notice.

Now his facial features came into the light, she noticed his green eyes scanning her face, and noticed he was looking down.. at her lips? Why was he looking at her like that?

Did he..? No way..! Right...?

And with that distraction, he easily slipped out of her grip and jumped away, with his cataclysm still active, into the night, where she easily lost sight of him.

Ladybug quickly fell back against the wall behind her. Left in awe and wondering what that was all about.

Why wasn't she.. going after him right now?

She was trembling slightly, her gaze moving down to see her earpiece on the roof and slowly kneeled down to grab it and contact Rena.

"R-Rena.." her voice sounded hesitant for a moment "Come to my location as fast as you possibly can"