FRANCE, PARIS 2023.
━ chap 5. one failure is enough !

Ladybug swings the yo-yo behind her a little bit, and then aims it up to a tree brunch, as she held the string with one hand, and let herself get tugged up into the air. She completely forget about the tree, making her yelp in pain when her head rammed straight into the brunch on her way up.

Despite all this occurring Cat Noir was grinning like a dork, as his face held nothing but a dreamy look for the girl who had now disappeared into the night time sky, "Wow..."

"It's been a while since I smiled
and meant it."

A purple leaf was slowly descending in the air in front of him, as he raised one of his claws hands up to it gently, and touch the leaf fallen from the trees around him.

"Lately I guess I've just been searching for purpose for any incentive, to show
me just where I fit in."

He followed the leaf all the way up on a beam of the church building, as he walked along it carefully to balance, and felt the moon light shining down on his figure, reminding him of the two new females in his life.

"Then suddenly I'm flying through the night sky. The city lit up down below."

He danced a little along the higher ledges of the building, the reflecting purple windows right beside him as he reached the roof, and hanged off the pipe place there. He outstretched one of his arms out, almost like he was trying to reach someone.

"Watching and wondering and wanting to know, how far this adventure will go."

Leaping off the roof's ledge he landed with a thump against another roof, which was closer to the ground, and was an actual house now. A few cats were perched on it, as he gently picked one up to hold it up high, and span around with the animal briefly.

"Then she appears like a dream in a dream, and everything seems to slow down. She looks at me, smiles could this be
what it seems. My feet haven't
yet touched the ground."

Placing the cat back down in its original spot, he ended up standing around the ledge of another platform, as he held onto a beam with one of his hands, and once again outstretched the other one towards Paris' night time environment.

"And suddenly I feel so free, leaping through the city! I'm leaving all the pain for behind."

Cat noir somehow got up into the cloud above the city lights, and he now leapt through the fluffy things in a graceful movement, his mind being filled of thoughts about Ladybug and (Y/N).

"So strong I can't ignore it and as I'm stepping forward will she be
there by my side?"

He fell back into another fluffy cloud that was shaped into a love heart, and he began to make snow angles into it with his arms, and legs. The cloud slowly floated him along through the sky, him enjoying the moment while it lasted.

"It's been a while since I smiled and I meant it. Those who know me would agree."

While looking up at the bright moon light shining down on him, he saw the smiling faces of (Y/N) and Ladybug appear up in the moon in a ethereal glow, as that is how he viewed both girls. A love-sick expression takes over his features, as he sighs softly and continued to gaze up at their faces.

"Maybe I've finally found my incentive, tonight in Paris, my lady!"

.....

In actual reality Ladybug was currently trying to quicky rush back home, knowing how her family got if she wasn't back on time, and she didn't want to miss dinner whatsoever. Food always came first, no matter what.

A grunt escaped her mouth when she landed against the side of a chimney, and screamed some more when she was pulled along by her yo-yo through the air towards her wanted destination.

.....

Back in the Dupain-cheng house hold Tom was just about finishing cooking dinner, as he had his cooking pot full of the food, and was stirring it slowly with his spoon inside the kitchen.

He hummed a little to himself in confusion, and brought the pot over to the dinning table as his gaze moved onto Marinette sat at the table, who was frantically typing away on her phone, wondering where her twin was.

.....

Ladybug was running across the rooftops along the buildings she was crossing, panicked breathes escaping her parted lips, hair all over the place as she still wasn't fit even as a superhero now.

She slightly tripped on a bump in the roof, making her yelp in alarm when her suited foot got stuck, and tried to quickly heave it out, as she knew her parents and sister were going to go into her room soon.

.....

"Something's missing." Tom mumbled to himself with furrowed brows, watching as Marinette now scurried up the stairs to head up to(Y/N)'s room, and ignored their fathers glance on her, more focused on where the youngest was right now.

His brows rose up straight when he realised one of his daughters wasn't present to help him, "(Y/N)?" He calls out up stairs, but didn't receive an answer straight away, and glanced to his wife for answers, "Honey, have you seen (Y/N)? Marinette's here, but she's not responding either."

"They are both upstairs!" Sabine called back from inside the living room, as she was folding away clothes for her daughters, and was placing them away into a basket.

.....

Ladybug shirked panicked once more when she leapt into the air towards another building's roof, and landed against it in a commando roll. She didn't have time to cheer for herself in the move, as she needed to get back up and continue on running home.

She lost her footing a little as she turned a corner around the roof, and bumped into another chimney that she stopped this time, by placing a hand out to catch herself.

Pushing off that with heavy breathing, and her thoughts going wild about what just recently happened, she began to run faster across the roofs, praying she didn't trip over to land face first.

Seeing she was closer now to her window leading into her room, Ladybug took another big leap up into the air, and successfully dived into her window to land in her chair. She didn't even have time to calm down either, as the door to her room was opening up, and began to freak out badly realising she was still shown as Ladybug.

"Honey?" Tom's voice was heard through the door as his figure popped up from around it, and so did Marinette's head beside him, who sighed in relief seeing her sister back in her room.

(Y/N) was sat in her blue chair huffing and puffing slightly to calm herself down, fingers gripping the edges of her chair as she was now thankfully out of the Ladybug suit, and back to her regular clothes.

"I can't figure out what's missing from Grandma's soup." Tom went to speak between both of his daughters, as he raised a finger up to his chin in thought, "Thyme of parsley?"

She looked with her wide (E/C) eyes towards Marinette coming up towards her slightly, and saw the worried expression on her face, causing the younger twin to send her a shaky smile in reassurance, "Um... I think rosemary Pa?"

"Yeah, I think so as well." Marinette agreed with a head nod, returning her twins smile back as she went back towards their father, and grabbed his forearm having a feeling (Y/N) needed some time alone right now, "I'll help you with it Papa."

Tom's face broke out into a happy one, as he cheers with a hand clap in realisation at his youngest daughters words, "Haha! Of course! What would I do without my choux-choux-chefs?" He aimed this at both of the girls, and blew a kiss towards (Y/N)'s wheezing self in her chair.

.....

Once the two left the girls room to head back down stairs, and Marinette closed the door back up for her, Tiki flew out from hiding in (Y/N)'s pocket to float right in front of her.

"We gotta work on your control! And throw!" She demonstrated throwing a kick in the air with her little feet, and span around as well to appear right beside her new owner, "And cat puns! Just need to be ready to... strike back?"

(Y/N) placed a hand against her pounding heart inside her chest, and gripped the material in between her fingers to calm herself down, "You're joking, right? We almost died!" She stressed in a cry, while pointing outside with her other hand, "People could of been hurt! All because of my clumsy ways!"

"But no one was hurt thanks to you." Tiki pressed on to reassure the girl, as her beady eyes stare at her in concern watching her face pale over in fear.

The (H/C) haired girl fell back into her desk chair span around, as she placed a hand on her sewing station, and the other gripped the wrist that had her lucky bracelet, now hyperventilating on the brink of a panic attack.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down!" Tiki zoomed up to her quickly seeing this, and pressed her smaller hands against the girls cheeks in hopes to bring her comfort, "These are classic signs of PTFAFS! It'll pass!"

Her hyperventilating did somewhat stop hearing the creatures words, and tilted her head down to glance at Tiki in front of her face, "P-T-what?" She questioned incredulously, never having heard of that before.

"Post-Traumatic First-Akuma-Fight Shock." Tiki answered in one breath, confusing the human girl even more, as Tiki flies up to be in line with her (E/C) gaze, "Just breathe with me. And..."

She began to copy Tiki's breathing motions herself, inhaling deeply so she could calm down, puffing her cheeks out and deeply exhaled when Tiki said out. Once she was a little bit relaxed, (Y/N) sighed to herself and gave Tiki a betrayal look, "You left me all alone!"

Tiki stuttered out in a shudder as her owner stood up from her chair, and she followed after her quickly in the air, giving her a knowing smile, "You were not alone! I was still with you, and the other guardian, remember?"

The Dupain-cheng girl's eyebrows slanted up hearing this, as she felt her ears beginning to heat up remembering what the handsome male looked like, and laughed nervously, "You mean Puss in Boots? Ha-ha! Nooo-"

"Whatever you say, (Y/N)." Tiki cheekily commented with a giggle at her response, and flew around her head again to appear on her other side, "Besides, once you save the world, you'll never have to see him again."

She frowned a little realising that was true, and didn't know why it caused her heart to ache a little as she just met her partner in crime, and hardly knew the guy. But yet, she knew deep inside that he felt awfully familiar in a way.

"Sorry Tiki, but I am never doing that again." (Y/N) softly muttered, and shakes her head to herself, as she reached up to take the earrings out while side glancing Tiki, "I don't think I'll be able to handle this responsibility. One utter failure is enough."

"Pretty please!" Tiki began to plead in her puppy dog way, as she looked at the girl with her big, purple beady eyes, and presented herself to seem even cuter then before.

(Y/N) hesitated seeing this expression from her, really hating she was was going to let Tiki down, and felt bad as she quickly took off the earrings, not even letting Tiki finish her sentence off, "Bye!"

When she took off the now black earrings Tiki also disappeared from in the air, and she turned around to place the jewels inside the box they came in, thoughts running wild again that threatened to overwhelm her.

Opening up her window near her desk, she lifted up the box to give one last second guessing stare at it, before chucking it outside into the night, hoping she made the right decision doing that.

She sighed heavily to herself, dusting off her sweaty palms together and turned away from her now opened circle window, as she went to walk across her room, "It wasn't real. It's just one of my silly dreams-"

A yelp of pain escaped her mouth when something had landed into the back of her head, as she placed one of her hands up to the sore place, and span around to see what it was. She groaned tiredly spotting the small jewel box back inside her room, and bent down to pick it up, "No, no, no- Why are you still here-!?"

Her feet moved up and down in her spot rapidly in alarm, fingertips touching the box just barely as she once again throws the object out of the window. She made sure to slam the window shut this time, and breathed heavily once she was done with it.

However once again the box landed back inside of her room with a chime, and it bumped into her head which made her exclaim in annoyance. Reaching down to pick it up in between her fingers, she narrowed her eyes down on it smugly, "Fine! You wanna play this game, so be it!"

(Y/N) marched towards the end of her room to start going through he two cupboard full of things, and began to place them all on top of the box, that was underneath all her things. Once she was satisfied with how much was on it, she sat on top of it all, arms crossed over her chest with a huff, "Bye bye, you strange little fairy!"

Even with all these objects on the jewel box the familiar sound of it chiming reaches her ears, and shirked in alarm when Tiki poofed mid air in front of her, "Ah!" She yelped seeing the creature again, and frantically tapped her ears to feel the earrings back in them.

"You are the chosen one, (Y/N)." Tiki told her with a serious frown over her face, and floated up to her a little more to get her point across, "Your challenges are adapted to your potential. Don't you understand?"

She grunted with an overwhelmed shudder travelling through her body, and clenched her teeth together, "No, you don't understand!" She pushed back Tiki with one of her fingers, and admitted through a small voice, as she hoped down from her position, "I'm afraid.. and I can't do this.."

Tiki's face softened greatly in sympathy as she slowly went to land in (Y/N)'s open palms for her, and looked up at the human girl sadly, already feeling what was about to happen.

She brought up Tiki's figure closer to her face, "I'm sorry Tiki, but please..." She trailed off in a pleading way, and glanced away from the creatures sad expression, "leave me alone."

Her hands cupping Tiki's small figure were removed, as she reached up to take off the earrings on her ears, and Tiki accepted what was going to happen, as she soon faded away when the jewels was off.

With her (E/C) eyes now teary she gently placed the earrings on her desk table, and curled herself into a ball against her window chair, trying to escape her overwhelming thoughts she was currently experiencing.

She didn't want to let down Tiki, let down Paris or let down her new partner Cat Noir.... but, this new job wasn't cut out for someone as clumsy, and anxiety written like her. And that fact a lone made her self doubt herself even more, showing she definitely wasn't the right person for a confident superhero like Ladybug. The expectations were too much, and never expected to be responsibly for something as big as this.

A sudden gentle knock at her door was heard after a second, making her head turn a little with a few tears slipping from her eyes, and saw Marinette's head peeking through with a smile.

Her face changed from her happy one to a worried one seeing (Y/N)'s upset figure, and rushed over to her sister on the chair, to quickly pull her into a warm embrace, wondering what had happened up here.

Marinette held her twin against her chest tightly, and gripped her body tighter feeling the tears dripping onto her shirt, all while rubbing (Y/N)'s back up and down, with whispered words of comfort.

.....

In the early morning hours, the city of light awakens with a gentle grace as the sun's golden rays paint the sky. As the city slowly stirs to life, the soft glow of dawn gives way to a brilliant, sunlit Paris that radiates timeless charm and sophistication.

A guy wearing a grey hat, and a collared white shirt was holding up the newspaper to show the people walking around, and would constantly yell out, "Paris Gazette! Special edition! Gargoyle attack! Who are these two masked figures? Friends or foes?"

Over across the road on the pathway, (Y/N) was walking with Ayla along it as Marinette was home finishing off her school work, and sadly left her twin to cope all by herself. She heard the male's shouting, and it made her grip onto her blue back straps even more.

"If only you'd been there to see it!" Alya squealed to her new best friend, and raised her fists up towards her chin, still fan girling about what she witness last night.

(Y/N) chuckled nervously while smile a bit forcefully at her friend, as she couldn't really say she was there in person and was Ladybug who saved the day, "I think I got the gist, you know? Mari already showed me."

"Can you believe it?" Alya pressed a hand against the other girls forearm to stop their walking, and made fists with her knuckles, voice holding a lot of admiration, "A butt-kicking girl superhero, and I took her first picture!" She pulled out her phone from her back pocket, and held it up to show the photos, giggling, "Couple goals, don't you think?"

The (H/C) haired girl peeked over Alya's shoulder to see what was on the phone, and spluttered out in embarrassment realising it was photos of her as Ladybug, and Cat Noir in many different positions mid fight, "No way! He's not my-" She paused mid speech, and quickly corrected herself, smiling awkwardly, "Uh, I mean, her boyfriend."

"How do you know?" Alya glanced from her phone and back to the other girl curiously, all while smiling a bit teasingly as she raised the phone up more in the air.

She tucked a piece of her (H/C) hair behind her ear, and shakes her head from side to side, "I mean look at the pictures, they don't look like they like each other..." She trailed off into a quieter tone, and went to press her fingers against the phone to swipe through the pics.

The first one was them inside the Church building hanging upside in tangled between Ladybug's yo-yo string, as Cat Noir's legs and arms were wrapped around her tightly. The next one was Ladybug skidding along the water, with Cat Noir clinging to her upper body behind her.

Another one as were their cheeks were squished together in a somewhat cute pose mid fight, and the last one was Cat Noir holding her bridle style, grinning charming down at her embarrassed face, that stared back up at his.

"Ha, ha! No way they like each other!" (Y/N) laughed nervously through her teeth, as she was swiping through the photos quicker, and internally screeched seeing how many of them there were of them together.

"Anyway, I'll ask when I see her in action again." Alya brushed off the other girls commentary, and pulls her phone away from her hands, to scroll through it for a few seconds along her feed.

The Dupain-cheng girl grimaced a little to herself hearing her friends words, and placed her hand down to fiddle with her pants material, as she expressed her concern,"It could be dangerous, Alya."

"If you want to be a reporter, you have to get close to the action (N/N)." She responded swiftly and slipped her phone back into her pocket, as she wrapped an arm around her friends shoulder seeing her frown, "Don't worry, I'll be careful, promise."

Now beginning to pick up their walking towards the carnival that was currently on, (Y/N) smiled a little at Alya at her reassurance, and leaned into the hold. She suddenly remembered what she wanted to ask Alya, as a very familiar blonde male was going to be there as well today, "Uh, I also wanted to ask... how do you deal with falling in love?"

Alya snaped her head towards the other girl with wide eyes, until a giant grin appeared across her lips, and squealed in excitement, "No way! You have a crush on-" Her words were muffled by (Y/N)'s hand pressing against her mouth, and had quickly cut her off.

"Yes! Yes! But shh!" She whispered yelled through a panicked expression, and looked around the area they were in, praying no one had heard them, especially Adrien as they were close to the entrance of the carnival, "Now, will you help me?"

The girl wearing glasses nodded her head rapidly with a big grin still, and pried off the hand covering her mouth, "First rule of falling in love," She pointed a finger in (Y/N)'s face, making her flinch back surprised, "Don't fall for it! It's only going to break your heart in the end!"

She nervously fiddled with her fingers hearing this, and her face dropped a little sadly at the fact that Alya was probably right, as she's never experience this before. Though, she had no clue that Adrien was also talking about her, and Ladybug to Nino inside the carnival, and was asking for love advice too.

"It's so embarrassing when they try to be funny." Alya walked a bit in front of (Y/N) with a cringing look, as she shrugged her shoulders, and reached out to tug her friend along with her, "And if he tries to give you something, or tries to hard it means he's desperate for you, which could be a good thing and bad."

"I think I'll take that as a good thing-" (Y/N) muttered to herself with furrowed brows while staring down at her bracelet, and sighed heavily to herself not knowing what to do now, as this was all a first time experience for her.

She was knocked out of her deep thought when Alya twirled her body around to face hers, and grinned widely as she pointed to something behind her, them now arriving at the entrance of the fun place, "Look who's here with Nino in the carnival."

The air was knocked out (Y/N)'s lungs, feeling an overwhelming amount of butterflies fluttering around in her stomach, as she glanced up to make eye contact with a familiar pair of green eyes, that were already staring at her.

( ᴬᵁᵀᴴᴼᴿˢ ᴺᴼᵀᴱ )

not as long as i wanted it to be but my internet isn't working well right now so i have limited
amount i can use sobbing, so sorry about the short chapter guys 😪😪😪

im fr excited to continue writing this though i swear, and i may not update as quick as i want to, but just know its not cause of motivation ITS CAUSE OF MY SILLY INTERNET 👿👿

honestly debating if i should make a show fic of mlb and use the movie faces as the characters
instead of the show ones eghhh idk though just
a thought LMAOA 😭

anyways plsss don't be ghost readers guyssss i adore reading your comments <33