Shining Rebirth {Vanitas x Reader} Vol.5

Chapter 13: Migration

You and Marinette arrives on your scooter, dismounting it, and quickly runs towards Liberty. Noe, Alya, Nino, Nathaniel and Zoé are seen on the couch on the deck.

"Why are they running like that? They're not late." Nino complains.

"Creature of habit. " Alya commented and everyone laughs.

"Hi, hello, hey there!" Marinette panted

"Hi Marinette!" Everyone said back.

"Hi, Rose! Hi, Ivan! Hey, Juleka, Anarka! Luka— I was looking for you! " Marinette laughs nervously and starts walking to everyone and greets them one by one. " I— I wanted to talk to you about... " She rubs her hair.

"It about the new Kitty Section stickers." You fill in. "Marinette put the logo of record company on them, seeing as he promised you the record contract and all, but...." You trialed off. "Since the deal never came through, we were if we should keep them, throw them away, or—"

"You sure that's really what you wanna talk to me about?" Luka asked Marientte.

  Marinette blushes and says. "Weeeell..."

"I forgot to grab my capo and picks. I'll be right back." Luka says to to everyone and walks away with Marinette.

In Luka's room. Luka and Marinette are sitting beside each other on his bed. 

"There's a problem with me, but... I don't know what it is. As you know, there are things I can't tell Adrien, but it turns out, there are also things I can't even tell myself. And if I can't tell myself, how am I supposed to tell Adrien?"  She pauses to realize..  "Oh, no! I'm the worst! It's so selfish of me talking to you about my love life when I broke your heart! Or worse maybe  that's why I accuse (Y/n) that she was your girlfriend and turn her to Dark Wing! I'm so terrible! I don't know how you even could've fallen in love with someone like me, or anyone could have!"

Luka starts to play a ballad on his guitar. "You didn't break my heart, Marinette. You enriched it with new songs. Ones that are sometimes cheerful, and sometimes sad. The only thing that breaks my heart is seeing such a miraculous buddy be so hard on herself. And it's even hard to forgive when your sister changed too."

"So, you're saying that... I'm not cruel... or pathetic? Oh, thank you, Luka!" Marinette hugs Luka and kisses Luka on the cheek  "I feel so much better! I don't know what I'd do without you!"

 "If you need me, you know where to find me." Marinette and Luka walk toward the stairs.

"Thanks, Luka..."

As both proceed to leave the room, Marinette spots Adrien coming down the stairs with his "damaged" keyboard piano, which leaves Marinette panicking... "WAHH!"

"Hel-lo there, Marinette!" Adrien stutters.

"H-Hey, Adrien! What a surprise! " Marinette attempts to push Adrien's piano out of the way. "We're stuck." She laughs awkwardly. "How silly being stuck! We should try to loosen up!"

In Luka's point of view, he sees Adrien and Marinette as Cat Noir and Ladybug, respectively.

Adrien holds Marinette's hand. "It's ok to be stuck sometimes, I can help you—"

 "Loosen up? Nah, no, no no, no, no, no, no. It's okay. I can do it myself!" Marinette blushes upon contact of Adrien's hand on hers and runs away, flustered.

  "Luka! I was looking for you. Uh, something's wrong with my keyboard: one of the keys is acting weird." Adrien continues to go down the stairs,  presses one of the "broken" keys.