New York, New York

Kagami time!!!

|Paris~21h 30|

*Kagami|Ryuko*

I sighed in the darkness of my room. I was supposed to be asleep but my mom didn't know that I wasn't asleep.

I scrolled through social media on my computer and saw a recently posted picture from Marinette. It was a picture of Marinette's class and the Midtown Academic Decathlon team standing inside a large building full of people mostly dressed up as a fictional character. I smiled seeing that Marinette and some of her friends were wearing the costumes of some of the heroes on the Miraculous team that they somehow looked very similar to. This got me thinking, what is they were the heroes that they were dressed up as? I shook my head, these thoughts were for another time when my brain was functioning at it's max. I looked at the picture and let out a slight gasp when I saw a girl dressed up as Princess Leia from Star Wars. I knew her, and she wasn't in high school anymore. When Marinette told me about the trip she said that it was with a High School academic club full of smart people. So why was Anna here?

I swiped to the next post and saw a picture of everyone dispersing. I searched the picture for Anna and saw her with 4 droids and a couple of friends. Friends, that was probably why she was there. She had friends in the high school group from New York.

Swiping through the other pictures I moved onto the next post under it. That post under Marinette's was Alya's. As much as I found her annoying in the past, I had realized that the more you spend time with her the easier it is to tune her out. Well, not just that, also the fact that she can be a good friend when there is no friction between her and Marinette.

The picture contained a sneak peek for her new Ladyblog post. The only reason I looked through those pictures was not because I was a dedicated follower who literally blackmailed the girl into giving more scoop, but because it showed Anna and New York's vigilante Spider-Man fighting the akumatized villain with light sabers. I smiled fondly remembering the summer that we spent there and she along with two of her friends there (the Wakandan princess and this kid on the trip with Marinette named Peter) helped me practice sparring using the light sabers that they made and were testing out. Of course they gave me one so that they didn't slice through my regular sabers. I glanced over at the light saber handle that was sitting on my desk in front of me. Instead of making it have a more simple handle design they incorporated some Japanese symbols.

After a lot of extending and retracting of my hand towards the light saber, I picked it up and ignited it. It extended and it's faint white glow lit up my room.

"I chose the colour white because the colour red for sabers is associated with the sith and your main colour other than red is white. Plus Ashoka at some point wields white blades and I see her spirit in you." I remembered Anna telling me when she handed it over to me.

I did a couple of the swings that they had taught me and started to pretend to spar the images of their moving bodies making me feel like they were in my room sparring with me. Quickly grabbing one of my sabers from it's holder I started to practice in the fighting form that Anna had taught me called Jar'Kai.

After a couple of minutes tapped out and placed them back in their original spots. I returned to my computer just before my phone started to vibrate.

I picked it up and saw that the caller ID was Marinette.

Plugging my earphones in I answered and her face popped into my screen.

"Hey Kagami!" She said smiling and waving.

"Hey Marinette!" I said smiling and waving back. "How is it going in New York?"

"Awesome!" She said with a grin though I knew that 10% of it was forced.

"Tell me about it." I said urging her to go on.

"Well, on the first day we got to go to Stark industries!" She said.

"How was it, did you go to Anna's lab?" I asked her.

"How do you know Anna?" She asked me inquisitively.

"Oh, I went to New York last summer because my mother was called to go as a guest in a fencing event. I met Anna while trying to escape the place and she brought me to Stark Industries. Though my mother was mad at me for leaving, when she sensed that I was getting bored since I couldn't do anything she let me spend a lot of time with her." I explained.

"Yeah, we went to her lab, it's pretty cool." Marinette continued.

"It is, and it never gets old. If you can, ask her if you can go over there another time. If you're not in a tour group, then you might be able to do something." I told her.

"Really?!" Marinette exclaimed.

"Yeah, I got a pretty cool light saber and she taught me how to fight with it, we also practiced with fencing techniques so that when I got back I wouldn't be swinging my saber like a light saber and disappointing my mother." I told her.

"Wow." Marinette said.

"Well, enough about that, continue telling me about your trip." I urged her.

"The second day, we toured the city before we went to a fashion banquet and while touring the city we met Princess Shuri of Wakanda, Peter introduced her to us. He also called Lila out on her lies and his girlfriend MJ threatened Lila to kill her if she had a mace that she used to fight the drones in Europe." Marinette continued.

"So that's why Anna was in your picture from comic-con, because Peter was there!" I exclaimed a bit too loudly.

I nervously looked at my door to make sure that my mother was still asleep.

"You know him?" Marinette asked.

"Yeah, same trip, I met him while with Anna along with Shuri." I quickly explained.

"Neat!" Marinette said before continuing. "I met a lot of fashion designers that were fans of my designs that I showed them. I got multiple internship opportunities while there for the future and I'm really having a hard time trying to figure out which one I want to accept."

"Choose which ever one you liked the best and had the best relationship with. Just because they are the best doesn't mean that you should go to them. You should go to the one that you choose because you can work well. If they have a seminar or something that you can go to take the opportunity and go to see if you can work well together. Also location is important, you don't want to choose the one that is across the world from your home or wherever your school will be." I told her.

"Thanks Kagami!!!" She said pepping up before continuing. "The next day, was a break. Then yesterday, we went to 'The Avengers Compound'"

"What did you do there?" I asked remembering the countless hours there that I spent in the training room.

"Well, they have this big laser tag room so we played a couple of games before Lila physically and verbally abused Morgan." Marinette informed me.

"Not Morgan." I said walking around the room and collecting all of my sabers including my light saber and putting them into my suitcase and packing in a couple of clothes. "I'm flying over tomorrow in order to say hi to all of my friends in person and then kill her."

"The Black Widow actually killed her while she was akumatized." Marinette informed me.

"Cool but she needs to stay dead." I said packing a few more necessities before a freaked out Marinette hung up to let me get some rest.

Tomorrow was going to be a pain in the butt trying to convince my mother to let me go to New York.