The Naked Truth

Quivering in Anticipation

Adrien didn't even blink while the flash of pink light ran through Ladybug's body, eventually revealing Marinette. He noticed that she was doing the same too, her eyes glued on his face as the mask came off.

"I knew it was you, but it was amazing to see nonetheless," he whispered, not daring to speak louder, as if his voice could make Marinette disappear in front of his eyes.

"Likewise, Chaton. The most wonderful experience ever." She smiled warmly. They looked at each other for a long moment, until something black zoomed in between their noses and Adrien was left staring into Plagg's electric green eyes.

"All very nice, but where's my cheese, gamin ?" the little God of Destruction deadpanned.

Adrien rolled his eyes and sighed, rummaging in his inside pocket to reveal a slice of Camembert, which Plagg snapped out of his hands at lightspeed. The time between the moment the cheese reached his paws and the moment it disappeared into his mouth was so short that Adrien missed the action of the kwami by merely blinking.

"Is that all?" asked the black furball.

"Plagg! Let them have their moment," whispered Tikki, zooming next to the black kwami and trying to pull him away.

"No, Sugarcube. If he thinks I'm going to be satisfied with one small slice of cheese after all the disgusting mating rituals that we've had to endure, he can think again." Plagg crossed his paws on his tiny chest and glared at his red and black companion, who sighed loudly and then zoomed into Marinette's purse, undoubtedly to eat her own snack.

Adrien felt his face getting very hot. "Hang on a second. Do you mean you two... were there?" Marinette's face had turned a deep shade of red too.

"Of course, genius! You may have been naked, but you were still transformed. We've been with you all along." Plagg smirked as the two teens became even more red in the face. "Come on, it wasn't any more embarrassing than what you do every night in bed while pining over Ladybug."

"PLAGG!" Adrien felt his face becoming even hotter.

"Yes, gamin ? What happened to, 'I will tell the truth even if it's embarrassing'?" The smirk on Plagg's face widened, as the kwami's electric green eyes looked at his charge with a gleam of amusement.

"She didn't need to know," he muttered under his breath, as his gaze fell.

"Oh and instead you just had to know what she does every evening while looking at your pictures, didn't you? Call that fair?" He turned towards Marinette. "The things I can tell you, Pigtails."

Marinette's gaze darted several times from a super embarrassed Adrien to a super amused Plagg and back, and she couldn't help it. She started laughing. "He's got a point, you know," she managed to say in between fits of laughter. "But I'm sure Adrien will tell me, in time." She winked at him, a devious smile curling her lips.

Adrien pouted and then opened his mouth to say something, but Marinette looked at her watch and then exchanged with him a panicky look. "We can talk about it later, Chaton. We have five minutes to get to class!" That panicked Adrien too, as they weren't exactly round the corner from their Lycée. So he grabbed Marinette's hand and started running.

Obviously Marinette ended up being much faster than him. But she'd had years of experience in the fine art of running late to school, and didn't have a massive boner in her jeans to make it very uncomfortable to run.

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The school day dragged forever. Maybe it was because they had lost the habit of sitting down for the whole day listening to boring people explaining boring things, or maybe it was the adrenaline of the fight washing out of them? Marinette couldn't help feeling restless. She kept twitching and moving from one bum cheek to the next, her fingers fidgeting with any kind of thing that she had on her desk. Every few minutes, her gaze ended on Adrien's golden mop in front of her, and she would sigh and smile happily.