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It hit him like a train of bricks.

How could he have not seen the comparison earlier? It makes total sense! Only a fool wouldn’t put all the pieces together.

And oh, was he a fool. A big, dumb, ridiculous fool.

But atlas! He was able to come to his senses and he can proudly declare that he was no longer a fool.

Over the past year, he noticed how his friend Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the girl that lights up the entire room with just her presence, had grown to be an amazing, natural leader. The way she was able to help anyone, the way she creatively came up with any solutions, that sharp, calculating gaze when someone tried to bullshit her.

Okay, so maybe he’s making it seem like he just thought of it one day and it made sense.

But reaally, it went more like that.

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“Kim, I need to leave.”

“Listen, buttercup. I know you have this weird heroism vendetta thing going on, but you cannot, under any circumstances, leave.”

“Kim.”

“Marinette Dupain-Cheng, I said no!”

Marinette stared at him with such a deadpanned expression, you would have thought he was telling her no for something like ice cream. And definitely not because a 10-story robot was making its way down the road. Why did she always have to disappear? Can’t she see that he was just trying to protect her? There’s a reason why he was picked as a miraculous hero!

She shook her head and stood up. “Since when do you get to tell me what to do?”

“You know I like my dominant girls, but you can’t just run out when there’s an akuma lose. Besides, we have to wait for Ladybug to show up.” Kim said, matter-of-fact. Also, he might admit how scared he actually was. Because if Marinette ran away, he would have to come after to here, of course. That’s what heroes do, right?

“We can’t spend our whole time waiting for a polka-dotted heroin so I’m just gonna, uh, go.” With that said, she made a run for it, only to be halted by Kim gripping her arm.

Kim stared at her, gaping as he couldn’t believe what he heard. He knew Marinette was more of a Chat Noir fan, but why was she so distasteful towards Ladybug? But all those thoughts were scrambled and scattered when he suddenly found himself on the ground, with a knee digging into his back. Holy s- when was she so strong?

“Dude, what the fuck? Get off me!”

He heard her grunt in frustration(what did she have to be frustrated about? He was trying to protect her from a dangerous and savage akuma!) before groaning. “You leave me with no choice and I can hear Chat Noir frantic yells from here- and I cannot stand anymore of his puns at the moment.”

He felt the weight lifted and immediately jumped to his feet. Despite how confusing what she said was, there was no way she was going to disappear from his sight.

At least, that was until he saw the wave of pink engulf his friend and standing right where the bakery girl was, was the spotted heroin herself. Unable to pick up his jaw from the ground, he felt himself slide down against a wall, utterly dumbstruck by what he witnessed. When she walked over to him, stared at him with that sharp piecing glare, he all but gulped, terrified at what fate had in store for him at the moment.

“Stay here until I come get you.”

And who was Kim to go against the demand of his all too powerful friend?

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Of course Kim was too scared of her to even utter her hero name around others. And again, felt utterly stupid whenever he thinks about all the signs he missed.

But he had a fun time teasing her when he found out just who her partner was behind the mask.

So yeah, Kim’s a fool. An loud, ridiculous, big-hearted fool.

Did Not See This Coming

Author’s Note: Not really romantic or making Adrien out to be a bad guy but I hope you enjoy it otherwise

It was an unexpected result but a welcomed one no the less. Kim found out Marinette was Ladybug after she ended up in the same as Kim when detransforming and after her panic attack, Kim agreed to keep her secret.

Suddenly Marinette had more support with being Ladybug after losing Master Fu, she had someone to cover her back when she needs an excuse for why she disappeared all the time, help when she could finish schoolwork due to an Akuma, someone to help her train to be more athletic so she was stronger as Ladybug and finally a temporary hero she could trust again after Lila. 

King Monkey eventually showed up to every Akuma battle because Marinette was the guardian meaning she decided they needed more permanent heroes so she gave Kim the miraculous permanently to which it turned into a sports headband making it more understandable for him wearing it all the time. Marinette also gave Kagami her miraculous permanently as Marinette knew she could trust Kagami to take the job seriously. 

Chat Noir was childish about King Monkey being close with Ladybug and made a fuss during the patrols that the did together until Ladybug sat him down and made him listen to her. Ladybug pointed out that she had never seen him as anything more than a friend and only joked with him so to lighten the mood of a battle but he kept up with his flirting and not actually taking battles seriously due to it making them harder than they should be or straight up ignoring her reason for not telling him stuff like with siren, eventually, she was going to give his miraculous to someone who will listen to her.

The threat made him shut up quiet quickly and after looking back through old footage of their battles, Chat Noir realised that his behaviour was not one of a hero and due to that realisation, he became more focused and willing to work with King Monkey.

After a year of being close as friends and as superhero teammates. Both Kim and Marinette started to date alongside Adrien and Kagami who got together quickly after. The two couples eventually found out each other’s identities after being trapped in a room when needing to deal with an Akuma. So petrol was more fun considering they sometimes spent it by helping each other with school or complaining about the shitty adults in their lives or Lila’s lies or Hawkmoth.

To be fair it was only a matter of time before the class got on Marinette’s back about her former crush on Adrien again but this time they made it worse by Lila ‘accidentally’ spilling the beans but after Marinette and Adrien lacklustre reactions, the class decided to tell him about all the plans and a creepy things Marinette had done but was quickly shut down by Adrien.

“Yeah I know,” Adrien said not even looking up at the class as he did his school work,

“What” exclaimed the class, Lila looking quite pissed at the fact that she had lost one of her threats,

“Adrien knows about that I told him” Marinette muttered as she chewed on her pencil while thinking through one of the math questions,

“But Adrien you can’t be comfortable with that” stated Lila with fake concern,

“True but I’d be a hypocrite if I told her off and avoided her considering I did similar things with my former crush” replied Adrien looking up at the class in order to see his classmates surprised looks.

Marinette cut off any of her classmate’s responses, “I was thirteen and I was encouraged by those around including you lot” she stated bluntly which admittedly made the classmates look sheepish, “anyways we have talked about it already and are fine with each other so drop it”,

“We dating different people now before you lot try to set us up with other people” continued Adrien glaring at Alya,

“You dating and you didn’t tell us” exclaimed Rose,

“Considering how you treat me for the past months and your carelessness when it comes to people’s private lives, this really shouldn’t come as a surprise” respond Marinette.

“Who are you dating anyways” questioned Lila who looked pissed but quickly covered it up, 

“Marinette’s dating me” announced Kim earning gasps from the class, “Adrien’s dating Kagami”,

“Kagami, Adrien are you sure?” questioned Lila “you saw what happened with Oni-Chan”,

“Yes, I did and may I remind you that it was your fault that she was akumatised in the first place” snapped Adrien as the bell rang,

“Don’t blame Lila, Adrien, she couldn’t help that Kagami turned into an Akuma” retorted Alya while pulling Lila into a hug which just made the trio raise an eyebrow.

“Kim why didn’t you tell us that you’re dating Marinette?” questioned Alix while the went to leave, 

“Never came up” he replied before the trio quickly left not wanting to deal with more questions making them late for their double date. 

Author’s Note: Haven’t written in a while but that’s due to no motivation and getting back into anime so it may take a while for other stories to come out.