After much thought I have decided to create a series of oneshots based on various cartoons I enjoy. While Miraculous will be the first series I create there will likely be a selection for Avatar: The Last Airbender, Kim Possible, American Dragon and Danny Phantom with the possibilities of various crossovers with each story receiving 4 oneshots per cycle. Mostly oneshots will be based on the styles of oneshots I enjoy which will revolve around romance and/or revelations and as such for Miraculous all the oneshots will be center around one or likely both Adrien and Marinette discovering their secret identities and I will stay current to the latest episode of the show minus Luka. For my oneshots I will after this week take suggestions for the theme of next week's story and select one from the suggestions given me with a shout out to whoever suggested it. Lastly while I will strive to update this ever week on Saturdays (no set time) I cannot promise it will be weekly as this is purely for fun and my main fanfiction is my novel length, 5 book series Avatar: The Tale of Harry which is currently towards the end of Book 1 and will be updated according to the schedule laid out in that fanfic. Rated T just to be safe.

On a separate note I am developing a crossover between Miraculous and Kim Possible that if it gains steam in my preparations will be released during the summer, possibly before the release of Avatar: The Tale of Harry. Book 2: (Information classified) on June 18th.

Disclaimer: I own nothing relating to this show.

Deductions - Adrien decides its time he figured out who Ladybug is by trying to deduce her identity through the clues that Alya has discovered and his own knowledge of Ladybug. What will he do when he has deduced a prime suspect in his own class? Will his lady be all that he has hoped for or will her identity shock him to his core?

Deductions

Adrien Agreste sat at his desk in his spacious room looking at the blank piece of paper he had placed on his desk and tapped his lips with his pen, the same one his father had given him each year for his birthday for 3 straight years.

"Adrien what are you doing?" His kwami Plagg asked as he floated by his master and friend while tenderly caressing a piece of Camembert.

"I'm going to try and figure out who Ladybug really is." Adrien said as he looked lovingly at the framed photo of him as Cat Noir standing next to his lady, Ladybug, on his desk. "I am fed up of not knowing who my love, my lady is so I am going to try and deduce who she is. If I find out who she is in real life then perhaps I can get to know her secret identity and win her over."

"Sounds like a lot of what ifs." Plagg said as he scoffed down his cheese. "Cheese is simpler. Besides how are you going to figure out who she is, you have nothing to go off regarding her identity."

"I have a few things thanks to Alya and her Ladyblog." Adrien said. "Her dedication to figuring out who Ladybug is has led to two key clues from which to begin my deductions. I may not be the most observant man in the world but with a little head start I can make several deductions en route to the answer I seek."

"And what would those clues be?" Plagg asked clearly still uninterested.

"Well for one the history textbook she dropped a while back is only used at my school and specifically by my grade so that is the first clue." Adrien said as he wrote the clue down on the top of his sheet of paper. "And the most useful clue of the two Alya has provided. The other clue is that according to the Ladyblog the voice print of Ladybug matches a girl from my own age range so further adding to my theory that Ladybug is one of the girls at my school."

"Sounds like too much work." Plagg said dismissively. "Camembert is easier and the love is unconditional."

"This is important Plagg." Adrien said as he added the second clue to the sheet of paper. "Now if you aren't going to be of any help then don't distract me."

"Well I could save you the trouble and tell you who she is." Plagg said as if the news was nothing important. "Seeing as I did see who she was when you two de-transformed in that shipping container Dark Owl trapped you in but that would go against the rules."

"And you enjoy holding that info over me way too much." Adrien added.

"Too true." Plagg said. "And there is not enough Camembert that can change my mind. I'll leave you to your hopeless struggles."

With that Adrien's kwami zoomed off around his room, no doubt looking for more cheese. Adrien just shook his head at his unhelpful friend and began to list all the girls in his year. This would take a little time but he knew he would at least whittle the list down to a few names based on what he knew of Ladybug.

Looking at the picture of Ladybug Adrien instantly crossed off Alya from the list. Her skin tone didn't match Ladybug and besides her running of the Ladyblog and all the times he had seen Ladybug rescue her he knew that she couldn't be his lady. Besides she was Nino's girl and a good friend, there was no way he could have feelings for her. The next girl he crossed off without further consideration for being Ladybug was Chloe. It wasn't hard to remove his only friend before high school because she was a known Ladybug fanatic who had been revealed by Lady WiFi to definitely not be Ladybug. Furthermore given the prevalence of akuma attacks among his class and the apparent knowledge that Ladybug had of them when explaining to Cat Noir who had been akumatized and why made Adrien decide to focus on the remaining girls in his own class. He didn't know if it was his animal instincts, blind hope, or something else but Adrien was certain that Ladybug was in his class. That or the fact that they were in a class with Chloe Bourgeois who was responsible for about 90% of the akumatized victims just made his class more susceptible to Hawk Moth's attacks and thus skewing his results.

With those two off the list the next thing Adrien did was write down the akuma personalities of the remaining girls in his class. If they had been akumatized then they couldn't possibly be his lady seeing as she was there with him when they defeated the akumatized victims. After a moment he looked down the list of girls alongside their akuma personalities.

Rose – Princess Fragrance

Juleka – Reflekta

Marinette -

Kagami – Riposte

Lila – Volpina

Sabrina – Vanisher

Alix – Timebreaker

Mylene – Horrificator

Adrien looked down the list after he created it and paused. He had known that many of their classmates had been akumatized but he didn't realize how many had been. That wasn't the thing that stood out the most to him, it was the fact that only one name didn't have an akuma personality next to it, Marinette. The realization hit him hard, how had Marinette not been akumatized.

As he thought about this Adrien realized that all the boys in their class but him had been akumatized as well. That didn't bode well if someone realized and thought that that was too much of a coincidence to be true. But if that was the case then could Marinette be Ladybug. She had after all not been akumatized.

Adrien circled his friend's name and pulled out a second sheet of paper and wrote "Proof that Marinette is Ladybug" at the top of the page. Now it was time to remember what he knew of the strong, kind, cute girl who sat behind him class and always seemed to be intimidated by him given her inability to hold a coherent sentence with him. Despite this he still liked Marinette, a lot, more than he was willing to admit to himself but if she was indeed his lady then perhaps that would explain why he seemed to have feelings for two different people.

The more he thought about it the more he realized that Ladybug and Marinette's mannerisms were very similar. True he had only seen Marinette's true nature from afar given her shyness around him but what he had seen was very much like the strong self confidence and control that Ladybug had though Marinette was certainly more clumsy.

As he thought Adrien wrote down what he had deduced on his piece of paper. After he was done comparing their characters he thought about something that he probably should have thought about to begin with; had he ever seen Marinette and Ladybug in the same place. As he thought he honestly couldn't think of a time when he had seen the pair together. Sure Ladybug had asked him to protect Marinette once when the Evillustrator was after her but as soon as Marinette was safe and away from harm Ladybug had shown up. Then there was the fact that whenever there had been an akuma attack Marinette had always made up some bullshit excuse, just as he did, and run off before Ladybug had showed up and then like him claimed to have been a victim of the akumatized person's power or hiding to explain away her absence during the attack. The more he thought about it the more it seemed that he was correct in his deduction that Marinette was Ladybug. Come to think of it Ladybug always smelt of freshly baked bread and pastries and Marinette's father was a baker.

There was one last thing to do to confirm his theory, at least in his mind, and that was to compare photos. He pulled up the picture he had of Marinette on his phone that was saved with her number and compared it to the image and Ladybug. Adrien almost dropped his phone. Minus the mask the similarities between the two were eerie. They both had the same bluebell eyes, black hair and endearing short pigtails. There was no longer any doubt in his mind that Marinette was his lady.

At least that solved the problem of why he had started to have feelings for the cute amateur fashion designer when he was in love with Ladybug. They were one and the same and it seemed like his subconscious was telling him so. Now he just had to figure out how to confirm it. Plagg would be no help as he wouldn't confirm to Adrien that Marinette was or was not Ladybug and he knew he couldn't just ask her. After a moment's thought an idea struck Adrien and he smiled. This could very well work so long as he was present to see her reaction. With the thought in mind he pulled out yet another sheet of paper and began to write.

After several failed attempts Adrien sighed and smiled when he looked down at his perfected letter to Ladybug. It was in his biased mind perfect. It read:

Bugaboo,

I know this is you, my lady. Don't worry I won't tell anyone who you are, I know that would be cat-a-strophic if it got out. Know that I couldn't be happier that it is you under that mask, you are the purrfect Ladybug. I love you, all of you both the kick ass superhero and the kind hearted girl under the mask. See you sooner than you will expect, my lady.

Your faithful partner and gentle-cat,

Cat Noir

Adrien smiled at the letter as he folded it, slid it into an envelope and sealed it but left the envelope blank just in case he lost it, he didn't want Marinette's secret identity getting out. Now all he had to do was slip it into her bag tomorrow and then wait for her to find out. However he would not be seeing her as Cat Noir, no he would be seeing her as Adrien as soon as he could get her alone so he could return the trust in her that she would now have to put in him. That is if her reaction told him that she was in deed Ladybug.

Adrien smiled before he yawned and checked the time and realized how late it was. Getting up and going to his bed Adrien checked on Plagg only to find his kwami passed out in an empty wheel of Camembert with a very contented look on his face. Stifling a laugh Adrien undress and fell asleep dreaming of his lady and what tomorrow would bring.

The next day Adrien was a bundle of nerves as he walked into class but his years of modeling had taught him how to hide it and appear his usual calm, collected self. Plagg had been no help as Adrien expected so he was on his own. It would take skill to slip the envelope into Marinette's bag when she wasn't looking but he knew he would have to try.

The first two classes provided no opportunity to slip the envelope into her book bag but then there was the 25 minute break before the mid morning classes and Adrien saw his chance. They normally left their books in the classroom while they headed to the courtyard to take their break so when everyone was filing out Adrien deliberately dropped his phone under the desk and ducked under to collect it while the room emptied.

Once the room was empty he looked around and then slid the envelope into Marinette's bag. Once that was done he stood up and calmly walked out to join his friends. Now all he had to was wait for the inevitable. It wouldn't take long.

Adrien was right, it only took until lunch for Marinette to notice it. He was eating the lunch Natalie had packed him with Nino on the stares while Alya and a shy Marinette ate theirs on the steps below. They usually ate together now that Nino and Alya were a couple and Adrien liked it even if Marinette still couldn't get a coherent sentence out around him.

As Marinette reached into her bag, likely to pull out her sketchbook to work on her designs she suddenly paused, a confused look on her cute face. Nino and Alya were too engrossed with each other to notice as Marinette pulled the blank envelope out of her bag and studied it.

"What's that?" Adrien asked quiet enough so that only Marinette could hear.

"I-I don't know." Marinette said with a slight stutter at Adrien's question.

"Perhaps it's from a secret admirer." Adrien said. "You should open it."

"I guess." Marinette said to confused at the letter to be shy around her crush. "So long as it's not creepy or anything."

Slowly Marinette opened it as Adrien watched. She pulled out the letter he had written and read it once. Her reaction confirmed all of Adrien's hopes and suspicions.

As soon as Marinette had read the letter and confirmed what it said and it sunk in exactly what she was reading she shrieked in panic, a shriek usually reserved for Adrien when he surprised her, and leapt up before realizing she was on a flight of metal stairs and she fell and tumbled down them. As soon as she got up she ran not caring about the scene she was likely making. Her reaction had caused Alya and Nino to look up in surprise only to see Marinette running away. In the commotion no one noticed Adrien pick up the discarded note and put it in his pocket, he would destroy it later so that no one would know.

"I think there was a spider in her bag or something." Adrien lied as a way of explaining Marinette's reaction. "I'll go and see if she's ok."

Before Alya or Nino could react Adrien had gotten up and run after Marinette. Everything was going according to plan for once. Now all he had to do was find Marinette and not have his usual bad luck.

It didn't take long to find her. She had fled to their classroom and he could hear her talking to someone inside. However the voice that responded to her was clearly not human, it sounded kwami. That further confirmed to Adrien that Marinette was indeed his lady.

"How did Cat find out?" Marinette was saying with a note of panic. "We aren't supposed to know each other's secret identities."

"I don't know." A high pitched female kwami voice replied. "I would presume his kwami told him, we do know each other and who the other miraculous holder is but we aren't supposed to say in order to keep the secrets of who Ladybug and Cat Noir really are."

"This is terrible." Marinette was saying. "I trust Cat with my life but still we weren't supposed to know."

"Think of it this way Marinette." Her kwami said. "The letter was in your bag, that means he must be in your class."

Before Marinette could respond Adrien opened the door suddenly. He wanted to reveal himself to her on his own terms before she could deduce that he was the most likely person in class to be Cat Noir. Marinette had her back to him and jump as high as Ladybug could when she heard the door open and turned to see Adrien there, a classic deer in the headlights look on her cute face. Adrien could have sworn that he saw a flash of pink zoom into Marinette's purse but he may be seeing things.

"A-Adrien w-w-w-what are you doing here?" Marinette asked shock and fear on her face.

"I came to see if you were ok." Adrien said holding his arms out to his side to show that he meant no threat. "You suddenly ran off and I was concerned."

"Did, did you h-hear anything j-just now." Marinette stuttered and Adrien could see there were tears in her bright blue eyes.

"No." Adrien lied. "I was just concerned about you."

Before Adrien could react Marinette had thrown herself into his arms and was sobbing against his chest as he held there. It felt natural and he was happy to hold her. He could smell the baked bread on her, the same he smelt on Ladybug. He knew that now was the time.

"It's ok." Adrien said softly as he held a still tearful Marinette and stoked her hair gently. "All will be ok."

"No it won't." Marinette sobbed. "I can't tell anyone but my life may be ruined now."

"Shhh, bugaboo it will be ok." Adrien whispered softly into Marinette's ear and felt her stiffen and quiet her sobs in a split second. "I will never reveal your secret, my lady."

Marinette pushed herself off Adrien but still didn't remove herself from his arms, she was way to comfortable in them. She looked up into his bright green eyes that she always got lost in and realized he was truthful in what he had said. Then what he had set sunk in. Only one person called Ladybug bugaboo and my lady, Cat Noir and only Cat Noir and Ladybug knew about the pet names he had for her. So how did Adrien know the terms? It all hit her at once. Her crush, her love was also her superhero partner and he had found out who she was.

"Don't worry my lady I picked up the note I wrote you as soon as you ran off." Adrien said quietly. "It will be destroyed later. I will never let your secret get out."

"How did you figure it out?" Marinette asked her voice shaking slightly.

"Simple deductions, my lady." Adrien said. "It took me all night but all the evidence pointed to our class and well you are the only girl who hasn't been akumatized. You even look a little like Ladybug. Once I had figured that out I decided to write the note and your reaction confirmed it to me. You're not mad at me, are you?"

"I mean I am upset cos we aren't supposed to know our secret identities." Marinette said softly. "But now we know and I certainly was not expecting the love of my life to be Cat Noir or that he had feelings for me as Ladybug."

Marinette suddenly gasped when she realized what she had said. Adrien just smiled at her.

"I love you too Marinette." He said looking at her. "Both Ladybug and the incredible girl under the mask."

Before Marinette could say anything about how he only liked Ladybug and not clumsy, awkward, plain Marinette, something she had always feared, Adrien cupped her cheek with his right hand and bent down to kiss her. Softly at first but as soon as the realization that Adrien, her Adrien, was kissing her at last she sunk into it and let it carry her away. She knew they would have a lot to talk about going forward but she knew they loved each other and that was enough to see them through anything.

"What the hell is going on in here?" A stuck up female voice yelled as the door was thrown open and Chloe Bourgeois walked in along with her friend Sabrina to see Adrien and Marinette making out in the classroom.

The interruption did not make Marinette and Adrien jump apart but it annoyed Marinette. Slowly and regretfully extricating herself from Adrien's arms and walked over to Chloe who was still in the doorway. The stuck up, spoiled bitch had just ruined the best moment of Marinette's life and she wasn't going to let Chloe continue to ruin it.

"What do you think is going on." Marinette yelled at Chloe. "I was making out with my boyfriend in the classroom. Now please go away so I can have some privacy without you ruining it."

With that Marinette slammed the door so hard in Chloe's face that the blond girl stumbled back and fell over Sabrina and onto the floor in an undignified heap. The force of the slam rattled the window in the door but thankfully it didn't break.

"Now where were we." Marinette said as she walked back to a still stunned Adrien who was at last her boyfriend after months of longing for it to happen, even if it had occurred in an unconventional way.

"I believe we were here, my lady." Adrien said with a smile as he pulled Marinette in for another kiss.

Marinette felt herself once more melt into it and they were once again lost in the bliss of the moment. At last they were together and they knew their deepest secrets. Neither could be happier.

Hope y'all enjoyed my first attempt at a revelation oneshot for Miraculous. I intend to keep these chapter relatively short compared to my main work and limit them to at most 4,000 words each but if y'all want longer I can try. Next week's oneshot will be selected from suggestions left in reviews but if there are no suggestions I do have one planned just in case. Read, review and enjoy. Until next week.

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