Hello, and welcome to My Cousin is a robot?! A Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction-will have references to random animes when I feel like it!

Please read and review, tell me what you think!

Also, I know for a fact that some parts in this aren't true-I might have Mrs. Agreste be in this at some point, I'm still not completely sure, but I'm well aware that she's dead(if we can completely trust what we saw in Gorgizilla, that is…)

I don't own Miraculous Ladybug or any animes that I reference here!

Enjoy!

Chat Noir quickly ducked into an alleyway, transforming back into himself, then catching Plagg before he fell.

"Sorry about that," Adrien whispered.

"That was close," Plagg said, sitting up in Adrien's hand. "A second longer, and you would've transformed back somewhere that people could've seen you."

"I know," Adrien said, tucking Plagg into a pocket of his vest(A/N: I know that it's not a vest, I just can't remember what it's called, the white overshirt thing he always wears). "I'd better run to get to class-Father is going to be angry if I miss anymore school." There've been too many akuma attacks lately...this is starting to get a little annoying, in all honesty. Adrien started to run-thankfully, he wasn't too far from the school.

Adrien quickly ran inside, then speed-walked to his classroom, entering just as the bell rang.

Mrs. Bustier smiled as Adrien took his seat, but out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Marinette looked really down. Alya seemed to notice and was whispering to her, but Marinette wasn't paying any attention.

As soon as Adrien sat down, Mrs. Bustier began class.

After class…

Marinette quickly picked everything up and walked out of class, hoping that she wouldn't have to talk to anyone if she was quick enough…

"Hey, wait up!"

Marinette slowed down just a little as Alya walked after her, quickly followed by the others in the class-a few of them started to walk over as well, a little concerned about Marinette, but this wasn't something that she really wanted to talk about.

"Girl, what's wrong?" Alya asked, catching up to Marinette. "You seemed really down today-no, not just today. It's been all week. Is something wrong?"

"It's fine," Marinette said with a sigh. "It's just...a family situation."

"What kind of family situation?" Alya asked. "Marinette, you can talk to me about anything-you know that, right?"

Chloe, who was walking right past them with Sabrina-snorted. "I bet that your family has just decided that they don't want you anymore."

Marinette glared at her. "I'm not in the mood for this, Chloe."

"Am I right, then?" Chloe asked, a sly grin on her face.

"Far from it," Marinette muttered. "About as far from it as you can be." With that, she started to run, heading home.

"Hey, wait up!" Alya said, running after Marinette, but Marinette didn't care. She was on the verge of crying as it was-she wasn't in the mood to argue.

Marinette quickly reached home, and Alya walked into the bakery behind her.

"Seriously, what's wrong?" Alya asked, giving Marinette a concerned look.

Tom looked over at them. "Oh, back from school. Hi, Alya."

"Hi, Mr. Dupain," Alya said with a smile that quickly faded as she realized that he looked a little upset as well. "Seriously, is something wrong?"

Marinette bit her lip, and Tom looked away as Sabine walked into the room, no smile on her face, either.

"Hi, Ms. Cheng," Alya said. "Can you tell me what's wrong? Why do all of you seem sad about something?"

Sabine sighed, setting down the box of macaroons she was carrying. "It's...about some of our family over in Japan."

"I had no idea you had family in Japan," Alya said.

"We don't talk to them that much anymore," Marinette said softly. "If we had, then maybe...maybe…" More tears came to her eyes.

"Maybe what?" Alya asked.

"Maybe they'd still be…" Marinette began, but she couldn't bring herself to finish. Instead, she kept crying and just ran up to her room.

Alya started to follow, but Tom stopped her.

"It's not easy for any of us," Tom said. "She was hit the hardest about all this."

"What exactly happened?" Alya asked.

"My sister and her family moved to Japan a few years back," Sabine explained. "Well, it was my sister, Mei, her husband, Akio, and their daughter, Lunette-Lunette and Marinette had been really close back when they still lived here in Paris. Anyway, as we just discovered, Lunette was getting bullied really bad in school." She paused.

"How bad?" Alya asked after a few seconds.

Tom took a deep breath. "Really bad. A few days ago, Lunette decided that she no longer wanted to be in this world."

Alya gasped.

"She had been apparently planning on jumping off a bridge into the water," Sabine said softly. "When she was getting ready to jump, she hesitated, and one of the nicer people at her school noticed and pulled her away from the bridge, asking her just what she was thinking. Lunette didn't say a thing, but instead started to walk away. Nobody knows what was running through her head at that moment-the only reason we know about her plan to jump off the bridge was the fact that she was going to actually do it, and she wrote a note to her parents saying that she no longer wanted to be here. But, suddenly, a reckless driver…" She faded out, tears running from her eyes.

Tom rubbed her back, then looked at Alya. "A driver had been reckless and took their eyes off the road for a second, not realizing that they were getting too close to the walkway where Lunette was...and they hit her, going rather fast."

Alya gasped, covering her mouth as her eyes grew wide.

"No way," Alya whispered.

"The other kid wasn't hurt at all," Sabine whispered. "They instantly called an ambulance, but by the time they arrived-and the police-it was too late. Lunette was…" She trailed off again.

"Dead," Alya whispered.

Tom hesitated, then nodded. "But the story doesn't end there." He took a deep breath. "Akio was a computer scientist, and he had been working on building robots-but life size ones that look human, different than Markov. He took some of Lunette's DNA and her brain, then began to try and bring her back as a…"

"Robot," Alya whispered.

Sabine nodded. "And he succeeded, but it wasn't as easy as that. Somehow, he managed to pull her back from the other side-I don't think that he even knows how he did it. But something went wrong, and when he brought her back, she went...insane."

Alya hesitated. "What did she do?"

"She attacked, and Akio had to shut her down," Sabine said. "She's still...well, alive doesn't feel like a good word to use, but you get my point."

"That's messed up," Alya said. "I mean, I kinda get why he brought her back, but at the same time, shouldn't the dead just be left alone?"

"That's how Mei feels about it, too," Sabine said. "And the police-they've taken Akio into temporary custody because he messed with the dead."

"That's...complicated," Alya said.

"Agreed," Sabine said. "And since the robot attacked Akio, child protection services think that it might just be for the best to separate her from everything in Japan for a little while. Which means that Mei wants to leave Japan for some time with Lunette, but she's very busy with work-it's hard for her to take care of Lunette since whenever she looks at her, all she can think of is the phone call she had received that Lunette had died. So, she is debating on transferring her to school here for some time until everything is in the clear over there. So Lunette might be coming to live with us, but at the same time, it'll just be so...different."

"I bet," Alya said. "Would it be alright if I go and talk to Marinette quick?"

"Go ahead," Sabine said with a slight smile. "You know the way to her room."

"Thanks," Alya said, walking past them and going upstairs.

Marinette, as soon as she got to her room, threw her backpack to the side and sat in her chair by her computer. Tikki flew out of her purse and gave her a concerned look.

"Are you alright, Marinette?" Tikki asked.

Marinette sighed. "I'll be fine."

"Are you sure?" Tikki asked. "You seem really down."

Marinette gave her a small smile. "Don't worry-I won't get akumatized that easily."

Tikki laughed a little. "I know that you won't, but dealing with family situations like that can't be that fun."

"It's not, but I know that she'll be alright," Marinette said. "She was always the stronger one out of the two of us. There's nothing that she couldn't get through."

Suddenly, there was a knock on the trapdoor leading into her room.

"Marinette?" Alya asked. "I'm coming in."

Tikki quickly dove behind something on Marinette's desk as Alya opened the trapdoor and got into Marinette's room.

"Are you alright?" Alya asked, sitting on the lounge chair thing near Marinette(A/N: I think that it's called a chaise lounge? Not completely sure). "Your parents told me about the whole situation with your cousin."

Marinette sighed. "I'm fine. It's just...I don't know if Lunette is."

"I'm sure that she'll be fine," Alya said. "Do you think that she really is going to come here, though?"

"I kinda hope so, but at the same time, it's not actually her, you know what I mean?" Marinette asked. "It's been...five years, I think, since she lived in Paris. Sure, we've talked some over the phone, and we even went to visit her one time for Christmas, but she's seemed to have changed tons. I had no idea that she was getting bullied-she hid it so well."

"She probably didn't want you to worry about her," Alya said.

"I know, but back before she moved, we used to be best friends," Marinette said. "We did everything together, and then all of a sudden they moved all the way to Japan, and she changed. Sure, she still acted like the cousin I had known-she still smiled and joked around, although things had changed. She suddenly had this weird obsession with everything dragon related-in fact, it caused a fight between us when we went to Japan for Christmas."

"Really?" Alya asked.

"She had this cute ceramic dragon thing-I think that it was her prized possession or something-whatever it was to her, she loved it dearly," Marinette said. "Well, we were playing around, and I accidentally knocked it over and the head broke off."

Alya blinked in surprise. "Really?"

Marinette nodded. "Yeah. She started screaming and crying-I'd never seen her so upset about something. I didn't see the big fuss-I told her that we could just super glue the head back on-we ended up doing that-but from the way she was acting, you'd think that the world was ending. Later, I was told that it had been a gift from the boy that she liked-he had moved away a month after he had given it to her, but since she had loved dragons, when he had seen it at the store, he had bought it just for her."

"Aw, that's cute," Alya said.

"Yeah," Marinette said. "But it still confused me as to why she liked it that much."

Alya grinned. "I bet that you would act the same way if Adrien gave you a breakable designers' item and it accidentally got broken."

Marinette laughed. "Ok, maybe." Her face dropped again as she looked over to a small box under her desk.

Alya followed her gaze. "What'cha looking at?"

Marinette grabbed the box and opened it, revealing…

...a stuffed animal dragon.

Marinette carefully picked it out of the box. "This is the first thing that I designed, because I felt so bad for accidentally breaking her ceramic dragon, even if it was fixed about ten minutes later and dry about two hours after that."

"So you started to design...because you felt bad about breaking something?" Alya asked, her eyes wide.

"I thought that it would be easy, but I quickly realized that it wasn't easy, so I started this, but started to make other things trying to improve my designing skills, and from there, I started to try and figure out how designing worked by studying the work of other designers, and from there, I've gotten as far as I am."

"I had no idea that you started designing like that," Alya said.

Marinette smiled at her. "Yeah, makes me scratch my head most of the time I think about it, but it's what happened, and it became my hobby, and now I design all the time. Because I wanted to make something for my cousin. I was actually planning on sending this to her for Christmas this year or her birthday-in fact, I was planning on sending it very soon, but when everything happened with the driver, I didn't think that I'd ever end up taking it out of that box again. I guess that I'll send it to her if she doesn't come here, and I'll just give it to her if she does."

"Oh," Alya said.

"Yeah," Marinette said. "Well, how about we go see a movie or something? I don't know about you, but I need a distraction from everything for a little while."

"Ooh, I know the perfect movie," Alya said happily.

"Sweet," Marinette said, putting the dragon stuffed animal back into the box and closing it, putting her purse on her desk in a way that Tikki could sneak into it without Alya noticing-Alya didn't notice her putting her purse down, anyway. She was too busy looking something up on her phone.

Tikki quickly rushed into Marinette's purse, and Marinette picked up her purse just as Alya said, "The next showing is in an hour-plenty of time to get there."

"I'll go tell mom and dad that we're heading to watch a movie," Marinette said, and the two walked down the stairs.

I hope you liked this chapter! I'll update soon! Until then!

Lunetheart out.