CHAPTER 1

Adrien Dupain-Cheng sighed as he ran into school. It was the first day of school and he was almost late. Great. He hurried into the classroom and visibly relaxed when he saw his best friend Nino sitting near the front waving at him. He grinned and sat down.

"Adri-loser. Move". He sighed. Of course he couldn't get away from Chloé. Not even one year..

"This seat isn't yours, Chloé, and I like it here"

"I don't care what YOU like. Marinette is coming to school today and she'll be sitting there. I'm her best friend." she pointed to the seat in front of him,

"so you better move, because she doesn't need to be around filth like you!" She made a shooing motion with her hands. He hit his head of the table, Nino patting his shoulder comfortingly,

"Chloé! I don't care whoever this Marinette is, but just because your Dad is the Mayor doesn't mean you can boss everyone around!" Chloé's mouth opened in outrage, but then the class bell rang.

"Ms Bourgeoise, please sit down because class has begun" the teacher said dangerously. Chloé huffed and threw herself down in the closest chair, glaring daggers at Adrien.

The teacher was interrupted when the door opened. A midnight haired beauty standing in the doorway. Adrien watched as her blue-bell eyes widened with amazement and excitement as she scanned the classroom.

"Hello?" She seemed to remember the teacher was there, then she bowed,

"Please accept my sincere apologies Madame. My name is Marinette Agreste". The teachers eyes widened and she coughed.

"Oh yes, of course. Ms Agreste. Please take a seat next to Ms Césaire at the front". Adrien deflated a bit. Great. Chloé's friend. Another rich snob who thinks she's better than everyone else. Marinette gave Alya a grateful smile as she sat next to her. Chloé leaned over,

"Marikins! You made it, I'm so happy! You-"

"That's quite enough Ms Bourgeoise" snapped the teacher. Adrien leaned back in his chair as Nino nudged him and indicated the girl with pigtails being passed a note by Alya in front of them.

The bell went and Nino grabbed Adrien and dragged him outside.

"Dude, I am so not up for this. What the hell is the teacher even talking about? I mean-..." Adrien nodded and made sounds of agreement while his friend ranted, his mind was on other things, namely, Marinette.

As he trailed behind Nino into the classroom, he saw Marinette leaning over his chair, Chloé and Sabrina where giggling behind her.

"Hey! What are you doing!?" He walked over and saw Marinette sticking gum to his seat, Chloé and Sabrina burst out laughing.

"Oh I get it, good job, very funny you three" Marinette's eyes widened "No! I was just trying to take this off-"

"Really?", he glared at her and then kneeled, placing a handkerchief over the gum and stood up, glaring at her.

"You're friends with Chloé, right?"

"Why do people keep saying that..." she muttered to herself. Adrien rolled his eyes and sat down, more towards the middle of his and Nino's bench. He glared at Marinette and slumped. This was going to be a long year. Marinette's mouth opened and closed, before she just collapsed into her seat defeated. Alya whispered something to her and she replied, looking downcast. Adrien frowned,

"I know I've seen her somewhere before.." Nino handed him his phone with images open.

"Of course! Marinette Agreste, she's the daughter of my favourite fashion designer, Gabriel Agreste", he scrolled, seeing familiar posters of her modelling her father's designs

"Daddy's girl, teenage supermodel and Chloé's buddy? Ha, forget about it" Nino proclaimed. Adrien frowned while still scrolling.

Just the day to forget his umbrella, Adrien fumed silently. School was over, Nino had gone home already, it was raining and he had to walk home. He just had to forget his umbrella today! He always forgot things when they were important! So now he stood on the steps of the school, watching the water droplets fall from the sky. He really was having a bad day. Then Marinette walked up beside him,

"Hey-" she tried. He turned away, ignoring her. She sighed and opened her umbrella, taking a step forward before pausing

"I just wanted you to know, that I was only trying to take the chewing gum off your seat. I swear". Adrien suddenly felt.. was it guilt ? He had jumped to a conclusion, and she seemed so sincrere. "I've never gone to school before or made friends. This is all sort of new to me" That -yup, definitely guilt- twisted like a knife in his gut. He knew he was staring but he didn't know what else to do, what did he say? Marinette looked at him nervously and smiled. She held her umbrella out to him. His eyes widened, was she giving him her umbrella? He hesitantly reached out his hand. She smiled more at him and held it out further. He took the umbrella from her, their finger tips brushed against each other and he felt a shock travel up his arm. She smiled at him again. 'She has a really pretty smile..', he thought, and realized that he was still staring at her. A light blush grew on his face and he smiled back nervously. Then the umbrella closed on his head. Marinette gasped, and then started laughing, but it wasn't as if she was teasing him, it was a warm laugh, a sound that made his stomach flutter. He lifted up the material and looked at her face, and he joined in laughing. A car horn honked and she turned around. Adrien noticed her shoulders sag the tiniest bit. She turned back to him and gave him one last smile as she made her way down the steps.

"See you tomorrow" she said hesitantly, he nodded even though she probably couldn't see and he watched her retreating figure until she was in the silver limousine and drove away.

"See tomorrow- I mean, tomorrow see you- I mean.. Why am I stuttering?" He said to himself. In the distance an elderly man smiled.

"Excellent choice master" a tiny green turtle-like thing floating by his shoulder said, hidden by the umbrella. The man grinned,

"Those two were made for each other" he stated confidently.

When Adrien got home he greeted his parents, answered questions about school and went up to his room. He remembered helping an old man across the road this morning, hence why he was almost late. He smiled as he remembered the gratitude on his face. Then he found a strange black box in his bag that definitely hadn't been there before. Adrien frowned and opened it. A red and black spoofed ring lay inside, how weird. He didn't own any rings. Something made him pick it up and without thinking he slipped it onto his finger. A strange tiny red creature with a black spot on it's head and antennae appeared infront of him. He yelled and jumped back onto his bed. The thing looked up sat his with big eyes.

"Hi Adrien-"

"It can talk!" He yelled and frantically grabbed a glass from his table, dropping it over the creature.

"Adrien calm down" he started yelling again,

"Adrien! Stop, be quiet! You can't tell anyone about me, just listen!" He shut up and stared at the thing currently floating in a glass, it sighed.

"Let's start again. Hi, my name's Tikki and I'm a kwami. Please let me explain...".

Marinette collapsed on her bed. Her first day of school... Well, it had started with her helping a poor old man who had fallen down, and then she had walked through the doors, into school. Then that whole gum fiasco.. But that had ended well, she had even made a new friend. Her eyes widened.. She had made a friend! Her first actual, real, friend! Then the black box fell out of her bag. She stared at it for a moment, but then she opened the lid. A pair of earrings sat there. They were black and had green paw prints on them. She smiled and put them in her ears, maybe if her head wasn't full of thoughts about school she would have questioned where they came from. A strange, black, cat-like thing materialized. She gasped as it yawned.

"Cool!" She exclaimed.

"What are you?" She whispered as she poked it. The thing swatted at her hand indignantly and huffed.

"I'm Plagg! I'm a kwami and I give you cool powers" it said smugly. She squealed.

"This is so cool!" He looked at her face closely

"Aren't you... Scared? Or.. Freaked out? Or... Something ?!" She laughed.

"Of course not! What kind of powers are we talking about?" Plagg seemed taken aback by her answer,

"Uh, well, you say 'Claws out', and-" "Plagg, Claws out!" "Wai-!"

Adrien felt like an idiot. He was running around on a rooftop wearing a red and black spotted suit. He grabbed his yo-yo and threw it, clumsily wrapping it around a part of a building and swinging. After a few more times he was starting to get the hang of it, and even began to enjoy himself when he collided with a black streak mid-way through the air. He yelled, not knowing what he hit as they tumbled onto the roof of a building. He rubbed his head and turned to the black thing, to find a girl clad in leather eyeing him curiously. She had midnight hair tied into twin pig-tails and blue-bell eyes, scanning him playfully. There were black ears attached to her head and a tail on a belt around her waist, she was sitting in a crouched position and his first thought was that she reminded him of a cat. She grinned at him and walked over, crouching beside his crumpled figure, she placed one hand under his chin and tilted up his head, examining his face from all angles. When he swiped her clawed hand away, she grinned a Cheshire grin and jumped back, taking a long, dramatic bow,

"Chat Noir, at your service". What had that red thing -kwami - said? Something about a partner.. Presumably this was her.

"Hello Chat Noir, I'm... Lordbug. You, er, you wouldn't happen to know what a, uh, kwami is, would you?" How exactly did he ask this without sounding insane. She clicked her fingers.

"Ooh! That's what the black thing, Plagg, called itself! Have you got one?" She asked eagerly. Adrien sighed relieved.

"Yeah, mines called Tikki. I guess we're partners, then..." He really hoped he was saying the right thing. Chat Noir's grin grew wider and she took another dramatic bow,

"As you wish, my Lord".

A/N: What do you think? The idea just came to me, so it's a bit rushed. Basically, everything is reversed. What are your thoughts on their names? Please tell my what you think they should be, because I'm not too sure about Chat Noir and Lord Bug. Enjoy, -Crys