To say that Kurt Wagner's love life was prefect would be a lie. However he has never been as happy with anyone as he is with his current lover, a certain Sandy haired green eyed boy who has a bad streak. Their relationship got off to a rocky start, not only due to the others but also due to he, himself.

"Yo, Fuzzy." Todd better known as Toad began one day out of the blue. "Did you know that Pietro is trying to find Daniels?"

Kurt who had his image inducer clipped around his wrist as always turned to eye the boy, and silently began to make observations that had him trying not to blush. Todd was wearing a pair of jeans and a tee shirt that said "how can I miss you if don't go away?" in dark red. His hair was falling into his eyes and he looked to be distracted as well. The two groups though trying to get along again still weren't on the best of terms so the fact that he was willing to talk to the blue boy was rather surprising.

"No, I didn't know that." Kurt said with his accent making it sound slightly off and shook his head to indicate that as much as to get the thoughts out of his head that had started. "I will talk to you later Todd." He said and disappeared in a cloud of blue smoke.

He sat on the edge of his bed at the institute thanking god that it had been the end of the day when the boy had come up to him. He let himself drop back on his bed with a sigh and thought about the two other boys who had been brought up in the conversation. Evan or Daniels as Todd had called him and Pietro had grown up as rivals in New York before both moving here. Evan had then left them due to his mutation growing harder to suppress. Why would Pietro be looking for him?

"Kurt!" He flinched the only voice that could scream his name like that was Kitty…he sat up just as said girl phased through his door and smirked at him.

"Rouge is home." She said and offered her hand to him only to end up in a coughing fit as he disappeared with the same blue smoke he always did. She phased herself through the door again and ran down the hall and the stairs to see the siblings talking.

Rouge had her hair grown out some and she had changed the way she was dressing. Her shirt was a long sleeve tee and she had on a pair of black jeans. Nothing stayed the same forever Kitty thought but smiled. She and Lance had broken up numerous times and finally she was getting on with her life and in a relationship with one of the others in the institute though it was a secret so far.

"It is good to have you back." Kurt said as he smiled at his sister. Rouge ruffled his hair with a single gloved hand and smiled back at him. They may not have been blood related but they had a sibling relationship despite who their mother was…not a topic either of them ever really talked about.

"I'm glad to be back, where is everyone?" Her voice still had that deep south accent that it had.

"Jean and Scott are studying for a test they have to take over the internet latter." Kitty said shortly as the other kids began to converge on the two siblings. Amara was the first to flat out pull the stunned girl into a hug. After about a half hour they all went separate ways and Kurt led her up to the room that had been saved for her. It was then that he noticed something was different.

"What's that?" He said indicating something on her ring finger. A little golden band that she had not had before.

"My engagement ring." She said with a smile "Of a sorts any way it's really a promise ring."

He smiled at her but deep inside he was realizing that they were all growing up and he would someday have to give his sister away to someone else to protect as if she really needed it ..he laughed at that thought Rouge wasn't one to need protecting and with her power how she could ever really have a normal relationship was something he knew she worried about but apparently someone out there wasn't concerned about it.

"Anything new with you?" she asked sitting down on the bed after she had put away her clothes.

He shook his head. He couldn't very well tell her about the thoughts he had been having of Todd lately. He knew that no one here would understand or be very happy about it if he gave in and kissed the boy. He closed his eyes and sighed.

"You know I could just sap ya?" She said jokingly and he smiled at her a little.

"I think I'm crushing on someone." He said softly hoping that she wouldn't hear.

"So who is so lucky?" She said indicating that she had in fact heard him.

"I'm not ready to talk about it." He said and was gone in a blink.

Todd sat in the brotherhoods house with no one to keep him company, Pietro was out looking for Daniels, Lance was off with one his girls and Fred was outside. He looked around and thought about how he used to think he loved Wanda (who had consequently ended up moving out and of all things Dating Warren). He had been perfectly happy to put his feelings on the girl with short black hair that was tipped with red. He hadn't even minded that she was Pietro's sister.

He laughed a little at that one. He had never pushed his feelings onto the other girl who had lived with them for a bit…Boom Boom otherwise known as Tabitha who had ended up going to back the X-men in the end.

He would be lying if he said he hadn't noticed how he had started to get very nervous around the Blue Fuzz ball of the X-men. For some reason he couldn't get Kurt out of his mind. A fact that he had yet to share with anyone and probably wouldn't. The blue boy had made it clear this afternoon when he had disappeared so suddenly. He sighed thinking about the boy made him feel many different things though right now he just felt hopeless.

He got up out of the chair and hopped up to his room where he collapsed on his bed. He closed his eyes and found himself thinking about what the blue boys' fur would feel like he had never really touched it. They may have fought in the past but Fuzzy as he called the boy would always block his hands. The boy had these beautiful eyes that looked almost like he was blind they didn't really have any color to them. The inducer made his eyes this dark blue color that was almost a match for the color of his fur.

Todd finally fell into a fitful sleep as he dreamed of different things. One of those things was something bad happening the boy with blue fur that had no clue how close he was to driving the amphibious boy crazy.

"Todd!" He woke with a start to the sound of his name being called he knew he should be able to place the voice but he was still to out of it to be able to and he carefully made his way to the entry way. When he got there he was greeted with the sight of Lance and Pietro. They looked like something had hit them holes in their clothes and messed up hair.

"What the hell happened yo?" He said crouching at the bottom of the stairs.

"Spike." Lance said at the same time Pietro said "Daniels."

He quirked an eyebrow at the two and laughed slightly to himself. So spikey had gotten the better of his team mates. "And you came back here to me why yo?" He asked confused

"Thought that you could help us get him back here." Pietro said

"Yeah right" Todd said but went along with them anyway to the last place they had seen him which of course had to be in the sewers.

An hour later they were standing in front of the Morlocks and a very pissed off Evan Daniels who was surprisingly not showing his spikey nature. He threw a few spikes in between them and Todd watched as Pietro's eyes were cast down.

Without another thought really going through his mind Todd hopped up to where the spikes stopped and looked directly at Evan Daniels with green eyes that had the same look in them that he had seen in Pietro's blue ones. "Won't you come back up now yo? You don't need to worry about how you look any more apparently and most all the X- men want you back too."

"Toad, this has nothing to do with you or them. I want to stay and protect those I care about." Evan said evenly while avoiding looking directly at Pietro.

"But not everyone you care about is here, yo."

"Leave it be Toad." He said getting angry

"My name is Todd Yo! And I will not leave it be, it isn't fair to you or Him." Here he shot a look back at the blond who looked up with slightly widened eyes thinking he had hidden it well enough that the others wouldn't get it. Lance looked shocked for a moment then settled and realized that who cared if his friend was into a guy? "You know that to Yo or you wouldn't be fighting it so hard and you are, I can see it in your eyes yo!" then turned on his Teammate and roommate "and you have no room to talk Pietro you let it go until all the danger above with your father was out of the way yo! It's no wonder he thought you didn't care and that you just want him back up there to pick on yo!"

Todd gave both boys a final look of annoyance before he hopped off down the sewer the way they had come.