Hello again! It's that time again: Sketchy and Kchuu upload another chapter!! This one is fun. Sketchy got to play Lance as well as Todd, and Kitty and Kurt are played by Kchuu. Warning: This chapter includes some hot kissing action! ;) You knew we'd get to it! Hope you guys like, and thanks for the review/story watches! 3
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Kurt's stomach turned to ice. Kitty and Lance?! It... it couldn't get any vorse!! Not only would his secret be out to the X-Men, th brotherhood--and the whole school-- would learn, now!
He looked around frantically, but the restaurant was too crowded to bamf away now. He looked in Todd's direction. "Hey, you don't eat here a lot, and.... Just play it cool, okay? I got this!" Kurt grabbed Todd's shoulders and started to shove him under the table.
"What the-" Todd stumbled to the floor, cracking his head on the table above as he tried to straighten himself out. "OW, Goddamn it!" Todd made himself go silent at the sound of the bell designed to ring when the door opened. He scooted to the back of the table, blushing furiosly as he realised Kurt's legs were taking up a good deal of the space. Glaring at the dark jeans he whispered up, "Move yer legs, Fuzzball!"
Lance walked in, Kitty right by his side. They had broken up a week ago (for the sixth time) and only recently got back together. Rule one of getting back with your ex: give her anything she wants for the first few hours. "So Kitty, what do you want tah eat?"
"Like, I dunno... I usually get like, a salad when I'm here with... Kurt!! Ohmigosh, what are you doing here?" Kitty, her arm linked with Lance's, pulled the delinquent teen over to where Kurt sat. "I like, thought you were in your room, sick or something!"
Lance gave a scowl. Oh joy, that Wagner kid was here. He and Wagner wern't the worst of enemys (that title belonged to Summers), but the blue mutant had flirted with Kitty when he first came to Bayville, and now he and Kitty were best friends. In other words, Kurt was compitition. "Yeah Wagner, if your sick you should stay in bed."
Kurt smiled nervously, shuffling his large feet in front of Todd's crouched body. "Oh, vell, I vas feeling really hungry, so I decided to... Pop out for a bite to eat!" Kitty smiled.
"Yeah, if this guy doesn't get at least five meals a day, he passes out! Oh Kurt, you.... hey! You're wearing that outfit I picked out for you! Ooooh! Are you, like, here with a girl?"
Kurt tensed. "Err..."
Suddenly, Wagner wasn't that big of an annoyance. "You finally get a date? Nice. Who with?" Lance took a quick look around, no one seemed to be with the disguised mutant, "She in the bathroom or somthing?"
Meanwhile, Todd was feeling claustrophobic. Damn it! Why'd they pick HERE to eat? He scooted closer to the wall, trying to make his breathing as quiet as possible.
"Oh, err... She went on ahead to the movie... uh... to save us seats. I was just finishing up here..." He glanced outside, nervously, then over at the counter. "Yikes! I heard that Duncan and the team were going to come in here after their game, you might wanna order fast." Kitty tugged on Lance's arm.
"Well, like, I don't really want to eat while getting bombarded with spitballs... Maybe we should go somewhere else." Kitty's nose wrinkled. "And like, it stinks in here, anyways."
Lance tried to figure out what Kitty meant, sniffing the air. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
"What're you talking about? It just smells like burgers, fries, and kinda like To--wait." Lance glanced around, trying to figure out where that familiar (though fainter than usual) smell was coming from. I'd recognize that stench anywhere, but he never comes here on his own.--\\ " Hey Wagner, was Toad in here earlier?" Todd squirmed against Kurt's leg, screaming profanities in his head.
Kurt tried to put on his best nonchalant face, and shrugged. "Like I care vhat that slimeball does! I thought I saw him walking out on my vay in, but I don't know... A-a-a-anyway! He started to shove all of his trash into one bag. "I-I'll let you guys get on vith your date... you might wanna order and stuff, before, you know, all those jocks get here and you have to wait!" Kitty sniffed again.
"Ooookayy, Kurt! It's good that you didn't fight him... I mean, earlier today, you were lookin' pretty bad! I thought that Toad kid messed you up... Well... whatever! I'll talk to you later, okay? You better go, like, find your date. Seeya!" She started to tug on Lance's arm, in the direction of the cashier, who's expression had taken a significant downturn since Lance walked in.
Todd had scrunched up when they started talking about him, trying to make himself even less noticable. But when Kurt answered Lance, he felt his heart drop. It had been so easy for him to ignore that moment they had just shared, to go back to that scornful tone and use that hated name. Slimeball...Even the guy you like seems tah think the name fits. Slowly moving around Kurt's legs, trying to avoid touching them at all, Todd poked his head out near where he had originally been sitting. He looked at Kurt, an apathetic expression on his face, and asked, "They far enough away yet that I can sneak outta here yo?"
"Vell, there's an exit close to our right... Yeah, I think they're distracted, let's go!" Kurt grabbed Todd's hand, and started heading for the door. don'tturnarounddon'tturnaround,Kitty!!! he thought furiously.
Todd let Kurt pull him out the door and away from the restaurant. But for some reason Kurt's hands didn't send sparks through him like they did before. Frowning, Todd halted them both. Forcing himself to stand still and looking Kurt in the eyes, he asked,
"Fuzzy, why you freakin' out about this so much? I mean, 's not like I want Lance an' Tro to know 'bout this, but it's not the end of the world if they do, right?"
Kurt swallowed, looking off to the side. "Vell... it's hard enough for me to fit in as it is... I'm a blue fuzzy mutant vith an odd accent who lives in a boarding house and is always messing vith his vatch.... If people figure out that I'm GAY on top of all that.... I mean, I've escaped Duncan and those football guys' attention to this point by keeping my head down and being friends vith Scott... but if I become the school fag.... Zey might try and fight me, and figure out my secret, so..." Kurt knew he was making excuses. "Look, I'm sorry about vhat I said. I didn't mean it! It's just... I didn't vant to make a scene... I'm sorry..." Kurt squeezed Todd's hand gently. Under the hologram, his ears drooped. His not-face's pre-programmed expression of embarrassed regret didn't touch the one on his face. He hoped his real feelings got through...
Todd stared at the fake face of his partner, his own expression still blank. "You think it's easy fo' me yo? I already have Duncan and his jock squad on my ass twentyfour-seven, I hafta live in a boarding house where two outta the four others there HATE me, I have a freakish green tongue that automaticly snaps out when I see a bug that I CAN'T HIDE, and on toppa all that I can't even decide on which gender I like more!" He ripped his hand away from Kurt's, his face becoming angry, "One of these days, Fuzzy, the normals are gonna figure out what we are, and when that happens I want tah be able to say I'm the same person I showed them all this time. What are you gonna do?!"
Kurt cringed. "You know I can't show them... Normal people vould freak out if they saw a fuzzy blue demon.... I know it's hard for you, too... And... I really admire that you can.... be yourself vith people, you know? I... I'm not so good at that...." His ears drooped even farther, invisibly.
Todd's expression softened, and he lifted up his hand to place it softly on the taller boys cheek. He could feel the soft, downy fur that lay just beneath the illusion. "You can be real with me yo. An' you can be real wit' your team." He gazed into the other boys eyes, trying to find the thoughts that were behind them. "Don't you want that? It gets real lonely if you can't show who you are to anyone, yo. I know that well enough."
The smooth hand on his cheek brought a grin to Kurt's face. For once, he wished he wasn't wearing the inducer, so he could be himself... Be himself with Todd. But that just wasn't realistic. "J-ja, I suppose it is pretty lonely.... But.... I still don't know if I'm ready... Do you mind... If we keep it a secret a vhile longer?" He smiled hopefully, relishing the feel of a tender hand on his cheek.
Todd paused. He hated how Kurt NEEDED all this secrecy, but if he really needed it like Todd thought he did..."'Kay Fuzzball, just promise me somethin'." He let his hand drop from the boys face, and tried to put on a serious expression. "If your around me, just me, then I don't want you tah hide anythin'. How yah feel, how you look, what you want, all of it. You gotta let me see who you are, 'cause that's what I care about-" He pointed to the clunky image inducer that Kurt was wearing, "Not yo' stupid disguise."
Kurt shrugged. "Okay! But..." He looked back towards the restaurant, and up the street towards the downtown area. "Ve von't be able to do much if I look like my real self...."
Todd smiled. "I don't need much, Fuzzy." He grabbed Kurt's hand and pulled the fuzzy mutant along behind him. "Right now I just wanna talk, an' I just thought of a place to do it." Well, that's not ALL I want I guess...But I don't think I'm at the point were I can ask tah make out with you--not yet, at least.
Kurt followed along, tripping slightly with each step as his balance was thrown off by the shorter boy dragging him. "I-If you tell me vhere ve are going, I could just teleport us--"
Todd stopped, "Oh yeah, forgot 'bout that yo." Turning to Kurt, Todd had a huge smile on his face. "Yah remember when you first 'ported behind the school? An' I seemed tah pop outta nowhere? Well there's this tree, and it's great 'cause you can see everythin' happening 'round yah, but other people can't see you! So I figure we can hang out on one of the branches."
Kurt smiled. "Ohh, back there! Okay, let's go!" He leaned in and hugged Todd tightly. A puff of smoke and a strong smell of brimstone later, and they were at the bottom of the tree. Kurt stripped off his image inducer, and rubbed the place where it had been. His tail curled out and whipped around a few times, like it was stretching.
Todd stumbled from the effects of the teleport, but gave his usual grin to the other boy. Silently cheering that the disguise had come off without him needing to ask. "So, you wanna go up first or should I?"
Kurt grinned, and cracked his knuckles. "It depends: Do you vant a view from up zere or down here vhen I show you how it's done?"
Todd's grin turned wild. "Haha, where'd the sudden confidence come from, dawg? Yah really think you can show me up in JUMPING? Tell yah what, I'll stay right here an' try not tah laugh when I show you up later."
Kurt rubbed his hands together, and whipped his tail. "Alrighhht, but don't cry vhen you're shamed by... Ze incredible Nightcrawler!!" He leaped up to the first branch, a pretty low one of about 10 feet. He grabbed it with his hands, flipping around it once, and leaped up to another, about 15 feet higher. This one he grabbed with his tail, propelling himself upwards to do two backflips and land, crouched, on a high branch, thick enough to support his weight easily. "Beat that!"
Todd tried to ignore the fact that he'd just had a VERY nice view of Kurt's behind during several moments of that display. "Whateveh you say yo!" Todd gave a ten foot jump, hitting the same branch Kurt had used earlier with his sneakers just long enough to backflip onto the tree's trunk. He thrusted off it at an angle, grabbing a branch with his hands and swinging himself up onto it. Settling into a crouch, he looked up to see Kurt a good twenty feet above him. Gathering up his legs, he made one huge leap straight up, clearing the twenty feet with another ten for good measure. He did a single back flip midair and landed on the branch, standing. "I even stuck the landing dawg." He said with a grin. "Maybe not as fancy, but it had a lot more jump than acrobatics in it."
"Yeah, vell... Vhat I lack in jump I make up in STYLE!" Kurt struck a dramatic pose, and then leaped up to a branch a little ways above. He looked like he'd fall off, but instead he swung down backwards, hanging by his tail, face-to-face with Todd... upside-down. "So, vhat did you vant to talk to me about?"
Todd laughed at the display, a pleasant sound that he could never remember doing before today. "Well, you certainly got style Fuzzbutt. I'll give yah that much." He put his back to the tree trunk and leaned heavily on it, his face becoming thoughtful. "I dunno yo, just seems like gettin' tah know one another should be a big part of a first da-..." He stopped, blushing furiously at the thought of the word. Well, isn't that what this is? I mean, that's gotta be what Fuzzys thinkin' too right? He glanced up nervously, a sheepish expression plastered onto his red face. "D-d-date?"
Kurt chuckled. Fuzzbutt, what a funny name! Still upside down, Kurt stroked his chin, a thoughtful look on his face. "Vell, that's vhat I thought it vas!" He seemed a lot more relaxed now that they were in private, and just messing around... All that formal date stuff felt a little forced. "I mean, it's a date if you want it to be one!" He smiled. "I'm cool vith just hanging out if you want to." There was a pause. "....Get it? Hanging out?!" He laughed at his own pun.
Todd laughed again, the extra redness in his face vanishing. "Yeah, yo, I get it. And I guess I want this to be a date. But..." He looked down, embarassed, "I guess you could figure it out pretty easy dawg, but this is my first date ever. I don't know what it's supposed to be like, though-" He looked back up, a calm smile on his face. "I'm havin' the time of my life right now."
Kurt nodded and swung gently back and forth, still upside down. "Me too!" He knew he was being silly, but with Todd, it felt okay to be his silly self. Impulsively, he slid forward on the branch with his tail, and gave Todd an upside-down kiss.
Todd was suprised by the sudden lip contact, but within a meer moment he was kissing back, his eyes closed and making small moans of pleasure.
Kurt grabbed on to the upper, thinner branch with his feet, leaning in deeper to the kiss. He had his hands on Todd's cheeks, his eyebrows furrowed and his eyes closed in the heat of the moment.
Todd leaned heavily into Kurt's hands, moans growing louder with the intensity of the kiss. His hands drifted to the back of the blue mutants head, pulling it closer to his own.
Shivers of pleasure rocked their ways through Kurt's body. Hearing how his actions were making Todd moan was... unlike anything he'd ever felt before. He felt Todd's fingers nestle in his hair, and he was drawn in further. He could feel the blood rushing to his head, but he didn't care. That is, until his tail started getting numb.
Todd's eyebrows furrowed, had he just felt Kurt's head give a small jerk downwards? Lightening up on the kiss (though not breaking it) and slightly opening one eye, Todd tried to figure out what just happened. Nothing seemed wrong Hell, things've never felt more RIGHT. He deepened the kiss again as his gaze drifted upwards. When he suddenly caught sight of Kurt's tail and how it seemed to be...Slipping?
Kurt felt his tail uncurl from the branch, and his numbed toes grasped futily to hang on. With a loud crash, he fell on his back on the limb below. His bruises, looking a lot better, but still hurting, stung as a wave of pain shot through his head. He squinched his eyes, and then opened one, looking up at Todd. He smiled sheepishly. "Sorry... Guess I got too distracted, huh?"
Blinking in shock, Todd stared at the face that had been, moments ago, kissing his own... now suddenly and unexpectedly on the ground, well, on the branch as it were. "Y-you okay yo? That looked....Painful." Todd sank into his normal crouch posture, eyeing the smiling blue face. "Neveh seen you take a fall like that yo."
Kurt laughed. "I've never been distracted... like that, 'yo'..." He flipped right-side up, his hands and feet gripping the branch. "Now vhere vere ve?" He let out a small laugh at how that sentence sounded. He began to crawl towards Todd slowly, then stopped. "I... If you're okay vith it, that is..." He gave a sheepish smile.
Todd didn't bother smirking or giving a clever comeback. He just grabbed the other boys face and pulled, making their lips touch again.
Kurt smiled as they kissed, letting out a noise a little like purring. This is what he had been waiting for all night... It felt so odd, that someone else wanted the same thing... All the tension of the night, all the sadness, the worry, seemed to melt away. Still focused on keeping balance, he scooched forwards, until he straddled the tree branch right in front of Todd, hands and tail grasping the limb for support.
Todd had never realized kissing could feel this good. Suddenly it made actual SENSE that people were always making out in the halls at school. He could feel a rumble coming from his partner, and he wondered if that was a good sign. -Almost like a cat purring, kinda relaxing. He opened his mouth slightly, touching his tongue to the other boyslips, asking for permission to get inside.
Kurt's mouth, already slightly open, opened wider, pressing in closer. He felt the frog-boy's tongue pass into his mouth, and didn't really think much of it. His head was swirling with all that was happening. He had practiced making out with a pillow (half the time pretending it was a girl, just to try and make himself normal), but that was nothing like this. A pillow was warm, and soft... But touching mouths with another thinking, breathing, reacting human being....
A green amphibian tongue explored Kurt's mouth, passing lightly over sharp fangs and pressing against his own tongue. Todd was having trouble focusing on anything other than the other boy's reactions. His eyes had been closed for a time, but now he opened them to find Kurt's own. Glowing yellow and amber met, and Todd felt like he wanted this moment to last forever.
Kurt felt his heart rise as their eyes met. He felt a connection, a real connection--and then he felt wet. Very, very wet. He broke the kiss, and looked up at the sky. Since it was dark out, he hadn't noticed the clouds gathering, and they were too high up in the tree to be sheltered much. He glanced back to see Todd's reaction to the sudden downpour.
Silently mourning the loss of contact, Todd glanced up at the offending weather. "Well crap, dawg." He looked back at the other boy, the rain coming down in torrents. He was sure he heard thunder somewhere further off. It didn't take long to notice that the other boys fur was getting soaked. He said with more than a hint of regret in his voice, "Guess this means the date's over huh?"
Kurt's eyes took in the very wet Todd. His hair was slicked to his head, and his clothes clung to his body. Kurt didn't want this date to end here... He sneezed. "Vell... I... I don't van't to actually get sick." He smiled "But ve'll see each other soon, right?" He allowed himself to put a hand on Todd's shoulder, tracing it down gently over the boy's soaked chest... down to his hips. "Ve...vill see each other, soon... von't we?"
Todd grinned, pressing his lips softly into the other boys for a moment, then pulling away, saying quietly, "I'm up for it whenever you are yo. Anytime, anyplace." He mimicked Kurt's movements on the older boy, hand settleing at his hip. "I...I had a really great time Kurt."
Kurt cocked his head to the left, wet hair parting to show a pointed ear. "You know vhat? Me too..." He moved to sit sideways on the branch, looking down at the muddy ground. He didn't want to track grime all over the mansion's expensive carpet... and Kitty would freak if she saw his date clothes ruined and muddy. "So.... I'm porting out of here. Any place you vant to be dropped off?"
Glancing down at the muddy ground below, and hearing another rumble of thunder in the distance, Todd decided that taking Kurt up on that offer would be in his best interest."If yah could port me to right outside the Boarding house, that'd be great, dawg."
"Sure thing, dude." Kurt slid his arms around Todd's waist, and in another moment, they were in a tree, right outside Todd's window. Kurt gasped for a moment, then spoke. "'right outside' enough for you?"
Todd's head was reeling from the teleport, but he managed to keep his balance. " Yeah, thanks. Jeeze that 'portin' feels weird." He opened the window to his room, which he thankfully never locked. Quickly sliding through the opening, he turned back to Kurt. "So, see you at school tomorrow?"
"Ja, seeya!" Kurt said brightly, and then was gone.