Imposed Androgyny

By: Kibou32

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.

A/N: There is no incest in this story. It's an AU and it resembles Learning to live, but its not a continuation of that story.

Summary: Kouga can't seem to take his mind off of Inuyasha. He shares an apartment with him and sees him in everyday, but knows he cannot have him. Because Inuyasha was very much out of his grasp. He had the hots for him and Inuyasha didn't seem to see that. So he devises up a plan to make Inuyasha his and in doing so changes everything around Inuyasha making things worse.

Pairings: Inuyasha + Kagome, Inuyasha + Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha + Kagome + Sesshoumaru and of course a one-sided Kouga + Inuyasha.

Author's Note: Since this is an AU it is correct to say that the principal characters are going to be out of character. So no booing later. I'll try to bring out some of what we see in the anime of their personalities, but it's probable that they'll come out non-alike their anime characterizations.

Warnings: This contains thoughts of sex relations between men and women, and men and men. Which means there is a variety of subjects in this story that shouldn't be read by minors, ie.: children the age of 13 and under.

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Foreword

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Kouga couldn't help but salivate at the marvelous view that stood before him. His blue eyes were wide and leering whilst his mouth hung open and his tongue lolled about like he were a damn regular wolf hunting out for a prey. And the reason of it all –the pumping of his blood in his veins, the lust that swirled deeply in his irises: Inuyasha was bathing in his bathtub. Technically it was more Inuyasha's bathtub than his since Inuyasha did own the apartment via his uncle's doing. But nevertheless, the site of Inuyasha's pale skin lathered up in soap and water was enough to get him aroused. There was no denying it. Inuyasha was a hot piece of ass. However… he knew that to get Inuyasha to agree to let him bed him, Inuyasha would have to be seriously drugged or Inuyasha would have to be a submissive female inu-hanyou.

Now… that was something that was worth carrying out. Inuyasha drugged wouldn't be such a good favorable companion due to the fact that Kouga didn't like junkies. He had met quite a few in his life, but he had never felt turned on by one no matter how beautiful that person might've been before or at the moment. So now… how could he make his dream a reality?

And then he remembered that Naraku-sempai was working on a chemical cocktail for those humans that were transgender and wanted to change their sexes without the problems of surgery, but at best it was still a work in progress and Kouga should be wary of the side effects. But of course it should be noticed that whenever lust is present, rationality can not step in and clear the head from its blindness.

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One

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Inuyasha had once again fallen asleep over his desk. He had forgotten to eat at the right time and then had crashed head first into his desk-filled papers due to inanition and low sugar levels. And as he tried to gather up the strength he obviously didn't have to wake up and find something to eat, he found he felt someone trying to shake him awake. At first he thought it might've been Kagome but then remember that Kagome was somewhere off in her own classes and that she wasn't allowed into the laboratory in which he worked with his partner Taisho Sesshoumaru to find a cure for diabetes – how utterly ironic wasn't it that he suffered from the same thing that he wanted to find a cure of – and that only he and said partner were allowed inside of their own lab.

"Here.. eat." – and he grabbed the muffin? It didn't matter what was the puffy thing in his hand now that he was eating and still he couldn't get his eyes to open.

Soon the puffy thing was gone and his brain's need for sugar was sated but not completely. He still needed more and though his body might've been able to stand up on its own strength, he wasn't out of the woods yet. He was handed a glass of milk – this he could tell by the flavor 'cause he still couldn't find the strength to open up his eyes and another fluffy thing that had more nutritional value than the puffy thing of before. He realized quite suddenly that the one feeding him was his lab partner and that he looked slightly worried as he finally manage to squint his eyes open. Could that be true? He and Sesshoumaru weren't the best of friends and up until before, he hadn't told his lab partner why he wanted to find a cure for diabetes mellitus type one. So how had he known that he needed sugar that badly?

"Your girlfriend." – he said. Had he spoken out loud?

"Kagome?" – he asked feeling his throat closed up a bit due to unuse of the last 24 hours that he had been in the lab. He must have been really hypoglycemic if he couldn't remember if he had meant the question to be said or not. Tch. This is what always happened to him if he couldn't remember anything. He should know better, but the truth of the matter was that he was such a workaholic that he didn't care a damn about his own health up until he reached the point of no return, regardless if he was hacking his brain at his studies or at work.

He looked over at Sesshoumaru's golden eyes and found him frowning back at him.

"Yes… it appears that you were supposed to meet with her awhile ago and you didn't. So when she saw me walking up into the Genetics Department, she pleaded to me to give you this." - but Sesshoumaru was lying... he had to be because Kagome rarely if ever begged someone else for a favor. He must have argued with her and she had finally ended the fight with a shove and a push towards the lab saying she didn't have time for this and would he please feed her workaholic boyfriend.

Inuyasha then noticed the purple lunchbag that stood innocently in front of him at the top of the desk. He rummaged through it looking for his insulin shot and was glad that Kagome had been considerate enough to put one in. He grabbed the syringe and stucked it in his leg thru his pants without any ceremony. Instantly he began to feel much better. He was supposed to have his insulin shot before eating but this worked just as well since he didn't think he could've asked his lab partner for this. In fact, now that he could focus on his thoughts and his senses a little better, he thought he saw Sesshoumaru look away from him and that he resembled an awkward blend of green and red. Was he embarrassed? Or sick at having witnessed him sticking a syringe into his leg without waiting for niceties? It was probably the latter. He had learnt that the only reason Taisho Sesshoumaru didn't have an active doctorate degree on being a Human Doctor or a Demonic Doctor was that he didn't handle the sight of blood too well. Or needles as the saying went. Go figure why. He nodded towards him and then saw that he was still frowning down at him.

"What?"

"We've been working on this project for a year now and you never bothered to tell me that you have a grave case of diabetes?" – the tone was soft but Inuyasha could tell he was making an effort not to shout at him.

"It's not like we've been friends since day one, Taisho. But thanks anyway for the food, I needed that." – and to his own private thoughts he said: 'You won't help me with this again. There won't be another chance of it ever happening again.'

Yet, he didn't see Sesshoumaru's hurt expression when he closed his eyes to promise himself to be more careful the next time.

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Sesshoumaru had known Inuyasha for two years now. One year in graduate school – though graduate school was more like four years than the year when he met his partner. Inuyasha had come from another university and had finished classes with him. He had been the one on the top of the class –the only one until Inuyasha showed up. He found himself staring down at him in shock when he finally found out that this slip of a young man was much better at this than him. It upset him at first to have competition, but later he found himself in awe of his learning ability. Inuyasha – it seemed - took to learning new things as if he were a sponge and he grasped meanings quite much faster than he. So it was no wonder that they both had been offered a grant to investigate a cure for some disease –a disease of their own choice and he had been surprised to know that they thought in the same wavelength because prior to putting up a show of what their study was going to be about, they had had a discussion on diabetes and its effects on demons.

More often than not, Sesshoumaru had spoken with those that worked for his father's company that diabetes had started as a solely human disease and spread towards demons albeit thru sheer bad luck. He didn't tell Inuyasha that though. Too many he knew around campus, he was seemingly another student and despite the fact that he didn't live in a dorm, few knew where he lived and what did he do for cash. He did know what his co-grant worker did for money though. It seemed his partner had two jobs aside from working on the grant. He knew of two of the three jobs he worked in: the university's clinic and being a teacher's aide. He didn't understand how Inuyasha could juggle two jobs and still make time to spend it on the research.

Some days he felt like he really wanted to establish some sort of intelligent conversation that had more syllables than the usual "No", "Yes", "Failed". Short word sentences meant that they were speaking of the grant they worked together at, but he knew nothing of him. And since he had so very few friends in college and graduate school, he really wished that he could get more friendly with him. With Inuyasha. The boy with dark brown hair and deep golden eyes.

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The changes started at noon on the next day. Sesshoumaru thought – at first – that the boy had not had any breakfast yet and that was why he was moody and non-verbal at anyone. Not even to Hiten – the laboratory aide – who quirked a slender black eyebrow at him and shrugged as if to say 'Who cares?' knew why the young doctor was so messed up that mid-morning.

Sesshoumaru wore his hair long. Without hairpins or lassos to keep it away from his eyes since his hair was very well behaved. But he knew that Inuyasha's hair – without a fault in days or hours – would always be all over the place. That was why most of the time he wore it in a ponytail fashion that gave him the look of an old college professor. One that though it gave him that image, made plenty of females all over college grounds and the city around them sigh in wistfulness at the fact that he was clearly out of their league because despite him being so young and attractive, he had a girlfriend.

The very next day… Sesshoumaru saw Inuyasha entering the graduate's office – probably went there to talk to the advanced calculus teacher as he was a teacher's aide after all – and he noticed something really peculiar. His hair was no longer dark brown, but blond. And it ran down his back hiding his tight and taut bun muscles making him look rather androgynous to any who encountered him. Had he dyed his hair blond in some sort of anger against his girlfriend? Had they broken up or something? No answer came forth, but he still felt a tiny twinge in his heart at the androgynous form that disappeared from his sight. When he saw him back at the lab, he had to come back to look at him well to discover that his hair was very light blond and that though he had tied it in a ponytail, the hair still framed his face like a delicate leaf would decorate a beautiful flower. Hiten – the lab aide – even made the mistake of hitting on him and when he was encountered with savage looking golden irises, Sesshoumaru felt his heart beat much faster than normal. Something was clearly wrong with Inuyasha and he wanted to get to the bottom of it. He just didn't know how.

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Inuyasha woke up feeling like he couldn't breath and that was weird because he usually went to sleep with his head down onto the pillow. And now he felt like his windpipe was being crushed by two mounds on top of his sternum. His pectoral muscles didn't feel very taut, but more like firm and yet a bit too soft. Turning around to lay on his back, he found he could breath better, but it also brought up the sensation that something was really wrong with him.

He sat up. Wiped out the moisture in his eyes – he had had the nightmare as he always did when the twelveth of the month approached – and yawned widely. Shook his head to one side and then the other but still could not open his eyes completely. Which in itself was really weird because he was always able to go from asleep to awake in a matter of seconds.

When he put his feet on the wood tiles of his room, he didn't feel the chill as it always felt like when he got off the bed. He left his room and went in directly into the shower, his eyes still closed. Since he always slept in the nude, he didn't need to take anything off. Turned on the hot water and winced. The hot drops of water made his nipples too sensitive. Something that never did happen at all.

And then his eyes sprung open wide when he touched himself to discover that he had no penis! He let out an other worldly honest to God shriek and inmediately ran out of the shower to look at himself in the mirror and found to his utter dismay the worst possible nightmare to become to a man like him. He was no longer himself, but rather herself.

She had been denying the changes for awhile, how his-her hair had turned from dark brown to almost white-blond and how it had grown so much. And then he-she examined her breasts and found them to be two massive mounds of flesh. He-she wanted to scream so much that he-she had to bite her lip so hard to stop it, but the tears came out anyway. Touching them made him-her feel so utterly bizarre that she quickly sent a text-message towards her friend Miroku to step in for him in advanced calculus class and to be sure to tell his girlfriend Sango that no… he wasn't ok.

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Kouga was never that bright. He made plans. He studied his oponents, but he never.. ever… thought things thru. He had forgotten that the week that started with giving Inuyasha the little transgender cocktails would be the week that he had to go home to experience father and son working together in his mother's cooking company. Therefore, he spiked Inuyasha's orange juice – a whole gallon of it – and left hoping that when he returned, the change would be complete and irreversible. And even more untraceable.

One must always consider pros and cons. Especially when the life you are trying to manipulate is not your own. In Kouga's case, he didn't read the pamphlet that Naraku-sensei had written about the transgender cocktail and why it shouldn't be mixed with Vitamin C. What does Vitamin C have to do with anything, you might ask? Well in demon physiology unlike human's, vitamin C has everything to do with demon blood. Whilst Demons and the like could drink orange juice and the like, they could not process it very well enough making their organisms dispose of Vitamin C because it could very likely – depending on what type of demon you were – cause some unlikely results. Thus it was reasoned that dog demons and those that had that sort of blood running thru their circulatory vessels, couldn't and shouldn't drink anything that contained citric acid and Vitamin C. In some rare blood types inside those that were in the dog demon family, Vitamin C + High levels of Endrogens could cause a demon or a half demon – like in Inuyasha's case – to loose their stability as in they could very well turn female one minute and be male the next.

Thus was the case that when Inuyasha opened the door to receive Kagura in – she bent over at the waist feeling very dizzy and wanting to hurl – she changed back – painfully might I add – into being a male. If Kagura hadn't known Inuyasha since forever – having gone to three years of state college to then gone to medical school – she would've thought he was making a scene, but alas she knew him so well that she quickly closed the door and helped him to sit down on one of the living room's couches.

When he had calmed down… he looked at her and then went over quickly leaving out no details that he could think of. Kagura listened to him attentively and then went on to think about what could have caused him to change into a female half-ling and then merely two hours later turn back into himself. She then went on to tell him that he needed to get dressed and that she would take him to her medical office so she could examine him further.