" WAaaahh!"

" It's a boy!"

" What will you name him?"

" Leon, Leon Orcot."

" I'm afraid we found something when we examined him."

" What is it? What's wrong with my baby?"

" He's what we call a ' bearer'…he neither really a boy, or a girl."

" What does it mean?"

" It means that two weeks of every year after puberty, he'll go through a ' heat period', where his body will change into that of a woman's, and his scent will change to attract every male in the vicinity."

" Every male?"

" Yes, he can bear full blooded children for every species. If he were in his heat period and he was mated, it is very likely that he will become pregnant and bear a child. If the father was a cat, his child will be a cat. As odd as that may sound. However, the children can still inherit things like hair color and eye color and such."

" I want to change his name."

" Very well, what will it be."

" Leon Leona Orcot."

~Time skip~

" Leon! Be careful!" Lina yelled at her little boy, who chased after a butterfly, long, golden-blonde wavy hair swirling freely in the wind, unconcerned with how close he was to the street.

Her little boy was a funny one, that he was. He played with the neighborhood animals more than the kids, though he swore that he was playing with a beautiful lady instead of the magnificent butterfly she saw herself.

She would never tell him he was wrong, how was she to know what he saw? It was very obvious that her Leon was different from other children, so she could never tell what was real or not anymore.

Looking at her boy, she smiled. He was wearing a light blue sundress with small dark-blue polka dots on it, he wore dark blue shorts underneath, and there was a bow in his hair. She let him choose what he wanted to wear every day, bringing out a boys outfit and a girls for him to choose from.

Some days he chose the jeans and shirt, others, a dress or skirt.

She saw no problem with this, he was both, after all. However, not everyone knew about his ' condition', not that they had a problem with him wearing dresses until they realized that he was a boy. He was young, many young boys are mistaken for girls, especially when they're wearing girl's clothing.

However, once they realized that Leon was a boy, they'd shake their heads and look at him in disgust.

She had to explain the situation to his school, that was unavoidable, they were astonished, and very bewildered, but gave in to letting him wear what he liked once they saw all his medical records and spoke with his doctor.

She wished he would make some non-animal friends, but he seemed to have no interest in them, and the other children seemed to think the same thing about him.

They thought he was a girl, he was told to use the girl's restroom and such when they found out he wanted to wear his dresses, so the kids all thought he was just a strange girl who sometimes wore boy's clothing.

" Oof!" she heard her boy grunt as he fell down, getting a grass stain on his dress.

" Be careful!" she repeated as he just dusted himself off a bit and ran off after the butterfly once again.

She shook her head, he may be half girl, but he was still very messy…though there were times where he would just get up and clean, and clean, and clean until every bit of mess was off the floor. Of course, that didn't happen until his room was so horrible that you couldn't even see the floor.

She smiled and admired her child, she wouldn't change a thing about him. Not one-single-thing.

~Time Skip~

Little Leon sat at his table drawing a picture for his mother, it was of himself, her, and his father, they were smiling and holding hands. The other kids played games in the room, running around, but he ignored them, and they did the same to him, it was a mutual thing.

" Leona," he heard his teacher call his female name, he looked up at her.

" Why don't you go a play with the other kids?" she asked, kneeling down to his level.

He simply shook his head, his black bow shaking along with his hair.

She frowned.

" Why not?" She asked gently.

Leon looked down, dropping his crayon and looking at her again.

" They think I'm weird, they don't want to play with me."

The teacher frowned, she knew about Leon's situation, she had hopeed that someone would approach the boy, but…no one had, so, perhaps…Leon would have to go up to them himself.

" Come on Leona, go give it a try." she encouraged, he really was a sweetie and she really did want to see him play with the other kids.

Leon gave her a look, then looked at the other kids, as weird as they thought he was, they were strange to him as well…and it was hard for him to just go up to someone and start a conversation.

Leon was the type who could be pretty shy at first, then, once you got him started, it was all smooth sailing from there.

Then he looked up at the teacher again, a worried look on his face.

" Just go on." she urged.

Leon looked at the other kids, an odd scowl-like expression on his face, who should he go up to?

The boys?

Looking at them, he instantly shook his head no. They were mean to him even when he did leave them alone sometimes. They pulled his hair a lot and, one time, they even dipped it in their paint!

His mommy had been very angry…

The girls it was then! Mommy said that the other kids thought he was a girl anyway, so why not?

He tried to walk as confidently as he could up to the girls, when he was really just walking very stiffly, shaking a bit every now and then.

When he got up to them, they did not notice him. Their backs were to him, and he just stood there, that odd scowl-like look on his face, small body shaking as he tried to muster up the will to talk to the girls.

When the girls saw him, they looked at the young girl ( As they thought him to be) awkwardly as he looked at them with that odd expression on his face.

They were scared, well, except for one.

A small, curly, brown-haired girl walked up to him and smiled.

" Hi, I'm Jill, do you want to play?" she offered, lifting up a clay teacup.

" We're playing house, right now the family's having a tea-party." she said.

Leon's expression got worse as a red-hot blush came across his face.

He then nodded stiffly.

Jill smiled and they played by themselves at first. Then, as Leon got more comfortable and the scowl left his face, the other girls went to join them.

The days past, were usually spent playing games like house and such, which Leon didn't mind, his feminine side loved it. However, as he was also a boy, he would also want to play ball, which he actually got the girls to play at times.

He was having so much fun, he never wanted it to end.

To bad it did.

It was on one of those days that he dresses like a boy and had gotten the girls to play ball with him.

They were having fun, passing the ball to each other and running.

Then Mitch came down the playground and up to them, right up to Leon, who stood unaware of the boy in back of him.

Until he felt his pants being pulled to the ground.

Shock filled his expression, he didn't know what to do.

It was dead quiet, until one boy pointed a finger at him and shouted:

" Hey! She's a boy!"

A blush bloomed across his face as the odd-scowl expression came back on his face.

What should he do.

Everyone was looking at him weirdly as he calmly pulled up his pants, zipping them up and adjusting them, that expression on his face the whole time.

Then he turned to Mitch, who, after getting over the shock, was laughing like an idiot on the floor.

The scowl deepened, and so did the blush, now it wasn't just an awkward face, it was an angry one, and he raised his fist, desperate to get back at the boy who just humiliated him.

" Leona!" the teacher yelled, she had seen the whole thing, but she wasn't about to let Leon hit another boy, that would mean that she'd have to punish him as well.

Leon stopped and looked at her, his expression softening as he saw her, tears of humiliation starting to rise into his eyes, which he refused to let spill.

" Miss Viss! He lied! He's not a girl!" Mitch yelled.

Miss Viss glared at the boy.

" You have no right to pull down another student's pants! Your parent will be told about this as soon as I see them!" she scolded the boy.

Looking at Leon again, she grabbed the young boy's…girl's…boy's hand, and walked back into the classroom.

Jill watched her friend go, a worried look on her face before she turned to glare at Mitch, who simply 'humph' ed in response.

Miss Viss had told Leon that, even though people may hurt him first, it's not right to follow their example, you'd just be lowering yourself to their level.

He'd grudging accepted this, as his mother had told him the same before, but he still had quite the temper…and it really was hard for him to control at times.

He stopped wearing his dresses to school...and started to use the boys bathroom…but he didn't like it, the other boys would always give him strange looks and call him names.

Then came a day when Leon and Jill were sitting at the table, talking, the other girls didn't really want to play with him too much anymore, but, that was okay, Jill still played with him.

Mitch walked up to them again, and Leon did his best to ignore his taunts of " pansy-boy" and " gay"…what the heck was gay anyway? What was a pansy-boy? Leon doubted that Mitch really knew himself, he was always talking about how his father would always say those things.

Jill began to yell at Mitch, hands on her hips and finger waving in his face as she told him to leave them alone.

Then he pushed her.

Mitch pushed Jill so hard that she fell backwards into the table and hit her head.

Leon looked at her in horror, saw the tears as they started to stream down her face as she was unable to hold it in.

" JERK!" he yelled, voice louder than it had ever been before, fist coming down on the unsuspecting boy, a loud yelp of pain being heard.

Now Mitch was on the floor, his eyes going wide as he began to cry loudly, but Leon didn't care, he deserved it.

" Are you okay Jill?" he asked her, bringing a head up to rub her head the way his mother would when he hit his head like that.

Jill nodded, a couple more tears falling from her eyes.

" What is going on here?!" Miss Viss asked as she walked into the room.

Honestly, she leaves to go the bathroom one time and-

" Oh Jill, what's the matter?" she asked as she saw the girl crying, then saw Mitch on the floor, bawling his little eyes out as well.

She shook her head, the boy started it no doubt. He was quite the troublemaker, not that she blamed him, she blamed his father, he was a horrible influence on the boy.

" Miss Viss, Miss Viss! Mitch pushed Jill down!" yelled one little girl.

" Leona hit Mitch!" yelled a boy.

She was getting all kinds of stories, she had no idea which were true.

But she did know one thing, Leon was in big trouble.

The school had already been embarrassed when the kids found out about Leon being a boy and told their parents, but…now this? It was a hard time for anyone who dressed like the opposite sex, even if it was just a little boy, people were so paranoid these days about " gays". People even sent their kids to reform camp if they thought their child was gay!

This would be an excuse for them to kick him out of their school, the world wasn't kind to people who cross dressed at the moment…even if it was just a little boy.

Looking at the boy who stood soothing his fallen friend, she felt sad. It was too bad, she did so enjoy having him in her class…he was such a good boy.

And he was kicked out of their school, parents, unaware of his condition, had petitioned to have him casted out of their school, saying that he might infect the others. Even if they had had known, it was unlikely that they would have cared.

People were very against that kind of thing at that time…humans could be so cruel.

~Time Skip~

Leon was now twelve, his hair just reaching his shoulders. His father made him get his very first hair cut last week…sadly…he had sat petrified the entire time as they cut his hair…even screamed as they made the first snip.

He put up such a fight…he kinda felt bad for the hair-cutters, they had no idea what to do with the screaming flailing boy.

…It had been new to him…don't judge! It was his first time!

Anyway, he walked into his eighth grade class, loose, sleeve-less red shirt pooling around his wrists, which were dug deep inside of his short pockets.

He almost constantly wore the awkward scowl now, he was back to not really talking to anyone, well, other than Harry…

You know, he'd been having nightmares of the guy becoming a bank robber and killing himself…he begged the guy to come to him if he ever had any money problems.

He seriously hoped the guy would listen to him…

" Hey Leon!"

Speak of the devil.

" Hey Harry!" he answered, scowl melting into a smile at the sight of his friend.

" Leon, guess what." Leon rolled his eyes.

" What?" he answered.

" Chicken butt!" the other boy snickered.

" Butt seriously," Leon rolled his eyes again at the horrible pun, " guess what."

" Umm, you got an "A" on your History report." Leon guessed.

" NO! Well…I did, but that's not it. There's a new girl, she's really cute!"

Leon shook his head and smiled, putting a pencil in his mouth and chewing it. A bored expression on his face. Harry always talked about how cute girls were…not that Leon really cared much, his interests lay elseware…not that Harry knew that.

" Hey! There she is now!" Harry exclaimed excitedly.

Looking up, Leon scrunched up his face, this girl looked familiar.

Brown, curly-hair, expressive dark-blue eyes, pale skin…did he know her?

She looked around the class, then her eyes pinned themselves on Leon.

Her eyes went wide, then so did his, his mouth opening in shock as the pencil he was chewing on fell to desk and rolled to the floor.

" Leon?!"

" Jill?!"

And that was how two best friends met each other once again.

~Time Skip~

Years had passed, Jill had found out about his condition when he had his first change…while sleeping over at her house…and his scent had changed to tell everyone that he was a bearer.

He learned that he would have to smoke to hide it…which he hated, it was a dirty habit and it always made him feel sick to his stomach.

Jill had suggested that he change, just a little, he already had a horrible temper, so he already yelled a lot, especially when he was embarrassed, she was just asking that he wear that sour exterior practically all the time, even around people that he liked. She also suggested that he act like a major pervert, only interested in women and such.

Then there were other little things, like curse more and act like an insensitive jerk…okay, so that one killed him a bit…sometimes he would crack a bit and not act so horribly insensitive. Usually finding someway to make up for something he said or did secretly, or just giving a present in apology.

All of that lead to this…this tragedy…

Leon looked sadly at his mother, she was dead on the hospital bed as he sat there, holding his younger brother in his arms.

Jill was there, rubbing his back soothingly as he had done when her mother had died.

His mother had went into labor while he was out with Jill…and he didn't have a car so she drove him.

They knew that she was very likely to die during childbirth, but they had hoped…

Leon looked at his infant brother, he felt horrible, his little bro would never know their mother the way he had.

He would never blame his brother for her death, it wasn't his fault. His mother was sickly, and, when she got pregnant, she said that, if she was going to die…it might as well be this way.

Not to mention the fact that, as a bearer, it was in his nature to care for any child. It was very hard for him to ever hate a child for any reason.

Looking over his shoulder, he saw his father, the man had his head in his hands, looking absolutely miserable.

His father had begged her to terminate the pregnancy, she would have a bigger chance at living that way.

Leon knew the man blamed himself, not the baby. He wished he could do something for his father…but…every time he tried, the man would simply shrug him off.

He was worried…he had a horrible feeling that his father wouldn't be making it passed this year.

And he didn't.

Three months later, his father died of illness, caused by his lack of nourishment and general care of himself.

Leon tried to help him, but the man had been determined to die, though he did make sure to tell Leon how much he loved his family, his wife, and his two sons.

Leon also did his best taking care of Chris…but he was only making enough money for one person, and a baby was hard to take care of. Jill convinced him to give Chris to his aunt and uncle once she noticed that he was neglecting to feed himself in order to keep Chris well taken care of.

Chris had been perfectly healthy, it was Leon's health that had been deteriorating.

Leon didn't have a choice, he had to Chris up.

At least this way the boy would know what it was like to have a real family.

Another six years past, now he's a twenty-four year-old cop in LA, just picking up a drinking habit to hide how much his scent was growing, working on a mysterious case about this Petshop owner, Count D.

Problem is, the guy has a petshop filled with powerful males and potential mates, and…

…and I'm dieing just setting foot into that shop.

~ End Chapter~

I will be continuing this story for Lovely Blaze.

What do you think?

I added young Leon wearing a dress because I though it would make sense for a child who was both male and female to be attracted to both masculine and feminine things.

…and also because I once wrote a fic where Leon was a hermaphrodite in retaliation to all the D-hermaphrodite fics I saw…not that you'll see it…it was deleted when my computer broke down…bummer…maybe I'll re-write it one day.

But not before I do the sex-slave story…someone requested it and I said I would do it sooooooo….that's next on my agenda.

Goodbye!