Happy Place
By: Song
Summary: Everyone has a happy place. Naruto's is a bit different.
WARNINGS: Touchy subject matter. Don't read any further if the idea of a sex change bothers you. There's also a bit of blunt terminology in here.
A/U: Some one explained to me the point of gender reassignment. And, admittedly while I still find the whole thing a bit vain I understand it far better than I did before. I understand it even more after having written this fic. Review and tell me if I captured this right.
And no, the fluxuations between identity are not mistakes.
Contrary to popular belief Oroke no Jutsu was not created as a prank.
It was created to fit in.
When Naruto was in his female form people actually smiled at him. Not the scowls he was used to. He had friends, real friends in his female form. He had a name. He belonged.
It felt so good being Yume that he soon found he was spending more and more time as a woman, and less as a genin. It was far more natural to have breasts bouncing and hips swaying when he walked than anything ever did in a male body. His friends never questioned him about his long absences, as they knew he was a ninja. They just assumed he was a kunoichi. The genjutsu was so perfect that even Inuzuka Hana's supirior sense of smell was fooled as she was often part of the group.
Some weekends when he was off duty she would have sleep overs with her girlfriends. They would paint their nails and gossip about who was seen kissing whom last week, the latest celebrity scandal and preferences in men. Often they would stay up watching movies with horribly sappy endings until the wee hours of the morning. Once they even went skinny-dipping... and he found she wasn't ashamed of herself, as she was with his male form.
He longed to be a woman. He desired ovaries, fallopian tubes and a uterus. Hell, even a menstrual cycle. He wanted to bear children and become a successful kunoichi. She wanted to be a dotting wife and be supported by a husband. She wanted to be happy. It was how things were supposed to be. It was far more natural to dream of being held in Sasuke's strong arms as a woman than as what his body was. That's why she named herself 'Yume'.
Was it a sin to want to be as beautiful outside as he knew she was within?
Was it her fault she was given the wrong tools?
Everyone has a happy place. Naruto is a bit different. His happy place is in a female body.
He just wished she were real.
Fin