Katsuki glared down at the small labeled box in his hand, resisting the urge to blow it to smithereens. Sighing angrily, he shoved it into his pocket and walked up to the checkout. He hated it, he hated being what he was, forced to consume pills every month and curl up into a pained ball every season, always receiving looks from other alphas who can't keep it in their pants. He slammed the box down on the table in front of the startled employee and bit down a growl as he glared out the store window, the sinking sun painting the sky shades or orange, purple and red. She quickly sent him on his way with a squeak, her tail tucked between her thighs.
If you haven't gotten it yet, Katsuki Bakugou was an omega, and this hellhole didn't treat omegas equally.
The blondes ears tucked close to his head as he walked back to his mother's car, who was saying goodbye to some extra on the phone. He sat, pulling his seatbelt over himself and locking it, turning his his mother.
"Yes, y- of course, goodbye, bye-" she turned to him "ready to go? I've got to pick up your sister apparently, that brat had to stay at school after hours and didn't tell me."
"Yes, and dont call her a brat, even if she is." He growled under his breath. Oh yeah, she was a brat alright.
"Sooo, how's my little cougar doing huh? You never tell me anything anymore, any mate yet? I swear I smell one-"
"No you cant, you're imagining things hag, drop it." He turned towards the window
"Fine kid, but you can't keep your mother in the dark forever Yknow? God, you're such a grump all the time."
Katsuki hissed angrily, tail trying to lash from side to side, despite being squished beneath his leg.
His mother had always been latched to the idea of Kat finding a mate, he was 17 now, nearly an adult, and she knew damn well his hormones were screaming their lungs out for katsuki to get a move on and go to town, if you know what I mean. He's a teenager for fucks sake, but this world was cruel, second genders treated unfairly among each other, racism breaking species apart and prey and predators never seem to work well together. In this world, no one was born equal, your species, whether you were born a little bunny or a fierce wolf, decided how you'd fall into society, and once you turned about 8, you would begin to present a second gender. Genders including betas, taking up 60% of the population, alphas, taking up 15%, and omegas taking up the remaining 25%.
About 80% of the population were prey based animals, like birds, deer and bunny's etc, while predators were rarer, and could take many forms. Katsuki was lucky, he was a cougar, a predator, unfortunately though, he did present as an omega, though he was still respectable in society. But scents lead him vulnerable, too exposing that hiding his second gender would be impossible.
This week, he isn't going into heat, but he does menstruate like woman, though it's complicated. The aspect of waking up in a pool of blood didn't please him. Luckily he didn't have to buy anything for that this time, they already had enough at home. He's been tired of getting sympathetic looks from cashiers when he wound up with a box of suppressants or pain killers.
"We're here, go get her will ya? She said she'd be at the front gate."
He sighed 'you've got legs too damnit.' "Whatever."
Opening the car door, his tail swung itself free, balancing from side to side as he walked with a swing in his hips. he neared the large field in which they had recess and stood up a little taller. He stopped and looked around for her, getting unsure looks from the other kids near him. He spotted her in the distance with her friends. She appeared to be playing a game of tail chase with her friends, her own tail ducking out of reach of them while she dove for theirs. He smiled slightly, but remembered that she'd forgotten about being picked up and began approaching her with a little irritation in his walk.
"Oi! Natsumi! Get over here you brat!" He called
She glanced up and immediately forgot about her game, running right at him and swinging her arm down to grab her bag on the way. "Suki! I'm so sorry I forgot I was playing wit-" "yeah yeah, I know you little shit, now come on, hags waiting."
"Didn't she say not to call you that?"
"Shut it, pest." He said with a smile, ruffling her blond streaks.
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