Kaito x Len One-Shots

Coming Out

This is not necessarily Kaito x Len. It is Kaito and transguy!Len as best friends. Len's about to come out as transgender to Kaito. In this, I'm making Len's birth name Rin. And right now, Len is a few days past fourteen.

Hi, I'm Len. I should probably say this right away to clear up any confusion. Even though my name is Len, the name I was given at birth was Rin. Yes, I'm FTM. I'm in the closet to everyone, even my friends (who are accepting of everyone). I just don't want people worrying about me or my mental health or anything. I plan on coming out to my best friend, Kaito, very soon.

I walked down the street to my friend's house. I screwed with my tight sports bra briefly in an attempt to stop the itch it was causing. My shoulder-length hair was tied in a ponytail today and I was wearing no makeup.

This was the day I'd finally come out as transgender to my best friend, Kaito Shion.

I was really not out to a single person. But they say coming out is part of accepting yourself. I want to be able to do that at last.

I reached the familiar house and knocked on the door. My heart rate gradually increased to a racing, pounding rhythm. This day could've became either one of the best or worst in my life.

"Hey, Rin!" Kaito greeted me. I cringed internally at the use of the name I had come to hate.

"Kaito! Great to see you again," I said. I was speaking in a lower voice than usual, dropping a very subtle hint of the news to come.

"Come on in! Let's play some video games, watch anime, watch a movie, something," Kaito welcomed me in.

For a while I couldn't bring myself to bring up the very topic I had came here for. I nearly forgot, to be honest. We had been playing video games for hours and having much fun doing so.

"Just wondering, Kaito," I started. "What's your opinion on transgender?"

"What do you mean?"

"Like, do you think it's okay?"

"Of course," Kaito answered. "People are people, no matter who they may really be."

A perfect answer. Maybe coming out wouldn't prove to be a bad idea after all. If it doesn't bother him, maybe he'll be fine with me, who I am.

"Why do you ask, Rin?" Kaito used the name for about the second time today.

"I wanted to tell you something, Kaito," I paused briefly to think of how to word the news I was about to deliver. "Kaito, I asked you that because then I might've known how you'd react to what I'm about to say. Kaito, I'm not really Rin."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I kinda am, in the sense that that's the name I was born with. I'll take a guess right now and say you probably know where this is going," I chuckled a bit. "Kaito, even though you may see me as Rin, your friend who's just a tomboyish girl, on the inside I'm Len, for the most part an average boy. Kaito, I'm transgender, FTM."

"When did you realize this?"

The one question I was hoping to not be asked.

"Well, I never fit in with the girls when I was younger, I knew something was up even then. When I turned ten my parents had showed me the Sweet Sixteen dress they planned on buying me. I didn't know why at the time, but I hated the idea of wearing a dress on my sixteenth birthday. Or at all," I said quickly, trying to get this over with. "I always wanted to wear boy clothes, even on that special birthday. After thinking about everything for a very long time, I realized I was transgender on my fourteenth birthday."

The moment I finished my speech, Kaito just -hugged- me. Did my story really affect him that much?

"Len, I'll never think differently of you. You always were you. I can't change that, you can't change that. And please forgive me if I slip up from time to time."

Of course I'd forgive him if he slipped up. He's known me as (she her Rin) for pretty much his whole life. He'd have to adjust to (he him Len). He's only human.

"Len," Kaito tried the name out again. "Has a ring to it."

I guess it does.

-Note- Yup this is pretty similar to me, my coming out story, just a lot less texting and a lot more dialogue. My coming out to my friend was pretty much "How ya doin oh by the way I'm trans it's (he him Christopher) and sure it's okay if you call me my birth name when we're alone it's okay if you call me my preferred name near my parents even though they don't know."

It reminds me of me because I came out right after I realized it and because I was rather sudden about it.