moon sugar & fur coats || shino x kiba ||

prologue

Kiba already knew he was gay. This, he felt, was completely unrelated to that. He was panicking. You would too, if you realised that the feeling you had been suppressing all your life was called wanting to "dress up like a woman but only some of the time", or, in simpler terms, become one of the mystical "drag queens". Kiba didn't know anyone who was one of these "drag queens" of legend, and needed to talk to someone about his problem.

His team knew that he was gay and were the only ones in the world whom he had told. Kiba trusted them more than anyone, especially now that he was 23, so he went to the only person he thought would understand his current situation - pardon, his "mid-life crisis".

It was almost sundown, around 6:30pm when Kiba knocked on Shino's door. A woman opened the door; long brown hair, small, almond-shaped black eyes, thick glossed lips, and a large fur coat. Something felt off about her, but he bowed, nonetheless. "Hajimemashite. I was wondering if Shino was here?" The woman sighed, and opened the door wider.
"Come in, Kiba," a deep voice rumbled from the woman's chest, but now that he thought about it, didn't Shino sound an awful lot like that? "My name, when I look like this, is Madame Moon Sugar, but you know me as Shino." A monotonous, deep voice emanated from Shino's mouth, leaving Kiba sputtering.

"No way. No way!" He yelled, sinking to the floor. "So, you're a drag queen? Or, wait, are you like, transgender?" Sugar squatted down (rather elegantly, Kiba noticed. Like a swan), hugging the coat closer to his body.

"Yes, a drag queen. Not transgender. Why do you ask?"

"Because - Kami! I came here because - because I want to become a drag queen!" He was going insane; he was sure of it. There was no way that Shino... of all people...

"Ah. What did you want to talk about? I have a show in a minute, so if you would accompany me, I could show you around my club. I could even teach you how to put on makeup and try on some of my outfits another day, if you want." Internally, (though on Shino 'Sugar's face, it was invisible) they were both screaming, but for very different reasons.