this chapter is slightly more sensitive. trigger warning: misgendering, transphobia, discrimination. let me know what you think :) reviews are super appreciated!
replies: yumistar - yep, i imagine sasuke is pretty embarrassed talking about sex related stuff since he comes from a household that was very traditional and uptight. thanks for your reviews :)

It is at one of the Hokage training meetings that Naruto first truly experiences discrimination for his gender. Homura and Koharu are there, going over some documents around his past experience and qualifications in order to plan ahead in what he must train and focus in. Homura seems to come across something he finds questionable, because he mutters something to Koharu and passes over an old, slightly tattered document.

"Uzumaki. There seems to be an error in your birth certificate. It states here you were born—7lb4oz , October 10th at 8:33pm, Female."

Naruto feels himself break into a cold sweat at that word—female. He hates it in reference to himself. He hates it. Female, woman, girl. They've never been words to describe him, not for as long as he has known what they meant. Growing up, nobody paid enough attention, nobody cared enough to realise he was identifying as different to what he had been labelled with at birth. It worked in his benefit in a lot of ways—so many people still had no idea he wasn't the exact same as every other man in the village. It also meant he had not encountered the discrimination Sasuke occasionally voiced his fear of—

"Naruto, you realise some people aren't okay with individuals being different?"

"What do you mean?"

"Times are changing, view points are becoming more open, accepting but—the older generation. They have prejudice against those with differing sexualities and gender identities. If the council finds out about your gender they might try and use it against you as Hokage candidate."

He'd ignored Sasuke's warnings, having experienced little-to-no discrimination his whole life, at least not for this. Now, however, those words floated round his head as he swallowed. He tried to play it off—

"Yeah, I was born with XX chromosomes y'know? I'm still a dude though, it's no big deal right?"

There's a long pause—too long. Naruto swallows again, his mouth producing no saliva and his palms sticky. This has been his goal his whole life—Hokage. Leader of the village, saviour, respected and loved. He has wanted this for as long as he has been able to talk. Naruto never considered that being himself would negatively impact his chance. He feels sick.

"You mean you're a woman? Posing as a man? You've lied to the village all this time? Even as a candidate for the seat of Hokage?"

Naruto tries to keep calm, but he can feel his blood boiling and Kurama's own irritation adding to the mix.

"No, no. I have the chromosomes of a person you label 'female' but Sakura—I mean Dr Haruno—says gender is actually something mental. So your genitalia, hormone levels, chromosomes have to do with your 'sex' not your 'gender' so I'm not a woman at all I'm actually a man just like Kakashi-sensei or my dad or the late Lord Third." He says in a hurry, words falling over each other. Naruto smiles, begging them silently to understand. He's a dude goddammit!

"But you have female characteristics?"

"I mean...yes. Sexually. I have ovaries, oestrogen, XX chromosomes. But I've had surgery on my chest —see! Flat as a board! And Baa-chan—I mean Tsunade-sama—put me on testosterone injections so I actually now have the same amount of male hormones as any other of your male ninja!" He's rambling again, panicked.

Silence and then—

"You have a vagina?" Koharu asks rudely, her wrinkled brow creasing in disgust.

Naruto bristles.

"That's rather personal don't you think? Did you ask Kakashi-sensei the same thing when he came for his inspections for Hokage? Did you ask him how big his dick was too? Oh hey—Hatake Kakashi—get your cock out we wanna see how big it is! Is that what you said? What gives you the right to ask this stuff just cause you see me as different huh?! Nobody gave a shit when I was a child, alone in an apartment, but now I'm powerful you suddenly care what I've got in my fucking pants?!" His voice has risen to a shout, small tendrils of red chakra just curling out from his arms as he waves them expressively as he talks. He feels Kurama growl his agreement, the sound echoing faintly from his chest into the room. Koharu and Homura freeze, eyes darting from Naruto, to each other, to the door. Soon enough some ANBU appear and Naruto is asked to leave.

"Your applicable will be put on hold until we figure the proper solution to your...illness."

Naruto has never felt so revolted by the world in his life. Even Obito's and Madara's plan for world domination—or world peace—as they called it, made more sense than this.