Jun & Karou, Pure and Fragrant

JUN AND KAROU, PURE AND FRAGRANT / Jun to Kaoru, pyuade fureguranto / 純とかおる/ ジュンとカオル、ピュアでフレグラント

A SHORT SI-FI / TRANSGENDER THEMED STORY BY NIEKI ZUI

**Story Designation**---Canon

**Synopsis**

Jun and Kaoru have been intimate and inseparable friends since they met one another in childhood. Both became friends when they found out that each one had the same unusual mind/body condition. Each kept it a personal secret, that nevertheless, everyone eventually came to know about. The condition affects both of them in the same way. Each one was born a transgender person, who has a perceived birth sex / gender, and an opposite correct Gender Identity, with the accompanying Gender Expression. Both teenagers are now in high school. But when the two friends had reached puberty, a time-sensitive twist on their unusual condition began to be manifest. Due to unknown and unknowable factors, Fate, Bad Karma, or Whatever, every night at midnight, the same thing happens to both teenagers. Each one switches back and forth between their perceived birth sex / gender, and their actual Gender Identity. Meaning that at any given time during the length of a day, both teens are masquerading as their perceived birth sex / gender. At midnight, their individual roles are reversed for the next 24 hours. Both teens will now be presenting as their correct Gender Identity with the accompanying correct Gender Expression, opposite of their perceived birth gender, for the next 24 hours. This cycle has been going on for quite some time now. How will Jun and Kaoru be able to grow and mature into adulthood, when there is such a prejudicial, and abject maliciousness toward transgender people, especially ones who change back and forth between genders, by a minority of uncaring people, who would deny their correct identity, and even their continued existence ?

**Story Concept and Gender Designations**

This story is told from the perspective of the two childhood friends, Jun and Kaoru. Both are transgender teenagers, who change between their correct Gender Identity, and their perceived birth sex/gender every 24 hours at midnight. The story chronicles the daily lives that the two experience, and the many unusual situations and circumstances that befall them due to their unusual time-sensitive sex/gender changes. The key to understanding the story flow of the changing back and forth between the perceived and true gender statuses can be found in the first chapter. There, the two friends refer to themselves, in the Japanese language, with specific gender identifications and designations. The Japanese words that they chose to apply to themselves would seem to designate each one's correct Gender Identity. The opposite of these designations would seem to indicate their perceived birth sex/gender. The fact that each one used a gendered word *to refer to themselves as to their actual Gender Identity* is the entire basis of understanding for the retelling of this story inside this Wiki.

On page 16, of Chapter 1, of *Jun and Kaoru, Pure and Fragrant*, Karou refers to themselves with the Japanese gendered word of *Watashi* (feminine). Therefore, it seems that Karou's correct Gender Identity is female, making their perceived birth sex/gender as male. Jun refers to themselves with the Japanese gendered word of *Ore* (masculine). Therefore, it seems that Jun's correct Gender Identity is male, making their perceived birth sex/gender as female.

This Wiki's retelling of the story will use the following designations, so as to differentiate between the two friends and what gender presentation they are in at any particular time of the story. A plus sign (+) will be added to the gender marker (M / F), then the two markers will be placed after the name, to indicate that the person's name is *as they are as their correct Gender Identity.* An 'x' sign (x) will be added to the gender marker (M / F) to indicate that the person's name is them *masquerading as their perceived birth sex/gender.*

For example, Jun, when presenting as their correct Gender Identity of male, their name will be shown as Jun(+M). When Jun is masquerading as their perceived birth gender of female, their name will be shown as Jun(xF). Likewise, Karou as their correct Gender Identity of female will be shown as Karou(+F). When masquerading as their birth sex/gender, will be shown as Karou(xM).
These designations will not be used for each and every single mention of one's name. They will only be used a few times before or after the midnight change-over occurs, to show how each one is presenting, or masquerading, for that 24 hour period. Also, although this concept of English language usage is not completely kosher, nevertheless, when a character is in male mode (perceived or actual), male pronouns and designations will be used. When the character is in female mode (perceived or actual), female pronouns and designations will be used. Select Gender Neutral designations may also be used.

**Character Profiles**

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Jun's Gender IdentityJun's Birth SexJun's male school uniformKarou's Gender IdentityKarou's Birth SexKarou's female school uniform
**Table of Contents**

Click on the Chapter number to be taken to that Chapter's page

Jun & Karou Chapter 1

Jun & Karou Chapter 2

Jun & Karou Chapter 3

Jun & Karou Chapter 4

Jun & Karou Chapter 5

Jun & Karou Chapter 6

Jun & Karou Chapter 7

Jun & Karou Chapter 8

Jun & Karou Chapter 9

Jun & Karou Chapter 10

Jun & Karou Chapter 11

Jun & Karou Chapter 12

Jun & Karou Chapter 13

Jun & Karou Chapter 14

Jun & Karou Chapter 15

Jun & Karou Chapter 16