Become the true you!

Story by TiranMaster on SoFurry

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Derek needs help with his confidence though this may turn out differently then what he originally planned...

This is the first time I've done anything related to M/M so I'd love some input.


This story has male relations in it so I'd like to advice for you not to read this unless you are into this subject matter.

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Dylan slowly climbed out of his car and glanced down at the paper clutched in his hand, "Self-help lessons- find the true you." His eye nervously ticked at the prospect, since he was a kid he had been a very self-conscious person. Earlier that week he had found the same paper clutched in his hand in his mailbox, as he read it he slowly got excited. It explained that it could bring out who he really was and get past all of those insecurities he had.

Derek slowly walked into the building and glanced around, it looked like a regular community center. After a moment he found the front desk, he nervously walked up to the front desk and saw that there was an elephant women sitting there. "H... h... hello? I w... was wondering wh... where the self-help clinic was b... being held?" The elephant smiled up at the frail human, "That's just down that hall there and it's the last door on the right honey." Derek nervously smiled at her, "Th... thank you..." Derek stumbled away from the desk shaking like a leaf, "I... I did it... I talked to someone..." He managed a small smile as he walked into the room labeled with a sign with the words "Self-help clinic" on it. As he walked in he noticed a multitude of people, in the group there was a mix of animals and humans. As expected of a nervous bunch they were all quiet as mice, none of them would even look at him as he walked in. Derek glanced around and found a seat off to the side of the group, as he took his seat he shivered in anticipation. "I really need this, I hope it works..." He muttered to himself. A few minutes later a figure marched out onto the stage enthusiastically, "Welcome all of you!" He shouted in excitement, Derek practically fell back in fright from the loud noise. It wasn't just him that did it either; the whole group had panicked at the loud noise. Standing on the stage was a flamboyant Wolf man, his hair was a short blond color and the end of his tail was a vibrant rainbow color. He also wore brightly colored clothes akin to a camp counselor, not only that but his eyes seemed to shine with a rainbow like color, "I'm so happy that you all decided to come, I was afraid that you'd be too afraid to show up." He tittered in excitement as he looked over the whole group. The congregation was extremely nervous as he jumped down from the stage and offered his paw out to each and every one of them, "Don't be so afraid my friends, my name is Jasper. I'm here to help you all become who you truly are, isn't that great?" He grinned showing off a startlingly bright smile, as he reached out his paw to Derek the human for a second thought about bolting before he pushed himself to shake the Wolf's paw. The Wolf grinned at him and winked, after getting the rest to shake his paw he jumped back onto the stage and grinned out at them all. "Congratulations my friends, you have taken the first step with that simple hand shake." He beamed with excitement; he then walked to the side of the stage and pulled out a box. "Now everyone this box contains some armbands that I had made for you all, I'd like for you all to come forward and grab one as I call of your names." He started to read off the names in an exhilarated manner, as Derek watched them all come forward he slowly came to a realization. "They're all men..." He muttered, somehow Jasper heard him and smiled at him. "You'd be exactly right my friend, you are all men. You see I find that if you were to be taught with women you would all freak out so I made sure to separate your classes." After a moment Derek's name was called, as he stepped up he looked up into the Wolf's eyes briefly and was entranced for a second by the Wolf's brilliant rainbow eyes. Derek blinked and looked down quickly and pulled out a band and rushed back to his chair, as he sat down Jasper clapped his hands in excitement. "Wonderful you all came; I was worried that many of you might flake out." As he was talking everyone slipped on their armbands, as they did so they all shivered briefly, Derek looked at his band and noticed that it was a brown color with rainbow stripes around it. Jasper smiled and gestured with his hand towards the side exit, "If you'd all please follow me I will show you all to the area where we will be doing the activates." The group all stood up and followed the brightly colored Wolf. Jasper led them all to a large gym area, "Please go in." Jasper smiled as they all passed him and walked into the gym, Derek went in and leaned against a wall. As he watched the others take similar positions Jasper did a front flip right into the middle of the gym, he looked around and frowned at how everyone was positioned around the gym. "Everyone please come to the center where we will start." Jasper shouted out to everyone, after a moment Derek surprisingly was the first to move towards the Wolf. As he walked closer Jasper grinned at him, "Thank you, now everyone else follow Derek's lead." After a moment's hesitation they all followed him and gathered around the colorful Wolf. "Now for the first thing we're going to do I want you all to whisper one of your darkest secrets to the person next to you." Derek froze up at this request; he had never told his parents his secrets let alone other people. The others also looked uncomfortable with this request, Jasper sighed in exasperation. "Here let me show you all how it's done, I'll tell you all my biggest secret." He slowly leaned in towards the group as if to whisper the world's most important secret, "I'm... nuts for chocolate..." He slowly whispered everyone just started at him with a blank look on their faces. Jasper smiled a wily smile, "I know it's surprising, how can someone with such a good figure love chocolate right?" Derek nearly smacked himself in the face at the Wolf's misunderstanding of their stares but then he realized that the Wolf had revealed something extremely private. After a moment Derek tapped a monkey man on the shoulder and whispered into the primate's ear, "I... can't ride a bike..." He slowly whispered into the monkey's ear with a blush on his face, the monkey looked at him with sympathy and whispered back into his ear. "I'm actually allergic to bananas." Derek looked at the primate with sympathy on his face; the others realized what the pair was doing and started to follow their lead. Jasper walked up to the pair with a big smile, "Great job you two! Here's your first piece of clothing." He held out a pair of shirts similar to his own, "Piece of clothing?" Derek questioned the Wolf, "Oh I guess I forgot to mention, for every activity that you complete you get an article of clothing." The pair looked at each other and the back at Jasper and accepted the clothing. After everyone else finished they also received a shirt, "Alright everyone it's time for your next activity. Now for this activity I will need you to partner up with a new partner." After everyone had rearranged themselves Derek found himself next to a large Rhino, "Ok now for this activity you will all be dancing with your partner." Everyone in the group suddenly froze up, "Y... you want us to dance with other men?" One of the others asked the wolf, "Hey don't be shy it's not like you're going to be kissing or anything." The wolf winked at the group. After a moment of being embarrassed Derek slowly turned towards the rhino and offered his hand to the rhino, "W... will you dance with me?..." The rhino looked as embarrassed as Derek felt but grabbed the human's hand and slowly started to dance. After a long awkward moment of everyone watching the pair they also did the same, after a while the music finally stopped and they all stopped dancing.

They were all too embarrassed to admit it but they hadn't completely hated it, Jasper jumped up in down in excitement. "You all did absolutely wonderful! Now please come up and accept the next piece of clothing." He held out a pair of shorts to each of them, after they all had the shorts he gestured towards the changing rooms. "I'd like for you all to change into your new clothes so we are all wearing the same thing." They all grumbled in slight disgruntlement but they did it anyways. As they changed the bands on their arms started to slowly spread out, each one having a different effect on each of the person wearing it.

For Derek and the other humans they were starting to grow fur and other animal like qualities, for the animals they were gaining some new markings on their skin. As they all finished up getting dressed they found that they actually liked their new clothes, they all left with a satisfied look on their faces. None of them noticed that they had left their old clothes behind, Jasper grinned at each of them in turn. As they all stood in front of him he noted the bands on their arms already changing them, "Alright now for this next activity once again I'd like for you to find a new partner."

They all quickly paired up, this time Derek was paired up with a bunny man. Jasper looked them all over to make sure they had new partners then clapped his paws together, "Alright, I'd like for you all to hug each other." They all froze at what he wanted for them to do, but this time instead of waiting for a long time Derek found himself turning to the bunny and hugging the other man. After a second the bunny hugged the human right back, as the pair hugged each other Derek noted some rainbow stripes on the bunny's fur that hadn't been there before. Instead of panicking he admired them; he then looked to his arm and noticed fur extending down his arm.

Once more instead of panicking he smiled at the fur, "What nice fur I have." After a full minute of hugging the two backed off from one another, they grinned at each other with no embarrassment on their faces. They glanced around to see that the others were also in the process of hugging it out, Jasper grinned at the pair, "Wonderful job boys!" The wolf walked up to them and gave them both a big hug with the pair returned in full with no restraint, after a few minutes of waiting for the others to finish up Derek scrunched up his face in slight confusion. "Something seems wrong about this whole thing... what it is though?..." He looked at the others and saw the fur with rainbow markings spreading across the other humans and rainbow markings appearing on the animals. "Oh crap..." Derek started to panic but then Jasper looked back and looked right into his eyes, all of the panic became muffled. "It... must've been nothing..." He muttered to himself. After everyone had finished hugging Jasper looked at them all and grinned, "Good now you are all almost done. I just have one more activity for you all to do." Everyone groaned in sadness at the news of their meeting almost being over, "Your final activity is to... kiss your partner!" He shouted the last part in excitement, everyone stood stock still. Derek felt his panic come out in full swing, "Wh... what are you telling us to do?!" He started to back away from the wolf, the others of the group were doing likewise. "I'm not going to kiss another g... guy." The rhino from earlier said, Jasper smiled. "I thought you'd all give me a little bit of trouble though thankfully it looks like the bands are about done." Derek looked down at his band in confusion and gasped in horror, apparently in the last few minutes the band's growth had expanded exponentially. His whole body was now covered in brown fur and rainbow markings, "Wha... what are you doing to us?!" He shouted at the smiling wolf, "Well I'm just doing what you asked me to, I'm bringing out the real you." Derek Bared his teeth in anger, "This isn't bringing out the real us, it's forcing us into something we aren't!"

As Derek finished yelling at the wolf he suddenly jumped as he heard a pop from behind him, he looked back to see a rainbow tipped tail grown out behind him. He looked himself over to realize that he had finished changing into a... Otter. "Oh my god..." He muttered to himself, he looked at the others to see that they had also become sexy rainbow colored animals. "Wait... sexy...? No!" He yelled at himself, Jasper noticed all of them were near the end of their resistance. He suddenly let out a slow whistle and everyone in the room suddenly felt their muscles lock up. "Now it looks like I'm going to have to finish up your transformations." Jasper made a gesture and suddenly all of the men turned towards each other, "Now kiss." Derek started to panic as he started to lean in towards a fox that also looked like he was in a panic, "Oh god no... no... No!" He shouted in his mind as he felt his lips press against the fox's lips, "Oh god... I'm kissing another guy, this can't be happening. This isn't right, I need to sto... I need to... I need... I need to kiss better... I need to kiss this handsome stud much better!"

He shouted in his head as he felt the control of Jasper wear off and he practically collapsed into the arms of his foxy lover, all across the room the animals started to kiss each other of their own volition. As they all looked into their partner's eyes they watched as each other's eyes glowed and became rainbow colored. Derek snuggled close into his partner's chest and finished up the kiss, "Congratulations everyone, you have all finished your class." All of the animals moaned in satisfaction as they finished up their respective kisses. Derek with his partner walked back up to Jasper clutching each other's paws. Jasper looked at all of the new couples, "How do you all feel now that you all have discovered your real selves?" They all cheered in delight, Jasper went back to his box and pulled out a bundle. "Here is your last clothing you all." They all chittered in excitement as he pulled out rainbow colored scarves. As they started to leave by couple they all made sure to give their instructor a peck on the cheek and a big hug and they left happy and gay. As Derek and his partner started to leave Derek made a point to drop by the front desk, "Thank you so much for the help earlier." The elephant smiled up at the Otter and watched as he and his fox partner left. Jasper walked up to the elephant and smiled, "I did as you asked Madam Lucille, are you pleased?" The elephant smiled and patted the wolf on the head, "Yes I am very pleased my little pup, now it's time for you to send out the next batch of invitations." Jasper yipped in excitement and ran off to complete his mistress's command. That night Derek laid in his bed with his new boyfriend, "I'm so glad I took that class, now I have a great new life." He thought to himself, he glanced back at his boyfriend who had a coy look in his eye. "Are you ready honey?" The fox growled in excitement and they slipped under the covers for a heated night.