Saibuki

Saibuki is the het ship between Fubuki and Saitama from the One Punch Man fandom.

Chapter 42
Saitama and Fubuki first met when she decided to pay a visit to his home with couple of her Blizzard Group members, Eyelashes and Mountain Ape. As a Class B rank 1 hero, she got interested in him after Saitama climbed from Class C to Class B despite him not having any other notable record of his actions since the Hero Test. In the anime she knew Saitama got exceptional results in physical exam portion of the Hero Test, crushing every record for every event. She then thinks there has to be more to him than meets the eye.

When she arrives to Saitama’s door with her two Blizzard Group members, one of them yells at the door for Saitama. Telling him they know he lives there and that he should come out as Blizzard of Hell wants to personally speak with him. Saitama answers the door. He first thinks they are a newspaper seller, but they deny it by saying that they are higher rank heroes. Fubuki then introduces herself by telling she is Blizzard of Hell, and asks does Saitama know what it means. He simply answers that he has no idea and asks who is she.

This doesn’t sit well with the two other Blizzard Group members and one of them tells him that she is a Class B rank 1 hero. Saitama only congratulates her about it and then questions more. This only makes them all think he is looking down on them and they tell him that all new Class B heroes have to greet her first. Saitama then does greet them rather proper-like, which Fubuki accepts.

She then asks him if he is familiar about factions in the hero business. Saitama seems confused of what she is talking about so Fubuki tells him that he won’t survive alone, rivals will try to get in his way and stop him. Saitama tries to tell them that he is actually busy right now, but they tell him they are not yet done talking. Fubuki then proposes that Saitama should join her Blizzard Group, work for her and his position will be secured. Saitama realizes that Fubuki is there to get in his way if he refuses, though questions Fubuki’s method of threatening B-class heroes like some gang leader. She denies, saying that she only approaches those who she thinks are worth it. Saitama then asks her if she is afraid that he would take her rank 1 position, but assures her that he won’t stay on 1st place as he wants to move up to Class A.

Fubuki then demands his answer, to which Saitama easily answers by refusing to join her group as he doesn’t believe in such hierarchical structure with heroes. Fubuki commands her two members, Mountain Ape and Eyelashes, to beat Saitama up so hard he can’t work as a hero anymore, but Saitama simply punches them far away with one punch. Fubuki is surprised and Saitama tells her that she won’t survive like that.

Chapter 43
Believing Saitama to be standing in her way, Blizzard of Hell then shows her powers. Saitama recognizes it as psychic powers and she confirms this. She then thinks he is mocking her and threatens to beat him half dead. She pushes Saitama out to the streets with her Hell Storm, and then attacks him with a small tornado that should currently be ripping Saitama’s skin and crushing his bones, so that his spirit would break instantly. Fubuki then justifies this action by thinking that it was Saitama’s fault for trying to surpass her, as she is “the number one” and anyone who tries to oppose her will be crushed. But Saitama only appears behind her and says that hysteric women are not fit to be on the top. She looks behind her, surprised.

Saitama jumps at her, fist ready to a punch and lectures her about heroes. He tells her how she won’t survive like that and she doesn’t understand what being a hero is about, and the world has many incredible strong bad guys and those who oppose them are called heroes even if they are alone. He then points out to Fubuki how she, who gathers weaker subordinates to feel strong, won’t make it in long run. He continues by telling her that at this rate she will only start crying sooner or later. Especially when monster stronger than she is will show up, none of her subordinates are going to be saving her. He then calls her moron for looking down on heroes as none of the factions, newbie crushing and keeping her rank matters.

Fubuki yells at Saitama to be quiet and tells him she won’t give her rank 1 position so easily as she worked hard for it. She then uses her psychic powers to raise the street’s concrete to crush Saitama, but he breaks through it without any problems. She then pushes him back with her powers, but he manages to get his footing. She continues by throwing a ton of large concrete pieces at him, but he defends. Next, she quickly advances towards him and pulls out a knife that she uses to try to slice his head, however, Saitama notices behind her how Speed-o’-Sound Sonic and Genos are having a match as they run past them, and suddenly there is a massive explosion from Genos as he attacks Sonic.

After the explosion there is a lot of smoke. Slightly injured Fubuki notices Genos and is confused why he is here, and Genos apologizes to Saitama for making his home dusty. Saitama comments that this isn’t anymore what you would call “dusty”, and it’s revealed that he protected Fubuki from the explosion by standing in front of her. He then says that he saw Sonic and asks what they were doing.

Fubuki is confused why Genos, a S-class hero, is Saitama’s acquaintance. Genos tells her he is his disciple. This does surprise her as she wonders why a S-class hero would be B-class hero’s disciple. Genos then recognizes her and comes to a right conclusion that she tried to newbie crush Saitama, though he wrongly thought she is injured because Saitama taught her a lesson. He then apologizes for his explosion when Saitama tells it was Genos’ own attack that caused it.

Chapter 44
As Speed-o’-Sound Sonic appears with an explosion, ready to take them down, Genos first tries to deal with him. Eventually Saitama stops their fight and tells him he will deal with Sonic. Fubuki watches the fight. She saw how powerful Sonic is – a S-class level – but she knows Saitama is stronger. After Saitama easily defeats Sonic, Fubuki thinks that he is way too strong and it’s not normal.

Chapter 45
They end up inside Saitama’s apartment. There Fubuki tells why she is Class B rank 1, how she wants to stay in that position and be able to control the B-class and below, and surpass her big sister, Tatsumaki, who is a lone wolf. Genos asks why she wouldn’t try for a Class A rank 1 position, because Tatsumaki is S-class hero. She simply answers that it’s impossible, because of Sweet Mask. Fubuki falsely thinks Saitama may be strong, but nowhere near the level of her sister, Sweet Mask, King or Blast. As Saitama brings out his disinterest in being her “henchman”, she grudgingly wonders aloud is it because he is just “a little bit stronger”.

Suddenly someone is at the door, opening it and it’s shown that King has come to collect his handheld gaming console back from Saitama. Fubuki is absolutely surprised by this and a little scared of King. She is now questioning why does S-class heroes blend in with B-class so well. As she watches Saitama, she wonders could she also be part of this group (of strong people).

Chapter 46
Fubuki is hanging out with King, Saitama and Genos, eating cookies while Charanko came to visit.

Chapter 86
After Do-S (and Tatsumaki) defeated her Blizzard Group, Fubuki arrives to the Z-city to meet Saitama in his apartment. She considers “Saitama’s group” to be a branch of the Blizzard Group and wants to hold an emergency meeting with them. As she rings the doorbell, Bomb appears to open the door. Fubuki is confused who this is and Bomb invites her in and announces that Saitama has a visitor. He then shows her that everyone is there and she now notices that Bang is laying on the floor and having acupunctuation on his back, Saitama and King are sitting on the floor playing a game with their handheld consoles, and Genos is fixing himself.

Fubuki is watching them uncomfortably, confused what is going on in Saitama’s apartment. Bang even apologizes for the crowd in there, and Saitama and King are having a constant conversation about the game they are playing. Saitama then notices her and asks what she is doing there and Fubuki starts to yell about how this is an emergency situation. She then talks about her Blizzard Group’s defeat and how dangerous the Monster Association is. That it’s not a time to be playing games and are they even aware of the situation outside of these walls. Saitama mentions that they just got back so she should give him a break, and Genos confirms that they recently fought a very strong villain so she is not the only one facing challenges. Fubuki does say that she can see that by looking at Genos, who was in serious need of repair.

When Fubuki asks what Silver Fang (Bang) is doing in Saitama’s place, Bang tells how they were fighting alongside them and Saitama was kind enough to let them rest in his place after the hard battle. He then tells how his back is now in pain, and his brother Bomb tells how his knees are killing him. Fubuki then understands how serious the battle must have been.

After that she turns to Saitama and is wondering if the situation is this serious why he is slacking off. She then says that Saitama seems to act calm, but must be a little nervous, but he simply denies it and tells her it’s not so different than usual. Now she is frustrated and asks him how this situation is not so different than usual, but Saitama then asks King why she is so mad. King does agree with Fubuki that the situation is not actually that usual. Fubuki then slaps her hands on a small round table and demands everyone to come sit down with her and have a strategy meeting. Saitama still wonders what she is doing there.

Fubuki speaks to everyone one by one, asking Genos has he heard anything from the Hero Association, but Genos tells her he has been busy and then lost his HA transmitter in the fight. Bang tells his fell down a chasm and King’s also was broken. Then Fubuki asks what they are then going to do as the war against the monsters have already begun. Genos says he has to get repaired first before anything else, which Fubuki agrees with. Bang tells his back needs to heal first to which Bomb just says that nothing really can beat an old age. Fubuki asks King about his situation, but he tells he needs to attend something first. Fubuki then confirms that the only ones who can work currently are her and Saitama.

She asks what they should do now as she is already speculating that the Hero Association must have a special task force planning an operation right now, and in situation like this if a B-class heroes like them can accomplish something, there should surely be an impact in their evaluation. Saitama isn’t listening, but she continues wondering that the enemy is now a large organization consisting of numerous monsters that were before known to be lone wolves. She correctly assumes that they must have a powerful leader that controls them in the shadows. Bang agrees with Fubuki.

The conversation changes to Garou, the Hero Hunter. Saitama is angry that he keeps hunting other heroes and isn’t coming to him – and then he wonders is it because he is a “Caped Baldy”. He then decides to suddenly go out alone for a while to look for the Hero Hunter. He also tells that he needs to buy more cabbage. Fubuki notes that everyone again ignored her in the end and that making “Saitama’s group” part of her group is going to be more difficult than she initially thought.

Chapter 88
Saitama was eating in a restaurant. Soon after he finished his meal, he was ready to pay it, however, he notices he doesn’t have his wallet with him anymore. He starts to panic and thinks he may have dropped his wallet in a supermarket when he went there before to buy some cabbage. He can’t call Genos to help, because he is still broken. The restaurant’s announcement lets him know that they have zero tolerance policy towards robbers and dine-and-dashers, and that they have currently former professional heroes as security guards so their guests can enjoy their meals in peace. After Saitama hears that, he thinks that letting the staff know about his dilemma now will only look like he is turning himself in.

Fubuki appears as Saitama is having a silent crisis over his situation. When she calls his name, he panics and is already trying to defend himself by denying who he is, but when he notices it was Fubuki who called his name, he calms down. Fubuki is confused and asks what he was saying, but Saitama instead asks what is she doing there. Fubuki joins him at the table and reveals that she had been looking for him and that finding him wasn’t easy as he left before they could finish their talk. Fubuki jumps straight to the business. She knows Saitama is interested in looking for the Hero Hunter, so she proposes to do a favor to him and help him out, but she wants 70% of the score earned from succeeding in catching the Hero Hunter.

Saitama seems to absent-mindedly listen her and he orders one portion of fries from the waiter walking past them. Fubuki tells him that even though he managed to reach B-class rank 7 position, it will be far more difficult to rank up past this point. However, if they succeed, him reaching rank 5 or even higher wouldn’t be a dream anymore, but for that Saitama would need her support. She correctly assumes that Saitama hasn’t most likely even researched what this Hero Hunter looks like, so she offers her help.

As Fubuki tells Saitama to do as she wants from this moment on when she offers her help, she notices how Saitama seems to look at her like he hasn’t really listened what she said. She asks is he listening and at that moment the waiter brings the fries to the table. Saitama then pushes the plate of fries towards Fubuki, offering silently for her to eat some. She takes a bite from one, thanking him, unaware of the plan Saitama had for her when he looks at her with devilish smirk. When she looks at him, she starts to wonder what that smirk means, falsely thinking that maybe he is happy to be working for her and then she thinks that he basically is as good as part of the Blizzard Group.

Suddenly someone screams that a dine-and-dasher has slipped past their security, giving Saitama the opportunity to run after him and leaving the bill to Fubuki as she also ate from the fries. She is flabbergasted and thinks that even at time like this how cheap can he be that he won’t pay for the fries (unaware that he had eaten a bigger meal before that he hadn’t paid yet).

Chapter 90
Fubuki finds Saitama in his apartment, noticing that also Genos, Bang, Bomb and King are still there. Genos wonders what she wants again, but she is clearly pissed off at Saitama, telling him that he has really now done it. Genos notices the cabbage bag that Fubuki is holding onto. She offers it to Saitama, who takes it. He is happy that Fubuki brought the bag he forgot to the restaurant and tells her she is a lifesaver as he really wanted to make some hotpot today, and without the cabbage it wouldn’t be the same.

She then asks didn’t he also have something else to say to her, and a little confused Saitama then thanks her for the cabbage. But it’s not something she was looking for as she is now showing her anger by telling Saitama how he made her pay his bill in the restaurant and ran away, and now he has to apologize for it. Sweating nervously, he tells her he forgot and apologizes to her.

Continuing Fubuki tells Saitama how he also left in the middle of their conversation. Saitama reveals that he wasn’t listening when he asks what she was talking about back then, to which she answers that she knew he wasn’t listening and now he owes her one and that he should remember it.

Genos suddenly notices something fast moving outside the apartment and closing in. He thinks it’s a monster. Everyone else except King is incapable of fighting, so he sends a nervous King to stop it before the fight would reach there. However, soon King returns with a person in a mechanical suit that Genos felt moving nearby. It’s revealed to be Dr. Kuseno and Genos is surprised that he is there. After Kuseno tells his reasons to be there, and after Saitama wants to call it a day as it’s starting to get cramped in the apartment, Dr. Kuseno suddenly gives an ultimate premium beef gift set to Saitama for taking care of Genos. Saitama accepts this wholeheartedly, accepting his presence and tells him to visit anytime as they both are looking after Genos after all.

Fubuki witnesses how easy it was for Kuseno to change Saitama’s attitude towards him. She notes that this was too easy and too simple. She is feeling embarrassed how she had been overthinking how to sway Saitama to listen and follow her lead.

Saitama tells Genos, as he hands the beef box gift to him, that they should put the meat to the hotpot as well. Fubuki recovers after hearing that and she comments it’s shame to put such a valuable, high quality meat to a hotpot. She then asks if they have red wine, which Saitama denies. Saitama then realizes that everyone else there seems to want to stay for dinner and he wants everyone not related to leave, then telling Bang, Bomb and King to leave as well.

Chapter 91
After the hotpot is ready, they all are gathered around it. No one had left. They all take chopsticks to their hands and then attack the hotpot at the same time, trying to get their share first. Most of the hotpot meat and vegetables fly around in the air and Fubuki then notices a piece of meat that she tries to catch with her psychic powers, smirking. Genos then catches the meat from the air with his chopsticks, asking her what she was going to do with his sensei’s (Saitama’s) meat. She then asks Genos why he is satisfied to be Saitama’s lackey. Bang catches all the tofu from the air to his bowl and tells them to calm down as the best part of hotpot is sharing it. Bomb then calls his brother out for hogging all the tofu.

Saitama suddenly holds his hand up in the air and tells everyone to hold on. He says that it bothers him how everyone is still there eating someone else’s hotpot like it’s their “damn right”. He tells them the cabbage is gone now so everyone can go home. Fubuki agrees and tells everyone that it indeed is way too crowded in there and they should leave, not including herself. Saitama comments that she is also one that should leave. Fubuki asks why, aside of Silver Fang (Bang), are ordinary elderly people (Bomb) even there. And if he wants to join her Blizzard Group, as she considers Saitama’s group to be part of her group, he needs to prove her he has what it takes. Genos realizes what Fubuki is implying with her group talks and threatens to turn her into dust, but Saitama stops him by yelling at him not to break anything. Fubuki then tries to recruit Dr. Kuseno to her Blizzard Group, but Genos stops it.

They continue their evening with small talk and eventually Saitama finally says that everyone should leave when they are finished eating. He notices then that all this time King has been “sleeping” (unconscious) on the floor.

Fanon
Saibuki is not the most popular ship within the One Punch Man fandom, but does have a nice following of fans. Considering the canon has explored their relationship a little, though mostly from Fubuki’s point of view. The fact that they both do eventually get along in some way, despite the bumpy start, is a nice opening for shippers to play around with in the stories.

There is 50+ fics on AO3. The ship rivals with ships such as SaiTatsu, Genosai and Genobuki.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Fubuki/Saitama tag on FanFiction.net
 * Fubuki/Saitama tag on FanFiction.net
 * Fubuki/Saitama tag on FanFiction.net

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