Inoryuu

Inoryuu is the het ship between Kashima Ryuuichi and Maria Inomata from the School Babysitters fandom.

Anime
Episode Two

For their first impressions, Maria and Ryuuichi did not get along. It turned out that the children from Ryuuichi’s school’s daycare had followed him to the middle school area. While following, one of the children bumped into Maria, who then went on to scold Ryuuichi for allowing children into the middle school. Later on, Maria is asked by her teacher, Shizuka Kamitani, to bring lunch to her son, Hayato Kamitani.

Ryuuichi is seen apologizing to his little brother, Kotarō Kashima, who was apart of the group of children Maria yelled at earlier on. He repeats “It’s my fault she yelled.” at Kotarō to calm him down. Maria walks through the door and confirms his statement, she then scolds Ryuuichi and the children again; during this, Usaida Yoshihito, Ryuuichi’s coworker, goes to check his phone. Maria hands Ryuuichi Hayato’s lunch, and Usaida starts to complain about his stomach hurting. He begs Hayato to take him to the nurse’s office, leaving Ryuuichi and Maria alone with the children.

Maria and Ryuuichi then sit themselves down, and since their first impressions did not do much, they began to properly introduce themselves to each other. While Ryuuichi is introducing himself, Maria slightly blushes, looks away, and then finally asks if she could hold the daycare’s youngest child, which was a baby. Ryuuichi is confused, which gives Maria the wrong idea, so she starts to yell in embarrassment, Ryuuichi hushes Maria down by telling her that she was going to aggravate the baby. The baby begins to cry and Ryuuichi rushes to try and soothe her, while he was distracted, Maria gets attacked by the other children of the daycare—who felt she had done something wrongful—the children call her names like ‘villain’. After hearing what the children call her, Maria gets frustrated, she yells at the children for calling her a villain and scares the kids off, she then regrets this and starts to cry. Ryuuichi notices and calls all the daycare children to him, he tells them to apologize to Maria; but Maria then stops him and tells him “I don’t want them to apologize because they were forced to.” Maria then goes on to explain how she pities Ryuuichi for not having time on his hands for other things, and just having to care for children; Ryuuichi smiles, claiming that he enjoys his time with the children, this surprises Maria and makes her scowl while blushing. She throws a pillow at him and yells at him for smiling and starts to cry, explaining that “You’re not pitiable at all! Look at how much they all like you! And, of course, I’m the one everybody hates! Studying is the only thing I’m good at! Which means… studying is all I have.”

After seeing how upset she was, the children run up to Maria and try to console her. She then hugs the children who then start crying along with her.

Episode Three

In Episode Three, Yagi Tomoya is introduced as one of Maria’s classmates. Yagi is considered one of the cute boys in the school, therefore, he is often gifted food by the girls. In the episode, Yagi is gifted chocolate by a bunch of girls, which is against the school rules, Maria gets tired of the commotion and yells at the girls for giving him chocolate. The girls then yell at Maria, calling her a “stick in the mud”, Yagi calms the girls down, telling them that he can accept the chocolate after school. Yagi then turns his attention to Maria and asks her if she knows anything about the Babysitters' club, Maria explains that she was forced to babysit there and Yagi goes on to explain his reason for asking her, claiming that he wanted to become a babysitter himself. He tells Maria that he’d love to join the club, causing Maria to freak out and yells at Yagi, she picks up her school supplies and runs out of the classroom.

While Maria is studying she overhears a conversation with other students about how weird Yagi gets near children. She mistakenly assumes Yagi has an interest in children sexually and rushes to the Babysitters' club to stop Yagi. She bursts through the door to confront Yagi, but instead she witnesses Yagi getting a nosebleed from squeezing Kotaro’s cheek. Following behind, Nezu Chuukichi, Yagi’s friend, tells Yagi that joining the Babysitter’s club was a bad idea. Nezu calls Yagi a “child-loving deviant” which Ryuuichi then catches onto, he gathers all the children into a corner and puts his hands around them to protect them.

Nezu pulls on Yagi, and pulls him out of the door, Yagi apologizes for his disruption and asks if he could still come by from time to time and squeeze the children, which Ryuuichi hesitantly agrees to.

The children run up to Maria and ask her if she could give them chocolate, Maria yells at them, but after seeing how sad the children get, Maria says that she will buy them chocolate tomorrow. This surprises Ryuuichi who was rushing to try and comfort the children. Yagi then chimes in, claiming that he would also try and bring chocolate, his offer was soon declined.

Later on, Ryuuichi and Maria walk home together, he apologizes for making Maria stay late with him but Maria does not accept his apology, she says that she had time to spare. Ryuuichi stops Maria and tells her to wait outside, he rushes to a nearby convenience store and comes back out with chocolate. Ryuuichi gifts Maria the chocolate, which makes Maria flustered, she calls herself just “a stick in the mud”. Ryuuichi acknowledges that but then claims, that's what he liked about her, Ryuuichi then walks home, waving goodbye to Maria, who begins to start blushing. From behind the corner, Ushimaru Yuki then appears, she apparently had been watching Maria and Ryuuichi from the sidelines, and seeing them together, makes her assume they were in a relationship.

Episode Five

While talking, Ryuuichi and Hayato run into Maria, Maria scolds them for talking in front of the bathroom and demands they let her through. Ryuuichi apologizes and moves out of the way, instead of walking into the restroom, Maria mentions that she overheard Ryuuichi and Hayato’s conversation. Both boys were previously talking about “shattering children’s dreams”. Maria asks Ryuuichi if everything was okay between them and the children, Hayato then chimes in, asking if she just wanted to join in the conversation. Maria freaks out, she exclaims that wasn’t her intention, and apologizes for interrupting their conversation. Before she could exactly leave, Ryuuichi begs for her help. Ryuuichi explains that one of the children had beliefs in witches; which makes Maria bring witch hunt learning books to Ryuuichi's classroom. Ryuuichi apologizes to Maria, telling her that the books were too inappropriate for children, which makes Maria lash out; knowing she has no idea what children like.

Quotes
"But I suppose this is hard on you, too."

- Maria in episode two to Ryuuichi.

"Don’t you give me that triumphant smile!"

- Maria after Ryuuichi smiles.

"I dont know exactly why Inomata-San started crying. But the warmer and more reassured you feel, the more the tears flow."

- Ryuuichi thinking about Maria.

Fanon
Though Maria seems to have an interest in Ryuuichi, more popular ships like Inomaru and Hayaryuu are favored more. In cases like Hayaryuu, both characters have more interactions. In cases like Inomaru, though the two do not share as many interactions, the two can relate to each other more often. And because of this, the two are more fond of each other; Maria does not tend to run away from Ushimaru as she does Ryuuichi. Inomaru and Hayaryuu can also be considered ’s rivaling ships as well.

Most fans of School Babysitters ship these two, as said formerly, Maria does have an interest in Ryuuichi.

Fandom
FAN FICTION