TokaHaru

TokaHaru is the femslash ship between Tokaku Azuma and Haru Ichinose from the Riddle Story of Devil fandom.

Canon
Tokaku and Haru met each other at school. Tokaku was sent to join Black Class in another school with the aim of killing Haru since the class is actually an initiation site for an influential and unnamed clan. The initiation process is a survival game to see if the female candidate, upon reaching the age of 15, possesses the Queen Bee Primer necessary to rule the clan. And Tokaku initially competes with other girls who are also aiming to kill Haru.

On the first day of school, Haru picks Tokaku's interest when she stops before entering the classroom just to hear Haru's sweet voice. Then, during class, Haru gives everyone of the girls in her class a hand-made strap to initiate a friendship. When Tokaku receives hers, she thinks to herself that she would just discard it later. However, after class, when all the other assassin girls are discarding theirs, Tokaku starts wondering why she wants to keep hers and all the other girls' ones. Later, Haru cheerily approaches Tokaku since they're both roommates now. They go to eat dinner together and when they're heading to their room, Nio Harishi approaches them and Tokaku makes it clear that she wants to be called with honorifics. However, when Haru suggests calling her Tokaku-san, she caves in to her desires, thinking about the fact that Haru smells like a sunny place. At night in their room, while Tokaku showers, Haru thinks to herself: "Tokaku, even if you find out about me, don't hate me."

For the next few days, Tokaku is immensely conflicted by the fact she can't finish the sentence in her phone's text messages: "the world is full of..." She keeps coming up with words like "garbage, disappointment, bad luck, sickness", etc. So she decides to ask Haru what her answer would be to complete the sentence, to which she replies "forgiveness". As she hugs Tokaku from behind, hugging her whole body, Haru says forgiveness is when you forgive the mistakes and crimes of people who reflect on their actions, no matter how many times. That shocks Tokaku, who walks out of the room, leaving Haru thinking that that answer is what she would pick if she had to pick one. Later, Isuke Inukai comes to Haru's room to drink some tea with her, even though she doesn't know that the tea will make her unconscious so Isuke can kill her faster. When Haruki Sagae lets Tokaku know about this, Tokaku gets extremely defensive, wanting to run to save Haru. As she sees her running away, Haruki thinks that Tokaku seems to be getting attached to Haru. When Totaku gets to the room, she stops Isuke and lifts Haru in her arms, placing her on the bed, softly.

As Isuke starts throwing things at Haru, Tokaku gets in front, protecting Haru, which Isuke is quick to notice and to question Tokaku for. She leaves with a scoff when she notices that Tokaku is unable to kill her out of panic. When Tokaku wakes up after falling asleep on the floor, she notices Haru staring at her from above, so she starts questioning about the scars all around her body, and on the reason why she's awake when Isuke gave her sleeping pills. Then, Haru confesses that she already knows everyone in their class wants to kill her. So, as she holds Tokaku's hands, she questions her now about why she is protecting her, if it's because of some plan, or "something else". Haru starts telling her all about her past, her family and her powers, which have caused her whole family to die. And she tells Tokaku that she wasn't born to die, but to live. So Tokaku exclaims that there are no 12 assassins in the class, but 11 assassins and 1 guardian. She tells Haru that from then on, she will protect her. And right then, Haru hugs her without saying a word as Tokaku thinks to herself that it was that day that everything changed for Haru and herself. So later in the night, she goes to the secret meeting organized by Nio to discuss all about the game to kill Haru, that if you win, you get any wish you desire. She informs everyone there that she won't let anyone kill Haru, even if she has to kill them to avoid that.

When Tokaku tells Haru about the voting cards and she tells her that everyone wants to kill her, she asks Haru who in the world she is and what she knows. Haru throws herself in Tokaku's arms, hugging her whole body, and tells her that she believes in Tokaku since she's the "important person who saved" her. Haru also tells her that she will listen to anything Tokaku says, assuring Tokaku that there are no secrets between them, though she can't say it all. Haru apologizes for this, but Tokaku tells her to not do it, since she understands. Afterwards, when Kouko tries to kill Haru by blowing off a bomb at the library where both Haru and Tokaku were studying together, Tokaku protects Haru once again, getting herself in risk and ready to fight against Kouko. She ends up surrendering, knowing well that Tokaku is better than her at combat, and reprimanding her for not killing Haru when she has all the opportunities to.

During one of the games orchestrated to kill Haru, Tokaku had to find several cards to decipher the code that could unlock a bomb that was put on Haru's neck as a collar. Once she almost had all of them, Tokaku realized that one of the cards could be in one of the water slides in the garden, so she slided into one of them, unfortunately falling into a trap that locked her inside a heavy cage that dragged her to the bottom of the pool. Gasping for air and almost drowning, Tokaku sees Haru entering the water. And despite Tokaku's pleas for Haru to remain safe, Haru decides to help her, giving her a passionate kiss, that would be their first one. Later in the night, when they're in their room, Tokaku apologizes profusely for always getting Haru into danger, but Haru dismisses her claims saying that she was happy to have Tokaku with her since she was really scared.

The night the typhoon hits the city, Isuke and Shinya plan on killing Haru, so Tokaku fiercely fights against Isuke, trying to prevent her from getting to Haru, and to later go after Shinya. However, Isuke traps her against a wall, and ends up pushing her off a window, high above in the school. Meanwhile, Shinya chases after Haru, who keeps calling Tokaku's name. Tokaku was about to die when Haru's voice in her mind saved her life. Haru tells her not to give up, and she hugs her, she tells her that she will always be by her side. This ends up waking Tokaku up, saving her life, as she goes after Isuke and Shinya with even more anger now. The two of them, in the meantime, were torturing Haru, telling her Tokaku was dead, which made Haru cry out loud, losing all hope of living without Tokaku. At that exact moment, Tokaku arrives, saying that she doesn't want to see Haru cry, since smiling suits her better. And she completely destroys Shinya and Isuke in battle. After the battle is over, Haru runs to Tokaku's arms, relieved because she genuinely thought Tokaku was dead. This deeply shocks Tokaku, who seems very moved by this.

Moments

 * Tokaku gets protective of Haru once again, telling her to get away from the other assassins. Isuke notices this and comments "who is she? her boyfriend?"
 * Nio notices their love too. And Tokaku's mom refers to Haru as "someone important" for Tokaku.

Fanon
TokaHaru is the most popular ship within the Riddle Story of Devil fandom. This is due to the fact that it's the main couple of the series, and the whole story revolves around their relationship. However, the ship also gets some popularity rivalry with Haruki x Isuke and, surprisingly, Shiena x Otoya, despite the fact that both couples are secondary in the series.

Fandom
FAN FICTION