KibiTao

KibiTao is the slash ship between Kibi and Tao from the Beastars fandom.

Canon
Kibi and Tao and friends from Cherryton Academy and both of them are also members of the drama club. One day, while rehearsing for the school's play, everything seemed to be going normal, like every other day. Until Kibi saw Tao stretching. He approached him and asked him if he could help him stretch as well. And although Kibi was feeling relieved at first with Tao's help, Tao's strength ended up accidentally tearing Kibi's weaker and smaller arm off.

Adding on to the tension the whole school was feeling due to Tem's murder, this caused the tension to worsened, and whem some of the carnivore friends of the drama club wanted to carry Kibi to the infirmary, he was so terrified that he screamed for the carnivores to get away from him. He only accepted Legosi's help. So Legosi takes him to the infirmary to get his arm sewed back on, since it's a very common procedure with high success rates. Meanwhile, Bill and Aoba try to calm Tao and to comfort him since he was feeling terribly sorry for having hurt his friend, and because he knows that people will now start suspecting he was the one who killed Tem, when this is not the case.

After some time, both Kibi and Tao have one very emotional and intimate moment, where they both unite again. And it happens when Tao goes to visit Kibi at the hospital. Tao brings him a bouquet of flowers and apologises for even coming, as he stays near the door, and far away from Kibi. Kibi signals him to get closer to him, with his tongue, deeply shocking Tao, who wasn't expecting that. Kibi asks him if he doesn't need to be at school right now since it's a weekday, and Tao tells him that he got suspended for two weeks. Then, with his eyes closed, and in a rush, he apologizes to Kibi: "it was just an accident... But that doesn't excuse what I did to you. How can I ever make it up to you?!"

Instead of accepting or declining Tao's apology, Kibi asks him to touch his hand. Tao exclaims that he could never do that, that he hurt him and that he decided he will never touch another herbivore again. So Kibi tells him that he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life afraid of carnivores, and he wants to make up with Tao, so Kibi asks him to touch his hand again. So although at first Tao is shaking, he touches Kibi's hands, and when Kibi holds him, Tao gets extremely shocked, because he realizes Kibi got all his nerves connected again. Tao smiles and gets really excited. Realizing this, he asks Kibi if it is okay for him to be happy about this. Still holding his hand, Kibi says "I had to go through a lot of pain, but you were suffering too, weren't you?" and thanks Tao for visiting him. This makes Tao break into tears and get on his knees in front of Kibi, who caresses his arm.

Fanon
KibiTao is a rarepair within the Beastars fandom. This probably has to do with the fact that the both of them are side characters who appear little in the Beastars series. However, it is deeply loved by fans of the ship. Most KibiTao fans started shipping them in chapter 81, when Tao apologized to Kibi and the both of them had a touching, intimate moment. So far it has only 22+ fanfictions on AO3.

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