Hakiro

Hakiro is the het ship between Haku and Chihiro from the Spirited Away fandom.

Canon
Haku finds Chihiro on the bridge to the bathhouse and hurriedly tells her to get back across the river before nightfall. After witnessing her parents' transformations into gluttonous pigs, however, Chihiro panics and runs off. Haku searches for her and once he finds her, tells her that she is becoming invisible and gives her some food, insisting her to eat it or she'll fade away. Chihiro reluctantly agrees and returns back to normal. He tells her that the only way she can rescue her parents is to work in the bathhouse and tells her how to get to the boiler room.

Later, Chihiro sees Haku as a dragon getting cut up by paper. She helps save him by letting him dive into her room. She also helps him to choke up a sigil, which he had stolen and swallowed, and black slug, which was Yubaba's way of controlling him.

According to Zeniba, only true love can break the curse on Haku. In the next scene, Chihiro is flying back to Yubaba's house on dragon Haku's back. As they fly, Chihiro tells Haku of the time when she fell in a river and thought she was going to drown- but he saved her. Then she says the name of the river was Kohaku, which broke the curse and caused Haku to revert back to human form. Chihiro and Haku intertwine their hands as they fall, and Chihiro is crying as she stares at Haku.

At the end of the movie, where they've both been freed from Yubaba, Haku promises Chihiro that they will meet again before letting go. He watches her go to find her parents.

Fanon
Fanworks typically feature aged-up versions of Haku and Chihiro, meeting up again after the events in Spirited Away. Fanfics Often take place years after the events of the movie, and Chihiro either remembers Haku, or doesn't, but something is calling the two together. Occasionally the ship is also depicted during the events of the movie.

On AO3, Hakiro is the most written ship under the Spirited Away tag. It is also the most popular ship in the fandom, as the two were part of a major plot point in the movie. It doesn't have any rival ships, due to its immense prevalence compared to other Spirited Away ships.

Fandom
FAN FICTION


 * Kohaku/Chihiro on FanFiction.Net

Trivia

 * Due to the fact that only true love can break Haku's curse, Chihiro and Haku are canonically in love with one another.