Terunene

"Yashiro-san...You're a very special girl."

- Teru in Chapter 39

Terunene is the het ship between Minamoto Teru and Yashiro Nene from the Toilet-bound Hanako-kun fandom.

Canon
Teru picks up Nene's pencil case and Nene develops a crush on Teru. Though, she does not learn his first name, only calling him "Minamoto-senpai", nor does she learn about Teru's younger siblings. Nene summons Hanako and wishes for her crush to fall in love with her immediately. She describes Teru to Hanako as the prince of the whole school. Hanako begins to help Nene with her crush on Teru, though he cannot make Teru immediately fall in love with her.

Hanako gives Nene a note card and suggests she should give Teru a present, calling it "Operation Present". Nene says she feels confessing her love is too sudden, so she decides to thank him for picking up her pencil case. On Teru's desk, Nene leaves some summer vegetables and a heart-shaped note that reads, "Thank you for the other day." The summer vegetables confuse everyone and turn present turns into an unsolved mystery.

The next plan Hanako helps Nene with is "Operation Button of Love". Teru loses a button and Hanako suggests that Nene sews another one on for Teru. As Nene is about to offer to do so, another girl notices and causes others to offer their buttons to Teru. Hanako then helps Nene with "Operation Lunch Box" where Nene will use her summer vegetables to make Teru lunch. Hanako says it would be boring to make an ordinary lunch and tells Nene to do a character bento. Upon seeing the lunch Nene prepared, Teru sees how ominous the lunch looks and takes it to the lost and found because he thought someone dropped it.

The last plan Hanako helps with is "Operation Corner of Love" where Nene has to jump out from behind a corner just as Teru is walking past it. Nene jumps out too early and collides with Kou, Teru's younger brother, and causes him to fall down the stairs.

Hanako suggests that Nene tells Teru that she likes him. Nene rejects the idea and later finds out that Hanako has mermaid scales. She discovers the mermaid scales place a curse and form an extremely powerful bond between two people if they swallow scales from the same mermaid. Nene swallows a scale and says she doesn't care if she's cursed as long as she can date Teru. Nene finds Teru and sees a girl confessing to him. Teru turns her down, saying he's in love with someone else for a long time. Before Nene can get Teru to swallow a mermaid scale, she turns into a fish and has to be saved by Hanako.

In the 4PM Bookstacks, it's revealed that Nene keeps an exchange diary with an imaginary boyfriend, with the boyfriend being Teru. In the diary, Nene called Teru dreamy as he gave a speech at a school assembly. Nene says in the diary that Teru shouldn't stare at her so much since their relationship is supposed to be a secret. Nothing in the diary is actually true except for the fact that there was a school assembly. Nene later reveals that she also names horseradishes after Teru.

When Kou and Nene make donuts, Teru stops by since he bought Kou the ingredients. After Teru leaves, he asks Kou if he likes Nene.

After the severance happens and summer break starts, Teru and Akane go to Nene's house and invite her on a date. Nene agrees and the three of them go to an arcade. While Nene is worried about how her lifespan extended because of Aoi dying, Teru is excited and lively, suggesting that Nene and Akane play some games too. The trio then goes to karaoke and they order food. Teru notices that Nene is about to cry, and he makes an excuse to leave. Teru tells Akane to look after Nene while he's gone.

When Teru gets back, Nene is eating the food Teru ordered. Teru makes a comment about how Nene had become a hamster. Teru checks up on Nene and asks how she is feeling. After knowing Nene is okay, Teru invites her to his place so that they could talk.

Teru, Nene and Akane arrive at the Minamoto Residence, though Nene and Akane are exhausted. After a meal, the three of them talk about things, mainly Aoi and the supernaturals. At the end of the conversation, Teru says that he likes Aoi. Instead of being jealous of Aoi, Nene is excited to hear this and wants to hear more. Teru says that it was a joke and leaves while laughing. With Kou, Nene also leaves.

While fighting Hanako on a train, Teru claims that he will kill Nene himself if Aoi dies in Nene's place. As Teru is about to excorcise Hanako, Kou saves him and he runs away with Nene.

After School Hanako-kun
In Day 2, Teru joins Nene, Kou, Hanako and Tsuchigomori in playing the Game of Kings. Nene becomes king and guesses that Teru's number is 1. She orders 1 to pin the king against the wall and whisper that he loves her. Nene guessed wrong and 1 turned out to be a Mokke. Kou becomes king and, to cheer Nene up, tries to get Teru to do what Nene wanted. Kou says the wrong number and a Mokke again pins Nene against the wall.

In Day 18, Hanako pins Nene to a wall. Teru steps in and corners Hanako. Hanako explains that he just wanted Nene to focus on something else since she was having nightmares. Teru calls Nene cute, exciting her and causing her to think of Teru a lot. That night, she had a dream that she was a princess and Teru was a prince on a horse. When Kou asks Teru why he said what he said to Nene, Teru explains that exorcising dreams is part of their job.

Quotes
"He's handsome, smart...and he's nice to everyone. He's just amazing. He's the prince of the whole school!"

- Nene about Teru in Chapter 1

"If it means Minamoto-senpai and I can be a couple, then I don't care if I'm cursed!"

- Nene in Chapter 1

Fanon
Despite Nene's crush on Teru being an important part for the beginning arc of Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Terunene isn't a popular ship within its fandom. Many people prefer to ship Nene with Hanako or Teru's younger brother and Teru with Akane or Aoi. Though, some fans like the idea of Nene trying to gain the attention of her crush, Teru, only to find that he liked her back all along. Some suspect that the person that Teru likes is Nene as he blushes whenever talking to her and isn't as cold towards her. This theory is also fueled by how Teru called Nene a special girl.

Some more reasons Terunene isn't popular is because of how Teru doesn't reciprocate Nene's feelings and is opposing Nene's other crush, Hanako. It also recently became less popular because of how Teru told Hanako he would kill Nene if Aoi died in Nene's place.

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Variations

 * HanaTeruNene refers to the ship between the two and Hanako
 * TeruAoiNene refers to the ship between the two and Akane Aoi
 * Terukanene refers to the ship between the two and Aoi Akane