YukiShi

YukiShi is the het ship between Yukio Okumura and Shiemi Moriyama from the Blue Exorcist fandom.

Canon
Yukio first met Shiemi after he became a Exorcist Instructor and was finally allowed to go into the supply shop, that is owned by Shiemi's family, with Yukio's guardian, Shiro Fujimoto. Both Yukio and Shiemi were nervous, as Yukio takes a few things seriously while Shiemi is very shy, even though Shiemi's mother believed that Yukio's presents would be able to draw her daughter out. As Yukio and Shiro were leaving Shiemi worked up the courage to approach Yukio so she could give him a four-leaf clover, while addressing him as "teacher" when she called out to him. Shiemi tells Yukio to be careful at work as she gave the clover to him, Yukio thanks her for, before asking Shiemi to not call him "teacher" which gets her to give Yukio the nickname of "Yuki". Yukio excepts it the nickname as it is "cute" and "great", and tells Shimei so while blushing. Since then Yukio makes time to say to hi Shiemi whenever he goes to the supply shop, as it allows Shimei to develop a little crush on him.

One night after Yukio asks Shiro why he raised him and his older twin brother, Rin and didn't like the answer or what Shura had told him earlier, Yukio runs away from home and ends up at the supply shop where Shiemi finds him sitting in the rain alone before she joins him. Along with letting Yukio share her umbrella, from showing concern of him getting wet. Shiemi tells Yukio that she loves spending time in the rain from how it smells, after Yukio told her that he actually wanted to take a walk in the rain and was at first a little worried of Shiemi finding it weird. Until Shiemi happily tells Yukio that she is glad that she isn't the only person who likes spending time in the rain, the reasons she shared with Yukio got him to think about how he never saw it that way. The two then begin to talk about their parents, before Shiemi tells Yukio that it is okay to loosen up from how Yukio always appeared to be straight-laced. Even though their time in the nightly rain wasn't anything special and Shiemi's nerves gets her to chatter on and on while Yukio listens, it did get him to return home back to the monastery.

Two years later, Shiemi began to loss the ability to walk on her legs, like her late grandmother and when doctors alone weren't able to help Shiemi, Yukio asks her mother how Shiemi is doing before she asks him to take a look at her daughter. Believing a demon is involved Yukio agrees to help. When Yukio went to see Shimei he was annoyed to see Rin with her, as he had told Rin to wait for him outside the shop's grounds, while Shiemi is happy to see Yukio and had originally believed him to be the older brother from how mature Yukio acts; compare to Rin. Shiemi didn't like the fact that her mother asked Yukio to take a look at her, as she doesn't believe that the problem with her legs were due to a demon, Yukio manages to convince her to let him take a quick look at them to see. Once Yukio saw the root-like marks her legs he knew that a low-level demon in the garden is stealing energy from her, he asks Shiemi if she had talked to one but Shiemi denies it, before a fight with her mother gets causes her to pass out. Knowing that Shiemi needs to open up her heart on the subject that lured the demon to her, Yukio lets Shiemi confuse her reasons for staying in the garden to Rin, since he was the one who got her to do so before making his presents known to them. After Yukio explains that he is now able to exorcize the demon from her and that she'll be able to walk again, the demon in question didn't want to let Shiemi go and began to use her as a human shield. With some help from Rin, they were able to kill the demon once Yukio got it to separate itself from Shiemi, after Yukio catches Shiemi in his arms and sees her coming around, as well as the fact that the roots are now gone from her legs, he helps Shiemi to stand on her own two legs again.

The next day, Shiemi began to attend Cram School where she became one of Yukio's students, since she always wanted to see Yukio teach. On the day Yukio gives out the results of his class's written exam, he tells Shimei that while she has done well in it she shouldn't use the nicknames he gives the plants as her answers. Before Shiemi's next lesson, Yukio spent sometime with her and Rin, as he explains Ryuji Suguro, he also asks Shiemi how she is getting used to school since it is changing her into a more confident person, and that she should keep up the good work. Shiemi agrees to do so as she thanks Yukio for his kind words, before he parted ways with them he tells Shiemi and Rin to not be late for P.E.. Their paths don't cross much at the academy, as Shiemi is only taking Charm class and Yukio is mostly focused on his own school studies whenever he isn't teaching his class or keeping an eye on his brother. As a teacher Yukio can't show favouritism towards Shiemi or his slow at learning brother.

Fanon
YukiShi is one of the main het ships of the Blue Exorcist fandom, as well as it commonly rivalled with RinShi and YukiShura, along with it being shipped beside Rizumo. Fans of the ship believe that Yukio and Shiemi should end up together from them knowing each other for a long time, as well as the two showing signs of attraction for one another. Another group, however, believe that Shiemi should be with Rin and have Yukio with Shura; who knew Yukio a lot longer than Shiemi. Like with Rin, some believe that Shiemi would be able to help Yukio with his demon abilities, has the anime has Yukio becoming a half demon like his brother and Yukio is currently fighting his own inner demons in the manga. Along with people worrying that Shiemi might drive the Yukio and his brother apart, from how both brothers appear to strongly like her. Rin was even willing to let his brother win Shiemi from believing that she likes his brother, and from how Rin used to look out for Yukio when they were little.

A few Tumblr users use their Tumblr accounts as YukiShi fanbases and blogs, some Tumblr posts are YukiShi moments from the manga, as well as drawings of the ship. AO3 has 44+ het fanfic and only 10+ gen fics, along with fanfiction.net having 129 fanfics on the two with only 8 placed under pairing.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Shiemi/Yukio tag on FanFiction.net
 * Shiemi/Yukio tag on FanFiction.net
 * Shiemi/Yukio tag on FanFiction.net

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