Takehiro

Takehiro is the het ship between Takezou Kurata and Hiro Kurusu from the Kono Oto Tomare! fandom.

Canon
In the beginning of the ''Kono Oto Tomare! manga/anime series Kurata and Kurusu are both in the Koto Club and Class 2-A. They are currently both still in the Koto Club and are now third years. Kurata is the Koto Club president, while Kurusu is the vice president.''

Season One
When Kurusu first joins the Koto Club, it is for ill intentions: she wants to ruin the Koto Club's friendship after seeing them having genuine fun on the stage. She spouts lies about Hozuki to stir up the other members. But then Kudo easily sees through her lies and Kurata even catches her acting strangely. In the end, thanks to the members' genuine care and trust for Hozuki, Kurusu's plan backfires and instead makes their friendship stronger. She is appalled when Kurata thanks Hozuki for telling them the truth, contrary to the reaction she expected them to have. She runs away and Kurata chases after her. She then openly admits everything and threw rude remarks to Kurata and the club. Kurata, however, only responds with a disappointed tone and expression, saying she must have a lot of free time to come up with a plan of making a fool out of the club members. This agitates Kurusu, who hits the back of his head with her bag, before running away with tears in her eyes, recalling a bitter past that drove her to do what she did.

The next day, Kurata comes to the club in a very bad mood, exclaiming his irritation for Kurusu's senselessness. He is so enraged that even Kudo apologizes for bothering him. Thanks to what Hozuki says about the piece they are rehearsing, Kurata is propelled to face Kurusu and ask her about the reason why she cried the previous day, when he should've been the one offended. Kurusu sarcastically asks back whether he wants to comfort her if she'd tell him why but Kurata immediately debunks it. He tells her that if she has reasons behind what she did, and if she's willing to talk about them, then he's willing to listen. Kurusu denies and leaves, only to be followed by Hozuki who has been eavesdropping the entire time. In the end, thanks to the club members' thoughtfulness, Kurusu wills up the courage to show up in the club room again and apologize for what she has done, making Kurata smile. With that, she becomes an official member of the club.

In their class, she sees Kurata who seems to have a lot on his mind, thanks to the koto piece they are practicing, and comments about how serious and hard working he is. Thinking she is trying to be sarcastic, Kuruta gets a little mad, but then she confesses she's just jealous because unlike him, there's nothing she's actually serious about. To her surprise, Kurata suggests she gives her all to the Koto Club, while smiling kindly at her. He breaks the serious atmosphere by immediately adding that they're aiming for nationals, so it's gonna be a problem if she gives less than her all.

During their visit at Meiryo High Kurata ended up meeting his old friends who just made rude remarks after finding out he's in the Koto club but Kuruta just laughed it off which made Kudo pissed and they got into an argument which makes Kurusu notice that Kurata has a lot to deal with as the club's president, so later on she decides she's gonna become the club's vice president to help him out to deal with those problems. She tells him that she decided to become the club's vice president by coming to visit him at his house and tells him he doesn't have to deal with everything and that she will become the club's vice president and then kurata starts feeling down because he thinks he's being unreliable to the point where she had to become vice president and says he doesn't want to put the burden on her. Kurusu cups his cheeks and says "look at me properly. carrying it all on your own and moping around like you are is way more of a burden. The club's become gloomy and the atmosphere is bad, don't you see that!?" and she said more words to help comfort him and says she wanted to join the Koto club was because she saw "a group of people with seemingly no common ground, supporting each other by compensating for what others lacked." but then he calls her out about the real reason she joined which makes her flustered and she said for him to shut up and that she'll hear him out and then runs out of his room cause she's super flustered. After she leaves, Kurata heads to the dining room for dinner where his dad asks if that was his girlfriend that came today which makes kurata shocked to hear that and he denies it.

Fanon
Kururata is the 2nd most known and loved ship. It was started because both characters have openly admitted to themselves in their thoughts that they like each other. Their bond can be seen as very deep because Kurata knows about her backstory. And they also show to know a lot about each other. The ship currently only has 11 works in AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Kurata Takezou/Kurusu Hiro tag on AO3