IzuUkeMike

IzuUkeMike is the friendship between Izumo Kamiki, Ukemochi and Miketsu from the Blue Exorcist fandom.

Canon
Izumo has known Ukemochi and Miketsu, who also go by Uke and Mike, ever since she was little and back when they were her mother's familiars. As well as two of the white fox gods that her mother, Tamamo Kamiki, leaves the house chores to, that Izumo points out to Tamamo when she called herself a good mother, while Uke and Mike being in their humanoid form tires them out. Tamamo's personality also has Izumo acting as the responsible one the Kamiki family, along with her knowing that Uke, Mike and the other white foxes would one day serve under her when it is time for her to uphold the duty of subdue the curse of the nine tail fox. Because demons could only been seen by people who were hurt by a demon or are half demon, people tent to judge Izumo whenever they see her talking to Uke or Mike outside the shrine which is why she prefers their company alone, on or outside its grounds, and tries to be worthy of their respect for when it is time for her to take over.

One day as Izumo tries to copy her mother's dance to keep the Killing Stone at bey, but messes it up and gets scolded by Miketsu for not doing it right alone side a few other attending fox demons, Izumo gets approached by members of the Illuminati who are interested in the Killing Stone. Not long after Izumo's encounter with them, both Uke and Mike try to convince her mother to not preform her duties in the state of mind she is in. When Tamamo got possessed by the Nine Tails Fox, Uke and Mike protect Izumo and her little sister, Tsukumo, from her, until Izumo called the Illuminati for help on the subject.

Because of the plans that Michael Gedoin has for Izumo, once her mother's body begins to fail and didn't want the Illuminati to use Tsukumo, Izumo inherited Ukemochi and Miketsu has their new master and tamer. To help Izumo learn the proper skills to become a tamer that Uke and Mike would obey, she went to True Cross Academy to become an exorcist in their Cram School, when she turned sixteen. Izumo reviles her familiars to her classmates in their first demon taming class, where their teacher warns them that a tamer needs to be strong in order to prevent their familiar from turning on them. When Izumo's only human first, Noriko Paku, was attacked by a Naberius, shortly after Paku tells Izumo that she wants to drop out of Cram School, she summons Uke and Mike to fight the demon in order to save Paku, Paku's earlier works to her had caused Izumo's mind and weak to be filled with negative emotions that have both white foxes turn on her. Rin Okumura manages to save Izumo from them before he gets her to tear up the pieces of paper she used to summon them, in order to make both Uke and Mike disappear. After the insistent, Izumo hadn't been herself and didn't try to summon the two again, until she and her classmates were attacked by the Naberius in the dark. Once they were summoned the two asked Izumo why she did so and to give them a reason to serve her, to which has Izumo ordering them to obey with a sound mind before she gets them to attack the demon.

Uke and Mike continue to serve Izumo whenever she calls upon both or just one of them. During Izumo exorcist training when her class went on a camping trip in the woods, she was tasked to find and bring back a demon possessed stone lantern, she summons Uke and Mike to help her bring it back to camp by getting them to call upon their large number of little siblings to do the heavy lifting. When the rest of Izumo's class brought back their lanterns, she didn't tell them how she brought it back or the part Uke and Mike played in it. After the camping trip, where Rin was revealed to be the son of Satan, Rin accidently set a few seats on their train ride to Kyoto on fire, to which has Izumo summon Uke to put it out with the Sacred Sake of Heaven.

Fanon
Even though Izumo and her familiars don't have that many moments that Rin and Shiemi have with their familiars, Kuro and Nee, in the Blue Exorcist manga/anime series, it hasn't stopped fans from supporting their bond in the BE/ANE fandom. The ship's support grew after their shaded backstory was revealed in the Illuminati arc. Despite Uke and Mike talking to Izumo like she slave drives them when she summons in the Kyoto arc, there is a chance that a part of them cares about Izumo and vice-versa, since they have known each other for a long time.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * The front cover of volume 12 is of Izumo with Uke and Mike, as well as the siblings of the two white foxes.
 * The Kamiki family are a branch of the Inami family who are a human clan who have been mixed with fox gods and gained divine power from their mixed human-demon blood. The main bloodline, however, had weakened over time, which makes Izumo and her family a little different from ordinary folk.