Terunene

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

- Nene in Chapter 1

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 Minamoto 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.

After summer break starts, Teru and Akane go to Nene's house and invite her on a date.

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.

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

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. Terunene also isn't popular because of how Teru doesn't reciprocate Nene's feelings and is opposing Nene's other crush, Hanako. 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. Terunene currently has 11+ gen works and 8+ romantic works on AO3.

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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