ShirYuri

ShirYuri is the het ship between Shiro Fujimoto and Yuri Egin from the Blue Exorcist fandom.

Manga
Sometime after Yuri lost her whole family to a fire as a child and was wondering about the streets, she comes across Shiro's hideout where Yuri's hunger gets her to ate his snacks before falling asleep on his bed. When Shiro found Yuri in his hideout he coldly wanted her gone and had threatened to kill the young girl, Yuri apologies for entering his home without permission before explaining that she has no family or home of her own to return to, and didn't want to go back into the cold snow.

Anime
The second part of the 2011 anime doesn't fully follow through with original manga, along with the anime's version of Shiro and Yuri's brief backstory, involving the birth of the twins, airing long before the manga revels it.

Both Shiro and Yuri are exorcists that know each other quite well from the Vatican, where Shiro serves under (the anime version of) Yuri's father, Ernst Frederik Egin. Shiro doesn't agree with Yuri being open-minded when it comes to demons, as funning over demons isn't something that exorcists like them should do. A year and a half after Yuri cut ties with the Vatican and began to live in the forest with demons, as the "White Witch of the Forest", Shiro was sent by Ernst to bring her back and to make sure that she is free for the "spell" that they believed that the demons placed upon her. Shiro had at first tried to bring Yuri back from reasoning, along with reminding her why she cannot become close with demons, but Yuri wouldn't have it and clamed that their exorcist idles are the main reason why humans and demons are countably fighting against one another. Which is why she won't go back with him and will stay in the forest with her demon friends. After reporting back to Ernst and was given permission to take whatever methods to free Yuri from the demons she calls her friends.

As Shiro tried to kill the demons he saw Yuri with, she tries to stop him from doing so but Shiro wasn't having any of it. From believing that Yuri is under their control and killing them is the only way to free her from their hold on her. With the anger building up within Yuri the demon possessing her body, Satan, coated Yuri in his blue colored flames. This shocks Shiro as Yuri had showed no sign of being possessed by the Demon God, but was still able to exoreic the said demon out of Yuri's body. Sometime later, Yuri wakes up to find Shiro sitting next to her on the bed and noticed how his half damaged attire meant that Satan might have attacked him after she blanked out. This has Yuri telling Shiro that she is sorry for letting Satan attack him. Shiro then asks Yuri how long Satan had possessed her and was shocked to learn that she left the God of Demons do so willingly, before she tells Shiro that she is currently pregnant with Satan's child. Along with her having no regrets for her choice.

When news of Yuri's pregnancy reached the Vatican, after Shiro brought her back, they had assumed that Shiro is the father of Yuri's baby and locked him up for it, despite Shiro's claims of it being Satan's and not his. Yuri confirmed that Shiro was telling the truth and that she is planning to keep and raise Satan's spawn. After Yuri was sentenced to death as a witch, but had manged to escape with Satan's help, Shiro was released from prison so he can be given the task to find and kill Yuri, as well as Satan's child, with Mephisto accompanying him. Shiro knew that Yuri would have returned to the forest she called her home and by the time he finds her in a cave, Yuri had just given birth to her twin sons she calls Rin and Yukio. She was happy to see Shiro before she passes away, Shiro begged Yuri to not dye and to stay alive, but she was already gone. Mephisto reminds Shiro that he still has a task to kill her children, but after one of Yuri's new born sons smiled at him Shiro remembers Yuri's words about humans and demons. This gets him to make the decide to raise Yuri's children as his own, and to make sure that they grow up as humans then demons.

Yuri's grave, that Rin and Yukio find many years later as teenagers long after Shiro dies, is believed to have been done by Shiro after Mephisto left him with the new born boys and their deceased mother. Rin and Yukio talk about how both Shiro and Yuri were great parents as they were theirs.

Fanon
Long before the story of how Shiro ended up raising Yuri's twin sons was revealed in the original manga, the anime releases its own version of their story and inspires fans to support their relationship. Some have Yuri and Shiro raise Rin and Yukio together as friends or a couple living a new life from the Vatican, or simply have Shiro hiding Yuri and her sons from the Order, in their fanfics and fanart of the ship from the Yuri!Alive AU. A moment from the manga sometimes has the two raising Shura beside the twins. The ship's support grew after the manga finally reveals its version of their story, of how they met one another to the moment when Shiro became the adoptive father of Yuri's sons. As the manga as Yuri telling Shiro that she is in love with him, along with Shiro slowly relising that he left the same way about her. Along with fans rivalling the ship between Shiro x Yuri with SataYuri. ShirYuri is one of the most written ships for Yuri on AO3, while their limited screen-time in the anime and original manga is why there isn't much fanwork on the ship.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Shiro/Yuri tag on FanFiction.net
 * Shiro/Yuri tag on FanFiction.net
 * Shiro/Yuri tag on FanFiction.net

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