Yatori

"I want to stay with you! I want to be with you forever!"

- Hiyori to Yato Yatori is the het ship between Yato and Hiyori Iki from the Noragami fandom.

Canon
Yato and Hiyori meet by chance when Hiyori pushes him out of the way of an incoming truck. Prior to this, they had made eye contact on the street, but Yato did not think much of it since most humans cannot see him. In fact, while he knew that Hiyori was trying to save him, to most onlookers, it seemed that Hiyori leapt into oncoming traffic for no reason. This event causes Hiyori's soul to be knocked loose, causing her body to fall asleep randomly and her soul to wander free. Eventually the two meet again at the hospital Hiyori's family owns where Hiyori is seen resting after the accident, Yato visits Hiyori in order to make sure she's okay but Hiyori freaks out until and tries calling the police on Yato until Yato mentions he's a stray god.

When Hiyori is released from the Hospital and she meets Yato again, as she trying to find a cat named 'Milord'. During their third encounter, Hiyori saves Yato from a phantom, then the phantom grabs Hiyori from her leg until she makes a move inspired from her watching martial arts matches. Hiyori then eventually succeeds. After the showdown, Yato notices Hiyori's spirit glowing and her sleeping body over the fence, Hiyori freaks out asking Yato if she were dead, to his response he tells her she isn't. Yato explains to Hiyori about her condition, as she's a living Ayakashi or phantom, which can be the reason why Hiyori's spirit falls out of her body. She begs for Yato if there is a way if he can fix, which the tells Hiyori she might have to live that way. Hiyori then loses conscious as her spirit returns back into her body. Later Yato can be seen carrying Hiyori's asleep body.

She commissions Yato, for five yen, to help bind her soul back to her body. Kazuma realizes that Hiyori most likely has feelings for Yato, but it's known to be a sin for mortals to confess their love to Gods, meaning that Gods and mortals couldn't be together. After listening to Kazuma, Hiyori weeps and realizes she's in love with Yato. And as of manga chapter 79, Yato admitted that he too loved someone, while looking down at the capyper inari that Hiyori had made for him, smiling at it.

Quotes
"I'll make Hiyori the happiest girl in the world"

- Yato

Fanon
Yatori is the most popular ship in the Noragami fandom. The ship have over 520 illustrations tagged with 夜トひよ (YatoHiyo) on pixiv. In 2016, a "Yatori Week" was hosted from May 22 to May 28.

On AO3, it is the most written ship for both characters. As well as the most written in the Noragami fandom.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Hiyori/Yato on FanFiction.Net
 * Hiyori/Yato on FanFiction.Net
 * Hiyori/Yato on FanFiction.Net

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PIXIV

Trivia

 * Yato drew Hiyori in Chapter 53