NephNaru

NaruxNephrite is the het ship between Naru Osaka and Nephrite from the Sailor Moon fandom.

Canon
In the classic anime, Nephrite is sent to gather energy for the Dark Kingdom. At one point is disguises himself as Tuxedo Mask to lure in girls who might be Sailor Moon. He suspects that Naru is Sailor Moon but when he finds out that she isn't he and drains Naru's energy surprised at how much he gets.

After a series of failures Nephrite decides to find the Silver Crystal to avoid Queen Beryl's punishment. He would use Naru once more in his plan as he transferred his last Youma into her to use as a middleman before it transferred again into Princess D so that the later could steal a crystal but it later turned out not to be the Silver Crystal.

Zoisite would take pleasure in his failures wanting him out of the way so he would not be competition for searching for the Silver Crystal. When Nephrite called upon the stars to locate the Silver Crystal, he was delivered the Black Crystal, which showed him an image of Naru. He approached her asking about the crystal giving a vague story about needing it. Naru thinks that it is a jewel from her family store and gets it for him. But it turns out not to be the Silver Crystal either. The Black Crystal keeps reacting to Naru. He decides to take her but a Youma Zoisite sent to watch them attacks thinking that they had the Silver Crystal. Sailor Moon shows up and destroyed the Youma. When Sailor Moon attempts to fight Nephrite Naru gets in the way forcing Sailor Moon to stop and Nephrite escapes.

Zoisite sends three monsters to kidnap Naru. Nephrite rescues her but is killed by one of them shortly after.

Fanon
Generally viewed as a tragic romance. It is fairly popular in the anime fandom but since Nephrite is dead it doesn't rival other ships much. It is a more popular shipping for Naru's character though.

Fandom
FAN FICTION