TakuTen

TakuTen is the slash ship between Shindou Takuto and Matsukaze Tenma from the Inazuma Eleven Go fandom.

Inazuma Eleven Go
Tenma arrives at Raimon Junior High School. Here, he challenges Tsurugi after the latter insults soccer. After Tenma finally manages to get the soccer ball from Tsurugi, the main team of Raimon arrives. Tsurugi summons his team, the Black Knights, and the two plays the match to see whether everyone gets replace or not. Tenma eventually arrives on the field after seeing Raimon losing 10-0. He tries to keep the ball so to make sure the other players don't get hurt. Unfortuneltly, that means that the opposing team is going for him. Shindou tells to a tired and injured Tenma to stop doing that. But the latter tells him to not give up while reaching and grabbing his shirt (specifically on the lightning symbol).

That shakes something inside Shindou, and he cries because he can't protect his team despite being its captain. But the tears are quickly replaced with rage, and he summons for the first time his Keshin, which shock everyone. He is unable to listen to Tenma telling him to calm down, and he goes to fight Tsurugi. But the Black Knights leaves, and their coach says that Raimon won because of Shindou summoning his Keshin. The latter collapses and Tenma has to attend the ceremony. Shindou wakes up in the infirmery, with Kirino by his side. He asks him what happened because the only thing he remembers was Tenma grabbing his shirt. Later, Tenma keep trying to pass to Shindou, but he doesn't move. At the end, he snaps and shoots. The shot goaled, and this means Shindou disobeyed the Fifth Sector. This leads to the coach Kudou being fired.

After that, Shindou doesn't show up to trainings, despite having Endou Mamoru as a new coach. He gives a letter to the coach, telling that he's leaving the team. But Tenma hears that and refuses to let Shindou go. Eventually, he goes to his house and defies Shindou. If he wins, Shindou will have to stay on the team but he loses, Shindou will be able to leave.

Inazuma Eleven Go Chrono Stone
After being back from Okinawa, Tenma is surprised that he can't find the soccer club. He wanders around, until he meets up with Shindou. He asks what happening but Shindou responds with "There never was a soccer club". Tenma obviously thinks he's joking but Shindou leaves by saying he should have been in another school to join a soccer team.

After resolivng the time paradox, Tenma finds all his teamates (sans Tsurugi) back at the soccer club. They have no idea who Tsurugi Kyousuke is and when they learned what is happening, they all want to solve the problem. But the next day, the team is late, leaving only 4 soccer players (including Tenma and Shindou) and Wonderbot, the time machine driver. They all travel back in time without the rest of the team.

Much later in the season, Tenma gets self-esteem issues while watching how Taiyou and Shindou are acting. Is he really worth being the captain ? Their next destination is quite the unusual one, as they need to go to Camelot. Everyone thinks it's impossible, but they all go anyway. They are separated during the travel. Tenma wakes up in the fictional world of Camelot. And learns that the rest of Raimon soccer team has knights. In private, Shindou talks to Tenma about the situation. No, they didn't lose their memories but they have to act that way as they're worried it will create a huge paradox in the fictional world. Tenma tells how he feels about the role of captain Shindou gave him. But Shindou reassure that he (Tenma) was a good choice despite being so different from himself (Shindou).

Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy
Before the selection, Tenma and Shindou talks about how much the Raimon team has change alongside Tsurugi and Shinsuke. But after the selection, Tenma and Shindou start to argue about their new teamates. Shindou wants only him, Tenma and Tsurugi to lift the team, while Tenma wants to give a chance to all of the newcomers of the national team.

Fanon
Despite being a ship of two main characters, it's a rare ship. Shindou is being shipped more often with Kirino and Ibuki, while Tenma with Tsurugi and Aoi. However, it seems to be popular in the Japanese fandom. In the West, Shindou and Tenma are seen as brothers, or father and son respectively, due to the one year gap they have.

Fandom
FAN FICTION


 * Matsukaze Tenma & Shindou Takuto tag on AO3

WIKIS
 * TakuTen on the Inazuma Eleven Shipping Wiki

Trivia

 * In the dubbed version of Inazuma Eleven, all of the characters are given Western names. Matsukaze Tenma is named Arion Sherwind, and Shindou Takuto is named Riccardo Di Rigo.
 * The two share a song called Aoki Tamashii.
 * In the Go games, when Tenma finds Shindou's notebook, the latter is actually nearby. And he hears Tenma crying. He runs off and you have to run after him.

Variations

 * Gryphon Trio - the ship between Tenma, Tsurugi and Shindou