KobuHino

Kobuhino is the femslash ship between Shirahana Kobushi and Hawakata Hinome from the Im: Great Priest Imhotep fandom.

Canon
In the first few chapters of the manga, Kobushi is seen trying to reach out to Hinome. This is significant since her reputation and family background were notorious for being 'cursed.' This is due to her father and family being rumored to be occult collectors, her Meiji-Period house is seen as haunted, etc. At first, Hinome attempts to push Kobushi away in fear that she would end up accidentally hurting her (both physically and reputation-wise).

However, thanks to Im's encouragement and help (exorcising the Magai Sekhmet, who was the perpetrator behind her fire curse), Hinome finally regained the courage to become friends with Kobushi by the end of Chapter 1. Reaching out to her with a simple 'good morning,' despite her prior muteness and apologizing for her cold attitude the night before (seen somewhere during chapter 1).

In Chapter 3, we are given a little bit more perspective into Kobushi's point of view regarding their friendship. We learn that due to her popularity and reputation, her friends seemed to feel pressured into being nice to Kobushi just because of it. And after learning about that, it made Kobushi hesitant and reluctant to reach out to others. She desperately wishes to just be treated normally. So when Hinome did (by throwing a dodgeball at her face), she becomes relieved that someone decided to treat her as a normal person instead, and not like glass.

This sparks the beginning of Kobushi's attempts to befriend Hinome.

Throughout the entirety of the manga, Kobushi and Hinome are shown to be great friends. They make summer plans together (prior to Hinome's trip to Egypt), eating lunch together (Chapter 3), and doing various other activities together. This slowly, but surely, starts to ground Kobushi as someone extremely important to Hinome, hence her protective behavior against her other friends whom she brands as 'weirdos' (namely, Imhotep, her father, Khonsu, etc).

In Chapter 40, however, she is also shown visibly distressed and shocked when Apophis starts listing off the victims of the mass Magai outbreak throughout the world, and Kobushi's name was in that list, implying that she was one of the deaths because of the Magai. This causes Hinome to collapse, before attacking Apophis out of rage, demanding that he 'give them back' while crying.

Fanon
Due to the small fandom, may be considered a rare-pair due to the nonexistent shippers. However, the pairing does have potential, as it parallels much of Djoser and Imhotep's relationship (Imhoser) in the fact that Kobushi is Hinome's first friend and the one that brought her out of her shell, despite Hinome's horrible reputation (due to a curse) back then. These two are portrayed as close friends and colleagues in the manga, but sometimes this trope may be associated with a friends to lovers kind of trope.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * In the Afterword of the manga, Makoto Morishita also discloses that they become partners (illustrator and children's book author) in their career's, showing that even when the world is reset, they are still able to find each other and become friends.