TouYuu

"I think I might be falling for you."

- Touko to Yuu

TouYuu is the femslash ship between Yuu Koito and Touko Nanami from the Bloom Into You fandom.

Canon
Yuu Koito was on her way to find the student council room when she accidentally overhears someone confessing his feelings to a girl. The boy got turned down, but the girl tells him that there is nothing wrong with him and that no matter who asks her out, she would still reject them because she’s not planning on dating anyone. After the boy leaves, she turns around, noticing that someone is eavesdropping, and asks if someone is there. Yuu comes out, explaining that she didn’t mean to do it and that she’s looking for the student council room. The girl willingly guides her towards the room. As they arrive, she introduces herself as Touko Nanami and tells Yuu that she’s a part of the student council.

The next day, Yuu mentions to her two friends that she met a cool, older student. Her friends misunderstand what she meant and tease her that she’s finally interested in those things. Yuu explains that it was a female student. After class, Yuu once again visits the student council room. There, she asks Touko if she’s ever met someone she liked. Touko responds by saying that she does feel bad for the people she rejected, but she just can’t find herself interested in that kind of stuff. She continues that every time someone asks her out, she’s never felt her heart race. Later that night, Yuu messages the boy who was courting her that they should talk tomorrow.

Finally, having their alone time in the student council room, Touko notices something is bothering Yuu, so she has no choice but to tell Touko about the boy and that she’s planning to turn him down because she didn’t get that special feeling when he confessed. After the phone call with the boy, Yuu thanks Touko because she couldn’t have done it if she wasn’t there. She notices that they’re still holding their hands together, which Touko initiated when the call began to give her motivation. It was clear that Touko is nervous because her hands are starting to sweat. She asks Yuu if she doesn’t feel special about anyone, to which Yuu responded with a no. Touko pulls her in for a hug and confesses that she might be starting to fall in love with her.

One time on their way home, Touko’s love confession got mentioned, and Yuu tells her, as they were crossing the railway track, that she knows she didn’t mean anything weird about it because, after all, they’re both girls. She carries on by saying that even if they weren’t, she just doesn’t fall for people. Touko, surprised, suddenly stops walking. As the train finally crosses the spot where they are, knowing that the other side can’t see them, Touko turns around and kisses Yuu on the lips.

From this point on, the relationship between Yuu and Touko seems to be blurred and confusing, even to the characters themselves: especially from Yuu's point of view. Touko's feelings are obvious and blatantly stated to the audience, her intentions are clear and its evident from her actions and words how much she loves Yuu. She buys her presents, goes out of her way to see her, helps her study, and is honest with her. Their relationship, both platonically and romantically, is founded in this trust. Yuu on the other hand is much harder to read. She is convinced she can't fall in love with anyone, nevertheless Touko. She even states this to Touko multiple times flat out, that she will never be able to fall in love with her. However, Touko is more than okay with this. In fact, it's one of the reasons that she loves Yuu in the first place.

As we come to find out later, Touko has completely molded herself to be who her late-sister was. A charismatic, desired, high-achieving, and confident individual. But, because of this, she has completely lost all sense of her own identity. She struggles to find who she is when she's not playing the character of her sister, which is why her love for Yuu is so special for her. She states that her love for Yuu belongs to her, and that it gives her a sense of self. Because her love isn't her sister's, it is her own, it can't possibly be a facade. Though, with this lost sense of identity, Touko has grown to hate who she is. She has no respect for her own being and see's no meaning to who she is outside of making up for lost space. Touko finds comfort in the fact that Yuu can't love her, after all, it's the reason she fell in love with Yuu.

There are many moments where we see Yuu denying her own affections for Touko simply because she refuses to break the promise she made with her to "not fall in love." Yet, Yuu's feelings begin to become much more apparent to her, the point where she can't continue to be in denial of them. Sports day and the Student Council Play are where this is incredibly obvious to readers, but it's also shown through smaller moments between the two throughout the story. She yearned to feel like someone was special to her but denied herself of this because of how much she cared about Touko.

As time passes, Yuu has slowly begun to reconsider how she feels towards Touko and abruptly confesses her love. She misinterprets Touko’s shocked response as rejection and runs away, causing Touko to realize that she has been overly imposing towards Yuu.

Yuu confessed her feelings to Touko shortly before the 2nd years went on a trip, leaving not only emotional but also physical distance between the couple. During this trip, Sayaka, one of Touko's closest friends, also confesses to her. Although the pair don't end up together, their conversations during and after the confession helped Touko understand her feelings for Yuu. A large theme throughout the story is the rejection of change, the refusal to live with change and the fear of it. Touko is scared that if her or Yuu changes that she won't love her anymore, and so she runs from this. We see this when Touko begs for Yuu not to fall in love with her and even when she doesn't want to put on the stageshow because of her character's revisions in the second draft of it. Yet, Sayaka's confession reminded her that it's its okay for people to change, because love can change with it.

While on the plane back from the trip, Touko asks Yuu to meet with her in the student council room. Although in the scene before this we see Yuu telling a friend that she wants to give up on love, Yuu sees this and immediately runs to meet Touko. They see each other and have a heartfelt conversation where Touko clears up her feelings towards Yuu. She explains her response to the confession and reassures her of her love. They comfort each other and end up in a relationship after this.

Yuu and Touko began to meet up at various places and gradually become more emotionally and physically intimate. This culminates when they go bowling together, agreeing that whoever wins gets to request something from the other. Yuu wins and asks to sleep over at Touko’s house. Touko agrees, confessing she had wanted to arrange that as well. On the day, Yuu arrives at Touko’s apartment, where they spend the evening together. To Touko’s surprise, Yuu comes on to her, and they have sex.

Some years later, Yuu and Touko have graduated high school, enrolled in college, and are now engaged.

Fanon
TouYuu is the most popular ship in the Bloom Into You Fandom due to the story being mainly about them both falling in love with each other. When the anime was airing the ship became more and more popular. They are often seen together in official artworks.

On AO3, the ship is the most written for the Bloom Into You tag, as well the most written ship for both characters.

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