Yukiru

Yukiru is the het ship between Yuki Sohma and Tohru Honda from the Fruits Basket fandom.

Canon
Yuki met Tohru for the first tme when she got lost in the neighborhood. Yuki helped her to go back with her mother and he gave her Kyo Sohma's hat, thet he wanted to give back to Kyo but he refused. Helping Tohru motivated Yuki to keep living; because before that moment he was desperate because of his course, the fact that his parents and his brother didn't seemed to care about him and Akito Sohma's negative words; and helping someone made him feel useful. Even so, Yuki lost his happines again when he was confined with Akito again. Yuki and Tohru didn't know that Yuki was the kid who saved her nor vice versa until they get older, though.

Since the high school Yuki and Tohru were classmates, but they weren't friends until Yuki met her by his doorstep when she was conversing with Shigure Sohma. On the night of that day, Yuki and Shigure found out that Tohru was living in a tent, so they offered to live with them. When Yuki was suddenly attacked by Kyo, Tohru accidentaly hug them and Shigure and they all turn into animals (rat, cat and dog respectively. Then Tohru discover about the Sohma Family course, but she promise to keep their secret. Yuki worries that Akito will erase Tohru's memories, but Tohru promise to become his friend again if that happend.

Over time Tohru cares a lot for Yuki and he takes a lot of affection for her, but his feelings for her aren't romantic. Yuki longed for the love and affection that his mother never gave his, so he saw Tohru as a kind of "mother" for him, but he was embarrassed by those feelings and he tried to believe that he was in love with her. At the end Yuki confessed his real feelings to his best friend, Kakeru Manabe, and he ended up accepting them. Tohru is proud for knowing that Yuki finally made friends at the Student Council and feels that he doesn't need her anymore. In adulthood Yuki and Tohru live in different towns, but they are still very close and they usually meet up with their respective spouses.

Fanon
Although Yukiru tends to be overshadowed by the series's main pairing, it is still a pretty popular ship in the fandom. There is still some people that wanted these two to end up together and get disappointed when Tohru ended up with Kyo and Yuki with Machi. In AO3 the ship actually has 98 works, being the 8th most writted Fruits Basket ship, as well as the 2nd most writted ship for Tohru and the 4th most writted for Yuki. The platonic ship between them is pretty popular too because of it's development. There is +50 gen works of them in AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Variations

 * Yukyohru refers to the ship between the two and Kyo Sohma