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BonIzu is the het ship between Ryuji "Bon" Suguro and Izumo Kamiki from the Blue Exorcist fandom.
Canon[]
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Ryuji, who commonly goes by Bon, and Izumo met when they attended Cram School at True Cross Academy, so they could learn how to become exorcists. At first Izumo and Bon didn't talk to each other during or after class, as they both had their own small groups of friends who they have known since they were little.

Izumo laughs at Ryuji's dream.
The situation changes, when during the P.E. Bon swears that he'll beat Satan which causes Izumo to snigger at Bon's impossible goal. She openly criticizes it while Ryuji was still standing in front of a Reaper. This gets the demon to attack the boy when Izumo's harsh words got to him; but Rin Okumura manages to save Bon from the frog-like demon while while Izumo watches the scene in shock. Both of them won't forget this episode later, adding more fuel to their fights.

Ryuji grabs Izumo by her shirt, she tries to slap him back
After a Naberius attacks Izumo and hurts her friend Paku, her own weakness troubles Izumo so much that she isn't able to show her usual high academic performance. When she wasn't able to fully recite the requested scripter Bon did the task perfectly. He brags a bit about his memorizing skills everyone praises him for, but an upset Izumo sees it as a jab at her and comments that he did nothing impressive. Ryuji immediately counters highlighting her earlier failure. Angered, she calls arias an unnecessary baggage. Bon, who wants to be an aria, succumbs to her provocation. Izumo drives him mad, calling him gorilla as well. Bon claims that he never liked people like her, who laugh at other's dreams. Izumo struggles to answer his demanding question, why she wants to be an exorcist. She isn’t ready to talk about her past and bites him back again in defense. The fight escalates drastically when Ryuji grabs Izumo by her shirt, while she reaches to slap him. Thankfully, Okumura brothers interfere: Rin takes a hit, while Yukio uses a collective punishment to explain that the exorcists are a team and can’t be at each other’s throats.
Once Yukio left the class to the dwell on the thought in a locked room, Bon and Izumo began to argue again, as they blame one another for getting everyone into trouble, while an unhappy Rin is stuck between them two. Ryuji calls Izumo out for her rotten personality, warning that she'll end up all alone, if she'll keep this attitude. His words seem to affect her deeply, but before the girl could answer the lights died out and the demon from the previous day attacks.

Overcoming her doubts, Izumo comes to Bon's aid.
Bon subjects to use the Naberius's killing verse and Izumo warns him that the demon would go right after him when Shiemi's plant-made barrier is down. Ryuji knows that she is right, but he prefers to take a risk and help others, instead of watching and doubting everything, so he and Konekomaru Miwa start reciting the needed verse. As the barrier went down and the demon makes its way towards Bon, Izumo overcomes her uncertainty and finally summons her familiars to protect still chanting Ryuji. After the demon was killed, the attack was revealed to be a test to see how they would handle that kind of situation while working as a team, with their teachers cleverly hidden to observe in case they needed to jump in. Izumo believes that she didn't do well in it at all, but Ryuji reassures her that she was certainly better than some of their nonchalant classmates.

Ryuji doesn’t mind to cooperate with Izumo.
The next interaction between the pair happens during the camping arc. Bon, Izumo and the rest of their class were tasked to go into the woods at night to find and bring back demon possessed lanterns. There’re only three lanterns prepared and Bon concludes, that this time they can’t help each other. Izumo agrees, telling that she prefers it that way anyway. However, as soon as Bon gets an opportunity to cooperate, he asks for Izumo’s and Takara’s phone numbers to include them too. Ryuji looks very unamused, discovering that Shima already asked Izumo’s number to go on a date with her. However, the girl refused to share her contacts with anyone.

Izumo tries to reason with Ryuji in vain
When Bon and other exwires return with the lattern, Izumo already brought hers back with the help of her familiars. She teases what took them so long to complete the mission. Suddenly the Demon King of Earth, Amaimon, attacks the camp. When Izumo sees Bon rushing to confront Amaimon and help Rin and Shiemi, she tries to stop and reason with him but all in vain. The girl thinks that he and his friends are crazy for charging up to a Demon King, that’s why she remains in the protective circle like they were told to do, but still keeps an eye out for their return.

Izumo's provocation works again
Ryuji has a hard time accepting the bitter consequences of the camping arc. Not only both Shima and Konekomaru were injured after trying to stop and protect him, Rin also revealed that he was hiding his demon side all this time. Blue flames aside, Bon is very bothered that their next mission takes place in his hometown. On the train ride to Kyoto he ignores Rin's attempt to act as if nothing happened, adding to the gloomy awkward atmosphere between the exwires. Izumo has none of it, siding with Rin, to call Ryuji and Shiemi out. Bon takes Izumo's bait again, losing his temper, when she accuses him of cowardice. The loud voices wake Shura up, and she uses the familiar collective punishment to restore discipline. Shima jokes about deja vu, causing Ryuji and Izumo to blush with embarrassment when he mentions that they haven't made any progress.

Izumo comes up with a new nickname
The Kyoto Inn the exwires stayed at turns out to belong to Bon's family. Here Izumo meets Ryuji's mother Torako and witnesses him being scolded for his choice of hair style. The girl can't help but tease Bon a bit about his high status.
The two didn't spend much time together due to their chores and duties. After Rin lashes out at Ryuji for fighting with his dad Tatsuma, Izumo is first to ask what happened, puzzled by the view of his swollen eye. Later she actively contributes in search for Bon's dad and agrees to take care of him, when Ryuji asks her and Shiemi to. The girl takes her promise seriosly and even risks her own life to get Tatsuma to safety.
Fanon[]
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Even though Bon and Izumo used to act more like frenemies, fighting or trying to get the best of each other during the first few arcs, it hasn't stopped the fans from shipping them together. With the story progressing there have been more and more times when they two have shown a concern for each other, slowly finding a common ground. Those small moments and an undeniable development of their bond won the ship more support. It gained even more fans after the Illuminati arc when Izumo decided to open up to Ryuji and he confessed that he likes her positive changes. After that, the two shared more screentime together, while their interactions became noticeably softer, giving the shippers more reasons to see them as a paired set. On AO3, the ship has 24 fanfics, while fanfiction.net has 42 with only 22 placed under pairing. Along with the ship having a reasonable size fanbase on Tumblr, Twitter and Deviantart.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Izumo/Bon tag on AO3
- Izumo & Bon tag on AO3
- Izumo/Bon tag on FanFiction.net
- DEVIANTART
- BonXIzumo-loversFC fanclub on DeviantArt
- TUMBLR
- Bonizumo posts on Tumblr
- Bonzumo posts on Tumblr
- BonIzu posts on Tumblr
- Bon x Izumo posts on Tumblr
- Izumo x Bon posts on Tumblr
- tumblr@bonizumo
- tumblr@bonizumoweek
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