Best GiyuuShino Grief & Mourning Fanfics
The best grief & mourning GiyuuShino (Tomioka Giyuu/Kochou Shinobu) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Canon kills characters and moves on; fandom holds funerals. Readers return to grief fic because it treats mourning as a story worth telling rather than a scene to survive.
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The water flows
Grief & Mourningby daisyffff
Five years after the final battle, Tomioka Giyuu continues to mourn the loss of his beloved comrade, Kocho SHinobu. Believing she sacrificed her life to defeat the demons, he carries on with a quiet existence, haunted by memories of the woman he never had the chance to confess his feelings to.Unknow
Perfect Synergy
by AnneofDorne
Kanao Tsuyuri, ambitious Junior Research Dermatologist at Ubuyashiki Pharmaceuticals, fights for funding to bring her proven psoriasis treatment to market. Paired with endlessly optimistic Marketing Coordinator Tanjirou Kamado by CEO Kagaya Ubuyashiki, their forced "synergy" battles corporate sexism
Cages of Gilded Silk
by Wisterialove27
In the rigid, pristine world of Tokyo’s ultra-elite, marriages are transactions and hearts are liabilities.Tomioka Giyuu, heir to the multi-billion-yen Hibana Group, is bound to a cold, transactional arrangement. Kochou Shinobu, the brilliant heiress of Seirei Pharmaceutical, is trapped in an engag
This Time Around
by IdkImNotThatCreative
In all of this life, Tomioka Giyuu has only experienced it once. When he was a child, he met Sabito and suddenly so many of those memories that had been a blur before were crystal clear. During a chance encounter, he hears the name Kochou and instantly recognizes it as a name tied to fuzzy memorie
Common Courtesy
by W4TER_LILY
When Giyuu barges into Shinobu's office one evening, drenched from the rain and asking - or rather, demanding - her hand in marriage, Shinobu is inclined to laugh. (Un)fortunately for her, Giyuu is, as always, dead serious.
The Marriage Complex
by napnap_com
When Shinobu, a down on her luck university student, is running out of apartment options, the last person she expects assistance from is the almost-stranger she never thought she'd see again.Sure, the assistance in question is an allegedly mutually beneficial agreement and sure—the stranger in quest
Interlude
by dovetorn
Shinobu has always been decisive. There was only one specific point in time that she wasn’t; when she was buried beneath a mountain of things she craved and despised in equal measure that she was unable to decide which one to reach for. ( And so she left. ) or: Shinobu got everything she ever wanted
I Hope This Email Finds You In Love
by lettersfromnowhere
Kanroji Mitsuri is falling behind: in her stalled career, in her nonexistent love life, in her never-ending quest to finish her latest doujins in time for the next convention. Rengoku Kyojuro's given up on the stage, contenting himself with a quiet life narrating audiobooks and caring for his ailing
Falling (Old Setting: Giyuu × Shinobu × Giyuu)
by soysauce456
Authorized repost. Original author: Yaotai (瑶台). Please support the original author on the original platform if you enjoy this story. If two versions of Tomioka Giyuu existed in the same world, the price would be Kochou Shinobu's exhaustion. She cannot completely push away Peacock Giyuu, nor can she
The misadventures of Tomioka Giyuu's attempt at making friends
by Megas957
Literally just little drabbles of things that go on with Giyuu as he tries to make friends, or people dragging Giyuu into mishaps that he needs to navigate, while a little butterfly has to deal with the aftermath.
Interlinked Destinies - Giyushino
by Watabug
Tomioka Giyuu once believed his fate was merely to survive and carry the pain of those who had fallen. However, standing before the divine, he was granted a chance to return to the past to save his loved ones and rewrite their cruel destinies.The condition was to accept the thread of fate of a stran
Giyuu's Journal: A Journey Through a Forced Marriage
by imatchapiece
Sudah jatuh, tertimpa calon istri? Tidak ada yang pernah tahu jalan hidup seseorang, bukan? Tomioka Giyuu tidak pernah menyangka akan menikah karena sebuah kesalahpahaman semata. Nampaknya, kemampuan komunikasinya yang buruk kini benar-benar menjadi masalah serius. Apakah Giyuu bisa menghadapi kehid
(Shinobu x Giyu) Friendliness is difficult with Tomioka-san
by Boodeerie
Following Kanae’s death, Shinobu tries to find her way through her new title as the Insect Pillar, while also developing relationships with the current Hashiras. Should be pretty interesting to watch pan out. Especially after she takes a liking to a certain Water Pillar…
The Lavender Butterfly and the Water Guardian
by galocasta
On a rainy day, two little girls asked for a story. The mother of one of them decides to tell a tale about how she met her husband and all the hardships they had to get through first. All adapted for a children's bedtime story.
Ocean Eyes
by soysauce456
"I think... perhaps we could grow old here together and live the ordinary life we've always wanted." My own summary: Shinobu dreams of an ordinary life. Giyuu dreams of never losing her again. In a world that was never quite real, those two wishes slowly find each other.
猫 (Cat)
by soysauce456
My own summary: A cat watches Tomioka Giyuu and Kochou Shinobu from the warm corners of the Butterfly Mansion, and comes to one simple conclusion: Humans are an incomplete species.
【GiyuShino】Ginger Wine
by soysauce456
There's a harsh winter inside her heart—one she can never overcome. My own summary: "You, you're really not cute at all!" A little ginger wine leaves Shinobu more honest than she'd would like and Giyuu quietly follows her into the snow, realizing that some wounds cannot be warmed, not even by ginger
【GiyuShino】Crush²
by soysauce456
An ordinary college student AU featuring a fair amount of ObaMitsu (Obanai × Mitsuri), TanKana (Tanjirou × Kanao), and SaneKana (Sanemi × Kanae) At its core, it's about college life with an extremely messy and morally complicated web of relationships. I haven't had much free time lately so updates w
【GiyuShino】Old Snow
by soysauce456
When Tomioka Giyuu looked back on that day, it was simply a snowy day no different from any other in his memories. My own summary: Shinobu believes kindness is pity, concern is judgment and weakness is unforgivable. Giyuu simply wants her to stop hurting herself. Neither of them is particularly good
What It Takes to Survive
by CaseyTheCreator
Sabito was meant to die during Final Selection. A tragic end to a character full of promise. His demise was meant to initiate character development in his friend.Instead, he survives.The threads of fate intertwine and entangle him, forcing him to live. It hurts, and the memories haunt him, but he co
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Why Grief & Mourning GiyuuShino Fanfiction Works So Well
Tomioka Giyuu/Kochou Shinobu — The Insect Hashira needles the stoic Water Hashira about being hated by everyone, the only person who bothers teasing him at all. Both lost beloved older figures to demons and hide grief behind opposite masks — her perpetual smile, his perpetual silence — a symmetry the fandom couldn't ignore.
Grief & Mourning — Stories that sit with loss: characters mourning a death canon rushed past, or grieving losses that aren't deaths at all — homes, futures, versions of themselves. Grief fic ranges from raw immediate aftermath to the strange long tail of missing someone for years.
Her smiling barbs are the closest thing Giyuu has to friendship, and fans love peeling back both facades at once. Canon kills characters and moves on; fandom holds funerals. Readers return to grief fic because it treats mourning as a story worth telling rather than a scene to survive. That's why grief & mourning GiyuuShino fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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GiyuuShino · Humor
Fic written to make you laugh: crack premises played straight, group-chat chaos, banter-driven romcoms, and comedies of errors starring characters canon treats with deadly seriousness. One of AO3's biggest tags for good reason.
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