SaneGiyuu
Shinazugawa Sanemi/Tomioka Giyuu
The turbulent relationship between the aggressive Wind Hashira Sanemi Shinazugawa and the reserved Water Hashira Giyuu Tomioka.
What is SaneGiyuu?
SaneGiyuu is the fan-given name for the romantic pairing of Shinazugawa Sanemi and Tomioka Giyuu from Kimetsu no Yaiba | Demon Slayer. With over 45,000 works on Archive of Our Own, it's one of the most popular ships in the fandom.
Why fans love SaneGiyuu
Their initial animosity hiding deeper understanding and respect creates perfect enemies-to-lovers tension with emotional payoff.
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The highest-rated SaneGiyuu stories on AO3, ranked by kudos.
so full of love ( i could barely eat )
Completeby grenades
“...Do you think I’m a bad cook?” A gust of air pushes its way through Sanemi’s open mouth. “What?” Tomioka flushes- no, he blushes, ears and cheeks dark- and looks away. “The ohagi. Was it bad?” Sanemi was expecting Tomioka to kill him, or mock him- but this is so, so much worse.
worship the flame
Completeby bonsaiy
Sanemi encounters a demon with a pesky lust-related Demon Blood Art and heroically exterminates it before it can make prey of anymore innocent humans.This fic is not about that. This fic is about the aftermath, and about Giyuu finally becoming closer to Shinazugawa. Just... not in the way he probabl
with the taste of (you)
Completeby vividlyy
“Fuck you,” Sanemi says without thinking.Giyuu doesn’t miss a beat. “Yes, please.”(Five times Sanemi and Giyuu tried to fuck, and one time they finally did.)
the floating world
Completeby vividlyy
Tomioka Giyuu has spent the last two months undercover in the city of Kyoto to investigate suspected demon activity. When his status updates suddenly stop, Sanemi is sent to the same city to check on him. His own investigating leads him to the city's red light district, where he finally finds Giyuu—
the hues in our hair compliment one another
Completeby beecalm
giyuu hasn't slept in close to three days- the state of his hair is the least of his concerns
to be complete
Completeby favspacetwink
“I want a baby,” Giyuu blurts out as soon as he realizes it.Sanemi makes a strangled noise and his eyes go wider than Giyuu’s ever seen them. For a few seconds, his mouth moves but no other sounds come out as his fingers tighten so much that Giyuu has to stop moving.“Tomioka…”
they say there's good grief
Completeby sabaramond
but how can you tell it from the bad?or, giyuu begins the painstaking process of trying to remember how to be a functional human being.
Jealous of the Moon
Completeby neoqueenserenity
"Shinazugawa, I'm not taking your last name unless I'm getting something out of it." Before he realized what he'd said out loud, he noticed the wind pillar's face contort in rage. “WAIT NO THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT—” He ducked on instinct, barely missing the fist aimed for his skull. Giyuu and
peace in your violence
Completeby favspacetwink
“Mmnh - mmnh - mmnh-”“Better keep it down, Tomioka,” Sanemi breathes in his ear. Giyuu groans into the hand covering his mouth. “What did I just fucking say?”
kiss me instead
Completeby junichirou
Giyuu isn't exactly sure how he got into this kind of situation. Back pressed firmly against a tree, frustrated hands gripping both his wrists and Sanemi's face a good four centimeters away from his.(or, giyuu and sanemi making out in a forest.)
soon as the moon hit
Completeby favspacetwink
Giyuu whines and pushes his hips back, greedy, like Sanemi isn’t giving it to him good enough. Sanemi sinks his teeth in savagely just below the angle of his jaw and sucks hard enough to bruise.Giyuu pushes back again, his leg trembling in Sanemi’s hold. “More - haah, please. Sanemi-”“More?” Sanemi
bet i love harder
Completeby favspacetwink
Kanroji beams. “I think it’s sweet! It’s beautiful, Shinazugawa-san! Your relationship must be so solid!”“What the fuck are you talking about?”Shinobu settles primly onto the floor and says, “Bringing other people into your bedroom.”For a second, it’s so quiet you could hear a pin drop, and the only
uh huh, honey
Completeby vividlyy
Sanemi is a broke university student tiding it over with casual jobs as an adult film actor. Giyuu is a professional in every sense of the word—work is work, with no leeway for personal feelings. They meet at a crossroads: on the same set, way out of their depths, and with a chemistry that's almost
crosscurrent
Completeby vividlyy
Sanemi doesn’t know how he got here.Actually, no. He does. Logically, Sanemi can retrace all the steps it took for him to arrive at this particular place at this particular time: the Swordsmith’s village, bathing in their famous hot springs, with Tomioka Giyuu as his sole company.
you think you're the ocean
Completeby turbulentmoods
"Ah here!" she sings, turning the phone towards Giyuu, presenting what she had been working on. The color drains from his face, and he wonders why God continues to find more and more trivial ways to smite him. The phone screen shows a dating profile, and it takes Giyuu a moment to register that it's
I will always follow
by Arminiae
Different, that was the only word he could think of, different and wrong and somehow… numb. After pretending to be a beta for so long, monitoring his every step and hiding in plain sight, Tomioka Giyuu was finally on the edge of the precipice. Either he told the truth and faced the consequences, or
Toska
Completeby Abatlikeray
'You want him'. A voice purred. 'Why are you holding back?' or Sanemi has to fuck or die because of a demon blood art and Giyuu is far too pretty and much too close.
Can I Trust You With My Everything?
by ballzor
It all started with a stupid Halloween party. All they did was hook up at a party neither of them wanted to attend, and yet somehow they found themselves falling into a dangerous, comfortable routine. Sanemi made it clear he wasn’t looking for a relationship, and Giyuu was fine with that, or so he t
Wasting Your Love on Me
Completeby peachybonsai
Giyu doesn’t know if he has a soulmate, but even so, he still loves to doodle all over his arms in the hopes maybe there’s someone on the other side. So when the silence is replaced by red ink and a sweet unfamiliar tingle, he can’t help but find himself falling in love with the stranger who’s suppo
Mixed Signals
by brountide
Giyuu's crow is old- sometimes confused. He doesn't always deliver letters to their intended recipient.Sanemi doesn't understand a thing about Giyuu, other than the fact hes a stuck up bastard. When he starts accidentally recieving letters from the Water Pillar intended for Tanjiro, he still doesn't
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