ShunUki
Kyouraku Shunsui/Ukitake Juushirou
Classmates under Yamamoto and captains for two thousand years, the lazy romantic and the gentle invalid are Soul Society's oldest institution — each other's first choice in every crisis. Ukitake's death leaves Shunsui drinking alone in canon, the ending shippers have been rewriting ever since.
What is ShunUki?
ShunUki is the fan-given name for the romantic pairing of Kyouraku Shunsui and Ukitake Juushirou from Bleach. With over 3,000 works on Archive of Our Own, it's one of the most popular ships in the fandom.
Why fans love ShunUki
Two millennia of companionable devotion makes this the fandom's definitive old-married-couple ship.
Most Popular ShunUki Fanfics
The highest-rated ShunUki stories on AO3, ranked by kudos.
Castle Toppler
Completeby Saturn_Effervescent
We stared each other down, my eyes dark against his laughing brown. After all these lives, all these timelines, I finally had him before me."Aizen." A promise off my lips as my comrades and loved ones fall around me, tulip petals in that first crisp winter night.Every time a new name falls from his
Accidental Deity
by Adain (pocketTherapist)
Ichigo earns the favor of a god early on. Things go...differently.
All Hail The New King
by WitchZakuro
After the battle with Aizen, Ichigo struggles with the new distance between him and his family and friends. Being normal would have been easy if a new power hadn't woken within him.With the curse on the Arcobaleno broken, the group wants to relax and unwind for once. leave it to Reborn to find the m
A Rose By Any Name
Completeby seasoliloquy
Ukitake Jyuushiro has known since their Academy days that he's in love with Kyouraku Shunsui. He also knows that he hasn't got a chance.But when he starts receiving flowers from a mysterious admirer, he starts to hope.
Swinging the Clock Back
Completeby Cyny
He was going to kill Mayuri slowly. So very slowly. Not only was he surrounded by people that he had seen die, but he was being stalked, again, by a pervert! He hated time travel and when Kisuke stopped stopping him, the clown was dead.
Turn Back the Clock
by KingVeralidaineBookdragon
“Well, Ichi-kunnn, think of it this way. You were holding it at some point in time. And time, is fluid. Fix this, Ichigo. Not just this. Something went wrong. Events were not supposed to progress this way. And you’re the keystone. You bring change. Fix this. I know you can.”“You want me to…” the tee
I'll Thank You Properly in the Morning
Completeby SocialDegenerate
Shunsui is drunk, and Juushiro agrees to drag him back into bed.
By the Koi Pond
Completeby phoenixreal
Canon Divergent. Ichigo disappears without a trace just as he's gotten used to being powerless. After six years, everyone assumes that Ichigo simply doesn't want to be found. Then, training a new sixth division Shinigami, Renji comes across a horrific scene, and the shell of the person he once knew.
Extraneous Variables
Completeby Copperfur
Collab fic, much in update and changes coming.Mostly written as a Alternate Universe of phoenixreal's Unexpected Kingdom at Copperfur's request!Post Rukia rescue. Ichigo's hollow enacts a change, and Aizen's arrancar retrieve a dangerous variable for their master.
Red String of Fate
Completeby RyuuKevin
A few years after the war, Soul Society is living in peace. What if the Soul King decided to put all Shinigamis in a red string of fate, fated to their partners regardless of their status? The way they discovered their fated partners surprisingly...hurts. Main Pairing: Kuchiki Byakuya x Kurosaki Ich
Black and White
Completeby honeyMellon
Kyoraku Shunsui had always been something of an enigma to Juushiro. Women followed Shunsui everywhere, but while the man seemed to enjoy their company, there never was any particular woman who stayed by his side. Juushiro wondered what was it that drew the women to the man.
Epiphany
Completeby RyuuKevin
Ever since Kurosaki Ichigo stayed at the Kuchiki Manor, he had come to 15 realizations about Kuchiki Byakuya...What kind of things would he discover about the captain of the 6th? [Main Pairing: Byakuya x Ichigo]
If It’s A War They Want - Then A War They’ll Get
Completeby NightWriter93
Set five years after the ending of Treat You Like A Queen. Ichigo settled nicely into his role as ruler of the Hollows, started a nice little family, and finally relaxed like he deserves when a wounded Shinigami wandered into his land. Dying from their injuries on enemy land sends the Seretie into a
Beneath The Masks
Completeby Kyuubiluver342
To be changed without their consent. To have their lives ripped away from them. To be turned into monsters. The Gotei 13 captains never thought one of their own would do this to them, but Kurotsuchi has once again proven himself a devil in disguise. Newly turned Visoreds with an executioner's blade
Sweet Dreams
Completeby Kyuubiluver342
The end of the war was silent. There were no cheers, no joy, no celebration, nothing. Just a cold realization that the war was over, but so many had been lost and the path to rebuilding Soul Society was going to a long, hard one. In the midst of it all, the 4th division has a problem. Kurosaki Ichig
I'll Sharpen My Teeth on the Cut of Your Skins (Bite Me Tenderly)
by ThePrimordialSoup
Ichigo Kurosaki has his hollow instincts, the behaviors that come with it, and hopefully, one day, partners that do not turn him away.
Twin Souls
Completeby liralenli
This entire story is based "about 1000 years ago", when Yamamoto's school was started, and Kyouraku and Ukitake were attending the Academy. It had lots of sword play, but it also has a very sweet shonen-ai sort of romance, which is denied by Kyouraku, between the two Academy boys.This is an account
The Emperor Makes a Match
Completeby AriadneKurosaki
Just shy of his twenty-first birthday, Ichigo becomes the new ruler of the Seireitei Empire. It comes with...complications. He wasn't ready to take the throne yet, for one thing. And he only has a year to find a bride. Oh, and someone is trying to kill him, and maybe his family.It's a good thing tha
Exhale
by phoenixreal
Sometimes, things are not what they seem. And sometimes they are so much worse.Canon Divergent, post fullbringer arc: Ichigo ends up in the hospital after a failed attempt to treat himself in his human body. He ends up unintentionally revealing truths that no one wants to believeWARNING: ISSHIN IS T
El Juramento
by thekurosakiconundrum
When Ichigo volunteered to join the diplomatic mission to the newly rediscovered planet Hueco Mundo, he wasn't expecting to be stricken by a strange ailment of unknown origin. Even if he had, somehow, managed to predict that, he certainly wouldn't have guessed that the ailment would leave him cravin
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What does ShunUki mean?
ShunUki is the ship name (portmanteau or nickname) for the pairing of Kyouraku Shunsui and Ukitake Juushirou. It's used by fans to tag and search for fanfiction featuring this relationship.
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