History HoYay / CLAMP

** In one arc Kazahaya and Rikuou end up at Yuko’s shop, ''sleeping in the same bed''. Rikuou wakes up first and speaks to Watanuki, the latter who starts stroking Kazahaya’s hair while Kazahaya was still unconscious. Rikuou then grabbed Watanuku’s hand and jerked it away from Kazahaya. Watanuki responds with a suspiciously knowing smile and simply raising his hands to show that he’s harmless.

Creator/{{CLAMP}} is famous for having at LEAST one flavor of Yay in every major work, with lots of implications tossed around but a veritable epidemic of {{UnConfession}}s. While this isn't surprising considering the fact that they started out as a {{Doujinshi}} circle (with many of their doujin works focusing on male/male relationships), none of their works can be officially categorized as [[YaoiGenre Boy's Love]].

For OfficialCouple[=s=] and heavier implications, check out '''[[ShipTease/{{CLAMP}} this page]]'''.

[[folder:Angelic Layer]]

[[folder:Clover]]

[[folder:Kobato]]

[[folder:Magic Knight Rayearth]]

[[folder:Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]

*** In the first chapter, [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/shiritsu_horitsuba_gakuen/v01/c001/7.html Fai "punishes" Kurogane]] for not doing anything with him for the arts festival by sending in a recording of Kurogane [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iv-DJO3Ug singing in the bath,]] which, if you think about it, suggest that the two are ''at least'' living together in some way.

*** In the final chapter there's a touching family scene between the travelers with Syaoran apologizing and thanking his surrogate parents. Fai just gives him a loose hug but Kurogane goes so far as to loop an arm around Fai to ruffle Syaoran's hair and then ''leaves his arm around Fai for a good few pages''. Which arm is that? The prosthetic. And with Clamp, that's some symbolism right there.

[[folder:X/1999]]
* ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' also contains strong implications between Kamui and his dark counterpart, and a lesbian relationship between their late mothers.

[[folder:xxxHolic]]

** During the Valentine's Day chapter, if you technically looked at the exchange of chocolate, after the whole mixup, Watanuki gave the chocolate to Doumeki. It's true that in the story, this doesn't carry implications, however, this is xxxHolic, where everything (including the plot) is subtext and symbolism. If you look at the symbolism of Watanuki giving Doumeki chocolate...

* Yûko (of xxxHolic) simply cannot keep her hands off her female clients or her assistant's female friends. She's partial to tilting their faces up while she leans down, making for an 'almost-kissing' pose at least once with each woman Yûko sympathizes with.

* ''Manga/ClampSchoolDetectives'' has Nokoru and Suoh. Suoh was paired up with a girl half his age, but the manga paid ignorably little attention to this compared to the [[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback episode]] showing how he came to select Nokoru as the "one special person" he would devote the rest of his life to protect.
* ''Manga/{{Gate 7}}'' has Sakura and Tachibana, who might become their newest pairing. They've already been stated to be [[RedOniBlueOni Yin and Yang]] in the ''first'' chapter. And Sakura has offered to lick Tachibana's wounds...

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' lacks an official YaoiGuys pairing, but there's definitely something going on between Lantis and Eagle Vision -- [[LoveTriangle nevermind they are both in love with Hikaru]]. Geo Metro might have something for Eagle as well.

* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' has several couples that are {{Crossover}}s from other series, in addition to original characters Fay and Kurogane. Over the course of the series, they grow from VitriolicBestBuds into caring and devoted comrades who function as the group's parents and, in true CLAMP fashion, can easily be construed as more than just friends.
** In Chapter 38, Fai and Kurogane are in a bar when the singer begins singing a love song, singing how they want ''happiness, to cause your happiness, to be your happiness,'' and how they want them to ''take them elsewhere'', to ''take me.'' Fai then comments that he's been waiting for someone to stay by his side. Cue nearly a hundred chapters later and over to [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c125/24.html blood giving/commitment making]], [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c126/15.html endearing carrying]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Roaring]] [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c164/2.html Rampaging]], [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c164/22.html curse breaking]] and [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c166/21.html Kurogane giving an arm to take Fai away from the past that haunted him all his life.]] Kurogane ended up being by his side the whole time.
*** Actually, it's rare to see them apart. At all. All the way up into the final chapter. Bordering between ThoseTwoGuys, SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan, and the BetaCouple. With LikeAnOldMarriedCouple undertones, Kurogane's [[InsultOfEndearment Insults Of Endearment]], and AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moments that take it to the skies and beyond.
** Multiple parallels may be drawn between Kurogane/Fai and Syaoran/Sakura. Fai himself arguably sets up a notable comparison by dubbing Kurogane and himself "Big Puppy" and "Big Kitty", and Syaoran and Sakura "Little Puppy" and "Little Kitty", making his relationship with Kurogane analogous to that of the teenage lovebirds.
** Fai also gives Kurogane the affectionate nickname "Daddy". Soon after Mokona, putting two and two together, comes up with a brilliant idea to nickname Fai "Mommy". (And no, Fai never refers so to himself. Considering how hard he tried not to get close to anyone, it would have been unwise.)
** Typically, in artwork, the two have complementary colors - white/blue and black/red, and they both carry the [[http://fengshui.about.com/od/fengshuicuresforlove/f/Dragon-Phoenix-Feng-Shui-Cure-Love-Marriage.htm Dragon and Phoenix symbolism]]. (Fai with his tattoo; Kurogane with his sword).
** Fai wears a furisode in chapter 167, just before he and Kurogane reconcile. Not only can such an outfit arguably constitute bridal wear, but, in a historical context, was by the male lovers of samurai before the Meiji period. Who's the only samurai in this party? Yeah.
** Chapter 185 takes the innuendo to a new high, with Fay arranging for he and Kurogane to have their own room. [[spoiler:Ostensibly he simply wants to check Kurogane for injuries, but we are treated to a lovely shot of him casually ripping off Kurogane's armour, and flirtatiously licking blood from his thumb. Fans may extrapolate from that as they choose.]]
** It should also be noted that Kurogane cuts off an arm so that he can rescue Fai from Celes, and never ever complains about it despite the fact that its ill-fitting mechanic replacement causes him pain.
*** It's seen in a flashback with Tomoyo that right after they landed in Nihon, Fai broke down crying and, in the OVA, ''begging'' for them to save Kurogane.
--> '''Fai''': Hurry! He's going to die! If he dies... if he dies, I'll be...
** Before even the arm-sacrificing, Kurogane pretty much bound himself to be Fai's side until death do them part so that he could save Fai's life after [[spoiler: C!Syaoran ate Fai's eye and stole half of his magic]]. Then their relationship becomes tricky since [[spoiler: Fai doesn't forgive Kurogane for saving him, creating a rift in their relationship, symbolized by him calling him "Kurogane" instead of a silly nickname, yet it becomes more intimate since Fai has to feed off of Kurogane's blood.]] And Kurogane doesn't care because [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c126/8.html if he hesitated, Fai would have died.]] It's not until the above [[LifeOrLimbDecision Limb Or Fai's Freedom Decision]] event occurs that they get better.
*** Then it goes on to Fai explaining to Yuuko his reasons [[spoiler: to stop calling him nicknames: if he forgave Kurogane, he would be even closer to him than before. He's afraid that he's already "crossed the line" in their relationship, and he doesn't want to bring misfortune to Kurogane or the kids. If he takes their relationship to the next level, he knows there's no going back.]] Yuuko also refers to Syaoran and Sakura as "the children" a couple times, as if Fai's their parent, a relationship he shared with Kurogane. "When you're in pain, the children are in pain as well."
** Let's not forget that the moment when Fai thought Ashura had killed Kurogane, during his battle with Ashura, was when he truly decided to kill both Ashura (someone he cared for deeply) and himself, for the first time actively trying to kill himself. (Not counting that time in Infinity, where he was probably planning to kill himself with the sword he'd just used to stab Sakura) He obviously did not want to live in a world without Kurogane. The look on his face, and his wordless scream as Kurogane goes down says it all. (Even though he kind of had been trying to kill Kurogane himself only pages earlier. But, as we all know, he couldn't go through with it)
** The final battle against Fei-Wang starts with them facing off against his army of lackeys. They hold a casual conversation the whole time and their general tone can only be interpreted as blatant flirting.

** The Horitsuba spinoff manga is ''bleeding'' with ShipTease:

* Doumeki and Watanuki in ''Manga/XxxHolic'', though it looks to be more one-sided for Doumeki, considering that Watanuki sees him as TheRival. Yuko [[YaoiFangirl constantly hints and teases Watanuki that he suits Doumeki much better than Himawari does]], and she constantly puts them in situations that resembles her matchmaking them. And whenever Himawari herself sees Watanuki and Doumeki interact (read: bicker), she always comments on how they're both so cute and how close they are. Not to mention how much suffering and hell Doumeki has to go through for Watanuki's sake, constantly suffering bad injuries to protect/rescue him. Considering how much Watanuki disliked him and acted like a {{Jerkass}} toward him, none of that would really make sense unless Doumeki... um... really really liked him.
** In chapter 159 Doumeki reveals to Kohane why he stays with Watanuki. He tells of one day he saw Watanuki standing in the rain, sadly cradling a dead kitten. He hears Watanuki say, "I'll die like this too. Alone." Doumeki then vowed to himself that he wouldn't let that happen. After telling Kohane this she asks him to take care of Watanuki and not to hesitate when the moment comes that he'll be needed.
** Whenever Watanuki wants to "pay back" any favors Doumeki gives him (such as ''saving his life'' numerous times), he'll cook Doumeki's [[YourFavorite favorite food]] or take requests to cook something [[PickyEater Doumeki]] wants ([[RunningGag most often with Doumeki making some ridiculous request that's impossible]]). Okay, so Doumeki already [[HoYay really really likes Watanuki]], but the cooking definitely seems to make him fall for Watanuki even ''more''. In fact, a lot of [[{{Tsundere}} dere-dere]], [[{{UST}} romantic and cutesy]] moments between them occur with them bantering and arguing about Watanuki's cooking.

** Oh, and you know the Zashiki-Warashi, that cute girl that's [[ShrinkingViolet completely shy]] and has a huge crush on Watanuki? In all likelihood, "she" is a "he," according to a CLAMP interview where they say that her being female is [[AmbiguousGender not necessarily the case]]. Coupled with the fact that Zashiki-Warashi spirits are normally described as being young boys and rarely being girls, along with how Ame-Warashi usually says "this child" when referring to Zashiki-Warashi instead of actually using a gender.
*** "Not female" doesn't necessarily mean ''male''... Hana from Gate 7 is genderless as well.
*** Hana's gender is not stated yet... Series only begun recently, it can still be revealed.
** If the Horitsuba Drama [=CDs=] count, the fourth CD featured a part where Doumeki put his hands up Watanuki's shirt, and afterwards explains that his hands moved subconsciously on their own. Also at the time he was reading the Zashiki-Warashi's lines from the manga. ItMakesSenseInContext.

** Of course, when the series ended it is revealed that [[spoiler: Doumeki and Watanuki NEVER HAPPENED. In fact, as revealed in the last OAD, Doumeki revealed that he married Kohane. Then in the last chapter, Doumeki died one hundred years later, and Doumeki's grandson ends up watching after Watanuki. To top it all off, we find that Watanuki can leave the shop after living there for one hundred years and that he still decides to wait there for the sake of Yuuko.]] Ho Yay still? [[spoiler: I think not]]
** Not even that stops the Ho Yay. [[spoiler: He married Kohane despite the fact that she loves Watanuki more and apparently WordOfGod has said that Doumeki loves Watanuki more as well. Which has lead some fans to the conclusion that they married and had kids so that there would be someone to take care of Watanuki in their place since they'll eventually grow old and die.]]
** CLAMP's definition of love has always been...tricky. True love, destined one, most important person, and marriage aren't necessarily aligned. The last OAD seems to reaffirm that [[spoiler: Watanuki and Doumeki are bonded by destiny, and it's up to Watanuki to choose if he wants to remain in Doumeki's life. Watanuki says yes. Also note that the entire OAD focuses on Doumeki and Watanuki's relationship. Doumeki is having nightmares which are troubling him just before his marriage. Is it a coincidence that most of Doumeki's dreams contain his first meetings with Watanuki, and the more traumatic incidences involving Watanuki? It's easy to interpret Watanuki as the reason Doumeki finds it difficult to move on to marriage, and hence the nightmares.]]
** And then there's all those times Doumeki saves Watanuki and those TakeMyHand moments.

[[folder:Cardcaptor Sakura]]
* In ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', Touya and Yukito become one of the {{Official Couple}}s by the manga's conclusion, Syaoran openly admits that his infatuation with Yukito is much the same as Sakura's, and Sakura herself states she feels the same way around Kaho as she does around Yukito (yet [[TheDitz somehow]] fails to understand the implications). Tomoyo is sincerely in love with Sakura, but during the second half of the manga bows out gracefully and becomes a ShipperOnDeck for Sakura and Syaoran instead. Tomoyo's mother had a similarly unrequited affection for Sakura's mother.
** In the same episode, they also explain that most of this is because people with power are drawn to each other, often romantically. The [[EveryoneIsBi logical conclusion]] is left as an exercise to the reader.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:RG Veda]]
* ''Manga/{{RGVeda}}'' features a great deal of LesYay thanks to Kedappa-ou and Souma, who are canonically in love and devoted to each other.
** To the point that right after[[spoiler: Kendappa-ou stabs Souma (since she believes that if they won't survive the final battle) because she wanted Souma to die by her hands and no one else's, she [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]] [[MurderSuicide by slitting her throat]] [[TogetherInDeath with Souma's weapon]] because she believe that no heaven is worth living in without Souma. After she dies, Souma continues to fight against Taishakuten, who is holding her back, and tries to crawl back to Kendappa's side. Taishakuten eventually laid their bodies together, because he knew the pain of being without one's lover.]]
** [[spoiler:Taishakuten]] was tragically in love with [[spoiler:Ashura-ou]], who agreed to indulge the former's affections for one night only in return for a [[XanatosGambit rather large favour]].
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[[folder:Tokyo Babylon]]
* Seishirou and Subaru share an iconic, if enormously tragic, relationship first in ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' and later in ''Manga/{{X1999}}''.

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** YaoiGuys [[OfficialCouple Saiga and Kakei]].

* ''Manga/MiyukiChanInWonderland'' is essentially a [[GirlsLove yuri sex comedy]].

* ''Manga/{{Wish}}'', even though the angels and demons are genderless, it's telling that Hisui and Kokyu are deemed as the forbidden couple [[spoiler: even more so when they both take on male forms in Drug and Drop]]. Kohaku also falls in love with Shuichiro. Koryu appears to have a crush on the angel and constantly teases them.

* ''Manga/DuklyonClampSchoolDefenders'' has Takeshi and Kentaro. Kentaro's dream is to become a "bride" and he openly voices his desire to "marry" Takeshi.

[[folder:Card Captor Sakura]]
* In ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'', Touya and Yukito become one of the {{Official Couple}}s by the manga's conclusion, Syaoran openly admits that his infatuation with Yukito is much the same as Sakura's, and Sakura herself states she feels the same way around Kaho as she does around Yukito (yet [[TheDitz somehow]] fails to understand the implications). Tomoyo is sincerely in love with Sakura, but during the second half of the manga bows out gracefully and becomes a ShipperOnDeck for Sakura and Syaoran instead. Tomoyo's mother had a similarly unrequited affection for Sakura's mother.

* ''Manga/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'' has Kaede and Sai; a few of Tamayo's joking comments to Misaki; Misaki's crush on Ringo.

Creator/{{CLAMP}} is famous for having at LEAST one flavor of Yay in every major work, with lots of implications tossed around but a veritable epidemic of {{UnConfession}}s. While this isn't surprising considering the fact that they started out as a {{Doujinshi}} circle (with many of their doujin works focusing on [[YaoiGenre Boy's Love]]), none of their works can be officially categorized as Boy's Love.

Creator/{{CLAMP}} is famous for having at LEAST one flavor of Yay in every major work, with lots of implications tossed around but a veritable epidemic of {{UnConfession}}s.

*** This troper would like to point out that [[spoiler:Fuuma]] — Seishirou was teasingly (and gloriously) hinted at when Seishirou [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome defiled the Shibuya 109 building's kekkai with the blood of an innocent, sending it careening into the Shibuya Station, thus breaking both the Shibuya kekkai and the Yamanote kekkai in one fell swoop]], something that the combined efforts of three Dragons of Earth could not achieve, only to watch it burn whilst discussing sampling delicacies from Tokyo's best restaurants before destroying them all.

* ''X'' also contains strong implications between Kamui and his dark counterpart, and a lesbian relationship between their late mothers.

* ''{{Legal Drug}}'' has Kazahaya and Rikuou. And the whole BoardingSchool arc. And YaoiGuys [[OfficialCouple Saiga and Kakei]].
** Also, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Kazahaya]] receives much HoYay from Saiga and Kakei as well. Kakei once comments that Rikuo looks "elegant" dressed up in a robe.

** Let's not forget that the moment when Fai thought Ashura had killed Kurogane ,during his battle with Ashura, was when he truly decided to kill both Ashura (someone he cared for deeply) and himself, for the first time actively trying to kill himself. (Not counting that time in Infinity, where he was probably planning to kill himself with the sword he'd just used to stab Sakura) He obviously did not want to live in a world without Kurogane. The look on his face, and his wordless scream as Kurogane goes down says it all. (Even though he kind of had been trying to kill Kurogane himself only pages earlier. But, as we all know, he couldn't go through with it)
** Their cameo appearance at the end of ''Manga/XxxHolic'' shows Kurogane and Fai displaying some very familiar and tender body language, including Fai dutifully pouring sake for Kurogane.

* ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'', which takes {{fanservice}} as far as possible without disrupting the plot, has a lot of {{Twincest}}-y LesYay vibes.

Creator/{{CLAMP}} is (in?)famous for having at LEAST one flavor of Yay in every major work, with lots of implications tossed around but a veritable epidemic of {{UnConfession}}s.

* ''KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'' has Kaede and Sai; a few of Tamayo's joking comments to Misaki; Misaki's crush on Ringo.

* ''{{Clover}}'' has Gingetsu and Lan, who are awfully close for parole officer and prisoner. For LesYay, there's Suu and Oruha. There's also Barus and Kazuhiko's innuendo-laden dialogue; Barus is especially fond of Kazuhiko, likes to call him his "prince" and [[ALoveToDismember cuddles with his severed hand at night]].

* ''{{RGVeda}}'' features a great deal of LesYay thanks to Kedappa-ou and Souma, who are canonically in love and devoted to each other.

* ''ClampSchoolDetectives'' has Nokoru and Suoh. Suoh was paired up with a girl half his age, but the manga paid ignorably little attention to this compared to the [[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback episode]] showing how he came to select Nokoru as the "one special person" he would devote the rest of his life to protect.
* ''{{Gate 7}}'' has Sakura and Tachibana, who might become their newest pairing. They've already been stated to be [[RedOniBlueOni Yin and Yang]] in the ''first'' chapter. And Sakura has offered to lick Tachibana's wounds...
* ''DuklyonClampSchoolDefenders'' has Takeshi and Kentaro. Kentaro's dream is to become a "bride" and he openly voices his desire to "marry" Takeshi.

* ''{{Kobato}}'' has Ginsei and Ioryogi.

* Seishirou and Subaru share an iconic, if enormously tragic, relationship first in ''TokyoBabylon'' and later in ''{{X1999}}''.

* ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' has several couples that are {{Crossover}}s from other series, in addition to original characters Fay and Kurogane. Over the course of the series, they grow from VitriolicBestBuds into caring and devoted comrades who function as the group's parents and, in true CLAMP fashion, can easily be construed as more than just friends.

** Their cameo appearance at the end of {{XxxHolic}} shows Kurogane and Fai displaying some very familiar and tender body language, including Fai dutifully pouring sake for Kurogane.

* Doumeki and Watanuki in ''{{XxxHoLic}}'', though it looks to be more one-sided for Doumeki, considering that Watanuki sees him as TheRival. Yuko [[YaoiFangirl constantly hints and teases Watanuki that he suits Doumeki much better than Himawari does]], and she constantly puts them in situations that resembles her matchmaking them. And whenever Himawari herself sees Watanuki and Doumeki interact (read: bicker), she always comments on how they're both so cute and how close they are. Not to mention how much suffering and hell Doumeki has to go through for Watanuki's sake, constantly suffering bad injuries to protect/rescue him. Considering how much Watanuki disliked him and acted like a {{Jerkass}} toward him, none of that would really make sense unless Doumeki... um... really really liked him.

* ''MagicKnightRayearth'' lacks an official YaoiGuys pairing, but there's definitely something going on between Lantis and Eagle Vision -- [[LoveTriangle nevermind they are both in love with Hikaru]]. Geo Metro might have something for Eagle as well.

** In Chapter 38, Fai and Kurogane are in a bar when Xing Huo begins singing a love song, singing how they want ''happiness, to cause your happiness, to be your happiness,'' and how they want them to ''take them elsewhere'', to ''take me.'' Fai then comments that he's been waiting for someone to stay by his side. Cue nearly a hundred chapters later and over to [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c125/24.html blood giving/commitment making]], [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c126/15.html endearing carrying]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Roaring]] [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c164/2.html Rampaging]], [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c164/22.html curse breaking]] and [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/tsubasa_reservoir_chronicles/c166/21.html Kurogane giving an arm to take Fai away from the past that haunted him all his life.]] Kurogane ended up being by his side the whole time.