Yori

**Yori** is a student of the Yamanouchi Kinja school in Japan whom Ron Stoppable has a crush on. After Kim, she appears to be the most popular of Ron's crushes. In the episode "Exchange", Ron shows repeated interest in Yori, both at their meeting, where he is stunned by her appearance, and again later, when Fukushima is informed that he was right to save a pretty girl. At this time, Ron is not aware that Yori herself has feelings for him. On their second meeting, Ron tells her of his relationship with Kim, which she accepts. Kim shows clear jealousy of Yori, possibly due to Kim believing her to be her greatest competition for Ron's affections.

## Personal information

### Allies

Ron StoppableKim Possible

Tom and Jerry

## Background

### Personality

Yori
 was very respectful of everyone she met, the only exception being
established villains. Even among people she knew well, she never failed
to bow as a sign of respect. She was quite concerned with honor,
attempted to behave honorably at all times, and encouraged others to do
the same. This is also how she frequently challenged Ron to take the
lead role when they were together, and Ron tended to respond to her
expectations, both as a way of both proving himself a hero and hopefully
 impressing Yori as a bonus. Admittedly, most of the things that Yori
stated would be Ron's honor to do could also have been considered either
 grunt work, or something a gentleman would be expected to do in a
lady's presence (which Ron seemed largely unaware of). Some examples of
this included;

1. Your honor to carry the bags (Ron brought a huge pile of luggage to the airport and expected someone else to carry them).
2. Your honor to walk (all the way up the mountain where the Yamanouchi

 Ninja School is located, and then back down upon his departure).

1. Your honor to go first (when they were about to enter a suspicious and likely dangerous building.

Yori also thought that Ron was very funny with what she called
"American style jokes", though in most cases Ron was just uninformed or
accident-prone, and was not actually trying to amuse her.

### Appearance

Comparable
 age to Ron and Kim, Yori is a Japanese schoolgirl with black hair, tan
skin. She was most often seen wearing "combat clothing" of black *shinobi shōzoku*,
 considered the "traditional ninja uniform"; sometimes with a hooded
mask but generally without. While at the ninja school, especially during
 practice, she wore a white *keikogi*, or "practice uniform". On
the occasions when Yori needed to appear out in the open as a normal
student, she wore a light blue with plaid skirted traditional Japanese *serafuku*, or "sailor" school uniform.

However, the one thing which Yori always wore was a scarlet red headband.

### Abilities

Yori
 appeared to be a fairly talented ninja, and could usually hold her own
in battle unless considerably outnumbered. On the few occasions when
they fought, Yori's battles with Kim suggested that they were very
evenly matched in skill. In addition, Master Sensei seemed to place a
great deal of faith in Yori, which suggested that she was likely either
one of his top students, or the most trustworthy.

### Equipment

* *Tessen* handheld war fans.
* *Kusari-fundo* or *surujin* grappling chain.
	+ Both ninja weapons are identical except one end of the *surujin* has a spike instead of a second blunt weight, and all we saw was the one end with blunt weight.

## Relationships

Yori
 treated Master Sensei with the respect due to a father figure and
teacher, obviously caring for and respecting him deeply. She was greatly
 worried for his safety when he was abducted by DNAmy, and upon being
reunited with him, rushed to embrace him, before recalling her manners
and greeting him with a bow.

Yori was the first person that Ron Stoppable met during his trip
to Japan, and served as his guide. They became fast friends, and though
Ron was unaware, Yori developed a crush on him. Ron came to see Yori as
his "favorite ninja," while Yori came to see Ron as a trusted friend and
 Yamanouchi's champion. As a result, she would call upon him each time
the school was in trouble. Ron didn't realize Yori's true feelings until
 Kim confirmed them, and the next time they saw each other, Ron and Kim
were dating, which Yori did not seem at all bothered by.

Yori's relationship with Kim Possible got off to a rocky start:
Kim first met Yori when she abruptly appeared at Middleton High School,
and Ron (sworn to secrecy about his time in Japan) came up with a very
flimsy lie to explain Yori's presence. Though Yori greeted Kim as a
respected comrade, Kim was instantly suspicious of her (aided largely by
 her own jealousy over the fact that Ron had an attractive female friend
 that he failed to tell Kim about). Once Ron was allowed to share the
secrets of Yamanouchi with Kim, she gradually began to return the
respect that Yori had for her from the start. After Kim and Ron began
dating, she urged Ron to inform Yori of this. Somewhat surprisingly,
Yori approved of Kim and Ron as a couple, adding that she believed Ron
was Kim's destiny and did not seem at all hurt by the announcement.

Yori stated that Hana Stoppable was like a little sister to her.
Curiously, they do share similar skin tone and hair color, and Hana's
exact biological origin is unknown.

## Trivia

* Yori bears a striking resemblance to the character **Karai** from the 2003 incarnation of *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*.
* Her name means "reliable" in Japanese.