Kira and Stiles

Kira became friends with Stiles and Scott shortly after she moved to Beacon Hills
She quickly joined the pack and was instrumental in exorcising the Nogitsune that was possessing Stiles
They worked together to deal with other supernatural events in Beacon Hills such as the Deadpool, the Dread Doctors, and the Beast
Stiles defended Kira to his dad when she was arrested for murdering a Chimera
The two remained on good terms when Kira moved to Shiprock to train with the Skinwalkers

### Ship Name

Stira

**The relationship between Thunder Kitsune Kira Yukimura and Human Stiles Stilinski.**

Kira and Stiles' friendship developed a few weeks after Kira and her family moved to Beacon Hills in the autumn of 2011. She had already been acquainted with Stiles and his best friend Scott McCall due to having history class together at school, but they were not formally introduced until lunch later on in the day, when she overheard Stiles talking to Scott, Allison Argent, Lydia Martin, and Isaac Lahey about the side effects Allison, Scott and Stiles were experiencing following their performance of the Surrogate Sacrifice Ritual several weeks earlier. Kira, having heard of the symptoms (which included lack of control over transformations, dreams, sleepwalking, and hallucinations of dead loved ones), recognized them as a side effect of the Buddhist concept of Bardo, which involves progressive states between life and death.

Because Scott was developing romantic feelings for Kira, Stiles, as Scott's best friend, also became closer to Kira as well. When Kira was captured by William Barrow and brought to the Electric Substation, Stiles and Lydia found a message written on a chalkboard in the science lab that indicated Barrow intended to kill Kira. However, when Kira ended up unconsciously defending herself with foxfire, revealing that she was supernatural, Stiles became somewhat suspicious of her and warned Scott not to get closer to Kira until they knew whether or not she was a "psychotic monster" intending to kill them all. This feeling soon passed when it was learned that Kira was not evil, but instead was a Thunder Kitsune, an electrokinetic fox spirit in the form of a human.

When it was revealed that Stiles was possessed by a Void Kitsune known as the Nogitsune, Kira immediately joined the McCall Pack and did everything in her power to find a way to defeat the ancient dark Kitsune without killing Stiles in the process, even going against her parents in order to do so. This was ultimately successful when Scott gave Void-Stiles the Bite just before Kira stabbed him in the chest with her magical katana, reverting him to his fly form and allowing the pack to trap him in the Triskelion Urn.

From then on, Kira, Stiles, and the rest of the McCall Pack went on to work together to deal with a variety of supernatural threats to Beacon Hills, starting with the Deadpool, a hit-list of supernatural creatures that included most of the pack's members, along with Kira and her mother Noshiko Yukimura. When Kira and Scott were captured by the Werejaguar Kate Argent (who was secretly working with the Werewolf Peter Hale in order to get revenge on Scott and steal his Alpha powers, respectively) and brought them to La Iglesia, Stiles was insistent that they go to Mexico to find them, even going against his dad's orders and risking grounding to do so. Stiles would then defend Kira a second time when she was accused of the murder of an unnamed female Chimera; after his father Sheriff Stilinski ordered her arrest, Stiles went to him and argued that he knew Kira was innocent in hopes of getting her leniency.

Though Kira ultimately left Beacon Hills to learn control over her powers and train with the Skinwalkers in Shiprock, New Mexico, she and Stiles remained on good terms, with Stiles remarking that the pack always finds its way back to each other in the end.

## Throughout *Teen Wolf*

* Season 3B
* Season 4
* Season 5A
* Season 5B

In *Anchors*, Stiles was in history class, taught by the new teacher Ken Yukimura, when the man embarrassed his daughter, Kira, in front of the entire class by announcing that she hadn't made any friends yet, though it was Stiles' best friend Scott McCall who really took an interest in her.

Kira was in the hallway talking to her dad when she saw Stiles wrap his arms around Scott from behind and lead him into a nearby empty classroom and watched them with both concern and confusion; unbeknownst to Kira, Scott was dealing with the side-effects of the surrogate sacrifice ritual he had participated in with Stiles and Allison several weeks earlier that was causing him to lose control over his Werewolf transformation, among other issues.

At lunch time the next day, the McCall Pack had gathered at a picnic table outside and were discussing the strange symptoms Allison, Scott and Stiles were experiencing (dreams and hallucinations for all three of them, an inability to tell what is real or not for Allison and Stiles, and being "haunted by dead relatives" for Allison, among other things) when Kira suddenly came up to them and admitted she couldn't help overhearing them and that she thought she knew what they were talking about.

Stiles and the others looked at Kira warily as she explained that there was a Tibetan word for it-- Bardo—which literally meant "in-between state," or the state between life and death. When Lydia condescendingly asked her what they called *her*, Scott introduced her to the group as "Kira," adding that he knew her from history class.

Still not convinced and not wanting to be outsmarted, Lydia asked if she was talking about Tibetan Buddhism or Indian, but Kira kindly replied that it could be either, but that everything they were talking about happens in Bardo, adding, "There are different progressive states where you can have hallucinations. Some you see, some you just hear. And you can be visited by peaceful or wrathful deities."

Isaac was not comforted by this description and asked what she meant by "wrathful deities," leading Kira to cheerfully explain that it was referring to demons. Stiles sighed and tiredly retorted, "Demons. Why not?" Allison thoughtfully wondered aloud what the last progressive state was, and Kira, not realizing the gravity of the situation, explained that it was "death," meaning the person died, which caused the entire group to go silent.

In *More Bad Than Good*, during Ken Yukimura's history class at school, Kira watched in concern as Stiles was chosen to read in front of the entire class and almost immediately had a panic attack, causing his best friend Scott to take him to the "nurse's office," though really, they went to the locker room so he could calm down.

Because Kira was eager to make friends in her new town and was somehow drawn to Scott, she decided to grab Scott and Stiles' backpacks, which they had left behind in class, and return them to their owners as a gesture of kindness. Unfortunately for her, she did not know that Stiles' backpack had a doll that he stole from the coyote den he and Scott discovered in the woods the previous night, which caused her to become a target of Malia Tate, a Werecoyote stuck in her full animal form for the last eight years who was trying to return the doll to its rightful place-- the car crash site where her sister died the night she transformed for the first and only time.

Malia, who appeared to be an ordinary, albeit vicious, coyote, chased Kira down the hall and into the locker room, breaking through the window of the door and pausing to sniff the doll out. Thankfully for Kira, Scott appeared shortly afterward and saved her from the coyote by pushing down the row of lockers behind which Kira had been hiding, scaring the coyote away, though he soon realized that Malia was going after the doll when he saw that Stiles' bag had been chewed through to expose it.

In *Galvanize*,

In *Illuminated*,

In *Silverfinger*,

In *Riddled*,

In *Letharia Vulpina*,

In *Echo House*,

In *De-Void*,

In *Insatiable*,

In *The Divine Move*,

In *The Dark Moon*,

In *117*,

In *Muted*,

In *The Benefactor*,

In *I.E.D.*,

In *Orphaned*,

In *Weaponized*,

In *Time of Death*,

In *Perishable*,

In *Monstrous*,

In *A Promise to the Dead*,

In *Smoke and Mirrors*,

In *Creatures of the Night*,

In *Parasomnia*,

In *Dreamcatchers*,

In *Condition Terminal*,

In *A Novel Approach*,

In *Required Reading*,

In *Strange Frequencies*,

In *Ouroboros*,

In *Codominance*,

In *The Sword and the Spirit*,

In *Amplification*,

In *Lie Ability*,

In *A Credible Threat*,

In *Maid of Gévaudan*,

In *The Beast of Beacon Hills*,

In *Apotheosis*,
## Trivia

* Noshiko Yukimura, the Celestial Kitsune who summoned the Nogitsune in 1943 to avenge those lost in the Camp Oak Creek riot, believed her daughter Kira Yukimura was the only one who could defeat the Nogitsune and that it could only be done by killing its new host, Stiles Stilinski, but Kira managed to prove her wrong by saving Stiles' life.
* Stiles had romantic feelings for (and ended up in a romantic relationship with) Lydia Martin, one of Kira's best friends, just as Kira was in a romantic relationship with Stiles' best friend Scott McCall.