#kiraweek2023

[momentofmemory]

there's a reason you kept it.

for @kirayukimuraappreciation's appreciation week day 2: kira's tail

[letthestorieslive]

The birth of a lacrosse legend, for @kirayukimuraappreciation week (in/sp)

[silent-snake7]

[hemlocksandfoxgloves]

Day 4 of Kira Appreciation Week

@kirayukimuraappreciation @thiamsxbitch

[jjsstars]

kiraweek2023: Day 4, Kira’s Childhood

|| for @kirayukimuraappreciation event

|| tags : kira/allison, canon divergence, they’re both 14, childhood crushes, love confessions & first kisses

“So, what’s going on? You’d never pull me away from the fair without a reason.” Allison bumps her shoulder into Kira’s and Kira instantly blushes red, fidgeting with the folded notebook paper in her hand.

“I um- I wanted to give you this.” She hands the note over and immediately looks out to the water. It’s low tide, the waves crashing softly behind the noise of the summer fair on the boardwalk. Both girls have been looking forward to it for the past few months, Kira knew she wanted to tell Allison about how she felt today, and she’s pretty sure Allison plans on winning every fair game she possibly can.

“You like me.” It’s not a question, the note tells Allison exactly how big of a crush Kira has on her. Still, Kira buries her face into her hands and groans, she can’t believe she finally makes a friend only to fall into the deepest romantic feelings she’s ever had.

“I- I’m sorry. It’s not like I planned on it, or- or that’s why I became friends with you, I just- I’ve never felt like this before and it felt wrong to keep it from you.” Not to mention the teasing comments her mom and dad have been making since she told them that she likes girls, they had put it together pretty quickly that Kira meant she liked a girl, Allison.

“I like you too.” Argent says so simply, her voice calm and steady, not a hint of nervousness leaking through and her expression a soft smile.

“Really?” It’s maybe a little too eager but Allison only grins wider, interlocking her and Kira’s hands. It’s not the first time they’ve held hands but Kira’s heart skips a beat and she thinks her cheeks might be on fire with how flushed they are.

“Yeah, really. Does this mean you’ll be my girlfriend?” She nods instantly and they both laugh lightly, Kira’s eyes not leaving the way Allison’s lips shine under the lip gloss she has on, they look velvet soft.

Kira doesn’t realize she’s staring so obviously until Allison’s free hand comes to cup her jaw, lifting her face up carefully and her eyes flicking between Kira’s lips to her eyes. Asking a silent question. Kira surges forward as a response, pressing her lips harsh against Allison’s, not really sure what’s she’s doing as she’s never kissed someone before, but Argent tilts her face to the side so there’s better access and she pulls Kira in closer. It feels like those metaphorical fireworks people always talk about go off and her whole body is filled with electricity sparking the longer her and Allison kiss.

Someone on the pier screams in excitement, Kira knows exactly what they mean.

[softranswolves]

Kira Yukimura Appreciation Week

Day 3: Colors

[kirayukimuraappreciation]

Kira Appreciation Week 2023 Roundup

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in Kira Week 2023! And a very special thank you to @momentofmemory for all of her lovely promo gifs for this event. We loved seeing all of your incredible works celebrating Kira this year! We look forward to future events, and in the meantime we're always on the lookout for new Kira content, so if you missed the week but still want to show her some love, feel free to submit content any time!

All works are compiled below, organized by prompt, and the KiraWeek2023 Ao3 collection can be found here. If you created something for Kira week that we’ve missed, please send us an ask and we’ll add it to the list.

Day 1: You Came Back / Fav Scene / Kira + Kitsune Attributes

Kira 4x04 scene - gif set by @silent-snake7

Favorite Scenes (all of them) - moodboard by @softranswolves

Fav Scene - edit & meta/thoughts by @sammi-phoenix

You Came Back - fic by @nightstar-appreciation

Kira Returns - gifset by @momentofmemory

Home is a person - fic by @invisible-storyteller

Kitsune Attributes - moodboard & fic by @jjsstars

The Calm Before the Storm - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Day 2: There's a Reason You Kept It / Poetry, Lyrics, Quotes / Significant Objects

Kira's Tail - gifset by @momentofmemory

Kira + Fox Tails 1 - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Kira + Fox Tails 2 - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Lyrics + album [1989 (Taylor's Version)] - moodboard by @jjsstars

Kira Yukimura, Killer Vibe (lyrics) - moodboard by @thiamsxbitch

Day 3: They Did Something / Color/B&W / Kira + Villains

Colors - edit by @softranswolves

Color [warm tones] - moodboard by @jjsstars

Kira Yukimura as Everything in its Right Place by Radiohead - edit by @sammi-phoenix

Void!Kira - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Day 4: Trickster-or-Treat / Trickster!Kira / Nerd!Kira

Nerd!Kira - moodboard & ficlet by @jjsstars

Day 4, Lightning bolt - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves

Day 5: What if Wednesday / Dealer's Choice / Lie-Ability

What If Wednesday (AU) - moodboard by @jjsstars

No One Can Steal Your Thunder (Dealer's Choice) - edit by @equallyloyalandlethal

Kira Yukimura: a character study (Dealer's Choice) - edit by @letthestorieslive

Day 6: History Echoes / Back in Style / Something New

Something Old With Something New - edit by @hemlocksandfoxgloves (feat. i want you on top of me like cherry - fic by @thiamsxbitch)

Day 7: It’s Alright to Cry / Hurt & Comfort / Parallels

It's Alright to Cry - moodboard by @jjsstars

Alt 1: Have you ever heard of something called a Kitsune?

I'm a Kitsune (You know...a Japanese foc spirit) - moodboard by @sugareey-makes-stuff

Alt 2: I Printed It Out

The Birth of a Lacrosse Legend - gif set by @letthestorieslive

Alt 3: My Family and I Moved Here Three Weeks Ago

Kitsune Bonding - fic by @softranswolves

Kira's Childhood - moodboard & ficlet by @jjsstars

[sammi-phoenix]

For: Day 1 Kira Appreciation week

Prompt: Fav Scene (my explanation under the cut)

I absolutely love this scene and honestly the addition of Kira to the Lacrosse team. I know a lot of people dislike it because honestly who isn't kind of fed up with the lacrosse scenes in Teen Wolf, they're kind of silly. But for real I love this scene in particular because ugh, Kira gets to be a part of something external to the whole Deadpool thing. A lot of other characters have things they do outside their saving Beacon Hills stuff that furthers the plot. Scott and Stiles as well as many of the male characters (Liam, Jackson, Isaac, etc) have lacrosse while Allison alludes to doing photography as well as Archery outside of combat scenarios. I just think it was really cool to have Kira join in on the traditionally more masculine hobby. It also works to cement Kira, as a new character, into the pack and group, giving her something outside of the combat/supernatural plot to fight for.

Idk it's really interesting to me and I quite enjoy IED as an episode and as a cool piece of Kira lore.

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[invisible-storyteller]

Home is a person

For @kirayukimuraappreciation. Day 1: You Came Back. Pairing: Malia Tate/Kira Yukimura Rating: General Words: 1628 Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023), Kira-centric, Kira Yukimura Returns, Derek Hale & Kira Yukimura Friendship, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:  Kira returns to Beacon Hills just in time to save Derek. With everyone alive and the Nogitsune gone, happy end is due, right? Well, Kira needs a bit more convincing to realize why she's come back at all. (Read it on AO3).

It doesn’t take long to understand the situation. It takes even less time to tackle Derek off the Nemeton.

She makes sure to stand guard around the tree stump with another, younger kitsune as Parrish’s arms wrap around the mutant evil spirit and they both go up in flames. The only thing left in the Nogitsune’s wake is silence and bad memories.

Then the illusion is gone and Kira can breathe again. They are all standing on a stadium field, safe, shaken and once again victorious, surrounded by friends she hasn’t seen in over a decade. It just figures that another life-and-death scenario would bring them back together.

“Dad!”

A werewolf boy barely in his teens rushes towards Derek and buries himself into his arms, and as Kira does a 360-degree turn, she notices that everyone's celebrating in varying forms of an embrace while she’s standing on the side. Alone.

A lean body sags onto hers suddenly and she startles by the unexpectedly tight hug. “You saved my dad,” The boy says against her shoulder, relief heavy in his voice. “Thank you.”

From a short distance, Derek smiles at her and walks closer to the pair. “Amazing timing,” He compliments.

Kira smiles but can’t help looking around and thinking: “Actually, I might be too late.”

Derek invites her to dinner as an expression of his gratitude and then follows up with a dozen ‘thanks yous’ throughout the evening. His son, Eli, has a million questions about the Skinwalkers and her powers and he breaks down crying halfway through. It’s a lot, but Kira still feels better on the drive home.

It’s definitely nicer than the nothing that follows.

For every single thing that hasn’t changed in Beacon Hills, there are at least three more that have. Derek, apparently, doesn’t know much about the others since most of them haven’t kept in touch after an allegedly glorious defeat against an army of hunters. Kira hasn’t been there for the war, but she supposes that the pack would have sought her out if she was truly needed.

Reuniting with Scott is awkward, seeing him hold hands with Allison is even more so. It’s not like Kira had much hope for her and Scott, but it still hurts. It doesn’t sting like a heartache but more like another proof that life went on without her.

She talks with Hikari and Liam before they leave for Japan because that’s their home now, not Beacon Hills. Kira has no idea where her home is anymore.

Half of her life has been dedicated to fighting for control with the Skinwalkers, so readjusting to the changes and modern life should be easy, and yet, Kira finds herself debating on a daily basis the idea of simply going back. What is keeping me here? - it’s a question that echoes too often in her head.

Derek is attentive, but more than that, he understands. He invites her over for more dinners and movie marathons (to help her “catch up on what she’s missed”, and he cringes right after saying it), and talks about his travels proceeding the events in Mexico. She realizes by the second-hour mark that the similarities of their experiences are overshadowed by their unbridgeable differences.

Because Derek returned when his friends were in need, but Kira didn’t.

He shows her the garage, the preserve and the school. Coach doesn’t recognize her but asks whether she’s good at lacrosse and if she would like to join, anyway. This leads to Kira practising with Eli on Mondays, since Derek claims he’s always been more gifted in basketball.

Kira knows what Derek’s doing, really, and she appreciates it. She just doesn’t know how to tell him that the issue isn’t with the place. It’s with her.

It’s 12:14 pm on a Friday when Kira walks into the auto shop. It’s been five weeks since her return and as she enters the shop (instead of waiting outside like usual), the realization hits her of how weird it is that she hasn’t talked to Malia in all that time.

“Hey,” Malia greets, like they've just spoken yesterday (they didn't, not in 14 years), kicking her feet off the counter and plucking the earbuds out of her ear.

Kira is ashamed that she can’t come up with a better reply than “Hi”, accompanied by a not-quite smile to make up for the lack of contact. Not that Malia couldn’t have reached out, Kira reminds herself, and feels a dull pang in her heart. It’s an everyday occurrence.

“What are you doing here?” Malia asks as she stands up, soft sweater bunching up at one of her sides. Derek’s been either rubbing off on her or pestering the woman into warmer clothes as the season turned chilly. It’s an adorable sight, nevertheless.

Kira looks behind herself, wondering for a moment if she should wait outside after all. Then she remembers Malia has always been confrontational and feels her nerves settle at the small glimpse of familiarity.

“Derek promised to buy me lunch,” Kira finally says, glancing around for good measure. Derek’s most likely in the back, though, immersed in grease and work.

Malia nods, looks away, pats down her jeans.

“What if I buy you lunch?”

The question catches Kira off guard and her wide eyes are probably telling since Malia immediately shoves her hands into her jeans and plunges into an explanation.

“Derek’s busy with a demanding asshole’s car and sitting here is getting seriously boring. So please? Put me out of my misery?”

Oh. Well. Kira can roll with that.

“Yeah, sure, if Derek doesn’t mind.”

“Wait here,” Malia instructs before disappearing through the backdoor. Three minutes later, Malia is back with car keys dangling from her fingers and a familiar-looking credit card in her hand. “He doesn’t mind. Now, let’s go. I’m fucking starving.”

The lunch is better than Kira expects. Malia's questions are straightforward but her answers to Kira’s inquires are equally frank. It’s refreshing to finally pour out all the feelings Kira's had bottled up for over a month now. It's also the first time she laughs honestly.

“We should meet up again,” Malia suggests while they're pulling up to Kira's home. Or, well, to her parents’ house.

“Yeah,” Kira agrees readily.

Then, she promptly forgets about wanting to leave for a full week.

“Don’t you want to have your own apartment?” Malia asks with her bare feet trudging in the shallow part of the lake.

Kira pulls her knees up to hug them closer as well as to support her chin as she shrugs noncommittally. “I haven’t thought about it yet.”

“Seriously?" Malia looks flummoxed. "Didn’t you make a comment about the absurdity of sleeping in your old bedroom? Right below your One Direction poster?"

Yeah, Kira spent an entire day mourning over that particular change.

“I know, I just never thought I would need a permanent place here.”

Malia freezes in the water at once and aimes her eyes at her submerged feet. Kira can't parse the emotion on her friend's face, and it makes the anxiety that she hasn't felt around Malia yet emerge with frightening intensity.

“You want to leave.”

There's no accusation behind the words but they aren't exactly warm in nature. Kira doesn't want to lie, not to Malia, so she settles on a shrug.

“But you just got back." And now the hurt is audible in Malia's voice.

“Why should I stay here?" Kira asks, pleading for her friend to understand. "Our friends aren’t here anymore, the pack isn’t here anymore, my life isn’t here-“

Kira bites her tongue. When she got back two months ago, she was filled with exhilaration to reunite with her family. Her mother made occasional visits to the Skinwalkers, but it was nothing compared to the almost forgotten scent of his father's cooking or the sound of her mother's singing as it floated through the house. There was no happier moment in Kira's life than when her mother had called about the Nogitsune's return and the Skinwalkers bid her farewell for good. Her training was over.

But Kira didn't live in Beacon Hills for long and she didn't have childhood memories to anchor her to the town. The only thing that was ever valuable in Beacon Hills were her friends and even they had left a long time ago. Kira has no reason to stay.

“I’m here,” Malia's words break through her thoughts, and Kira meets her eyes curiously.

“Why? What holds you back?”

Malia doesn't answer. She simply walks out of the lake and sits beside her in the grass. It's an unusually sunny day.

“Parrish?” Kira chances, and her heart soars when Malia shakes her head lightly.

“I guess... I was waiting for everyone to come back.”

Kira hasn't considered it yet - what it must have felt like to be left behind by all their friends. The worst is, though, that she doesn't remember if she ever said goodbye to Malia.

They listen to the forest while soaking in the pale light of the Sun, and at one point, Malia decides to lie down on her back and just watch the vagrant clouds as they swim past the treetops. Kira hasn't known this kind of peace in... 14 years.

“I guess..." Malia suddenly speaks, quieter but somehow braver, "I was waiting for you to come back.”

Kira looks at the other woman, at the challenge and hope in her eyes. At the evident fear that she bares open for only Kira to see.

She leans onto her side until she hovers above Malia, and slowly, tentatively, takes hold of her hand.

“Will you help me look for an apartment?”

Malia beams, and just like that, Kira no longer regrets coming back.

[momentofmemory]

for @kirayukimuraappreciation's appreciation week day 1: kira returns

[letthestorieslive]

KIRA YUKIMURA : a character study for @kirayukimuraappreciation week

[jjsstars]

kiraweek2023: Day 5, What if Wednesday

|| for @kirayukimuraappreciation event

AU — when Scott and Liam both go missing it’s up to the unlikely pair of Kira and Theo to figure out if their partners really did get murdered like the police say or if something bigger is at play

[hemlocksandfoxgloves]

Void!Kira

Day 3 of Kira Appreciation Week

@kirayukimuraappreciation @thiamsxbitch

[softranswolves]

Kira Yukimura Appreciation Week:

Day 1: Favorite Scenes (all of them)

[hemlocksandfoxgloves]

Kira + Fox Tails

Day 2 of Kira Appreciation Week

@kirayukimuraappreciation @thiamsxbitch

[jjsstars]

kiraweek2023: Day 7, It’s Alright to Cry

|| for @kirayukimuraappreciation event