Chapter 1: A Day With Fighting

An early morning…..

Banzai struggled as his mother held him in the scruff.

" Let me down!" He yelled. His mother put him down, but held a paw on his back, to avoid him from attacking Raki who ran over to his father.

" Until you calm down, honey." She said with a smile. Banzai who was near to tears, yelled after Raki, who hid behind Sichaku who was Raki's and Banzai's father:

" I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU, YOU LITTLE BRAT SNAIL!!!!!"

" Banzai, that's not very nice, you might fight others but I forbid you to fight your own brother!" Sichaku scolded his son.

This time, Banzai couldn't take it anymore. He burst out in a tantrum, his voice became filled with rage.

" Why are you guys always on HIS side, you're never on mine." He yelled, angrier than before. Sichaku walked over to his oldest son and his mate.

" Banzai, we are on your side too, we're just defending Raki because he can't fight you, but you are grounded for three days since you were fighting your brother." Sichaku said gently but kept a serious voice as he stroke Banzai on his head while his mother licked him and patted him on back.

" I don't care about I'm being grounded." He growled.

" Shhh, it's okay, Banzai. Calm down." Maravina told her son to calm him down.

" But mom.." Banzai began.

" There, there. Come here sweetie." She said with a soft voice as she took her son closer to herself. Banzai walked over to her. She gave him a hug and a little kiss on his forehead. He could feel his own body becoming calmer, but he was still upset. It wasn't his fault that Raki stole that meatloaf from him.

A few minutes later…..

Banzai rested in the den while his mother groomed his fur, while Raki was sleeping. Sichaku had gone hunting to get some food for the family.

Banzai wasn't really fond of that she licked him, but he couldn't do anything to stop her. He was still upset about what happened earlier today and looked grumpily at the ground.

Maravina noticed that.

" Aww, come on sweetheart. It's nothing to be mad about."

" He's always the guy who can skip punishment and being grounded." He muttered.

" But Banzai, do we always ground you?" His mother asked.

" Yes, not you of course, but dad does."

" Well, why do you think about that?"

" Because he Always gets out of trouble."

" Don't feel bad, you can get out of trouble you too, and I will have a talk with daddy." She said with a faint smile.

He sighed again, today was a really bad day. It didn't started well, as Banzai could see, the day was going to end even worse. Usually he was pretty optimistic, but maybe not this day.

" Banzai! Banzai!" Came a voice from an elephant skull. Banzai's ears perked up.

" Sally?" He thought to himself.

Maravina saw a little female hyena coming closer to his den.

" Salina's coming." She said.

The little female hyena ran to him. Banzai still looked cool but a little more coldly.

" Hello Banne." Salina greeted.

" Well, hello." Banzai answered. Banzai's mother nudged him with her paw as if it was to say "cheer up now".

" Do you wanna play with me today?" She asked.

" Well, I...uh." Banzai answered, but when he looked over to his mother, she gave a glance that meant "remember that you're grounded." But Banzai stood up and gave her a glare that said " I don't care."

" Yeah." He replied with a fake smile.

He got up and walked with her, Salina giggled slightly to herself as she saw his grumpy face.

" What's up tough guy? Did you have a bad day yesterday?" She asked.

" No Sally, I'm fine." He replied without emotions. She glanced into his eyes.

" Are you sure? It looks like it's something that isn't well." Salina said with a faint worried smile. Banzai just rolled his eyes at her.

" Of course I'm sure, have you ever seen me unsure?" He retorted.

" Eh, not really." She replied, at this, Banzai became stunned but shrugged it off.

" Oh yeah, you don't." He muttered.

" Are you really sure you're okay?" She asked.

" YES I AM!!" He snapped furiously. Salina backed off when he breathed heavily from his outburst, he had never been that mad before.

" Y'know what? I am glad I can be on my OWN instead of be with a girlfriend! I WANT TO BE ALONE, CAN YA UNDERSTAND THAT??!" He shouted with his overly aggressive voice. Salina nodded calmly in response, but then looked at her right.

" If it's what you want, okay. Well I can hang with Shenzi and Ed, so you can be by yourself." She replied as she walked away to his two other friends.

Banzai glanced over to his left as she saw her go away. Silent, angry tears were running down his cheeks. How could he be so rude that he made his best friend run away? The frustration became even more painful the more he thought of it.

" What am I doin'? Maybe she won't be my friend anymore!" He snapped in his mind.

A few hours later…….

Banzai walked through the elephant graveyard with frustrated thoughts in his mind, the other hyenas who passed away him looked at him with confused and suspicious eyes. Some were even scared of him.

Suddenly, he could feel the scent of some familiar person he had met before.

" Kogo!" He whispered to himself as he one of his rivals coming to him……

At the same time……

Salina laughed along with Shenzi and Ed as they played tail-tag.

Suddenly, she saw a siluett far away near some elephant skulls. The hyena had its head leaning towards the ground. She told her friends that she had to go away for a moment, but she would maybe return later, because her mother wanted to tell her something important.

" Alright Sally, see ya later!" Shenzi and Ed shouted after her when she left.

But what they didn't know, Salina never walked to her mother, she went to the lonely hyena instead.

" Hello again." She said. The male looked at her with shameful eyes.

" I'm sorry about what happened earlier." Banzai said, looking at her with tears in his eyes.

" Don't worry, it's alright." Salina answered. But suddenly she saw he was crying, he began to sob quietly.

" Banzai, it's okay. Don't be sad." Salina said as she patted him on the back.

" You don't know how it is, I'm jealous of my brother and this day has been bad because I have been fighting my rival Kogo." Banzai replied as he cried even more. Salina continued to stroke him on his back in a soothing motion.

After awhile he began to calm down and sat up next to her. Salina licked him on his cheek. She felt pity for her friend.

" Banzai, I am your friend and you don't need to be jealous, they love you for the one you are and so I do." She said to comfort him. Banzai told himself in his mind that the day sucked.

He wiped away his tears from his cheeks and said goodbye to his friend and went back home. He was grounded after all, but he didn't care about it at all. He knew that his mother hated to see him sad and might would try to make his dad do the punishment a little mildly, not that he had to stay home a shorter time, but that his friend could visit him a longer time. But he didn't really understood why he was being grounded, he did understand the reason why but not what it was that helped him with being smarter or nicer, wasn't the best way to just talk it over?

An hour later……

Sichaku sighed to himself as he saw his son who was sitting on the ground in the den and looked grumpy. He knew that he had extended the grounding, but Maravina told him that he had to know Salina was the matriarch's daughter, and her mother was her best friend, and it meant if Salina wanted to visit Banzai, Sichaku and she had to obey her because of her heritage. Salina was a queen in her pack and disobeying her was a bad idea because her parents always maked sure that she was respected.

He turned to his oldest son.

" Banzai, you know that you are grounded, but you can play with your brother the next day, he would be happy to do that." Sichaku said, Banzai just looked at the ground, still didn't say anything.

Maravina looked at her son with loving eyes. He glanced up at her at the moment and he understood that she was going to talk with his father about it.

" Sichaku, I know you want to help him, but can you please don't be too hard on him, he'd been having a harsh day after all." She said.

" I know Maravina, but he will at least being grounded for two days, he'd need the time to think about what he had done." Sichaku told his mate. Maravina nodded, but thought to herself:

" I don't think that's the best way of learning him, he'll just feel bad but won't understand."

A few minutes later…..

Banzai laid down on the ground to sleep. His father and brother was already sleeping, but he couldn't sleep at all, Maravina felt bad for him and walked over to her son and licked him on the cheek.

" I don't like the idea of you being grounded. But you know that's the way he does. Tomorrow, I'll be with you and I'll make sure you'll feel good again, you poor thing." She whispered and held him closer to herself. Banzai smiled at her and cuddled up at her side while she nuzzled him to say goodnight.