Wow, I'd never thought I'd actually do this. But okay. Here I stand. This is a very lion king-ish !Au that has crossed my mind one day, and before I knew it, I was writing out an entire fanfiction in my head, and I desperately wanted to write it down, before my inspiration went :D So here it is! This is pretty much a (gay) adapted version of the Lion king, with humans and different names. I can assure you that this thing will have plenty of chapters.

This chapter is only introductory. The next part the main characters will come to light!

Enjoy!

This is a story about two brothers named Ru-O and Ru-A. Two brothers that contrasted like black and white, and light and shadow.

Ru-A was the Head of the Pridelanders. A land that has vegetation and fauna in abundance. The climate was ideal, having enough rainy days to conserve water and enough muscled animals to feed the entire tribe with. The people of his tribe were healthy, kind and lived in peace.

Ru-A was the perfect man. He was deemed the strongest and most respected Head of the Pridelanders there has ever been. He was a tall, ruddy haired man. He had a broad-chest, strong legs and sun-kissed skin. Despite his soft, kind emerald eyes, he gave of an authoritarian aura. He was a good consult, he came up with the best strategies for the hunt, and his fellow men executed his plans accordingly. The men looked up to him and the women worshipped him like he came from the heavens. Every single female wished to carry his child and bear a son for who they'd deeply wished for to be the Head's successor. Ru-A was the reason the tribe lived, as it were. Ru-A fulfilled the tribe's hopes and expectations, as a worthy leader should.

Ru-O on the other hand, he didn't receive so much positive attention as the Great Head. He was Ru-A's exact opposite, even in his physical appearance. In contrast to his brother, Ru-O's skin was rather pale and grayish. His built was a lot less bulkier than his brother and had dirty, pitch black hair. His eyes were as red as a beetroot and they were mean and cunning. The light, pink scar that vertically crossed his right eye made him all the more evil-looking. Ru-O has always been ill-famed for his skittishness and his taunting behavior. The children of the tribe often took away his food or his weapons, out of fear that he would one day use those sharpened spears against them, what he seriously considered on doing most of the time.

Because of these inevitable differences, the two men had an unstable relationship. They only grew further apart as they grew older and at some point not one member of the tribe could tell the two even knew each other. The only quality Ru-O and Ru-A shared was that both brothers were exceptionally good at hunting. Both new their strategies and had their senses always sharp. During the hunt the two men used to compete like two alpha males, in which one didn't belong to the pack. But like their relationship, as they grew apart, the hunting competition didn't even seem like a reason to hold a conversation anymore. Eventually, Ru-A went hunting with the men, while Ru-O darted off by himself, and caught his own food. Food he didn't share with other members.

But I guess that you can already tell what lead Ru-A to his mournful death. Ru-O's jealousy for Ru-A turned into hate and reached an absolute point where he desired to overthrow Ru-A and become the new Head, wanting to prove to the tribe that he's more than just a mere scoundrel living under Ru-A's shadow. He wanted to be seen into a new light. He wanted to rule, he wanted to be freed from these maddening chains binding him down.

Ru-O had a good relationship with Ki-A, who was Ru-A's oldest son, and successor. Ki-A was a boy with the best intentions. He was liked by every single woman and always helped them collecting berries, guarding their settlement when the men were gone hunting… But ah, he was so innocent, so ignorant. Though he was the splitting image of his father, he was dense. He had no grip on what his dear uncle was planning at all, and he wasn't even aware that he was used as an important device for Ru-O's final hunt. His ambush for Ru-A.

At night, Ru-O had led Ru-A to the cliff and pushed him down, planning everything carefully so that it looked like an accident. Ki-A had seen his father's body, the Great Lead's body, at the bottom of the cliff, limbs pointed towards directions that seemed unnatural, and eyes like a fish: Blank. There was only a vague trace of the horror on Ru-A's face when he fell. Ki-A, the innocent boy who yet had to discover the true horrors of the world, was shut silent, his eyes big, his hands shaking. Ru-O had only told Ki-A one thing. "Run". And Ki-A ran. He ran as far as he could.

The next time Ru-O would see Ki-A again would be years later. Ki-A would return, with the young and beautiful Na-La, who fled to the outer skirts of the Pridelands, where she encountered Ki-A and forced him to return to Ru-O. Ki-A returned, matured, experienced, with the same authoritarian aura as his passed brother. Never did Ru-O expect for these bright, kind emerald eyes that are so similar to Ru-A's to look at him with such appalling hate. After the decisive battle between the two, Ru-O had been banished from the Pridelands, along with his followers, who were once members of the tribe but have changed his devotion to Ru-O as the years passed. They willingly followed Ru-O to the Outlands, where Ru-O has developed an eternal hate.

For the Pridelanders, a time of peace met them. Ki-A became the new Head of the tribe and restored peace and kindness, like in Ru-A's time. He partnered with Na-La, and bore a child who had Na-La's messy brown hair and had Ki-A's baffling green eyes, or better said, Ru-A's. They named him Ma-Ko.

Ru-O, cropped up with pure hate, was determined to avenge Ki-A, so he powered up by reproducing, and founding his own tribe, who would become the notorious Outlanders of today. His resentment for Ki-A was so dark, so evil that it started radiating from him like pure, negative energy. The hate surged in the soils, the trees and the animals like evil magic. As the months went by, the soils turned dry, the animals fled to the Pridelands, and the raining has ceased to come by, turning the Outlands into the place that it is today. A mixture of a steppe and a desert. A vast, dry land with small trees and herb plants growing here and there. The caves didn't disappear, but these were now crawling with hyena's who were attracted by the smell of rotten animals that died of dehydration. The Outlands have been cursed by Ru-O. Unfortunately Ru-O had reached the age where he wasn't able to keep up his plans in order to avenge Ki-A. He choose out his cherry-haired grandson to be his successor, to carry on his dream. Who was only a few months back then. The child's name was Rin, and had the same scarlet eyes as Ru-O.

If you were wondering why I give them such weird names. Well, I've read a book once where they also have two syllables and hyphen in between. I somehow liked it because it gave a very 'primitive' vibe and stuff.

This AU will be mostly focused on Rin and Haru. But there will definitely be makoharu as well. Perhaps some marinka. I'll see about that.

Besides: It would be so much appreciated of someone could beta me, because I'm not very experienced in writing and I'm having kind of a rough time pouring my ideas into a decent fic. I'm really trying the best I can to stay grammatically correct, and formulate things well. Writing is hard, wow.