Smile, Anana Banana!

By corset-rebellion-follower

Disclaimer: I don't own The Lion King

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Chapter 2- The Anana Banana Smile

I looked out from the overlook. The jungle was as lush and green as usual, and a soft rain was falling. My bad luck with water had seemed to end, so I was actually enjoying the rain. And to think I almost gave all this up for the misery that is my colony.

I had tried to put that incident behind me. After all, the past is the past, right? But it was always tugging at the back of my mind, reminding me how stupid I was. The only good thing that had come out of that was that I found true love and ended up getting married.

"Still up here?" I turned around. Swifty came through the vines and sat down next to me.

"Where else would I be?" I asked.

He chuckled. "You have a point. But you do know Timon is looking all over for you, right?" I rolled my eyes.

"What else is new?"

"Well, you two have only been married for a few months, he's just being protective," Swifty said. I shrugged. Timon had become stricter. I always teased him that he was practically turning into my father. And it didn't help that my father checked in on us every month or so.

"You know, most women don't start having second thoughts about their marriage until they've been married for years and have basically no life anymore. But you at least fit into one of those categories," Swifty said, smirking cheekily. I glared at him. I was not to be toyed with now.

"You're funny, Swifty. Maybe you should go tell that joke to a pack of hyenas! I'd bet they'd go nuts over it," I said dryly. He whistled lowly.

"Wow, you really are upset. Who stuck a thorn in your foot?" he asked.

I sighed. "I don't know. Maybe you should ask the thorn." He snickered.

"At least you still have your humor." I rolled my eyes.

"Whatever."

"Want to talk about it? Talking helps," he said quietly. My mind flashed back to when he was trying to get me to talk about my colony.

"Nah." Personally, I would have loved to talk about how much I hated it when everyone said that someday I was going to have second thoughts about my marriage. But instead, I stood up and pushed the vines aside. I stopped and turned around.

"And I'm not having second thoughts! I love Timon, in case you haven't noticed." And I just left him there. Yeah, I was being moody, I know. But I was just… unknown. I didn't even know what was going on with me. It was weird. But we all have those days when we want to just curl up and not do anything, or make contact with anybody. Today was one of those days for me. They were few and in between, but you know how it goes. Everyone has to deal. Man, I sound really pathetic, don't I?

Not that I don't completely love it here, I do, it's just… there's a difference between the right amount of love and being smothered in it. So I did what I always did to deal.

I went over to the nearest waterfall and dunked my head under.

But unlike when I tried to kill myself, that now everyone in the colony knows about now, I just stayed under for a few seconds. The water was always cold, so it woke you up and let you grasp reality again. And my father was always saying I had my head in the clouds.

"Anana, what are you doing?" I took my head out of the water and looked to who was addressing me. It was Uncle Max. And he didn't look very happy. Then again, he hardly ever does…

"Um… enjoying the gifts of nature?" I said weakly. He sighed.

"I don't know if you and Timon are such a good match. He's already starting to affect you." And he left.

I blushed. When Timon and I first announced our engagement, it was a bit awkward for everyone. Everyone had thought Timon and I were just pretending to like each other so I could stay, and that Swifty and I were the real couple. Ma, of course, was overjoyed, but Uncle Max accused of me of being crazy. ("ARE YOU NUTS???? YOU COULD DO SO MUCH BETTER!")

But as much as everyone protested, and protests in Uncle Max's case, saying it would never work between us, we got married. It was the best day of my life. And my father even agreed to come without lecturing Timon. Too much, anyway. There was only one little snag. Faizah wasn't there. ("She's very sick right now, honey," my mother had said. "But I couldn't miss my baby's wedding, so I got someone to watch her.")

I knew what was really going on. Faizah was avoiding me. She was still mad from the time I blew up on her.

Grow up, would you? But if she didn't want to be there, then I didn't want her there. See if I care! But on the brighter side, neither was Hatari.

"Anana!" Timon's voice jostled me from memory-land. He hugged me. "There you are! I was looking all over for you!" he said. I smirked. "Yeah, I know. Swifty told me." He let me go.

"You know, I'm actually starting to like him." I nodded and looked away. "What? What is it?" he asked.

I sighed. "I don't know. I'm just in this philosophical funk today. Like nothing makes sense anymore," I said quietly.

"Well nothing really makes sense around here anyway," he said, holding one of my paws.

"I know, but nothing makes sense even more than usual. I guess I'm just spacing today." He picked me up and sat me on a rock.

"Come on, Anana. Can I see you smile? The Anana Banana Smile?" I smiled without thinking. Timon insisted that I had the perfect smile, and he named it the Anana Banana Smile.

"There it is," he said, kissing my cheek.

"Um, Anana? Timon?" It was Ma. She looked a little nervous.

"Anana, there's someone here to see you." I sighed. It's probably Daddy with one of his "check-ins".

A male meerkat with fawn-colored fur and blue eyes came up to me and smiled. I froze. No, it can't be. "Anana?" he said, waving a paw in front of my face.

I snapped out of it and looked at him closely. "Razi?"

He nodded excitedly. I screamed and hugged him. "I can't believe you're here! I missed you!"

"I missed you too!"

"Where were you when the colony came here?" I asked, releasing him from my deathgrip hug that Ma would have been proud of.

"I had to stay behind and watch the tunnels. Not that I'm not surprised, your father still hates me," Razi said.

"Still? Just when I get over one problem…" I said grudgingly.

"Excuse me," Timon said. We ignored him.

"When did you get here?"

"Just a few minutes ago, all I had to do was ask for the meerkat with dark fur and I found you."

"Excuse me," Timon said again. We still ignored him.

"I still can't believe it, I haven't seen you in ages!"

"I know, it's been way too long."

"EXCUSE ME!" We both looked at Timon. "Do you know him?" he asked me, pointing at Razi.

"So what if I do?" I asked. Timon was already glaring at him, and Ma was looking worriedly at all three of us. My mind jumped back to when Timon asked me to marry him.

How can one little question spark this much fuss?

A/N: There it is! Shiny, brand new, chapter two. And didn't I tell you the purpose of chapter one would reveal itself here? See, I know something! For everyone's knowledge, Razi means "secret". I thought it was a fitting name since no one knew about him last time. And it sounds really cool. Still, you will all have to wait to learn more about him, so keep reading and reviewing! Holla!