Chapter 3: Who to tell?
Moments after Zuri and Kion finished nuzzling, Zuri was sitting under a tree near a rock.
She decided to avoid rivers for the time being. Especially after the incident this morning.
She was thinking about what had just transpired and decided to think about her feelings.
She had never felt so confused in her life and she wasn't the one to be concerned about her emotions that much.
Usually she thought about her looks, but now it was about her feelings.
"I can't believe I just did that!", she thought, "What am I going to do now?
"I just nuzzled my best friends little brother! What will Kiara think? What about Tiffu?"
She couldn't imagine about her two best friends knowing about this or anyone else for that matter. But those two should be the last to find out.
Especially Kiara if she found out she would either be wierded out or disgusted at Zuri for doing that to her younger brother.
"Why did I nuzzle him and why did I enjoy it so much?"
"Thank goodness no one else saw, but more importantly what did Kion think?", she thought. She wished that Kion didnt think anything weird about her when it happened.
"Did he feel overwhelmed? Weirded out? Did he enjoy it? Wait why would I want him to enjoy it?"
All these thoughts were so concerning of her's.
"Hold on I shouldn't be thinking heavily about this I, nuzzled him because I was thankful for what he said and did for me. But still it was out of nowhere, and plus maybe I left on a bad note."
"But one things for sure is I cant let anybody else find out, and I'm pretty sure Kion wouldn't want to tell anyone about a girl nuzzling him. Especially that girl being his sisters best friend.", she said.
She decided not to ponder about this any longer and decided to just let the rest of her day be peaceful.
But that image and feeling of her nuzzling against Kion still had her cheeks feel warm.
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It was sunset on the Pride Lands and one particular lion cub was heading home after a long day of work.
Kion was heading home for dinner after finshing his relxation for the day. He felt like he was in the mood for antelope today.
However his mind was clouded and it was about about Zuri of all things. This is the only time where Kion thought about Zuri in an emotional manor.
"She nuzzled me I cant believe it! I mean yeah, I saved her life but nuzzling was so unexpected of her."
As he was walking twords Pride Rock he noticed his mom Nala standing outside scouting the area and soon she met his gaze.
"Kion!", she shouted. She ran over to him as fast as she could.
"There you are I was looking for you to tell you that dinners ready and guess what its antelope your favorite.", Nala said with a smile.
Kion's face beamed, "Yes!", he thought.
As the two walked back to Pride Rock Nala decided to strike a conversation to pass the time.
"So how was your day sweetie?", she asked. "It was good Mom the Guard and I did our morning potrol, stopped Janja from invasion, and stopped Makuu's herd.", Kion replied.
"Makuu! What did he do?", Nala asked.
"Apparently there was a flood and the water water was connected to Makuu's territory, so he decided to go on and attack places for food.", Kion said
"Oh no thats terrible! I can't belive he would do something despicable.", exclaimed Nala.
"Dont worry Mom we stopped them.", Kion said with a confident smile.
Nala chuckled at this, that smile always did remind her of Simba. "Don't worry I know you did. I'm just glad no one was hurt."
"Me too Mom, but Zu-"
"There you are!", a voice said. The two looked up and saw Kion's older sister and the eldest child of Simba and Nala: Kiara.
She looked down at Kion with an impatient face. "Where were you? Dad didn't want to eat without you, and right now I'm starving."
Kion rolled his eyes and was about to repond when Nala decided to interject.
"Now Kiara mind your brother, he was just ralaxing after a hard days of work.", she said.
"Yeah Kiara you would'nt belive what happened today.", Kion said. "Well he can discuss it while were eating with Dad.", Kiara said.
Kion and Nala nodded in agreement and decided to follow her inside the den. As they entered Kion saw the other lionesses chewing on multiple antelope.
"Wow Mom and the others must have been really successful today!", Kion thought.
Suddenly as he was scouting the antelope he saw Zuri with Tiffu chatting and eating Antelope.
He quickly looked away so he wouldn't blush. He didnt want the nuzzling to enter his mind right now he just wanted the rest of his day too be normal.
The three eventually aproached a big lion with ruby red eyes, golden fur, and with a giant red mane. It was King Simba of the Pride Lands.
"There you are Kion I was starting to worry.", he said. He aproached the three of them and nuzzled them all together as a family.
"Hey dad we can talk while we eat I don't want Kiara to be more grumpy then she already is.", Kion said with a smirk. Kiara gave him playful hit on his side while he and his parents snickered.
Simba went ahead and picked out an antelope and set it down the ground for them to enjoy and the family started to dig in.
"So dad how was your day?," Kiara asked.
"It was good nothing major really happend all I did was listen to Zazu's morning report and visited Ma Tembo for a friendly little chat.", he discussed. "That sounds nice.", Nala added.
As Kion was chewing on his antelope the thought of Zuri nuzzling appeared. He stopped eating and started wondering why he keeps thinking of that at a time like this.
"Why did she do it and why am I thinking about it now?", he thought.
Why does the thought of Zuri nuzzling him pop into his head? Couldn't he think of something else.
Kion couln't help but wonder about this, unfortunately for him this did not go unnoticed by his family.
"Kion! Hello earth to Kion!", Kiara said. Kion snapped out of his thoughts and looked up to his family. "Kion are you ok?", asked Simba. "Yeah why did you suddenly freeze?", asked Nala.
Kion looked down in wonder of what to say in response. "Sorry I was just thinking about today thats all."
"Well what happened today, you seemed like you wanted to tell me and Kiara about it on our way back.", Nala said.
"Well yeah I kinda did.", he said. He then looked over at his father then to Kiara and Nala.
"Well today was eventful, the Guard did its morning potrol, we took down Janja agian and stopped Makuu and his herd from terrorizing the Pride Lands."
"Makuu did that! I should've known.", Simba said while shaking his head. "Yes but that's not all.", Kion continued. "Kiara's friend Zuri was caught in some of the mess."
Kiara immediately started coughing on her piece of antelope. "What is she ok!", she asked in concern.
"Yeah, the Guard and I managed to save her so you don't have to worry sis.", Kion said reassuringly. Kiara sighed in relief and continued to listen.
"Well I'm glad you and the Lion Guard were able to stop them and save Zuri.", Nala said with a proud smile. Simba also had a smile on his face.
"Yeah but thats not all, you see after we saved Zuri and stopped the Makuu on our way back Zuri thanked me."
"Well thats nice of her.", Simba said. " Y-Yes but she d-didnt just thank me she-um.", Kion stuttered. He then put his head down in embarrassment.
The three of them looked at him in confusion. "She did what Kion?", Nala asked.
Kion sighed and looked up with a hint of pink on his cheeks which didn't go unnoticed by Nala. "She nuzzled me." The others looked at him with confused and supriesed faces.
"She nuzzled you that's really-um unexpected of her.", Kiara said with confused face. "True from what I see I don't think Zuri really nuzzles anyone that much nor is she that affectionate.", Nala said.
"Well son maybe she did that because she was really thankful for you saving her life.", Simba said.
Kion quickly nodded in agreement. "Your right dad it was probably just because she was thankful."
Simba nodded as well, but Nala and Kiara were still on the curious side.
"She nuzzled my son all of a sudden and it caused him to blush that seems kind of odd to me. Maybe there was another reason.", Nala thought.
"Maybe she was thankful but still, Kion would be one of the last people she would want to nuzzle with, plus the two dislike eachother so she would only nuzzle him if she had a good reason too. Or maybe there was a different reason for her to nuzzle my brother?", Kiara pondered. "I should ask her tomorrow."
Kion continued to talk to his father to avoid further conversating this, but now there were concernes of Nala and Kiara.
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While the royal family was eating their food Zuri was conversating with her friend Tiffu.
"You know Zuri I'm thinking tomorrow we can go have a spa day tomorrow with Kiara. What do you think?", Tiffu asked.
Zuri was looking down while eating her antelope "Huh? Oh yeah that sounds great or whatever Tiffu."
Tiffu raised an eybrow. "Zuri you sure are acting strange today are you still freaked out about the crocodiles?" Zuri immediately choked on her piece of antelope. Once she recovered she looked up with a concerned face.
"How do you know about that!?", she desperately asked.
Tiffu gave a suprised look, "Geez Zuri sorry. It was Kion's cheetah friend, she told me when I bumped into her on my way here, I believe her name was Fuli?"
"What else did she tell you?", Zuri quickly asked.
"She told me that she overheard you wanting to talk to Kion. Why did something happen between you two?", Tiffu asked.
Zuri turned into panick mode when she felt her cheeks turn red as she immediately remembered what happened and made a quick response. "No! I just wanted to say thank you so you dont need to bring it up again! Like ever. Ok?!"
Tiffu was taken back at the response, "Ok ok I wont ask anymore!"
Zuri sighed with relief. " Ok thanks and I'm sorry if I yelled at you I just want a normal rest of the day.", she then covered her cheeks up with her paws and looked away.
Tiffu nodded and decided not to push the subject anymore. But her curiosity still got the best of her.
"What's up with her why is she so nervous about the subject. Did something happen between her and Kion?"
Both Kion and Zuri wondered about what feelings had transpired out of both of them this day.
But unfortunately for them looks like these secret feelings didn't go unnoticed for the both of them. Because now more people know about this little piece of love blossoming in the Pride Lands.
End of Chapter 3
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